Members’ Private View: Chiharu Shiota & Yin Xiuzhen
Admire our two spring Hayward Gallery exhibitions, both featuring immersive installations, away from the crowds at this Members-only private evening view.
Running alongside each other, Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life and Yin Xiuzhen: Heart to Heart are our Hayward Gallery exhibitions this spring.
Chiharu Shiota’s large-scale installations engulf ordinary objects – such as shoes, keys, beds, chairs and dresses – within huge web structures made from woolen thread.
The resulting works are immersive and deeply emotive, often drawing from personal experience, which Shiota expands into universal human concerns such as life, death and relationships.
Yin Xiuzhen is known for her use of secondhand clothing, concrete, food and household ephemera in her immersive installations and sculptures.
She creates multimedia artworks that negotiate the spaces between memories, individuals and the globalised societies that we live in today.
Drawing on over 30 years of creation, the exhibition brings together a selection of the artist’s seminal projects alongside a number of new commissions, and is the first major UK survey of her work.
Need to know
All Members are welcome to bring a guest to enjoy Members’ Private View evenings.
There is a tour guide at the event on Thursday 30 April.
For your visit
This event is held at the Hayward Gallery Southbank Centre
The Hayward Gallery is currently closed.
It reopens for Anish Kapoor on Tuesday 16 June 2026.
Plan your visit
The Hayward Gallery is also where you’ll find the HENI Project Space.
Getting here
Our address is Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.
The nearest tube stations to us are Waterloo and Embankment; Waterloo is also the nearest train station. And more than 20 different London bus routes pass within 500 metres of our venues. More information on getting here by rail, road or river is available on our Getting here page.
Cloakroom
We have a cloakroom for coats, umbrellas and small bags; it costs £2 per item.
We’re cash-free
Please note that we’re unable to accept cash payments across our venues.
Access
We’re working hard to remove barriers, so that our facilities and events can be accessible to as many people as possible.
All help points, toilets, performance and exhibition spaces at the Southbank Centre are accessible to all, as are the cafes, bars and restaurants. We also have excellent public transport links with step-free access.
All information about booking wheelchair spaces, step-free access, blue badge parking, access maps and guides and other help available whilst you’re here, including details about our Access Scheme, can be found on our Access page.
Exhibition tours
Guided tours of our Hayward Gallery exhibitions are available to ticket holders; the dates and times of these can be found when you click through to book your exhibition tickets.
If you’d like to arrange a private/group tour of an exhibition, please contact us. The Hayward Gallery does not accept external tour guides or tour groups – all exhibition tours must be arranged through the Southbank Centre.
Food & drink
Offering sandwiches, salads, cakes and coffee, Hayward Gallery Cafe is the perfect spot for a pre-exhibition energy boost or a post-visit drink.
From coffee to cocktails, filling favourites to fine dining, plus some of London’s best street food – it’s all here at the Southbank Centre.