Exhibitions to Look Out for in 2024
A guide to some of the best art exhibitions to see in Europe, the UK, and the United States in 2024.
Angelica Kauffman, R.A, Colour 1778–80. © Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photographer: John Hammond.
A guide to some of the best art exhibitions to see in Europe, the UK, and the United States in 2024.
Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
2024 marks the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition, and arguably the blockbuster show of the year is the joint Musée d’Orsay and National Gallery of Art commemoration. With an immersive virtual reality (VR) experience that promises to carry audiences back to the actual event, this sounds a bit gimmicky, but surely the art will speak for itself.
The exhibition brings together many of the works shown at the original exhibition held in a Parisian photographer’s studio in April 1874. There were 31 participants whose works were widely ridiculed, including Degas, Monet, Morisot, and Pissarro. The exhibition also includes Monet’s Impression, Sunrise, which arguably gave the movement its name.
The show contextualizes the Impressionists with examples of the Salon art they were rebelling against, and other radical artists, like Manet, who chose not to exhibit with them. Finally, it looks at the world they were painting, the new boulevards, and the bourgeois life of contemporary Paris.
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France, March 25 – July 14, 2024
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States, September 8, 2024 – January 19, 2025
Exhibitions to Look Out for in 2024: Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise, 1872, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, France.
Brâncuși, Art Has Only Just Begun
Paris is hosting the Olympics in 2024 and the city is upping its cultural offerings to compete with the sporting extravaganza. The sleek, minimal, organic forms of Constantin Brâncuși are on display at the Pompidou Centre in a major exhibition of over 200 works. It covers his whole career, from his brief period as an apprentice of Auguste Rodin through his development of abstraction.
Brâncuși worked with repeated subjects and forms, and all his major series are represented. His working process is explored in plaster, bronze, and direct stone carving, and through influences like folk culture and ancient Mediterranean art. The centrepiece, however, is the gallery’s recreation of his studio, which like the rest of the Pompidou, is closing for a major renovation in 2025.
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, March 27 – July 1, 2024
Exhibitions to Look Out for in 2024: Brâncuși’s workshop, Paris 1925, Paris. Photo by Edward Steichen.
Caspar David Friedrich: Infinite Landscapes
Several big anniversaries are not being commemorated this year, for example, 300 years since the birth of George Stubbs and the bicentenary of Jean-Léon Gérôme, but one artist who is remembered is German Romantic landscapist, Caspar David Friedrich. There are big shows in Germany, staggered to give what is effectively a year-long celebration. These include Infinite Landscapes at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Art for a New Age which recently started in Hamburg, and Where it All Began in Dresden.
Each show takes a slightly different approach. Berlin looks at his rediscovery in the early years of the twentieth century. Hamburg focuses on landscape and includes contributions by contemporary artists. Dresden looks at the historical works which influenced Friedrich during his 40 years in the city. They all include his most iconic landscapes which combine faith and symbolism with precisely evoked nature.
Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, until April 1, 2024
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany, April 19 – August 4, 2024
Albertinum and Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, Germany, August 24, 2024 – January 5, 2025
Exhibitions to Look Out for in 2024: Caspar David Friedrich, Moonrise by the Sea, 1822, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany.
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