We’ve brought together the best art, design and immersive exhibitions from around the UK to inspire you for the year ahead.
These group and solo exhibitions – including work from Simon Landrein, Andy Warhol and more – will inspire and educate you. We’ll be updating throughout 2020 as more events are announced, so keep checking back.
We kick off with essential ongoing shows from last year at the House of Illustration and The Design Museum.
Simon Landrein: I Don’t Get It
Until February 1 2020
Pocko, London
I Don’t Get It is Simon Landrein’s first ever exhibition of original work, showing now in the art space of Pocko, the London agency Simon’s signed to in the UK.
The digital artist returned from France back to his old stomping ground of London to launch the show, a collection of six-panel comic strips that both beguile and provoke.
We interviewed Simon on camera about his desire to move from digital and play with the physical, alongside working out what makes the French artist tick.
Find out more in our interview and check out his show for yourself at Pocko Gallery.
W.E.B. Du Bois: Charting Black Lives
Until March 1 2020
House of Illustration, London
As co-founder of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and author of the seminal book The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois is celebrated for his profound and prolific writings. But alongside his famous essays, Du Bois produced an astounding – yet little-known – body of infographics to challenge pseudo-scientific racism, making visual arguments every bit as powerful as his textual ones.
Since last year, London’s House of Illustration has been displaying the complete set of 63 graphics shown at the 1900 Paris Exposition, produced by Du Bois and a team of African American students from his sociology laboratory at Atlanta University. These visually innovative graphs, charts and maps formed a radical new approach to refuting racism, using strikingly presented facts and statistics to counter contemporary white supremacy.
Beazley Designs of the Year
Until March 31 2020
The Design Museum, London
Discover the most innovative designs across fashion, architecture, digital, transport, product and graphic design from the past, as nominated by the public and design experts from around the world.
This year’s winners include work for Adidas, a low-cost HIV detector, a next-generation crutch and graphic design by Pentagram, as profiled here.
Lightboxes + Lettering
January 17 – March 29 2020
Nunnery Gallery, London
Lightboxes + Lettering tells the story of the print industry across the 20th century, focussing on the east London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Waltham Forest.
The show uncovers and presents a wealth of material from historic examples of print to objects, photographs of iconic businesses and workers’ memories, told through a new collection of oral histories.
Andy Warhol
March 12 – September 6 2020
Tate Modern, London
This major retrospective is the first Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern for almost 20 years. As well as his iconic pop images of Marilyn Monroe, Coca-Cola and Campbell’s soup cans, it includes works never seen before in the UK. Twenty-five works from his Ladies and Gentlemen series – portraits of black and Latinx drag queens and trans women – are shown for the first time in 30 years.
Visitors can also play with his floating Silver Clouds and experience the psychedelic multimedia environment of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable.
Image: Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987) Debbie Harry 1980, Private Collection of Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport 1961 © 2019 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc / Artists Right Society (ARS), New York and DACS, London
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