5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for January 2023

By way of breaking us all gently into 2023 we thought that rather than presenting a list of new architecture and design exhibitions opening in January 2023, we’d provide a list of those exhibitions both up and running in January 2023 and those opening in January 2023.

It seemed a civilised and informative approach. An approach that was more empowering, less demanding. An invitation to visit an exhibition rather than defining an obligation to visit an exhibition.

If an approach, an invitation, admittedly aided and abetted by the dearth of new showcases opening globally in January 2023. As in essentially none. Certainly nowhere near the five of our title.

But then, the old is also the new when first discovered, everything is unknown and unfamiliar until approached and engaged with, it’s all a question of perspective.

Which is a very good way to enter a new year…….

Last chance!!! Exhibitions ending during January 2023!!!

Austria:

Applied Correlation Laboratory at the Österreichische Friedrich und Lillian Kiesler-Privatstiftung, Vienna until 25.01

Belgium:

At the coalface! Design in a post-carbon age at the Centre for Innovation and Design at Grand-Hornu, Hornu until 08.01

France:

Nanda Vigo, l’espace intérieur at the Musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design, Bordeaux until 08.01
Nestor Perkal – Des années 80 à aujourd’hu at the Musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design, Bordeaux until 08.01/

Germany:

Bauhaus Lab 2022: Doors of Learning: Microcosms of a Future South Africa at Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau until 08.01
Otl Aicher : 100 Years 100 Posters at the HfG Archiv, Ulm until 08.01
The Olympic City of Munich. Retrospect and Outlook at the Architekturmuseum der TUM, Munich until 08.01
Adaptive Architecture. Building Upon the Existing at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt until 15.01
Future Bodies from a Recent Past—Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s at Museum Brandhorst, Munich until 15.01
Green Modernism: The New View of Plants at the Ludwig Museum, Cologne until 22.01
Living Prototypes. Digital Fabrication With Biomaterials at Aedes Architecture Forum, Berlin until 25.01
Luxus, Lotterleben, Lifestyle – Tee verändert Nordeuropa at St. Annen-Museum, Lübeck until 29.01
The life of the objects. Colour and Paper at the Weimar Bauhaus, at Bauhaus Museum, Weimar until 30.01

Italy:

Search History at MAXXI, Rome until 15.01

Latvia:

Hand-crafts at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Riga until 13.01

Poland:

Brodwino. The most beautiful district of Sopot at Sopot Museum until 29.01

Slovenia:

Orbiting and Honeycomb, Janja Lap light fixtures at MAO, Ljubljana until 17.01

Switzerland:

Isamu Noguchi at Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern until 08.01
After Nature Swiss Photography in the 19th Century at Photo Elysée, Lausanne until 29.01

United States of America:

American Art Deco: Designing for the People, 1918-1939 at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City until 08.01

Current exhibitions on show beyond January 2023

Australia:

New Australian Design at Powerhouse Ultimo, Sydney until 0.04

Austria:

Atelier Bauhaus, Wien. Friedl Dicker und Franz Singer at MUSA Vienna until 26.03
The Fest. Between Representation and Revolt at MAK Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna until 07.05

Belgium:

Creative Nature at BeCraft, Mons until 12.02
Picturesque Jules Buyssens, Landscape Architect at CIVA, Brussels until 12.02
On Display. Designing the shop experience at Design Museum Brussels until 05.03

Canada:

Views of Within: Picturing the Spaces We Inhabit at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts until 02.07

Denmark:

The Future is Present at Designmuseum Danmark, Copenhagen until 01.07
The Magic of Form – Design and Art at Designmuseum Danmark, Copenhagen until 20.08

England:

Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today, at the Design Museum, London until 19.02

Finland:

Aantti + vVuokko Nurmesniemi at Designmuseo, Helsinki until 09.04
Elina Helenius – Woven Perspectives at the Craft Museum of Finland, Jyväskylä until 23.04
Long Live Wivi Lönn! at the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki until 23.04

France:

Mimesis. A living design at Centre Pompidou-Metz until 06.02
Années 80. Mode, design et graphisme en France at Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris until 16.04
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. Rébellion afrobeat at Musée de la musique – Cité de la musique, Paris until 11.06

Germany:

