Let’s get arty in 2023 and take ourselves along to an exhibition to soak up some culture.
From modern art, such as the Turner Prize, to something that’ll appeal to the kids, like Raymond Briggs: A Retrospective, there’s a visual feast for everyone to enjoy up and down the land.
But don’t worry if you’re not sure where to begin because we’ve done the hard work for you.
We’ve rounded up 10 of the best exhibitions of the year ahead and listed them for you below, so yoou just need to pick the ones that appeal!
Best for… street art and photography
1. Beyond The Streets London
Works by more than 150 street artists will fill the entire Saatchi Gallery with vibrant graffiti, photography, installations, fashion and sculpture. Billed as ‘the most comprehensive graffiti and street art exhibition to ever open in the UK’, it tells the story of contemporary graffiti and street art, highlighting the significant role London, and the UK in general, played in developing the scene and realising the value of the growing creative culture.
From February 17 to May 9, at the Saatchi Gallery
2. Peter Brathwaite: Rediscovering Black Portraiture
Picking up an idea during lockdown and running with it, Peter Brathwaite used household objects to restage famous paintings as contemporary photographs. Inspired by the #GettyMuseumChallenge in 2020, singer, writer, artist and broadcaster Peter began researching and reimagining more than 100 artworks, all portraits of Black sitters.
From April 14 to July 16 at the Bristol Museum And Art Gallery, Bristol
Best for… classics
3. After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art
Works by Cézanne, Van Gogh, Picasso, Matisse, Kandinsky, Claudel, Gauguin and Sonia Delaunay lead this blockbuster exhibition, featuring some of the most important works of art created between 1886 and 1914. Paintings have been loaned by institutions worldwide, with showstoppers from the Museum Of Modern Art, New York and the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
From March 25 to August 13, at The National Gallery, London
4. Portraits from The Tabernacle Collection
There’s a chance to see portraits from one of the most significant collections from artists living and working in Wales over the last 150 years. This includes works by Peter Edwards, John Bratby and Gladys Vasey.
From February 4 to April 22, at the MOMA Machynlleth, Wales
Best for… sculpture and 3D designs
5. If Not Now, When?
The culmination of a two-year research project to look at women’s role in sculpture, this landmark exhibition – subtitled Generations of Women In Sculpture In Britain, 1960 to 2022 – contrasts responses by 320 artists from 1988 and 2022 surveys, and presents work by the likes of Phyllida Barlow and Glenys Barton. The project, known as Hepworth’s Progeny, has been created in collaboration with art historian Griselda Pollock and sculptor Lorna Green.
From March 31 to September 24, at The Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire
6. Grayson Perry
Scotland’s flagship art gallery reopens after an extensive refurbishment project with the biggest ever exhibition of Grayson Perry’s work, covering a 40-year career. The Turner Prize-winner’s show promises intricate sculptures, elaborate prints and enormous textile beauties, including Essex House Tapestries, all created with Grayson’s trademark wit. Best of all, there’s a collection of his signature bold ceramics, bringing together themes of sex, punk and counterculture in joyfully subversive style.
From July 22- November 12, at The Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.
Best for… kids
7. Raymond Briggs: A Retrospective
This touring exhibition brings together the work of The Snowman and Fungus The Bogeyman illustrator, who brought new life to Father Christmas. Over a 60-year career, Briggs created some of the best loved children’s books. This collection, put together by the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, includes Briggs’ drawings, hand-lettered typography and page designs.
Until Feb 26, at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle.
8. Flower Fairies
To mark the 100-year anniversary of Cicely Mary Barker’s first book, Flower Fairies Of The Spring, the Lady Lever in Wirral hosts 45 original illustrations, with digital projections and costumes inspired by the fairies. Explore the inspirations behind the beautifully bucolic paintings, as well as the plants and flowers featured in the work through National Museum Liverpool’s botanical collections. First published in 1923, there were originally 170 drawings, often based on real children, from Barker’s sister’s nursery.
From April 15-November 5, at the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight.
Best for… modern art
9. The Turner Prize
England’s sunniest place will host this year’s modern art Oscars. The prize is awarded to a British artist for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the preceding year. The exhibition of its four short-listed artists will be presented at the beautiful Towner Eastbourne, with the winner named on December 5.
From September 28 to January 14, 2024, at the Towner Eastbourne, East Sussex
10. Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70
This exhibition of 150 paintings celebrates the international women artists working in the aftermath of the Second World War. It includes works by American artists Lee Krasner and Helen Frankenthaler, alongside lesser-known figures such as Bertina Lopes and Wook-kyung Choi.
From February 9-May 7, at the Whitechapel Gallery, London
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