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.

Ellsworth Kelly is considered one of the most important American artists of the postwar period. The sculptor and abstract painter also produced numerous portrait drawings known only to a few. The Art Institute of Chicago wants to change that starting July 1: It is showing nearly 100 exhibits in Ellsworth Kelly: Portrait Drawings.

The Hungarian-French artist Judit Reigl (1923 - 2020) is 97 years old. Three years and three donations later, the New National Gallery in Berlin is dedicating its first museum retrospective in Germany to her on the occasion of her 100th birthday, starting on June 30. From Surrealism to Informalism to Figuration, it will introduce the German public to Reigl's moving oeuvre.

Man seems strange in the world. On the one hand he is a mammal, on the other hand he is radically different from all animals himself and changes nature like no other species. With depictions of disfigured, ghostly-looking bodies, Ofer Lellouche explores the question of the meaning of human life. Starting June 29, his works are on view at the Albertina in Vienna.

In order to inherit, someone has to die: but for the Whitney Museum in New York, this also means that ideas and experiences are always being passed on, without ever really leaving. It is with this interesting new approach to inheritance that the museum will present its new acquisitions beginning June 28.

He was one of the first Abstract Expressionists with an international reputation and co-founder of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art: Sam Francis was an important painter of the 20th century. Today, the US American would have turned 100.

Today, the term »diva«is generally understood to mean a rather snooty, spoiled person who is not stingy with airs and graces. The media unfairly uses the term to describe stars. From June 24, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London is preparing to give the diva a new face - with a host of stage outfits and costumes to dispel the negative image.