Tag: Hayward Gallery

  • Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere

    A ship floating on the roof, a giant encyclopaedia of neglected people and things, and busts of James Baldwin, Nina Simone and others fill the New York-based Bahamian artist’s fascinating exploration of black history

  • When Forms Come Alive

    The Hayward Gallery’s spring exhibition is an effervescent playground of kinetically inclined sculpture that captures the drifting, mushrooming and vibrating movements of the natural world

  • Hiroshi Sugimoto

    This survey spanning 50 years of the celebrated photographer’s works sees him bringing Madame Tussauds waxworks and stuffed animals back to life, freezing scenes in time and recreating seascapes 

  • Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons

    A spectacular survey of the British artist is brutally bleak and awe-inspiringly complex. It might also be the most fun you’ll have at an exhibition all year 

  • Mixing It Up: Painting Today

    In an uplifting show that is dizzying in its scope and variety, 31 contemporary artists celebrate diverse images and ideas

  • Matthew Krishanu – interview: ‘I want my paintings to exist somewhere between the precision of a photograph and something looser’

    Krishanu, whose figurative paintings explore childhood, religion, colonialism and empire, talks about why he works from photographs, his hope that viewers will inhabit the people in his paintings, and his inclusion at a forthcoming show at the Hayward Gallery

  • Kader Attia: The Museum of Emotion

    Attia offers an impassioned critique of the enduring effects of colonialism. Central to the French-Algerian artist’s sculptures, installation, collages, videos and photographs is the idea of post-colonial repair, as both a physical and symbolic act

  • Space Shifters

    From Ann Veronica Janssens’ Magic Mirrors to Anish Kapoor’s mind-bending sculptures, this playful exhibition will leave you questioning the reliability of your senses

  • Lee Bul

    The Korean artist’s London retrospective shines brightest when it is clear and direct

  • Adapt to Survive: Notes from the Future

    The Hayward Gallery’s group show suggests future survival will demand that humans adjust to changing circumstances rather than adapting the environment to maintain their current mode of living