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Hayward Gallery’s 2020 programme
(L-R: Shi Guowei, Pine, 2016, © Mr. Xi Tao; Reena Kallat, C horus, 2017, © Reena Kallat Studio, Photography by Dheeraj Thakur; Luigi Ghirri, Modena, 1972. © Estate of Luigi Ghirri; Matthew Barney, R edoubt, 2018. Production still. © Matthew Barney, courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photo: Hugo Glendinning)
Spring 2020
Among the Trees 4 March – 17 May 2020
Among the Trees brings together artworks that explore our multifaceted relationships with trees and forests. Drawing on the beauty and visually arresting character of trees – including their complex spatial and architectural forms – the works in this exhibition invite us to consider trees as symbols and living organisms that have helped to shape human civilisation. Beginning with influential works from the late 1960s – a decade that saw the emergence of the modern environmental movement in Europe and the United States – Among the Trees surveys a remarkably expansive terrain, encompassing a wide range of artistic approaches from the past 50 years whilst reflecting on myriad aspects of this rich subject. T he exhibition includes painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and video installations that range in scale from the monumental to the intimate. By turns poetic, adventurous and thought-provoking, the exhibition celebrates the tree’s enduring resonance as a source of inspiration for some of the most significant contemporary artists of our time, among them R obert Adams, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, T acita Dean, Peter Doig, Anya Gallaccio, Giuseppe Penone, R obert Smithson and P ascale Marthine Tayou. The exhibition is curated by Hayward Gallery Director Ralph Rugoff.
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Summer 2020
Reverb: Sound into Art 24 June – 6 September 2020
Reverb: Sound into Art i nvites visitors to experience sound in an immersive multi-sensory way. Bringing together 15 international artists who work with sound as their primary medium, this ambitious group show redefines how we interact with an artist's work. R everb c onsiders the many different ways sound can make us feel – both physically and emotionally – and relate to the spaces around us. Featuring monumental sculptures that surround you with noise, as well as contrasting moments of silence, the exhibition includes newly commissioned installations that respond to Hayward Gallery’s brutalist architecture, as well as sound-based artworks situated across the wider Southbank Centre site. Artists in the show include T arek Atoui, J anet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, C hristine Sun Kim and O liver Beer. The exhibition is curated by Hayward Gallery Senior Curator Zoé Whitley.
Autumn 2020
Luigi Ghirri: The Map and the Territory 14 October 2020 – 10 January 2021
Luigi Ghirri: The Map and the Territory i s the first major exhibition in the UK of L uigi Ghirri’ s pioneering photography: at once playful and serious, poetic and philosophical. Featuring over 170 photographs made by Ghirri during the 1970s, the exhibition explores his fascination with signs and advertising, and the way that they shape our understanding of the world around us. The photographs in this exhibition invite us to join the artist on what he called a ‘great adventure into the world of thinking and looking’. Ghirri, who lived in northern Italy, is considered a pivotal figure in the rise of colour photography in Europe. Many of his photographs depict the area in and around his native province of Emilia-Romagna, from the
beaches of Ravenna to the suburbs of Modena. His photographs of model villages, fairgrounds and natural history museums, as well as everyday objects, playfully question the relationship between reality and illusion.
Matthew Barney: Redoubt 14 October 2020 – 10 January 2021
Matthew Barney: Redoubt reveals a major new direction in the pioneering work of this renowned artist and filmmaker. Alongside a series of monumental sculptures and over forty engravings and electroplated copper plates, the exhibition includes a feature-length film loosely based on the myth of Diana and Actaeon that traces the story of a wolf hunt in Idaho’s Sawtooth mountain range. Hailed as ‘breath-takingly beautiful’ by The New York Times, the film brings together classical, cosmological and American myths to explore humanity’s place in the natural world as well as political currents at play in the region. The large-scale sculptures in the exhibition are unique casts of trees harvested from a fire-damaged forest in the Sawtooth mountains. For these sculptures and his engravings, Barney combines traditional casting methods and digital technology to create artworks of formal and material complexity that also reflect on the story told in the film. This highly anticipated exhibition is the artist’s first solo museum presentation in the UK in over a decade.
Further HENI Project Space programming will be announced throughout 2020.
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Notes To Editors
About H ayward Gallery Hayward Gallery, part of Southbank Centre, has a long history of presenting work by the world’s most adventurous and innovative artists including major solo shows by both emerging and established artists and dynamic group exhibitions. They include those by Bridget Riley, Martin Creed, Antony Gormley, Tracey Emin, Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, Jeremy Deller, Anish Kapoor, René Magritte, Francis Bacon and David Shrigley, as well as influential group exhibitions such as Africa Remix, Light Show, P sycho Buildings a nd S pace Shifters. O pened by Her Majesty The Queen in July 1968, the gallery is one of the few remaining buildings of its style. The Brutalist building was designed by a
group of young architects, including Dennis Crompton, Warren Chalk and Ron Herron and is named after Sir Isaac Hayward, a former leader of the London County Council.
About S outhbank Centre Southbank Centre is the UK’s largest arts centre and one of the UK's top five visitor attractions, occupying a prominent riverside location that sits in the midst of London’s most vibrant cultural quarter on the South Bank of the Thames. We exist to present great cultural experiences that bring people together and we achieve this by providing the space for artists to create and present their best work and by creating a place where as many people as possible can come together to experience bold, unusual and eye-opening work. We want to take people out of the everyday, every day. The site has an extraordinary creative and architectural history stretching back to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Southbank Centre is made up of the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery as well as being home to the National Poetry Library and the Arts Council Collection. It is also home to four Resident Orchestras (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Sinfonietta and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment) and four Associate Orchestras (Aurora Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Chineke! Orchestra and National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain).