AUSTRIA
Exhibition of Jan Vermeer of Delft, January 25 – April 25, Vienna. At the Vienna Museum of Art History, an exhibition dedicated to the painting of one of the most enigmatic and famous Dutch artists of the 17th century, Vermeer of Delft (1632–1675), opens. This artist only became famous in the 19th century; during his lifetime he had to pay off creditors with paintings, as confirmed by Balthasar de Monconys, who in 1663 went to see Vermeer's paintings at a baker's. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the painting "The Painter's Studio" ("Allegory of Painting"). Vermeer did not sell this painting to anyone, and even his widow tried to keep it in the house. Subsequently, "The Painter's Studio" gave rise to many interpretations, so the allegories of this painting are being decoded at the Vienna exhibition, using a simple reproduction of the painting's details: here is a recreated map of the Seventeen Provinces, here is a chandelier with a double-headed eagle, here are tapestries and curtains, here is furniture – see it in reality, next to the painting. The lyricism, the philosophy of "quiet life," light, color, the magic of blue and yellow that captivated Théophile Gautier, Marcel Proust, Pissarro – all in Vermeer's painting. The exhibition will also feature works by contemporary artists inspired by the magic of Vermeer's painting. These are paintings, sculptures, and installations by Peter Greenaway, George Dima, Maria Lassing. //www.khm.at
CASA exhibition-fair, January 27-30; Creativ exhibition, January 29-31, Salzburg. After Christmas in Salzburg, it is customary to update the home interior. This is facilitated by two exhibitions at the Exhibition Center dedicated to the latest trends in interior design. The first exhibition, CASA, specializes in construction and renovation issues. This year, the special themes of the exhibition will be "Healthy Sleep," "Parquet," and "Textiles."
As last year, CASA will run parallel to another popular exhibition, Creativ Salzburg, which will feature handmade items for home interiors, glass and ceramic products, stuffed toys, and souvenirs. The floristry section is especially popular. On January 30 and 31, by buying a ticket to only one exhibition, you can enter the second for free. It is better to keep tickets to these exhibitions, as they give a 10% discount on attending one of the music concerts of the "Mozart Week" festival. //www.casa-messe.at
BELGIUM
The World of Frida Kahlo, January 16 – April 18, Brussels. At the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels (on Rue Ravenstein), an exhibition dedicated to the life and work of the famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) opens in mid-January. The focus will be on Frida Kahlo's self-portraits from a private collection and the Dolores Olmedo Museum. This exhibition is a story about the era and the artist's complex life, filled with turbulent political events and personal suffering associated with the car accident she had to endure at age 18, a story about her family life with artist Diego Rivera, and how her passion for art allowed this woman to overcome pain and misfortune. The exhibition will feature 19 paintings by the artist, including the famous self-portraits from 1944 and 1945, drawings ("On the Bus," "Me with My Nanny"), and numerous photographs of Frida Kahlo from various archives. //www.bozar.be
GREAT BRITAIN
The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters, January 23 – April 18, London. A large exhibition dedicated to Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) opens at the end of January at the Royal Academy in London. The focus will be on the great artist's letters, which, due to their fragility, are exhibited extremely rarely. So, the main exhibits will be 35 of the artist's letters, but the themes of the letters will be "illustrated" with 65 paintings and 30 drawings, which will certainly attract a large flow of visitors, especially since such a major monographic exhibition of Van Gogh has not been held in England for forty years. The artist's letters (mainly to his brother Theo) will expand the understanding of the artist's inner world, allow us to judge what concerned him, and the sketches in personal letters will help visually represent the process of creating a painting – from idea-sketch to final realization in paint. The exhibition will feature Van Gogh's canvases such as "Still Life with Onions and Pipe," "Van Gogh's Chair," the 1888 "Self-Portrait," and many other paintings from art museums and private collections. Ticket to the exhibition costs €12. //www.royalacademy.org.uk
Boat Show, January 8-17, London. At the famous London Boat Show, the latest models of modern yachts, motorboats, and speedboats, as well as spare parts and accessories for them, will be presented. In addition, you can quickly learn navigation and diving, visit the interactive Deck Games zone, a fashion show of sportswear, a daily music show 'Rock the Boat', a thematic photography exhibition, a cooking show, and water competitions that will take place on January 16 and 17. Adult ticket price – €15. //www.excel-london.co.uk
London Contemporary Art Fair, January 13-17. The largest art fair in the UK will be held this year at the London Business Design Centre for the 22nd time. Over a hundred galleries will present their collections of contemporary painting, sculpture, video, and photography, and 25 international art projects will also be presented to the audience. Special tours, performances, and discussions on new trends in contemporary art will be organized as part of the exhibition. One of the bright events of the fair will be the "Photo 50" exhibition. Entrance ticket costs €15. //www.londonartfair.co.uk
GERMANY
International exhibition Grune Woche, January 15-24, Berlin. The famous Berlin "Green Week" has been held since 1924 and is dedicated to new trends in the development of the food industry, agriculture, horticulture, and landscape design. Every year, about 1,600 exhibitors from 52 countries take part in it. The sections of landscaping and landscape design, the "Bioshop" where you can buy organic food, the natural cosmetics section, as well as fresh meat products, beer and wines, tea and spices are very popular at the exhibition. An exhibition ticket costs €12. //www.messe-berlin.de
"Utopias", January 22 – April 11, Berlin. This thematic exhibition, which will open at the Berlin Guggenheim Museum at the end of January, has the subtitle: "From Artistic Brotherhoods to the Bauhaus." The founder of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, stated in his 1919 manifesto: "Architects, sculptors and painters, we must all return to the crafts." And he embodied these ideas in the school of architecture and crafts he founded in Weimar. It was here that the concept of the synthesis of plastic arts, crafts and industry found its theoretical and practical application.
