Exhibitions

Our love of dogs has been part of our national identity for centuries and affection for our canine companions shows no sign of waning. This exhibition shows the work of international artists, designers,…

The Garden of Earthly Delights, through the artworks of Colección SOLO is an invitation to revisit and reconnect from the present-day with Hieronymus Bosch’s masterpiece. Artificial intelligence, sound art, digital animation, painting,…

Matthew Lintott’s new solo exhibition is an exploration of deep time and space, as witnessed through the past, the wild and the remote. Inspiration for his work comes from myth, symbolism, and…

Home: Ukrainian Photography, UK Words is a touring exhibition organised by Open Eye Gallery. Home brings together different generations of Ukrainian photographers who offer distinctive approaches to image creation, and understandings of the word ‘home’. Since…

This exhibition highlights the Refugee and Immigrant contribution to British visual culture since 1900 with works from the Ben Uri Collection. 45 artists from 20 countries within Central and Eastern Europe, North and…

Celebrating Ben Uri’s centenary, this extraordinary comprehensive survey, like the institution itself, focusses on Art Identity Migration through its world-class collection and its dedicated research unit recoding the Jewish and immigrant contribution…

Czech Routes is the fourth in Ben Uri’s series of exhibitions highlighting the contribution of émigré artists to Britain since 1900, succeeding previous exhibitions on German, Polish and Austrian artists (2017-18). A selection…

A selection of work from the Ben Uri collection by a number of Soutine’s peers and other artists from the School of Paris, all either born (like Chagall) within Russia, or (like…

ART-EXIT: 1939 – A Very Different Europe. The exhibition is perfectly timed as Britain leaves the European Union for good and Brexit becomes both a reality and this country’s future. The exhibition shines a…

This exhibition is greatly relevant to one of society’s most burning and important social challenges of today – forced migration, the journey  and the following social integration into a new country and…

The  perpetrators of the Holocaust, and of any mass genocide, are indiscriminate in the selection of its victims. This exhibition highlights the work of artists who survived the holocaust to be able to…

Works by Frank Auerbach in the Ben Uri Collection Frank Auerbach is widely respected as the United Kingdom’s leading artist. He was born however in Berlin to Jewish parents in 1931 and was…

Painter and draughstman Josef Herman was born into a Jewish, working-class family in Warsaw in 1911. He studied at Warsaw School of Art and Decoration (1930-31), and first exhibited in his native…

This exhibition displays Auerbach’s series of 7 etchings of close friends, colleagues and family crafted in 1989 and 1990.  Frank Auerbach is widely recognised and respected as Britains leading living artist. He…

This exhibition marked the 70th anniversary of the artist’s death, Jankel Adler: A ‘Degenerate’ Artist in Britain, 1940-49 was the first museum curated exhibition of Adler’s works in Britain since the Arts Council…

This exhibition celebrates the lives, courage and strength of character, across so many human endeavours, of extraordinary women artists from the Ben Uri Collection. A selection of artists in the exhibition include: Lily…

Topical as some counties revert back to military power and annexation as a means of extending political power irrespective of international law or the democratic process. This exhibition marked the 80th anniversary of…

Finchleystrasse: German artists in exile in Great Britain and beyond 1933-45 is curated by Ben Uri with the generous support of the German Embassy London. It brings together paintings, drawings and graphics…

A Farewell to Art: Chagall, Shakespeare and Prospero is the first UK exhibition of a rare limited edition portfolio by Marc Chagall. Produced at the age of 88, it features 50 illustrations…

Eva Frankfurther was born into an assimilated Jewish family in Berlin in 1930. Following the rise of National Socialism in Germany, she escaped to London with her family in 1939. From 1946–51…