Must-see Van Gogh exhibitions in 2026 – The Art Newspaper

Van Gogh lovers, seize your diaries and be able to pay attention to these exhibitions developing within the new yr. These reveals have thus far obtained little publicity and some extra might but emerge, however thus far the Netherlands and Japan seem like the new spots.

Nagoya, Japan, January

This yr the Van Gogh Museum has been touring a part of its assortment to Osaka and Tokyo, and in January it’s going to make its final cease on the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Artwork (3 January–23 March 2026) in Nagoya. Entitled Van Gogh’s House: The Van Gogh Museum, the present focusses on how the works owned by the artist’s household had been stored collectively after which donated for the opening of the Amsterdam museum in 1973. On show in Nagoya might be 24 Van Gogh work and 5 drawings, together with works by his contemporaries.

Amsterdam, Netherlands, February

Yellow: Greater than Van Gogh’s Favorite Color (13 February-17 Might 2026) will, in fact, revolve across the artist’s Sunflowers (January 1889). However it’s going to additionally convey collectively round ten Van Gogh work, plus many by different artists—exhibiting how the color yellow has proved an inspiration. 

Fukushima, Japan, February

Japanese Van Gogh fans could have a bumper yr in 2026, with a touring exhibition from the opposite nice Dutch assortment, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo. The Grand Van Gogh Exhibition consists of 37 Van Gogh work, plus 20 drawings. It’s now at its opening venue, Kobe Metropolis Museum (till 1 February 2026), and can then tour to the Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Artwork (21 February-10 Might 2026) and Tokyo’s Ueno Royal Museum (29 Might-12 August 2026).

Otterlo, Netherlands, September

Though the Kröller-Müller Museum holds the world’s second largest assortment of Van Goghs (after the Amsterdam museum), they haven’t all been proven collectively since 1984—as a result of many are sometimes out on mortgage. Proper now, for instance, almost half the 88 work are touring Japan (see above), with just a few different particular person works lent elsewhere to different exhibitions. All Van Goghs is the working title of the presentation (15 September 2026-3 January 2027) that can reunite the works of their entirety.

Den Bosch, Netherlands, October

Among the many artists of the early twentieth century most impressed by Van Gogh was the painter Jan Sluijters (1881-1957). Born in Den Bosch, the town’s Noordbrabants Museum is planning a present inspecting the Dutch grasp’s affect on him. The exhibition’s working title is Jan and Vincent: About Gentle (18 October 2026-21 February 2027).

Operating exhibitions

Plenty of Van Gogh exhibitions that are already open will proceed into the early a part of subsequent yr. Most essential is Van Gogh and the Roulins: Collectively Once more at Final on the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (till 11 January 2026). It reassembles 14 of the 23 portraits of “the postman” and his household.

Additionally on the Van Gogh Museum is an enchanting smaller exhibition, Captivated by Vincent: The Intimate Friendship of Jo van Gogh-Bonger and Isaac Israëls (till 25 January 2026). It reveals the story of the affair between the widow of Vincent’s brother Theo and the artist Isaac Israëls. On show are a few of the work by Israëls with Van Gogh work depicted within the background.

One other focussed exhibition is Van Gogh and the Potato on the Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch (till 1 February 2026).

In Provence, the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles will quickly be opening To Vincent: A Winter’s Story (30 November-21 April 2026). The exhibition consists of works by 21 up to date artists (together with Anselm Kiefer and Wolfgang Tillmans) who’ve responded to themes represented in Van Gogh’s letters. Their contributions might be offered alongside two Van Gogh work: Sunflowers gone to Seed, August-September 1887, and Head of a Lady, December 1885, each on mortgage from the Van Gogh Museum.

Different Van Gogh Information

One in all David Hockney’s newest work, Gauguin’s Chair and Vincent’s Chair, 4 July 2025 was solely accomplished in the summertime. Impressed by Van Gogh’s photos of his personal empty chair and that of his colleague Paul Gauguin, it’s the star attraction in his present at London’s Annely Juda Tremendous Artwork. The exhibition, Some Very, Very, Very New Work Not But Proven in Paris will run from 7 November to twenty-eight February 2026.

Martin Bailey is a number one Van Gogh specialist and particular correspondent for The Artwork Newspaper. He has curated exhibitions on the Barbican Artwork Gallery, Compton Verney/Nationwide Gallery of Scotland and Tate Britain.

Martin has written quite a few bestselling books on Van Gogh’s years in France: The Sunflowers Are Mine: The Story of Van Gogh’s Masterpiece (Frances Lincoln 2013, UK and US), Studio of the South: Van Gogh in Provence (Frances Lincoln 2016, UK and US), Starry Night time: Van Gogh on the Asylum (White Lion Publishing 2018, UK and US) and Van Gogh’s Finale: Auvers and the Artist’s Rise to Fame (Frances Lincoln 2021, UK and US). The Sunflowers are Mine (2024, UK and US) and Van Gogh’s Finale (2024, UK and US) are additionally now accessible in a extra compact paperback format.

His different current books embody Residing with Vincent van Gogh: The Houses & Landscapes that formed the Artist (White Lion Publishing 2019, UK and US), which offers an summary of the artist’s life. The Illustrated Provence Letters of Van Gogh has been reissued (Batsford 2021, UK and US). My Good friend Van Gogh/Emile Bernard offers the primary English translation of Bernard’s writings on Van Gogh (David Zwirner Books 2023, UKand US).

To contact Martin Bailey, please electronic mail vangogh@theartnewspaper.com

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Discover all of Martin’s adventures with Van Gogh right here