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How did an artist fit a WHOLE CITY into a suitcase?
A miniature London emerges from a suitcase
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Yin Xiuzhen: Heart to Heart, Portable Cities and ‘second skin’

Go behind the works of Yin Xiuzhen’s Hayward Gallery exhibition in the company of Senior Curator Yung Ma and choreographer Julia Cheng.

How I create... with visual artist Yin Xiuzhen
The artist Yin Xiuzhen stands win front of her installation A Heart to Heart in the Hayward Gallery exhibition of the same name.
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How I create... with visual artist Yin Xiuzhen

The artist behind our current Hayward Gallery exhibition on ideas she can’t abandon, and the evolution of her creative process.

Chiharu Shiota: red string, black threads and cultural identity
Two people stand on either side of an open door in Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life
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Chiharu Shiota: red string, black threads and cultural identity

Take a video tour of the Hayward Gallery exhibition Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life with Senior Curator Yung Ma and our Associate Artist Julia Cheng.

5 things to know about Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life
A woman with dark hair in a black blouse stands behind a curtain of hanging red strings and scattered white papers.
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5 things to know about Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life

Read an introduction to the artist and her celebrated immersive large-scale installations.

Chiharu Shiota: ‘It’s when I’m in pain that I want to create most’
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Chiharu Shiota: ‘It’s when I’m in pain that I want to create most’

The acclaimed visual and performance artist talks to Marigold Warner about suffering, surviving and ‘pushing things to the limit’.

5 things to know about Yin Xiuzhen
The artist Yin Xiuzhen, a women with long dark hair, stands in front of her sculpture Collective Subconscious (Blue) inside the Hayward Gallery
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5 things to know about Yin Xiuzhen

An introduction to the artist renowned for turning found and secondhand items into immersive installations and sculptures.

‘You have to be creative in prison’: Life After Prison podcast joins Inua Ellams for Koestler Arts
Life After Prison podcast hosts Zak (a tall Black man) and Jules (a young mixed race woman) look at works within the Koestler Arts exhibition with poet Inua Ellams  (a Black man wearing a colourful jacket and a Zanna Bukar hat)
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‘You have to be creative in prison’: Life After Prison podcast joins Inua Ellams for Koestler Arts

Join Life After Prison podcast hosts Zak and Jules and poet and curator Inua Ellams for a video tour of the 2025 Koestler Arts exhibition.

5 things to know about Koestler Arts: Night Owls and Abstractions
A person with long red hair wearing a blue sweater holds up her phone to photograph a picture within the Koestler Arts exhibition
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5 things to know about Koestler Arts: Night Owls and Abstractions

Get an insight into the 18th annual Koestler Arts exhibition, currently at the Southbank Centre, curated by poet and playwright Inua Ellams.

Walk into the world of Gilbert & George with Pandemonia
Performance artist Pademonia – a living sculpture of an exaggerated cartoon-like woman with blond hair, sunglasses and bright red lips, points towards a Gilbert & George picture within the Hayward Gallery
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Walk into the world of Gilbert & George with Pandemonia

Take a video tour of Gilbert & George’s Hayward Gallery exhibition 21ST CENTURY PICTURES in the company of performance artist Pandemonia.

Arts unravelled: how are art exhibition catalogues produced?
Artists Gilbert & George sit back to back on chairs as they jointly hold a copy of the catalogue for their Hayward Gallery exhibition 21ST CENTURY PICTURES. They are seated in the gallery in front of their picture SCAPEGOATED (2013)
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Arts unravelled: how are art exhibition catalogues produced?

Hayward Gallery publisher Mary Richards helps explain the process behind the gallery’s eye-catching exhibition catalogues.

Sex, Money, Race, Religion: inside the art and studio of Gilbert & George
Artists Gilbert & George, two elderly white men; each wearing smart suits, sit behind a desk on top of which is a maquette of the Hayward Gallery's layout.
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Sex, Money, Race, Religion: inside the art and studio of Gilbert & George

Ahead of their Hayward Gallery exhibition, 21ST CENTURY PICTURES, the artists led us on a rare video tour of their studio.

5 things to know about Gilbert & George: 21ST CENTURY PICTURES
Installation view of Gilbert & George: 21ST CENTURY PICTURES
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5 things to know about Gilbert & George: 21ST CENTURY PICTURES

The East London artists renowned for their provocative visually striking pictures who take inspiration from the streets and champion art for all.