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Please note that many events may have to be postponed or cancelled due to the corona virus. Please contact the organisers directly and check the relevant homepages for the current status.

Upcoming Events:

18. 05. 2022 - 16. 10. 2022
Cornelia Parker is one of Britain's best loved and most acclaimed contemporary artists. Always driven by curiosity, she reconfigures domestic objects to question our relationship with the world.
CORNELIA PARKER
London - United Kingdom
19. 05. 2022 - 22. 05. 2022
Art Rotterdam is a renowned art fair. Every year, the event provides a stage for the latest developments in the visual arts. The strong focus on emerging art, the variety of different sections, the connection with the city of Rotterdam and the fascinating location give Art Rotterdam a unique perspective.
ART ROTTERDAM
Rotterdam - Netherlands
21. 05. 2022
Join us in the beautiful English countryside and discover with us the studio and works of internationally established sculptor Johannes von Stumm.
DIALOGUE SOUTH FAWLEY
South Fawley Wantage - United Kingdom
21. 05. 2022
Art/Experience trails Brelinger Berg and at the Würmsee. Relaxed walk at the Brelinger Berg in Wedemark and at the Würmsee in Burgwedel on the adventure path with its LandArt stations.
DIALOGUE HANNOVER
Burgwedel - Germany
24. 05. 2022 - 24. 05. 2022
Mario Kicker stellt mit Unterstützung vom Kunstverein „Die mARkT, am 24. Mai in der Loft8 Galerie, seine aktuelle Arbeitsserien aus.
Junke Kunst in Wien?
Wien - Austria
26. 05. 2022 - 25. 09. 2022
Antony Gormley is renowned worldwide for his sculptures, installations and public works that explore the relationship between the human body and the space around us. The major retrospective exhibition GROUND brings together work spanning Gormley’s career, from his early lead sculptures from the 1980s to recent large-scale installations.
GROUND
Wassenaar - Netherlands
26. 05. 2022 - 01. 01. 2023
Andreas Schmitten's (*1980) multidisciplinary oeuvre includes drawings, sculptures, and installations. To create his sculptural installations, he uses strategies that can be found in religion, theatre, and advertising.
ANDREAS SCHMITTEN
Wuppertal - Germany
28. 05. 2022 - 09. 10. 2022
NATURAL SPLENDOUR
Den Haag - Netherlands
03. 06. 2022 - 23. 10. 2022
This summer the sculptures of the major British artist Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) will grace the open gardens of the Rijksmuseum. The nine works show the artist at the peak of her powers.
BARBARA HEPWORTH
Amsterdam - Netherlands
03. 06. 2022 - 17. 07. 2022
German artist and musician Carsten Nicolai (b. 1965, Berlin, Germany) fuses the disciplines of music, art and science to create sound sculptures that explore the inaudible and invisible phenomena of time, radiation, and tangible magnetism.
CARSTEN NICOLAI
München - Germany
04. 06. 2022 - 03. 10. 2022
The 15th edition of the Triennial of Small Sculpture Fellbach deals with the vitality of things.
VIBRATION OF THINGS
Fellbach - Germany
04. 06. 2022 - 26. 06. 2022
Als kind van haar tijd vereeuwigt de multidisciplinaire beeldhouwster Yke Prins (1961) haar gedachten al vier decennia in diverse materialen waaronder klei, hout, brons, steen, staal en inkt op papier. Hierbij aangestuurd door haar intuïtie en het toeval met respect voor de mogelijkheden en aard van het materiaal en haar liefde voor de natuur en muziek.
OER, REFLECTIES
Den Haag - Netherlands
04. 06. 2022 - 09. 10. 2022
NordArt is an anchorage for artists from all over the world and a home for international art.
NordArt
Büdelsdorf - Germany
05. 06. 2022 - 26. 06. 2022
Fresh Air Sculpture is a contemporary sculpture and craft show taking place from 5 - 26 June 2022 in the extensive gardens of The Old Rectory in the Cotswold village of Quenington. This biennial curated event celebrates 30 years this summer and prides itself on showcasing and selling unique sculptural pieces and contemporary craft and design whilst providing educational workshops and events for children and adults.
Fresh Air Sculpture
Quenington - United Kingdom
09. 06. 2022
Join us for a full day of art and networking in The Hague! Enjoy guided private tours, a Curator welcome speech and artists showroom in a friendly and intimate atmosphere.
DIALOGUE IN THE HAGUE
Wassenaar - Netherlands
11. 06. 2022 - 18. 09. 2022
"Ways of Attaching" is the first survey exhibition of the work of U.S. artist Rosemary Mayer (1943-2014), who was active in the New York art scene beginning in the 1960s.
WAYS OF ATTACHING
München - Germany
11. 06. 2022 - 30. 10. 2022
Kunstmuseum Den Haag is to present the first solo show in the Netherlands by German mixed-media artist Wiebke Siem (b. 1954, Kiel). Her installations, sculptures, textiles and fashion objects refer to art history and to 20th-century fashion and design. Above all, however, they are about the subordination of women, both in art and in daily life.
WIEBKE SIEM
Den Haag - Netherlands
16. 06. 2022 - 19. 06. 2022
Rhy Art Salon Basel is a young, fresh event for artists as well as a public exhibition during the Basel Art Week in June. Current and international positions in contemporary art are presented in a stylish setting.
RHY ART SALON BASEL
Basel - Switzerland

Still running events:

23. 10. 2018 - 31. 10. 2023
Liverpool Mountain is Swiss-artist Ugo Rondinone’s first public artwork in the UK and the first of its kind in Europe.
UGO RONDINONE
Liverpool - United Kingdom
01. 08. 2020 - 31. 07. 2022
ÜberNatur – Natural Takeover
Köln Skulptur #10
Köln - Germany
28. 05. 2021 - 05. 06. 2022
Der in seiner Heimat hochgeschätzte Oberpfälzer Bildhauer Peter Mayer (1938 – 2009) ist für eine breite Öffentlichkeit noch zu entdecken.
PETER MAYER
Landshut - Germany
28. 06. 2021 - 30. 06. 2022
The exhibition SKULPTUREN AM MEER on the promenade from Strande to the Bülk lighthouse presents five large free sculptures by Jörg Plickat.
SKULPTUREN AM MEER
Strande - Germany
21. 11. 2021 - 29. 05. 2022
This coming autumn, Kunsthal Rotterdam will proudly present ‘Calder Now’, an extensive exhibition that explores for the first time in Europe the modern master’s enduring and unmistakable influence on contemporary art.
CALDER NOW
Rotterdam - Netherlands
11. 12. 2021 - 19. 09. 2022
For his exhibition in Mudam’s Henry J. and Erna D. Leir Pavilion, artist Danh Vo (b. 1975, Bà Rja, Vietnam) continues his ongoing meditation on the work of sculptor Isamu Noguchi (b. 1904, Los Angeles – d. 1988, New York City). This new installation is composed by Vo as an intimate dialogue between his own practice and the work of this historical figure of modern art.
A CLOUD AND FLOWERS
Luxembourg-Kirchberg - Luxembourg
10. 01. 2022 - 31. 07. 2022
Italien im Winter 22. Im Land der Etrusker, entsteht eine Vittoria für Bienen.
Ape meets Nike
Viterbo - Italy
05. 02. 2022 - 07. 08. 2022
The Düsseldorf-based sculptor Birgit Werres (*1962, Stommeln) will realize a large-scale installation of her sculptures.
BIRGIT WERRES
St. Gallen - Switzerland
05. 02. 2022 - 09. 01. 2023
Reflecting upon the legacy of modernism and the avant-gardes of the first half of the twentieth century, the work of Feipel and Bechameil has referenced variously the histories of Cubism, Constructivism, the Bauhaus, the style of Art Deco and the techniques of kinetic art.
FEIPEL & BECHAMEIL
Luxembourg-Kirchberg - Luxembourg
11. 02. 2022 - 29. 05. 2022
In her work, Eva Koťátková combines sculptures, objects, collages, costumes and texts into vast, playful, poetic and colorful installations, to suggest how deeply our personal lives are swayed by our social environment.
