Events

A space for recording exhibitions and performances I've seen. Stand-out exhibitions that continue to resonate are highlighted.

2024

A Marriage of Art and Craft: Masterpieces from the De Morgan Collection @ Cromwell Place, London

Quentin Blake: NOW @ Cromwell Place, London

Harm van den Dorpel: ‘Struggle for Pleasure’ @ Cromwell Place, London 

Amelia Lancaster Abstractions: Studies of the National Theatre @ The National Theatre, London

2023

7 Deaths of Maria Callas: A Preview with Marina Abramović @ Royal Academy October 2023

Luminosity @ Marina Abramović @ Royal Academy 23/29 September 2023

Imponderabilia @ Marina Abramović @ Royal Academy 23 September 2023

Nude with Skeleton @ Marina Abramović @ Royal Academy 22/29 September 2023

Marina Abramović @ Royal Academy September 2023

Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian @ Tate Modern September 2023

Herzog and de Meuron @ Royal Academy September 2023

Summer Exhibition @ Royal Academy June 2023

2022

William Avery: American Colorist @ Royal Academy September 2022

Summer Exhibition @ Royal Academy August 2022

Our Time on Earth @ Barbican August 2022

Cornelia Parker @ Tate Britain July 2022

Lee Mingwei: Our Labyrinth @ Tate Modern June 2022

Lubaina Himid @ Tate Modern June 2022

Jakob Kudsk Steensen: Berl-Berl @ ARoS June 2022

Vertigo @ ARoS June 2022

Far From Home @ ARoS June 2022

Rock, Paper, Scissors @ ARoS June 2022

Installation Art @ ARoS June 2022 (originally De 9 Rum; addition of Take Over (2017), Anri Sala)

León Ferrari: L'aimable cruauté @ Pompidou Centre June 2022

Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child @ Hayward Gallery March 2022

Ai Weiwei at Home @ Kettle's Yard March 2022

Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything @ British Museum January 2022

2021

Light Lines: The Architectural Photographs of Hélène Binet @ Royal Academy November 2021

Dürer's Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist @ National Gallery November 2021

Jameel Prize: Poetry to Politics @ Victoria and Albert Museum October 2021

Contemporary Ceramic Art from the Middle East @ Victoria and Albert Museum October 2021

Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms @ Tate Modern September 2021

Summer Exhibition 2021 @ Royal Academy September 2021

Epic Iran @ Victoria and Albert Museum August 2021

Charlotte Perriand: The Modern Life @ The Design Museum August 2021

Claudia Andujar: The Yanomami Struggle @ Barbican August 2021

‘Ashes’ by Steve McQueen @ Turner Contemporary August 2021

The Tourists: Ellen Harvey and JMW Turner @ Turner Contemporary August 2021

Celebration of Home: Don’t Move, Improve! 2021 @ NLA Coal Drops Yard July 2021

David Barnor: London/Accra - A Retrospective @ Serpentine Galleries July 2021

A Year in Art: Australia 1992 @ Tate Modern December 2021

Sophie Taeuber-Arp @ Tate Modern July 2021

ARTIST ROOMS: Agnes Martin @ Tate Modern July 2021

Gold and Glory: Henry VIII and the French King @ Hampton Court Palace July 2021

A Dark Winter Is Coming: Hydra Decapita: 2010: 2020: 2021 @ Tate Britain July 2021

Kim Lim: Carving and Printing @ Tate Britain July 2021

Heather Phillipson: Rupture No 1: Blowtorching the Bitten Peach @ Tate Britain July 2021

Yayoi Kusama: I Want Your Tears to Flow with the Words I Wrote @ Victoria Miro Wharf Road July 2021

Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2021 @ The Photographers’ Gallery July 2021

Paula Rego @ Tate Britain July 2021

Naturally Brilliant Colour @ Shirley Sherwood Gallery Kew Gardens June 2021

London Design Biennale: Can We Design a Better World? @ Somerset House June 2021

2020

Arctic: Culture and Climate @ British Museum October 2020

Tantra: Enlightenment to Revolution @ British Museum October 2020

Artemisia @ National Gallery October 2020

Bruce Nauman @ Tate Modern October 2020

Titian: Love, Desire, Death @ National Gallery August 2020

Refugees: Forced to Flee @ Imperial War Museum September 2020

Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020 @ The Photographers’ Gallery August 2020

