This year hails the arrival of some international art superstars in the capital: Olafur Eliasson comes to Tate, Cindy Sherman lands at the National Portrait Gallery and the biggest Leonardo Da Vinci exhibition in the UK for 65 years opens at Buckingham Palace. Here is your ultimate guide to the unmissable exhibitions of 2019
A new permanent gallery space entitled Being Human is opening at Wellcome Collection this September. The gallery aims to explore four areas of what of it means to be alive in these uncertain times. Exhibiting artists are to include Yinka Shonibare, known for his design for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square and Heather Sewey-Hagborg, who has created portraits using DNA found on cigarette butts. This promises to be an intriguing exhibition.
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This exhibition will tell the story of 12 women who were instrumental in the success of the Pre-Raphaelites. Hitherto unseen paintings, manuscripts and photographs from collections across the world will bring to light the overlooked role these women played in the development of one of Britain's most famous artistic movements.
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Born in Korea, Nam June Paik (1932 –2006) became one of the leading international lights of electronic art in the 20th century. This autumn, Tate Modern is celebrating his life with a blockbuster exhibition that hopes to do justice the forward-thinking creativity of his pioneering work
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Turner Prize winning artist Mark Leckey launches his ambitious exhibition at Tate Britain this autumn in what promises to be a theatrical treat. Leckey's work roots his own personal memories in social history with a mix of nostalgia and gritty realism, taking a bridge he remembers from childhood as inspiration.
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Buddhism is the world's fourth largest religion, with an estimated following of 500 million people. This autumn, the British Library will stage a major exhibition exploring the art of Buddhism with rare artefacts spanning the last 2,000 years.
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Everyone has heard of Tutankhamun, the boy king, whose tomb was discovered by archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922. This exhibition will explore the Carter’s quest to find King Tut, and the meanings behind the objects that were buried with the young pharaoh.
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The Barbican Centre is set to explore the golden era of cafes cabarets and clubs, with an exhibition that casts a global look at these artists’ haunts. Expect a rich selection of prints, props and paraphernalia and immersive life-size reconstructions of some of the famous interiors.
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Mary Sibande’s exhibition I Came Apart at the Seams opens this autumn in conjunction with the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair and it promises to be filled with drama. Sibande is one of South Africa’s most celebrated contemporary artists – she represented her country at the Venice Biennale in 2011 – but this will be her first solo UK exhibition.
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Most of us know the story of Troy, whether we have diligently read the Iliad or seen the film in which Brad Pitt plays Achilles, the ultimate Greek warrior who meets his end with an arrow through his heel. In November around 300 objects will go on display at the British Museum in an exhibition exploring our fascination with this tragic tale with art from antiquity to the present day.
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Dora Maar (1907–1997) was a French-born photographer and painter with an eye for the unusual. In November a touring exhibition of her work is coming to Tate Modern, with over 200 works spanning a sixty-year career, hoping to lift this extraordinary artist out of Picasso's shadow.
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Rembrandt (1606–69) used light like no other artist. He was an alchemist, able to transform paint into glowing flesh. It is 350 years since Rembrandt’s death, but his paintings remain relevant and innovative. No one before or since has quite captured tenderness and drama in the way that he did and with such stubborn individuality. This exhibition promises to be a treat.
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As one of Britain's most famous cultural figures, William Blake is known as a prolific poet, a radical political thinker and a technically innovative visual artist. Yet in his lifetime, the father of the Romantic movement went widely unrecognised. In the largest exhibition of Blake's work since 2001,Tate Britain sheds light on the man behind the reputation – the obstinate activist who has come to be seen as a luminous visionary.
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This exhibition will bring together close to 100 of Vallotton’s works from collections around the world, including his female nudes, images of the first world war and his piercing early portraits. This promises to be a fascinating show that will shed light on the unease of a generation, as well as the inner world of Vallotton himself.
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Coming to the Design Museum in 2019, Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition reconnects with the roots of the filmmaker's inspiration by showcasing pieces from the director's archives for the first time in the UK. His films amazed the entire world, but it's surprising how much of his legacy lies closer to home.
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The artist who sold for a cool $450 million in December 2017 is set to stun once again in the biggest Da Vinci art exhibition for 65 years. To celebrate the 500th anniversary of Da Vinci's death, The Royal Collection Trust is partnering with twelve institutions around the UK to simultaneously showcase 144 exquisite drawings by the master's skillful hand.
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The Master of Sunflowers gets his first UK retrospective at Tate Britain in over 70 years. Bringing together the largest group of Van Gogh paintings shown in the UK for nearly a decade, Van Gogh and Britain will reveal how the artist was inspired by British art, literature and culture throughout his career and how he, in turn, inspired a roster of British artists, from Walter Sickert to Francis Bacon.
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The first European Lee Krasner exhibition in 50 years comes to the Barbican next May. Nearly 100 of Krasner’s works will go on display, revealing ‘the sheer impact of her art’ to a new audience.
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Featuring around 180 works from international public and private collections, as well as new work never before displayed in a public gallery, Cindy Sherman will trace the development of Sherman's work from the mid-70s to the present day.
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Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson is one of the most prominent contemporary artists working today. Since he stunned audiences at Tate Modern in 2003 with his The Weather Project – the dazzling artificial sun installation suspended in a mist-filled Turbine Hall – Eliasson has represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale, designed the Serpentine Pavilion (in 2007), and more recently, showcased his phenomenal light installation Room for one colour in the National Gallery's Monochrome exhibition. Now he is preparing for a monumental Tate Modern retrospective in July 2019. We can't wait.
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Expect the weird and wonderful: a tribute to the man behind fashion's favourite hallucinatory panoramas and twisted fairytales arrives at the V&A next September
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The upcoming National Gallery Paul Gauguin exhibition will be the first ever exhibition to focus solely on his portraits. Focusing on the later part of Gauguin’s career, from the mid-1880s to his death, the exhibition will highlight his transition from Impressionism to Symbolism.
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Britain's most revered queen of optical experiences returns to London next October with her first major large-scale museum retrospective held in the UK for 16 years. Organised by the National Galleries of Scotland in partnership with the Hayward Gallery and in close collaboration with the artist, this comprehensive exhibition charts the pivotal moments in Riley's prolific career, from her early monochrome paintings of the 1960s to recent large-scale wall paintings.
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