Europe Art Guide
Curated gallery guide for world-class contemporary art exhibitions at the leading galleries and museums in Europe. Browse or filter our listings to find artists, exhibition openings and events happening now across the continent. Use NearMe to see what's on near you in the art world today.
Sunday 9th - Sunday 16th, December 2018
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European Art Auction: 11 Dec 2018
Exhibition: 8 Dec - 11 Dec 2018
British Art: Victorian, Pre Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art Auction: 11 Dec 2018
Exhibition: 8 Dec - 11 Dec 2018
An Adventurous Spirit: An Important Private Collection to be Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation Auction: 13 Dec 2018
Exhibition: 9 Dec - 12 Dec 2018
Topographical Pictures with Australian Art Auction: 14 Dec 2018
Exhibition: 8 Dec - 13 Dec 2018
forthcoming:Francesco Carone: Il Disinganno 15 Dec 2018 - 2 Feb 2019 “having survived four decades, the ideal Dantesque median threshold, Carone acknowledges the uselessness of second thoughts and that regret serves even less purpose”
forthcoming:Essex Road 5 13 Dec 2018 - 19 Jan 2019not open todaythe project’s fifth edition - eight artists given the simple brief to make a short film responding to London’s Essex Road - with the works projected onto the gallery’s large windowSunday 9th - Sunday 16th, December 2018
Jump to: Opening this week | All Exhibitions
European Art Auction: 11 Dec 2018
Exhibition: 8 Dec - 11 Dec 2018
British Art: Victorian, Pre Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art Auction: 11 Dec 2018
Exhibition: 8 Dec - 11 Dec 2018
An Adventurous Spirit: An Important Private Collection to be Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation Auction: 13 Dec 2018
Exhibition: 9 Dec - 12 Dec 2018
Topographical Pictures with Australian Art Auction: 14 Dec 2018
Exhibition: 8 Dec - 13 Dec 2018
last weekUrs Fischer: Dasha 12 Sep - 15 Dec 2018 a larger-than-life-size wax candle Dasha Zhukova will be lit and the candle will melt over the course of the exhibition
last weekAron Demetz: Regeneration 10 Oct - 14 Dec 2018 an exhibition tracing Demetz’s entire research, starting from traditional processing techniques including modelling, fusion and combustion and giving life to “regenerated” human figures made of bronze, charred wood and plaster, purified by fire and heat
last weekMcArthur Binion: Ink: Work 13 Sep - 15 Dec 2018 new series of works made specifically for this exhibition, that revolve around the use of colour and ink, specifically secondary colours that the artist applies with paint stick
last weekCarl Andre: Works on Paper 13 Sep - 15 Dec 2018 a body of work composed of typed poems that precedes and anticipates the artists practice as a sculptor and is a precious insight into the artists’ intimate intellectual sphere
last weekSuspension - A History of Abstract Hanging Sculpture 1918 - 2018 1 Oct - 15 Dec 2018 curated by Matthieu Poirier with Olivier Malingue - works by Max Bill, Yves Klein, Artur Lescher, Man Ray, François Morellet, Bruno Munari, Alexander Rodtchenko, Tomás Saraceno, Joel Shapiro, Jesús Rafael Soto, Takis and Xavier Veilhan
last weekAlabaster 28 Sep - 15 Dec 2018 exploring the enduring fascination that artists have had with this translucent and transformative stone, from its uses in ancient Egypt to the twentieth century and contemporary sculpture
19th & 20th Century Sculpture Auction: 12 Dec 2018
Exhibition: 8 Dec - 11 Dec 2018
19th Century European Paintings Auction: 12 Dec 2018
Exhibition: 8 Dec - 12 Dec 2018
Art of Travel and Exploration Auction: 13 Dec 2018
Exhibition: 8 Dec - 12 Dec 2018
Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art Auction: 13 Dec 2018
Exhibition: 8 Dec - 13 Dec 2018
last weekRachel Maclean 20 Sep - 16 Dec 2018not open todaybaroque, hyper-real worlds in an interactive experience set in a dystopian urban British landscape of manic tourist merchandise
last weekInvites: Tamu Nkiwane 8 Nov - 16 Dec 2018not open todayNkiwane examines his surrounding environment and considers resonances from the past through gathering and reassembling particular materials and objects
