Smartify Audio Tours
Our new audio tours highlight some of the most unique objects from our global collection. We recognise art as alive and have created two immersive audio experiences to help bring it to life for you.
Power Plants: Intoxicants, Stimulants and Narcotics
For millennia people have used the psychoactive properties of plants as an integral part of social, ceremonial and religious life. The show will reference global artefacts that are connected with the traditional consumption of tobacco and snuff, betel nut, kava, tea and palm wine, alongside an exploration of the sacred, hallucinogenic cactus, peyote.
14 September - 2 February 2025
Ayahuasca & Art of the Amazon
This exhibition considers the impact of the mind-altering, psychotropic vine – ayahuasca – within Western Amazonian social life. It explores how the ritual consumption of ayahuasca is linked to their artistic production.
14 September - 2 February 2025
Ivan Morison: Towards the Weird Heart of Things
The Sainsbury Centre, in collaboration with Orleans House Gallery, presents Towards the Weird Heart of Things, a new site-specific series of sculptures by artist Ivan Morison in response to the curatorial provocation, Why Do We Take Drugs?
21 October - 28 February 2025
Lindsey Mendick: Hot Mess
Celebrated artist Lindsey Mendick has created new ceramic works for the Sainsbury Centre to explore her thoughts on Why Do We Take Drugs?.
23 November - 27 April 2025
Heroin Falls
Heroin Falls unflinchingly reveals heroin dependency as seen through the eyes of two remarkable photographers. The exhibition aims to show how substance use and dependency is a global challenge that transcends race, location and class.
23 November - 27 April 2025
SoundEscapes
Meet art like never before. SoundEscapes is a new project connecting art and music and is set to help bring our collection to life.
London Art Fair
London Art Fair will return to the UK capital from 22-26 January 2025. Sainsbury Centre, the first museum to treat art as a living entity, will be featured as London Art Fair’s annual Museum Partner.
22 January - 26 January 2025
A World of Water
What would the world be like without water? This exhibition aims to unlock a sense of urgency, recognising that water, and possible geopolitical conflicts caused by it, will be as significant in this century as oil was in the 20th.
15 March - 3 August 2025
Darwin in Paradise Camp: Yuki Kihara
The Sainsbury Centre is proud to host the UK premiere of Paradise Camp, a celebrated work by Yuki Kihara, an interdisciplinary artist of Sāmoan and Japanese descent.
15 March - 3 August 2025
Sea Inside
Sea Inside turns our oceanic gaze towards the sea’s more intimate spaces – whether physical, psychological or imaginary – and dives into shared watery origins, Indigenous ways of life and the items we remove from the sea to display on land.
7 June - 26 October 2025
Spring Brochure 2025
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