Pablo Picasso Events & Exhibitions: 2025 & Beyond

Whether you're a long-time admirer of Picasso's work, or discovering his artistic genius for the first time, these exhibitions offer a captivating journey through the life and legacy of one of the 20th century's most transformative and influential artists. Experience Picasso's distinctive vision, where each canvas reimagines form, space, and emotion, capturing the creativity, innovation, and boldness that defined his revolutionary career.

Location: Museo Picasso Málaga, Spain
Dates: 14 November 2025 – 12 April 2026
Description: Focusing on 1925–45, Memory and Desire reads Picasso’s interwar years as a drama of psyche and image. Violent metamorphoses, erotic charge and mythic shadows collide across paintings and works on paper, tracing how the artist’s private symbols (and the century’s anxieties) remade his language of the body.

Location: National Gallery of Ireland, Ireland
Dates: 9 October 2025 – 22 February 2026
Description: Organised with the Musée national Picasso–Paris, this exhibition explores Picasso’s working rooms: models, muses and materials orbiting the studio as theatre. Sketches, canvases and photographic traces reveal how ideas moved from impulse to image, and how the studio itself became a stage where role-play, craft and desire converged.

Location: Tate Modern, London, UK

Dates: 25 September, 2025 - Spring, 2026

Description: Tate Modern's exhibition celebrates the centenary of Picasso's iconic 1925 painting The Three Dancers, a pivotal work in modern art. Marking a shift from Picasso’s classical phase to a more intense, emotionally charged period, Three Dancers reflects themes of madness, identity, and expressionist distortion. The exhibition explores the painting's significance through a selection of key works from Picasso’s career, delving into themes of sex, death, and the politics of dance. A vibrant programme of live performances further animates this masterpiece, highlighting its enduring influence 100 years after its creation.

Location: Grand Rapids Art Museum, USA
Dates: 12 August – 26 October 2025
Description: A brisk primer on Picasso’s perpetual reinvention, this focused exhibition follows the artist’s movements from line to volume, canvas to ceramic. Emphasis falls on experiment and process - how materials, technique and serial thinking kept the work restlessly alive, and why his innovations remain a live wire for artists today.

Location: National Museum of Western Art, Japan
Dates: 28 June – 5 October 2025
Description: A concentrated study of Picasso’s lifelong fixation on the body. In Human Figures, paintings, drawings and prints chart how the figure became a laboratory for invention - from classical draftsmanship to Cubist fracture and post-war expressiveness. The show’s tight focus lays bare the artist’s shifting ideas of identity, eros and power, using the human form as both subject and engine of change.

Location: The Museo Picasso Málaga, Málaga, Spain

Dates: March, 2024 - Spring, 2027

Description: The Museo Picasso Málaga's new exhibition, Pablo Picasso: Structures of Invention. The Unity of a Life's Work, offers a comprehensive exploration of Picasso's career, featuring 150 works that showcase his revolutionary approach to art. Curated by Michael FitzGerald, the exhibition highlights the balance between innovation and retrospection that fueled Picasso's creative process, presenting works from various stages of his career side by side. Through this unique curation, the exhibition reveals the continuity in Picasso’s evolution, connecting his cubist, classical, and surrealist innovations. Complementing this are five ‘Focus Exhibitions’, delving into key influences on Picasso, such as African sculpture and his wartime experiences in Paris, offering fresh insights into the life and legacy of one of modern art's most transformative figures.

Location: M+, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong

Dates: 15 March, 2025 - 13 July, 2025

Description: Picasso for Asia: A Conversation is a landmark exhibition at M+, Hong Kong's global museum of contemporary visual culture, showcasing over 60 works by Picasso alongside 80 pieces by Asian and Asian-diasporic artists from the M+ Collections. Co-curated by M+ and Musée National Picasso-Paris, the exhibition explores Picasso's enduring influence on modern and contemporary art, placing his works in conversation with Asian artists across generations. This is the first time masterpieces from Musée Picasso-Paris are being exhibited alongside Asian works, highlighting themes of cultural exchange, artistic adaptation, and the global impact of Picasso’s legacy.

Location: The British Museum, London, UK

Dates: 7 November, 2024 - 30 March, 2025

Description: Picasso, one of the most influential figures in modern art, was also a prolific printmaker, creating over 2,400 prints throughout his career. This exhibition traces his lifelong engagement with printmaking, revealing how the medium allowed him to explore new ideas and narratives. Spanning from his early years in Paris, to his later life in the South of France, the exhibition highlights Picasso's partnerships with printers and artists, as well as his evolving techniques, from lithography to linocut.

Location: Charleston, Lewes, UK

Dates: 25 September, 2024 - 02 March, 2025

Description: This exhibition presents a fascinating narrative of how a significant modern art collection was shaped through the intertwined lives of three queer collectors; Eddie Sackville-West, Eardley Knollys, and Mattei Radev. Featuring over 80 works, the exhibition highlights pieces by influential 20th-century artists such as Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, and members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Roger Fry and Vanessa Bell. This intimate set of works, loaned from the Radev Collection, offers a rare glimpse into the evolution of modernism across Europe, while also revealing the personal connections and friendships that shaped the collection over time.