Europe’s art world will be bustling this year with a string of biennial exhibitions being held in 2022. All the exhibitions are curated by famous sculptors or have some significance in todays modern world. Here are list of exhibition which is a must see in 2022 for that extra artistic feeling!

‘Barbara Kruger’ Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

April 29- August 28

Barbara Kruger

The newly opened Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, an exquisite museum of contemporary and modern designed by Mies van der Rohe that will now be headed by Klaus Biesenbach. Will see Kruger install a new text installation for its main floor. Kruger will leave key parts of the building untouched.

“Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS”, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham

May 7- September 4

Bennani will show her eight- channel video installation Party on CAPS alongside a newly-commissioned sequel. The films track the movements of inhabitants of a fictional island called CAPS in the middle of the Atlantic ocean across three generations. It is an internment camp for refugees and migrants hoping to head Europe or North America.

‘Etel Adnan’ Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

May 20 – September 4

Etel Adnan

The Van Gogh Museum will present the first retrospective of work by Etel Adnan since her death in 2021. The acclaimed Beirut- born artists and writer was known for her vivid abstracted landscapes. The Dutch exhibition will consider the overlap in Adnan and Van Gogh’s art practices.

‘Raphael’, National Gallery, London

April 9 to July 31

Raphael

The Raphael exhibition is the first ever to consider the work of Italian High Renaissance genius so fully and comprehensively. He was able to combine the human and the divine in his art, preaching the ideals of Renaissance humanism. The exhibition portrays 90 works of his, some of which have been provided by other famous museums.

‘Hans Hoffmann’, German National Museum, Nuremberg

May 12- August 21

Hans Hoffman

Hans Hoffmann- is the first ever monographic exhibition of the artist. He is known as the most prominent representative of the Durerian Renaissance at the end of 16 century. During his artistic career, Hans Hoffman created quite some copies and compilations of works by the German painter, engraver, and graphic artist Albrecht Durer. The exhibition showcases all the exhibits of Hans Hoffman.