Events
DON’T MISS
14 February — 29 March 2025
Enjoy gallery presents four projects: ‘Rutu, Rongo and Rita’ by Maungarongo (Ron) Te Kawa; ‘Iterations / Alterations’ by Catherine Griffiths (above); ‘Low Tide’ by Manuha'apai Vaeatangitau (Manu Vaea); and an offsite exhibition at the Wellington Botanical Gardens at the end of March, Tipurepure Au Vaine, curated by Tehani Ngapare Rau-Te-Tara Buchanan.
Enjoy, 211 Left Bank, Te Aro, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Open Wed-Fri 11-6pm; Sat 11-4pm
to 15 February 2025
The exhibition will showcase over a hundred architectural pencil drawings of London pubs by Lydia Wood. In 2021, the South East London artist declared she would draw every pub in London. Now about 10 per cent of the way through, Lydia travels across the city to draw their exterior architecture from life; meeting landlords, landladies, locals and pub cats along the way.
Admission is free. Open Saturdays, 10am - 4pm
Gerald Moore Gallery, Mottingham Lane, London SE9 4RW
13 February — 8 March 2025
This London exhibition is by OK-RM, the practice of Oliver Knight and Rory McGrath (see ‘They work with words’ in Eye 75), curated by James Langdon. Alongside the show, the practice will host a series of ‘Meetings’ with collaborators and friends of the studio, held over consecutive Thursday evenings and aimed at encouraging critical discourse. The exhibition is accompanied by A Meaningful Order (above), a 328-page book published by InOtherWords.
The title comes from Victor Papanek’s 1985 description of design as ‘a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order’.
Maximillian William, 47 Mortimer St., London W1W 8HJ UK
13 February — 16 March 2025
Vivi presenti pugnanti. L’Aventino e l’antifascismo dopo Matteotti
‘Alive, defiant, unyielding. The Aventine secession and anti-fascism after Matteotti’
‘One hundred years ago, following the murder of Giacomo Matteotti, some 100 antifascist members of parliament left the Chamber, with the aim to promote a moral question against the fascist dictatorship and to fight Mussolini out of power using the weapons of democracy. They gave life to a laboratory of democracy that expanded throughout the country between 1924 and 1926. Although the experiment was defeated, they left an important legacy to the new antifascist generations in exile and up to the Resistance and the post-war Republic. An exhibition, held in Milan last autumn and now in Brescia from 13 February to 16 March, has reconstructed that history.’ Claudia Baldoli:
Venue: Sala ex Cavallerizza of Brescia (via Fratelli Cairoli 9), Italy
25 January — 20 April 2025
This exhibition explores the overlooked richness and diversity of working-class life and creative expression from the 1950s to now. ‘Lives Less Ordinary’ will bring together ceramics, film, painting, photography and sculpture from wide-ranging public collections, archives and contemporary artists across the UK to explore a nuanced and authentic reflection of working-class experience, within an architectural setting that both manifests and ‘interrogates’ wealth and privilege.
Free entry, no booking required.
Tue & Thu-Sat: 11am – 6pm; Wed: 11am – 9pm; Sun: 11am – 4.30pm; Mon: closed.
Venue: Two Temple Place, 2 Temple Place, London WC2R 3BD
Image: Rene Matić, Import & Export, Peckham, 2022.
11 February – 5 May 2025
Linder’s first London retrospective showcases 50 years of the pioneering feminist artist’s work, dissecting our fascination with the body and its representation. From the early photomontages made while she was part of the punk scene of 1970s Manchester, to new work in digital montage shown for the first time, the exhibition presents the breadth of Linder’s artistic output across montage, photography, performance and sculpture. The body and its photographic representation, from early glamour photography to digital deep fakes, is central to Linder’s approach to image-making. Often working with a medical grade scalpel, she draws on the creative and violent power of the cut in her forensic examination of our shifting attitudes to aspirational lifestyles, sex, food and fashion.
Linder: Danger Came Smiling is recommended for audiences aged 16 and over. The exhibition includes depictions of nudity and images of a sexual nature.
Admission: £19 general, Concession tickets available, Members free.
Open: Tuesday – Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 10am-8pm, Sunday 10am-6pm, Closed Mondays.
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XX
8 February — 31 May 2025
The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists
This exhibition shines a spotlight on the talented illustrators who brought Ladybird stories to life for more than 30 years, contributing to the success of one of the legendary publisher. The exhibition collection, curated and loaned by Helen Day, presents an unparalleled array of books, original artwork and artefacts that highlight the role of Ladybird illustrators in creating some of the most cherished books of our time. The show includes a giant wall of 480 Ladybird books, showcasing an extraordinary collection of titles spanning decades; hand-drawn artwork; unframed books, ephemera and wall-mounted books; and a reading corner.
Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery Priestgate, Peterborough, PE1 1LF
Read Adrian Shaughnessy’s article ‘Mystery and clarity’ in Eye 52 and Clare Walters’ review of Boys and Girls in Eye 66.
to 21 February
Safari Tipografica Jerez de la Frontera
Featuring photography from Stephen ONeill (also known as TypeChap), this exhibition includes images of the gorgeous sun-dried letterforms and signage on buildings in Jerez de la Frontera, Andalucia (see ‘Type safari in Andalucia’ on the Eye blog). The exhibition is made in preparation for a publication that will be in support of Jerez 2031 – the city's bid for European capital of culture.
Admission is free.
Bujio, San Miguel, Pl. la Cruz Vieja, 3, 11402 Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain
to 26 February 2025
The Caseroom: 60 years of Letterpress etc.
The Glasgow School of Art’s specialised printing and typesetting facility The Caseroom, part of the GSA’s School of Design, celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2025 with an exhibition The Caseroom: 60 Years of Letterpress etc. at The Glasgow School of Art. The exhibition brings together works by current and former students as well as staff and a wide range of professional collaborators. The exhibition in the Reid Ground Floor Corridor launches a year-long programme of commemorative events.
