At a time when there is a continual fuss about giving ‘fair representation’ to women artists, many of whom were not, in fact, central to the major art movements to which they, often peripherally, belonged, the Bridget Riley show at the Hayward comes as a major relief.
29 October 2019
This free HENI Project Space exhibition explores home, intimacy, place and belonging in the work of late South African photographer Thabiso Sekgala.
11am – 7pm every day except Tuesdays when the gallery is closed. Late night opening on Thursdays until 9pm.
A major retrospective exhibition devoted to the work of celebrated British artist Bridget Riley.
11am – 7pm every day except Tuesdays when the gallery is closed. Late night opening on Thursdays until 9pm.
Kiss My Genders at the Hayward Gallery curated by Vincent Honore is a dynamic voyage and vivacious celebration of infinite representations of gender-diversity, gender non-conformity, androgyny and gender-subversion over the course of 50 years, featuring a mélange of 100 artworks by 35 international artists.
17 June 2019
This summer Hayward Gallery presents Kiss My Genders, a group exhibition celebrating more than 30 international artists whose work explores and engages with gender identity.
11am – 7pm every day except Tuesdays when the gallery is closed. Late night opening on Thursdays until 9pm.
My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been’ wrote the photographer Diane Arbus, the poor little rich Jewish girl who walked on the wild side.
23 February 2019
Diane Arbus: in the beginning includes nearly 100 photographs that redefine the achievement of one of the most prominent and influential artists of the 20th century. Plus the first major survey in the United Kingdom of one of today’s leading international artists: Kader Attia.
11am – 7pm every day except Tuesdays when the gallery is closed. Late night opening on Thursdays until 9pm.
The Hayward Gallery is to present a major retrospective exhibition devoted to the work of the celebrated British artist, Bridget Riley.
27 November 2018
The Space Shifters show at the Hayward lives up to its title, often in ways you don’t quite expect. This,… Read More
1 October 2018
The new show at the Hayward Gallery’s Heni Project Space – which basically means just a fairly small room on the ground floor, to your right as you enter – leaves me in two minds.
23 August 2018
FREE – This free exhibition features the work of more than 30 artists who have used drag to explore or question identity, gender, class and politics, from the 1960s to the present day.
11am – 7pm every day except Tuesdays when the gallery is closed. Late night opening on Thursdays until 9pm.
Space Shifters brings together artwork by over 20 international artists on the theme of space disruption and alteration.
11am – 7pm every day except Tuesdays when the gallery is closed. Late night opening on Thursdays until 9pm.
DRAG: Self-portraits and Body Politics is the first institutional exhibition to expand on the traditional representations of drag,
1 August 2018
London once again is gearing up for Art Night this Saturday 7 July from 6 pm to 6 am. Art Night is London’s largest free contemporary arts festival. Each year the festival partners with a leading cultural institution and curator, focusing on a different area of London to explore its distinctive identity, culture and architecture through various forms of art.
2 July 2018
Lee Bul (b. 1964, Seoul, South Korea) explores questions of intimacy, gender, technology and class
29 May 2018
Lee Bul transforms Hayward Gallery into a spectacular dream-like landscape featuring monstrous bodies, futuristic cyborgs, glittering mirrored environments and an exquisitely surreal monumental foil Zeppelin.
11am – 7pm every day except Tuesdays when the gallery is closed. Late night opening on Thursdays until 9pm.
Art Night is a free contemporary arts festival that puts art into extraordinary locations around London for one night a year.
The main festival is curated by the Hayward Gallery* and Art Night Open* will feature curated events at local institutions in the area.
6pm-6am
For those of us who remember the state of the Hayward Gallery before the just completed rehab, the current Andreas Gursky show, which celebrates its re-opening
27 January 2018
A retrospective exhibition of photographer Andreas Gursky (born Germany, 1955) is the first show in the newly renovated Hayward Gallery. The exhibition will span the German photographer’s entire career, from his iconic works of the 1980s through to five new pieces created for the occasion.
22 January 2018
Andreas Gursky marks the beginning of the Hayward Gallery’s 50th anniversary year and is the first exhibition to take place in the gallery following its two-year refurbishment. For the first time since the Hayward’s original opening, the gallery’s pyramid roof lights will allow natural light into the spaces below.
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8 September 2016
Ominous black corridors, giant slides, flying machines and moving beds are all part of what has been billed as this… Read More
10 June 2015
A new Hayward Gallery exhibition invites visitors to book a night in the artist’s robotic beds that roam around the… Read More
2 June 2015
London is arguably one of the world’s centres for contemporary art and MIRRORCITY, opening this Autumn at the Hayward Gallery,… Read More
7 August 2014
The Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery which opened its doors in 1968, is one of the world’s most adventurous and innovative… Read More
26 April 2014
With 39 metronomes ticking at every possible speed, a one-note musical symphony, a rainbow of 1000 prints made using broccoli,… Read More
1 April 2014
Hayward Touring has announced the appointment of Anna Colin and Lydia Yee as the curators for British Art Show 8,… Read More
31 March 2014
The Hayward Gallery’s Project Space is presenting an exhibition of the Chinese artist Sun Xun. Titled ‘Yesterday is Tomorrow’,it is… Read More
6 January 2014
The Hayward Gallery has announced the first major survey of work of the Turner Prize winning artist Martin Creed. Opening… Read More
10 October 2013
The Hayward Gallery is presenting the work of two leading women artists this autumn. Ana Mendieta: Traces, is the UK’s… Read More
27 August 2013
A new exhibition which explores the experiential and phenomenal aspects of light by bringing together sculptures and installations that use… Read More
31 January 2013
The Hayward Gallery has announced a major new exhibition of contemporary art from China. Art of Change: New Directions from… Read More
24 July 2012
