Fancy a trip to the museum? We have narrowed down some fab looking art exhibitions taking place over 2022. I know we will be attending a few!

This will be the first major survey of the great feminist performance and video artist in the UK. Schneemann’s work blazed trails from the 1960s onwards and remains astonishing today. The performers covered their bodies in meat, fish and paint. She filmed herself having sex with her boyfriend. All are shown in different ways in the Barbican’s 200-work show.

Throughout her career, Schneemann explored the body as an art medium in itself, questioning the overwhelmingly male-dominated history of art and creating unforgettable works that influenced everyone from Tracey Emin to Lady Gaga.

A huge, wide-ranging show exploring how fashion designers, artists and others have defined masculinity across the ages. The show features 100 looks, captured in historic and contemporary fashions, with items from, among others, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Tom Ford for Gucci (who sponsor the show) and Dolce & Gabbana, whose cape is shown alongside a marvellous painting by Sofonisba Anguissola, featuring an extravagantly attired Baroque prince. 

The art-fashion dialogue runs through the show, with images by artists who have captured the diverse contemporary construction of masculinities, including Isaac Julien and Zanele Muholi, and those who operate across the two disciplines, like artist-designer Grace Wales Bonner.

Surrealism is often explored through the Northern European artists of the Twenties and Thirties, who remain its most famous exponents. And while linchpins of that incarnation of the movement – Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, and the more recently celebrated women, like Eileen Agar – do feature in Tate Modern’s forthcoming show, it mainly explores Surrealism’s impact across the world, from Mexico to Egypt and Japan.

It reflects how the different artistic centres shared philosophies and visual styles but were often galvanised around radical political movements – proving that the irrational, the uncanny and the perverse are marvellous vehicles for the expression of resistance. In October, meanwhile, the Design Museum is showing Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design, 1934 to today, which should also be a must-see.