Admission is free.
The Glasgow School of Art, 167 Renfrew Street Glasgow, G3 6RQ, Scotland
CURRENTLY ON
to 16 February 2025
Looks Delicious! Exploring Japan’s food replica culture
Take a mouth-watering journey through the uniquely Japanese phenomenon of shokuhin sanpuru – the unexpectedly realistic food replicas displayed in front of restaurants across Japan. Offering a rare opportunity outside Japan to see these skilfully-created models up close, this vibrant exhibition explores the history, materials, processes and future potential of the craft.
Admission is free, booking is recommended.
Japan House, 101-111 Kensington High Street, London W8 5SA
Read ‘A feast for the eye’, Janet South’s review of ‘Looks Delicious!’ on the Eye blog.
to 23 February 2025
Fantastical Streets: The Theatrical Posters of Boris Bućan
The posters in this display represent a snapshot within Bućan’s (see Eye 92) expansive career, focusing on the monumental works he created for his first season with the Croatian National Theatre in Split, who hired him between 1982 and 1986. While he had previously produced a few large-format posters for other organizations or events, these images made up of six separate sheets of paper became his best-known designs, transforming exterior walls into urban canvases for his artistic explorations.
Admission: Adults $12, students $8, seniors $8, children under 18 free
Poster House, Jewel Box Gallery, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 23 February 2025
Lester Beall & A New American Identity
Lester Beall (see Eye 24 and Eye 90) was hired to advertise the Rural Electrification Administration’s work, creating three series of posters over a five-year span. Knowing that Americans were generally distrustful of overly intellectual and visually obtuse European modernism, Beall deftly translated and advanced these artistic concepts to create a new kind of American art, one that distilled the heart of various avant-garde movements with the need for clear communication and the desire to sell. This exhibition highlights the groundbreaking work Beall produced for the REA, as well as the development of his contributions to American modernism up through World War II.
This is the first time where all posters from all three REA series will be on view in a single show.
Admission: Adults $12, students $8, seniors $8, children under 18 free
Poster House, Programs Gallery, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011, US
to 23 February 2025
Just Frame It: How Nike Turned Sports Stars into Superheroes
Chronicling the many professional sports promoted by Nike, from basketball and football to tennis and golf, as well as the myriad athletes who worked with the brand, this exhibition showcases how one company paved the way for modern sports advertising.
Admission: Adults $12, students $8, seniors $8, children under 18 free
Poster House, Main Gallery, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 23 February 2025
Opening to coincide with the 65th anniversary of the Barbie ‘brand’ in 2024, the exhibition will explore its story ‘through a design lens’, including fashion, architecture, furniture and vehicle design. The show includes more than 250 objects, with dolls dating from 1959 to the present day.
Admission: Adult tickets from £14.38, Children from £7.19, Concession / Student from £10.77.
Under-sixes go free
Exhibition open Monday to Thursday 10:00 – 17:00, Friday to Sunday 10:00 – 18:00
The Design Museum, 224–238 Kensington High Street, London W8 6AG
Top. 1959 Barbie No. 1 © Mattel, Inc.
to 23 February 2025
Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage
Presenting the work of the truly innovative American photographer, Deborah Turbeville (1932-2013), the exhibition will feature a selection of her personal vintage photocollages and editorial work. Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage will present Turbeville's trailblazing photographic explorations, from fashion photos to her very personal work. Bringing together unique pieces, the exhibition will show Turbeville's highly personal artistic universe which has been credited with transforming fashion imagery into avant-garde art.
Admission: General £10, Concession £7. Admission is free on Fridays after 5pm.
The Photographers' Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW
to 23 February 2025
Letizia Battaglia: Life, Love and Death in Sicily
The Photographers’ Gallery presents a solo show of work by Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia (1935-2022). Born in Palermo, Sicily in 1935, Battaglia began her photographic career in the early 1970s, when she was in her mid-forties. She documented everyday life, alongside the brutal reality of the Mafia and their victims in Sicily during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. Her images are some of the best-known records of life in the shadow of the Mafia. Letizia Battaglia: Life, Love and Death in Sicily is the first major exhibition in the UK following her death in 2022.
Admission: £8 (£5 concession), Advance - £6.50 (£4 concession), Members go free, Admission is free on Fridays after 5pm.
The Photographers' Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW
to 26 February 2025
Principles of Data Graphics
with R. J. Andrews
Data graphics are magical. They help us discover and discuss otherwise invisible phenomena. Within five sessions, participants will dissect the elements that make charts and maps spectacular. Each session will focus on a specific aspect of information design, ranging from choosing effective visual metaphors to visualizing uncertainty to the subtle art of color-encoding. Throughout critiquing and making, the emphasis will be on the hard human decisions necessary to create effective data graphics.
Five online sessions / 5:00–8:00pm EST
Fee: $675
Type@Cooper, 30 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003
to 2 March 2025
Serpentine presents the first ever UK exhibition of the LA-based artist, Lauren Halsey, who will transform the gallery into an immersive funk garden with a site-specific installation responding to Kensington Gardens. For the past decade, Lauren Halsey has developed a distinctive visual vocabulary deeply rooted in the South Central neighbourhood of Los Angeles where she and her family have lived for generations. Through maximalist installations and stand-alone objects, Halsey archives and remixes the signs and symbols that populate her environment.
Admission is free.
Serpentine South, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA
to 2 March 2025
80 Studios presents The Vinyl Factory — Reverb, a major multimedia exhibition exploring the intersection of art and sound. In the largest show of its kind, The Vinyl Factory brings together over 100 artists and musicians – working across mediums including visual arts, music, film and live performance.
