Vermeer’s View of Delft has left The Hague for Madrid, and the Thyssen sends paintings the other way. Van Gogh’s bandaged-ear self-portrait is back in France after 89 years. In Berlin, Botticelli meets Lempicka, and in Málaga, Munch meets Picasso. The rest of the list runs from St Ives to Budapest.
The ninety-three exhibitions in this issue all end in October. For Metamorphoses: Ovid and the Arts at the Galleria Borghese that is three weeks later than planned, so Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne keeps the company of Titian, Poussin, Rodin and Brancusi a little longer.
Bayeux Tapestry is leaving France for the first time since it was made nine and a half centuries ago and staying in London until July 2027. It leads a month in which Europe’s museums return to full strength: this issue gathers eighty-four openings, seven times August’s dozen.
The world’s largest Mondrian collection has hung in one arrangement at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag since April 2020. That display comes down on 27 September. The other 146 exhibitions in this issue, the longest Kunsti Radar has yet compiled, close across thirteen countries through September.
August is the interval of the exhibition year. Much of the continent goes on holiday, so museums plan around it, clearing their walls and saving the premieres for September. This issue of Kunsti Radar lists just twelve openings across five countries.
At the British Museum, a Chinese scroll painted more than a thousand years ago is on view for six weeks. The show closes on 24 August. It is one of 117 across thirteen countries in this issue, the rest ending on their own dates through the month. Some fill a whole museum; others, a single room.
In Salzburg this festival summer, the sculptor Stephan Balkenhol fills the Residenzplatz with a crowd of wooden figures in their opera best. They open an issue in which the art keeps stepping outside. Most of the exhibitions opening in July run well into the autumn, so there is no need to rush.
Four centuries separate Michelangelo and Rodin, yet the Louvre has put the two sculptors in the same rooms for the first time, both of them treating the human body as the vessel of an inner life.
Two openings at the Albertina mark its 250th anniversary, and a few streets away the Secession opens summer shows by Katherine Hubbard, Onyeka Igwe and Mire Lee. Vienna leads the count in this issue, which lists seventy openings across eleven countries.
Eighty exhibitions across twelve countries close their doors before the end of June, and this issue is the prompt to catch the ones still on your list. Kunsti Radar asks where you might still find a free Saturday before the summer travel begins in earnest.
This issue of Kunsti Radar brings together exhibitions opening in May 2026 across twelve countries in Europe — the kind of selection that makes a good argument for keeping a flexible travel budget.
Every two weeks, Kunsti Radar newsletter maps a different slice of the European exhibition calendar. This issue is devoted to exhibitions closing in May — a prompt to plan ahead, book a train, and see what is still on before the museums and galleries move on to the next thing.
Upcoming exhibitions
April is a good time to be in Europe with plenty of new exhibitions. In this issue we cover 70 openings across 13 countries — and no two shows are much alike.
Ending soon
The following weeks present a final window to catch several discussed exhibitions across Europe before their galleries are cleared. Highlights include Messerschmidt’s sculptures in Vienna and the Turner and Constable rivalry at Tate Britain.
Upcoming exhibitions
The arrival of March brings a notably busier schedule to the European cultural calendar, as many major institutions debut their primary spring programmes.
Ending soon
This issue of Kunsti Radar focuses on the diverse range of 104 art exhibitions set to close across Europe and the United Kingdom in March 2026.
Upcoming exhibitions
February 2026 brings a wave of fresh energy to museums across Europe, featuring everything from grand historical surveys to bold contemporary projects. This month is defined by a deep look at how we see the world, whether through the “photographic clarity” of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller’s landscapes in Vienna or
Ending soon
This issue of Kunsti Radar focuses on the diverse range of 100 art exhibitions set to close across Europe and the United Kingdom in February 2026.
Upcoming exhibitions
As we prepare to step into 2026, the art world is taking a moment to catch its breath. The first half of January will remain relatively quiet, offering a brief pause before the cultural calendar accelerates. But as the month progresses, the season wakes up with a remarkable run of
News
On this Christmas Day, the Kunsti team is excited to announce the launch of Kunsti Radar, a bi-weekly newsletter designed to help you navigate the art world with precision — and have fun along the way. As we build the Kunsti.art platform (more on that in future announcements), we