EVA KOŤÁTKOVÁ
Bordeaux - France
11. 02. 2022 - 22. 05. 2022
Alia Farid (* 1985) contemplates colonial histories, cultural rituals, and the social dimension of architecture.
ALIA FARID
Basel - Switzerland
16. 02. 2022 - 20. 06. 2022
A major figure in contemporary American sculpture, Charles Ray (born in Chicago in 1953, currently lives and works in Los Angeles) is receiving an exhibition in a French public institution for the first time.
CHARLES RAY
Paris - France
17. 02. 2022 - 28. 08. 2022
A yellow elephant appears to be asleep on the floor of the Baroque Carlone Hall—or, on closer inspection, is this actually a toppled row of arches? The elephant’s sleep is simultaneously the allegorical sleep of modern sculpture itself and the dream of its utopian realization as architecture.
LENA HENKE
Wien - Austria
19. 02. 2022 - 15. 10. 2022
Since the early 1990s, Mona Hatoum’s work has been regarded to be among the most multifaceted and significant art of our time. Through installation, sculpture, performance, photography, and video, she consistently explores issues of the familiar and foreign, home and exile, memory and loss.
MONA HATOUM – REVISIT
Stockholm - Sweden
19. 02. 2022 - 18. 06. 2022
“Tradition Interrupted,” organized by Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, CA, explores how artists weave contemporary ideas with traditional art and craft to create thought-provoking hybrid images and objects that have caught the world’s attention.
TRADITION INTERRUPTED
Saginaw - United States
19. 02. 2022 - 22. 05. 2022
Dora Budor’s exhibition at KUB introduces a scopic crisis to Peter Zumthor’s building. She is attempting to pathologize the visual sensuality of the KUB building through a series of interventions, internalizing external structures and making concealed sonic phenomena audible in the form of acoustic resonances. The inner is inverted outwardly and the previously out of sight is brought to the surface.
DORA BUDOR
Bregenz - Austria
24. 02. 2022 - 19. 06. 2022
Air has an existential significance for all forms of life in the world. It is everywhere, albeit invisible and evanescent; it is literally impalpable.
UP IN THE AIR
Bonn - Germany
24. 02. 2022 - 03. 07. 2022
Artist Marc Quinn will juxtapose his eight-part series Emotional Detox with the iconic “character heads” by Baroque sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. The exhibition at the Upper Belvedere presents a thoughtful and impactful dialogue between contemporary art and major works from the museum’s collection.
FACE TO FACE
Wien - Austria
26. 02. 2022 - 29. 01. 2023
Moderna Museet Malmö’s 2022 collection exhibition, entitled Conditioned Movement, examines universal and existential themes such as time and materiality in relation to museum conservation work. The exhibition features several rarely shown works dating from the middle of the nineteenth century to today, presenting them in new dialogues.
CONDITIONED MOVEMENT
Malmö - Sweden
04. 03. 2022 - 21. 08. 2022
Throughout history, marble has exuded power, status and beauty. It is also synonymous with Kunsten, whose building will be celebrating its 50th birthday in 2022. To celebrate the occasion, the museum will be presenting a diverse cornucopia of works in marble, created by a number of history’s artistic heavyweights.
MARBLE
Aalborg - Denmark
05. 03. 2022 - 24. 07. 2022
In the spring of 2022, SMK will host a major exhibition of the internationally acclaimed South Korean artist Haegue Yang.
DOUBLE SOUL
Copenhagen - Denmark
07. 03. 2022 - 31. 12. 2022
Pedro Cabrita Reis (* 1956 in Lisbon), one of the most important Portuguese artists of the present day, works with civilisation’s remnants and building material. Time and again he creates new spaces or reinterprets old ones.
ASSEMBLY/VERSAMMLUNG
Gnas, Poppendorf - Austria
10. 03. 2022 - 19. 06. 2022
The collection, analysis, and circulation of ecological data, often invisible to the human eye, is at the core of Jesse Stecklow’s artistic practice.
