FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO
FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO TODAY Voltage, 1942, by Dorothea Tanning; Fantastic Women at the Schirn Kunsthalle. GIO PONTI Maxxi, Rome; until 13 April RAPHAEL Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome; 5 March – 14 June; National Gallery, London; 3 Oct – 24 Jan 2021 MATISSE Centre Pompidou, Paris; 13 May – 31 Aug There may be no individual more responsible for What more is there to say about the iconic artist? School of Mathematics, Rome, 1932-35, the boom in postwar Italian Another Renaissance master Quite a bit, it turns out, by Gio Ponti; Maxxi. design than Ponti, who receives his celebration, as the creative curators at receives a fittingly large retrospective 40 years after his death, featuring drawings, architectural models, furniture pieces, notebooks, and much more. maxxi.art a year after the Leonardo fetes. These twin exhibitions celebrate the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death. scuderiequirinale.it, nationalgallery.org.uk Rome Ciampino Airport: Pompidou pair works from across Matisse’s career with, unusually, literature, shedding new light on the French artist on the occasion of his 150th birthday. centrepompidou.fr Rome Fiumicino; 12 miles; London City Airport: Paris Le Bourget: 19 miles 8 miles 10 miles NAM SHEELA A Luta Yanomami, Claudia Andujar; Fondation Cartier. JUNE PAIK Tate Modern, London; until 9 Feb The major retrospective for the South Korean visionary is touring the globe, moving on to the Stedelijk in Amsterdam (14 March – 23 Aug) as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Singapore. tate.org.uk London City Airport: 8 miles GOWDA Lenbachhaus, Munich; 31 March – 26 July A rare opportunity to see a solo exhibition of sculptures and installations by the Indian artist, who won this year’s Maria Lassnig Prize and has previously exhibited at the Kochi- Muziris Biennale in 2012, the Venice Biennale in 2009, and Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany, in 2007. lenbachhaus.de Munich International Airport: 27 miles © THE ESTATE OF DOROTHEA TANNING/VG BILD-KUNST, BONN 2019, PHOTO: JOCHEN LITTKEMANN, BERLIN; © GIO PONTI ARCHIVES; © CLAUDIA ANDUJAR 56 NetJets
cultural cache Ten exhibitions of note across Europe in 2020. By Brian Noone © ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS; © ESTATE OF NAM JUNE PAIK; © CENTRE POMPIDOU, MNAM-CCI/GEORGES MEGUERDITCHIAN/DIST. RMN-GP © SUCCESSION H. MATISSE THE LONELINESS OF THE SOUL Munch Museum, Oslo (from spring) The massive new museum dedicated to Edvard Munch in Oslo will open this spring with an exhibition pairing British artist Tracey Emin’s work with the Norwegian master, who was one of her most significant inspirations. The show then travels to the Royal Academy in London. munchmuseet.no Oslo Airport: 30 miles SCHALL UND RAUCH Kunsthaus, Zurich; 24 April – 19 July The raucous 1920s are in focus at this sprawling exhibition, which looks to Berlin, Paris, and Vienna in one of Europe’s most artistically fruitful periods. Dada, Bauhaus, modern design, Neue Sachlichkeit— works from a range of movements are on loan from both public and private collections. kunsthaus.ch Zurich Airport: 7 miles Marguerite au chat noir, 1910, Henri Matisse; Centre Pompidou. CLAUDIA ANDUJAR Fondation Cartier, Paris; 30 Jan – 10 May Equally parts political statement and artistic achievement, this is the largest-ever exhibition of the Switzerland-born photographer who dedicated more than five decades of her life to photographing and protecting the Yanomami, one of Brazil’s largest indigenous groups. fondationcartier.com Paris Le Bourget Airport: 15 miles TV Garden, 1974-1977, Nam June Paik; Tate Modern. EDWARD HOPPER Beyeler Foundation, Basel; 26 Jan – 17 May For the first time, the American artist’s landscapes will be the centerpiece of an exhibition, which brings together both masterpieces and rarely seen pictures from across the globe, offering a new perspective on Hopper’s still-relevant interpretation of modernity. fondationbeyeler.ch Basel-Mulhouse Airport: 7 miles It -– didnt stop – I didnt stop, 2019, Tracey Emin; Munch Museum. FANTASTIC WOMEN Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; 13 Feb – 24 May A wide-ranging exhibition about the women of Surrealism—from Frida Kahlo to Dorothea Tanning—that includes more than 250 works by 34 women. The groundbreaking exhibition, which is the first major show on the subject, moves to the Louisiana Museum outside Copenhagen (18 June – 27 Sept). schirn.de Frankfurt Airport: 8 miles NetJets 57
