This is an ARCHIVED LIST of past botanical art exhibitions in Europe during 2014 - 2018
  • in ​Austria, France, Italy, Netherlands​, Russia and Spain
  • at specialist locations, national and regional museums and other venues
  • by organisations, galleries and professional botanical artists
The list is organised by country, then organisation or venue and then year/date.
Germany, Ireland and Russia have their own individual ARCHIVE Page due to the number of botanical art exhibitions.

These are:

Exhibitions in Austria - (2015-2020)
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Exhibition: Botanical Diversity
Gallery Location: Kreativeraumgalerie, Riemergasser 2, 1010 Vienna, Austria
Dates: 13th - 24th July 2020
Hours: Tuesday – Friday: 3pm–7pm; Saturday: 12–5pm
Vernissage / Private View: 7pm on 14th July 2020
​The eleven botanical artists are participating in their first group exhibition in Europe and are from: Belarus: Lidiya Doukhnevitch; Germany: Maxim Shirshin; Russia : Natalia Alatortseva, Svetlana Chernysheva, Svetlana Lanse, Victoria Mezenova, Marina Protsenko, Anastasiya Velikaya; Slovenia: Tatiana Gart, Anna Suprunenko; United Kingdom: Marina Kiselyova
​Exhibited works portray the diversity within the Plantae kingdom - wild and garden flowers, alpine flora, blossoming trees, and mushrooms - in watercolour, bas-relief gypsum panels, and sterling silver jewellery made out of real plants. 
READ PROFILES OF THE ARTISTS and see the exhibition in my blog post Botanical Diversity: Artists' Profiles

Korea Botanical Arts in Vienna 2016

Venue: the Korea Kulturhaus Österreich
Dates: Monday 15th February - Monday 22nd February 2016 (11:00am to 19:00pm)
A week long exhibition of botanical art by artists from the Korea Arts Cooperative in Vienna

The Highgrove Florilegium (2015)

Dates: 24th April - 4th October 2015
Venue: The Museum der Stadt Bad Ischl 
As part of the Upper Austria Garden Festival, 30 images from the Highgrove Florilegium will be on display at the Museum der Stadt Bad Ischl.

Vienna School of Botanical Illustration

Dates: August 28 to September 17, 2015 
Venue: Seminar room of the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research 
Rennweg 14, 1030 Vienna, Germany ​
An exhibition of around 60 works of current work by 17 exhibitors who dealt thematically with endangered plants. It also addressed the historical dimension of botanical illustration in Vienna as well as surprising links to this art form in Australia.

Exhibitions in France (2016-18)
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Botanical Art Worldwide - France

Venue: Société Nationale d’Horticulture de France, 84 rue de Grenelle - 75007 Paris
Dates: 28 April - 23 May 2018

Jardin des Plantes

Precious Vellum: Three Centuries of Naturalist Illustration
Venue: Jardin des Plantes, Paris (5th Arondissement)
Dates: 28 September 2016 - 15 January 2017

This was a special exhibition. For the first time since 1793, the Museum of Natural History displayed around 150 watercolours on vellum forming part of the 7,000+  illustrations of flowers and animals that make up the Collection des Velins (the collection of the Museum's drawings and paintings on vellum). The display was divided between two rooms - with more than 40 original vellum at one time. Items on display changed every month because of their fragility. Nearly 150 vellum were displayed during the three months of the exhibition. 

Museum of Natural History

Exhibition: Illustrations Botaniques

Students of botanical watercolor classes at the National Museum of Natural History are exhibiting their works of the year, from June 28 to September 30, 2017 , at the Botanical Gallery (18 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris). ​

Exhibitions in Germany - (2014-2018)
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See ARCHIVE: Past Botanical Exhibitions in Germany

Exhibitions in Ireland - (2015-2021
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See ARCHIVE: Past Botanical Exhibitions in Ireland

Exhibitions in Italy (2017 - 2019)
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Società delle Belle Arti-Circolo degli Artisti, Florence

Exhibition: Natura Picta 
an International Exhibition of Botanical Art which opened last week in Italy at The Fine Art Society of Florence, Società delle Belle Arti-Circolo degli Artisti “Casa di Dante”. 
Venue: Società delle Belle Arti-Circolo degli Artisti
The headquarters of an an old arts society situated in a fine stone building in the heart of Florence's historical center. 
​Address: “Casa di Dante”, Via Santa Margherita 1/r, Florence. 
Dates: Sunday 3 to Thursday 14 November 2019
The exhibition has been organised by Simonetta Occhipinti and Giulano Gallo.

