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Kumu turns twenty and lets Kristi Kongi paint the whole building
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Kumu turns twenty and lets Kristi Kongi paint the whole building

Colour leaves the canvas and runs across the floor, walls, windows and courtyard of Estonia's biggest museum.

3 August 2026
Last weeks for Ancient Egypt in Hong Kong — and one late-night opening
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Last weeks for Ancient Egypt in Hong Kong — and one late-night opening

The Hong Kong Palace Museum's Egyptian loans close on 31 August, with longer summer hours and an after-hours evening on 19 August.

3 August 2026
Antony Gormley takes over the KMSKA — roof, square and quays included
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Antony Gormley takes over the KMSKA — roof, square and quays included

More than a hundred works, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, in the most extensive Gormley exhibition ever staged on the European mainland.

3 August 2026
Picture Perfect: sixty-five artists take apart the idea of beauty
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Picture Perfect: sixty-five artists take apart the idea of beauty

Bozar follows its exhibition on love with one on physical beauty — and refuses to moralise about it.

3 August 2026
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Delcy Morelos fills the Horta Hall with earth, and asks you to take off your shoes
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Delcy Morelos fills the Horta Hall with earth, and asks you to take off your shoes

Fourteen metres of clay, hay, cinnamon and cloves in the middle of Bozar — free to enter, barefoot.

3 August 2026
Tolia Astakhishvili builds a house inside the museum
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Tolia Astakhishvili builds a house inside the museum

The Georgian artist's first solo museum show takes the child — free and dependent at once — as its way of seeing.

3 August 2026
Terminal Piece: mumok turns five floors into a play
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Terminal Piece: mumok turns five floors into a play

Kate Millett said she had to build the work because it could not be written. Vienna's museum of modern art takes her at her word.

3 August 2026
Canaletto and Bellotto, side by side in Vienna
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Canaletto and Bellotto, side by side in Vienna

The Kunsthistorisches Museum reunites uncle and nephew — the two painters who taught Europe how its cities look.

3 August 2026
From Cleopatra to Bernini: the Kunsthistorisches Museum's autumn
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From Cleopatra to Bernini: the Kunsthistorisches Museum's autumn

Vienna announces an autumn built around faces — Ptolemaic queens, a bronze Augustus from Meroë, and Bernini looking at himself.

3 August 2026
Museum & galleryKlimt's The Kiss, rebuilt in LEGO — and it is the biggest one yet
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Klimt's The Kiss, rebuilt in LEGO — and it is the biggest one yet

The Belvedere and the LEGO Group turn the most famous embrace in art history into the largest LEGO Art Masterpiece ever made.

3 August 2026
Melbourne: the Triennial returns, and the whole building gives way to it
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Melbourne: the Triennial returns, and the whole building gives way to it

Jenny Holzer, Wolfgang Tillmans, Zanele Muholi and Ocean Vuong headline the fourth NGV Triennial — free to visit, as always.

3 August 2026
Freedom's Fall — Art from Germany 1910–1945 — ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
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Freedom's Fall — Art from Germany 1910–1945 — ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum

German art in the decades when freedom disappeared: expressionism, the Weimar years and what came after.

3 August 2026
Buenos Aires: Malba turns 25 and swallows a legendary collection
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Buenos Aires: Malba turns 25 and swallows a legendary collection

The Argentine museum celebrates its anniversary on 21 September — and arrives there with the Daros Latinamerica Collection, one of the most important holdings of Latin American art anywhere.

3 August 2026
ANIMOID – Ann Lislegaard — ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art
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ANIMOID – Ann Lislegaard — ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art

Ann Lislegaard's animated worlds blur the line between animal, machine and language — science fiction as a way of rethinking who gets to speak.

3 August 2026
Favourites from the Collection — ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
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Favourites from the Collection — ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum

The best-loved works from the ARoS collection, chosen for a long run.

3 August 2026
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