Maillol, very present in Paris thanks to the bronzes installed in the Carrousel gardens by Dina Vierny and André Malraux, and inaugurating the sculpture gallery of La Piscine with Île-de-France, the Catalan Aristides Maillol appears as a sculptor as essential as he is misunderstood and little known.

Thanks to exceptional loans, Maillol's work is presented in all its variety: mainly sculptures, but also paintings, ceramics, embroidery and decorative art objects, as well as drawings and engravings. Although the exhibition covers his entire career, it focuses in particular on the early period, during which Maillol discovered his true vocation and established himself as a sculptor.

Who inspired Gustav Klimt, the great master of Viennese Modernism? How familiar was he with Vincent van Gogh? Had he ever seen a work by Henri Matisse? The collaborative exhibition between the Belvedere in Vienna and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam follows a trail that starts with Klimt's artistic forerunners and leads to his contemporaries. In striking juxtaposition, the show displays works by Klimt, Van Gogh, Matisse, and many others.

Curated by Markus Fellinger (Belvedere, Vienna), Edwin Becker (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) and Renske Suijver (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam).

The Fondation de l'Hermitage is devoting a major retrospective to one of the most important Belgian artists of the early 20th century: Léon Spilliaert (Ostend 1881-Brussels 1946). Self-taught, trained in the literature of his time, and convinced of his destiny as a chosen artist, Spilliaert is the author of a work of profound originality, bathed in metaphysical questions and Flemish culture, and produced almost exclusively on paper. Mixing graphic techniques, the Ostend artist weaves links with contemporary symbolism and expressionism and seems to announce, in his most radical landscapes, simplified to the extreme, geometric abstraction and minimalism.

The installation takes a new approach to the work of the ever-popular Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). This major exhibition explores in detail the impact Hokusai exerted on other artists, both during his lifetime and beyond, having a great influence on Art Nouveau creators.

The installation explores a period of great upheaval when artists broke with established tradition and laid the foundations for the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The decades between 1880 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 were a complex, vibrant period of artistic questioning, searching, risk-taking and innovation. The installation celebrates the achievements of three giants of the era: Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. It follows the influences they had on their peers, on younger generations of French artists and on wider circles of artists across Europe in Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels and Vienna.

With over a hundred works by painters ranging from Klimt and Kokoschka, Matisse and Picasso to Mondrian and Kandinsky, complemented by a selection of sculpture by artists including Rodin and Camille Claudel, the presentation follows the creation of a new modern art, free of convention, taking in Expressionism, Cubism and Abstraction.

It also includes some of the most iconic works of art created during these decades. Important loans come to the exhibition from institutions and private collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Musée d'Orsay and Musée Rodin, Paris; Art Institute of Chicago; National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona; Tate Modern, London; and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut.

Sarah Bernhardt, (1844-1923), was an emblematic figure who spanned the 19th and 20th centuries. The "Divine Sarah", who was an artist as well as an actress, takes centre stage at the Petit Palais in an exceptional exhibition to mark the centenary of her death. The museum holds important collections of works linked to the actress, including the spectacular portrait of her that was painted in 1876 by her friend Georges Clairin and donated by her son Maurice. Photographs, paintings and even a film reveal the private side of her art, but also the publicity she sought for her work as an artist.

The first comprehensive exhibition in Austria of highlights from the Würth Collection, which  is among the largest private collections in Europe and one of the most eminent compilations of artworks worldwide. For the conception of the exhibition, which unites works from Classical Modernism to contemporary art and thus allows for a unique journey through 100 years of art history, the Leopold Museum's Director Hans-Peter Wipplinger was given carte blanche to select 200 masterpieces from the approximately 20,000 works comprised in the collection and to show these highlights from the Würth Collection on two exhibition levels at the Leopold Museum.

This temporary exhibition was created with the aim of presenting the works and objects that have entered the collections of the three Sitges museums since 2014. This date marked the reopening of the seafront, Cau Ferrat and Maricel museums. Since then the museums have incorporated 1,382 works, objects and documents, of which a selection of 300 are now on display.

Among the works on display are pieces by Picasso, Isidre Nonell, Ramon Casas, Santiago Rusiñol, Olga Sacharoff and Alonso Cano, as well as one of the largest glass collections in Catalonia, which includes pieces from ancient Egypt to the 18th century.

The first exhibition to compare the three artistic metropolises of the turn of the century: Munich, Vienna and Berlin. As Modernism dawned, the artistic avant-gardes pushed for freedom in both the institutions of art and the subject matter expressed. Many artists within the new currents of Symbolism, Art Nouveau and Impressionism were first presented in the highly regarded Secession exhibitions. This installation comprises more than 200 paintings, sculptures and graphic works by 80 artists. It features not only many artists who can be discovered for the first time, but also foregrounds the oeuvre of Gustav Klimt with numerous examples of his work.

In three acts, the exhibition traces the history of Alphonse Mucha, the king of the printed poster, a symbolic figure of Art Nouveau inseparable from the Paris of the Belle Époque, and shows his major works, including the spectacularly presented Slavic Epic. It also highlights the lasting influence of the artist, a source of inspiration for today's creation, from street art to manga, from cinema to tattooing.

The presentation explores the life and work of Hector Guimard (1867-1942), the French architect and designer whose name is synonymous with the French Art Nouveau movement. Bringing together furniture and design objects including jewelry, metalwork, ceramics, drawings, and textiles from collections worldwide, this is the first major American museum exhibition devoted to Guimard since 1970.

The exhibition is co-organized by the Richard H. Driehaus Museum and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

The installation aims to free Victor Horta of his Art Nouveau label and offer other readings of his work, such as his links with eclecticism and Art Deco. It also focusses on the major role of his masters: architects Alphonse Balat, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and Joseph Poelaert. The show hopes to liberate Horta's work from all preconceived ideas, painting a portrait of the architect that takes into account all of his contradictions.

The Autrique House presents the work and life of Privat Livemont, an emblematic Art Nouveau artist from Brussels. Working as a versatile artist, a craftsman, and a teacher at the Industrial Academy in Schaerbeek, Livemont seems to have been a tireless worker. He is best known for his posters and the sgraffiti on many facades in Brussels.

With this long-overdue, large-scale exhibition, the Leopold Museum intends to shed new light on the eminent and ground-breaking oeuvre of Max Oppenheimer, which has unjustly fallen into oblivion, and to explore the wealth of his works' motifs. Furthermore, the presentation looks at the role of the artist and his networks through his contemporaries Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele.