Hayward Gallery past exhibitions
Relive the highlights of Hayward Gallery's 50-year history
Hayward Gallery has an esteemed archive with over 50 years of thought-provoking contemporary art exhibitions, including artists such as Tracey Emin, Andy Warhol and Antony Gormley.
2023
Andrea Bowers, Nature Is Not out There We Are a Part of It, (Pipe the Little Songs, Original Illustration by Dugald Stewart Walker, Published by Doubleday, Page & Co, New York, 1920), 2020. Photo: Dawn Blackman. Dear Earth
This engaging group show explores themes of care, hope, and emotional and spiritual connection with our environmentMore infoMike Nelson, I, IMPOSTOR, 2011. Installation view, British Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale. Commissioned by the British Council. Photo: Cristiano Corte. Courtesy the artist. Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons
The first major survey of the artist’s work includes installations and sculptural works from the past 25 yearsMore info
2022
Mark Blower Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art
Marvel at artists who’ve stretched the possibilities of clay in unexpected waysMore infoNick Cave. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Mandrake Hotel Collection. In the Black Fantastic
An exhibition of contemporary artists exploring myth, science fiction and the legacies of AfrofuturismMore infoInstallation view of Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child at Hayward Gallery, 2022. © The Easton Foundation/DACS, London and VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Mark Blower/© The Hayward Gallery Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child
A major retrospective of the legendary artist’s late-career fascination with fabric and textilesMore info
2021
Rob Harris Mixing It Up: Painting Today
An exhibition of 31 artists whose paintings entrance, transfix and challenge usMore infoRedoubt, 2018. Production still. © Matthew Barney, courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photo: Hugo Glendinning Matthew Barney: Redoubt
See the artist’s first solo museum presentation in the UK in over a decadeMore infoInstallation view of Igshaan Adams Kicking Dust at Hayward Gallery, 2021 © Igshaan Adams, 2021. Photo Mark Blower Igshaan Adams: Kicking Dust
The South African artist’s first solo exhibition in the UK takes inspiration from indigenous dance.More info
2020
Mark Blower Among the Trees
An exhibition of work by 37 international artists celebrates trees and forestsMore infoInstallation view of Ryan Mosley, My Brother Paul, 2020 at Southbank Centre's Everyday Heroes, on until 7 November 2020. Copyright the artist. Photo credit_ Linda Nylind Everyday Heroes
Our outdoor spaces come alive with a free exhibition celebrating key workers through art and poetryMore info
2019
Installation view of Bridget Riley, Composition with Circles 4, 2004 at Hayward Gallery 2019 © Bridget Riley 2019 Photo Stephen White & Co. Bridget Riley
A major retrospective exhibition spanning 70 years of this celebrated British artist’s workMore infoThabiso Sekgala, Tiger, 2012. Inkjet fibra print, 70x70cm. Courtesy of the artist and Goodman Gallery. Thabiso Sekgala: Here Is Elsewhere
A free HENI Project Space exhibition exploring home, intimacy, place and belongingMore infoLuciano Castelli, Goldene Schallplatte 3, 1974. © Luciano Castelli. Courtesy of the artist. Kiss My Genders
A group exhibition exploring gender identity and gender fluidityMore infoHicham Berrada, Augures mathématiques, 2019 (detail). C-Print. © ADAGP Hicham Berrada. Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour, Paris/London Hicham Berrada: Dreamscapes
A free HENI Project Space exhibition of kaleidoscopic works bringing together art and scienceMore infoKate Cooper, We Need Sanctuary, 2016. Image courtesy of the artist. Kate Cooper
A free HENI Project Space exhibition exploring gender, technology and the bodyMore infoJack Dracula at a bar, New London, Conn. 1961 9 3/4 × 6 5/8 in. (24.8 × 16.9 cm) Promised Gift of Doon Arbus and Amy Arbus, 2007 Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York/ Copyright © The Estate of Diane Arbus, LLC. All Rights Reserved. diane arbus: in the beginning
An exhibition exploring the formative first half of the influential photographer’s careerMore infoKader Attia, Measure and Control, 2013. Series of 5 vitrines (detail). Vintage vitrine, stuffed animal (cheetah), African mask, framed vintage photograph. Courtesy of the artist and GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Habana. Photo: Ela Bialkowska. Kader Attia: The Museum of Emotion
The first UK survey exhibition of Kader Attia’s urgent, poetic and political workMore infoAleksandra Mir Aleksandra Mir
A free HENI Project Space exhibition featuring US tabloid coverage of Donald TrumpMore info
2018
Installation view of Richard Wilson's 20:50 (1987) at Space Shifters, Hayward Gallery 2018. Photo: Mark Blower Space Shifters
A major group exhibition of sculptures and installations that explored perception and spaceMore infoVictoria Sin, Cthulhu Through the Looking Glass, 2017, film still. Courtesy: the artist DRAG: Self-portraits and Body Politics
A free HENI Project Space exhibition exploring and questioning identity, gender, class and politicsMore infoMark Blower Lee Bul
Lee Bul transformed Hayward Gallery into a spectacular dream-like landscapeMore infoAndreas Gursky, Les Mées, 2016 © Andreas Gursky/DACS, 2017 Courtesy: Sprüth Magers Andreas Gursky
The first major UK retrospective of the work of the acclaimed German photographerMore info
2015 - 16
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, OPERA (QM.15), 2016. Installation view: The Infinite Mix: Contemporary Sound and Image. Photo © Linda Nylind The Infinite Mix
A pop-up exhibition of soulful and audacious audio-visual artworksMore infoCarsten Höller, Decision Corridors, 2015 © Carsten Höller. Installation View Carsten Höller l Decision, Hayward Gallery, London 2015. Courtesy of the artist, Photo © Linda Nylind Carsten Höller: Decision
An interactive exhibition of large-scale installations, exploring perception and decision-makingMore infoSuperflex, Euro (2012). Photo: Hayward Gallery, 2017 Hayward Gallery Waterloo Billboard Commissions
A series of large-scale billboard artworks seen by thousands of people crossing Waterloo Bridge each dayMore info