Time was when new architecture and design exhibitions opened every month. Some months more. Some months less. But every month enough for a list.
Time was.
But time is.
And today you’ll struggle to find new showcases opening in August and January. If that’s a collective decision made by the global museum community, or pure chance, we no know. We can but observe it’s existence as an actual thing.
Or put another way: we can find, globally, but one, as in 1, new exhibition due to open in January 2024; and 1, famously, can’t be the basis for a list.
Thus, and as with August 2023, January 2023, and August 2022, in place of recommendations for new exhibitions opening, we bring you a list of all those architecture and design exhibition currently running that you can view in January 2024. And do so with the recommendation that you view as many as possible. Because from February onwards the number of new openings increases greatly, and you may struggle to keep up…….
Last chance!!! Exhibitions ending during January 2024
Austria:
Friedrich Kiesler. Endless House at mumok – museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig, Vienna, until 07.01
German Design 1949–1989. Two Countries, One History at Möbelmuseum Vienna, until 14.01
Belgium:
Nuevo Nouveau by artist & designer Jaime Hayon at MAD, Brussels, until 27.01
Finland:
Yrjö Kukkapuro – Magic Room at EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, until 28.01
France:
Ronan Bouroullec at Galerie Kreo, Paris, until 13.01
Germany:
Alvar Aalto in Germany: Drawing Modernism at the Museum für Architekturzeichnung, Berlin, until 14.01
Building to Heal: New Architecture for Hospitals at the Architekturmuseum der TU Munich, until 21.01
Circular construction. Material Loops at the Architekturgalerie Munich, until 14.01
Everything at Once: Postmodernity, 1967–1992 at the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, until 28.01
General Idea at Gropius Bau, Berlin, until 14.01
Into the Space Age! Visionen & Design at the Hessische Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, until 07.01
Klassisch Konsumieren at the Studienzentrum der Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Weimar, until 15.01
Machine Room of the Gods. How Our Future Was Invented at Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt an Main until 21.01
Nietzsche Privat at the Neues Museum, Weimar, until 15.01
Plastic Material − Magic Material: Freedom and Limits of Design at the HfG-Archiv, Ulm, until 07.01
Protest/Architecture. Barricades, Camps, Superglue at Deutchesarchitekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, until 14.01
Spaces of Solidarity at the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, DAZ, Berlin, until 21.01
The Great Repair at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, until 14.01
Ways to Utopia at the Bauhaus Museum, Weimar, until 29.01
Scotland:
Tartan at the V & A Dundee until 14.01
Spain:
Here we are! Women in Design. 1900 – Today at Disseny Hub, Barcelona, until 07.01
Sweden:
The Garden. Six Centuries of Art and Nature at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, until 07.01
USA:
Emerging Ecologies. Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, until 20.01
Everything at Once. Postmodernity 1967-1992, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn…but only until January 28th!!!
And those on show beyond January 2024
Austria:
Haus-Rucker-Co. Atemzonen at Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, until 25.02
Hollein Calling. Architectural Dialogues at the Architekturzentrum Wien, until 12.02
numen / for use: negative space and collapsing room at aut. architektur und tirol, Innsbruck, until 24.02
Stars, Feathers, Tassels. The Wiener Werkstätte Artist Felice Rix-Ueno (1893–1967) at MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, until 21.04
Belgium:
Christophe Gevers. The architecture of the detail at Design Museum Brussels, until 10.03
Classroom at Z33, House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture, Hasselt, until 18.02
Home Made. Create, Produce, Live at CID – centre for innovation and design at Grand-Hornu, Hornu, until 11.02
Josef Hoffmann – Falling for Beauty at Musée Art & Histoire/Museum Kunst & Geschiedenis, Brussels, until 14.04
Power at CIVA, Brussels until 25.02
Resonances. Encounter between Art nouveau and plastic design at Design Museum Brussels, until 15.04
Czech Republic:
Made by Fire at the Moravská Galerie, Brno, until 31.08
Denmark:
Nanna Ditzel. Taking Design to New Heights at Trapholt, Kolding until 11.08
The Future is Present at Designmuseum Danmark, Copenhagen, until 31.12
England:
The Cult of Beauty at the Wellcome Collection, London, 28.04
