Few artists are in demand as a lot as Van Gogh, making it more and more tough to mount exhibitions with outdoors loans. But the exhibits proceed, giving pleasure to hundreds of thousands. Regardless of the urge for food for “immersive experiences”, nothing beats seeing the actual factor. Right here we current the primary complete preview of exhibitions opening in 2025.
Boston, March and Amsterdam, October
Van Gogh’s Portrait of Joseph Roulin, Arles (early 1889)
Museum of Fashionable Artwork, New York (items by trade, 1989)
What guarantees to be probably the most revealing Van Gogh exhibition of the yr can be dedicated to the portraits of the postman Joseph Roulin and his household. These have been painted between the summer season of 1888 and early 1889. Roulin, who labored on the Arles railway station and drank with Vincent on the Café de la Gare, turned the artist’s closest good friend in Provence.
Van Gogh: The Roulin Household Portraits opens at Boston’s Museum of Effective Arts (30 March-7 September 2025), an acceptable venue because it owns the best of the postman work, together with one in every of his spouse rocking the cradle of their newly born youngster. The exhibition will then journey to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (3 October 2025-11 January 2026). With simply over half the 23 scattered portraits, the present (based mostly on new analysis) can be barely modest when it comes to variety of works, but it surely guarantees to be deep in affect.
Osaka, July and Tokyo, September
Van Gogh’s Self-portrait as a Painter (December 1887-February 1888)
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Basis)
Japanese Van Gogh lovers can anticipate a bumper yr of exhibitions. The primary present touring to a few venues can be full of loans from the Amsterdam museum, below the title Van Gogh’s House: the Van Gogh Museum, the Painter’s Legacy, the Household Assortment, the Ongoing Story. It opens on the Osaka Metropolis Museum of Effective Arts (5 July-31 August 2025) and is then touring to the Tokyo Metropolitan Artwork Museum (12 September–21 December 2025) and the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Artwork in Nagoya (tentatively 3 January–23 March 2026).
The present will deal with the story of the gathering assembled by Vincent’s brother Theo after which administered by his widow Jo Bonger and their son. In 1973 the household went on to create the Van Gogh Museum. The approaching Japanese present can have over 30 Van Goghs (practically all work, together with a couple of drawings), plus works by different artists collected by Vincent and Theo, together with examples by Paul Gauguin and Camille Pissarro. Additionally on present can be 4 letters written by Vincent (these are very hardly ever lent for exhibitions, for conservation causes).
Den Bosch, July
Van Gogh’s Head of a Lady (Gordina de Groot) (March-April 1885)
Het Noordbrabants Museum, s’Hertogenbosch ({photograph} Peter Cox)
To have fun its new acquisition of Head of a Lady (Gordina de Groot) (March-April 1885), the Noordbrabants Museum is to carry an exhibition centred round Van Gogh’s research for his first masterpiece, The Potato Eaters (April-Might 1885), by which Gordina is depicted.
The exhibition, in s’Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch) within the south of the Netherlands, is entitled merely The Potato (26 July-23 November 2025). There may even be a smaller present on this theme with up to date artists on the Vincent van Gogh Home in Zundert, the artist’s birthplace (11 October-9 November 2025).
Kobe, September
Van Gogh’s Terrace of a Café at Evening (Place du Discussion board) (September 1888)
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo ({photograph} Rik Klein Gotink)
A second massive present in Japan will current works from different nice Dutch Van Gogh assortment, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, within the east of the Netherlands. It’s ambitiously entitled the Grand Van Gogh Exhibition. There can be practically 50 Van Goghs, each work and drawings.
The exhibition will open at Kobe Metropolis Museum (20 September 20-1 February 2026) after which tour to 2 different venues: Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Artwork (21 February-10 Might 2026) and Tokyo’s Ueno Royal Museum (29 Might-12 August 12 2026). A second a part of the exhibition, with different works, is deliberate for 2027-28.
Working exhibitions
There is a gigantic urge for food for Van Gogh in Korea, and the biggest exhibition on the artist in additional than a decade is about to open in Seoul. Van Gogh: The Nice Ardour will begin on the Hangaram Artwork Museum/Seoul Arts Middle (29 November-16 March 2025) after which journey to the Daejeon Museum of Artwork (27 March-22 June 2025). The loans, numbering round 60, are from the Kröller-Müller Museum.
One other main exhibition which opened this autumn and can proceed into early within the new yr is Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers (till 19 January 2025) at London’s Nationwide Gallery.
Different present exhibits embrace Extremely-Violet: New Gentle on Van Gogh’s Irises on the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (till 19 January 2025) and How Van Gogh got here to Groningen on the Groninger Museum (30 November-5 Might 2025). An exhibition on Martin Wong-Vincent van Gogh is now on on the Kunsthaus Zurich (till 26 January 2025) and can then go to Vienna’s Albertina (14 February-22 June 2025).
And eventually, there can be an vital exhibition on the German artist Anselm Kiefer and his hyperlinks with the Dutch painter on the Van Gogh Museum (7 March-9 June 2025) and London’s Royal Academy of Arts (28 June-26 October 2025).
Anselm Kiefer’s The Starry Night (2019)
© Anselm Kiefer ({photograph} Georges Poncet)
Different Van Gogh information:
Van Gogh’s A Pair of Lovers (March 1888)
Non-public assortment, on mortgage to Cleveland Museum of Artwork
A Pair of Lovers (March 1888), which Van Gogh reduce out of a bigger composition that he discarded, is on long-term mortgage to the Cleveland Museum of Artwork. It was offered at Sotheby’s in 2022, going for £10m.
