With 176 galleries, the art fair offers a broad spectrum of international key players and new talents.

The 40th edition of Art Brussels will take place in 2024 with 176 international galleries. The anniversary edition of Art Brussels, one of the most prestigious and established art fairs in Europe, will take place in Halls 5 and 6 of the Brussels Expo, a landmark of Belgian Art Deco built in 1935 for the Brussels World Expo. Art Brussels is the second oldest contemporary art fair (Art Cologne was launched in 1967, one year before Art Brussels) and is one of the leading art fairs in Europe and a highlight of the international art calendar in spring.

With RADIANT, the Center for International Light Art (ZfIL) presents visual worlds of sound and beaming spatial installations from April 27 to October 27, 2024. The digital-kinetic, audiovisual exhibition allows visitors to immerse themselves in a world where the boundaries between light, art and technology are blurred. Interdisciplinary international artist collectives present expansive installations that create immersive and modifiable spaces, transforming the vaults of the former Lindenbrauerei. Sound becomes an extended medium which, together with light, allows the historic, rough brewery cellar to shine in a completely new, enormously sensual dimension.

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The Klassik Stiftung Weimar announces “Bauhaus and National Socialism“: the first exhibition to examine the work of members of this avant-garde movement under the Nazi regime. The exhibition will dispel the long-standing myth that the Bauhaus and its members were necessarily victims of or averse to Nazism by taking an unflinching look at Bauhaus and the regime’s entanglements, which ranged from resistance to compliance and even the promotion of Nazi ideology. Three venues spanning over 11,000 square feet will showcase some 450 artworks and design objects from European and American private collections and museums.

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The critical-poetic reflection of digitally and analogue generated audio-visual realities by artists is the focus of the independent Biennale for Visual and Sonic Media –düsseldorf photo+. The overarching theme of the Biennale for 2024 is On Reality. Düsseldorf will be hostto exhibitions, presentations, concerts, talks, lectures and events held throughout thecity at museums, art collections, galleries, independent exhibition spaces and universities. What these events will have in common is that they will address in a myriad number of ways issues relating to the various forms of media, which decisively influenceour comprehension of reality.

The 9th Socle du Monde is all about a greater awareness of our environment in which up-cycling should play an important role. With the title DO IT Socle du Monde has invited around seventy Danish andinternational artists, plus several architects, designers and curators to develop projects and exhibitions.

Under the title DO ITyourself Hans Ulrich Obrist has asked twenty-one artists including MarinaAbramović, Olafur Eliasson and Yoko Ono to formulate an assignment for the residents and visitors of Herning. Jean-Hubert Martin has “recycled” several museum collections from Denmark under the title Everything is wrong. Artists Theo Jansen and Sui Park have developed new works with plastics, to increase the awareness of these polluting products. Simon Njami invited the Spanish collective Basuramato create an installation with residual materials from the local textile industry. In a retrospective the French New Realist artists will be featured,including Jean Tinguely, Arman, and Christo; they seem to have invented the concept of “up-cycling” avant-la-lettre,already in the sixties. And so the 9th Socle du Monde consciously looks at the past, present and future, but it is up to each and every one themselves to make the change: just DO IT.

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In two exciting exhibitions, ZEITGEIST IRLAND 24 - the Irish Year of Culture in Germany - brings contemporary Irish artists to Berlin to share their very special artistic view of the island and its social characteristics with the public. June marks the opening of the group exhibition Turbo Global. An Irish Narrative at Schloss Britz and the photo exhibition Changing States: Ireland in the 21st Century at Haus am Kleistpark. ZEITGEIST IRLAND 24 is an initiative of Culture Ireland and the Embassy of Ireland in Germany. Over the course of 2024, the diversity of contemporary Irish culture will be presented in over 200 events across Germany.

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Turbo Global. An Irisch Narrative

Schloss Britz

28. Juni – 6. Oktober 2024

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Changing States: Ireland in the 21st Century

Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus Irland

Haus am Kleistpark

07. Juni – 11. August 2024

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The artists nominated for the annual art prize of the Freunde der Kunstsammlung (K20 K21) and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (K20 K21) have been announced.

The annual K21 Global Art Award celebrates the vision and courage of emerging and mid career artists. It will be offered to internationally recognized artists under the age of 45. The award highlights the museum’s mission to broaden the collection and acquires new work by artists from different regions in the world.

