Klimt, Vermeer and Schiele, the 2023 exhibitions in Europe and around the world

Klimt, Vermeer and the masterpieces of Capodimonte, the legend of Karl Lagerfeld and the great actress Sarah Bernhardt, up to Schiele and Marina Abramović: the one that will characterize 2023 in Europe and in the world is a high-level artistic programming.

VIENNA - From 3 February at the Belvedere in Vienna, the exhibition “Klimt.

Inspired by Van Gogh, Rodin, Matisse…”, on display until 29 May and created in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

The project presents a total of 90 works (including paintings, drawings and sculptures) by Gustav Klimt and other authors, to document through the comparison of styles and techniques which artists have most influenced the career of the Austrian painter. 

AMSTERDAM - At the Rijskmuseum in Amsterdam the opportunity to see together for the first time over 23 works by Johannes Vermeer, including 'Girl with a Pearl Earring', in a major exhibition dedicated to the painter.

The project, entitled "Vermeer" and scheduled from 10 February to 4 June, explores the painter's artistic choices and motivations as well as the creative process that led to the birth of his paintings.

PARIS - The exhibition with which the Petit Palais in Paris pays homage to the great actress on the centenary of her death is entitled "Sarah Bernhardt".

Set up from 14 April to 27 August, the exhibition recounts the extraordinary career of the actress, who was also the muse of many artists, through over 400 works, including the spectacular portrait painted in 1876 by the painter Georges Clairin.

About 60 masterpieces from the Capodimonte Museum collection will be featured from 7 June at the Louvre in Paris in the exhibition "Naples in Paris: the Louvre hosts the Museo di Capodimonte".

Three locations chosen in the museum: up to

8 January 2024 the Grande Galerie will host the comparison between two of the most important collections in the world of Italian paintings while in the Salle de la Chapelle the origins and differences of the Capodimonte collection assembled by the Farnese and the Bourbons will be investigated;

until 25 September, instead, 4 drawings will be exhibited at the Salle de l'Horloge, including one by Michelangelo and one by Raphael. 

LONDON - At the National Gallery in London, the exhibition "After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art", from 25 March to 13 August, investigates the artistic revolution that took place from 1880 to the outbreak of the First World War: starting from the legacy left by the 'giants' Cézanne, van Gogh and Gauguin, the exhibition exhibits around 100 works, from Klimt and Kokoschka, Matisse and Picasso to Mondrian and Kandinsky, together with a selection of sculptures by artists such as Rodin and Camille Claudel.

Also in the London museum from 6 May to 30 July there is also a great focus on Saint Francis of Assisi: the exhibition reveals the fortune in the art of the image of the Saint, from the 13th century to today, presenting works from the museum's collection (Sassetta, Botticelli, and Zurbarán) alongside international loans with works by Caravaggio, Josefa de Óbidos,

Stanley Spencer, Antony Gormley, Giuseppe Penone, Andrea Büttner, and a new commission signed by Richard Long.

The first major exhibition dedicated to Marina Abramović at the Royal Academy of Arts: staged from 23 September to 10 December, the exhibition (on whose creation the artist worked directly) presents some of the most emblematic works created in her 50-year career, from Rhythm 0 (1974) to The Artist Is Present (2010). 

MADRID - Organized in collaboration with the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, the "Guido Reni" exhibition at the Prado Museum from March 28 to July 9 investigates the painter's contribution to the art of his time and relations with Spain.

A hundred works are exhibited, including paintings, sculptures and graphic works: a part is attributed to Reni himself, while the others are by his contemporaries (such as Annibale Carracci, Caravaggio or Francisco de Zurbarán).

TOKYO - Around 50 of Schiele's masterpieces arrive in Japan thanks to the exhibition dedicated to the brilliant Viennese artist entitled "Egon Schiele from the collection of the Leopold Museum. Young genius in Vienna 1900" staged from January 26 to April 9 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.

Along the way, Schiele's life and art as well as the cultural context in which he found himself working are also documented through comparisons with other Viennese artists including Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Richard Gerstl.

NEW YORK - At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in spring "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty" (May 5 - July 16), the first major retrospective on the stylist: around 150 works recount the long (from 1950 to 2019) and extraordinary career of this protagonist of fashion, documenting the creative process and the many collaborations.

Also at the Met from 24 September also the exhibition "Manet/Degas" (until 7 January 2024), in collaboration with the Musée d'Orsay (where it is on display from 28 March to 23 July) and the Musée de l'Orangerie: the The itinerary focuses on the stormy relationship between Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas, who were friends, rivals and antagonists, presenting around 150 works (paintings and works on paper) to the public in order to define their similarities and differences.