Tag: Turner Contemporary

  • Resistance

    Conceived and co-curated by Steve McQueen, this exhibition explores how a century of protest from 1903 to 2003 shaped Britain, and the vital part photography played

  • Anya Gallaccio: Preserve

    Ephemeral installations incorporate melting candles, felled trees, ageing fruit and decomposing flowers, but the showstopper is a mighty felled ash that dominates an entire gallery

  • Ed Clark

    Bringing together works from the 1940s to the 2000s, this is the first institutional exhibition in Europe of the groundbreaking artist who favoured a push broom over a paintbrush

  • Beatriz Milhazes – interview: ‘My big ambition is always to try to do something new with abstraction’

    On the occasion of a major survey of her work at Margate’s Turner Contemporary, the Brazilian artist discusses being political, fusing elements of European modernism with Brazilian culture and the increasing importance to her of the natural world

  • Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way

    Now on show at Turner Contemporary, Sonia Boyce’s immersive multimedia installation, which won the Golden Lion for best national participation at the 59th Venice Biennale, celebrates black female musicians and invites visitors on a journey of self-discovery, with the ultimate…

  • Lonnie Holley – interview: ‘I started doing my work with a knife, fork and a spoon on sandstone’

    Following a traumatic childhood, his art saved him, says Holley. Here he talks about the environment, the coronavirus – and why he’d love a Lonnie Holley museum near a landfill site

  • We Will Walk: Art and Resistance in the American South

    Through the work of more than 20 African American artists, this show explores the soul-stirring art of the American deep south, and the stories behind it

  • Patrick Heron

    Patrick Heron’s postwar abstraction places figure and ground on an equal footing and exploits the all-important edge between forms and colours to create intense expressions of musicality and emotion

  • Joachim Koester: The Other Side of the Sky

    With works by JMW Turner and constant reference to the surrealist artist Henri Michaux, Koester takes us on a journey of exploration through his influences

  • Risk

    From the work of Bas Jan Ader, who disappeared while crossing the Atlantic in a tiny boat, to the political statements of Ai Weiwei, to Lucy Wood’s improbably dangerous glass trampoline, this exhibition explores risk in art