Coming SoonWhite Cube Bermondsey
Gabriel Orozco
Starting Sep 18
PaintingPhotographySculptureDrawing & Works on PaperMixed MediaConceptualismGabriel Orozco
Major solo show of 100+ works spanning sculpture, painting and photography
Conceptualism Exhibitions
Late Modern & Contemporary · c. 1965–present
Idea over object
The idea is the work. Sol LeWitt declared that the execution of an artwork is merely its administration; Joseph Kosuth placed a chair alongside a photograph and a dictionary definition to ask what art actually is. Conceptualism liberated art from material, authorship, and the commodity market — and continues to define the terms of contemporary practice.
Explore 1 Conceptualism exhibition on now and 1 coming soon.
Coming Soon
Tate Modern
Ana Mendieta
Until Jan 17, 2027
PhotographyVideo & Moving ImagePerformanceConceptualismAna Mendieta
Major Mendieta retrospective with remastered films and UK premieres at Tate Modern
4.6/5 from 5 ratings · 7 reviews total
"In a manifesto-like move, all three of this summer's big exhibitions at Tate Modern celebrate an individual female artist; the others are Tracey Emin and Frida Kahlo. This is by far the best."
The Telegraph
Conceptualism past exhibitions
EndedAviva Studios
Ai Weiwei: Button Up!
Jul 4 to Sep 6
SculptureInstallationMixed MediaConceptualismAi Weiwei
Ai Weiwei's epic reckoning with empire, trade and global injustice
2.3/5 from 3 ratings
"This massive, ambitious exhibition is the Chinese artist at his most monumental, and as a result at his most effective. His subject matter works best at enormous scale, blown up, expanded, shoved in your face."
The Guardian
EndedJohn Hansard Gallery
Farewell Sweet Innocence
Jun 6 to Aug 29
SculptureInstallationConceptualism
Sculptural environment exploring domestic objects, memory and cultural identity
4/5 from 1 rating
"This is an exhibition all about exclusion, about trying to fit in but never quite managing. It's razor-sharp, funny, pop-cultural, obtuse conceptual art about growing up black in Britain, about trying to make it and knowing you're bound to fail, because the system is geared towards failure."
The Guardian
EndedLisson Gallery London
Lisson Street: Daniel Buren – Pages in situ
Jun 11 to Aug 22
PrintsInstallationConceptualismDaniel Buren
Six decades of Buren's iconic stripe across print and publications
EndedGagosian Grosvenor Hill
Christo: Air
May 21 to Aug 21
InstallationDrawing & Works on PaperSculptureConceptualism
First presentation of Christo's 1968 unrealized air installation
4/5 from 1 rating
"Christo's work is a funny mixture of profound and ridiculous. The car is just a Volvo in a sheet. The main installation looks like Gagosian got some dodgy builders in and they couldn't be arsed to tidy up."
The Guardian
EndedGagosian Burlington Arcade
Christo
May 21 to Jul 18
Drawing & Works on PaperPrintsConceptualismChristo
Drawings and prints tracing Christo and Jeanne-Claude's monumental wrapping projects
EndedThaddaeus Ropac London
Joseph Beuys: Bathtub for a Heroine
Jan 13 to Mar 28
SculptureMixed MediaConceptualismJoseph Beuys
First exhibition tracing the evolution of Beuys's monumental Bathtub sculpture
4/5 from 1 rating
"There’s no escape from the torments of the past in this show, which celebrates the German artist at his most Wagnerian, enchanting and sickening you simultaneously"
The Guardian
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