Estonia:
Bold and beautiful. Estonian private houses from the 1980s at the Estonian Museum of Architecture, Tallinn, until 21.04
Uneversum: Rhythms and Spaces at the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn, until 07.04
Finland:
Garden Futures. Designing with Nature at Designmuseo, Helsinki, until 31.03
Garden Futures. Designing with Nature at the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki, until 31.03
Tapio Wirkkala – Form at EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, until 06.10
Germany:
Belles Choses. Art Nouveau around 1900 at the Bröhan Museum, Berlin, until 14.04
Colour Rush! An Installation by Sabine Marcelis at the Vitra Design Museum Schaudepot, Weil am Rhein, until 05.05
Der ungesehene Designklassiker at the Deutsches Stuhlbaumuseum, Rabenau, until 03.03
Else Mögelin. Ich wollte, gegen alle Hindernisse, weben at the Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Cottbus, until 03.03
Experimental Estate Budapest – Model houses Napraforgó-Street at the Weissenhofmuseum, Stuttgart, until 03.03
Hej rup! The Czech Avant-Garde at the Bröhan Museum, Berlin, until 03.03
Home Sweet Home. The Archaeology of Domestic Life at SMAC – Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz, until 28.04
Iwan Baan: Moments in Architecture at the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, until 03.03
Not a Penguin Pool: Echoes of More-than-Human Entanglements at Stiftung Bauhaus, Dessau, until 11.02
Ornament. Exemplary Beauty at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, until 28.04
Schön und gut – die Gute Form! at the Institut für Neue Technische Form, Darmstadt, until 03.03
The Grand Seduction. Karl Ernst Osthaus and the Beginnings of Consumer Culture at the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, until 28.04
The Tube. An Architecture Utopia at the Architektur Galerie, Berlin, until 02.03
Tsuyoshi Tane: The Garden House at the Vitra Design Museum Gallery, Weil am Rhein, 21.04
Wilhelm Hasemann and the Invention of the Black Forest at the Augustinermuseum, Freiburg im Breisgau, until 24.03
Wilhelm Wagenfeld A to Z at the Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus, Bremen, until 25.02
Winged Fever. Art Nouveau at Grassi at the Grassi Museum für Angewandtekust, Leipzig, until 06.10
Italy:
Aalto – Aino Alvar Elissa. The Human Dimension of Design at MAXXI, Rome, until 26.05
Alberto Meda. Tension and Lightness at the Triennale Design Museum, Milan, until 24.03
Ettore Sottsass. Design Metaphors at the Triennale Design Museum, Milan, until 21.04
The New Design Collection at MAXXI, Rome, until 10.03
Netherlands:
Designing the Netherlands. 100 Years of Past & Present Futures at Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, until 02.06
Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian at Kunstmuseum Den Haag, until 25.02
In Vitro. The many lives of glass at Bureau Europa, Maastricht, until 16.06
Norway:
Hand and Machine Architectural drawings at the National Museum, Oslo, until 31.03
Poland:
Shape of Dreams. The Architecture of Witold Lipiński at the Muzeum Architektury, Wrocław, until 31.03
Slovenia:
The Structure of Modernity: Edvard Ravnikar and His Quests at MAO, Ljubljana, until 19.05
Spain:
Gego. Measuring Infinity at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, until 02.04
Switzerland:
A Lot With Little. Architektur in der Verantwortung at ZAZ Bellerive, Zentrum Architektur Zürich, until 31.03
Margrit Linck. Pioneer of Ceramics at the Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, until 14.04
Perfectly Imperfect – Flaws, Blemishes and Defects at the Gewerbemuseum, Winterthur, until 12.05
What if. Unbuilt Architecture in Switzerland at S AM, Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel, until 07.04
Sweden:
Bathrooms for everyone! at the Gustavsberg Porcelain Museum, Gustavsberg, until 28.04
Beauty and the Unexpected. Modern and Contemporary American Crafts at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, until 23.02
Front: Design by Nature at Vandalorum, Värnamo until 01.04
NK:s möbler at Sörmlands museum, Nyköping, until 10.03
USA:
A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, until 02.02
Beyond Heights: Skyscrapers and the Human Experience at Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, until 16.06
Designing Peace at the Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, until 04.02
Life Cycles. The Materials of Contemporary Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, until 07.07
The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design at Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, until 25.02