JESSE STECKLOW
Wien - Austria
12. 03. 2022 - 10. 07. 2022
In the early years of modernism, artificial light was positively connotated and regarded as a symbol of modern life. In the course of the twentieth century, however, dark stains increasingly appeared on the pure white vest of light: Today, despite all technical developments and undeniable advantages, light is also associated with luminous pollution and energy wastage.
POWER! LIGHT!
Wolfsburg - Germany
12. 03. 2022 - 08. 01. 2023
YSP presents a dynamic selection of sculpture, painting and prints spanning 60 years of Robert Indiana’s career. This is the first European museum exhibition of sculpture by the artist and will enable contextual and wide public understanding and appreciation of an exceptional American artist.
ROBERT INDIANA
West Bretton Wakefield - United Kingdom
15. 03. 2022 - 31. 12. 2022
Zum 30-jährigen Werkstattjubiläum für Figurenbeuten entsteht Sankt Sebald, Nürnberger Stadtpatron und gemeinhin Patron des Handels als Bienenstock.
30 Jahre Figurenbeuten
Nürnberg/Fürth/Buchschwabach - Germany
17. 03. 2022 - 17. 12. 2022
CVNE acogerá desde el 17 de marzo hasta el 17 de diciembre 2022 la exposición “Ensoñación de la materia” del artista madrileño Pablo Palazuelo (1915-2007); una muestra que poblará los espacios interiores y exteriores de la bodega centenaria en Haro. La exposición está organizada con la colaboración de la Fundación Pablo Palazuelo y comisariada por Alfonso de la Torre. Incluye en total de doce esculturas de gran tamaño, realizadas en acero corten y ubicadas en los exteriores de la bodega; diecinueve pinturas de gran formato colgadas en las salas interiores, y una entrevista filmada con Pierre Dumayet en los años 70.
Pablo Palazuelo
Laguardia - Spain
17. 03. 2022 - 11. 09. 2022
Ida Matton, Ruth Milles, Alice Nordin, Agnes de Frumerie and Sigrid Fridman are all examples of somewhat forgotten female artists from Sweden who practised in the period around 1900. As part of a pan-Nordic project running over several years, Nationalmuseum is now bringing some of these sculptors back into the spotlight.
SWEDISH WOMEN ARTISTS
Stockholm - Sweden
19. 03. 2022 - 31. 07. 2022
Wilhelm Mundt's "Trashstones", his waste stones made in a labour-intensive process from rubbish, studio residues or fragments of old sculptures, have been present in the sculpture park for many years.
UNKLUMPEN
Wuppertal - Germany
19. 03. 2022 - 22. 05. 2022
From March to November 2022, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden will present a series of three consecutive exhibitions, designating for the first time ever the architecture of its exhibition hall as a point of artistic departure.
DANIEL BUREN
Wuppertal - Germany
26. 03. 2022 - 28. 08. 2022
The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is presenting the largest and most comprehensive exhibition devoted to the work of Tobias Rehberger (b. 1966) in the Stuttgart region to date. For his sculptures, wall pictures, and installations, the artist, a native of Esslingen now active worldwide, makes use of various concepts and ideas from architecture, design or even music.
»I DO IF I DON'T«
Stuttgart - Germany
02. 04. 2022 - 18. 09. 2022
From the 1970s, Björn Lövin engaged persistently in an exploration of the changing society, revealing the gap between the welfare state, consumerism and the groups excluded.
BJÖRN LÖVIN
Stockholm - Sweden
05. 04. 2022 - 07. 06. 2022
Bernhard Wieser
Wien - Austria
08. 04. 2022 - 31. 07. 2022
The ground-breaking artist Fujiko Nakaya (b.1933, Sapporo, Japan) will be celebrated in the first comprehensive survey exhibition outside of Japan. 
FUJIKO NAKAYA
München - Germany
08. 04. 2022 - 04. 09. 2022
Empathy and the ability to understand the situation of others is the theme of Eva Koťátková’s exhibition. Her dramatically staged installations are reminiscent of a cabinet of curiosities, referencing historical imagery and modern culture.
EVA KOŤÁTKOVÁ
Umeå - Sweden
08. 04. 2022 - 07. 08. 2022
The most comprehensive Heidi Bucher retrospective so far in Switzerland is devoted to the Swiss artist’s extensive and diverse complete œuvre.
