The two faces of the sea
From a small fishing village to Britain's largest seaside resort, the history of the city of Brighton on the English Channel is closely linked to the sea. The Brighton Museum & Art Gallery's See the Sea exhibition explores artistic representations of the mysterious sea beginning July 22.
Time to clean up
Somerset House in London is dedicating itself to the narrative of black womanhood and the fetishization of their bodies from 20 July. Beginning with a historical contextualization, the museum gives space to 18 Black women and non-binary people to replace the antiquated image of Black Venus with a self-determined one.
An Intimate Relationship
From July 20, the National Gallery in London is celebrating two kinds of relationships: not only its own intimate relationship with the artist Paula Rego, who died only last year, but also that between a monumental work by Rego and a Renaissance painting. Paula Rego: Crivelli's Garden reveals the connections.
Masterpieces of the little beggar
A painter shows the other side of the late Baroque: instead of ostentatious still lifes or imposing ceiling paintings in churches bursting with gold, Giacomo Ceruti painted realistic portraits of beggars and peasants. Starting July 18, his unusual masterpieces will be on view in Giacomo Ceruti: A Compassionate Eye at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Michael Rakowitz' waiting gardens
A growing garden as a work of art: Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz makes a destroyed garden flourish again as a symbol of overcoming war and trauma. The exhibition The Waiting Gardens of the North is on view at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, northern England, beginning July 15.
First Solo Exhibition in Austria
This is the first solo exhibition of British-Kenyan artist Michael Armitage in Austria. From July 15, the Kunsthaus Bregenz will present his large-format paintings inspired by everyday politics, religion and society in Pathos and the Twilight of the Idle. The background of the paintings is likely to fascinate many.
Carnival inside
Colombian Carnival Inside the Museum: Ilana Savdie's surreal explosions of color are inspired by Carnival in her home country. Beginning July 14, the Whitney Museum of American Art will reveal in Ilana Savdie: Radical Contractions, how Savdie explores the diversity of human identity in her paintings.
Summer highlight: artmonte-carlo
On July 8 and 9, the armonte-carlo invites again to the French Riviera: Numerous renowned galleries are shaping the program for the seventh edition of the fine art fair. Parallel to the latest trends, there will be a large retrospective of Claude Monet.
Between Nature Exploration and Artistic Legacy
In the 1920s, homemade cameras and lenses with up to thirty-fold zoom were almost unimaginable - for Karl Blossfeldt, this was not an obstacle, but pure joy of experimentation. Not for nothing is he today considered one of the most important photographers of the 20th century. From 8 July, the Midlands Art Centre in Birmingham will be showing how his photographs, which were particularly popular with the Surrealists, made a significant contribution to the study of natural history.
An Organic Experience of Architectural Pragmatism
Immersive installations often appeal to multiple senses, as Spanish artist Eva Fàbregas does at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin from July 6. In her site-specific solo exhibition, Fàbregas invites the public into the old station concourse, shattering the clear architectural image that the space otherwise conveys.
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