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Exhibitions

Exhibitions

 

  • Please note, there may be disruption in the gallery opening hours on Thursday, 30th March because of train strike.

  • GALLERY EXHIBITIONS

    At Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, 108A Boundary Rd, London, NW8 0RH.

    Open Monday and Tuesday only for schools and group visits and Wednesday-Friday to the general public from 10 am to 5.30 pm

    To diary date the whole year’s gallery exhibition program please go to What’s On / Gallery

  • Shaping the Future: New Arrivals from Chagall to Ribeiro, 1 March - 2 June 2023

    Lancelot Ribeiro, King Lear, 1964, oil on canvas, Ben Uri Collection © The Estate of Lancelot Ribeiro

     

    Shaping the Future: New Arrivals from Chagall to Ribeiro

    1 March - 2 June 2023

    Shaping the Future is an exciting and eclectic exhibition marking new acquisitions and long-term loans to the Ben Uri Collection since 2019. This important selection of paintings, drawings, sculpture and lithographs marks the Ben Uri Research Unit’s continuing focus on the Jewish and immigrant contribution to British visual culture since 1900.

    This exhibition is dedicated to the memory of gallerist and curator Agi Katz (1938–2021). 

     

    A series of events including lectures, virtual exhibitions and an online Issuu catalogue will accompany the exhibition with an online curatorial tour by Ben Uri’s Director Sarah MacDougall.

     

    To read the full press release please click here

  • DIGITAL ARCHVE & LIVE EXHIBITIONS

  • 700 exhibitions

    3 different platforms
     

    Whether you just want to meander or are looking to research, we have developed 3 different ways you can engage with over 700 exhibitions covering a century of Ben Uri in London.  

    To explore our century of exhibitions in whichever format you prefer, please click on the links below.

  • BEN URI ARCHIVE FROM 1925 TO DATE

    Since 2015, we have researched and chronicled our century of archives and listed every recorded Ben Uri exhibition since our first in 1925 which celebrated the opening of our first gallery in Great Russell Street in Bloomsbury, just by the British Museum. We have created links from each exhibition to any related archival material identified to date. We have over 700 exhibitions to survey of which over 600 were Ben Uri curated. This extraordinary research resource is an ongoing project and is being continually updated, so please keep checking. 

     

    Visit Ben Uri exhibition archive on benuricollection.org.uk

     
  • 3D DIGITAL EXHIBITIONS

    Ben Uri is excited to launch new 3D exhibition presentations in a range of elegant gallery settings. They are designed to give you greater accessibility and insight to the art and stories behind them.

     

    Visit Ben Uri new 3D exhibitions here

     
  • CLASSIC ONLINE EXHIBITIONS

    Below are over 45 exhibitions to choose from. Please keep checking as we continue to curate and add new exhibitions.

  • EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK

     
  • Liberators, Twelve Extraordinary Women Artists from the Ben Uri Collection
    Exhibitions

    Liberators

    Twelve Extraordinary Women Artists from the Ben Uri Collection

    Unlike the vast majority of other UK museums, which have, on average, about 3% of their collection by women artists, Ben Uri has 29%, which is why we have the cultural assets to share with you across every part of our wide scholarly content.

     
  • Further exhibitions

    • Shaping the Future, New arrivals from Chagall to Ribeiro
      Exhibitions

      Shaping the Future

      New arrivals from Chagall to Ribeiro
      The first exhibition of its kind since the pandemic and the reopening of the gallery following flooding, Shaping the Future – New Arrivals at the Ben Uri Collection, presents an...
    • Joy
      Exhibitions

      Joy

      Ben Uri is delighted to be one of the National Gallery’s nine regional collection partners for the virtual exhibition Fruits of the Spirit: Art from the Heart , curated by...
    • Painting with an Accent: German-Jewish Émigré Stories, in cooperation with the German Embassy London
      Exhibitions

      Painting with an Accent: German-Jewish Émigré Stories

      in cooperation with the German Embassy London
      It is a privilege for the German Embassy to be working in partnership with the Ben Uri Gallery & Museum again on the digital exhibition Painting with an Accent: German-Jewish...
    • Motherlands - Angels - Country - Bengal, Selected works by Gerry Judah
      Exhibitions

      Motherlands - Angels - Country - Bengal

      Selected works by Gerry Judah
      A tiny, perfectly made metal rickshaw supports a billowing, cloud-like structure; another holds aloft a branching, spired form. Is it meant to suggest a burnt-out cathedral? No, it’s the skeleton...
    • A Survivor relives her memories, Edith Birkin (1927-2018) visualising her memories from Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen
      Exhibitions

