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First rule of our Anish Kapoor exhibition? Expect the unexpected... 👀🌀You have just 2 WEEKS left to step into the immers...
04/10/2026

First rule of our Anish Kapoor exhibition? Expect the unexpected... 👀🌀

You have just 2 WEEKS left to step into the immersive world of Anish Kapoor at the Hayward Gallery - head to the comments to grab your tickets now!

📸 Dave Morgan

Does this artwork make you feel uneasy?A lot of artist Anish Kapoor’s work explores the human body, you might've noticed...
30/09/2026

Does this artwork make you feel uneasy?

A lot of artist Anish Kapoor’s work explores the human body, you might've noticed how often he uses the colour red.

In ‘Ritual Expiation’ Anish uses deep colours and creates these thick intestinal silicone shapes highlighting the gory and unsettling side of the human experience.

⛰️ Until 18 October

How is artificial intelligence really learning to ‘see’ the world? 👁️🤖Artist Musquiqui Chihying’s The Annotation (2025 -...
29/09/2026

How is artificial intelligence really learning to ‘see’ the world? 👁️🤖

Artist Musquiqui Chihying’s The Annotation (2025 - 2026) steps inside the driver's seat of modern tech, to uncover the hidden human labour powering automated systems like self-driving cars.

Set within an intelligent car cockpit, the video installation brings together conversations with researchers, taxi drivers and transnational data annotators - the workers tasked with manually labeling endless images to train machine vision. By placing these voices side-by-side, Musquiqui reveals the hidden biases baked into AI and questions who pays the true cost of automation 🚗

📍 See Musquiqui Chihying: A Life of Navigation for free in our HENI Project Space, until Sun 18 Oct.

📷 Rob Harris

Ever spent ages driving in circles just to find a parking space? 🚗In The Toyota (2015), artist Musquiqui Chihying tackle...
26/09/2026

Ever spent ages driving in circles just to find a parking space? 🚗

In The Toyota (2015), artist Musquiqui Chihying tackles city parking nightmares by building an inflatable replica of his father’s Toyota Corolla E100.

As one of the most popular cars in Taiwan, the Corolla is a generational symbol of family road trips and urban traffic jams. To beat the stress of finding a spot in crowded Taipei, Musquiqui created a pop-up decoy car that folds into a boot and inflates in seconds to occupy a space. Functioning as a stand-in for the real thing, this decoy becomes a clever tool to assert ownership 🛣️

👥 Musquiqui Chihying: A Life of Navigation is a multimedia exhibition exploring urban life, technology and humor.

📍 See it for free in our HENI Project Space until Sun 18 Oct

Image courtesy of the artist.

Did you really visit the exhibition if you didn't snap a pic?! 📸Remember to share yours with us!In order:📸 1 IG: seo_luk...
21/09/2026

Did you really visit the exhibition if you didn't snap a pic?! 📸

Remember to share yours with us!

In order:
📸 1 IG: seo_lukhyun
📸 2 IG: claraamfo
📸 3 IG: anki_ii37
📸 4 IG: vera.sacra

Pioneering Chinese artist Cao Fei brings her largest UK exhibition to date to the Hayward Gallery in Spring 2027 💫Cao Fe...
17/09/2026

Pioneering Chinese artist Cao Fei brings her largest UK exhibition to date to the Hayward Gallery in Spring 2027 💫

Cao Fei will use film, digital media, sci-fi and gaming to transform our gallery into immersive, surreal worlds. The exhibition brings together landmark projects alongside the UK debut of The Birth (2026) - inviting us to walk the line between the physical and the virtual 👀

🗓️ 20 April - 25 July 2027

Between documentary and fiction, reality and myth ✨ Rooted in the observation of everyday life, Vasantha Yogananthan’s ‘...
11/09/2026

Between documentary and fiction, reality and myth ✨ Rooted in the observation of everyday life, Vasantha Yogananthan’s ‘An Ocean of Uncertainty’, presents a quiet moment at the water’s edge..

Over the course of eight years, Vasantha traveled across Nepal, India and Sri Lanka to photograph and re-imagine the Ramayana - a myth from ancient India - for his series ‘A Myth of Two Souls’. Shot on film and later hand-painted by long-time collaborator Jaykumar Shankar, this dreamy scene unsettles any sense of time and place - do you feel uncertainty or hope looking at this piece? 🌊🎨

📍 If you’re passing by the Hayward Gallery, take a moment to pause at this beautiful installation outside our entrance. On display until Summer 2027!

Photo: Jo Underhill

Happy birthday to iconic US composer and artist John Cage! 🎨🎶 We're celebrating with a throwback to his Hayward Gallery ...
05/09/2026

Happy birthday to iconic US composer and artist John Cage! 🎨🎶 We're celebrating with a throwback to his Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition Every Day is a Good Day from back in 2010.

John Cage was known for creating scores determined by chance. He'd often consult the ancient Chinese text, the I Ching, by tossing coins to generate hexagrams that would write his music without the influence of his personal taste.

Inspired by this method, the exhibition was curated using an I Ching-like computer programme. The work was hung at random heights and in groups that no curator would normally choose, all determined by pure chance 🎲

What would you leave to chance?

📸 JOHN CAGE: EVERY DAY IS A GOOD DAY A Hayward Touring Exhibition 2010. Photographer: Colin Davison Copyright: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

Do you dare to look into the voids this bank holiday Monday... 😵‍💫 Keep tagging us in your Anish Kapoor pics, we love se...
31/08/2026

Do you dare to look into the voids this bank holiday Monday... 😵‍💫

Keep tagging us in your Anish Kapoor pics, we love seeing them 🫶

In order:
📸 1 IG: jucalcena
📸 2 IG: mo0nt3a
📸 3 IG: lovely_amusan
📸 4 IG: ohmymahina

⛰️ Anish Kapoor on until Sun 18 Oct

We are deeply saddened by the passing of iconic Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama 🔴✨We were so lucky to host her visionary wo...
27/08/2026

We are deeply saddened by the passing of iconic Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama 🔴✨

We were so lucky to host her visionary work in both Walking in My Mind (2009), where she transformed our spaces into sprawling, hallucinatory worlds, and later in Space Shifters (2018), which captivated you all through brilliant play with light, reflection and illusion.

The worlds she created will keep inspiring generations to come ❤️

📸 Photo 1 - Roger Wooldridge, Photos 2 & 3 - Mark Blower

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Friday 11am - 7pm
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