5 art exhibitions to visit in January 2023

Which exhibitions should I visit during the month of January?

With the new year, there are new exhibitions to visit. With new works from up-and-coming creators to fascinating 20th-century artists, we recommend five national exhibitions that deserve a visit with a lynx's eye, attentive to the smallest detail.

1.Paula Rego and Salette Tavares

House of Stories Paula Rego - Av. da República 300 2750-475 Cascais

Paula Rego (1935-2022) and Salette Tavares (1922-1994) met around 1964 and were, in addition to friends in private life, also companions in the world of art. Remembering their friendship and their artistic complicity in this year 2022 adds another fact shared by both, which, however, overshadows this small celebration: the anniversary of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Salette Tavares coincides with the year of death of Paula Rego. This exhibition celebrates their relationship and reveals the different but intersecting paths they traced in the Portuguese context in the 1970s and especially after the Revolution of April 25, 1974.

2.Exist/Resist

MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology - Av. Brasília, Central Tejo (Belém) 1300-598Lisboa

EXIST/RESIST is Didier Fiúza Faustino's first institutional exhibition. The French-Portuguese artist, known for the way he conceptually distances himself from architecture and design, presents an exhibition that takes as its title two of his works, 'Exist', from 2016, and 'Resist', from 2017. for the first time a selection of works and prototypes, ranging from drawings to photographs, large-scale installations and objects. Through installations, films, sculptures, editorial projects and temporary architecture, the artist presents the “body” as a measure of individuation, a place of economic and political struggle.

3.Making Modernism

Royal Academy of Arts - Burlington House, Piccadilly, Mayfair, London, W1J 0BD

Making Modernism is the UK's first major exhibition dedicated to pioneering women working in Germany in the early 1900s: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kӓthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin. The exhibition reframes themes such as self-portrait, still life, the female body, representations of childhood, landscapes and urban scenes through the experiences and perspectives of these innovative artists who - while less familiar than their male counterparts such as Wassily Kandinsky - were not less central to the development of radical new approaches to art in Europe. Bringing together 65 works, many of them unpublished in the UK, Making Modernism highlights the individuality of each artist, while highlighting the strong affinities between them. Combining stunning, daring and intimate scale works, this exhibition explores themes of identity, representation and belonging – all strongly relevant today.

4.Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today

The Design Museum - 224-238 Kensington High Street, London, W8 6AG

Immerse yourself in the dreamlike relationship between surrealism and design in this century-old celebration of surrealist objects of desire. The exhibition covers almost 100 years and around 350 objects are on display. For the first time in a major UK exhibition, Surrealism's relationship with the world of design will be told right up to the present day. Works and objects from Man Ray, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp and Leonora Carrington will be seen alongside pieces by Sarah Lucas, Björk, Tim Walker and Dior. Objects of Desire is divided into four sections, focusing on surrealism's influence on everyday objects, interior design, fashion, and body and mind. Some of the world's most famous surrealist paintings and sculptures – such as Dalí's Lobster Telephone and Man Ray's The Gift (Le Cadeau) – are displayed alongside dozens of works of contemporary art and design. Nearly a third of the objects on display are from the past 50 years. Most of the objects on display were borrowed from the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, with other pieces borrowed from private collections and leading institutions including the Tate and the Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts.

5.Christian Marclay

Center Pompidou - Place Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris, France

John Cage's heir and Andy Warhol, but also comics and punk aesthetics, the work of the American-Swiss artist Christian Marclay is placed under the sign of collage and montage. For the first time since 2007, his works are widely presented in a panoramic exhibition, conceived according to a network of affinities and echoes that unfold the logic of the multimedia artist, mixing diversions and metamorphoses.