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

Probably the most revealing Van Gogh exhibition of the yr can be Van Gogh: The Roulin Household Portraits, which opens at Boston’s Museum of Wonderful 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 buddy in Arles. Vincent not solely painted him, but in addition his spouse Augustine and their three youngsters.

Van Gogh and Roulin have 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 in the course of the troublesome 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, could 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 can 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 notably 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 Lady (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-Could 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, can be holding a sequence 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 can be fairly a lot of Van Gogh exhibitions in Japan. Van Gogh’s Dwelling: the Van Gogh Museum, the Painter’s Legacy, the Household Assortment, the Ongoing Story opens on the Osaka Metropolis Museum of Wonderful 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 Could 2026) and Tokyo’s Ueno Royal Museum (29 Could 2026-August 12 2026). 

And carrying on from final yr, How Van Gogh got here to Groningen is on the Groninger Museum till 5 Could. 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 recent image books on Van Gogh, ones which got down to break recent floor will not be so frequent. Miles Unger’s A Fireplace in his Soul: Van Gogh, Paris and the Making of an Artist can be revealed about Vincent’s two years in Paris (1886-88). Much less is thought about this era than the remainder of his inventive profession, as a result of he was residing along with his brother Theo and due to this fact wrote only a few surviving letters. Hopefully Unger’s e book could fill a few of 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 concerning the artist.

Van Gogh in Covent Backyard

2025 represents the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Van Gogh’s final yr 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 in the beginning 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 concerning the artwork they then had on sale, Vincent wrote to his brother Theo: “Our gallery is now completed and it’s stunning, now we have many stunning issues in the intervening time.”

Nonetheless, it turned out that Van Gogh didn’t have he crucial qualities to be a supplier, since he was poor at dealing with prospects. A yr later he was sacked by Goupil, giving up the artwork commerce – and ultimately getting down to develop into an artist.