Aubrey Beardsley @ Tate Britain August 2020

Ai Weiwei History of Bombs @ Imperial War Museum August 2020

Andy Warhol @ Tate Modern July 2020
Léon Spilliaert @ Royal Academy March 2020
Dora Maar @ Tate Modern March 2020
Steve McQueen @ Tate Modern February 2020
Masculinities: Liberation through Photography @ Barbican February 2020
Mark Garry: Songs and the Soil @ The MAC, Belfast February 2020
Christian Boltanski: Faire son temps @ Centre Pompidou February 2020
Lenio Kaklea: Encyclopédie pratique, Détours @ Centre Pompidou 1 February 2020
Cy Twombly: Portraits @ National Portrait Gallery January 2020
Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery: Misbehaving Bodies @ Wellcome Collection January 2020

2019
Anne Hardy, The Depth of Darkness, the Return of the Light (Tate Britain Winter Commission 2019) @ Tate Britain December 2019
Spotlight Display: Lubaina Himid @ Tate Britain December 2019
Sophia Al-Maria: Beast Type Song @ Tate Britain December 2019
Mark Leckey: O' Magic Power of Bleakness @ Tate Britain December 2019
A Year in Art: 1973 @ Tate Modern December 2019
Otobong Nkanga: Performance Lecture @ Tate Modern 5 November 2019
24/7 A Wake-up Call for our Non-stop World @ Somerset House November 2019
Nam June Paik @ Tate Modern October 2019
Tim Walker: Wonderful Things @ V&A October 2019
Cindy Sherman @ National Portrait Gallery September 2019
Urban Impulses: Latin American Photography from 1959 to 2016 @ The Photographers’ Gallery September 2019
Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life @ Tate Modern August 2019
Takis: Sculptor of Magnetism, Light and Sound @ Tate Modern July 2019
David Smith: Sculpture 1932-1965 @ Yorkshire Sculpture Park June 2019
Becoming an Object: An Evening with Skip Arnold @ LADA June 2019
Proyecto Raúl Zurita: Documentos Públicos de la Vida Privada @ BiblioGAM April 2019
Santiago: Ciudad Destino @ Centro Gabriela Mistral April 2019
Muebles Singal: Diseño Chileno Pionero en Madera Moldeada @ Centro Cultural La Moneda April 2019
JMW Turner: Acuarelas de la Tate Collection @ Centro Cultural La Moneda April 2019
La Máquina de Coser y el Paraguas: Franklin 1962-2018 @ Centro Cultural La Moneda April 2019
Cuídese Mucho @ MAC Parque Forestal March 2019
Franz West @ Tate Modern March 2019
Is this Tomorrow? @ Whitechapel Gallery March 2019
Leonardo da Vinci and Perpetual Motion: Visualising Impossible Machines @ The Peltz Gallery February 2019
Tess Jaray RA @ The Royal Academy of Arts January 2019

