16/06/2026
Last night I had the pleasure of attending the Private preview of .kapoor .gallery and it was truly mind blowing.
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This is a 28 year return. The last time Kapoor filled this building, it was the first major UK survey of his work. What he’s done this time is something else entirely.
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He hasn’t just shown work in the Hayward. He has consumed it. Walls. Floors. Ceilings. Outdoor terraces. Every corner of that extraordinary Brutalist building on the Southbank belongs to him until October.
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And then there’s the Vantablack.
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Sculptures coated in the blackest substance known to science a light absorbing nanotechnology so extreme that three dimensional forms appear completely flat. Not dark. Not shadowy. Gone. Holes in reality. Tears in space. You genuinely cannot trust what you’re seeing.
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That’s the thing about Kapoor the blur between sculpture and space, between object and void, between what is there and what isn’t it’s not a trick. It’s the whole philosophical point.
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Curated by the legendary in his final show as Director of the Hayward after 20 years, this is a career defining retrospective spanning five decades. It feels like a handover. A monument. A full stop and an opening all at once.
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Anish Kapoor. Hayward Gallery. 16 June – 18 October 2026.
Go. Just go.
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