LONDON.- Dulwich Picture Gallery today announces its 2026 exhibition programme, featuring the UK debut of Estonian artist Konrad Mägi (1878–1925) and a showcase of American city life through photography. The year culminates with a major showing of prints by Katsushika Hokusai; his iconic Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji, which includes a rare print on display in the UK for the first time.

KONRAD MÄGI
24 March – 12 July 2026

In spring 2026, Dulwich Picture Gallery will present the first major UK exhibition of Konrad Mägi (1878–1925) in partnership with the Art Museum of Estonia. A pioneer of Estonian modernism, Mägi is renowned in his home country for his avantgarde, unique colouristic style and is widely considered the greatest Estonian artist of his generation.

The exhibition will bring together over 60 of Mägi’s works, including enigmatic landscapes and arresting portraits, many of which have never been seen outside of Estonia.

It will consider the influence of major European movements upon Mägi’s work, such as Pointillism, Neo-Impressionism and Expressionism, as well as the independent approaches that he took in painting as a largely self-taught artist. Experimenting with brushstrokes, colours, motifs and perspectives, Mägi translated his inner emotions into expressive works that often revealed his deep connection with nature.

Within the exhibition, contemporary Estonian artist Kristina Õllek will create an installation in the Gallery’s mausoleum as a newly commissioned site-specific work. Presented in the context of Mägi’s paintings, the installation draws on Õllek’s long-term research into Baltic Sea ecology and the Estonian coastal landscape. Using sea salt, cyanobacteria and limestone, she reflects on the Baltic Sea’s current state and its dead zones, while also evoking the deep time of ancient marine life in the coastal landscape of Estonia. This is especially visible in the Silurian limestone of Saaremaa, an island that also played an importantrole in Mägi’s work.

The exhibition will unite distinctive works from Mägi’s career, introducing an artist in cultural dialogue with European art and ideas, yet who remained rooted in the landscapes of his homeland.

The exhibition is curated by Kathleen Soriano, Director of Hastings Contemporary and celebrated broadcaster and judge on Sky Arts, Portrait Artist of the Year, who curated the Gallery’s popular exhibitions M.K. Čiurlionis: Between Worlds, 2022; and Harold Sohlberg: Painting Norway, 2019.

PORTRAIT OF A CITY: A CENTURY OF AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY
28 July – 4 October 2026

Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography will offer an in-depth look at a century of American city life through photography, focusing on the people who shaped and inhabited these spaces. Featuring work by 34 influential photographers from 1907 to 2012, the exhibition traces how photography evolved in the modern city, capturing the individuals and communities against the backdrop of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco and the iconic architecture of these places.

From moments of mass immigration and industrialisation to scenes of counterculture, these images reveal how photographers used the city as both subject and stage to explore social change. Adapting the traditions of portraiture, they documented faces and lives that reflect the inner story of a nation in flux.

Highlights include works by Alfred Stieglitz, Helen Levitt, Dorothea Lange, Lewis Hine, Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand and Bruce Davidson, among others. Together, these portraits and spaces form a collective narrative, intimate and expansive, capturing the human experience at the heart of America’s evolving cities.

HOKUSAI: THIRTY-SIX VIEWS OF MT. FUJI FROM THE IUCHI COLLECTION
20 October 2026 – 17 January 2027

In winter 2026, Dulwich Picture Gallery will bring one of the world’s most iconic print series to London: Hokusai’s Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji (c. 1830–33). For the first time, UK visitors will experience the complete set of these renowned prints by Japan’s most celebrated artist.

Among the highlights is a rare variant edition of Clear Day with a Southern Breeze (c. 1830–1833), also known as Blue Fuji, never seen before in the UK, and a beautifully preserved impression of Hokusai’s most masterpiece, Under the Wave off Kanagawa (better known as The Great Wave).

Hokusai (1760–1849) is one of the most influential and pioneering Japanese printmakers in the history of art. During his lifetime, Hokusai produced innovative works that captured public attention, famously using a newly introduced Prussian Blue pigment to create Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, resulting in the publisher expanding the series to include 10 more.

Testament to the enduring popularity of these works, the exhibition offers an extraordinary chance for UK audiences to encounter Hokusai’s complete vision of Japan’s most sacred mountain.