Mickalene Thomas’ (born 1971) vibrant, large-scale portraits of Black women at rest reclaim space and representation in art history, celebrating love and radical repose. This exhibition presents two decades of work by the internationally celebrated artist and pioneering portraitist. Featuring paintings, photographs, collages and installations, All About Love transforms the Hayward Gallery with bespoke wallpapers, textiles and […]

Bianca Raffaella's Faint Memories, features a collection of textural flower paintings that evoke the artist's experience of beauty in braille, which was how she first learned to read and write. Raffaella relies on touch in her painting process. Never losing contact with the canvas, she blends delicate hues and dusty colours until they become an ethereal […]

The Cave in the Mind, is a group show featuring the recipients of the 2024 Girl Power Residency, held in the Aquitaine region, Southwest France.  The exhibition presents new work by Melania Toma, Paula Turmina and Atalanta Xanthe, which allude to cave paintings and their predetermined vocabulary of motifs; other artists created works that imbue the ambience […]

Holding Space, is an exhibition exploring points of connection in the work of artists Anina Major and Lavar Munroe. Drawing on their separate, formative years, Major and Munroe’s work is infused with ideas of home, migration, identity and heritage; exploring what it means to belong and how making can carry stories forward, honouring ancestral and […]

Francine Tint's exhibition, Radical Acts of Beholding, which embodies her spirit of abstract expressionism, is a showcase of her works and celebrates the painter’s remarkable career, while introducing her dynamic, gestural […]

Subjects of State, Labours of Love is a two-chapter film by artist filmmaker Rhea Storr. This body of work captures the shared joys, celebrations, struggles, oppressions and complexities experienced by […]

Inspired by the disruptive nature of volcanic eruption and paintings of Vesuvius in the Gallery's Naples collection, Emii Alrai weaves together ancient mythologies, research and nostalgia as a critical response […]

Roda Viva (wheel of life), is an exhibition of newly commissioned works by Vanessa da Silva. Drawing inspiration from her Brazilian heritage – family history, music, dance, and legacy of […]

The paintings in Angela Maasalu’s exhibition Taking Courage seem to belong to the surrealist tradition. Here, the disturbing is presented for enjoyment and analysis

Rosie Gibbens’ Muta is a two-part sculptural presentation. Gibbens' work explores gender performativity and consumerist culture as it relates to the female form, combining an absurdist humour with abject aesthetics.

Tianyue Zhong’s exhibition Between Earth and Tide presents a series of paintings comprised of the unseen and foundational rhythms of landscape and gesture. 

Focusing on her rarely seen work from Warsaw, Stories from the Life presents the paintings and drawings of Franciszka Themerson during her time as a student, followed by her drawings of 1933.

Harriet Pozanasky’s multi-disciplinary exhibition Pin Up explores themes of female subjectivity, desire and autonomy through painting, drawing and sound.

Ulrike Müller’s Beside Myself explores her fascination with the production and manufacturing of things through tales, images, patterns and materials produced in good quality by small 20th Century facilities.

Jaki Irvine works across video, installation, photography, music composition, and writing to explore the complex ways we imagine ourselves and the world around us. For Irvine, this process has both philosophical and political dimensions.  She weaves real events into films and videos that reflect on the fragmented, mysterious and often absurd nature of the human […]

‘Crackers for Lorelei’ presents a series of colourful oil paintings. The exhibition is supported with a grant from Culture Ireland.

Alia Ahmad’s vibrant, expressionistic paintings draw inspiration from memories and observations of her native Riyadh; informed by local textiles, poetry, calligraphy, digital graphics and the rich diversity of the surrounding industrialised desert landscape and plant life.

Sue and Terry Atkinson's exhibition combines drawings and paintings with a prescient relationship to current geopolitical events. The work of both artists have focussed on overtly radical subject matter since the 1960s, with the potency of their work becoming stronger over time.

Ella Kruglyanskaya's show 'Shadows' will assemble a group of new paintings that explore the nature of artistic influence and the enduring conversation about the future of painting. Kruglyanskaya’s monograph, Too Much, has been published to coincide with this exhibtion.

Claudia Pagès Rabal’s practice intertwines words, bodies, music, and movement. Five Defence Towers, a new moving image commission, tells a tale of surveillance, control, settlement, and refuge across five acts.