From June to August 2024, this year's cultural summer offers a range of events and activities, bringing together people from the region and beyond. From open-air cinema, concerts, culinary offerings, a summer holiday programme for children, the Fête de la Musique and the Brandenburger Landpartie to theatre performances, textile workshops and the Havelländer Puppenbühne. At Schloss & Gut Liebenberg, the DKB STIFTUNG runs one of Brandenburg's largest inclusive businesses and a hotel and looks back on an eventful past: Kaiser Wilhelm II hunted here with his friend Philipp Fürst zu Eulenburg. The Nazi resistance fighter Libertas Schulze-Boysen grew up here and during the GDR era, Liebenberg was used by the SED as a school property for the party academy.

With new works by FAMED (D), Christian Jankowski (D), Stephanie Lüning (D/USA), Betty Riekmann (USA/D), and works by Andreas Angelidakis (GRC), Tatjana Busch (D), Nezaket Ekici (TR/D), Ahmet Öğüt (TR/NL/D)

Have you ever seen the Holsten Gate in a sea of foam? Smelled conspiracy theory as a perfume or played the piano in a museum while eating fortune biscuits? From 11 April, the second part of the Hello Lübeck exhibition will offer unusual art experiences in and outside the Kunsthalle St. Annen. The exhibition will be expanded to include artistic positions and, with participative and interactive works of art, will underline even more strongly the new orientation of the Kunsthalle St. Annen in Lübeck as a place of lively exchange and open social dialogue.

The Max Wandeler Foundation in Lucerne is showing a selection of photograms and clichés verre by the artist Eliška Bartek, together with excerpts from her collection of photographs from the Czech avant-garde.

The exhibition, curated by Marco Obrist and carefully tailored to the rooms of the Max Wandeler Foundation, and the accompanying publication, connect different generations and perspectives and juxtapose Eliška Bartek's photograms with historical works. This is the first time that such a dialogue has taken place, showing the affinity and stylistic proximity of her oeuvre to the historical avant-garde of Czech photography. 42 works provide a concentrated insight into the experimental technique of cameraless photography and its subversive possibilities to this day.

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The Museum of Fine Arts of Mons presents a brand new exhibition dedicated to French sculptor Auguste Rodin on the occasion of its reopening.

Why Rodin in Mons? The sculptor spent six years in Belgium during an important period in his life in which he fully absorbed his status as an artist. "L'Âge d'Airain" is the emblem of this and "The Thinker", which the sculptor presented in Brussels in 1899, the modern icon - two works that will be shown in the exhibition. The thread running through the exhibition is Rodin's handling of the body throughout his career, his take on the Renaissance, crystallised during his long stay in Belgium, and the invention of a new style in the shadow of works from antiquity.

The exhibition also takes a bold step towards contemporary sculpture, represented by one of today's mostimportant Belgian artists, Berlinde de Bruyckere, and her take on Rodin.

Rolf Tietgens (1911–84) is regarded one of the most important photographers of the 1930s, but only a handful of people in Germany arefamiliar with his oeuvre. His work fell into obscurity after he emigrated to New York at the end of 1938, threatened with persecution as a homosexual artist in Germany. Since he never returned to his homeland, his body of work remained forgotten for quite some time. Today his book Der Hafen (The Port), published by the renowned Heinrich Ellermann Verlag in 1939 to mark the 750th anniversary celebrations of the port of Hamburg, has to be considered one ofthe preeminent photo books of the 1930s. It can be regarded as the most sophisticated elaboration of this subject matter in the history of German photography.

The Kröller-Müller Museum - a unique museum of the 20th and 21st centuries - presents THE WOOD FOR THE TREES, a temporary exhibition with four internationally renowned artists and welcomes its new director Benno Tempel. The perfect time to (re)visit the museum and experience its world-renowned collections.

The special exhibition THE WOOD FOR THE TREES examine the relationship between humans and nature in different ways. Andy Holden watches and listens to birds, Eija-Liisa Ahtila enters into conversation with nature, Julian Charrière explores the role of the landscape in art and Hans Op de Beeck discusses climate change. As part of the exhibition, there are walks and activities in the sculpture garden.

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The Schloss Neuhardenberg foundation's first special exhibition this year is dedicated to Berlin Impressionism. Above all, the exhibition aims to show the diversity with which Berlin Impressionist artists portrayed the characteristic Brandenburg landscapes. Alongside famous artists such as Walter Leistikow, Lesser Ury and Karl Hagemeister, there will be works by artists who are usually only known to a specialist audience today and which can be rediscovered in the exhibition. The painter Julie Wolfthorn is a representative example of the women who played a decisive role in shaping Berlin's artistic avant-garde at the end of the 19th century.

Throughout the year, the Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg offers a top-class programme of concerts, readings, talks, performances and exhibitions. The Prussian classicist castle, surrounded by outbuildings, a landscaped park and Schinkel's church, invites you to discover it on a tour of the countryside.

