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Barbican Art Gallery

Barbican Art Gallery

Exhibition

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: It Will End In Tears

19 Sep 2024-5 Jan 2025

Exhibition

The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998

5 Oct 2024-5 Jan 2025

Upcoming

Exhibition
Noah Davis
6 Feb-11 May 2025

Past

Talks & Events
Chris Gollon: Life in Paint
29 Oct 2024
Talks & Events
Soufiane Ababri: Performance
30 Jun 2024
Exhibition
Francis Alÿs: Ricochets
27 Jun-1 Sep 2024
Talks & Events
Tristan Garcia: Keynote Lecture
27 Jun 2024
Exhibition
The Conservatory x Ranjani Shettar
24 May-16 Jun 2024
Exhibition
Ibrahim Mahama: Purple Hibiscus
10 Apr-18 Aug 2024
Exhibition
Soufiane Ababri
13 Mar-30 Jun 2024
Exhibition
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art
13 Feb-26 May 2024
2023
Talks & Events
Conference: Resist, Persist: Gender, Climate and Colonialism
7 Dec-8 Dec 2023
Talks & Events
Sarah Schulman and Sunil Gupta in Conversation: Art & Queer Resistance
18 Nov 2023
Talks & Events
Sin Wai Kin and Planningtorock: manifesting alternate realities
16 Nov 2023
Exhibition
The Conservatory x Ranjani Shettar
4 Nov 2023-31 Mar 2024
Exhibition
RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology
5 Oct 2023-14 Jan 2024
Exhibition
Julianknxx: Chorus in Rememory of Flight
14 Sep 2023-11 Feb 2024
Exhibition
Architecture on Stage
14 Sep-13 Dec 2023
Exhibition
Carrie Mae Weems
21 Jun-3 Sep 2023
Talks & Events
Pull My Daisy: Looking at Alice Neel’s relationship to the poetic
18 May 2023
Talks & Events
Seeing and Being Seen: A Trio of Films
11 May 2023
Talks & Events
Audio Described Tour of Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle
10 May 2023
Talks & Events
Alice Neel: A Romantic Bohemian-Type Communist: A tour with Dr Matthew James Holman
27 Apr 2023
Talks & Events
BSL Tour | Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle
25 Apr 2023
Talks & Events
Bringing the archives to life: Curatorial tour with Annabel Bai Jackson
20 Apr 2023
Talks & Events
Alice Neel's New York on Film + Introduction
13 Apr 2023
Talks & Events
A Human Comedy: Curatorial tour with Eleanor Nairne
6 Apr 2023
Exhibition
RESOLVE Collective: them's the breaks
30 Mar-16 Jul 2023
Exhibition
Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle
16 Feb-21 May 2023
2022
Exhibition
Soheila Sokhanvari: Rebel Rebel
7 Oct 2022-26 Feb 2023
Exhibition
Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics
8 Sep 2022-8 Jan 2023
Exhibition
Our Time on Earth
5 May-29 Aug 2022
Exhibition
Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-1965
3 Mar-26 Jun 2022
2021
Exhibition
Shilpa Gupta
7 Oct 2021-6 Feb 2022
Exhibition
Noguchi
30 Sep 2021-23 Jan 2022
Exhibition
Claudia Andujar: The Yanomami Struggle
17 Jun-29 Aug 2021
Exhibition
How We Live Now: Reimagining Spaceswith Matrix Feminist Design Co-op
17 May-23 Dec 2021
Exhibition
Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beuty
17 May-22 Aug 2021
2020
Exhibition
Michael Clark : Cosmic Dancer
7 Oct 2020-3 Jan 2021
Exhibition
Masculinities : Liberation through Photography
13 Jul-23 Aug 2020
Exhibition
Toyin Ojih Odutola : A Countervailing Theory
26 Mar 2020-24 Jan 2021
Exhibition
Masculinities : Liberation through Photography
20 Feb-17 May 2020
2019
Exhibition
Into the Night : Cabarets & Clubs in Modern Art
4 Oct 2019-19 Jan 2020
Exhibition
Trevor Paglen and Anthony Downey
26 Sep 2019-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Trevor Paglen : From ‘Apple’ to ‘Anomaly’
26 Sep 2019-16 Feb 2020
Exhibition
Painting Now : Lee Krasner: Living Colour
29 Aug 2019-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Brilliant Corners : Lee Krasner: Living Colour
