5 major exhibitions abroad not to be missed in 2022

The year 2022 has only just begun, but some of the most important international museum venues have already announced which exhibitions they will host in the new year, from van Gogh’s self-portraits at London’s Courtauld Gallery to Meret Oppenheim’s Surrealist output at New York’s MoMA. Here are, in order of opening, five exhibitions to see outside Italy in 2022, though of course more will be added throughout the year.

1. Vincent van Gogh - Courtauld Gallery, London.

From February 3 to May 8, 2022, the Courtauld Gallery in London will host, in the new Denise Coates Exhibition Galleries, the first-ever exhibition dedicated to the self-portraits of Vincent van Gogh (Zundert, 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890) from the most important international collections, including the Van Gogh Museum and Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the National Gallery in Washington DC, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and the National Gallery in London. In fact, more than fifteen self-portraits that the celebrated Dutch artist made during his prolific career will be on display. Beginning with the iconic Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, among the Courtauld Gallery’s most celebrated works, the exhibition will bring together about half of the self-portraits van Gogh made, many of them rarely on loan. The exhibition is curated by Karen Serres.

2. Edvard Munch - Albertina, Vienna

From February 18 to June 19, 2022, the Vienna Albertina will host the exhibition Edvard Munch. In dialogue dedicated to Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (Løten, 1863 - Oslo, 1944). More than sixty of the artist’s works will be placed in dialogue with works by major artists, such as Georg Baselitz, Andy Warhol, Miriam Cahn, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Tracy Emin and Jasper Johns, to highlight how Munch has influenced art to the present day. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the Munch Museet, the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, private collections and numerous other international institutions.

3. Raphael - National Gallery, London

From April 9 to July 31, 2022, the National Gallery in London will dedicate an exhibition to Raphael (Urbino, 1483 - Rome, 1520). The exhibition aims to cover the entire career of the Urbino artist, which was short but very intense, through loans from the Hernmitage in St. Petersburg, the Louvre in Paris, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, the Vatican Museums and the Doria Pamphilj Gallery in Rome. Paintings, drawings, prints, studies for sculptures and tapestries. The exhibition is sponsored by Credit Suisse, a partner of the National Gallery, with support from the Thompson Family Charitable Trust.

4. Albrecht Dürer - Château de Chantilly.

A major exhibition, the largest in France in twenty-five years, on Albrecht Dürer (Nuremberg, 1471 - 1528), entitled Albrecht Dürer. Renaissance et Gravure. Curated by Mathieu Deldicque and Caroline Vrande, the exhibition will bring together more than two hundred folios from the Musée Condé in Chantilly and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France to tell the story of the artist’s graphic production: with his engravings, Dürer helped shape the European Renaissance by placing himself at the center of the artistic exchanges of his time and beyond.

5. Meret Oppenheim - Kunstmuseum Bern, Menil Collection Houston, and MoMa New York.

From October 30, 2022 to March 4, 2023, MoMa New York will host the first major transatlantic exhibition, as well as the first in the United States in the past twenty-five years, dedicated to the Swiss Surrealist artist Meret Oppenheim (Berlin, October 6, 1913 - Basel, November 15, 1985). Meret Oppenheim. My Exhibition will display some 180 works spanning five decades, including paintings, sculptures, objects, collages and drawings. Organized by MoMA, the Kunstmuseum Bern, and the Menil Collection, Houston, and curated by Anne Umland, Nina Zimmer, and Natalie Dupêcher, with Lee Colón, the exhibition runs through Feb. 13, 2022, at the Kunstmuseum Bern, then will go to the Menil Collection, Houston (March 25 to Sept. 18, 2022), and finally to MoMA New York.

Image: Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889; London, Courtauld Gallery) Credit The Courtauld

5 major exhibitions abroad not to be missed in 2022

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