HEIDI BUCHER
Bern - Switzerland
08. 04. 2022 - 30. 10. 2022
Ersten Miniaturbiennale im Modelleisenbahnautomat am Düsseldorfer Hauptbahnhof
Miniaturbiennale 22
Düsseldorf - Germany
08. 04. 2022 - 04. 09. 2022
Carlos Bunga (Porto, 1976) focused the beginning of his career on painting, before expanding his interests towards three-dimensional experimentations, allowing him to explore the interrelationships between bodies and spaces. A significant part of his work challenges the concept of architecture as a language of power, calling into question deep-seated inertia such as order, solidity and eternity.
CARLOS BUNGA
Madrid - Spain
09. 04. 2022 - 04. 09. 2022
More than 50 works by Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) are displayed in the first exhibition of the artist’s work held at the National Gallery of Ireland. Giacometti: From Life includes bronze and plaster sculptures, paintings, drawings, and prints.
GIACOMETTI
Dublin - Ireland
09. 04. 2022 - 18. 09. 2022
Mouse on Mars is one of Germany’s most eccentric and remarkable electronic music projects. With an anarchic hybrid sound swinging between uncontrolled chaos and meticulously arranged structures, Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner have created a unique musical idiom that nonetheless never settles into definite form.
MOUSE ON MARS
München - Germany
16. 04. 2022 - 05. 03. 2023
The Fries Museum will present Petrit Halilaj’s first solo exhibition in the Netherlands. With a practice spanning installations, drawings and videos, Halilaj (1986, Kostërrc, Kosovo) often uses his own biography as a point of departure to investigate cultural identity, nationality, and heritage.
PETRIT HALILAJ
Leeuwarden - Netherlands
20. 04. 2022 - 23. 10. 2022
From 20 April – 23 October 2022, Chinese multidisciplinary artist Wallace Chan, who has pioneered titanium’s unprecedented use for large-scale sculptures, will present his sculpture exhibition TOTEM at the Fondaco Marcello in Venice, launching during the opening week of the 59th Venice Biennale.
WALLACE CHAN: TOTEM
Venice - Italy
23. 04. 2022 - 27. 11. 2022
The Exhibition will take place in the Central Pavilion (Giardini) and in the Arsenale, including 213 artists from 58 countries; 180 of these are participating for the first time in the International Exhibition. 1,433 the works and objects on display, 80 new projects are conceived specifically for the Biennale Arte.
BIENNALE ARTE 2022
Venice - Italy
23. 04. 2022 - 01. 11. 2022
For the first time, the ERES Foundation will be present at the Biennale Arte 2022 as a Collateral Event. Tue Greenfort’s project »Medusa Alga Laguna«, continues and expands the foundation’s Munich exhibition »Alga« (2021) in Venice.
MEDUSA ALGA LAGUNA
Venice - Italy
24. 04. 2022 - 17. 10. 2022
Eva Ducret au jardins des Soussilanges
Eva Ducret
Céron - France
29. 04. 2022 - 22. 08. 2022
Nina Canell is fascinated by the often hidden and easily overlooked things that quietly rule our everyday lives. Her artistic practice does not revolve around a finished piece. It is the provisional, surprising, unpredictable processes that distinguish Canell’s work.
NINA CANELL
Berlin - Germany
30. 04. 2022 - 31. 07. 2022
Das Luftmuseum im Luftkunstort Amberg präsentiert in der „Engelsburg“, einem Gebäude aus dem 14. Jahrhundert, auf insgesamt 650 Quadratmetern Ausstellungen, die das Thema Luft behandeln, zum hören, sehen, begreifen, erleben und verstehen.
Blowin' in the wind
Amberg - Germany
30. 04. 2022 - 25. 06. 2022
Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition by Leading Artists Opens in Kendal
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Kendal - United Kingdom
01. 05. 2022 - 31. 05. 2022
During the Biennale in Venice will be in Tana Art Space a show of original artworks and a number of virtual works on a screen displayed.
Tana Art Space
Venice - Italy
01. 05. 2022 - 30. 10. 2022
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