Southbank Centre Archives

New art installation unveiled in London to promote compassion towards refugees

A new art installation has been unveiled in London’s Southbank Centre to promote compassion towards refugees. This comes as the… Read More

Honey Dijon announces Southbank Centre takeover with Juergen Teller shoot.

The Southbank Centre today announced that pioneering DJ and producer Honey Dijon is taking over its venues for two exceptional evenings of live music… Read More

Exhibition celebrating David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane to open at Southbank Centre.

Exhibition celebrating David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane to open at Southbank Centre in April. The two-month-long exhibition explores the creation of the album’s iconic artwork

Aladdin Sane: 50 Years celebrates David Bowie’s album, Aladdin Sane.

The Southbank Centre today announces a raft of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of David Bowie’s iconic 1973 album, Aladdin Sane. Aladdin Sane: 50 Years

Southbank Centre team up with Apple to support Black & Black Mixed heritage creative talent.

The Southbank Centre and Apple today announced national partners and further details of REFRAME, its pioneering new talent development programme to support emerging Black and Black Mixed heritage creatives in London, Manchester and Birmingham.

BODIES and THIRST TRAP by Ray Young

Groundbreaking immersive art installation explores Climate Activism, Neurodiversity & human connection with water

Ai Weiwei curates FREEDOM an art exhibition created by prisoners.

Koestler Arts has announced that their fifteenth Annual UK Exhibition in partnership with the Southbank Centre this October will be… Read More

Greta Thunberg to headline the London Literature Festival in world exclusive launch of The Climate Book

The Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival – the longest-running celebration of the written and spoken word of its kind in… Read More

Summer: In the Black Fantastic — imagining new futures through Black art + culture

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.

Southbank Centre’s Winter Festival lights up the holidays.

The Southbank Centre’s Winter Festival features nine weeks of festive events, exhibitions and dazzling performances. Visitors of all ages can… Read More

Hayward Gallery appoints Yung Ma as Curator

Yung Ma has been appointed Curator, Hayward Gallery at the Southbank Centre to work on the gallery’s dynamic programme that… Read More

Southbank Centre unveils first digital Unlimited festival programme accessible to global audience

TTo coincide with International Day of Disabled Persons, the Southbank Centre today announces details of its first digital Unlimited festival programme, a five-day festival featuring dance, performance, comedy, film, talks, workshops and art that celebrates the artistic vision of disabled artists

EXHIBITIONS

The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week 08/04/18

The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week include: A massive warehouse, floating glass, a new gallery find, Indian independence, lots of dots, instrument cases and British jazz.

Andreas Gursky: Getting the Big Picture

After a two-year shutdown for a serious makeover, the Hayward Gallery needed to come back big. The architects delivered, and so does the show that opened this week (until 22 April)— an epic retrospective of Düsseldorf-based photographer Andreas Gursky.

Hayward Gallery to stage UK’s first major retrospective of Andreas Gursky

London’s Hayward Gallery to stage the first major retrospective in a UK institution of the work of acclaimed German photographer Andreas Gursky in Jan 2018.

The Top 8 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week

Ponytailed tyres, dancers, an artist collective, clothes pegs, a garden, protest and the digital.

Shonky wins the 2017 Curatorial Open

Southbank Centre’s Hayward Touring programme has announced British artist John Walter as the winner of the 2017 Curatorial Open – its yearly call for proposals for an exhibition of contemporary art aiming to nurture new and diverse curatorial talent and expand the parameters of the contemporary curatorial landscape.

ART NEWS

The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week

A darkened lab, psychedelic LEDs, disco balls, golden trees and child victims of Syrian bombings.

David Byrne to Curate Southbank Centre’s Meltdown 2015

David Byrne, the Oscar, Golden Globe, Obie and Drama Desk award winning musician known for his eclectic collaborations and as a co-founder of the seminal new wave band Talking Heads will curate 2015’s Meltdown Festival at Southbank Centre.

EXHIBITIONS

NOW OPEN: History is Now: 7 Artists Take on Britain @HaywardGallery Tuesday 10th February 2015

Richard Hamilton, The State,1993 Tate, London 2014 © The Estate of Richard Hamilton, DACS 2014 (Part of Jane and Louise… Read More

The Art Openings to visit this week.

An opening to visit every night of this week and all really different Enjoy!

Bryony Kimmings talks to FAD about MEGA @SouthbankCentre

The spaceship (called Megatron) lasted about 6 months…

INTERVIEWS

Wide Open School at Hayward Gallery this Summer: 11th June – 11th July 2012

The Hayward Gallery’s Wide Open School will be turning the space into an unusual experiment of public learning this June and July. Its programme of courses are devised and delivered by over 100 artists from approximately 40 different countries.