The New Year is just around the corner and it looks promising for art and culture. New exhibitions are about to open in early 2023 all over the world, adding to exhibition projects already open these days. From Vermeer’s 17th-century masterpieces on show at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, to modern art, with the retrospective dedicated to Cezanne at the Tate Modern in London, to the digital hyper-contemporaneity of Beeple, which has just presented a new installation at the M+ museum in Hong Kong, the list is diverse and broad. In Italy, the Pirelli HangarBicocca foundation presents two striking exhibitions dedicated to Bruce Nauman and Gian Maria Tosatti; MAXXI in Rome instead offers a journey into the past, retracing the life and career of Bob Dylan. Scroll through our gallery for the full selection.
The best art exhibitions to visit in 2023
From Vermeer’s seventeenth-century masterpieces to the performances of Marina Abramovich, from Cézanne’s groundbreaking retrospective to Beeple’s hyper-contemporary video sculpture: a list of exhibition projects for an art-filled 2023.
Image: Paul Cezanne Bathers c.1894-1905. Presented by the National Gallery, purchased with a special grant and the aid of the Max Rayne Foundation, 1964
Image: MAXXI, Bob Dylan, Endless Highway, 2015-2016
Image: Marina Abramović, "Artist Portrait with a Candle (A)", from the series With Eyes Closed I See Happiness, 2012. Colour, fine art pigment print. Courtesy of the Marina Abramović Archives © Marina Abramović
Image: Senga Nengudi performing Air Propo at JAM, 1981. Courtesy Senga Nengudi.
Image: Beeple, Stills of HUMAN ONE, 2021, Four-channel digital video sculpture (colour, silent), polished aluminium and mahogany wood support Dynamic non-fungible token, Courtesy of Ryan Zurrer’s personal collection Photo courtesy of the artist
Image: Gian Maria Tosatti, Terra dell’ultimo cielo, 2016 Environmental installation, Site specific in SS. Trinità delle Monache, Naples, Courtesy the artist and Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan and Naples
Image: Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1664–67, oil on canvas. Mauritshuis, The Hague. Bequest of Arnoldus Andries des Tombe, The Hague
Image: Allison Janae Hamilton (born Lexington, Kentucky, 1984; based in New York, New York). Still from A House Called Florida, 2022. Three-channel film installation (color, sound): 34 min., 46 sec. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen
Image: © Ayoub El Bardii OR © Omar Tajmouati
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- Clara Rodorigo
- 28 December 2022
- Paul Cezanne Still Life with Apples 1893–1894. The J Paul Getty Museum
Until 12 March 2023, the Tate Modern in London presents 'The EY Exhibition: Cezanne', realised in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago. A journey to retrace the life of the celebrated artist, who travelled from his native Aix-en-Provence to Paris when he was only 20 years old. On display works never exhibited before in the UK alongside his unforgettable still lifes and landscapes enlivened by the iconic figures of bathers. The exhibition, on view in the Eyal Ofer Gallerie, chronicles the struggle of an artist split between seeking official recognition and joining the movement of the emerging Impressionists.
From 16 December 2022 to 30 April 2023 MAXXI in Rome presents "Bob Dylan: Retrospectrum", a project that pays homage to the "multiform nature" of the iconic artist, by focusing on his contribution to the visual arts. On display are oil paintings, acrylics, watercolours, ink, pastel and charcoal drawings and iron sculptures, divided into eight thematic sections: Early Works, The Beaten Path, Mondo Scripto, Revisionist, Drawn Blank, New Orleans, Deep Focus and Ironworks. A true "visual diary" to reconstruct Dylan's artistic and personal evolution over the years.
From 23 September to 10 December 2023, the Royal Academy of Arts in London presents the first major exhibition in the UK dedicated to Marina Abramović, one of the world's most important performance artists. On display works spanning the 50-year career of the artist, who personally contributed to the curatorship of the project. Marina Abramović will also participate in the programme of lectures and events accompanying the exhibition.
Until 18 February 2023, MoMA New York presents "Just Above Midtown: Changing Space", an exhibition project dedicated to Just Above Midtown - or JAM - an art gallery and laboratory led by Linda Goode Bryant, which supported African-American artists and artists of colour from 1974 to 1986. Among them were David Hammons, Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O'Grady and Howardena Pindell. The exhibition features artists and works previously exhibited at JAM, archival material and artistic interventions that testify to the gallery's experimental approach.
From 9 December 2022 to 30 April 2023, the M+ Museum in Hong Kong presents HUMAN ONE, a kinetic video sculpture by artist Beeple. The work depicts the first human being born within the metaverse, who, wearing an astronaut suit, advances through an ever-changing virtual landscape. A journey that becomes a metaphor for human progress, in limbo between digital and physical existence. The virtual landscape will be periodically updated by Beeple with elements taken from the Internet and his own practice.
From 23 February to 30 July 2023, Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan presents a retrospective dedicated to the Italian artist Gian Maria Tosatti curated by Vicente Todolì. An environmental intervention will transform the space of the Shed to reflect on the relationship with the spectator and concepts of collectivity and memory, "in their historical, political and spiritual significance". A project that the artist himself has been working on for two years, which will retrace his artistic practice through installations and historical works.
"Never before were you able to see so many of Johannes Vermeer's paintings in one exhibition". This is the incipit of the highly anticipated exhibition dedicated to Vermeer, open from 10 February to 4 June 2023 at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Vermeer left a small but extremely valuable artistic legacy of some 35 paintings. The exhibition will bring together celebrated masterpieces from all over the world by the painter from Delft. Given the rarity of his paintings, the exhibition represents a unique opportunity to admire them together in one venue.
The Brooklyn Museum in New York presents "A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration", an exhibition project on view from 3 March to 25 June 2023, co-organised by the Mississippi Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Departing from traditional accounts of the Great Migration, the exhibition expands the narrative by giving voice to the people who stayed in or returned to the region during those years. Historical and contemporary census data on migration patterns in the Brooklyn borough are also highlighted.
For the exhibition "Our Land, Just Like a Dream" MACAAL in Marrakesh invited artist Joël Andrianomearisoa to occupy the entire museum space, mapping out a journey of discovery through Moroccan traditional knowledge. Open until 16 July 2023, the project is the first monographic exhibition for MACAAL. Artist Joël Andrianomearisoa has produced original works in close collaboration with experienced craftsmen, paying homage to Morocco's artistic heritage and craftsmanship.