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Art agenda: Exhibitions for autumn 2024

Many museums are launching unmissable exhibitions for the new season, showcasing great masters, from the Baroque to the avant-garde, artists who changed the course of art history, and women ahead of their time and erased for decades. Here are our favourites in the art capitals of Bilbao, London, Tokyo, Washington, DC and Vienna. Are you an Iberia Plus member? Fly to these destinations with your Avios.

  1. 1 Hilma af Klint, at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

    The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is holding a retrospective on leading radically abstract artist Hilma af Klint, from 10 October. The pioneering Swedish painter showed her work in public only rarely, so its enormous value did not begin to be appreciated until the end of the 20th century, and it’s only in the last decade that it’s been possible to include her paintings in international exhibitions. At one of the most anticipated shows of the season, the Guggenheim pays tribute to an artist whose first works of abstract geometry preceded by almost a decade those of Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian. The exhibition will look at Klint’s middle years of artistic activity (from 1906 to 1920), which produced non-figurative creations loaded with the artist’s profound spiritual experiences.

    Flowers and Trees HaK615, de Hilma af Klint
    "Flowers and Trees HaK615" / The Hilma af Klint Foundation, Estocolmo, HaK 615 ©The Hilma af Klint Foundation, Bilbao 2024

  2. 2 Van Gogh at London’s National Gallery

    From 14 September, the National Gallery in London is celebrating its bicentennial with some of the most spectacular works by the Starry Night genius. The gallery itself defines Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers as one of the exhibitions of the century. It includes works from some of the world’s most respected museums, resulting in a retrospective that will never be repeated. The exhibition brings together renowned pieces such as various paintings in the Sunflowers series, including a canvas belonging to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which returns to Europe for the first time since 1935, Van Gogh’s Chair, from the National Gallery itself, La Berceuse, on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and Starry Night Over the Rhône, sent from Paris.

    The painter's bedroom at his home, in Arlés, South of France
    "The Bedroom", 1888, BY Vincent van Gogh / Courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Loeb, 1962 © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

  3. 3 Louise Bourgeois at the Mori Museum of Art in Tokyo

    On 25 September, Louise Bourgeois: I have been to hell and back. And let me tell you, it was wonderful opens at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, a destination that Iberia will once again fly to from 27 October. The exhibition displays 100 works by this Parisian artist, one of the most important of the 20th century and considered one of the greatest Western influences in Japan of the last 50 years. Louise Bourgeois, a multidisciplinary artist who produced works in almost every imaginable format, turned the pain of her early childhood into art through the analysis of human dualities. Her works are now considered a form of feminist activism thanks to her way of analysing gender, sexuality, motherhood and suffering.

    "The Destruction of the Father", 1974. Louise Bourgeois
    "The Destruction of the Father", 1974. Louise Bourgeois / Picture by Ron Amstutz © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by JASPAR and VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

  4. 4 Rembrandt and Hoogstraten at the Vienna Museum of Art History

    From 8 October you can visit the most complete exhibition ever presented in Austria on the Baroque genius Rembrandt. With works visiting the country for the first time, the Kunsthistorisches Museum – one of the world’s most impressive art galleries – offers an interesting dialogue between Rembrandt and one of his most talented students, Samuel van Hoogstraten, head painter at the Hapsburg court in the 17th century, analysing how teacher and student dominated light and colour, two of the most representative elements of Baroque art. Rembrandt – Hoogstraten. Colour and Illusion looks at one of the peak chapters of pictorial Illusionism through a collection of almost 60 works.

    Samuel van Hoogstraten, still life
    "Trompe-l'oeil Still Life", 1666/78, de Samuel van Hoogstraten -7 © Creative Commons, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

  5. 5 Impressionist masters, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington

    To commemorate 150 years of Impressionism, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC brings together 130 works by masters such as Degas, Cézanne, Monet, Pissarro and Renoir. The exhibition Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment can be visited from 8 October in the US capital. It arrives from Paris after being shown at the Musée d’Orsay. This new edition of that first Impressionist exhibition, which opened on 15 April 1874, will reveal the beginnings of a pictorial movement that forever changed the history of universal art and the way in which it revolutionised the social and cultural status quo of Europe.

    Édouard Manet
    "Gare Saint-Lazare" by Édouard Manet / National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Horace Havemeyer in memory of his mother, Louisine W.Havemeyer

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