In spring, collector Ingrid Roosen-Trinks invites people of all generations to explore their creativity in relation to the digital world and social media with her latest initiative and exhibition INSTA ME, BABY! invites people of all generations to explore their creativity in relation to the digital world and social media and to open up a dialog in an interdisciplinary and intergenerational context. Diverse social media and controversial digital worlds have fundamentally changed our lives in recent years, and art is no exception. The project, which is being carried out in collaboration with artists in Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein, poses questions about the interface between art and social media, particularly Instagram. How do the digital worlds affect artistic creation and how does art in turn influence social media?

In February 2024, when Belgium takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, three cultural institutions on the Mont des Arts in the heart of Brussels, will be offering an unmissable artistic itinerary, with the support of Visit Brussels. Surrealism will be in the spotlight to mark the centenary of the publication of the Surrealism Manifesto (1924), while Ensor Year will be in full swing to mark the 75th anniversary of the death of James Ensor.

BOZAR, CENTRE FOR FINE ARTS, BRUSSELS

Histoire de ne pas rire. Surrealism in Belgium

21.02. – 16.06.24

James Ensor. Maestro

29.02. – 23.06.24

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ROYAL MUSEUMS OF FINE ARTS OF BELGIUM

IMAGINE ! 100 years of international surrealism

21.02. – 21.07.24

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KBR, ROYAL LIBRARY OF BELGIUM

James Ensor. Inspired by Brussels

22.02. – 02.06.24

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For the second time, the Ingeborg and Dr H. Jürgen Tiemann Foundation is awarding the Tiemann Prize for Painting, which is endowed with up to 50,000 euros. From 1 February to 30 April, museums from all over Germany that have their own collection of contemporary art can apply. The annual prize is intended for the purchase of a work of art or a group of works from the field of painting and is intended to support museums in expanding their collections of contemporary art.

Otto Piene (1928 – 2014) aimed high with his art, seeking to shape a more harmonious, peaceful, and sustainable world. Hisexpansive approach explored new media and projected aesthetic forms and experiences into new spatial realms. Structuredthematically, the monographic exhibition Otto Piene: Paths to Paradise traces his utopian vision as expressed in works fromhis most significant series and projects in conversation with his lifelong practice of sketching.

The Irish cultural year Zeitgeist Ireland 24 has started and will present the diversity of contemporary Irish culture during 2024 in Germany. With over 200 events throughout the country in the fields of music, dance, theatre, performance, and visual arts, the versatility of Irish culture is  evident and reaches from renowned artists to aspiring newcomers. The ambitious programme gives a snapshot of this rich and diverse contemporary Irish culture.

Irish talent from awide range of fields will be presented in co-operation with leading German cultural institutions, including transmediale 2024, the Literary Colloquium Berlin, Schauspielhaus Stuttgart, Städtische Bühnen Dortmund, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (GfZK) Leipzig, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU)Berlin, and many more.

Astrup Fearnley Museet’s first exhibition of 2024 is devoted to the painter Leonard Rickhard. Over a long artistic career, Rickhard has cultivated a distinctive, easily recognizable style – a visual signature that is all its own within recent Norwegian art history. For the public, and for a younger generation of artists, Rickhard’s visual universe remains a point of reference and acontinuous source of inspiration.

With the VILLA, Fulda has created an inspiring venue that honors Franz Erhard Walther's experimental early work and underlines its unbroken currentness and relevance. From December 9, the VILLA will be presenting the fascinating encounter between Franz Erhard Walther and Lygia Clark.

Two major figures from mid-twentieth-century art history whose works revolutionized the role of the viewer meet in the exhibition ACTION AS SCULPTURE / HANDLUNG ALS SKULPTUR. Lygia Clark & Franz Erhard Walther. Although Clark (1920–1988, Brazil) and Walther (*1939, Germany) never knew each other personally, their artistic explorations developed crucial similarities at nearly the same time, despite the artists’ geographic, generational, and cultural differences.

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Japanese-American artist Shinkichi Tajiri (1923, Los Angeles, California, America - 2009, Baarlo, Netherlands) would have turned 100 years old in 2023. This milestone is being celebrated with the exhibition, Shinkichi Tajiri: The Restless Wanderer. His grandchildren Tanéa and Shakuru explain the versatile artist’s body of work in this exhibition in telling Shinkichi’s sweeping life story. In total, dozens of works from his Warriors, Seeds, Machines, and Knot series will be on display at the Bonnefanten starting on 2 December, in addition to new, never-before-shown material from the Tajiri family archives, anecdotes, and works by artist friends and sources of inspiration including Isamu Noguchi, Karel Appel, Constant, Lucebert and Julio González.