25 Jul 2019-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Ninth Street Women : Lee Krasner: Living Colour
4 Jul 2019-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Lee Krasner: A Biography
20 Jun 2019-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
On Nature : Lee Krasner: Living Colour
30 May 2019-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Lee Krasner : Living Colour
30 May-1 Sep 2019
Exhibition
AI: More than Human
16 May-26 Aug 2019
Exhibition
Daria Martin : Tonight the World
31 Jan-7 Apr 2019
2018
Exhibition
Modern Couples : Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde
10 Oct 2018-27 Jan 2019
Exhibition
Francis Upritchard : Wetwang Slack
27 Sep 2018-6 Jan 2019
Exhibition
Dorothea Lange / Vanessa Winship
22 Jun-2 Sep 2018
Exhibition
Another Kind of Life : Photography on the Margins
28 Feb-27 May 2018
Exhibition
The Curve | Yto Barrada : Agadir
7 Feb-20 May 2018
2017
Exhibition
JOHN AKOMFRAH : Purple
6 Oct 2017-7 Jan 2018
Exhibition
Basquiat : Boom for Real
21 Sep 2017-28 Jan 2018
Exhibition
Art Gallery | Trajal Harrell : Hoochie Koochie
20 Jul-13 Aug 2017
Exhibition
The Japanese House : Architecture and Life after 1945
23 Mar-25 Jun 2017
Exhibition
Richard Mosse : Incoming
15 Feb-23 Apr 2017
2016
Exhibition
The Gulch: An Amateur Symposium
26 Nov 2016
Exhibition
The Vulgar : Fashion Redefined
13 Oct 2016-5 Feb 2017
Exhibition
Bedwyr Williams : The Gulch
29 Sep 2016-8 Jan 2017
Exhibition
Ragnar Kjartansson
14 Jul-4 Sep 2016
Exhibition
Strange and Familiar
16 Mar-19 Jun 2016
Exhibition
Imran Qureshi : Where the Shadows are so Deep
18 Feb-10 Jul 2016
2015
Exhibition
With Lotte Johnson : The World of Charles and Ray Eames
3 Dec 2015
Exhibition
The World of Charles and Ray Eames
21 Oct 2015-14 Feb 2016
Exhibition
The Forever Loop : Eddie Peake
9 Oct 2015-10 Jan 2016
Exhibition
Aaron Koblin and Ben Tricklebank : Light Echoes
27 Jun-6 Sep 2015
Exhibition
Station To Station : A 30 Day Happening
27 Jun-26 Jul 2015
Exhibition
The Barbican Exhibition : Building a Landmark
25 May-29 Nov 2015
Exhibition
London Historic Collections
22 May 2015-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Exhibition Tour with Sophie Perrson
21 May 2015-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Edmund de Waal In Conversation with Andrew Graham-Dixon
22 Apr 2015-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Roman Signer : Slow Movement
3 Mar-31 May 2015
Exhibition
Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector
12 Feb-25 May 2015
2014
Exhibition
In Conversation : Walead Beshty with Brian Dillon
26 Nov 2014
Exhibition
In Conversation : Simon Norfolk & Julian Stallabrass
20 Nov 2014
Exhibition
Walead Beshty
9 Oct 2014-8 Feb 2015
Exhibition
Constructing Worlds : Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age
25 Sep 2014-11 Jan 2015
Exhibition
Digital Revolution
3 Jul-14 Sep 2014
Exhibition
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier
9 Apr-25 Aug 2014
Exhibition
United Visual Artists Momentum
13 Feb-1 Jun 2014
2013
Exhibition
Leandro Erlich at Dalston House
27 Jun 2013-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Leandro Erlich : Dalston House
26 Jun-4 Aug 2013
Exhibition
The Bride and the Bachelors
14 Feb-9 Jun 2013
2012
Exhibition
everything was moving : photography from the 60s and 70s
13 Sep 2012-13 Jan 2013
Exhibition
Bauhaus : Art as Life
3 May-12 Aug 2012
Exhibition
Geoffrey Farmer : The Surgeon and the Photographer
26 Mar 2012-28 Jul 2013
Exhibition
Song Dong : Waste Not
15 Feb-12 Jun 2012
2011
Exhibition
Air as Architecture With Yuki Sumner
10 Oct 2011-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
OMA/Progress
