Art Exhibition
These are the 12 must-see European art exhibitions to check out this spring
From the Musée d’Orsay celebrating 150 years since the birth of Impressionism, to Scotland’s Perth Museum uncovering the origins of the unicorn, there is a delightful smorgasbord of art exhibitions waiting to be explored over the next couple of months.
If you’re a little lost on where to start, here’s our handpicked selection of the crème de la crème:
‘Angelica Kauffman’ at Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK)
Described by one of her contemporaries as “the most cultivated woman in Europe”, 18th-century Swiss artist Angelica Kauffman is the focus of a major exhibition at the Royal Academy in London. The show traces her journey from a gifted child to a renowned painter sought after across Europe for her neoclassical portraits of women and mythological scenes. The exhibition also highlights her pivotal role in founding the Royal Academy, and her later career in Rome. Visitors can explore her paintings, preparatory drawings, including noteworthy self-portraits, and admire her ceiling masterpieces created specially for the Royal Academy. Don’t mind if I do!
Fundraiser for Animals 26th March – 6th April 2025 Helping Paws presents DOWN TO THE BONE 2, a collective art exhibition to raise funds for animals in the UK and overseas. 26 March – 6th April. Wed – Sat 10am – 4pm: Sun 1pm – 4pm (Closed Mon & Tues). The Grange Gallery, The Green Rottingdean, BN2 7HA.
54 artists from around the country have contributed paintings and sculptures. Artists include Dr Marc Abrahams OBE, or ‘Marc the Vet’, author, broadcaster, TV personality and animal welfare campaigner based at The Mewes Vets in Rottingdean, Romany Mark Bruce, painter and creator of the Brighton AIDS Memorial, and Sarah Sellers a Rottingdean resident who is the daughter of the late Peter Sellers.
The Art Fringe is proudly presenting “Through the Eyes of Women”, its biennial exhibition marking International Women’s Day (IWD). Through art, the exhibition aims to amplify and celebrate the voices of creative women. Female artists practising in a variety of mediums and approaches will be displaying their work in response to this year’s brief: “What does faith mean to you as a woman?”.
A Scottish folk singer’s mining heritage struck a chord with a University of Dundee student who has created artwork for a new exhibition.
Culann Mackay, a third-year Illustration student at the University’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD), has created a new print based on a recorded conversation from Fife musician Barbara Dymock.