Nelio Sonego. a.r.c.h.u.s. Different Times 21 Nov 2018 - 6 Feb 2019 works made in the late 1970s and early 1980s enter into a dialogue with more recent ones, in a project specially created by the artist for the gallery spaceno current exhibition
Sahara 15 Sep 2018 - 8 Mar 2019 earthy tones pervade the space, a glowing environment punctuated by drops of orange, amber and blue and dominated by shapes evoking life in the desertTrisha Donnelly / Jean Painlevé 17 Nov 2018 - 19 Jan 2019
Richard Long: The Tide is High 15 Nov 2018 - 5 Jan 2019 new works by Long based on drawings made from mud taken from the river Avon in Bristol, the city where he was born and continues to livejust openedTristan Pigott: Slippery Gaze 5 Dec 2018 - 22 Jan 2019 Pigott’s first solo show at the gallery features a new body of work spanning painting, sculpture and installation all highlighting the way content consumption has reached a new crescendo
Hannah Wilke 27 Sep - 21 Dec 2018 in partnership with The Hannah Wilke Collection and Archive in LA, an exhibition spanning three decades of the American painter, sculptor, photographer, video and performance artist’s work
Project Room: Branko Vlahović 16 Nov - 21 Dec 2018 the first exhibition in the UK of the Croatian sculptor, with works from the 1960s bringing together key examples of Vlahović’s plaster sculptures and large-scale, monochrome drawings
forthcoming:Artur Lescher 12 Jan - 23 Feb 2019 Lescher makes uninterrupted and precise dialogues with both architectonic space and design, and on his choice of materials, such as fundamental elements of metal, stone, wood, felt, salts, brass and copper, to highlight the power of this discourse
Todd Bienvenu: Slapstick 24 Nov 2018 - 12 Jan 2019 “raucous energy feeds off the kind of ugly emotions usually swept under the carpet by art world good manners”
50 Years, 50 Artists 8 Nov - 21 Dec 2018 50 artworks, one for each year since the gallery started, by artists either represented by or having shown at the gallery -with key figures including David Hockney, David Nash, Anthony Caro, Leon Kossoff and Naum Gabo
just openedCACOTOPIA 03 5 Dec 2018 - 19 Jan 2019not open todaythe gallery’s annual group exhibition of works by five recent graduates - over five weeks - from some of Europe’s leading art schoolsno current exhibition
Jean-Luc Blanc 24 Nov 2018 - 11 Jan 2019no current exhibition
no current exhibition
der grosse Anspruch des kleinen Bildes 1 Dec 2018 - 26 Jan 2019Francis Upritchard: Wetwang Slack 27 Sep 2018 - 6 Jan 2019Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde 10 Oct 2018 - 27 Jan 2019no current exhibition
John Zurier: Sometimes (Over me the mountain) 12 Oct - 22 Dec 2018 The work deals very directly with the surface but is not static or flat—the pigments are in dialogue with the surface by working in, under, and on top of itRaphaela Vogel: Son of a Witch. 10 Years Videoart at Midnight 30 Nov 2018 - 11 Mar 2019not open today
Jonas Burgert: schlagen und bleiben 28 Nov 2018 - 19 Jan 2019 the first exhibition to focus on Jonas Burgert’s drawings - intricate character studies in black and white - as an independent body of work
Chiharu Shiota: Me Somewhere Else 28 Nov 2018 - 19 Jan 2019 new works by Shiota in her first exhibition at the London space, including a site-specific installation, sculpture and works on canvas
Henning Strassburger: Kenny 1 Dec 2018 - 26 Jan 2019 in this, his first exhibition with the gallery, Strassburger draws references from pop-cultural semantics, where the deliberate adoption of an English word, over the native tongue, loads it with associative meaning
Mat Collishaw: The Grinders Cease 1 Dec 2018 - 26 Jan 2019 this exhibition, Collishaw’s first at the Berlin space, includes installation, sculpture, photography and painting to reflect a preoccupation with “Vanitas”, used since the Renaissance to remind viewers of the impermanence of worldly pleasuresIrina Rastorgueva and Thomas Martin: Kommunalka 55 20 Sep - 20 Dec 2018I object: Ian Hislop's search for dissent 6 Sep 2018 - 20 Jan 2019
no current exhibition
Tony Cragg 17 Nov 2018 - 26 Jan 2019Amy Sillman: Landline 28 Sep 2018 - 6 Jan 2019no current exhibition