Such concepts, which arose with the growing conflict between individual craftsmanship and mass production that kills true art, and the awareness of the separation of art from the vital needs of people, became popular from the beginning of the 19th century. And from the middle of the 19th century, some artistic movements, inspired by the aesthetics of B. Reskin and W. Morris, created workshops ("workshops"). These "brotherhoods" were oriented toward decorativeness and rejected machine production, but soon seemed to dissolve into the international Art Nouveau style.
Visitors to this Berlin exhibition are invited to get acquainted with the utopian ideas of artistic brotherhoods and associations, whose exhibits will include works of the artistic associations "Nazarenes", "Arts and Crafts" by W. Morris, "Cornish Colony", the Pre-Raphaelites, Bauhaus artists, and Russian Constructivists. //www.deutsche-guggenheim.de
DENMARK
Exhibition of Joan Miró, January 23 – May 30, Copenhagen. The famous Arken Museum of Modern Art, located 20 km south of Copenhagen, will soon host an exhibition of the famous Spanish artist Joan Miró (1893-1983). The title of the exhibition is Miró's famous 1959 phrase: "I work like a gardener." Probably the artist meant both the free, spontaneous "growth" of his works and working in a new studio with magnificent lighting. The Danish exhibition will feature works by Joan Miró from the French Maeght Foundation of Visual Arts from the last twenty years of his life – these are the artist's "slow" and "spontaneous" paintings, ceramics, and sculpture. //www.arken.dk
SPAIN
Exhibition of Francisco López, January 13 – March 29, Madrid. On the fourth floor of the Nouvel Building at the Madrid Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, a special space has been set up for a new exhibition - the last sound installation No. 223 by the famous composer Francisco López (born in 1964). A biologist and entomologist by training, López has become a true star of the experimental world underground and has traveled the world with his concerts and installations. Visitors will have 8 minutes to appreciate López's music, which exists according to some mysterious physical laws, as many critics admit, while inside the acoustic system of López. //www.museoreinasofia.es
Dutch Painting at the Prado, until April 11, Madrid. This exhibition at the Prado in Madrid is dedicated to the publication of a new complete catalog of the museum's own collection of 17th-century Dutch painting. The exhibition presents systematically organized works of Dutch artists in three sections, including those from the museum's storerooms that have not been exhibited since the 1940s. The exhibition opens with works from the collections of Philip IV and Charles II, followed by the Bourbon collection, and ends with an overview of new museum acquisitions. As a bonus, until February 28, the exhibition will be supplemented with paintings from Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. //www.museodelprado.es
ITALY
International Contemporary Art Fair, January 29-31, Bologna. January is the main month for contemporary art presentations; European gallerists take stock of their activities and willingly participate in exhibition-fairs. The Bologna fair is considered the main Italian contemporary art fair. Carefully selected and pre-evaluated paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, glass, ceramics, and silver objects will be presented to viewers and buyers at the Bologna Exhibition Center. This year, in parallel with the art fair, on the night of January 30, the "Long Night of Museums" event will take place. A ticket to the fair costs €18. //www.artefiera.bolognafiere.it
Rome and the Barbarians, January 26 – July 20, Venice. This historical-archaeological exhibition, which will open at the end of January on the first floor of Venice's Palazzo Grassi, will explore the formation of a new European civilization at the level of cultural interpenetration. How did the vectors of culture shift after the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, and how did the art of barbarian tribes influence the old culture? Visitors to the exhibition "Rome and the Barbarians" will have to reflect on the questions of the fate of civilization, with sculptures, coins, weapons, jewelry, household items, and other artifacts on display. //www.palazzograssi.it
FRANCE
12th International Dive Show, January 15-18, Paris. This year, extreme sports enthusiasts will gather for the 12th time at the Porte de Versailles exhibition park, where the popular Paris dive show will take place in mid-January. The newest diving and spearfishing equipment will be presented, and professional instructors will conduct master classes for everyone on proper and safe diving and underwater exploration. Demonstration performances are the main part of the Paris dive show. Equally interesting will be a thematic exhibition dedicated to the history of underwater diving, with exhibits including photographs, films, equipment, and "vintage" diving accessories. //www.salondelaplongee.com
Exhibition "Children as Models", until March 8, Paris. The exhibition at the Parisian Мusee de l'Orangerie gathers in several halls paintings and sculptures created with the participation of famous artists' children. It is no secret that sculptors such as Поль Бельмондо, Эжен Каррьер, and artists Поль Сезанн, Пабло Пикассо, Огюст Ренуар, Морис Дени, Одилон Редон, Пьер Ардити employed their own children as models. The sculptures and paintings depicting child models are accompanied by funny and creepy stories-memories of the experience of working as models for the children of famous artists. //www.musee-orangerie.fr
SWITZERLAND
Event "Long Night of Museums", January 22, Basel. About 30 museums and exhibition halls in Basel, as well as 8 cultural foundations and institutes, will prepare special exhibition, excursion, and lecture programs for the traditional "Long Night of Museums" event, which will take place in the city for the 10th time. At five o'clock in the evening on January 22, free buses will start running along special routes connecting more than 30 museums and other cultural sites, and until two in the morning you can visit several museums and exhibitions. This year, such exhibitions and events have even been prepared at the Botanical Garden and the zoo. A general ticket for adults, which allows entry to any museum, costs €20, and for children and young people under 25, entry to all events is free, so you just need to have your passport with you. //www.museumsnacht.ch
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