6 Oct 2011-19 Feb 2012
Exhibition
Junya Ishigami : Architecture as Air
28 Jun-16 Oct 2011
Exhibition
Watch Me Move : The Animation Show
15 Jun-11 Sep 2011
Exhibition
Anderson, Brown, Matta-Clark : The Downtown Scene
3 Mar-22 May 2011
Exhibition
Cory Arcangel: Beat the Champ
10 Feb-22 May 2011
2010
Exhibition
Damián Ortega
15 Oct 2010-23 Jan 2011
Exhibition
Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion
15 Oct 2010-6 Feb 2011
Exhibition
John Bock : New commission for The Curve
10 Jun-12 Sep 2010
Exhibition
The Surreal House
10 Jun-12 Sep 2010
Exhibition
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot : New Commission for The Curve
27 Feb-23 May 2010
Exhibition
Ron Arad : Restless
18 Feb-16 May 2010
2009
Exhibition
The Free Art Fair
12 Oct-18 Oct 2009
Exhibition
SYMMETRY : A JOURNEY INTO THE PATTERNS OF NATURE
1 Oct 2009-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Robert Kusmirowski : Bunker
30 Sep 2009-10 Jan 2010
Exhibition
JOSEPH BEUYS : THE FREE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
24 Sep 2009-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
DESIGNING FOOTPRINTS
17 Sep 2009-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
The Directorspective : Werner Herzog
12 Sep-27 Sep 2009
Exhibition
ART MEETS FARMERS MARKET
10 Sep 2009-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Radical Nature
19 Jun-18 Oct 2009
Exhibition
Clemens von Wedemeyer : The Fourth Wall
29 May-30 Aug 2009
Exhibition
Le Corbusier : The Art of Architecture
19 Feb-24 May 2009
Exhibition
Peter Coffin
11 Feb-10 May 2009
2008
Exhibition
ON THE SUBJECT OF WAR
17 Oct 2008-25 Jan 2009
Exhibition
GERDA TARO
17 Oct 2008-25 Jan 2009
Exhibition
THIS IS WAR! ROBERT CAPA AT WORK
17 Oct 2008-25 Jan 2009
Exhibition
RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER
9 Oct 2008-18 Jan 2009
Exhibition
HUANG YONG PING
25 Jun-21 Sep 2008
Exhibition
THE HOUSE OF VIKTOR & ROLF
18 Jun-21 Sep 2008
Exhibition
MARTIAN MUSEUM OF TERRESTRIAL ART
6 Mar-18 May 2008
Exhibition
Hans Schabus : Next Time I'm Here, I'll be there
1 Mar-1 May 2008
2007
Exhibition
SEDUCED (please note-over 18s only)
12 Oct 2007-27 Jan 2008
Exhibition
Shirana Shahbazi
4 Oct 2007-20 Jan 2008
Exhibition
Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years
5 Jun-9 Sep 2007
Exhibition
Marjetica Potrc
24 May-2 Sep 2007
Exhibition
ALVAR AALTO
22 Feb-13 May 2007
Exhibition
JEPPE HEIN
9 Feb-29 Apr 2007
2006
Exhibition
in the face of history
13 Oct 2006-28 Jan 2007
Exhibition
richard wilson
27 Sep 2006-14 Jan 2007
Exhibition
Future City
15 Jun-17 Sep 2006
Exhibition
Tomas Saraceno
11 May-16 Jul 2006
2005
Exhibition
Lucy Orta
15 Sep-30 Oct 2005
2003
Exhibition
GALLERY CLOSED FOR RENOVATION
21 Jul 2003-1 Jan 2004
Exhibition
The Poetics Project 1977- 97 Mike Kelley/Tony Oursler
15 May-20 Jul 2003
Exhibition
EXODUS:PHOTOGRAPHS BY SEBASTIÃO SALGADO
13 Feb-1 Jun 2003
Exhibition
Denis Masi: Power and Glory
30 Jan-2 May 2003
2002
Exhibition
ELECTRIC DREAMS
11 Jul-26 Aug 2002
Exhibition
GAME ON
16 May-15 Sep 2002
Exhibition
XAVIER VEILHAN
1 May-23 Jun 2002
Exhibition
BARBICAN : THIS WAS TOMORROW
14 Feb-14 Apr 2002
Exhibition
TRANSITION
31 Jan-14 Apr 2002
Exhibition
MARTIN PARR
31 Jan-14 Apr 2002
2001
Exhibition
The Americans - New Art
25 Oct-23 Dec 2001
Exhibition
Andres Serrano
5 Oct-23 Dec 2001
2000
Exhibition
THE CURVE | Into the Unknown : A Journey through Science Fiction
1 Jan 2000-1 Sep 2017
Exhibition
Future Beauty : 30 Years of Japanese Fashion
1 Jan 2000-6 Feb 2011
Exhibition
ANDREW CROSS: some trains in America
1 Jan 2000-23 Jun 2002
Exhibition
Fay Godwin: Landmarks
1 Jan 2000-30 Sep 2001
Exhibition
Reporting the World
1 Jan 2000-30 Sep 2001

