- ATHENS – GREECE (EU)
Exhibition: “Yannis Psychopaidis: Landscapes of Memory. What I Kept”
More than six decades of artistic creation, 20 chapters based on the artist’s own narratives and explanations, and 70 works that Yannis Psychopaidis previously held in his private collection, unfold the narrative tribute of the Vasilis & Eliza Goulandris Foundation to the distinguished Greek artist. More than a review and mapping of an artistic path that began in the liberal climate of the 1960s, the exhibition offers the visitor a rare, insider’s look at the work and choices of Yannis Psychopaidis, revealing the fruitful interactive artistic exchanges and the coupling of Greek and Western artistic education, which characterize his painting. Among works such as “Anatomy Lesson”, “The Letter That Never Arrived”, the “Night in Brussels” series and the “Reference to Goya” cycle, “Christmas” with its complex and multi-layered form stands out as one of the artist’s most emblematic works, while there is no shortage of references to classical antiquity as a code for exploring the relationship between the living present and a classical world that functions as a point of reference.
May 20 – October 4, 2026
- NEW YORK – NEW YORK STATE (USA)
Exhibition: “Guggenheim Pop”
The New York Guggenheim museum poses just one question, with the exhibition “Guggenheim Pop” that has just opened to the public, exploring “What is the significance of 20th-century Pop Art today?” The art movement, which emerged as a reaction to the consumerism promoted by the US economy after World War II, has been associated with famous names such as Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and Richard Hamilton, who elevated everyday objects into art.
Some of their emblematic works are presented alongside a selection of recently acquired creations by contemporary artists – including Maurizio Cattelan, Lucia Hierro and Josh Kline – who explore the legacy of this once provocative movement. It is worth noting that another leading representative of Pop Art, Roy Lichtenstein, will be at the cultural epicenter of the “Big Apple” with a major retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art towards the end of the year, marking a significant moment for the influential artistic movement.
June 5, 2026 – January 10, 2027
- COPENHAGEN – DENMARK (EU)
Exhibition: “Lucian Freud: Everything is a Portrait”
“Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait”, declared the British artist, who from his youth in the 1930s until the beginning of this century was fascinated by human faces and bodies. It is on this lifelong preoccupation of Freud with the human figure and form with raw honesty and penetration, in a direct and intensely investigative manner, that the exhibition organized by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery in London focuses, presenting drawings by the most important artist of the 20th century, in pencil, pen, ink and charcoal, as well as etchings.
Alongside the works on paper, a carefully selected group of important paintings by Freud will reveal the dynamic dialogue between line and colour, his practice on paper and that on canvas, while the announcement that the exhibition will include works being shown for the first time is also of interest.
June 6 – September 27, 2026
- LONDON (UK)
Exhibition: “Anish Kapoor”
Since representing Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1990 and winning the Turner Prize in 1991, Anish Kapoor has established himself as one of the most recognisable names in contemporary sculpture, with monumental works that create striking optical illusions and carry a sense of mystery and disorientation.
The Hayward Gallery in London, the first public gallery in the UK to host a major survey of his work in 1998, is bringing him back to us, this time in a landmark retrospective exhibition, which will be the centrepiece of the 75th anniversary celebrations at the Southbank Centre, which houses the Hayward Gallery. Both the gallery rooms and the surrounding outdoor spaces will welcome some of the artist’s most important works, including “Mount Moriah at the Gate of the Ghetto” (2022), a spectacular, crimson sculpture that defies gravity and resembles volcanic lava pouring from the ceiling, as well as new creations.
June 16 – October 10, 2026
