What’s on in February 2015? Here is a list of the major art exhibition openings, art fairs and museum conferences.
Exhibition openings
01 Feb – Hundertwasser – Lebenslinien Osthaus-Museum, Hagen/Germany
01 Feb – Frida Kahlo – Her Photos Marta Herford, Herford/Germany
04 Feb – A K Dolven – Please return Ikon Gallery, Birmingham/UK
04 Feb – Matt Mullican – Prints and Drawings ETH, Zurich/Switzerland
05 Feb – Larry Sultan Kunstmuseum Bonn/Germany
05 Feb – Poetry of the Metropolis. The Affichistes Schirn-Kunsthalle Frankfurt a. Main/Germany
05 Feb – Marlene Dumas – The Image as Burden Tate Modern, London/UK
06 Feb – Faces then – Renaissance Portraits from the Low Countries BOZAR, Brussels/Belgium
06 Feb – Dahl and Friedrich – Romantic Landscapes Albertinum Dresden/Germany
Caspar David Friedrich, Winter Landscape – ©Public Domain
06 Feb – Richard Mosse. The enclave Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek/Denmark
06 Feb – Der doppelte Kirchner Kunsthalle Mannheim/Germany
06 Feb – On Kawara. Silence Guggenheim Museum New York/US
07 Feb – Man Ray – Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C./US
07 Feb – Emile Bernard – Am Puls der Moderne Kunsthalle Bremen/Germany
07 Feb – Uecker Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen – K20 Grabbeplatz, Düsseldorf/Germany
07 Feb – La La La Human Steps Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen/Netherlands
08 Feb – Paul Gauguin Fondation Beyeler, Basel/Riehen/Switzerland
“Art is either plagiarism or revolution” – Paul Gauguin
11 Feb – Belle Haleine – The Scent of Art Museum Tinguely Basel/Switzerland
11 Feb – Landscape in my Mind – Landscape Photography Today Bank-Austria-Kunstforum Vienna/Austria
11 Feb – Ali Banisadr. At Once Blain|Southern London/UK
12 Feb – Late Rembrandt Reijksmuseum Amsterdam/Netherlands
Rembrandt, Self Portrait (1655) – ©Public Domain
12 Feb – Sargent – Portraits of Artists and Friends National Portrait Gallery London/UK
12 Feb – El Anatsui October Gallery London/UK
13 Feb – Vincent Meesen / Thela Tendu – Patterns for (Re)cognition Kunsthalle Basel/Switzerland
13 Feb – Lothar Fischer Kunstmuseum Ravensburg/Germany
13 Feb – David Lieske – Platoon (RL-X) mumok Vienna/Austria
14 Feb – Louise Bourgeois. I have been to hell and back Moderna Museet, Stockholm/Sweden
14 Feb – Elaine Sturtevant – Drawing Double Reversal Albertina Vienna/Austria
15 Feb – Arnulf Rainer Kunstmuseum Ahlen/Germany
16 Feb – Alien She OCMA – Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA/US
17 Feb – Raoul Dufy Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid/Spain
20 Feb – Architecture of Independence. African Modernism Vitra-Design-Museum Weil am Rhein/Germany
21 Feb – Doris Salcedo MCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago/US
J.M.W. Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed (1844) – ©P.Domain
24 Feb – J.M.W. Turner – Painting Set Free The Getty Center Los Angeles/US
25 Feb – Sculpture Victorious Tate Britain London/UK
25 Feb – Salt and Silver. Early Photography 1840 – 1860 Tate Britain London/UK
25 Feb – Hervé Télémaque Centre Pompidou Paris/France
26 Feb – Buddha. 108 Begegnungen Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main/Germany
27 Feb – The Sultan’s World. The Ottoman Orient in Renaissance Art BOZAR, Brussels/Belgium
27 Feb – Louise Bourgeois – Structures of Existence: The Cells Haus der Kunst, Munich/Germany
27 Feb – Wally Neuzil – Her Life with Egon Schiele Leopold-Museum Vienna/Austria
28 Feb – Arnulf Rainer & Georg Baselitz Museum Frieder Burda Baden-Baden/Germany
28 Feb – Emil Nolde – The Art Itself is my Language Nolde-Stiftung Seebüll Neukirchen/Germany
28 Feb – Marc Chagall. A Retrospective (1908-1985) Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels/Belgium
Art Fairs
04 – 08 Feb – Rotterdam Contemporary/Netherlands
04 – 08 Feb – Zona Maco Mexico City/Mexico
05 – 08 Feb – Art Rotterdam/Netherlands
24 Feb – 01 Mar – Just Mad Madrid/Spain
25 Feb – 01 Mar – Arco Madrid/Spain (more information at www.artsy.net/arco-madrid)
25 Feb – 01 Mar – Art Madrid/Spain
Conferences and Events
05 – 06 Feb – The Limits of the Archives International Conference Kunsthochschule für Medien Cologne/Germany
06 Feb – Collection Day: 100 Years of Culture in Berlin Zentral-und Landesbibliothek Berlin/Germany
09 – 12 Feb – 10th International Digital Curation Conference London/UK
23 – 24 Feb – Unser digitales Gedächtnis Graz University/Austria
23 – 24 Feb – From big data to smart knowledge Hyatt Regency Cologne/Germany
25 Feb – The Generational Triennial: Surround Audience New Museum New York/US
27 – 28 Feb – Open Cultural Data Hackathon Swiss National Library Bern/Switzerland
Featured image: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Brandenburger Tor (1915), ©Public Domain