Subodh Gupta 2 Oct - 21 Dec 2018 an exhibition of sculptures by the New Delhi-based multi-faceted artist
Claudio Verna 18 Sep - 20 Dec 2018 with 11 paintings, mostly large formats ranging from 1967 to 2016, an exhibition showing how the artist, traditionally known as a “master of colour”, has approached the use of white in his worksNida Sinnokrot: Expand Extract Repent Repeat 24 Nov 2018 - 19 Jan 2019Vincent Gicquel: Brothers in Arms 24 Nov 2018 - 19 Jan 2019Picasso: A period of Conflict 24 Oct 2018 - 3 Mar 2019A Polish Avant-Garde. Katarzyna Kobro and Wladyslaw Strzeminski 24 Oct 2018 - 14 Jan 2019not open todayZora Mann: Being and your own form 23 Nov 2018 - 2 Feb 2019 European Art Auction: 11 Dec 2018
Exhibition: 8 Dec - 11 Dec 2018
British Art: Victorian, Pre Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art Auction: 11 Dec 2018
Exhibition: 8 Dec - 11 Dec 2018
An Adventurous Spirit: An Important Private Collection to be Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation Auction: 13 Dec 2018
Exhibition: 9 Dec - 12 Dec 2018
Topographical Pictures with Australian Art Auction: 14 Dec 2018
Exhibition: 8 Dec - 13 Dec 2018
Nick Goss: Dolphin Express 16 Nov - 22 Dec 2018
just openedAround ZERO: 1958 - 2018 5 Dec 2018 - 31 Jan 2019 celebrating 60 years since Otto Piene and Heinz Mack founded ZERO in their studio in Düsseldorf
herman de vries: all all all 12 Sep 2018 - 2 Feb 2019 curated by Francesca Pola and realized in collaboration with the artist and his studio, the exhibition brings together a series of highly significant examples of work, retracing the key stages in the artist’s creative career
Maria Pergay: Iconic 21 Nov - 21 Dec 2018 the exhibition centres around Pergay’s renowned use of stainless steel, which she began exploring in 1968 with the now-iconic Flying Carpet Daybed
Lena Peters: Saints and Spirits 21 Nov - 21 Dec 2018 a strange menagerie of shrine statues, evoking folk beliefs and household worship from across the world
no current exhibition
Close: Drawn Portraits 22 Nov 2018 - 3 Feb 2019 bringing together historic figures such as Ingres, Picasso and Hepworth, and recent and contemporary artists including Lassnig, Hockney and Landy, this exhibition reveals intimate encounters between artists and their subjects over the past 200 yearsÉric HussenotParisMartin D'Orgeval: SUR FACE 3 Nov 2018 - 12 Jan 2019no current exhibition
A New Figurative Art 1920-1945: Works from the Giuseppe Iannaccone Collection 26 Sep - 23 Dec 2018not open todayBalthus 2 Sep 2018 - 1 Jan 2019
Southern Geometries, from Mexico to Patagonia 14 Oct 2018 - 24 Feb 2019 an exhibition which celebrates both the wealth of color and the diversity of styles in the geometric art of Latin America, bringing together 250 artworks made by over seventy artists from the Pre-Columbian period to the presentno current exhibition
Chris Burden: Measured 29 Sep 2018 - 26 Jan 2019 “‘Limits’ is a relative term. Like beauty, it is often in the eye of the beholder” - Chris Burden. An exhibition of two large-scale works: 1 Ton Crane Truck and Porsche with Meteorite last weekUrs Fischer: Dasha 12 Sep - 15 Dec 2018 a larger-than-life-size wax candle Dasha Zhukova will be lit and the candle will melt over the course of the exhibitionPaweł Ferus: You Better Run 24 Nov 2018 - 2 Feb 2019Serban Savu: Heroes, Saints and Other Figures 23 Nov 2018 - 19 Jan 2019Valérie Favre: Die Ruhe der Seelenruhe 10 Nov 2018 - 16 Feb 2019Boris Mikhailov: Diary 20 Nov 2018 - 12 Jan 2019
Jorge Molder - José Pedro Croft - Étienne Martin - Michel Boulanger - Marthe Wéry - Jean Degottex 1 Dec - 22 Dec 2018
Wang Bing 1 Dec - 22 Dec 2018 Wang Bing’s second exhibition at the gallery presents three films, including two previously unseen in France: Mrs Fang (2018 - Director’s cut) and Beauty Lives in Freedom (2018), in addition to Traces (2014_Jörg Herold 22 Nov - 20 Dec 2018
Jean-Marie Appriou: November 10 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 in his first solo show with the gallery, Appriou asks us to consider the moment of the earth’s seasonal cycle in which we presently find ourselvesno current exhibition
