2019 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 13 exhibitions to look forward to (and book now)!
For a man who was once described by Henri Matisse as ‘the greatest of us all,’ time has been unkind to Pierre Bonnard. But Tate Modern opens its 2019 programme with the first major UK exhibition of the artist's work in just over twenty years. This is a long-overdue opportunity to introduce Bonnard to new generations and to reposition him as one of the greatest colourists of the early twentieth century.
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15 exquisite drawings by Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo will be shown alongside video installations by contemporary artist Bill Viola in a major Royal Academy exhibition next year. Juxtaposing Viola and his ancient forebear, for the first time, The Royal Academy will explore the unexpected affinities between the two artists.
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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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In February 2019, the V&A will open its doors to the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever staged in the UK on the House of Dior.
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You're going to want to plan a trip to Oxford: Ashmolean museum is staging a major Jeff Koons exhibition of works spanning his entire career next spring.
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The first major exhibition of American artist Dorothea Tanning in 25 years will open at Tate Modern. Works spanning Tanning’s prolific career, from her 1930s Surrealist paintings to her final collection of poetry (published when she was one hundred years old), will be displayed together in the UK for the first time since her death.
Diane Arbus was a genius. She was an early mover and shaker in the world of photography whose ripples can still be seen fifty years after her death. In 2019, The Hayward Gallery showcases her earliest work from a prolific but fledgling period, from 1956-1962.
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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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