Hello world, from Life: Full Colour!
8 January 2019
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Welcome to the New Year! 2020 looks like it’s going to be a blockbuster for exhibitions in the UK that will cater for all art tastes, ranging from impressionism to pop-art.
Here’s a selection of some of the exhibitions we’re looking forward to seeing this year. We’ll continue to share new UK exhibitions as they are announced, as well as featuring exhibitions from around the globe, so keep an eye on our blog.
Get closer to the captivating characters of the Trojan War as you explore the breathtaking art that brings them to life, from dramatic ancient sculptures and exquisite vase paintings to powerful contemporary works.
You can also examine the fascinating archaeological evidence that proves there was a real Troy, offering tantalising hints at the truth behind the mythical stories. From Helen of Troy’s abduction to the deception of the Trojan Horse and the fall of the city, tread the line between myth and reality in this phenomenal exhibition.
Watch this short video review of the exhibition for a glimpse of what you can see at the British Museum –
Henriette Theodora Markovitch, known as Dora Maar, was a French photographer, painter, and poet. Dora was at the forefront of the Surrealist movement and her career spanned more than six decades.
This exhibition features overs 200 works including photographs, photomontages and printed matter. We’ll be visiting this exhibition so stay tuned for a review.
This ground-breaking exhibition charts Picasso’s ingenious use of paper, revealing how paper allowed Picasso to push the boundaries of thought and practice; inventing a whole universe of art as he went.
Spanning his entire 80-year career, it offers new insights into his creative spirit and working methods. Highlights include Women at Their Toilette (1937-8), a 4.8 metre-wide collage that will be shown in the UK for the first time in over 50 years. There will also be Cubist papier-collés (cut and pasted papers), sketchbook studies for his great masterpiece, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, and documentary footage that offers a rare glimpse of Picasso at work.
The first major exhibition devoted to David Hockney’s drawings in over twenty years, David Hockney: Drawing from Life, explores Hockney as a draughtsman from the 1950s to the present day. Highlights include a series of new portraits; coloured pencil drawings created in Paris in the early 1970s; composite Polaroid portraits from the 1980s; and a selection of drawings from an intense period of self-scrutiny during the 1980s.
It will feature around 150 works from public and private collections across the world, as well as from the David Hockney Foundation and the artist.
Learn more about David Hockney’s early life as an artist in this interview for the Royal College of Art –
You can read our review of the 2019 Hockney exhibition in Amsterdam here.
Young Rembrant is the first major exhibition in the UK to explore Rembrandt van Rijn’s early career as an artist.
On display will be the largest collection of works devoted to the young Rembrandt to date, including 34 paintings by Rembrandt, 10 by his most important contemporaries, and a further 90 drawings and prints from international and private collections.
It will also feature the newly discovered Let the Little Children Come to Me (1627–8), on display for the first time in public.
The first Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern for almost 20 years and a fantastic opportunity to see his iconic pop images as well as work never seen before in the UK.
Twenty-five works from his Ladies and Gentlemen series – portraits of black and Latinx drag queens and trans women – are shown for the first time in 30 years. Visitors can also play with his floating Silver Clouds and experience the psychedelic multimedia environment of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable.
At a time when women artists were not easily accepted, Artemisia Gentileschi enjoyed a long and successful career as a painter, spanning more than 40 years, and she was the first woman to gain membership to the artists’ academy – the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno – in Florence.
Around 35 works from public and private collections around the world come together to give a selective overview of Artemisia’s career: From her training in Rome, where she learnt to paint under the guidance of her father Orazio Gentileschi, to her time in Florence, where she established herself both personally and professionally, and the last 25 years of her life, during which she set up a studio in Naples and undertook a brief trip to London.
This National Gallery video reveals more about Artemisia –
Examining the development of watercolour painting during the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery, this exhibition brings together 200 rarely-seen masterpieces.
The exhibition features work by painters including Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein, Jacques le Moyne, Nicholas Hilliard, and Anthony van Dyck. The exhibition will chart the medium’s emergence from the margins of illuminated manuscripts to an independent art form in its own right, reaching as far afield as the New World and the court of the Mughal emperor.
In the year that marks the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death, the National Gallery present one of the first-ever exhibitions to explore Raphael’s complete career.
The exhibition looks at his celebrated paintings and drawings as well as his work in architecture, poetry, and design for sculpture, tapestry and prints.
With loans from the Louvre, Vatican Museum, Uffizi Museum, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Prado Museum, this is an unprecedented opportunity to see the breadth of Raphael’s skill, creativity, and ingenuity.
Tracey Emin has been a major figure in contemporary art for over 25 years; Munch pioneered a radical new style known as Expressionism. This exhibition from Oslo’s Munch Museum will reveal Tracey Emin’s long-held fascination with Edvard Munch.
Throughout her career, Emin has been drawn to Munch’s expressionism and shares his concern with exploring the complexity of the human psyche. This exhibition will reveal the way in which Munch has been a constant inspiration and will showcase Emin’s wide-ranging skills as an artist.