Introducing our 2023 exhibitions
By RA Digital Team
Published on 23 May 2022
From rare treasures created in Spain and the Hispanic world, to re-performances of Marina Abramović's best-known works, our 2023 programme gives everyone something to look forward to.
Our 2023 exhibitions at a glance:
Treasures from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library
21 January – 10 April
Discover the rich story of Spanish and Hispanic art and culture from antiquity to the 20th century: from masterpieces by Goya, Velázquez, Zurbarán and El Greco to paintings, sculptures, silk textiles, ceramics, lustreware, silverwork, precious jewellery, maps, drawings, illuminated manuscripts and stunning decorative lacquerware from Latin America.
The exhibition features the famous World Map of 1526 by Giovanni Vespucci, and culminates with Sorolla’s colourful, large-scale study for his monumental series of 14 paintings, Vision of Spain.
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Black Artists from the American South
17 March – 18 June 2023
Discover the Black artists from America’s South who created some of the most spectacular and ingenious works of the last century. Working in near isolation from established practices, these artists articulate America’s painful past – the inhuman practice of enslavement, the cruel segregationist policies of the Jim Crow era, and institutionalised racism.
Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers brings together sculpture, paintings, reliefs, drawings, and quilts, most of which will be seen in the UK and Europe for the first time. It will also feature the celebrated quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend, Alabama and the neighbouring communities of Rehoboth and Alberta.
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12 June – 20 August 2023
The Summer Exhibition is the world’s most joyful art exhibition with a history dating back to 1769. Anyone can submit their work and – if your work’s selected by our panel of artists – it will go on display in our Main Galleries.
We show every imaginable medium, from prints, paintings, film and photography to sculpture, architectural works and more by leading artists, Royal Academicians and household names as well as new and emerging talent.
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14 July – 15 October 2023
Embracing an experimental approach, this exhibition will look at a selection of Herzog & de Meuron's projects, both complete and still in the works. With film and digital experiences, accompanied by models, material samples and prototypes, it will invite us to explore the perception and experience of architecture and its surrounding contexts.
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23 September – 10 December 2023
Over the past 50 years, Marina Abramović has earned worldwide acclaim as a pioneer of performance art. She has consistently tested the limits of her own physical and mental endurance in her work – and invited audiences to encounter it with her.
In Abramović’s first major exhibition in the UK, we bring together works spanning her 50-year career. Curated in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition will offer visitors the sort of intense, physical encounter for which she has become known. Abramović will participate in the programme of talks and events surrounding the exhibition.
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Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec
25 November 2023 – 10 March 2024
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists radically transformed the future direction of art. But it wasn’t just through their paintings. In a subtle but seismic shift, they lifted the status of works on paper – drawings, pastels, watercolours, temperas, gouaches – from something preparatory that you left in a studio, to artworks in their own right.
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