It’s the first episode of 2024 so we’re looking ahead at the next 12 months with art market predictions and a guide to the big exhibitions and biennials of the year.
Every year, we attempt to predict what might be on the horizon for the market, and this time, it is the turn of our acting art market editor Tim Schneider—who himself has long been looking into his crystal ball at the start of every year—to tell us what we might expect from the coming 12 months. He tells us about his five 2024 predictions.
Then, Jane Morris, one of our editors-at-large, Gareth Harris, our chief contributing editor, and host Ben Luke select the biennales and exhibitions that they are most looking forward to in 2024.
Events we discuss:
- 60th Venice Biennale: Foreigners Everywhere, 20 April-24 November
- Pierre Huyghe, Punta Della Dogana, Venice, 17 March-24 November
- Julie Mehretu, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 17 March-6 January 2025
- Willem de Kooning and Italy, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, 16 April–15 September
- Jean Cocteau: The Jugglers Revenge, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 13 April-16 September
- Whitney Biennial: Even Better Than the Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, opens 20 March (closing date tbc)
- PST Art: Art & Science Collide, 14 September-16 February 2025
- Istanbul Biennial, 14 September-17 November
- Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024: After Rain, Saudi Arabia, 20 February-24 May
- Desert X 2024 AlUla, Saudi Arabia, 9 February-30 April
- Frick Collection, New York, reopening late 2024
- Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt, possibly opening in 2024
- IMAGINE!: 100 Years of International Surrealism, The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, 21 February-21 July
- Surrealism: The Centenary Exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 4 September-6 January 2025 (travels later to Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany, the Fundación Mapfré, Madrid, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, US)
- Paris 1874: Inventing impressionism, Musée d’Orsay, 26 March-14 July
- Paris 1874: the Impressionist Moment, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 8 September-19 January 2025
- Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers, National Gallery, London, 14 September-19 January 2025
- Matthew Wong l Vincent van Gogh: Painting as a Last Resort, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 1 March-1 September
- Caspar David Friedrich: Art for a New Era, Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, until 1 April
- Caspar David Friedrich: Infinite Landscapes, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 19 April-4 August
- Caspar David Friedrich: Where it All Started, Albertinum and Kupferstich- Kabinett, Dresden, Germany, 24 August 2024-5 January 2025
- (More info on the Caspar David Friedrich anniversary celebrations here) - Arte Povera, Bourse de Commerce, Paris, 9 October-24 March 2025
- Brancusi, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 27 March-1 July
- Comics, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 29 May-4 November
- Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Tate Modern, London, 15 February-1 September 2024
- Angelica Kauffman, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1 March-30 June
- Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain, Tate Britain, London, 16 May-13 October 2024
- Judy Chicago: Revelations, Serpentine North, London, 22 May-1 September 2024
- Barbara Kruger, Serpentine South, London, 1 February-17 March 2024
- Vanessa Bell: A Pioneer of Modern Art, Courtauld Gallery, London, 25 May-6 Oct 2024
- Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, US, until 21 January; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 17 March-28 July; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 25 October-2 March 2025; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 20 April 2025-13 September 2025
- Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 13 February-26 May 2024; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 14 September-5 January 2025
- Material World: Contemporary Artists and Textiles, Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition from October, venues and dates tbc
- The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 25 February-28 July
- Siena: the Rise of Painting, 1300-50, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 13 October-26 January 2025
- Joan Jonas: Good Night, Good Morning, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 17 March-6 July
- LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12 May-7 September
- Käthe Kollwitz, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 31 March-20 July
- Käthe Kollwitz, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany, 20 March-9 June
- Käthe Kollwitz, SMK-National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, 7 November-25 February 2025
- The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 11 February-27 May
- Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider, Tate Modern, London, 25 April-20 October 2024
- Gabriele Münter: the Great Expressionist Woman Painter, Thyssen Bornemisza, Madrid, 12 November-9 February 2025
- Erich Heckel, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, Belgium, 12 October-25 January 2025
