Art & Design: upcoming exhibitions, events and news

EXHIBITION: The World of Tim Burton
VENUE: The Design Museum 
DATES: Until 21 April 2025

Delve into the fantastical world of Tim Burton in this major exhibition exploring his remarkable creations and key collaborations with designers. 

This major exhibition will invite visitors into his world through an exploration of the design of his unique aesthetic. While most well-known for his cinematic work, this show will display the full extent of his production as an illustrator, painter, photographer and author, as well as exploring key collaborations with designers. As a multi-disciplinary artist, his creations extend beyond the limits of mediums and formats.

Drawn from Tim Burton’s personal archive and representing the artist’s creative output from childhood to the present day, this collection of drawings, paintings, photographs, sketchbooks, moving-image works, sculptural installations, set and costume design focuses on the recurrent visual themes and motifs found in the distinctive characters and worlds found in Burton’s art and film.

 

EXHIBITION: National Gallery turns 200
VENUE: The National Gallery
DATES: Until May 2025

As the National Gallery turns 200, keep an eye out for collaborations across the country. From limited edition coins, show gardens at RHS Chelsea Flower Show and an episode of Songs of Praise filmed at the Gallery, there's plenty of ways to join in the celebrations. For the whole year, they are going to celebrate the past and look forward to the future with a year-long festival of art, creativity and imagination which sets the tone for the third century. Click here to find out more!

 

EXHIBITION: Pablo Picasso
VENUE: The Tate Modern
DATES: From September 2025 - Spring 2026

For Picasso, The Three Dancers marked a radical break away from his serene, classical phase and the beginning of a new period of emotional violence and expressionist distortion. It sits at a crossroads between madness, philosophy and the avant-garde: a place where identity is disrupted and the body itself is at stake. Tate Modern’s exhibition tells the story of this landmark painting through a selection of key works from across Picasso’s career, exploring themes of sex, death, and the politics of dance.

 

EXHIBITION: Sculpture in the City
VENUE: Multiple locations across London
DATES: Until Spring 2025

Sculpture in the City is an annual sculpture park that uses the urban realm as a rotating gallery space. Having shown 141 artworks by 121 artists since Sculpture in the City’s inception in 2011, the 11th edition presents works by 19 artists, including two acquisitions and six remaining works from the previous edition, which are on display around the City’s famous buildings and public spaces. Spanning 100 Bishopsgate to Leadenhall Market, Fenchurch Street Station Plaza to Mitre Square, the 2022 edition brings contemporary public artworks to the ancient and modern spaces of the City. Ranging across various forms, scales and media, the 11th edition provides a free, outdoor exhibition for audiences to experience contemporary art and to engage with their immediate environment. The exhibition is completely free and is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days week.

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Paris

EXHIBITION: The MET at the Louvre
VENUE:  The Louvre
DATES: Until 28th September 2025

The Louvre and The Met have created a unique dialogue between these two collections, which is displayed in the Louvre's permanent galleries. These 'special guest' artworks from The Met, dating from between the late 4th millennium BC and the 5th century AD, show some remarkable connections with the Louvre's collection. In some cases, a pair of objects has been reunited for the first time, while in others, pieces complement each other by virtue of specific historical features of their respective collections. Representing Central Asia, Syria, Iran and Mesopotamia, this dialogue between collections is (re)introducing visitors to these extraordinary, age-old works of art and the stories they tell.

 

EXHIBITION: Leonetto Cappiello Aperitif and Showmanship
VENUE:  The Musee D Orsay
DATES: Until 2nd July 2025

The mock-ups for his advertising and art posters conserved at the Musée d’Orsay are in pastels. Making use of this vibrant medium and with remarkable visual restraint, the artist created sinuous, slender dancing figures with rippling hair, sporting fashion accessories with undulating feathers. In these simple sketches, whether caricature or portrait, a whole world of creation takes shape. Women of fashion, playwrights, composers, actors declaiming, musicians rehearsing, audiences and celebrities put on a real show for us.

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Amsterdam

EXHIBITION: The permanent collection: Van Gogh's masterpieces
VENUE: Van Gogh Museum
DATES: Ongoing

View Vincent van Gogh's masterpieces in the museum and immerse yourself in his development as an artist. Step into Van Gogh's world and discover the ideas and ambitions behind his art. In the permanent collection you can see Vincent van Gogh's famous masterpieces, such as Sunflowers, Almond Blossom and The Potato Eaters, as well as his drawings and letters. You discover the ideas and ambitions behind

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Barcleona

EXHIBITION: Poetic Intention
VENUE: Museu d'Art Contemporani
DATES: Until 21st July 2025

Taking its title from Glissant’s book, Poetic Intention can be understood as an exercise in breaking free from the institutional framework, offering a space for reflection and critique in which ‘art’, both as concept and experience, is presented as a generative and emancipatory force. This new approach to the Collection features, in large part, works acquired in recent years, setting them in new relationships with the existing Collection, but it also includes works that are entering the Museum for the first time, making its history and context more permeable and open.

 

EXHIBITION: La Collection Revoir Picasso
VENUE: Picasso Museum
DATES: Until 12 March 2027

The exhibition tells the story of the legendary décor of the Paris flat of art dealer and gallery owner Léonce Rosenberg. Rosenberg wanted to associate his name with late Cubism mixed with figuration, the path opened up by Picasso, an artist he admired and accompanied during the war and the 1920s.

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New York

EXHIBITION: The Facade Commission: Jeffrey Gibson
VENUE: MET
DATES: September 2025 - May 2026

Gibson’s project for The Met’s Fifth Avenue facade will be the sixth in a series of commissions for the historic exterior. The artist’s new works for the niches will draw upon his longstanding and highly developed iconography, one built upon a dynamic visual language that fuses Indigenous identity and imagery with abstraction, patterning, materiality, and text. 

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