2018

Circus Life: Art and Artistes @ The Peltz Gallery November 2018
The Moving Moment When I Went to the Universe @ Victoria Miro Wharf Road October 2018
Anni Albers @ Tate Modern October 2018
Turner Prize 2018 @ Tate Britain October 2018
Alex Prager: Silver Lake Drive @ The Photographers' Gallery September 2018
Day for Night: Landscapes of Walter Benjamin @ The Peltz Gallery September 2018
Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art @ Tate Modern September 2018
Cercles concentriques excentriques (Felice Varini) @ Ville de Carcassone September 2018
Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing @ Barbican August 2018
Vanessa Winship: And Time Folds @ Barbican August 2018
Barrels and the Mastaba 1958-2018 @ Serpentine Gallery August 2018
Christo and Jeanne-Claude London 2018 The Mastaba (Project for London, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lake) @ Serpentine Lake August 2018
A Family in Wartime @ Imperial War Museum July 2018
Century of the Child: Nordic Design for Children 1900 to Today @ V&A Museum of Childhood July 2018
ISelf Collection: Bumped Bodies @ Whitechapel Gallery June 2018
The London Open 2018 @ Whitechapel Gallery June 2018
Tacita Dean: STILL LIFE @ The National Gallery May 2018
Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins @ Barbican March 2018
Sylvia Palacios Whitman + Patten @ Tate Modern March 2018 [Live exhibition]
Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy @ Tate Modern March 2018
Age of Terror: Art since 9/11 @ Imperial War Museum March 2018
Cultural Sniping: Photographic Collaborations in the Jo Spence Memorial Library Archive @ The Peltz Gallery March 2018
Post-Soviet Visions: Image and Identity in the New Eastern Europe @ Calvert 22 Foundation March 2018
Another Time Another Place: Hackney in the 70s and 80s @ Stour Space Hackney February 2018
North: Fashioning Identity @ Somerset House January 2018
Egypt Uncovered: Belzoni and the Tomb of Pharaoh Seti I @ Sir John Soane's Museum January 2018
Replaced Lives @ The Peltz Gallery January 2018

2017: 35 in the year = average of 3 a month

Near the Wind: Pentti Sammallahti and Kristoffer Albrecht @ The Photographers' Gallery December 2017
4 Saints in 3 Acts: A Snapshot of the American Avant-garde @ The Photographers' Gallery December 2017
Instant Stories. Wim Wenders' Polaroids @ The Photographers' Gallery December 2017
Basic Instincts @ The Foundling Museum December 2017
Conceiving Histories @ The Peltz Gallery London November 2017
Human Nature @ ARoS November 2017
De 9 Rum @ ARoS November 2017 (addition of Unk (2004), Tony Oursler)
Bacon, Freud, and the London Painters @ ARoS November 2017
No Man Is an Island - The Satanic Verses @ ARoS November 2017
ARoS Focus/New Nordic: The Sound and Video Works of Dodda Maggy @ ARoS November 2017
Billedstorm: Køn @ Kvindemuseet Aarhus November 2017
Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable @ Punta della Dogana November 2017
57th International Art Exhibition: Biennale Arte 2017 @ L'Arsenale / Giardini della Biennale November 2017
Rachel Maclean: Spite Your Face - Scotland + Venice 2017 @ Chiesa di Santa Caterina, Venice November 2017
The Book of Kells: Turning Darkness into Light @ Trinity College Library, Dublin November 2017
Rachel Whiteread @ Tate Britain October 2017
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power @ Tate Modern October 2017
When in Rome: A Collective Reflection on the Eternal City @ RIBA October 2017
Pablo Bronstein: Conservatism, or the Long Reign of Pseudo-Georgian Architecture @ RIBA October 2017
Queer British Art 1861-1967 @ Tate Britain September 2017
Hyperland @ The Fitzrovia Gallery August 2017
The Permanent Collection @ Rye Art Gallery July 2017
Michelangelo and Sebastiano @ National Gallery June 2017
Wolfgang Tillmans: 2017 @ Tate Modern June 2017
Giacometti @ Tate Modern June 2017
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 @ Natural History Museum May 2017
Doppia Firma 2017 Double Signature: A dialogue between Design and Artisanal Excellence @ Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship London May 2017

Sony World Photography Awards 2017 @ Somerset House May 2017

The Radical Eye. Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection @ Tate Modern April 2017

Rodney Graham That's Not Me @ BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art April 2017

