Past Hayward Touring exhibitions
See Hayward Gallery Touring’s archive of past exhibitions
Hayward Gallery Touring, under various titles, has a history dating back to the founding of the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1946. Relive recent highlights below
2024 – 2020
Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary
Descend into an exhibition of art dealing with subterranean worldsMore infoBritish Art Show
One of the most important exhibitions of contemporary art in the UKMore infoNot Without My Ghosts: The Artist As Medium
Works inspired by the methods of mediums and their deep cultural historyMore info
2020 – 2016
Slow painting
An exhibition of paintings that take their time, and invite us to do the sameMore infoHow Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s
The first significant UK exhibition in almost 40 years of work by the Chicago ImagistsMore infoHand Drawn Action Packed
An exhibition of ten major international artists explores the narrative possibilities of drawingMore infoShonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness
Hand-made, deliberately clumsy and lo-fi works contrast with the slick production of much contemporary artMore infoLouise Bourgeois Prints: Autobiographical Series and Set of 11 Drypoints
Two series of works by Louise Bourgeois (1911 – 2010) capture the artist’s deepest memoriesMore infoCollected Shadows: The Archive of Modern Conflict
Beguiling photographs selected from the Archive of Modern ConflictMore infoElizabeth Price Curates: In a Dream You Saw a Way To Survive and You Were Full of Joy
Sculptures, drawings, photographs, film and videos explore the reclining human formMore infoBritish Art Show 8
Hayward Touring's British Art Show 8 exhibition features the work of 42 contemporary artistsMore infoArt from Elsewhere: International Contemporary Art from UK Galleries
Curator David Elliott brought together a personal selection of recently acquired international worksMore infoListening curated by Sam Belinfante
A pioneering exhibition investigates the act of listening in contemporary visual artMore info
2010 –2015
Jeremy Deller Curates ‘All That Is Solid Melts Into Air’
The Turner Prize winner curates an exhibition that delves into cultural historyMore infoCuriosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing
This group exhibition brings together curious historical artefacts and contemporary artMore infoThe Universal Addressability of Dumb things
Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey treads the boundaries between the virtual and the real, the ‘dumb’ and the animateMore infoBritish Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet
This mixed-media exhibition with work by 39 British artists looked at the idea of the comet as a harbinger of changeMore infoA Universal Archive: William Kentridge as Printmaker
A mixed-media exhibition by the South African artistMore infoJohn Cage: Every Day is a Good Day
The first major retrospective in the UK of the visual art of the US composer and artist John Cage (1912–1992)More infoMagic Show
How do artists adopt the perception-shifting tactics of magicians?More infoThe End of the Line: Attitudes in Drawing
Hayward Touring exhibition of new and recent works by 11 international artistsMore infoMark Wallinger: The Russian Linesman
The artist curates work about disputed boundaries, drawn from over 2,000 years of historyMore infoJ.D 'Okhai Ojeikere: Hairstyles and Headdresses
The African photographer J. D ‘Okhai Ojeikere untangles the intricacies of Nigerian hairstylesMore infoReflections on the Self: Five African Women Photographers
Reflections on the Self showcased the work of five contemporary African women photographersMore infoDisposable People: Contemporary Global Slavery
Eight Magnum photographers explored aspects of modern slaveryMore info