How Do We Find Love?
Our autumn 2026 season explores the profound complexities of human relationships, desire, and intimacy.
13 November 2026 - 30 May 2027
What is the Meaning of Life?
Our spring 2026 season delves into the fundamental questions of human existence, from rule-making, to time and play.
16 May - 15 November 2026
Can We Stop Killing Each Other?
This season wrestled with one of the darkest and deadliest aspects of humanity, exploring the fundamental questions of why humans are led to kill and the culture that wrestles with this notion.
Can the Seas Survive Us?
Multiple exhibitions explored Can the Seas Survive Us?, examined the choices shaping our future due to climate change, while emphasising the vital importance of the oceans and the life beneath the waves for the viability of our shared future.
Why Do We Take Drugs?
From alcohol and caffeine to ayahuasca and heroin, this season used art to take visitors on a journey of investigation, inviting audiences to explore the world of global drug cultures from illegal to familiar across one mind-blowing museum landscape.
What is Truth?
In 2024, the Sainsbury Centre investigated how we can know what is true in the world around us through a series of fascinating, interlinked exhibitions – In Event of Moon Disaster, Liquid Gender, Jeffrey Gibson: no simple word for time and The Camera Never Lies – bringing together some of the world’s leading artists and creative thinkers, plus a new, interlinking publication.
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?
Summer Brochure 2026
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