Art Now Rachel Maclean: Wot U :-) About? @ Tate Britain March 2017

Do Ho Suh: Passage/s @ Victoria Miro Gallery March 2017

David Hockney @ Tate Britain February 2017

Making Nature: How we see animals @ Wellcome Collection January 2017

2016
Robert Rauschenberg @ Tate Modern December 2016
Anselm Kiefer: Walhalla @ White Cube Bermondsey December 2016
Cy Twombly @ Centre Pompidou November 2016
Louisiana One Work: Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar @ Louisiana Museum of Modern Art November 2016
Daniel Richter: Lonely Old Slogans @ Louisiana Museum of Modern Art November 2016
Louise Bourgeois: Structures of Existence: The Cells @ Louisiana Museum of Modern Art November 2016
ARoS Focus/New Nordic: The Icelandic Love Corporation @ ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum November 2016
De 9 Rum @ ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum November 2016
Joana Vasconcelos - Textures of Life @ ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum November 2016
Abstract Expressionism @ Royal Academy of Arts November 2016
My Weapon Against the Atom Bomb is a Blade of Grass. Tancredi. A Retrospective @ Peggy Guggenheim Collection November 2016
15th International Architecture Exhibition: La Biennale di Venezia @ Le Corderie dell'Arsenale / Giardini della Biennale November 2016
Björk Digital @ Somerset House October 2016
Georgia O'Keefe @ Tate Modern September 2016
London Design Biennale 2016 @ Somerset House September 2016
Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979 @ Tate Britain August 2016
BP Portrait Award 2016 @ National Portrait Gallery August 2016
Yayoi Kusama: My Eternal Soul Paintings @ Victoria Miro St George Street London 2016
Da Kandinsky a Pollock: La Grande Arte dei Guggenheim @ Palazzo Strozzi, Florence June 2016
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2015 @ The Photographers' Gallery May 2015
Mona Hatoum @ Tate Modern May 2016
Botticelli and Treasures from the Hamilton Collection @ The Courtauld Gallery May 2016
Bruegel in Black and White: Three Grisailles Reunited @ The Courtauld Gallery May 2016
Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art @ The National Gallery May 2016
Sony World Photography Awards 2016 @ Somerset House April 2016
Harun Farocki: Parallel I-IV @ Whitechapel Gallery April 2016
Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966) @ Whitechapel Gallery April 2016
Barjeel Art Foundation Collection: Debating Modernism II @ Whitechapel Gallery April 2016
Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers (curated by Martin Parr) @ Barbican Art Gallery, London April 2016
Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture @ Tate Modern April 2016
LUDWIG 25. The contemporary collection @ Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest March 2016
Listening Through the Lens: A Selection of Images from The Fouad Debbas Collection @ Sursock Museum, Beirut February 2016
Daniele Genadry: The Fall @ Sursock Museum, Beirut February 2016
Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse @ Royal Academy of Arts February 2016

2015: 37 in the year = average of 3 a month
Drawing @ National Glass Centre, Sunderland 2015
Ai Weiwei Weekender @ Royal Academy of Arts 2015
The World of Charles and Ray Eames @ Barbican 2015
Simon Schama's Face of Britain: Power, Love, Fame, Self, People @ National Portrait Gallery 2015
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2015 @ National Portrait Gallery 2015
The Fallen Woman @ The Foundling Museum 2015
Trust @ Den Frie Udstilling 2015
Mindcraft15 @ Design Museum Danmark 2015
Africa: Architecture, Culture and Identity @ Louisiana Museum of Modern Art 2015
Yayoi Kusama: In Infinity @ Louisiana Museum of Modern Art 2015
From Abildgaard to Kirkeby: Two Hundred Years of Development in Danish Art @ ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum 2015
Claus Carstensen: What's Left is Republican Paint @ ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum 2015
Out of the Darkness @ ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum 2015
Den Første Kejser - Kinas terrakottahær @ Moesgård Museum 2015
Lives of the Unholy: Talents 34 . Junge Fotografie / Kunstkritik: Krzysztof Pijarski / Annika K. Kuhlmann @ C/O Berlin 2015
Augen Auf! 100 Jahre Leica Fotografie @ C/O Berlin 2015
Radikal Modern: Planen und Bauen im Berlin der 1960er-Jahre @ Berlinische Galerie 2015
Aatifi: News from Afghanistan: Malerei, Grafik, Video @ Museum für Islamische Kunst, Pergamonmuseum 2015
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye selects from the V-A-C collection Natures, Natural and Unnatural @ Whitechapel Gallery 2015
Peter Liversidge: Notes on Protesting @ Whitechapel Gallery 2015
The Production Line of Happiness Christopher Williams @ Whitechapel Gallery 2015
The EY Exhibition: Sonia Delaunay @ Tate Modern 2015
Agnes Martin @ Tate Modern 2015
Sculpture Victorious The Beauty and Power of Victorian Sculpture @ Tate Britain 2015
New Brutalist Image 1949-1955: Hunstanton School and the Photography of Life and Art @ Tate Britain 2015
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015 @ The Photographers' Gallery 2015
Louisiana on Paper David Hockney @ Louisiana Museum of Modern Art 2015
Richard Mosse The Enclave @ Louisiana Museum of Modern Art 2015
Jeff Wall @ Louisiana Museum of Modern Art 2015
Peter Doig @ Louisiana Museum of Modern Art 2015
Koloristerne @ Rundtårn (Copenhagen) 2015
Salt and Silver Early Photography 1840-1860 @ Tate Britain 2015
Nick Waplington/Alexander McQueen Working Process @ Tate Britain 2015
Forensics: The anatomy of crime @ Wellcome Collection 2015
Alluring Orchids 2015 - A Tropical Extravaganza @ Kew Gardens 2015
Marlene Dumas The Image as Burden @ Tate Modern 2015
Conflict Time Photography @ Tate Modern 2015