180 Studios, 180 The Strand, London WC2R 1EA, UK
Admission £20
Open Wednesday - Friday 12pm-7pm
Saturday - Sunday 10am - 6pm
to 8 March 2025
An exhibition featuring a powerful collection of international women’s rights and advocacy posters that highlight the ongoing struggle for gender equality. Created by artists and designers of all genders, the posters on display appeal to the collective responsibility to protect human rights, challenge gender stereotypes, and advance women’s rights. With widely varying stylistic and media approaches, these posters balance uniquely different artistic perspectives with a universal message. Also showcased are impactful poster designs by MIAD students, who have embraced the theme of women’s rights and gender equality with their distinctive interpretations and innovative creative approaches, offering fresh perspectives that complement the global dialogue.
Curated by Elizabeth Resnick, Professor Emerita, Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Location: Brooks Stevens Gallery, 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee, WI
Credits for image at top, left to right: Tina Lam Collier (‘turnonred’), This Body is Not a Political Battleground, 2012; Parisa Tashakori, Women’s Rights, 2017; Shepard Fairey, Defend the Rights of Women and Girls, 2011.
to 9 March 2025
Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London
This exhibition focuses on 1985, the year designer and performance artist Leigh Bowery opened the legendary nightclub Taboo. Displaying original garments and accessories from Leigh and more than 30 designers, including custom-made pieces from private collections, photography, film and artworks, the exhibition focuses on this outrageous, alternative arena in which the anarchic energy of the night spilled over into the experimental creativity of the day.
Tickets £12.65 (Concessions may apply), Tuesdays – Saturdays, 11.00 – 18.00 (last entry 17.15)
Fashion and Textile Museum, 83 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3XF
Read ‘Dress to express’, Janet South’s review of the show on the Eye Blog.
Above: Leigh Bowery. Photo © Derek Ridgers, c/o Unravel Productions.
to 9 March 2025
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer
Curated by designer and author Kelly Walters, Letterform Archive’s exhibition includes a wide variety of printed artifacts such as broadsides, maps, church fans, handbills and oversized posters produced throughout Kennedy’s career.
Through the use of bold language, graphic typography, and colorful layers, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.’s prints embody an intensity that catches the eye and provokes the mind. He is extremely outspoken about the impact of white supremacy and racism.
See Hans Dieter Reichert’s review of the book Citizen Printer in Eye 107.
11-6pm, admission free, tickets.
Letterform Archive, 2325 Third St. Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA 94107, US
to 16 March 2025
100 BEST POSTERS 23: Germany Austria Switzerland
For the 19th time the MAK presents the winning projects in the 100 BEST POSTERS 23: Germany Austria Switzerland design competition, one of the leading platforms for contemporary poster design. With their remarkable wealth of typographic approaches and their broad stylistic range, this year’s winning projects function as an exemplary optical review that sets the standard for both European and international graphic design.
Admission: € 16.50, reduced € 13.50; every Tuesday 6–9 pm: admission € 8
Stubenring 5, 1010 Wien, AT
to 22 March 2025
Faiseurs de troubles (Troublemakers)
For the tenth anniversary of Bel Ordinaire, Romuald Cailleteau and Adrien Mérour are taking on the role of exhibition curators and scenographers for the first time. Eight artists are participating in this unique artistic experience, based on a reversal of practices. The starting point of this collaboration is the scenography imagined by the two technicians and the ambitious and deconstructed scenography offers you a total and immersive experience: gloomy walls, undulating footbridge, accumulation of objects or hallucinatory bunker.
Exhibition open from Wednesday to Saturday from 3:00pm to 7:00pm, except 25 December and 01 January
Le Bel Ordinaire, Les Abattoirs, Allée Montesquieu, 64140 Billère, France
to 1 April 2025
Script Lettering Stylebook
with Ken Barber
Script letters come in all forms and flavours, giving them an unparalleled versatility that’s indispensable to lettering artists. Yet, the dizzying array of script styles can be confusing, and their curvy shapes can make them challenging to draw. This comprehensive 8-week course distills the broad spectrum of script into an accessible stylebook of essential varieties that novices and experienced letterers can use to craft well-made attention-getting cursive lettering with confidence and flair.
8 online sessions / 6:00–9:30pm EST
Fee: $535
Type@Cooper, 30 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003
to 5 April 2025
A x Z: Anette Lenz
Anette Lenz’s designs the visual identity of L’Onde Théâtre each season. The ‘A x Z’ exhibition promises ‘an immersive, dynamic and poetic experience’. See ‘Anette Lenz: Poetic rhetoric in the public realm’, Jan Middendorp’s profile of Lenz in Eye 101.
Admission is free.
L’Onde Théâtre, 8 bis, avenue Louis Breguet, 78140 Vélizy-Villacoublay, France
to 13 April 2025
Munich 1972: Sports Posters of the XXth Olympic Games
This exhibition highlights the program created for the 1972 Munich Olympics at its best, one for each event, each capturing both a moment in time and making a bid for permanence. Together, they demonstrate a magically calibrated balance of consistency and surprise, control and power, precision and exuberance: no less than the athletes they celebrate.
Curated by graphic designer Michael Bierut (see Eye 24 and Eye 100), who graduated from the University of Cincinnati and worked for ten years with Massimo Vignelli (see Eye 83 and the Eye blog) before joining the New York office of the design consultancy Pentagram in 1990.
Admission: Adults $12, students $8, seniors $8, children under 18 free
Poster House, Entry Foyer, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 13 April 2025
Leaving the Smoke Behind: Enjoying an Awayday
The majority of the posters in this exhibition date from the Golden Age of London Passenger Transport Board posters, when many artists were commissioned to produce designs, primarily for London Underground (see the Eye blog and Eye 16) and its various connecting networks of tram and bus lines. In this post-World War I era, the overarching concept behind the poster campaigns was to encourage off-peak travel across the wider network through eye-catching, attractive designs, thus driving up revenues for under-utilised lines.
