Projected on all the surface of the Atelier des Lumières, the new digital exhibition immerses visitors in the paintings of Vincent van Gogh. This new visual and musical production retraces the intense life of the artist, who, during the last ten years of his life, painted more than 2,000 pictures, which are now in collections around the world.

With 98 works on display by 68 artists, the exhibition seeks to analyse not only the place that pastel holds compared to traditionally venerated oil painting, but also the reasons that led different artists in the 19th and 20th centuries to turn to and reclaim this medium. Divided into 10 chronological sections, the show highlights the key moments and crucial figures in the rebirth of pastel during the first iteration of modernity, a time when this technique came to be considered an art in its own right.

The touring exhibition "Blue. The Colour of Art Nouveau" aims to explore the spirit of a period in which blue was a predominant thread. In the late nineteenth century, relating landscapes and the phenomena of nature to moods, so as to transmit the soul's hues and tonalities, ended up constituting a poetological aesthetic that became inscribed within the great movement of modernity, moving through Symbolism and witnessing the birth of the cinematograph.

Travelling exhibition "Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Making the Glasgow Style" will be the first exhibition in the United States not only to showcase the seminal work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) but to locate his production in relation to the larger circle of designers and craftspeople with which he shared sources, stylistic features, and patrons.

By showcasing posters and paintings, sculptures, furniture and ceramics, the exhibition underscores the extraordinary artistic and artisanal blossoming that swept over and ultimately overhauled decorative taste at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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To commemorate  the 150th anniversary of Austrian-Japanese friendship, the MAK presents two exhibitions:  "KUNIYOSHI +: Design and Entertainment in Japanese Woodblock Prints" and "UKIYOENOW: Tradition and Experiment".

The first presentation is devoted to the late period of the ukiyo-e. The show's main spotlight is on one of the most important and innovative artists of the nineteenth century, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861).  In contrast, "UKIYOENOW: Tradition and Experiment" opens up new dimensions in the contemporary treatment of the Japanese art form and poses the question of how far the different forms of production-traditional handicraft and digital print-and also the new context of global/transnational pop cultures are impacting the further development of the ukiyo-e.

Press Conference: Friday, 25 October 2019, 10:30 a.m.

Curated by the Museu d'Art de Cerdanyola in collaboration with the Fundació Joan Abelló, this exhibition provides an analysis of male nudes from a feminist perspective that vindicates gender equality and the sexual and emotional diversity of gender identity.

Discover the architect Otto Wagner, a key figure in the field of European architecture at the turn of the 20th century. His works contributed greatly to the emergence of a "modern architecture".

This exhibition is part of the Viennese season organised by the Cité.

This exhibition focuses on the connection between two artists who questioned the principles of sculpture throughout their careers and subverted the traditional gaze toward the human body from a renewed aesthetic.

Aubrey Beardsley (1872 - 1898)  shocked and delighted late-Victorian London with his sinuous black and white drawings. He explored the erotic and the elegant, the humorous and grotesque, winning admirers around the world with his distinctive style.
This exhibition will cover Beardsley's intense and prolific career as a draughtsman and illustrator, cut short by his untimely death from tuberculosis, aged 25. Beardsley's charismatic, enigmatic persona played a part in the phenomenon that he and his art generated.

The final exhibition before the Munch Museet moves to the new building presents, for the first time in history, works from all collections of the museum alongside each other. This is the last opportunity to visit the Mseum at its iconic building from 1963.

The show includes famous works by Munch, including The Scream, Madonna, Starry Night and The Kiss and other gems from artist like Amaldus Nielsen, Harriet Backer, Ludvig Ravensberg, Teddy Røwde, Jakob Weidemann and Johan Berner Jakobsen.

The exhibition explores Tiffany's vivid designs in relation to emerging artistic and craft movements at the turn of the 20th century. Through the dynamic, illuminated display of 20 of the designer's finest stained glass table and floor lamps. "Tiffany in Bloom" introduces visitors to the magic that Tiffany created with thousands of shards of glass and the "newfangled" power of electric light. Period photographs and accounts of his artisans also provide a glimpse into Tiffany's shop and Studio.

