Visual Arts
The Hayward is the heart of the visual arts at Southbank Centre. In addition to putting on major exhibitions and commissioning new artworks in the gallery, The Hayward also organises projects, installations and talks across the site.
May 68: Street Posters from the Paris Rebellion
Grayson Perry: Unpopular Culture
What's on this month
10 productions found
The Saison Poetry
Liz Mathews: Journey From Winter
Saturday 5 April 2008 - Sunday 29 June 2008
Liz Mathews, studio potter and lettering artist, celebrates texts in the Poetry Library's unrivalled collection, focussing on the work of Valentine Ackland (whose Selected Poems are newly published) and other poets represented in Ackland's own bequest to the Library.
Free
Royal Festival Hall, Level 1
Stack
Monday 14 April 2008 - Monday 9 June 2008
Stack is a commission by 2007 Paul Hamlyn Foundation artist award-winner Phyllida Barlow, one of the most influential teachers and artists working in Britain today.
Free
Royal Festival Hall Level 2 Foyer
Steve McQueen: Queen and Country
Saturday 26 April 2008 - Sunday 1 June 2008
With Queen and Country, official war artist Steve McQueen commemorates British service personnel who have been killed during the current conflict in Iraq.
Free
Royal Festival Hall Level 2 Foyers
ISLANDS IN SOUND
Thursday 1 May 2008 - Saturday 10 May 2008
Throughout the foyers in Royal Festival Hall are six installations which seek to alter the public's perception of sound in space, encourage listening and provide a tangible means for understanding and responding to Luigi Nono's work Prometeo.
Free
The Hayward Project Space
May 68: Street Posters from the Paris Rebellion
Thursday 1 May 2008 - Sunday 1 June 2008
The posters of the Paris uprising of May 1968 comprise some of the most brilliant graphic works ever to have been associated with a movement for social and political change.
Free
Poetry Library
Liz Mathews: Working With Words 1
Monday 12 May 2008
Liz Mathews talks about her current text-based exhibition in the Poetry Library, describing the processes involved in making her work (both in clay and other materials) and how the use of lettering is central to her practice.
Admission free
Poetry Library
Liz Mathews: Working With Words 2
Monday 19 May 2008
Liz Mathews talks about the texts which she has chosen to set for this exhibition, and how the themes which have emerged both confirm Valentine Ackland's idea of a community of poets who were her 'friends and protectors' and honour this gathering of minds.
Admission Free
Purcell Room
Ernesto Neto
Friday 23 May 2008
Ernesto Neto talks about his work in the context of Psycho Buildings show at The Hayward.
£5
Cloakroom Lobby - Royal Festival Hall Level 1
Making Sculptures Speak
Saturday 24 May 2008 - Friday 30 May 2008
Fence and Stack are two new sculptures recently installed in the public spaces of Southbank Centre.
Admission free
The Hayward
Psycho Buildings: Artists and Architecture
Wednesday 28 May 2008 - Monday 25 August 2008
This exhibition marks The Hayward's 40th anniversary as one of the world's most architecturally unique exhibition venues.
£10