Admission: Adults $12, students $8, seniors $8, children under 18 free
Poster House, Lower Level Hallways, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 15 April 2025
Advanced Type Design: Open Studio
with Petr van Blokland
The modern practice of type design requires a lot more than drawing nice consistent outlines or the development of creating new ideas. Understanding the technology and acquiring the experience how to finish lengthy projects within a given amount of time, are an integral part of the design/production process as well. This course addresses all the necessary aspects that are type designers need to shape their practice. Even in projects where the designers work in a team with a well defined separation between disciplines, it still is extremely valuable to be able to communicate beyond these boundaries.
10 online sessions / 5:30–8:00pm EST
Fee: $975
Type@Cooper, 30 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003
to 21 April 2025
Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism
This exhibition celebrates this 60-year period between 1910 and the 1970s through the stories of ten influential artists, showing work by artists who have historically received less exposure in this country, including Anita Malfatti, who spearheaded the movement and Tarsila do Amaral, now internationally celebrated as a leading female figure of Brazilian Modernism. The exhibition also includes self-taught artists Alfredo Volpi and Djanira da Motta e Silva, an artist of Indigenous descent, Afro-Brazilian artist Rubem Valentim and performance artist Flávio de Carvalho.
Venue: Royal Academy, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BD
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm; Fri: 10am–9pm. Tickets: £23.50–£25.50.
Above. Geraldo de Barros, Arrangement of Three Similar Shapes within a Circle, 1953.
to 21 April 2025
Delve into the fantastical world of Tim Burton in this major exhibition exploring his remarkable creations and key collaborations with designers. Tim Burton is the creative force behind some of the most celebrated films of the last four decades, internationally recognised as a master of the comically grotesque and the endearingly misfit. This major exhibition will invite visitors into his world through an exploration of the design of his unique aesthetic. While most well-known for his cinematic work, this show will display the full extent of his production as an illustrator, painter, photographer and author, as well as exploring key collaborations with designers. As a multi-disciplinary artist, his creations extend beyond the limits of mediums and formats. Open from October just in time for Halloween, this will be the final stop in a decade-long global tour for this exhibition, and it will be its only ever showing in the UK.
See ‘Books received #24’ for Ian Nathan’s book about the fantasy film director’s career and work.
Admission: Adult tickets from £19.69, Children from £9.85, Concession / Student from £14.77.
Under-sixes go free.
Exhibition open Monday to Thursday 10:00 – 17:00, Friday to Sunday 10:00 – 18:00
The Design Museum, 224–238 Kensington High Street, London W8 6AG
to 21 April 2025
Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land
The Indonesian artist transforms The Curve in her first solo UK exhibition. Via painting, installation, embroidery and scent, take a sensory journey exploring ancestral memory, ritual and migration. Sasmita’s practice engages with the Indonesian Kamasan painting technique. Dating from the fifteenth century, and traditionally practiced exclusively by men, Kamasan was used to narrate Hindu epics. Reclaiming this masculine practice, Sasmita dismantles misconceptions of Balinese culture and confronts its violent colonial past. Admission is free.
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
to 26 April 2025
From the Roster is an expansive and evolving exhibition, which features significant works from many of the artists Hamiltons has had the privilege of exhibiting over its long history. Artists such as Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Helmut Newton and Sir Don McCullin are presented alongside rare and unique works by Horst P. Horst (see Eye 89), Steven Meisel, Sante D’Orazio, Peter Beard, Daidō Moriyama, Andy Warhol (See ‘Showbiz kids’ on the Eye blog) and many more. Ever in the pursuit of quality the gallery is pleased to showcase new works by represented artists Murray Fredericks, Roger Ballen and Philippe Garner.
Hamiltons Gallery, 13 Carlos Place, London W1K 2EU
to 27 April 2025
7 years of waiting for a chance to unfold MGM brand-new residency, Zhang Yimou and MGM join forces to present a groundbreaking residency show through the integration of art and cutting-edge technology that transcends boundaries and time. Directed by Zhang Yimou, featuring crossover musician Wu Tong, choreography master Sang JiJia, renowned sound engineer Jin Shaogang, lighting director Ren Dongsheng, visual director Dominic Faraway, director of underwater photography Bernard Prentice, along with 20 world’s leading team with a Hollywood-scale behind-the-scenes crews of 582. After 237 days of preparation and 2,838 hours of intricate craftsmanship, combined with state-of-the-art intelligent technologies, the masterpiece showcases the epitome of millennia-old Chinese culture, redefining the imagination of intangible cultural heritage arts and performing arts while transcending the language and cultural boundaries.
Admission: Prices range from MOP 888 – MOP 288
MGM Theater, MGM COTAI
to 27 April 2025
Digital Witness: Algorithmic Spaces for Typography and Language
The commercialisation and distribution of personal computers and software beginning in the 1970s, paved the way for the significant advancements in machine learning and artificial intelligence the world is currently experiencing. These algorithmic technologies have rapidly transformed the possibilities of typography, visual communication, and culture, both aesthetically and systematically. The exhibition explores how collaborating with computers through algorithmic thinking and computational processes are influencing typography and language. The work featured in the exhibition highlights how creativity has evolved into a dialogue between humans and machines. It features the work of Vera Van de Seyp (see the Eye blog), Martín Azambuja, Andrea Trabucco-Campos, Allison Parrish, Michael Schmitz, and Anne-Dauphine Borione (aka Daytona Mess).
Admission is free. Open daily 8:00am–10:00pm.
HMCT Gallery, ArtCenter College of Design, South Campus, 950 S. Raymond Ave. Pasadena, CA 91105
Principles of Typeface Design: Sketch to Vector
with Zrinka Buljubašić
For designers and type enthusiasts keen to delve into typeface creation, this course will enhance their understanding of letterforms, typefaces, and the significance of hands-on work. Learn to transform ideas into sketches, evaluate iterations, and transition from analog to digital, creating new type systems along the way. Depending on experience and time commitment, students can develop a whole digital font with U&lc, figures, punctuation and more.
