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Light and Magic exhibition at Tate Modern

TATE MODERN
From October 14, 2026 to February 21, 2027

The Tate Modern traces the birth of pictorialism, the first international movement to claim photography as an art form. More than fifty photographers, from Seoul to Sydney.

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The exhibition "Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin!" at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest

Museum of Fine Arts Budapest
From October 30, 2026 to February 28, 2027

From October 30, 2026 to February 28, 2027, the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest presents "Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin!". Focusing on Paul Gauguin and the circles of artists he encountered, from Pont-Aven to Tahiti, the exhibition brings together one hundred and fifty works, including eighty by the painter, a collection that Hungary had never seen before.

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• Contemporary

Dalí exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid

THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA MUSEUM
From October 20, 2026 to January 24, 2027

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid brings Dalí face to face with Freud, whom he only met once. Six sections show what the painter took from psychoanalysis, and what he subverted from it.

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Artemisia Gentileschi Exhibition at the Museum of the Innocents, Florence

Museum of the Innocents
From October 21, 2026 to April 4, 2027

The Museum of the Innocents in Florence is dedicating an exhibition to Artemisia Gentileschi's Florentine years, the most successful of her career, when she painted for the Medici.

• Sculpture
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The Great Drama Exhibition, Rodin at the Albertinum in Dresden

ALBERTINUM
From October 31, 2026 to August 22, 2027

The Albertinum in Dresden reopens the case of Auguste Rodin's Balzac, rejected by its patrons in 1898 and which has since become the birth certificate of modern sculpture.

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Maria Lassnig and Edvard Munch exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zürich

KUNSTHAUS ZÜRICH
From October 2, 2026 to February 21, 2027

The Kunsthaus Zürich, which houses the largest collection of Munch's work outside of Norway, is bringing together the Norwegian painter and the Austrian Maria Lassnig for the first time. Two raw and vibrant bodies of work, separated by half a century.

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Signac exhibition, symphony of colors at the Kunsthal Rotterdam

KUNSTHAL ROTTERDAM
From October 24, 2026 to February 28, 2027

The Kunsthal in Rotterdam is dedicating an exhibition to Paul Signac, for whom divisionism was less a matter of optics than a matter of boats.

• Discovery
• Unusual

Arcana Borealis exhibition at the Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

ATENEUM ART MUSEUM
From October 23, 2026 to February 28, 2027

The Ateneum in Helsinki brought together women from the North who, like Hilma af Klint, invented abstraction while believing they were painting under the dictation of spirits. There were about fifty of them.

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• Contemporary

Munch - Picasso exhibition at the Picasso Museum Málaga

PICASSO MUSEUM MÁLAGA
From October 30, 2026 to February 28, 2027

The Picasso Museum Málaga brings together Edvard Munch and Pablo Picasso, two painters who never met and yet constantly addressed the same subject.

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Titian's Venus exhibition at the Castelvecchio Museum, Verona

CASTELVECCHIO MUSEUM
From October 31, 2026 to January 31, 2027

For its centenary, the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona acquired Titian's Venus with a Dog and an Organ Player from the Prado. A single painting, yet representing a whole century of art.

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Whistler Exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

VAN GOGH MUSEUM
From October 16, 2026 to January 10, 2027

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is dedicating an exhibition to James McNeill Whistler, the American in London who wanted painting to be music and not a story.

• Contemporary
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Portia Zvavahera Exhibition at WIELS, Brussels

WIELS
From October 31, 2026 to February 28, 2027

WIELS, Brussels' contemporary art center, celebrates its twentieth anniversary with Zimbabwean painter Portia Zvavahera, from October 31, 2026 to February 28, 2027, and hosts Ali Cherri until January 3.

• Drawing
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Hokusai, The Wave and Others exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London

DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY
From October 20, 2026 to January 17, 2027

From October 20, 2026 to January 17, 2027, the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London presents "Hokusai, The Wave and Others." For the first time in the UK, the complete series of Katsushika Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, comprising forty-six prints in Prussian blue, is brought together.

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Modern Barcelona exhibition, from Gaudí to Picasso, at the Kunsthalle Munich

KUNSTHALLE MÜNCHEN
From October 23, 2026 to February 21, 2027

The Kunsthalle in Munich tells the story of Catalan Modernism in one hundred and sixty pieces, from Gaudí to the young Picasso: thirty-four years during which Barcelona invented itself.

• Contemporary
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Constellations exhibition at the Beyeler Foundation, in Peter Zumthor's new buildings

The Beyeler Foundation is expanding and exhibiting approximately 230 works from its collection. The new Wyss Museum, designed by Peter Zumthor, opens alongside them. Riehen, on the outskirts of Basel.…