Summer 2020 Art Exhibitions
in London
Summer 2020, however unconventional and short it may have been for some of us, is coming to an end and we are all going to go back to our houses and usual working routines. What’s best than spending our free time left before the cold winter will hit the city again in between museum and art galleries? Here for you a selection of art exhibitions still open or about to open during this last bit of Summer 2020, all based in London!
Gauguin and the Impressionists
Masterpieces from the Ordrupgaard Collection
at the Royal Academy of Arts
Summer 2020, however unconventional and short it may have been for some of us, is coming to an end and we are all going to go back to our houses and usual working routines. What’s best than spending our free time left before the cold winter will hit the city again in between museum and art galleries? Here for you a selection of art exhibitions still open or about to open during this last bit of Summer 2020, all based in London!
This art exhibition is for those of you who are passionate about great masters from the past and would like to dive in the Impressionist and pre-Impressionist period to discover its treasures signed Degas, Monet, Corot, Courbet and many more. The artworks, some of them for their first time in England, are borrowed from the Ordrupgaard Collection in Copenhagen so they are not to missed, unless you prefer to travel all the way to Denmark. The exhibition closes in October and the tickets might be difficult to get so hurry up!!
Very far from being conventional, this exhibition proposes a bridge between creativity and biology, showcasing the work of more than 40 artists (of literally any kind) dealing with mushrooms and their relatives and looking at how our life on this earth might change if looking at how these amazing creatures survive on our planet. The curator and writer Francesca Gavin collected artworks from old and already well known artist, such as the music composer John Cage, to emergent and undiscovered contemporary artists.
For all of you suffering the absence of the dancing summer nights in the city, here is the exhibition made for you, held at the Design Museum till next year. A magical journey across dance music history, culture, technology and design from Kraftwerk up until today’s sounds, from Europe to America. The exhibition, featuring more than 400 objects among which we can mention photographs, audio and video installations from the most famous rave and and techno scenes, is interactive and absolutely not to be missed! Don’t forget to bring your own headphones and enjoy the show!
If you are looking for a conceptual, sweet escape from the city this exhibition might be exactly what you are looking for. The show offers an immersive experience into the world of trees and forests through the exhibit of drawings, photographs, sculptures and video installations which narrate the power and role of these natural beauties across time and space, in different parts of the globe.
Let’s finish our selection with one of the most popular faces of the history of art, undisputed leader of the Pop Art Culture as well as probably the first artist to reach our living rooms (even though through mere reproductions). We are talking about Andy Warhol, the beyond famous artist, performer, film maker, writer whose practice changed inexorably changed the concept of art and the role of the artist it self. Even though many of you probably saw at least one of his pieces at least once in your life, the exhibition is still worth a visit: Tate Modern, after more than 20 years since its last Warhol display, and on the occasion of its 20th birthday celebrations, organised a full retrospective spacing from the iconic soup and Coca-Cola cans to its less known pieces, such as a series of very intimate self-portraits or unpublished drawings.