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5 things to know about Haegue Yang: Leap Year
Art gallery with wireframe sculptures featuring lightbulbs and a large black and white mural. Blue walls with painted faces.
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5 things to know about Haegue Yang: Leap Year

Get an insight into the artistry of Haegue Yang, the subject of Leap Year, which exhibited at Hayward Gallery in 2024.

5 things to know about James Baldwin
Black and white image of James Baldwin holding a cigarette.
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5 things to know about James Baldwin

Get an insight into the life of the remarkable writer and prominent civil rights activist.

5 things to know about Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere
An installation view of the Intergalactic Palace sculpture, with bits of torn sheet music and lights lining the walls.
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5 things to know about Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere

An introductory guide to artist Tavares Strachan and his 2024 Hayward Gallery exhibition, Tavares Strachan: There is Light Somewhere.

5 things to know about Brokentalkers
Two actors stand on stage one in a brown suit holding a shot gun as the second stands behind looking into the distance
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5 things to know about Brokentalkers

Discover Brokentalkers, an internationally renowned theatre company from Dublin, with a track record of unusual yet powerful performances.

5 things to know about When Forms Come Alive
A grey, white and pink abstract rock sculpture in a white room with a woman looking at it on the left side of the sculpture.
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5 things to know about When Forms Come Alive

An introduction to When Forms Come Alive, a 2024 group sculptural exhibition featuring work from 21 international artists.

5 things to know about Heecheon Kim: Double Poser
Heecheon Kim: Double Poser a video artwork being screened in the Hayward Gallery’s HENI Project Space. People watch the artwork from a small section of tiered seating.
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5 things to know about Heecheon Kim: Double Poser

An insight into South Korean artist Heecheon Kim with a focus on his newest commission, the video game inspired artwork Double Poser.

5 things to know about Hiroshi Sugimoto at Hayward Gallery
A person looks at Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sea of Buddha installed in the Hayward Gallery.
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5 things to know about Hiroshi Sugimoto at Hayward Gallery

Here are five key things you need to know about the photographer whose work was exhibited at the Hayward Gallery in 2023-24.

5 things to know about Dear Earth
A large, rectangular art installation made of hundreds of glowing LED lights displaying a pixelated image in bright green and purple, with foliage on the left side.
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5 things to know about Dear Earth

An introduction to Dear Earth, Hayward Gallery’s 2023 summer exhibition which explored themes of care, hope and connection with our environment.

5 things to know about Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons
Installation shot of the Mike Nelson exhibition, showing a ruined building half covered in sand with debris strewn about
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5 things to know about Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons

Artist Mike Nelson’s work was given a first major survey at our Hayward Gallery in Extinction Beckons. Here are five key things to know about it.

5 things to know about Biber’s Rosary Sonatas
Violinist Eunsley Park plays violin
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5 things to know about Biber’s Rosary Sonatas

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s Rosary Sonatas went unheard for 200 years until being rediscovered in 1890; find out more about the iconic series.

5 things to know about Strange Clay
Children looking at ceramic artworks surrounded by moss. Installation view of Klara Kristalova, Strange Clay_ Ceramics in Contemporary Art at the Hayward Gallery
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5 things to know about Strange Clay

Strange Clay was a Hayward Gallery exhibition that ran from 26 October 2022 to 8 January 2023; here are five things you need to know about it.

5 things to know about In the Black Fantastic
A woman views a kneeling black figurative sculpture with long white hair and a painting featuring dark figures and red-brown earth tones, set against a terracotta gallery wall and floor.
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5 things to know about In the Black Fantastic

An overview of the 2022 Hayward Gallery exhibition which brought together 11 contemporary artists to sample and reimagine Afrofuturism.