      A Survivor relives her memories

      Edith Birkin (1927-2018) visualising her memories from Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen
      Edith Birkin (née Hoffmann) was born into a Jewish family in Prague, Czechoslovakia on 13 November 1927. As a girl of 14, she entered the Lodz ghetto in Poland and...
    • Jankel Adler, A 'Degenerate' Artist in Britain, 1940-49
      Exhibitions

      Jankel Adler

      A 'Degenerate' Artist in Britain, 1940-49
      Marking the 70th anniversary of the artist's death, Jankel Adler: A 'Degenerate' Artist in Britain, 1940-49 is the first museum exhibition of Adler's works in Britain since the Arts...
    • Yiddish: the language, people, and heritage, From the Art and Archives of the Ben Uri Collection
      Exhibitions

      Yiddish: the language, people, and heritage

      From the Art and Archives of the Ben Uri Collection
      This online exhibition, Yiddish: the language, people and heritage, explores Ben Uri's extensive collections of artworks and archives, both more than a century old, with unique pieces reflecting the prevailing...
    • Liberators, Twelve Extraordinary Women Artists from the Ben Uri Collection
      Exhibitions

      Liberators

      Twelve Extraordinary Women Artists from the Ben Uri Collection
      This exhibition celebrates the lives, courage and strength of character, across so many human endeavours, of extraordinary women artists from the Ben Uri Collection. Liberators explores the lives and works...
    • Rothenstein's Relevance
      Exhibitions

      Rothenstein's Relevance

      Artist, writer, teacher and consummate networker, Sir William Rothenstein was a leading British artist in the years before the First World War and a highly influential and well-connected figure throughout...
    • Jacob Kramer (1892 - 1962), Works from the Ben Uri Collection
      Exhibitions

      Jacob Kramer (1892 - 1962)

      Works from the Ben Uri Collection
      A Russian-Jewish immigrant, Kramer arrived in Britain in 1900. He studied at Leeds School of Art and briefly at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, supported by modernist...
    • Mark Gertler and the Whitechapel Boys , Paintings from the Luke Gertler Bequest & Selected Important UK Collections
      Exhibitions

      Mark Gertler and the Whitechapel Boys

      Paintings from the Luke Gertler Bequest & Selected Important UK Collections
      BURU (the Ben Uri Research Unit) is delighted to present the exhibition, Mark Gertler: Paintings from the Luke Gertler Bequest & Selected Important UK Collections, curated by Sarah MacDougall, the...
    • David Bomberg - A Pioneer of Modernism
      Exhibitions

      David Bomberg - A Pioneer of Modernism

      David Bomberg was born to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents in Birmingham, England, in 1890. The family moved to Whitechapel in 1895, where he became prominent among the ‘Whitechapel Boys’ — a...
    • Becoming Gustav Metzger, Uncovering The Early Years, 1945-59
      Exhibitions

      Becoming Gustav Metzger

      Uncovering The Early Years, 1945-59
      Becoming Gustav Metzger: Uncovering the Early Years, 1945–59 The Ben Uri Research Unit (BURU), in partnership with The Gustav Metzger Foundation, is delighted to present the first museum exhibition to...
    • Teacher and Pupil, David Bomberg and Frank Auerbach
      Exhibitions

      Teacher and Pupil

      David Bomberg and Frank Auerbach
      The credit lines reflect the ownership of artworks at the time of the original display.
    • Frank Auerbach, Works from the Ben Uri Collection
      Exhibitions

      Frank Auerbach

      Works from the Ben Uri Collection
      Frank Auerbach was born in Berlin to Jewish parents in 1931 and immigrated to England in 1939 (naturalised in 1947); his parents, who remained behind, subsequently perished in concentration camps....
    • Friends and Influences, Auerbach, Kossoff, Kitaj, Freud
      Exhibitions

      Friends and Influences

      Auerbach, Kossoff, Kitaj, Freud
      BURU (the Ben Uri Research Unit) presents Friends and Influences, the third in our series of snapshot survey exhibitions exploring a particular aspect of the Jewish and immigrant contribution to...
    • Self Portraits from the Ben Uri Collection
      Exhibitions

      Self Portraits from the Ben Uri Collection

      The credit lines reflect the ownership of artworks at the time of the original display.
    • Midnight's Family, 70 years of Indian Artists in Britain
      Exhibitions

      Midnight's Family

      70 years of Indian Artists in Britain
      This timely exhibition, which coincides with the date of Indian Independence (declared at midnight on 15 August 1947), addresses the representation of Indian immigrant artists (both first and second generation)...
    • Shanti Panchal, A Personal Language of Painting 2007-2018
      Exhibitions

      Shanti Panchal

      A Personal Language of Painting 2007-2018
      Shanti Panchal: A Personal Language of Painting is Ben Uri Research Unit’s first digital show devoted to a contemporary émigré. Born in the mid-1950s (exact date unknown) in rural Gujarat,...
    • Chaïm Soutine and his Contemporaries, From Russia to Paris
      Exhibitions