READ MY BLOG POST  Natura Picta - International Exhibition of Botanical Art
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(Left to Right) Giuliana Gallo, Elena Zito, Simonetta Occhipinti, Silvana Rava, Gillian Barlow, Lidia Vanzetti, Daniela Denzel

​Villa Bardini - Florence

Title: Florentia International Exhibition of Botanical Art
Catalogue: available 
The first international exhibition of contemporary botanical art in Florence. showcasing c.80 original botanical watercolours by well known botanical artists coming from Italy and 11 different countries (Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, The Netherlands, Russia, United Kingdom, United States).
Venue: Villa Bardini, Florence, Italy
Dates: September 29 - October 7, 2018
Opening hours: 10.00am - 7.00pm, Tuesday to Sunday. Free entry on the first Sunday of the month. ​

Botanical Gardens, Lucca

Botalia - Living Incontri nel Giardino Art by Mary Ann Scott (Living Art)
Murabilia XVII Edizione 
Venue: Botanical Gardens, Lucca
Orto Botanico Comunale di Lucca, Via del Giardino Botanico, 14, 55100 Lucca LU, Italy
Dates: 1-3 September 2017

​All paintings are watercolours of botanical subjects and birds of Northern Italy by Mary Ann Scott, the author of Botanical Sketchbook.  The exhibition was held at the same time as a major plant fair in Lucca - which is held along the ancient walls of the town.
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Exhibitions in the Netherlands (2015-2019)
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Teyler Museum

Venue: Teylers Museum, Spaarne 16, 2011 CH Haarlem
Exhibition: 200 Kinds of Green - Botanical art of Franz and Ferdinand Bauer
Dates: 2 February - 12 May 2019 
This is the first exhibition of work by the Bauers Brothers in the Netherlands. it includes botanical drawings lent by  the natural history museums in Vienna and London, as well as the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford.  The title comes from Ferdinand Bauer (1760–1826) who used a remarkable numbering system to document the natural world and registered 1,000 distinct colours, including 200 shades of green. 
Exhibition: A Feast of Flowers
Print Room presentation - Botanical art, from the 17th century to the present day
Dates: 19 January - 19 May 2019
Exhibition: Flowerbomb
Dates: Jul 25, 2016 to Jan 08, 2017
An exhibition of botanical books from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, all from Teylers' Museum natural history library.
This will include the very rare copy of Basilius Besler's "Hortus Eystettensis" - an early garden florilegium.

Museum De Buitenplaats - Journey of Plants

Exhibition:  Journey of Plants / Plants on a trip
Venue: Museum De Buitenplaats Hoofdweg 76,9761 EK Eelde, The Netherlands
Dates: 16th September to 6th January 2019
Hours: Tuesdays to Sundays from 11.00 to 17.00
Organisers: Anita Walsmit Sachs and Patty Wageman
The exhibition illustrated stories of how plants have traveled around the world. Each artist in the exhibition has selected 10 plants as their contribution toward the exhibition. Participating artists included:
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Ginkgo biloba, 65 x 56 cm copyright Mieko Ishikawa

Museum De Zwarte Tulp - Worldwide Exhibition of Botanical Art (Netherlands)
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Exhibition: Florilegium harlemense (1896-1902)

In 1896, the Royal General Association for Flower Bulb Culture in Haarlem undertook an ambitious project: the publication of 60 large colored plates of bulbous and tuberous plants: the Florilegium harlemense. With an explanation in four languages, Dutch, French, German and English by, among others, the well-known flower bulb expert Ernst Krelage. The plates were intended as promotional material for foreign trade.

Venue: Print Room Museum de Zwarte Tulp 
Address: Heereweg 219, 2161 BG Lisse, Netherlands 
Dates:  April 3 to July 31, 2021 
Exhibition: 400 Years of the Mayflower - Plants of the Pilgrims

Venue: Museum de Zwarte Tulp 
Address: Heereweg 219, 2161 BG Lisse, Netherlands 
Dates:  2nd June - 27 September 2020 NOW OPEN
BUT: social distancing protocols are in place and reservations are required to visit the exhibition
Hours: (when open) Tuesday to Sunday 10 am - 5 pm
In 2020 it will be 400 years since the ship the Mayflower sailed from Leiden, via England to America. One of the Pilgrims, William Brewster, brought along an extensive reference book on mainly medicinal but also food plants on his crossing with the Mayflower: The Cruijdeboeck (1554) by Rembert Dodoens. Dodoens was a professor in Leiden from 1582 to 1585. Botanical science was a world with many international connections. Members of the Association of Botanical Artists of the Netherlands, together with a number of American colleagues, present botanical drawings in response to the book by Dodoens.
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Mayflower 400: Plants of the Pilgrims - exhibition at the Museum de Zwarte Tulp
Exhibition:  Native Plants of The Netherlands
Venue: Museum De Zwarte Tulp  (Museum The Black Tulip), Grachtweg 2A,  2161 HN  Lisse
Dates: 10 May to 1 September 2018
Organiser: Vereniging van Botanisch Kunstenaars Nederland (English: Dutch Society of Botanical Artists)