The exhibition, which can be visited until 28 June 2020, aims to show how women were viewed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The show includes a total of 47 works, among which are 42 paintings and 5 statues. All of the 29 artists on display, with the exception of Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Joaquín Torres García, are Spaniards of the stature of Joaquín Sorolla, Ramón Casas, Benjamín Palencia, Anglada Camarasa and Santiago Rusiñol.

The exhibition retraces the career and the artistic and philosophic influences of the artist Giorgio de Chirico from Munich to Turin, then to Paris where he discovered the artistic avant-garde of his era, and lastly Ferrare. The connections between the painter - discovered by Apollinaire and subsequently backed by the art dealer Paul Guillaume - and the Parisian cultural and literary circles will be highlighted as never before.

The travelling exhibition "Modernisme and Flowers: From Nature to Architecture" focuses on how the decorative arts of Modernisme represented plants and flowers when used in construction. An exhibition is for the first time establishing a dialogue between the world of plants and Modernista architecture. The exhibition discourse has been divided into four areas. The first explains the creative process of artists when "capturing" the images of flowers. The second involves a journey through eight applied arts fields in architecture and their respective creation processes: ceramics, mosaics, ironwork, stonework, stucco, hydraulic mosaics, stained glass and plasterwork. The third offers an exhibition tour of flowers and plants that recreate a huge timeless garden. The exhibition concludes by looking at the difficulty of preserving the applied arts in construction. The exhibition at the Casa-Museu Lluís Domènech i Montaner in Canet de Mar has been enlarged with new pieces and also pays special attention to how flowers were represented in ceramics  in the buildings by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner.

The exhibition curators are Fatima López, Marta Saliné and Sergio de la Fuente, PhDs in Art History and members of the GRACMON research group at the University of Barcelona.

The Horta Museum's centre for research is holding a colloquium on Art Nouveau decoration. Art historians, architects, artists, collectors and artisans will take part in this study event as part of a splendid international panel on research and perspectives related to Art Nouveau decoration.

The seminar will be held from 9am to 5pm at the CIVA and will be followed by a reception and visit to an exhibition in the Horta Museum entitled "Secrets of the workshop, Art Nouveau Decoration".

You can download the programme by clicking here (available in French)

Please write to Camille Paget for more information: camille@hortamuseum.be or call: +32 02 543.04.90

Exchanging ideas, history, intellectual growth, future... These are the proposed basics of the III Ibero-American Congress on the History of Furniture 2020, which is set to attract major sector experts from around the world to Barcelona. It is accordingly the only congress that delves into the history of furniture and brings together valuable knowledge to enhance progress in this field of research.
Under the title Connections/Conexões/Connections, the Congress will focus on the temporal, geographical, material and formal connections of Spanish, Portuguese and English furniture, which are also its three working languages.

Proposals for papers can be presented until 31 March at: congreso@estudidelmoble.com

This MAK exhibition presents the figure of Otto Prutscher (1880-1949) seventy years after his death, including the manifold roles he played in developing Viennese Modernism. Prutscher was an architect and designer who employed the entire variety of applied arts materials and was also an exhibition designer, teacher and member of all the major art reform movements, from the Secession to the Wiener Werkstätte and Werkbund.

The touring exhibition "Blue. The Colour of Art Nouveau" aims to explore the spirit of a period in which blue was a predominant thread. In the late nineteenth century, relating landscapes and the phenomena of nature to moods, so as to transmit the soul's hues and tonalities, ended up constituting a poetological aesthetic that became inscribed within the great movement of modernity, moving through Symbolism and witnessing the birth of the cinematograph.

The conference will approach the term Revivals with regard to Decorative Arts and Design to be interpreted as any domestic or public furnishings including but not limited to textiles, silverware, furniture, wallpaper, tableware, interior decoration as a whole, graphic design, as well as personal accessories (excluding fashion). Also welcome presentations on revivals within decorative and applied art traditions (ceramics, lacquer, metalwork, textiles, woodwork, etc.) made for utilitarian or connoisseurial purposes.

The conference includes two extra days for the post conference tour to Coimbra and Porto on 17 and 18 October.