      Chaïm Soutine and his Contemporaries

      From Russia to Paris
      To celebrate the museum’s acquisition of Soutine’s La Soubrette, c. 1933, the exhibition, Chaïm Soutine and his Contemporaries: from Russia to Paris, unveils this important portrait, together with a small...
    • A Farewell to Art , Chagall, Shakespeare and Prospero
      Exhibitions

      A Farewell to Art

      Chagall, Shakespeare and Prospero
      A Farewell to Art: Chagall, Shakespeare and Prospero is the first UK exhibition of a rare limited edition portfolio by Marc Chagall, which features 50 illustrations created to reflect his...
    • 100 for 100, Ben Uri: Past, Present and Future
      Exhibitions

      100 for 100

      Ben Uri: Past, Present and Future
      From 21 May until 9 June 2016, at the generous invitation of Christie's, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum presents a unique exhibition celebrating its past, present and future sharing the vision driving...
    • Uproar!, The first 50 years of the London Group 1913-1963
      Exhibitions

      Uproar!

      The first 50 years of the London Group 1913-1963
      Ben Uri is honoured to present 'Uproar!': The first 50 Years of The London Group 1913‒63, showcasing 50 works by 50 artists during this half century. The exhibition marks the...
    • Out of Chaos , Ben Uri: 100 Years in London
      Exhibitions

      Out of Chaos

      Ben Uri: 100 Years in London
    • Biblical Stories , Photographs by Adi Nes
      Exhibitions

      Biblical Stories

      Photographs by Adi Nes
      Ben Uri Gallery and Museum is honoured to launch an exhibition of Israeli born artist Adi Nes’ seminal Biblical Stories series from 2006. Born of Iranian parents and raised in...
    • Interstices, Discovering the Ben Uri Collection, Curated by René Gimpel
      Exhibitions

      Interstices

      Discovering the Ben Uri Collection, Curated by René Gimpel
      Interstices Curated by René Gimpel 'The Ben Uri collection is a treasure trove. It’s an honour and a privilege to be invited to delve into it, with carte blanche as...
    • Reinvesting in New Acquisitions and Long-term Loans
      Exhibitions

      Reinvesting in New Acquisitions and Long-term Loans

      The exhibition showcases key recent new acquisitions and long-term loans to the Ben Uri Collection, arranged to reflect both Ben Uri's own history and three principal waves of migration to...
    • Alfred Cohen, An American Artist in Europe - Between Figuration and Abstraction
      Exhibitions

      Alfred Cohen

      An American Artist in Europe - Between Figuration and Abstraction
      This is an online version of the recent Alfred Cohen exhibition at Bush House, London, co-curated by Max Saunders and Sarah MacDougall. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Alfred...
    • Golden Drawings and the Coviad, David Breuer-Weil
      Exhibitions

      Golden Drawings and the Coviad

      David Breuer-Weil
      Drawing is like breathing, the most natural form of making a work of art and the beginning of any painting or sculpture. A sketchbook is an extra limb, always there,...
    • Refiguring the 50s, Joan Eardley, Sheila Fell, Eva Frankfurther, Josef Herman and L S Lowry
      Exhibitions

      Refiguring the 50s

      Joan Eardley, Sheila Fell, Eva Frankfurther, Josef Herman and L S Lowry
      Refiguring the 50s featured works by Joan Eardley, Sheila Fell, Eva Frankfurther, Josef Herman and L.S. Lowry: five figurative artists working in Britain in the 1950s, whom each had a strong...
    • Selected Works by Eva Frankfurther (1930-1959)
      Exhibitions

      Selected Works by Eva Frankfurther (1930-1959)

      Two contexts inform the life and work of Eva Frankfurther: the decade through which she lived and worked in 1950s Britain and its concern with the realist tradition; and the...
    • Head, 1948, oil on canvas, 51.5 x 47.3cm. The Gustav Metzger Foundation
      Exhibitions

      Portraits - Expressionist and Surreal

      Becoming Gustav Metzger: Uncovering The Early Years, 1945-59
      Portraits — Expressionist and Surreal features 23 paintings and drawings, including an experimental series of portrait heads, surreal figures and large-scale thematic works, the majority probably completed as a result...
    • Frank Auerbach's Portrait Etchings, from the Ben Uri Collection
      Exhibitions

      Frank Auerbach's Portrait Etchings

      from the Ben Uri Collection
      An online exhibition showcasing Frank Auerbach's series of Seven Portrait etchings from Ben Uri Collection.
    • Head of a Girl, 1948-49, charcoal on paper, 56 x 46cm, charcoal on paper. The Gustav Metzger Foundation
      Exhibitions

