Empowering Art: Indigenous Creativity and Activism from North America’s Northwest Coast
Empowering Art was a ground-breaking exhibition of rich but rarely seen artworks, bringing together exceptional contemporary and historical pieces from across the Northwest Coast of North America.
The Stuff of Life | The Life of Stuff
In this major international exhibition, visitors met artworks composed of salvaged materials, resynthesised fragments, and e-waste that demonstrate the ingenuity of human creativity to re-imagine our relationships with the planet and inspire people to positively engage with our shared future.
Planet for our Future: How do we adapt to a transforming world?
Our new approach to exhibition programming, empowering art to address fundamental societal challenges through themed seasons, kicked off in Autumn 2023 with Planet for our Future. This asked one fundamental question that confronts us all: How do we adapt to a transforming world?
Sediment Spirit: The Activation of Art in the Anthropocene
Curated by John Kenneth Paranada, the first Curator of Art and Climate Change at a UK museum, this exhibition brought together local and international artworks from the 1960s to the present day that respond to the climate crisis in all its complexities.
In Event of Moon Disaster
An Emmy Award-winning interactive experience that was a deep dive into misinformation and conspiracy. Using AI to tell an alternative history, the show brought to light how an event as influential as the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing could be manipulated, and how doubt could be cast on even the most well-known of facts.
Liquid Gender
In an exploration of the relationship between gender expression and identity, with a focus on pre-colonial traditions, the Sainsbury Centre presented works by a myriad of internationally acclaimed artists, including new work, UK premieres, and new acquisitions.
Jeffrey Gibson: no simple word for time
In his first solo exhibition at a UK museum, American artist Jeffrey Gibson (b.1972) created a new site-specific installation for the Sainsbury Centre.
Lower Galleries: Tank Man and The Heart of Truth
Two displays in our Lower Galleries. As part of The Camera Never Lies, Tank Man presented photographs and archival video footage from the events in Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989. The Heart of Truth explored religious teachings of truthfulness within Shinto and Buddhism.
The Camera Never Lies: Challenging images through The Incite Project
This dynamic exhibition re-evaluated the most iconic images of the past 100 years, exploring the impact and influence photography has had on shaping – and in some cases distorting – the narrative of major global events.
Autumn Brochure 2024
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