Accessibility & facilities

Art Gallery & Gallery Shop:

Daily 10am-7pm (last entry 6pm), Bank Holidays 12-7pm

The Curve: 

Daily 10am-7pm (last entry 6pm), Bank Holidays 12-7pm

Nearby

Osamu Kobayashi: Lost Stranger
BEERS London
until 23 Nov
Himani Gupta: Of Lands and Wonders
Felstead Art | Gresham
until 10 Jan
Machine Painting
Modern Art, Helmet Row
until 14 Dec
Heman Chong
Amanda Wilkinson
until 30 Nov
Diane Howse: Ornament of Dust
Vivienne Roberts Projects
until 2 Jan
Shh... what's that?
Vestry St - Cross Lane Projects
until 26 Nov
Chronoplasticity
Raven Row
until 8 Dec
Rotimi Fani-Kayode: The Studio – Staging Desire
Autograph
until 22 Mar
Hyundai Commission | Mire Lee: Open Wound
Tate Modern
until 16 Mar
Delaine Le Bas: The Archipelago on Fire
Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix
until 25 Jan
The Equal Right to Live and Blossom
Kate MacGarry
until 14 Dec
Maureen Elizabeth Dougherty: New Portraits
New Art Projects
until 21 Dec
Martyn Cross, Of Oil and Earth
Hales
until 18 Jan
Neil Zakiewicz
domobaal
until 14 Dec
Onyeka Igwe
PEER
until 14 Dec
Keran James: Control-Alt-Delete
Studio 1.1
until 1 Dec
Stephen Harwood: Future Ghosts
Benjamin Rhodes Arts
until 14 Dec
STEPHEN FINER “…in a way: all paintings are mute” Paintings of Seán Hewitt and other People
Art Space Gallery - Michael Richardson Contemporary Art
until 24 Jan
Merlin James
Maureen Paley: Studio M
until 11 Jan

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