Press Release Date: 10 October 2019 Contact : James Smyllie, [email protected] / 0207 921 0752 Images : downloadable here Southbank Centre announces 2020 visual art programme highlights for Hayward Gallery, Hayward Gallery Touring and Arts Council Collection (L-R: Shi Guowei, Pine, 2016, © Mr. Xi Tao ; Reena Kallat, Chorus , 2017, © Reena Kallat Studio, Photography by Dheeraj Thakur) Hayward Gallery presents an ambitious programme of major group shows including Among the Trees and Reverb: Sound into Art . Among the Trees (4 March – 17 May 2020) brings together artworks that reflect on our multifaceted relationships with trees and forests and celebrates the tree’s enduring resonance as a source of inspiration for some of the most significant contemporary artists of our time, including Robert Adams , Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Tacita Dean, Peter Doig , Anya Gallaccio, Giuseppe Penone , Robert Smithson , and Pascale Marthine Tayou . Featuring the work of 15 international artists, Reverb: Sound into Art (24 June – 6 September 2020) invites visitors to experience sound in an immersive multi-sensory way with a number of newly commissioned installations that respond to Hayward Gallery's uniquely volumetric architecture. Ralph Rugoff, Director, Hayward Gallery said: “Hayward Gallery will expand on its rich history of presenting adventurous and thought-provoking group shows this year with two major group exhibitions that feature some of the most influential and inventive artists of this moment. Timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, A mong the Trees b rings together artworks from the past half-century that invite us to re-imagine how we relate to and think about trees and forests. Reverb: Sound into Art , which takes place 20 years after the Hayward’s pioneering S onic Boom exhibition, will be a crucial update on the growing importance of contemporary artists who explore how sound can involve and affect us.” Hayward Gallery Touring launches Not Without My Ghosts ( 27 March – 14 June 2020), an exhibition of works inspired by spiritualist methodologies, and heralds the return of its major quinquennial survey exhibition with British Art Show 9 , which opens in Manchester in September 2020. Arts Council Collection presents B reaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945 , a group exhibition celebrating post-war British sculpture made by women. Hayward Gallery highlights include: 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. The 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, Tacita Dean, Peter Doig, Anya Gallaccio , Giuseppe Penone, Robert Smithson and P ascale Marthine Tayou. The exhibition is curated by Hayward Gallery Director Ralph Rugoff. A supporting programme of public talks taking place throughout the exhibition will be announced on 4 November. Reverb: Sound into Art 24 June – 6 September 2020 Reverb: Sound into Art invites 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 considers 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 , Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller , Christine Sun Kim and Oliver Beer. The exhibition is curated by Hayward Gallery Senior Curator Zoé Whitley. Further Hayward Gallery and HENI Project Space programming will be announced throughout 2020. Hayward Gallery Touring: ● Hayward Gallery Touring’s B ritish Art Show 9 opens in Manchester (September 2020 – January 2021) and then tours to Wolverhampton, Aberdeen and Plymouth ● Not Without My Ghosts i s a collaboration with Drawing Room, London. The exhibition explores the changing historical and aesthetic engagement between visual art and spiritualism from William Blake and Georgiana Houghton to B onnie Camplin and L ouise Despont ( 27 March – 14 June 2020, then touring) Brian Cass, Senior Curator, Hayward Gallery Touring, said: “ As always, Hayward Gallery Touring presents an immense variety of exhibitions around the UK in 2020; Not Without My Ghosts will shed light on how tropes of the ghostly and spectral are intertwined in modern life, while the continued tour of Slow Painting e xplores the multiple aspects of what slowness might mean in relation to contemporary painting. We are especially delighted to launch B ritish Art Show 9 , which is certain to be another exceptional iteration of this long-standing staple of the British art calendar. Curated by Irene Aristizábal and Hammad Nasar, British Art Show is by definition an articulation of the ‘here and now’ and it introduces a new generation of British artists to millions of people across the country.” Not Without My Ghosts Drawing Room from 27 March – 14 June 2020, then touring Hayward Gallery Touring presents Not Without My Ghosts, an exhibition of artists and works inspired by spiritualist methodologies and their deep cultural history, ranging from the 19th century to the current day. Featuring an international range of artists working across drawing, painting, sculpture, film and installation, the exhibition explores the changing historical and aesthetic terms of artistic engagement with spiritualism, from seance works and spiritualist communities, to the mediumistic role of the artist. The exhibition takes as its starting point the visionary work of William Blake and the art of forgotten Victorian-era Spiritualist Georgiana Houghton, and continues up to the present day with artists such as Bonnie Camplin and Louise Despont. N ot Without My Ghosts is a collaboration with Drawing Room, London and is curated by Lars Bang Larsen, Simon Grant and Marco Pasi. It will open at Drawing Room in March 2020, before touring to Museums Sheffield and the Glynn Vivian Swansea. British Art Show 9 Castlefield Gallery, HOME, Manchester Art Gallery and The Whitworth, September 2020 – January 2021, then touring British Art Show is a landmark touring exhibition of contemporary art that takes place every five years in four different cities across the UK. Acknowledged as the most important recurrent exhibition of contemporary British art, it is unrivaled in its ambition, scope and national reach. The exhibition introduces a wide public to a new generation of British artists, or artists practising in Britain, and provides a vital overview of the most exciting art produced in the country during the last five years. British Art Show 9 is curated by Irene Aristizábal and Hammad Nasar, and opens in Manchester in 2020, before touring to Wolverhampton, Aberdeen and Plymouth. More information in the British Art Show press release with further details to be announced. Find full Hayward Gallery Touring listings h ere. Arts Council Collection: ● Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945 c elebrates post-war British sculpture by artists identifying as women. The survey exhibition represents the work of over 45 sculptors including Barbara Hepworth, Kim Lim , R achel Whiteread a nd Anthea Hamilton . The exhibition opens at Longside Gallery at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (4 April – 16 June 2020, then touring) ● Firstsite, Sunderland Culture, and T he Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange present exhibitions as part of the Arts Council Collection’s N ational Partners Programme Jill Constantine, Director, Arts Council Collection, said: “2020 is an important year for the Arts Council Collection. We look forward to a variety of exciting exhibitions from our group of new National Partners ( Sunderland Culture , Firstsite, Colchester and T he Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, Penzance). Furthermore, we are proud to open our new touring exhibition, Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945 . The first of its kind, the exhibition will provide a timely reminder of the significant contribution women have made to this particular art form.” Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945 Longside Gallery at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 4 April – 16 June 2020, then touring This major Arts Council Collection survey exhibition seeks to redefine post-war British sculpture by presenting a diverse