Goya 2026
Last Updated January 6, 2026
Current Exhibits with works by Goya:
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Brussels – BOZAR — formally the Centre for Fine Arts — "Goya and Spanish Realism" (Oct 8, 2025 – Jan 11, 2026)
A major EUROPALIA exhibition putting Goya’s work in dialogue with Spanish realism across later generations. BOZAR WebsiteThis unique exhibition brings the groundbreaking oeuvre of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746−1828) into dialogue with work by contemporaries and artists from later generations. With his fierce, gripping depictions of injustice, abuses and horrors of his time, Goya was the pivot in the development of a modernity firmly anchored in the Spanish realist tradition. Seventy artists — from the 18th century to the present — confront Goya’s expressive complexity and prove how his formal, conceptual and ideological legacy continues to intrigue, move and inspire..."
- Berlin (Alte Nationalgalerie) — "The Scharf Collection: Goya – Monet – Cézanne – Bonnard – Grosse" (Oct 24, 2025 – Feb 15, 2026)
A temporary show of the private Scharf collection, spanning from Goya onward. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz - Leipzig (Museum der bildenden Künste, MdbK) — Focus on graphic art: Francisco de Goya – Etchings #1 (Oct 30, 2025 – Feb 1, 2026)
A focused prints exhibition (e.g., Los Disparates, with plans for other series in the program). Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig - Madrid (Museo Lázaro Galdiano) — "Isidre Nonell looking at Goya" (Nov 18, 2025 – Jan 18, 2026)
A dialogue show pairing artist Nonell (1872–1911) with Goya works held by the museum (such as Witches’ Sabbath / The Witches, among others). EsMadrid - New York City (The Hispanic Society Museum & Library) — "Goya in the Age of Revolution" (Dec 11, 2025 – Jun 28, 2026)
A themed installation on war/revolution/independence, showing Goya and his circle. The Hispanic Society Museum & Library - Zaragoza (Aljafería Palace) — "Goya. From the Museum to the Palace" (Dec 5, 2024 – Dec 31, 2026)
A temporary relocation/display of the Museo de Zaragoza’s Goya-era holdings (prints, canvases, drawings, etc.) into the palace setting. Spain.infoDue to renovation work at the museum, the Museo de Zaragoza’s collection dedicated to Goya and his era is moving to a new location. For several months, visitors will have the unique opportunity to enjoy these masterpieces within the exceptional monumental setting of the Aljafería Palace..."
The exhibition in the Alte Nationalgalerie presents a selection of some 150 items, including prominent artworks by the likes of Auguste Renoir, Pierre Bonnard, Edgar Degas and Claude Monet, and takes visitors on a journey through the collection: from Goya and French Realism to the French Impressionists and Cubists to contemporary art. One special highlight is a selection of prints by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, which have been fully preserved in the collection..."
The fourth and fifth instalments of the series Graphics in Focus present the graphic work of the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya (1746 Fuendetodos, province of Zaragoza – 1828 Bordeaux). A successful court painter, portraitist and academy director in Madrid, Goya was also a passionate printmaker. He collected prints himself, including works by Rembrandt and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and worked as a graphic artist for the free market, particularly between 1797 and 1824. During this intensive creative phase, he created his four extensive print cycles: 'Los Caprichos' (1799), 'Los Desastres de la Guerra' (1823), 'La Tauromaquia' (1816) and 'Los Disparates' (1824). The first part of the exhibition presents 'Los Disparates' and etchings after Velázquez. 'Los Desastres de la Guerra', on loan from the LETTER Foundation in Cologne, will be exhibited in a display case, as the series is bound as a book. The plan is to open a new page every week. Goya's 'Los Caprichos' will be presented in the second part of the exhibition in spring 2026. During his lifetime, Goya was only able to publish two series of prints: 'Los Caprichos' and 'La Tauromaquia'. He made proofs of all his works and stored them safely. He sold some of the printing plates during his lifetime, while others remained in the family's possession and were only sold later. Consequently, the graphic cycles were printed and distributed in various editions many decades after his death.."
To mark the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the present installation displays a selection of works by Francisco de Goya and his circle broaching the subject of war, revolution, and independence. This initiative is supported by the Goya Research Center. Launched in 2024 by the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, the Goya Research Center aims to advance on the study of Francisco de Goya and bring him to new audiences through public programs, exhibitions, and publications...."
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"From this headlong seizure of life we should not expect a calm and refined art, nor a reflective one. Yet Goya was more than a Nietzschean egoist riding roughshod over the world to assert his supermanhood. He was receptive to all shades of feeling, and it was his extreme sensitivity as well as his muscular temerity that actuated his assaults on the outrageous society of Spain." From Thomas Craven's essay on Goya from MEN OF ART (1931).
"...Loneliness has its limits, for Goya was not a prophet but a painter. If he had not been a painter his attitude to life would have found expression only in preaching or suicide." From Andre Malroux's essay in SATURN: AN ESSAY ON GOYA (1957).
"Goya is always a great artist, often a frightening one...light and shade play upon atrocious horrors." From Charles Baudelaire's essay on Goya from CURIOSITES ESTRANGERS (1842).
"[An] extraordinary mingling of hatred and compassion, despair and sardonic humour, realism and fantasy." From the foreword by Aldous Huxley to THE COMPLETE ETCHINGS OF GOYA (1962).
"His analysis in paint, chalk and ink of mass disaster and human frailty pointed to someone obsessed with the chaos of existence..." From the book on Goya by Sarah Symmons (1998).
"I cannot forgive you for admiring Goya...I find nothing in the least pleasing about his paintings or his etchings..." From a letter to (spanish) Duchess Colonna from the French writer Prosper Merimee (1869).
GOYA : Los Caprichos - Dover Edition - Amazon
