In-person events
In-person events
Most galleries and museums across the UK are closed but some of the exhibitions below may be available online. Check up-to-date information via the links below.
Click here for our list of online only events, accessible to anyone anywhere.
GLASGOW
EXHIBITIONS
* Rajni Perera: Traveller, the first UK exhibition of Sri Lanka-born Toronto-based artist Rajni Perera, exploring issues of identity, hybridity and fluidity, Tuesdays to Saturdays, free (booking required), Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, G41, until 14 February 2021.
WEST MIDLANDS
EXHIBITIONS
* COMING HOME: Malala Yousafzai, as part of the National Portrait Gallery's "Coming Home" project, this portrait of the young activist is displayed publicly for the first time, and is accompanied by two works on related themes, free (booking required), Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Chamberlain Square, B3, until 7 February 2021.
LONDON
EXHIBITIONS
* A Countervailing Theory, the first UK exhibition by Nigerian-American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola explores an imagined ancient myth, with an immersive soundscape by artist Peter Adjaye, free, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2, until 24 January 2021.
* From Here to Eternity: Sunil Gupta, A Retrospective, the India-born UK-based photographer has focused on themes of identity, family, race, migration and the complexities and taboos of sexuality, Photographer’s Gallery, 16-128 Ramillies Street, W1 until 24 January.
* Remembering a Brave New World, swirling technicolour neon installation outside Tate Britain, viewable from the street, “drawing on feminist perspectives and Chila Kumari Singh Burman's Punjabi heritage, her work explores the heterogeneous nature of South Asian identity within a British context while challenging stereotypical notions of Asian women”, Millbank, until 31 January.
* Cairo Streets, photographs of 19th century life, V&A Museum, Cromwell Road, until 31 January.
* Zanele Muholi, more than 260 of the South African photographer's pictures of her country's LGBTQ+ community, Tate Modern, SE1, until 7 March.
* Heba Y. Amin: When I See My Future, I Close My Eyes, three bodies of work including the new technological formats that were instrumental in Egypt’s revolution, a migratory bird turned international ‘spy’ and a proposal to ‘solve’ the migration crisis by draining the Mediterranean Sea, Mosaic Rooms, Tower House, 226 Cromwell Road, SW5, until 28 March.
* The Krios of Sierra Leone, includes contemporary objects from the collections of Krio Londoners as well as 19th century objects related to British colonial rule from the museum’s collections, free but advance booking required, Docklands Museum, West India Quay, Hertsmere Road, E14, until March.
* Refugees: Forced to Flee, explores a century of refugee experiences, from Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews to the Calais Jungle and the treacherous Mediterranean crossings. The exhibition includes installations Life in a Camp and A Face to Open Doors and an artwork, Ai Weiwei’s History of Bombs, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, SE1, until 24 May.
+ Refugees: ’It can happen to anyone’
* History of Bombs, Ai WeiWei takes over the Imperial War Museum’s 1,000 square feet atrium - the first time space has been given to a single artist. He draws his investigation into politics and power, international migration and the relationship between the individual, society and the state, free.
* library of exile, installation by artist and writer Edmund de Waal, housing more than 2,000 books in translation, written by exiled authors, British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1.
* Collecting and Empire, new trail making connections between archaeology, anthropology and the British Empire, British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1.
Thanks to volunteers Daniel Nelson (editor of Eventslondon.org) and Silvia Tadiello for compiling this list.
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