Magyar Modern. Hungarian Art in Berlin 1910–1933 at the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin until 06.02
Mondrian. Evolution at K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf until 12.02
Design Lab #13. Material Legacies at the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin until 26.02
Lucia Moholy – The Image of Modernity at the Bröhan Museum, Berlin until 26.02
The Final Bid. Michael Pinsky at the Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen until 26.02
Bruno Paul – Schönheit ist freude at Haus der Architekten, Dresden until 03.03
Care for the Stock. Ten Strategies for Architecture at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg until 05.03
Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine at the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein until 05.03
Architektur für Alle?! Emanzipatorische Bewegungen in Planung und Raum at the Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus, Bremen until 12.03
Who’s Next? Homelessness, Architecture and Cities at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg until 12.03
Baubilder und Erinnerungsmuster at the Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, until 26.03
Deep-seated. The Secret Art of Upholstery at the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig until 26.03
The last of their kind. Crafts and professions in transition at the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn until 02.04
Fetishizing the Future. Utopias of the third dimension at the Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen until 16.04
Playful Architectures at ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe until 16.04
Shaping protest: From Otl Aicher to Today at Museum Ulm until 16.04
Contemporary Craft. Young-Jae Lee at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg until 23.04
Broken Music Vol. 2. 70 Years of Records and Sound Works by Artists at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin until 14.05
Heinrich Tessenow. Architektur und Möbel at the Stadtmuseum Dresden until 29.05
The story of my life. The object biography as concept, method and genre at Museum der Dinge – Werkbundarchiv, Berlin until 01.09
Modern Goods. The Collector’s Passion for Design at the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig until 08.10
Class and mass. Plastics design in everyday life at the LVR-Industriemuseum, Peter-Behrens-Bau, Oberhausen until 23.12
Colour Rush! An Installation by Sabine Marcelis at the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein until 12.05.2024

Italy:

Technoscape. The architecture of engineers at MAXXI, Rome until 10.04
Architetture a regola d’arte. From the archives BBPR, Dardi, Monaco Luccichenti, Moretti at MAXXI, Rome until 15.10

Japan:

Embarking on a Trip around the World at the Crafts Museum: Focus on Foreign Crafts and Design at the National Crafts Museum, Tokyo until 26.02

Netherlands:

The Energy Show – Sun, Solar and Human Power at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam until 05.03
Aldo Bakker Pouring Vessels at Kunstmuseum Den Haag until 07.05
Frozen Music. About the design of sound and space at Bureau Europa, Maastricht until 28.05

Poland:

Lev Stern. Architecture of Time. Wrocław – Jerusalem at the Museum of Architecture, Wrocław until 26.02

Scotland:

Plastic: Remaking Our World at the V&A Dundee until 05.02
Bernat Klein: Design in Colour at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh until 23.04

Slovenia:

Universum Plečnik: Between Workshop and Myth at MAO, Ljubljana until 21.05

Spain:

Esperanza y utopía. El diseño entre 1900 y 1939 at the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas. Madrid until 12.02

Switzerland:

A Chair and You at mudac, Lausanne until 26.02
Make Do With Now: New Directions in Japanese Architecture at the Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel until 12.03
Willy Guhl – Thinking with Your Hands at the Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich until 26.03
The Bigger Picture: Design – Women – Society at Gewerbemuseum, Winterthur until 14.05

United States of America:

Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890–1980 at Los Angeles County Museum of Art until 05.02
Zaha Hadid Design: Untold at the MSU Broad Art Museum, East Lansing until 12.02
Fairy Tale Architecture at the Center for Architecture, New York until 25.02
In Praise of Caves: Organic Architecture Projects from Mexico by Carlos Lazo, Mathias Goeritz, Juan O’Gorman, and Javier Senosiain at the Noguchi Museum, New York until 26.02
Meret Oppenheim. My Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New York until 04.03
Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond until 19.03
Rethinking Monuments: American Sculpture in its Time, 1850 – 2000 at Grand Rapids Art Museum until 08.04
Hector Guimard: How Paris Got Its Curves at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York until 21.05
Deconstructing Power: W. E. B. Du Bois at the 1900 World’s Fair at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York until 29.05
Conversation Pieces Contemporary Furniture in Dialogue at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art until 25.06
La Cartonería Mexicana/The Mexican Art of Paper and Paste at the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe until 30.06
American Framing at Palm Springs Art Museum until 02.07
Noguchi Subscapes at the Noguchi Museum, New York until 03.09