The place to see Van Gogh’s work in 2025: Boston, London and past

Probably the most revealing Van Gogh exhibition of the 12 months will likely be Van Gogh: The Roulin Household Portraits, which opens at Boston’s Museum of Superb 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 good friend in Arles. Vincent not solely painted him, but in addition his spouse Augustine and their three kids.

Van Gogh and Roulin had been consuming 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 through the tough days after the Dutchman mutilated his ear. The Boston-Amsterdam present will embody 15 of the 26 Roulin household portraits, which at the moment are scattered in collections the world over.

The German artist Anselm Kiefer, who has been impressed by Van Gogh all through his 60-year profession, can have his work proven alongside that of Vincent. The Kiefer-Van Gogh exhibition opens on the Van Gogh Museum (7 March-9 June) after which travels to London’s Royal Academy of Arts (28 June-26 October).

One other exhibition charting Van Gogh’s inventive affect will likely be Charley Toorop: Love for Van Gogh (24 Might-14 September) on the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, within the east of the Netherlands. Within the early 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 making an attempt to trace down a number of Toorop works which at the moment are recorded as misplaced, together with Borinage Panorama (1922), which depicts the coal-mining area of southern Belgium the place Van Gogh preached to the miners. We (above) reproduce a black-and-white {photograph} of the lacking portray, which was final seen in an Amsterdam exhibition in 1923. Anybody with data on its whereabouts is requested to contact the Kröller-Müller.

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 an exhibition entitled The Potato (26 July-23 November). The title refers to Van Gogh’s first masterpiece, The Potato Eaters (April-Might 1885), which depicts a peasant household round their desk in a easy hut, together with his mannequin Gordina.

Additionally in Brabant, the Van Gogh Home in Zundert, the artist’s birthplace, will likely be holding a collection of small-scale exhibitions: on Sunflowers (till 16 February), Kiefer (7 March-9 June), Potatoes (28 June-2 November) and Van Gogh’s keep in Antwerp (22 November-March 2026).

Lastly, there will likely be fairly various Van Gogh exhibitions in Japan. Van Gogh’s House: the Van Gogh Museum, the Painter’s Legacy, the Household Assortment, the Ongoing Story opens on the Osaka Metropolis Museum of Superb 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). 

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 Might 2026) and Tokyo’s Ueno Royal Museum (29 Might 2026-August 12 2026). 

And carrying on from final 12 months, How Van Gogh got here to Groningen is on the Groninger Museum till 5 Might. Lastly, the travelling exhibition on Matthew Wong-Vincent van Gogh is ending quickly on the Kunsthaus Zurich (till 26 January) after which going to Vienna’s Albertina (14 February-22 June).

Books and occasions

Though there’s a continuous stream of latest image books on Van Gogh, ones which got down to break contemporary floor should not so frequent. Miles Unger’s A Fireplace in his Soul: Van Gogh, Paris and the Making of an Artist will likely be revealed about Vincent’s two years in Paris (1886-88). Much less is understood about this era than the remainder of his inventive profession, as a result of he was residing along with his brother Theo and subsequently wrote only a few surviving letters. Hopefully Unger’s e-book might fill among the gaps.

For these travelling in Vincent’s footsteps, a go to to Etten (the place his household lived in 1875-82) will now have an added attraction. The Protestant church the place his father was the pastor is to be opened in April, after restoration work, and with a show in regards to the artist.

Van Gogh in Covent Backyard

2025 represents the a hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Van Gogh’s final 12 months working in London for the Goupil Gallery. He had began there in 1873, having simply turned 20, serving as an assistant. He spent the autumn of 1874 on the gallery’s Paris headquarters and after a number of days at Christmas along with his household in Brabant, he returned to London at the start of January 1875, to face a very busy time at work.

That month Goupil moved its gallery from Southampton St to Bedford St, adjoining roads simply north of the Strand in Covent Backyard. Writing in regards to the artwork they then had on sale, Vincent wrote to his brother Theo: “Our gallery is now completed and it’s stunning, we now have many stunning issues for the time being.”

Nevertheless, it turned out that Van Gogh didn’t have he needed qualities to be a supplier, since he was poor at dealing with clients. A 12 months later he was sacked by Goupil, giving up the artwork commerce – and ultimately getting down to grow to be an artist.