Proposals for papers can be presented until 15 April 2020.

For more information in English click here

The new permanent exhibition devoted to Art Nouveau presents a selection of more than 372 pieces from its own collection. The exhibition "Modernisme: Toward the Design Culture", curated by Design Museum director Pilar Vélez and Prof. Mireia Freixa, focuses on Art Nouveau as the beginning of modern design, framing it in the European context and highlighting the uniqueness of the Catalan case.

The rediscovery of the women artists of Viennese Modernism began in early 2019 with the "City of Women" exhibition at the Lower Belvedere. In 2020, the Belvedere continues this trajectory by dedicating an IN-SIGHT exhibition to Elena Luksch-Makowsky, one of the central protagonists of this period. At the beginning of the 20th century works by the artist were to be found in all major Viennese art institutions and media - including Ver Sacrum, Wiener Werkstätte, Secession, and Galerie Miethke.

The exhibition is dedicated to the Norwegian visual artist and architect Harald Krohg Stabell (1874-1963, who lived and worked in Ålesund during the reconstruction period after the city fire in 1904.
The The shows presents architectural drawings, watercolors and woodcuts with motifs from Ålesund and its surroundings.

Trencadís mosaics are the most identifiable images in the work of Antoni Gaudí. Architecture in Modernisme represents a synthesis of all the arts and its suitable use of decoration leads to a rich combination of forms, volumes, textures and also colours - colour that is primarily the result of the use of ceramic and glass mosaics.

This touring exhibition aims to explain the origin and evolution of trencadí mosaics and concludes with a process that deconstructs this technique to discover the raw material from which it is made. Original pieces and copies are therefore presented alongside photographs so that a great deal of the materials used can be identified.

On the occasion of the 150th birthday of Adolf Loos (1870-1933)  the MAK is presenting an exhibition that has been developed in cooperation with the Albertina:  "ADOLF LOOS: Private Houses". Throughout his life Loos applied himself to private and public housing. This exhibition focuses on private homes and presents design drawings, plans, photos, and models of his in most part luxuriously furnished single family houses, villas, and country houses. By way of contrast, the display will also include revolutionary social projects, such as buildings for the municipality of Vienna.

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Otto Prutscher's death, the exhibition highlights the importance of his work for the development of Viennese Modernism. The show is dedicated to Josef Hoffmann's (1870-1956) in association with Otto Prutscher (1880-1949). Like Hoffmann an architect and designer, Prutscher was master of all materials used in the applied arts. He was an exhibition designer, a teacher, and a member of the most important reform movements in art from the Secession to the Wiener Werkstätte and the Werkbund.

Palau Güell is staging an exhibition dedicated to the painter Aleix Clapés until 30 May 2021. This Barcelona artist (1846-1920) was Eusebi Güell and Antoni Gaudí's inseparable travelling companion and favourite painter for many years. An artist of amazing expressive power, he was also the painter par excellence of the Palau Güell and the only painter involved in the original decoration for the building, both inside and out.

The exhibition presents one of the most outstanding works by Aleix Clapés that was thought to have disappeared more than a century ago. It is titled El peó (The Labourer, ca. 1886) and was discovered during the preparation of this exhibition. As explained by art historians Carlos Alejandro Lupercio and Josep Casamartina, there is a family legend according to which Leon Trotsky bought the work in Paris in 1920 and sent it to the Kremlin. Today it is known, however, that the painting never left Barcelona.

This exhibition presents a wide and varied selection of paintings by Anglada-Camarasa in order to present his oeuvre from a personal, romantic perspective that recalls the layout of the Museum in Pollença. It provides a unique opportunity to learn more about the work of Anglada-Camarasa through a different exhibition approach from how the work has been shown in CaixaForum until now.

The exhibition creates an opulent tableau that offers uniquely rich and complex insights into the fascination of Vienna circa 1900 and the atmosphere of this vibrant period. Comprising some 1,300 items displayed across three floors, this semi-permanent installation presents the splendour and wealth of the artistic and intellectual achievements of this era through masterpieces from the Leopold Museum and notable permanent loan works from Austrian and international collections.