      Antwerp Models

      Becoming Gustav Metzger: Uncovering The Early Years, 1945-59
      The second in the Becoming Gustav Metzger online exhibition series, Antwerp Models features 33 drawings in pencil, crayon and ink, the majority of which are thought to have been executed...
    • Painting on Galvanised Steel, 1958, oil on steel, 105.2 x 104.2cm. The Gustav Metzger Foundation
      Exhibitions

      Towards Abstraction and Beyond

      Becoming Gustav Metzger: Uncovering The Early Years, 1945-59
      Towards Abstraction and Beyond is the fourth and final instalment in a series of exhibitions designed to showcase the breadth of Gustav Metzger’s early work, as he moved towards the...
    • Table, 1956, coloured chalk on paper, 46 x 46cm. The Gustav Metzger Foundation
      Exhibitions

      British Museum and Architectural Studies

      Becoming Gustav Metzger: Uncovering The Early Years, 1945-59
      The third instalment of the Becoming Gustav Metzger online exhibition series features 19 British Museum and architectural studies, as well as Belgian landscapes dating from the late 1940s and early...
    • Yalta 1945 by Komar & Melamid
      Exhibitions

      Yalta 1945 by Komar & Melamid

      Ben Uri is honoured to launch the world tour of this seminal monumental installation of Yalta 1945 from 1986-87, previously exhibited at D ocumenta 8 in 1987 and at Brooklyn...
    • Thirty-six Pounds and Ninety-five Pence , Artworks by Contemporary Migrant Artists
      Exhibitions

      Thirty-six Pounds and Ninety-five Pence

      Artworks by Contemporary Migrant Artists
      In honour of Refugee Week, Ben Uri Gallery and New Art Studio celebrate “our shared future” through a partnership of refugee and asylum seekers' artwork. Contrary to common belief, asylum...
    • Art-exit 1939: A Very Different Europe, Adler, Chagall, Bloch, Auerbach, Daghani, Feibusch and other
      Exhibitions

      Art-exit 1939: A Very Different Europe

      Adler, Chagall, Bloch, Auerbach, Daghani, Feibusch and other
      This exhibition shines a spotlight on a very different Europe in 1939 and the forced journeys made by many of Central Europe’s most distinguished, talented and pioneering artists, who escaped...
    • From Adler to Zulawski, A Century of Polish Artists in Britain
      Exhibitions

      From Adler to Zulawski

      A Century of Polish Artists in Britain
      This exhibition is the first in Ben Uri’s series on refugee and migrant artists, highlighting the Polish contribution in Britain over the last century. This focus is particularly apt as...
    • Czech Routes, Selected Czechoslovak Artists in Britain from the Ben Uri and private collections
      Exhibitions

      Czech Routes

      Selected Czechoslovak Artists in Britain from the Ben Uri and private collections
      Czech Routes is the fourth in Ben Uri’s series of exhibitions designed to highlight the contribution of émigré artists to Britain since 1900. Featuring the work of 21 painters, printmakers...
    • Out of Austria , Austrian Artists in Exile in Great Britain, 1933-45
      Exhibitions

      Out of Austria

      Austrian Artists in Exile in Great Britain, 1933-45
      Marking the 80 th anniversary of the Anschluss (annexation of Austria), the exhibition Out of Austria brings together around 40 works by more than 20 Austrian artists who fled to...
    • German Refugee Artists to Britain since 1900
      Exhibitions

      German Refugee Artists to Britain since 1900

      This exhibition brings together art works and archival material by an array of both celebrated and lesser-known German-born refugee artists, principally from the Ben Uri Collection, supplemented by important external...
    • Migrations , Masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection
      Exhibitions

      Migrations

      Masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection
      Ben Uri is delighted to be working in partnership with GARAS and Gloucester Museum and Gloucester City Council to present the exhibition Migrations: Masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection (3rd...
    • Art and the Holocaust
      Exhibitions

      Art and the Holocaust

    • Interned Artists, Ben Uri and the 80th Anniversary of Internment
      Exhibitions

      Interned Artists

      Ben Uri and the 80th Anniversary of Internment
      In memory of Eva Aldbrook 1925-2020 On the 80 th anniversary of internment in Britain, Ben Uri is celebrating the many artist internees who are represented within its permanent collection...
    • Finchleystrasse, German artists in exile in Great Britain and Beyond, 1933–45
      Exhibitions

      Finchleystrasse

      German artists in exile in Great Britain and Beyond, 1933–45
      Between 1933 and 1945, whether for religious, political or artistic reasons, over 300 painters, sculptors and graphic artists fled into exile or immigrated to Great Britain from Nazi Germany. This...
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