Ten sessions on Zoom / 6:30–9:30pm EST
Fee: $1,170
Type@Cooper, 30 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003
to 27 April 2025
With a Bird, explores birds as transgressors, inspiring humans in both scientific and spiritual understandings of life. This exhibition showcases projects, objects, and investigations where artists explore our relationships with birds. These works delve into how we seek to understand, emulate, and connect with birds while examining how they transcend categories such as human and non-human, science and folklore, life and death, reality and dreams, and the realms of land, water, and sky. With a bird, supports resident city birds like sparrows, black crows, blackbirds, magpies, and tits with supplementary foods and invites humans to dream, imagine, speculate, observe, converse, listen, read, feed, reminisce, and reflect. With works by: Daniel Godínez Nivón, Ignace Cami, Bryony Dunne, Ai Ozaki, Sergio Rojas Chaves, Monika Czyżyk, Manjot Kaur and Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide).
Admission is free / Open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday between 12:00-5:00pm
Onomatopee, Lucas Gasselstraat 2a, 5613 LB Eindhoven
to 5 May 2025
Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman: Masquerades
M+ presents a two-person exhibition of the photographic works of Yasumasa Morimura (Japanese, born 1951) and Cindy Sherman (American, born 1954) (see the Eye blog). Both artists are renowned for their visual and conceptual strategies of masquerade, transforming their appearances to portray multiple identities that offer incisive commentary on contemporary culture and history. Presented as part of the Pao-Watari Exhibition Series, Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman: Masquerades features works from major early series by Morimura and Sherman. The exhibition traces the genesis of their practices, which reimagine iconic imagery from art history, cinema, and media culture.
Admission: Standard HKD 120, Concessions HKD 60
Hours: Tuesdays to Thursdays and weekends 10:00am-6:00pm, Fridays 10:00am-10:00pm, closed Mondays.
M+, West Kowloon Cultural District, 38 Museum Drive, Kowloon
to 5 May 2025
The 80s: Photographing Britain
Explore powerful photography in a decade of social and political change
Explore one of the UK’s most critical decades, the 1980s. This exhibition traces the work of a diverse community of photographers, collectives and publications –creating radical responses to the turbulent Thatcher years. Set against the backdrop of race uprisings, the miner strikes, section 28, the AIDS pandemic and gentrification – be inspired by stories of protest and change.
Tate Britain, Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG
£20 / Free for Members
to 11 May 2025
Breaking Lines
Futurism and the Origins of Experimental Poetry / Dom Sylvester Houédard and Concrete Poetry in Post-war Britain
The Estorick Collection starts 2025 by exploring the revolutionary world of experimental poetry. Although perhaps better known today for its contribution to the visual arts, Italian Futurism was in fact founded and led by a poet – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (see the Eye blog) – and the many writers who gravitated toward the movement would go on to produce a body of work that was as vast and as groundbreaking as that of its painters. The first part of this display charts the distinct phases through which Futurist poetry passed, with a particular focus on those forms of experimentation that reflected the movement’s desire to ‘redouble the expressive force of words’ by emphasising and exploiting the visual and/or sonic dimensions of language. This contextualising display complements an exhibition focusing on the work of Dom Sylvester Houédard (or dsh, see Eye 20), widely recognised as one of the masters of concrete poetry. A Benedictine monk and noted theologian, Houédard wrote extensively on new approaches to creativity, spirituality and philosophy, and collaborated with figures such as Gustav Metzger, Yoko Ono and John Cage.
Design by Studio Bergini; texts by Christopher Adams.
Admission: adult £9.50; concessions £7.50; National Art Pass £4.75; full time students £4.00 (incl. access to library, by appointment only); Universal Credit £1.00; free entry to Estorick Collection Members, Under 18s and Carers. Admission to café and shop free.
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, 39a Canonbury Square, London N1 2AN
to 26 May 2025
Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious
The first major exhibition devoted to visionary artist and designer Tirzah Garwood (1908–1951). Known as the wife of Eric Ravilious and the author of Long Live Great Bardfield, Garwood excelled as a fine artist and printmaker. This retrospective marks the first time the full extent her output has been shown, including more than 80 of Garwood’s works plus eleven watercolours by Ravilious that draw out the thematic similarities, shared interests, and distinct artistic personalities of this remarkable couple. Curated by James Russell.
Dulwich Picture Gallery, College Road, London SE21 7AD
Opening Hours: Tue–Sun, 10am–5pm; Closed Mon except Bank Holidays.
See also ‘The crew with no name’ in Eye 95.
28 November 2024 — 1 June 2025
Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet
This exhibition will celebrate the early innovators of optical, kinetic, programmed and digital art, who pioneered a new era of immersive sensory installations and automatically-generated works. Electric Dreams will offer visitors a rare chance to experience incredible works of vintage tech art in action - from psychedelic environments created in the 1950s and 60s, to early machine-made art from the 70s and 80s, which has paved the way for today’s experiments with AI. Bringing together an international network of artists who used machines and algorithms to create mesmerising and mind-bending art between the 1950s and early 1990s, the exhibition will show how these groundbreaking figures imagined a visual language for the future.
Admission: General £22, concessions available
Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
to 9 June 2025
The Rijksmuseum presents the first comprehensive survey of American photography in Europe. With more than 200 works spanning three centuries, American Photography will be an exploration of the rich and multifaceted history of photography in the United States, showing how the medium has permeated every aspect of our lives: in art, news, advertising and everyday life.
