Past Hayward Touring exhibitions
See Hayward Gallery Touring’s archive of past exhibitions
Hayward Gallery Touring, under various titles, has a history dating back to the founding of the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1946. Relive recent highlights below
2022 – 2020
Video Still Oliver Beer, Vessel Orchestra - Nico Muhly performance at The Met Breuer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019 British Art Show
One of the most important exhibitions of contemporary art in the UKNot Without My Ghosts: The Artist As Medium
Works inspired by the methods of mediums and their deep cultural history
2020 – 2016
Slow painting
An exhibition of paintings that take their time, and invite us to do the sameMore infoGladys Nilsson, A Cold Mouth, 1968 © the artist. Courtesy the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s
The first significant UK exhibition in almost 40 years of work by the Chicago ImagistsMore infoRinus Van de Velde, "In those moments the world would feel very large", 2017. © the artist. Courtesy Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp Hand Drawn Action Packed
An exhibition of ten major international artists explores the narrative possibilities of drawingMore infoJonathan Bassett Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness
Hand-made, deliberately clumsy and lo-fi works contrast with the slick production of much contemporary artMore infoPLEASE HANG IN THERE, 1999 by LOUISE BOURGEOIS PRINTS: Autobiographical Series and 11 Drypoints A Hayward Touring exhibition 2016 Louise Bourgeois Prints: Autobiographical Series and Set of 11 Drypoints
Two series of works by Louise Bourgeois (1911 – 2010) capture the artist’s deepest memoriesMore infoUnknown Photographer, Ensembles rythmiques et gymnastiques a Pékin, 1965. Courtesy Archive of Modern Conflict, London Collected Shadows: The Archive of Modern Conflict
Beguiling photographs selected from the Archive of Modern ConflictMore infoThe Lumière Brothers, Still from Danse Serpentine (Serpentine Dance), 1899. Courtesy Institut Lumière © Institut Lumière Elizabeth Price Curates: In a Dream You Saw a Way To Survive and You Were Full of Joy
Sculptures, drawings, photographs, film and videos explore the reclining human formMore infoInstallation View at British Art Show 8 at Leeds Art Gallery Credit Jonty Wilde 2015 British Art Show 8
Hayward Touring's British Art Show 8 exhibition features the work of 42 contemporary artistsMore infoArt from Elsewhere, Installation image, Birmingham Museums and Galleries Credit McAteer Photograph Art from Elsewhere: International Contemporary Art from UK Galleries
Curator David Elliott brought together a personal selection of recently acquired international worksMore infoLaurie Anderson, The Handphone Table, 1978. ©macLYON collection. Listening (installation view), Hayward Touring Curatorial Open, curated by Sam Belinfante, the Bluecoat, Liverpool 2014. Image courtesy the Bluecoat, Liverpool. Photo: Jon Barraclough. Listening curated by Sam Belinfante
A pioneering exhibition investigates the act of listening in contemporary visual artMore info
2010 –2015
Installation View of Jeremy Deller Curated Exhibition, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air at Manchester Art Gallery 2013 Jeremy Deller Curates ‘All That Is Solid Melts Into Air’
The Turner Prize winner curates an exhibition that delves into cultural historyMore infoInstallation view, Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing, Turner Contemporary 23 May – 15 September 2013. Photo Steve White / Courtesy Hayward Touring. Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing
This group exhibition brings together curious historical artefacts and contemporary artMore infoInstallation View: The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things curated by Mark Leckey, a Hayward Touring exhibition at the Bluecoat, Liverpool 16 Feb – 14 Apr 2013. Photo: Jon Barraclough The Universal Addressability of Dumb things
Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey treads the boundaries between the virtual and the real, the ‘dumb’ and the animateMore infoNathaniel Mellors, Ourhouse (detail), 2010 (c) the artist. British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet (installation view), New Art Exchange, Nottingham, 2010. Photo: Alexander Newton British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet
This mixed-media exhibition with work by 39 British artists looked at the idea of the comet as a harbinger of changeMore infoInstallation view: A Universal Archive: William Kentridge as Printmaker at the Bluecoat, Liverpool 2012. Photograph Jon Barraclough. A Universal Archive: William Kentridge as Printmaker
A mixed-media exhibition by the South African artistMore infoJohn Cage: Every Day is a Good Day (installation view), a Hayward Touring Exhibition, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2010. Image courtesy BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. Photo: Colin Davison. John Cage: Every Day is a Good Day
The first major retrospective in the UK of the visual art of the US composer and artist John Cage (1912–1992)More infoInstallation View MAGIC ART SHOW 2009 - Hayward Touring at Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool Magic Show
How do artists adopt the perception-shifting tactics of magicians?More infoInstallation view: The End of the Line: Attitudes in Drawing. Hayward Touring Exhibition at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh 2009. Photo courtesy of The Fruitmarket Gallery The End of the Line: Attitudes in Drawing
Hayward Touring exhibition of new and recent works by 11 international artistsMore infoInstallation view of MARK WALLINGER: THE RUSSIAN LINESMAN at Hayward Gallery 2009 Mark Wallinger: The Russian Linesman
The artist curates work about disputed boundaries, drawn from over 2,000 years of historyMore infoJ.D ‘Okjhai Ojeikere - Hairstyles and Headdresses at the New Art Exchange. Photo © Bartosz Kali. J.D 'Okhai Ojeikere: Hairstyles and Headdresses
The African photographer J. D ‘Okhai Ojeikere untangles the intricacies of Nigerian hairstylesMore infoHélène Amouzou, Untitled, 2008,© Hélène Amouzou . 2010, Courtesy the artist REFLECTIONS ON THE SELF: FIVE AFRICAN WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS - Hayward Touring Exhibition 2012 Reflections on the Self: Five African Women Photographers
Reflections on the Self showcased the work of five contemporary African women photographersMore infoInstallation View of DISPOSABLE PEOPLE: CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL SLAVERY at Clore Ballroom Disposable People: Contemporary Global Slavery
Eight Magnum photographers explored aspects of modern slaveryMore info