Where to see Van Gogh’s work in 2025: Boston, London and beyond – The Art Newspaper

Probably the most revealing Van Gogh exhibition of the yr shall be Van Gogh: The Roulin Household Portraits, which opened at Boston’s Museum of Fantastic Arts (30 March-7 September) after which goes on to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (3 October-11 January 2026). Joseph Roulin, a postman, was Van Gogh’s closest pal in Arles. Vincent painted not solely him, but additionally his spouse Augustine and their three kids.

Van Gogh and Roulin had been ingesting companions on the Café de la Gare, near the artist’s Yellow Home and the railway station, the place the postman labored. It was Roulin who later supported Van Gogh in the course of the tough days after the Dutchman mutilated his ear. In Boston, 12 of the 26 painted household portraits shall be reunited and in Amsterdam 15.

The German artist Anselm Kiefer, who has been impressed by Van Gogh all through his 60-year profession, has his work proven alongside that of Vincent. The Kiefer-Van Gogh exhibition begins on the Van Gogh Museum (till 9 June) after which travels to London’s Royal Academy of Arts (28 June-26 October).

One other exhibition charting Van Gogh’s creative affect shall be Charley Toorop: Love for Van Gogh (24 Could-14 September) on the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, within the east of the Netherlands. Within the early Nineteen Twenties Charley Toorop was significantly impressed by her Dutch predecessor, as she adopted in his footsteps to color within the locations the place he had labored. 

In preparation for the Otterlo present, the museum is attempting to trace down just a few recorded Toorop works which at the moment are misplaced, together with Borinage Panorama (1922), which depicts the coal-mining area of southern Belgium the place Van Gogh preached to the miners. We reproduce (above) an early {photograph} of the lacking portray, which was final seen in an Amsterdam exhibition in 1923. Anybody with info on its whereabouts is requested to contact the Kröller-Müller.

For the primary vacationer season, the Van Gogh Museum shall be presenting the present that has run in the course of the previous two summers: Selecting Vincent (27 June-31 August). It tells the story of the Van Gogh household and the way they saved the artist’s assortment.

Celebrating final October’s €9m acquisition of Head of a Girl (Gordina de Groot) (March-April 1885), the Noordbrabants Museum in s’Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch) is holding a modest exhibition entitled The Potato. The title refers to Van Gogh’s first masterpiece, The Potato Eaters (April-Could 1885), which depicts a peasant household round their desk in a easy hut, together with his mannequin Gordina. It has simply been introduced that the present shall be delayed barely, due to constructing work on the gallery, and the brand new dates are 4 October-1 February 2026.

Additionally in Brabant, the Van Gogh Home in Zundert, the artist’s birthplace, shall be holding a collection of small-scale exhibitions: Kiefer (till 9 June), Potatoes (28 June-2 November) and Van Gogh’s keep in Antwerp (22 November-March 2026).

However it’s Japan which could have probably the most Van Gogh exhibitions this yr. The Pola Museum, in Hakone (100 km west of Tokyo), has simply introduced their present: The Impression of Van Gogh: A Renewal of Ardour (31 Could-30 November). Though it would have a restricted variety of Van Goghs (three from the Pola assortment and a number of other extra from different Japanese lenders), the emphasis shall be on the Dutchman’s affect on later artists from Japan.

Very a lot bigger, when it comes to the variety of Van Gogh works, shall be Van Gogh’s Residence: the Van Gogh Museum, the Painter’s Legacy, The Household Assortment, the Ongoing Story. It opens on the Osaka Metropolis Museum of Fantastic Arts (5 July-31 August) after which goes to Tokyo’s Metropolitan Artwork Museum (12 September–21 December) and the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Artwork in Nagoya (tentatively 3 January–23 March 2026). It will likely be primarily based on loans from the Van Gogh Museum.

The Grand Van Gogh Exhibition, with works from the Kröller-Müller, begins on the Kobe Metropolis Museum (20 September-1 February 2026) and can tour to the Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Artwork (21 February 2026-10 Could 2026) and Tokyo’s Ueno Royal Museum (29 Could 2026-August 12 2026). Japan’s Van Gogh lovers will definitely be properly served this yr.

REVISED: Initially printed on 11 January 2025, this weblog submit was up to date on 2 April with new exhibition info.

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 lot of 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 obtainable in a extra compact paperback format.

His different latest books embrace Dwelling with Vincent van Gogh: The Houses & Landscapes that formed the Artist (White Lion Publishing 2019, UK and US), which offers an outline of the artist’s life. The Illustrated Provence Letters of Van Gogh has been reissued (Batsford 2021, UK and US). My Buddy 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 e-mail vangogh@theartnewspaper.com

Please observe that he doesn’t undertake authentications.

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