Admission: Adults: € 22,50, Free for 18 and under / Open daily 9:00am to 5:00pm
Rijksmuseum, Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam, Netherlands
to 9 June 2025
Carrie Mae Weems: Painting the Town
Concurrently with American Photography, Carrie Mae Weems’s 2021 series Painting the Town will be on show in the Rijksmuseum’s photography gallery. At first glance Weems’ large and powerful works resemble abstract paintings. During the Black Lives Matter protests, campaigners wrote texts on the panels that shopkeepers had used to board up their windows as a precautionary measure. The authorities then rendered the slogans illegible by covering them with large patches of paint. The unintended result of this act of censorship was a series of painterly compositions. Weems uses her work to explore what it means to be a witness to history, through themes such as racism, sexism and discrimination.
Admission: Adults: € 22,50, Free for 18 and under / Open daily 9:00am to 5:00pm
Rijksmuseum, Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam, Netherlands
to 31 August 2025
Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home
Drawing on a rich range of visual and aural material, this exhibition explores the early years of radio. Focusing on the first two decades of radio, the exhibition is brought to life with newly uncovered first-hand accounts, giving a voice to the listeners who lived through this huge social and technological change.
Venue Treasury, Weston Library, Monday – Friday: 10am–5pm; Saturday: 10am–5pm; Sunday: 11am–4pm. Bodleian Libraries, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG
Curated by Beaty Rubens, former BBC radio producer, writer and Byrne Bussey Marconi Fellow 2023–24.
FEBRUARY 2025
19 February 2025
MacDonald Gill: from memorials to maps
MacDonald ‘Max’ Gill, younger brother of the sculptor Eric Gill, was a letterer and graphic artist famed for his pictorial map posters for the London Underground. His painted map panels still decorate landmark buildings such as the Palace of Westminster and Lindisfarne Castle while all British military headstones are still carved with his iconic alphabet and badges. In this lecture for Letter Exchange, Max’s great niece Caroline Walker reveals the colourful story of his life, his lettering and his love of map-making.
18:30 – 20:30pm
This is an in-person and live-streamed event.
Members £10, non-members £15, students £8.
Pay at the door or book tickets in advance via Eventbrite.
The Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT
Read further Eye articles about Max Gill.
20 February – 18 May 2025
The Face Magazine: Culture Shift celebrates iconic fashion images and portraits from The Face, a trail-blazing youth culture and style magazine that has shaped the creative and cultural landscape in Britain and beyond. From 1980 to 2004, The Face played a vital role in creating contemporary culture. Musicians featured on its covers achieved global success and the models it championed – including a young Kate Moss – became the most recognisable faces of their time. Relaunched in 2019, the magazine continues to provide a disruptive and creative space for image-makers, championing fresh talent in photography, fashion, music and graphic design.
This exhibition will bring together the work of over 80 photographers, including Sheila Rock, Stéphane Sednaoui, Corinne Day, David Sims, Elaine Constantine and Sølve Sundsbø, and will feature over 200 photographs – a unique opportunity to see many of these images away from the magazine page for the first time.
Admission: £23 / 25.50 with donation, Free for Members
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE
Above. Kate Moss by Glen Luchford, March 1993 © Glen Luchford. Styling Venetia Scott.
21-27 February 2025
The RCA Research Biennale 2025, a bi-annual exhibition offering public insight into the next generation of arts scholars from the RCA will feature works from across a variety of disciplines, offering insight into the newest research, contending with a range of pressing topics and practices.
Exhibition times: 21-27 February, excluding Sunday 23 February, 11am-8pm at the Battersea campus.
Admission is free. Book here.
Royal College of Art, Hangar Space, Studio Building, 15 Parkgate Road, Battersea, London SW11 4NL
26 February – 30 April 2025
Introduction to Modern Type Design
with Fer Cozzi
In this 10-week online workshop, each participant will gain an understanding of the methodologies and processes used to produce digital typefaces today. The main objective of this workshop is to introduce the systematic structure of a type design process, focusing on the basic conceptual foundations of the craft, including techniques and best practices for drawing, designing, and spacing type.
Participants will work on the development of specific tasks throughout the week and share their progress before each class for review. Participants will then practice the strategies, sketches, and fundamental aspects of making letters, get feedback on their projects, while they also learn various lessons about typography and—why not?—life.
Online via Zoom / 5:00pm–8:00pm PT (1:00am–4:00am GMT) / 10 sessions, 3 hours each
Register to attend for $1090.
Letterform Archive, 2325 Third St. Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
28 February – 30 June 2025
IDENTITA – The Story of Czech Graphic Design
A new exhibition devoted to the legacy of Czech graphic design at Notting Hill’s Window and Bouda galleries. The exhibition showcases an extensive collection of Czech graphic design from the early twentieth century to the present day, highlighting significant achievements as well as the evolution of graphic design and its effects on society.
Curated by Filip Blažek and Linda Kudrnovská, in collaboration with commissioner David Korecký.
The exhibition is part of a comprehensive multi-genre project Identita - The Story of Czech Graphic Design (projektidentita.cz) which also includes a TV series, a feature film and a book. This London show is accompanied by events throughout the spring and summer.
Venue: Czech Centre’s Vitrínka and Bouda galleries, 30 Kensington Palace Gardens, W8 4QY. Open Tuesday to Friday, 10am – 5pm or by appointment.
Above: Prague Metro orientation system designed by Jiří Rathouský.
MARCH 2025
7 March – 15 June 2025
Peter Mitchell: Nothing Lasts Forever
Peter Mitchell (b.1943, UK) is regarded as one of the most important early colour photographers of the twentieth century. A powerful storyteller and social historian, Mitchell’s photography unfolds a longstanding and poetic connection with Leeds. He has chronicled the people and the changing fortunes of the city with warmth and familiarity for over forty years. Described as ‘a narrator of who we were, a chaser of a disappearing world’, Mitchell continues to photograph his home town today.
