Best Art Exhibitions by City in 2027

This is the first major monographic exhibition ever devoted to Eva Gonzalès, an artist often grouped with the women Impressionists despite never formally belonging to the movement. The Petit Palais brings her out of Manet’s shadow and places her in dialogue with Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and Marie Bracquemond.

Rather than presenting another conventional Cezanne retrospective, Cezanne et nous traces his afterlife in modern and contemporary art. Around 174 works place 69 paintings and works by Cezanne alongside 105 works by 78 artists, from Gauguin and Matisse to Picasso, Mondrian, Joan Mitchell, Bridget Riley and Peter Doig.

Timed to the centenary of Cassatt’s death, this is the first major exhibition devoted to her by France’s national museums. It repositions her as a central Impressionist figure with a transatlantic career, rather than simply the painter of mothers and children.

This is the first major international survey of the artist in nearly forty years, reuniting high-quality loans to highlight his modern approach to volume and light that later inspired the French avant-garde.

The inaugural exhibition of the new V&A East Museum combines objects with a soundtrack of more than 120 tracks to tell a cultural history too often fragmented across genres.

This is the largest outdoor exhibition of Henry Moore ever presented: 30 monumental sculptures spread across Kew Gardens, complemented by more than 70 drawings, models and smaller works indoors. It is also the most comprehensive presentation of Moore’s work in a generation — and Kew gives his organic forms an exceptional natural setting.

More than a standard retrospective, it combines Kahlo’s art with clothing, objects, photographs and later cultural responses to examine both the artist and the construction of “Frida.”

Because this is a genuine once-in-a-generation loan. The Bayeux Tapestry has not been displayed in the UK since it was made nearly 1,000 years ago, and its return to England gives visitors the chance to see one of the most important surviving works of medieval art in the country whose conquest it records.

Past Continuous is the first major New York exhibition to consider Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock together across the full span of their careers. More than 120 works reveal not just a famous artistic partnership, but two distinct practices that developed in parallel, sometimes converging and often moving in very different directions.

This major MoMA exhibition looks at Constantin Brancusi through the lens of his studio at the impasse Ronsin in Paris, showing how the space shaped his sculpture, his photographs and the way his work was seen.

This focused Guggenheim collection display is a strong entry point into early 20th-century European modernism, showing how artists moved away from academic tradition toward colour, abstraction, emotion, folk sources and new visual languages.

The Van Gogh Museum presents the first major retrospective of James McNeill Whistler ever held in the Netherlands, bringing together around 100 works to reveal an artist who was as radical in his ideas and self-presentation as he was subtle in his paintings.

For a more intimate, human story of Danish modern art. The exhibition centres on three artist couples — Anna and Fritz Syberg, Alhed and Johannes Larsen, and Christine and Sigurd Swane — and uses paintings, watercolours, letters and archival material to explore how artistic ambition coexisted with marriage, motherhood, friendship and domestic responsibility.

Because this is a genuinely unusual exchange. For the first time, the Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Mauritshuis swap 25 masterpieces simultaneously, giving Madrid an exceptional concentration of Dutch Golden Age painting while 25 works from the Thyssen travel to The Hague. At the centre is one of Vermeer’s greatest landscapes, View of Delft.

Because this exhibition tells the history of modern and contemporary art in Spain from an unusual perspective: not only through the artists, but through the exhibitions that taught audiences how to see it. Museums, galleries, private initiatives and countercultural spaces become protagonists in Spain's transformation from the cultural landscape of the 1960s to the international art ecosystem of today.

It offers a rare look at Franco's recent cut paintings, where the artist physically dissected his own larger works to create new pieces, alongside a selection of graphics and sculptures from the last fifteen years.

Art, politics, science and environmental history converge in what promises to be one of Barcelona's major winter exhibitions.

A new interpretation of the collection by Florian Ebner, Chief Curator of Photography at Centre Pompidou.

A welcome reassessment of Aurèlia Muñoz as a radical figure in fibre art, moving textile practice out of the decorative realm and into contemporary sculpture.

This is the artist’s first major solo presentation in Germany, staging his most famous provocations alongside a massive new intervention designed specifically for the Mies van der Rohe glass hall.

This is Ryuichi Sakamoto’s first major retrospective in Europe, spanning the point where music stops behaving like something you simply hear and starts becoming installation, architecture and visual art. Across roughly 1,500 m², Hamburger Bahnhof presents seven works in five large-scale installations, many created with artists including Shiro Takatani, Carsten Nicolai and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

This IVAM exhibition offers a concentrated way to understand Julio González through one of his central subjects: women. Family portraits, nudes, mothers, readers, workers and allegorical figures reveal how his sculpture moved from solid bodies toward more open, abstract forms.

This exhibition brings together significant pieces from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Panza Collection, offering a rare look at the foundational structures that defined minimalist light art.