The works in, It Should not be Forgotten, confronts Britain’s “national amnesia” regarding its role in the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved African people and the colonial legacies that followed. The exhibition offers a deeply moving and immersive experience.
Morehshin Allahyari's exhibition features her latest work, Speculations on Capture (2024), a newly commissioned piece. Allahyari’s poetic film explores the histories of astronomical instruments crafted in Iran and Pakistan,
Long Before the Walls, an exhibition by Ana Bidart, which introduces a constellation of newly commissioned, site-specific installations and interventions at the gallery.
Nora Turato: Pool7 presents new work by the artist, spanning performance, writing, graphic design, video and sound. The installation investigates our collective relationship to language and communication.
Sheila Fell: Cumberland on Canvas is the first major retrospective of Fell’s work in over thirty years. This exhibition brings together 100 works from private and public collections across the country and will explore Cumberland as Fell’s source of artistic inspiration.
This exhibition is dedicated to the pioneering Irish modernists Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone, and will bring together 90 of their works of art. It explores their friendship and shared experiences while studying in Paris during the early 1920s, and traces their careers back to Ireland. The exhibition highlights the early convergences and later divergences […]
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (b. 1978) creates narrative-rich works using textiles and fabric, producing vibrant large-scale panels that transform perceptions of Romany culture and history. The exhibition will offer an opportunity to consider the Whitworth’s textile collection in a new and nomadic-centric light, while honouring the lives of stateless communities. Mirga-Tas was selected to represent Poland at […]
Der letzte Tag ist der schlimmste (The Last Day is the Worst) presents new works by Martha Jungwirth. Known for a colour palette that dwells in a corporeal and sensuous register of pinks and reds, some of these latest works feature bold, bright yellows and turquoise hues.
Tender Women is the latest exhibition the The Women's Museum exhibition programme Desire Lines. Sahra Hersi is an artist and spatial designer who lives in Barking and describes her work as “caring about people, places, art & architecture, in that order.”
The exhibition How I Am Monument comprises Ali Cherri's recent mud-based sculptures that take inspiration from archaeological artefacts and the natural world. Cherri’s work interrogates the ways in which political violence is witnessed and disseminates into people’s bodies.
This show will display Susan Wilson’s recent body of work, which explores London's urban landscape, particularly the dynamic and multicultural neighbourhoods of Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove, near to her North Kensington studio since 1985.
Katy Moran’s exhibition Let’s Get Some Air presents new paintings, which unite the raw, fresh energy of splattered paint with thickets of dense mark making, and translucent washes of colour.
The Prince includes two major new bodies of work by Chantal Joffe. The first series of four large-scale paintings shows Joffe’s partner, Richard. The second series depicts the writer Charlie Porter in the immediate aftermath of the death of both his parents.
For this show, History Painting, Cornelia Parker has created a series of paintings: seemingly abstract oil-on-canvas works inspired by historic newspaper and magazine covers and colour analysis charts.
This major retrospective will be the first in over 25 years, and will chart the development of Helen Chadwick’s art from her renowned degree show piece In the Kitchen (1977) through to her Piss Flowers (1991–2).
In Alexis Kyle Mitchell's first solo exhibition, the artist explores the politics of space, place, and embodiment in dialogue with questions of kinship and belonging.
This exhibition surveys Liliane Lijn’s career from the late 1950s to today, spanning installation, sculpture, painting and moving image, and including her ongoing exploration and creation of new feminine forms. Lijn’s kinetic sculptures placed her at the forefront of artists exploring new ways of using technology to "see the world in terms of light and […]
This exhibition by Rachel Jones (b. 1991) is the first ever solo contemporary show in the Gallery’s main exhibition space. The show will feature a series of newly commissioned works celebrating this leading artist’s exploration into identity and interiority within the self. Jones explores abstraction and life through painting, installation, sound and performance. Using the […]
Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting brings together 50 works, which traces the development of her practice, spotlights key artworks, and explores her connection to art history.
Louise Nevelson: Total Life presents key examples of the artist's sculptural reliefs and collages from the 1950s through the 1980s, along with works on paper and jewellery that reveal the origins and depth of her artistic vision.