Admission: General £10 / £7 concession, Advance: £8.50 / £6 concession
The Photographers’ Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW
13-14 March 2025
Join Prague’s annual digital art conference, where graphic design, film, animation and technology intersect. From inconspicuously inspiring to thought-provoking lectures, immerse yourself in a two-day event full of riveting talks led by world-class speakers including Dixon Baxi (see Eye 70), Kiel Danger Mutschelknaus (see ‘Space type generator’ in Eye 100) and Gergely Wootsch, among others.
Admission: General CZK 3,500, Student CZK 1,900
CAMP – Centrum architektury a městského plánování, Vyšehradská 2075, 128 00 Nové Město, Czechia
14 to 15 March 2025
Fontstand International Typography Conference
Fontstand’s fifth annual typography conference returns to The Hague, with speakers including Hansje van Halem (see Eye 98), Tobias Frere-Jones (see Eye 54), Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès (Khatt Foundation), Mitch Paone (see Eye 104), Riccardo Olocco (CAST), Joyce Ketterer (Darden Studio) and Gert Dumbar in a two-day programme of presentations and discussions.
Venue: Nieuwe Kerk, Spui 175, 2511 BM Den Haag, Netherlands
Buy tickets here. The event is organised by Fontstand (see article in Eye 97) in partnership with TypeMedia / KABK and Huis van het Boek.
18 March 2025
Cooking the Books: The past, present and future of cookbooks
The cookbook has long occupied an important cultural position in British society. As an early printed book, it was a prized heirloom treasured across generations, and in more recent times it has appeared in diverse forms to accommodate a range of eating preferences and cultural interests. The contents of a recipe book have been moulded to significant historical events, including as frugal cookbooks in wartime, and compiled to celebrate important events in the cultural calendar. Increasingly, however, with the turn to the online world, we question whether this traditional collection of recipes is in danger of being replaced by easily-available single recipe internet searches. But with sales of cookbooks continuing to rise, why do cookbooks remain such a publishing boom and does it even matter if we don’t even cook from them anymore? Join this event for a lively panel debate chaired by award winning food writer, cook and TV presenter Angela Clutton, where we will consider all of this and more - the history of the cookbook, its cultural proliferation and significance, and its future.
Admission is £35pp and tickets for the event will include drinks and three canapes, themed to the evening.
The Stationers’ Company, Ave Maria Lane, London EC4M 7DD
20 March – 27 July 2025
Remembering is the first solo exhibition of Arpita Singh outside India, featuring key works selected in close collaboration with the artist from her prolific career spanning more than six decades. Singh’s paintings centre on her emotional and psychological state, drawing from Bengali folk art and Indian stories, interwoven with experiences of social upheaval and global conflict.
Admission is free.
Serpentine North, W Carriage Dr, London W2 2AR
28 March – 17 August 2025
Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style
A major exhibition celebrating our enduring love of the water over the last 100 years. Explore the full spectrum of the design of swimming — from sports performance and fashion, to architecture.
Admission ranges from £7 - £15. The museum opens daily from 10:00 to 17:00.
The Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High St, London W8 6AG
APRIL 2025
9 April – 8 June 2025
pool7, the first solo presentation in the UK by Amsterdam-based artist Nora Turato (b. 1991, Zagreb) features a site-specific exhibition of newly commissioned work spanning performance, writing, graphic design, video and sound. In an enveloping installation that is the artist’s most personal to date, Turato investigates our collective relationship to language, exposing the ideologies, failures and pleasures that characterise communication today. At yearly intervals, Turato creates text 'pools', collections of found language she gathers and samples from a range of sources such as media headlines, conversations with friends, books, advertising, overheard speech and online content. In this three-part installation and accompanying performance, Turato debuts her latest text ‘pool’, which incorporates the artist’s own writing to a new degree.
Admission: £6 full price / £4 concession
Open Tuesday – Thursday: 4-9pm, Friday – Sunday: 12-9pm
ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
12 April – 1 September 2025
Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s
The 1940s witnessed major shifts in politics, science, economics, industry, the arts, and culture, which coincided with a time of scarcity, limitation, and the catastrophic global conflict of World War II. Throughout this tumultuous period, artists brought new ideas to their work across media, from fashion and textiles, craft and design, to printmaking, drawing, photography, painting, and sculpture. Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s will be a testament to the creative spirit that flourished despite the restrictions and adversity of the era. This exhibition will showcase art from across the decade, featuring works drawn entirely from the museum’s permanent collections.
Check site for admission pricing.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dorrance Galleries, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19130
22-26 April 2025
The ATypI 2025 conference venue is the Royal Danish Academy located by the harbour and the Refshaleøen. The Copenhagen local chair is Sofie Beier, professor at the Academy’s School of Design and head of its Centre for Visibility Design. Sofie is joined by her colleagues Anders Thulin, Head of the Institute for Visual Design, and PhD Research Fellow Matthias Horneman-Thielcke.
Tickets (from $300) on sale now.
MAY 2025
1-4 May 2025
In its 21st edition, Pictoplasma, the world’s leading festival and conference on contemporary character design and art returns to its origins. Across 3 bustling days, international creators and producers from all visual genres – illustration, animation, game design, crafts, fine and graphic arts – meet for an exchange of strategies and stories to shape the future of figurative aesthetics: featured artist lectures explore the edges of contemporary creative practice; daily workshops, jam sessions and demos allow to get hands-on with new mediums; vibrant discussion spaces connect creators, characters, and commercial contributors; and cutting-edge animation screenings invite all to delve into next-level emerging worlds.
Admission: In person or online tickets available here.
Hosted by silent green, Gerichtstr. 35, 13347 Berlin
2 May — 9 June 2025
A collaborative design exhibition between Tom Etherington and Jon Gray at The Old School Gallery in Alnmouth, Northumberland.
Etherington is an editorial designer and art director based in London. Recent work includes the series design for Penguin Green Ideas, and he has collaborated with David Gentleman, Faber & Faber, Fantastic Man, Granta, Hay Festival, Hoxton Mini Press, Knopf, The New York Times, Scott King and The Photographers’ Gallery.
