Check Out the Full List of Picasso Exhibitions This Year
42 exhibitions across eight different countries.
Picasso lovers worldwide, 2023 is the year for you. To mark the 70th anniversary of his death, the governments of France and Spain worked together on a year-long suite of retrospective exhibitions dubbed “Celebration Picasso 1973-2023”, which will examine particular periods within his life and the legacy he’s left on the art world since.
Kicking off the list is a contemporary showcase at the Musée Picasso in Paris presented in collaboration with fashion designer Paul Smith. Not long after, the Museo Picasso in Málaga and the Guggenheim Bilbao will showcase Picasso: Matter and Body that will focus on the artist’s lifelong sculptural practice, often seen as secondary to his oeuvre, but having played an essential aspect throughout his career. Similarly, the Musée Magnelli, Musée de la céramique-Vallauris and Museu del Disseny de Barcelona will highlight Picasso’s ceramic-based work.
In Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía will present Picasso 1906: the Turning Point and across the pond in New York City, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will spotlight Picasso’s three-month excursion in Fontainebleau in the spring of 1921. Also in New York, the Brooklyn Museum will present a show co-curated by Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby that examines “the interconnected issues of misogyny, masculinity, creativity and ‘genius’, particularly around a complex, mythologized figure like Picasso”, according to spokesperson of the museum.
It would be difficult to find another artist, living or dead, who has garnered more attention in a single year than Picasso in 2023. Check out the full list of exhibitions below.
Elsewhere, WOAW Gallery will unveil a new space in Singapore.
Celebration Picasso 1973-2023
Picasso blanc dans la mémoire bleue. at Museo de Belas Artes da Coruña, A Coruña — March 23 to July 2, 2023
Picasso. Obras maestras de la colección Nahmad at Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid— March 29 to July 2, 2023
Fernande et Françoise at Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster — Ongoing until January 1, 2023
Picasso 1969-1972 : La fin du début at Musée Picasso, Antibes — April 8 to June 25, 2023
Picasso & Chanel at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza — Ongoing until January 15, 2023
Musée de la céramique-Vallauris Formes et métamorphoses : la création céramique de Picasso at Musée Magnelli — May 6 to October 30, 2023
Fernande Olivier et Pablo Picasso, dans l’intimité du Bateau-Lavoir at Musée de Montmartre, Paris — Ongoing until February 19, 2023
Picasso : matière et corps at Museo Picasso Málaga — May 8 to September 10, 2023
Picasso et l’abstraction at Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique — Ongoing until February 12, 2023
Jeune Picasso à Paris at Guggenheim, New York — May 12 to August 7, 2023
Cubisme et la tradition du trompe-l’œil at The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Ongoing until January 22, 2023
Late Picasso 1963 – 1972 at La Casa Encendida, Madrid — May 19 to September 17, 2023
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler at Museu Picasso Barcelona — Ongoing until March 5, 2023
Picasso et les céramiques espagnoles at Museu del Disseny de Barcelona — June to September, 2023
Picasso/Poussin/Bacchanales at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon — Ongoing until March 5, 2023
Brooklyn Museum — June 2 to September 24, 2023
Pablo Picasso à la Fondation Beyeler at Fondation Beyeler, Basel — Beginning of 2023
Picasso – El Greco at Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid — June 13 to September 17, 2023
Picasso et la préhistoire at Musée de l’Homme-Museum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris — February 8 to June 12, 2023
Les âges de Picasso at Casa Natal Picasso, Málaga — June 21 to October 1, 2023
Picasso Landscapes : Out of Bounds at The Mint Museum, Charlotte — February 11 to May 21, 2023
Picasso Landscapes : Out of Bounds at Cincinnati Art Museum — June 24 to October 11, 2023
Célébration Picasso, la collection prend des couleurs ! Sous la direction artistique de Paul Smith at Musée national Picasso-Paris — March 7 to August 6, 2023
Goya dans l’œil de Picasso at Musée Goya Musée d’art hispanique, Castres — June 30 to October 1, 2023
Picasso à la Collection Lambert en Avignon 50 ans après — Collection Lambert, Avignon — July 13 to October 15, 2023
L’effet Picasso at MARe, Bucarest — September 26 to August 1, 2023
Picasso et la Célestine at Hispanic Society, New York — Fall 2023
Picasso: Matière et corps at Guggenheim Bilbao — September 29 to January 14, 2024
Picasso Vs. Velázquez at Casa de Velázquez, Madrid — September to November 2023
Picasso. Le sacré et le profane at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid — October 2, 2023 to January 14, 2024
L’écho de Picasso at Museo Picasso, Málaga — October 2, 2023 to March 24, 2024
À toi de faire ma Mignonne. Sophie Calle au Musée Picasso at Musée national Picasso-Paris — September 12, 2023 to January 28, 2024
Le Paris des modernes 1905 – 1925 at Petit Palais, Paris — October 17, 2023 to April 28, 2024
Les peintures pour Hamilton Easter Field at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — September 12, 2023 to January 14, 2024
Picasso. 2023 drawings at Centre Pompidou, Paris — October 18, 2023 to January 22, 2024
Gertrude Stein et Picasso. L’invention du langage at Musée de Luxembourg — September 13 to January 21, 2024
Miró – Picasso at Museu Picasso Barcelona / Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona — October 19, 2023 to February 25, 2024
Monaco Modernité et Classicisme at Palais princier de Monaco — September 19, 2023 to October 15, 2024
Picasso 1906: La grande transformation at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid — November 14, 2023 to March 4, 2023
Pablo Picasso – Max Beckmann at Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal — September 17, 2023 to January 7, 2024
