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Exhibitions currently running:
OMA/Progress - Founded in 1975 as the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, OMA is one of the most influential global creative practices working today. From their controversial projects to their curiosity about contemporary life, OMA’s global offices generate critical ideas and extraordinary buildings that anticipate our rapidly changing world. OMA/Progress is the first major presentation of OMA’s work in the UK and opens up the west entrance to the Gallery for the first time in the Barbican’s history. Take part in a lively programme of events, talks and masterclasses, browse OMA images, drawings, collages and plans to print on-demand in large format, and enjoy a specially-curated OMA shop. Until 19 February.
Song Dong: Waste Not - For his first solo exhibition in a major UK public gallery, Chinese artist Song Dong recreates his monumental work, Waste Not, in The Curve. Comprising over 10,000 items collected by Song Dong’s mother over five decades, ranging from a section of the house to metal pots and plastic bowls to blankets, bottle caps, toothpaste tubes and toys, the installation is a personal meditation on family and the artist’s own childhood during the Cultural Revolution. The activity of saving and reusing things is in keeping with the Communist adage wu jin qu yong – ‘waste not’ – a prerequisite for survival during periods of social and political turmoil. From 15 February until 12 June.
Bauhaus: Art as Life - The biggest Bauhaus exhibition in the UK in over 40 years presents the modern world’s most famous art school. From expressionist beginnings to a pioneering model uniting art and technology the Bauhaus’ utopian vision sought to change society in the aftermath of the First World War. Bauhaus: Art as Life explores the diverse artistic production that made up its turbulent fourteen-year history and delves into the subjects at the heart of the school: art, culture, life, politics and society, and the changing technology of the age. Bauhaus: Art as Life will feature a rich array of painting, sculpture, design, architecture, film, photography, textiles, ceramics, theatre and installation. Exemplar works from such Bauhaus Masters as Josef and Anni Albers, Marianne Brandt, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Hannes Meyer, László Moholy-Nagy, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Gunta Stölzl, will be presented alongside works by lesser-known artist Masters and Bauhaus students. From 3 May until 12 August.
Barbican Art Gallery,
Barbican Centre,
Silk Street London,
EC2Y 8DS
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Telephone numbers
Box Office & Membership: 020 7638 8891
Barbican Art Gallery opening hours
11.00am - 8.00pm Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun
11.00am - 6.00pm Tue and Thu
(Closed 24-26 Dec 2005, open New Year's day from 12.00pm)
www.barbican.org.uk