2014
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014 @ Natural History Museum 2014
Mikhail Baryshnikov Dancing Away @ Contini Art UK 2014
The Photographers 2014 @ Beetles+Huxley 2014
The Institute of Sexology @ Wellcome Collection 2014
Anselm Kiefer @ Royal Academy of Arts 2014
Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963-2010 @ Tate Modern 2014
Malevich: Revolutionary of Russian Art @ Tate Modern 2014
Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs @ Tate Modern 2014

2013
Ibrahim al-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist @ Tate Modern 2013
From the Shadows: The Prints of Sydney Lee RA @ Royal Academy of Arts 2013
Manet: Portraying Life @ Royal Academy of Arts 2013
Saloua Raouda Choucair @ Tate Modern 2013
Barocci: Brilliance and Grace @ National Gallery London 2013
Schwitters in Britain @ Tate Britain 2013
The Bride and the Bachelors @ Barbican 2013
Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901 @ Courtauld Gallery 2013
China's White Gold: Contemporary Porcelain from Jingdezhen @ Fitzwilliam Museum 2013
Nature and Artifice in Altdorfer's Prints @ Fitzwilliam Museum 2013
Lichtenstein: A Retrospective @ Tate Modern 2013
Death: A Self-Portrait @ Wellcome Collection 2013
A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance @ Tate Modern 2013

2011-2012
Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye @ Tate Modern 2012
Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 @ The National Gallery 2012
Yayoi Kusama @ Tate Modern 2012
Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan @ Tate Modern 2012
Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination @ British Library 2012
I Decided Not to Save the World @ Tate Modern 2012
Anselm Kiefer / Nikolas Gambaroff @ White Cube Bermondsey 2011/12
Gerhard Richter: Panorama @ Tate Modern 2011/12
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 @ V&A 2011/12
Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life @ Wellcome Collection 2011
Yohji Yamamoto @ V&A 2011
Watercolour @ Tate Britain 2011
Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape @ Tate Modern 2011
High Society @ Wellcome Collection 2011
Picasso to Julie Mehretu Modern Drawings from the British Museum Collection @ British Museum 2010/11
Gabriel Orozco @ Tate Modern 2011

2003-2010
Gauguin @ Tate Modern 2010
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective @ Tate Modern 2010
Shah Abbas The Remaking of Iran @ British Museum 2009
Picasso Challenging the Past @ National Gallery London 2009
Street and Studio An Urban History of Photography @ Tate Modern 2008
Wyndham Lewis Portraits @ National Portrait Gallery 2008
The Lure of the East British Orientalist Painting @ Tate Britain 2008
Francis Bacon @ Tate Britain 2008
Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons @ Tate Modern 2008
Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence @ Royal Academy of Arts 2008
Antony Gormley Blind Light @ The Hayward 2007
Raphael: From Urbino to Rome @ National Gallery London 2004/5
El Greco @ National Gallery London 2004
Missing: Exhibition of new work by Dameon Priestly @ Jeffrey West SW1Y 2004
Giorgio Armani retrospective @ Royal Academy 2003/4