Exhibitions you can't miss in 2017

This 2017 stands out for the quality, variety and sheer number of interesting exhibitions. A year that marks 80 years since the Guernica was first shown and 25 since it arrived at the Museo Reina Sofía, and in which the show Piedad y terror en Picasso. El camino a Guernica opens in April. A year that also celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Museo Thyssen, where we'll be able to enjoy the exhibition Obras maestras de Budapest. Del Renacimiento a las Vanguardias. We also recommend a visit to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao before April for the exhibition on the Hermann and Margrit Rupf collection. And finally, from May to September, don't miss the exhibition París, fin de siglo. Signac, Redon, Toulouse- Lautrec y sus contemporáneos at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. With around a hundred works, including paintings, drawings, prints and works on paper, it looks at the Paris art scene.

Until 23 April this museum is also showing the exhibition on the Hermann and Margrit Rupf collection. They were the first Swiss collectors to focus their efforts on abstract and contemporary art, guided by their own personal taste. The Rupf Foundation was set up in 1954 to conserve, consolidate and expand these holdings, which were deposited at the Kunstmuseum Bern in the early 1960s. To make sure acquisitions would continue in the future, Hermann and Margrit Rupf also left the rest of their estate to the Foundation, which deals with the most recent contemporary art while always keeping in mind the core formed by the magnificent Collection the couple built up.

This exhibition brings together a total of 70 pieces from the Rupf Collection, among them works by artists key to the art history of the first half of the 20th century, such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, Paul Klee and Vasily Kandinsky, which enter into dialogue with creations by contemporary artists whose production runs from the second half of the 20th century to the present day.

Until 28 May we can visit the exhibition Obras maestras de Budapest. Del Renacimiento a las Vanguardias at the Museo Thyssen. A carefully chosen selection of 90 works from the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest and the Hungarian National Gallery. The group on show in Madrid reflects the profile of both institutions' holdings through paintings, sculptures and drawings by great artists such as Dürer, Raphael, Annibale Carracci, Leonardo da Vinci, Peter Paul Rubens and Spaniards like Velázquez and Murillo. It also includes a magnificent selection of works by Hungarian artists from the Hungarian National Gallery's collection, such as Károly Ferenczy and Sándor Bortnyik.

Until 23 April we can enjoy the exhibition ¡Vivan los campos libres de España! by Antonio Ballester Moreno (Madrid, 1977) at La Casa Encendida. Through 30 enormous canvases and two installations, the painter invites visitors to explore the graphic effects the seasons have on our psychology. His basic geometric shapes draw moons, suns, rain and stars, recalling artists of the early avant-gardes such as Paul Klee or Joan Miró.

Until 28 May the Fundación Juan March will continue to show the work of leading figures of the Bauhaus with a retrospective devoted to the German school's teacher Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956). Close to 150 works trace the American artist's output, from his caricatures and satirical drawings published in comic strips to his gradual evolution on canvas.

From 12 May to 17 September you can see the exhibition París, fin de siglo. Signac, Redon, Toulouse- Lautrec y sus contemporáneos at the Guggenheim museum. With around a hundred works, including paintings, drawings, prints and works on paper, the exhibition looks at the Paris art scene, focusing on the most important French avant-gardes of the late 19th century and especially on the Neo-Impressionists, Nabis and Symbolists. In exploring the avant-gardes, the exhibition pays particular attention to some of the outstanding figures of the period: Paul Signac, Maximilien Luce, Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, Félix Vallotton, Odilon Redon and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Finally, don't miss the retrospective David Bowie Is, on show at the Museu del Disseny in Barcelona for three months from 25 May. Personal instruments, handwritten lyrics, original costumes, photographs, films, music videos, fashion and stage design can all be seen in David Bowie Is. A production of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London that has already travelled to nine countries. Barcelona will be the last city it visits before settling for good in New York.