25 members of the Dutch Society of Botanical Artists are contributed art to this exhibition which is part of the Worldwide Exhibition of Botanical Art in 2018

The Catalogue for the exhibition can be ordered - see the website (English Language)

Dutch Society of Botanical Artists

Botanic Art - A Flowering Science
Dates: 12 September 2015 - 3 January 2016
Venue: Het Noordbrabants Museum
​An exhibition which looks forward to the 10th anniversary of the Dutch Society of Botanical Artists in 2016. This exhibition displays the botanical paintings and drawings of member artists alongside flower still lifes from the Museum's own collection. 
Anniversary exhibition “Bloembollen onder de loep”​
Dates: 4 March to 20 August 2016
Venue: Museum De Zwarte Tulp​
Double Exhibition 'Flowery' and 'SEEDS'
Dates: Sunday, March 22 to Sunday, May 24th
Venue: West Frisian Museum in Hoorn

“Flowering Bulbs and Tubers”
Dates: 21 February to 9 August 2015
Venue: Kew Gardens
The Dutch Society of Botanical Artists also held an exhibition of works for sale at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Art ​

Fruitteeltmuseum Kapelle

Exhibition: ​Botanical Art, Fruit Revealed
Venue: Fruitteeltmuseum Kapelle
Dates: April 1, 2017 - February 24, 2018
Information: Information email [email protected] or tel: 0113- 344 904 during business hours.

Exhibitions in Poland
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Exhibition: 'Exploring Botany' 
an exhibition connecting East and West, Past and Future in Botanical Art. ​This large exhibition features:
  • works by more than 30 invited contemporary botanical artists from Japan and Europe and
  • historical depictions of plants by old masters from Japan and from the western world.
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Venue: Manggha Museum for Japanese Art and Technology
Dates: 2nd February - 30th June 2021 (rescheduled from 2020) 
Organisers: Anna Krohl and Silvia Peter

READ my blog post Exploring Botany - in Kraków - for the list of participating artists
Exhibition: Plants and Animals. Atlases of Natural History in the Age of Linnaeus

Venue: The International Cultural Centre
Address: Rynek Główny 25, 31-008 Kraków, Poland
Dates: 19th May - 18th October 2020 
Organised by: The International Cultural Centre, the Scientific Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków and Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Exhibitions in Russia
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See ARCHIVE: Past Botanical Exhibitions in Russia

Exhibitions in Spain (2018)
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 The Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao 
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Exhibition: "Arcimboldo, Floras and Spring,"
Venue: The Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao
​Dates: 8 November 2017 - 5 February 2018

The exhibition includes the display of Rariorum aliquot stirpium, per Pannoniam by Charles L'Ecluse (aka Carolus Clusius) a Flemish doctor and pioneering botanist - loaned by the Real Jardin Botanico de Madrid. The book was published in Antwerp in 1583 with xylographic engravings. It's indicative of the new interest in botany and botanical gardens which arose during the Renaissance.
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Arcimboldo exhibition. Room where the book is shown by the Library of the RJB-CSIC | Source RJB Press Office

Real Jardin Botanico de Madrid
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Exhibition: ​Tulipa Tulipae - an art exhibition by the Society of Botanical Artists (UK)
​Venue: Real Jardin Botanico de Madrid
Dates: 20th March to 20th May 2018
This exhibition celebrated the tulip and was a collaboration between
It featured 87 paintings of different tulips by 47 SBA members.

To coincide with the exhibition, the gardens of the Real Garden Botanico have been planted with 20,000 tulips! The path leading to the new exhibition centre was lined with large planters, each filled with all the varieties of tulips painted!

Below is a video of the exhibition exhibition organiser Marta Chirico
The exhibition catalogue includes a history of the tulip, using images from the RJBM archives, and will also cover the botanical and horticultural aspects of the plant.

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Exhibitions in România (2019)
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Muzeul Național de Artă al României Palatul Regal
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Flori sălbatice din România—o istorie botanică  | Wild flowers, between art and science.
​Venue: Muzeul Național de Artă al României Palatul Regal, 010082 Bucharest, Romania
Dates: 12th April -  2nd June 2019

Organized by the Romanian Society of Botanical Artists, in partnership with the National Art Museum of Romania, with the support of BASF. Included the display - for the first time in Romania - of the royal album The Transylvania Florilegium, produced by the Prince of Wales Charitable Foundation and launched in 2018 in London.​