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
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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.
Eyewitness
Why are people across the world so fascinated by the dramatisation of killing? Eyewitness considered how violent stage and screen narratives can invite questions about our own morality, cultural codes and religious beliefs.
Lindsey Mendick: Hot Mess
Celebrated artist Lindsey Mendick created new ceramic works for the Sainsbury Centre to explore her thoughts on Why Do We Take Drugs?, subverting the tradition, tackling social taboos and exposing the artist’s secret fears.
Heroin Falls
Heroin Falls unflinchingly revealed heroin dependency as seen through the eyes of two remarkable photographers. The exhibition aimed to show how substance use and dependency is a global challenge that transcends race, location and class.
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?
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. This show referenced 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.
Ayahuasca & Art of the Amazon
This exhibition considered the impact of the mind-altering, psychotropic vine – ayahuasca – within Western Amazonian social life. It explored how the ritual consumption of ayahuasca is linked to their artistic production.
London Art Fair
London Art Fair returned to the UK capital from 22-26 January 2025. Sainsbury Centre, the first museum to treat art as a living entity, featured as London Art Fair’s annual Museum Partner.
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.
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.
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