Europe Art Exhibitions

Summer 2026

Across Europe, this season brings together major retrospectives, ambitious contemporary exhibitions and the return of the Venice Biennale, revealing an art world that continues to look to the past while rethinking how it is understood today.

Opening in Venice, the 61st Venice Biennale, In Minor Keys, proposes a quieter mode of attention, exploring fragility, memory and displacement. Elsewhere, exhibitions devoted to Mark Rothko, Anselm Kiefer, Ruth Asawa, Alice Neel and Ewa Juszkiewicz revisit artists who have reshaped modern and contemporary art, while offering new perspectives on painting, sculpture, portraiture and perception.

Together, these exhibitions reflect a European art scene that remains deeply engaged with history, not as something fixed, but as a living framework through which artists and institutions continue to reinterpret the present.

Featured Exhibitions

The Season’s Essentials. A rigorous edit of Europe’s most impactful art shows right now.

61st Venice Biennale: In Minor Keys

Giardini, Arsenale, and collateral venues, Venice, Italy

9 May – 22 November 2026

Price: From €30 standard admission (€20 reduced, €16 under 26)

Ruth Asawa: Retrospective

Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain

19 March – 13 September 2026

Price: TBC

An abstract painting featuring horizontal bands of dark purple, grey, and green, contrasted against orange and beige sections.

Rothko in Florence

Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy

14 March – 23 August 2026

Alice Neel: Beautifully Imperfect

Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal

16 July 2026 – 31 Jan 2027

Price: €24.00 (Non Residents)

Ewa Juszkiewicz

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain

26 May – 6 September 2026

Price: Full-Access ticket

An art installation featuring two large textured panels, one with a gold background depicting a figure dancing with a flowing garment, and the other in shades of blue and green showing another abstract form, set within an ornate gallery space.

Anselm Kiefer: The Women Alchemists

Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy

7 February – 27 September 2026

Price:

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Berthe Brincour (1879-1947): An Unconventional and Timeless Artist

Nationalmusée um Fëschmaart, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

5 June 2026 – 10 January 2027

Price: €7

Three illuminated displays featuring a woman in various outfits, including sporty and casual attire, set against a minimalist background.

Simon Fujiwara: A Whole New World

Mudam, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

20 March – 23 August 2026

Price: to be confirmed

Visitors exploring an art installation featuring numerous stands with sheets of paper and hanging audio devices in a dimly lit space.

Shilpa Gupta: What still holds

Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

27 March 2026 – 3 January 2027

Price: €16

Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Sweet Revenge

Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

27 May – 12 October 2026

Pierre Huyghe

Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

24 May – 13 September 2026

Price: CHF 25

Mona Hatoum: Over, Under and In Between

Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy

29 January – 9 November 2026

Price: TBC

Robert Frank and The Americans

Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain

29 May – 1 November 2026

An abstract painting featuring a woman with long, flowing orange hair, sitting with her arms wrapped around herself in a contemplative pose, surrounded by muted colours and shapes suggesting a natural environment.

Lassnig & Munch

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

27 March – 30 August 2026

Helen Frankenthaler

Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland

18 April – 23 August 2026

Jesse Darling: Goldsworth

Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

24 April – 27 September 2026

in situ: Igshaan Adams. Unsettling Dust: The Body’s Archive

Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain

5 May – 1 November 2026

Colección MACBA. Como un baile de estorninos: Treinta años e infinitas formas de ser

MACBA, Barcelona, Spain

28 November 2025 – 28 November 2026