When Forms Come Alive – Hayward Gallery #REVIEW
9 March 2024 • Camille Moreno
“Look, the Covid,” a visitor remarks to their companion in Spanish, and gestures towards a large, warted, pepto-pink sphere suspended… Read More
9 March 2024 • Camille Moreno
“Look, the Covid,” a visitor remarks to their companion in Spanish, and gestures towards a large, warted, pepto-pink sphere suspended… Read More
22 January 2024 • Mark Westall
This summer the Hayward Gallery will present Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere, the first mid-career survey of the New York-based, Bahamian artist.
29 December 2023 • Tabish Khan
Cinema, colour, cigarettes, words and bodies.
21 December 2023 • Mark Westall
It’s the 21st December and the countdown to Christmas is speeding up and you haven’t got time to get to the shops what can you do?
7 December 2023 • Mark Westall
Launching in March 2024, Hayward Gallery Touring – the UK’s largest contemporary art organisation producing exhibitions that tour Britain – will present After… Read More
9 October 2023 • Mark Westall
Frieze Week 2023 has officially begun, and the art fairs are set to open this Wednesday in London. Whether you’re… Read More
9 October 2023 • Mark Westall
The Hayward Gallery presents Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine, the largest survey to date of the internationally renowned artist. Over the… Read More
20 September 2023 • Mark Westall
The Hayward Gallery will present the first UK exhibition of South Korean artist and filmmaker Heecheon Kim from 1st December 2023 to 7th January 2024, in the gallery’s Project Space.
31 August 2023 • Mark Westall
The Hayward Gallery to present the largest retrospective to date of the internationally renowned artist Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine. Over… Read More
20 August 2023 • Tabish Khan
Stunning screens, political activism, an entire bus, giant birds’ eyes and woven portraits.
19 June 2023 • Mark Westall
The Hayward Gallery presents Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis, a timely exhibition exploring how international contemporary artists are helping to reframe our responses to the climate crisis.
29 April 2023 • Tabish Khan
Apocalyptic installations, abstract art, slavery, portraits and a church.
6 March 2023 • daniel barnes
Taking cues from science fiction, esoteric clubs, film, literature and the deepest recesses of human invention, Nelson chips away at our sense of what it is to inhabit space.
26 February 2023 • Mark Westall
Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons, how to explain? You gotta go and see, have a look, make it up stories – it’s your chance to star in a film, an old school commodore 64 computer adventure game (kids look it up).
This is interactive art but not with your hands in your head.
22 December 2022 • Mark Westall
Here are eight museum exhibitions we are looking forward to in 2023
17 December 2022 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic normally picks his favourite top 5 exhibitions that are on right now. However, in this article he’s looking… Read More
26 November 2022 • Tabish Khan
Carnival, cockroaches, sharks, numbers and shipwrecks.
16 November 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Hayward Gallery, opened 1968, was named after Sir Isaac Hayward, a miner and trade unionist who was the last leader of the London County Council (LCC), a few pointless local government reorganisations back.
31 October 2022 • Mark Westall
The first large-scale group exhibition in the UK to explore how contemporary artists have used the medium of clay in inventive ways opens
29 July 2022 • Lee Sharrock
In the Black Fantastic is a magical, fantastical exhibition featuring 11 contemporary artists from the African diaspora; Nick Cave, Sedrick Chisom,… Read More
29 June 2022 • Mark Westall
The Hayward Gallery opens In the Black Fantastic, today the UK’s first major exhibition dedicated to the work of Black artists who use fantastical elements to… Read More
18 May 2022 • Mark Westall
This summer the Southbank Centre is exploring Black art and popular culture with an extraordinary season of multi-artform events, featuring outdoor art installations, music, literature, poetry and performance as well as a wealth of free-to-attend events.
19 April 2022 • Mark Westall
Rachel Thomas has been appointed Chief Curator of the Hayward Gallery at the Southbank Centre. Rachel joins the gallery on 28th April 2022 from the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
14 February 2022 • Phin Jennings
Entering an exhibition, we always carry baggage. However minimal, we invariably have some idea of what we expect to see…. Read More