Jon Gray designs and illustrates book covers for publishers around the world. His work is featured on the jackets of authors including Zadie Smith, David Foster Wallace, A. M Homes and Roald Dahl. Other clients include: Nike, Stussy, Hewlett-Packard, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Observer and the The Berlin Opera. His work is regularly recognised by: D&AD, AIGA, Type Directors’ Club, and Art Directors’ Club.
The Old School Gallery, Alnmouth, Northumberland NE66 3NH
31 May 2025
Now25 is the annual conference in Paris that brings together art directors, graphic designers, type designers, all passionate about good design and quality typography. Come to Paris for the Saturday 31 May 2025 to listen a mix of inspiring speakers, such as Studio Mut (see the Eye blog), Lucas Sharp (see Eye 106), Ariane Spanier, Joachim Roncin, and others, evoking topics as broad as graphic design, web design, motion design, publishing, visual identity, communication and type design.
Admission: Early bird €120, Regular ticket €170, Late ticket €220, Student ticket €40
Novotel Paris Vaugirard Montparnasse, 257 rue de Vaugirard, 75015 Paris
JUNE 2025
5-29 June 2025
London Design Biennale returns to Somerset House from 05-29 June 2025 for its 5th edition. Featuring world-leading design, innovation, creativity and research by exhibitors from across the globe, London Design Biennale showcases today’s designers and ideas that will change our world. The three-week international exhibition features curated installations accompanied by a programme of events, thought-leadership talks, performances and workshops. This year’s theme ‘Surface Reflections’ by Artistic Director Dr Samuel Ross MBE, Founder of A COLD-WALL* and SR_A SR_A, explores how ideas are fuelled by both our internal experiences and external influences. Revelations in life are prompted by personal histories that inform who we are. Together, these form the multifaceted hues of human experience.
Tickets available here.
Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA
6 June 2025
ONLINE + ONGOING
Ongoing
Philip Sayer: A journey through East Anglia
A digital exhibition presenting an extended series of photographs taken by Philip Sayer between 2005 and 2023 within a thirty-mile radius of his Norfolk home.
Through Sayer’s lens, the viewer is transported into a richly atmospheric vision of the region as an impressive sequence of images that sweep across its varied terrain. In his distinctive style – developed over the course of a professional photography career that spans six decades – deep darks meet fluctuating patches of vibrant light and between them a dynamic interplay of bold contrasts emerges.
Ongoing
The 39th Graphic Design Exhibition of the Turkish Graphic Designers Association
This year the annual GMK Graphic Design Exhibition, a recollection of graphic design in Turkey since its debut in 1981, is being held online. The GMK Graphic Design Exhibition Digital Archive will also be publicly accessible in the coming months, displaying this recollection and allowing closer examination of the work and shifting tendencies in Turkish design over the past 39 years.
Ongoing
A community-focused, multi-sensory installation exploring the nature of communication through the interactive deployment of sound. Curated by Alter-Projects and designed by sound artist, designer, and electronic musician, Yuri Suzuki.
Brown Hart Gardens, North Mayfair, London.
Free access
Online
Reverting to Type 2020: Protest Posters
Reverting to Type 2020 is an exhibition of letterpress artwork with something to say, an international exhibition showcasing progressive letterpress artwork by 100 artists from seventeen countries, alongside the work of specially invited collaborators, including John Anstiss, Shelley Bird, Sarah Boris, Dennis Gould, Peter Kennard and Stewart Lee. (See Word play in Eye 101).
The full exhibition contents can be seen at: revertingtotype.com
Ongoing
The Letterform Archive have made their Online Archive public access. You can now enjoy virtual access to nearly 1500 objects and 9000 hi-fi images from their collection.
See ‘Access all areas’ by Claire Mason on the Eye blog and ‘Letterform Archive: Objects of inspiration’ in Eye 100.
Ongoing
A series of design talks – with Matteo Bologna, Erik Brandt, Dafi Kühne, Thomas Kronbichler and Niklaus Troxler, with more to come – curated by graphic designer Fabio Mario Rizzotti. You can watch the interviews on the @designinterview10q IGTV and YouTube channel.
See ‘Sticks in the mind’ in Eye 69.
Ongoing
Soho Photography Quarter is a permanent new outdoor cultural space, presenting the very best of contemporary photography, for free. A tranquil and accessible cultural space only seconds from Oxford Street, Soho, Photography Quarter will present a rotating, open-air programme of site-specific and interactive artworks, which will change twice a year. The presentations will feature a significant art frieze in the main square, large-scale over street banners, plus moving image projections, soundscapes and other interactive works depending on the project.
Soho Photography Quarter, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London, W1F 7LW
Ongoing
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions)
MOCA has reinstalled the monumental wall work by Los Angeles–based artist Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions) (1990/2018). The emblematic red, white, and blue artwork was originally commissioned by MOCA in 1989 for the exhibition A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, and was last installed in 1990 on the south wall of MOCA’s building.
MOCA Gaffen, 152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
See ‘Barbara Kruger: Reputations’ in Eye 5
Above: Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions), 1990/2018, on view October 20, 2018–November 2020 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, photo by Elon Schoenholz.
Ongoing
Ruben Pater of Untold Stories at Insights 2020
Focusing on the ethics of design, this lecture discusses the unspoken realities of designers working remotely across the globe, and from there dives into social and political issues such as climate change, surveillance, and affordable housing.
See Peter Buwert’s ‘Design’s ugly truths’, a review of Ruben Pater’s The Politics of Design, in Eye 93.
ongoing
The decade marks a historic turn in art history for photography. No longer was traditional landscape and documentary photography the same. Photography shared the spotlight with painting.
Online exhibition on the website of the PDNB Gallery.
Above: Bill Owens, Our House is Built with the Living Room in the Back, 1971.