Joy Like Time
20 June - 15 November 2026Our Universal Ticket gives you access to the full Living Art experience, including our Big Question seasonal exhibitions, The Living Area (the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection), our 350-acre Sculpture Park, and free daily tours. Entry tickets can be free, or you can choose to support the Sainsbury Centre through your contribution, which helps us to care for our collections, present world-class exhibitions, acquire new artworks, and keep art accessible for all.
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This exhibition explores how memory, ritual and renewal intersect through the work of internationally renowned artists Marina Abramović, Kalliopi Lemos and Gillian Wearing.
Tracking the careers of a select group of artists in depth, this exhibition looks at how they have found life’s meaning through their practice via craft and repetition and asks, if duration marks everything from commutes to lifespans, from harvests to histories, might it also help us confront one of humanity’s most enduring questions: what is the meaning of life?
Joy Like Time is part of the Sainsbury Centre’s What is the Meaning of Life? exhibition season and is curated by John Kenneth Paranada, Curator of Art and Climate Change at the Sainsbury Centre.
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Marina Abramovic, Blue and Red Period, Install view 3 at Saatchi Yates, 2025. Courtesy of the Artist and Saatchi Yates