Group Exhibitions
Archived Projects These projects have reached the end of their tour and the works in the exhibitions have either been returned to the lenders or now form part of the British Council Collection. Through this archive you can learn more about our past Group Exhibitions and how they inform our current programme of work. Group exhibition exploring the uncertainty of perception and the status of the artificial as the antithesis of ‘nature’ or ‘truth’ incorporating a variety of media including sound, text, projections and video as well as photography, painting and sculpture.
Black-Box Recorder Exhibition of video works by twelve young artists, united by a thematic approach, exploring conventions used in TV and filmmaking such as narrative structures, humour, vox pop and performance to camera.
Dimensions Variable Focusing on new developments in British Art, the exhibition demonstrates the depth, variety and diversity of work being made by younger artists in the UK today. The works are drawn from the British Council Collection and include painting, photography, video, sculpture and sound by artists who have made a significant contribution to recent developments in British art.
Double Vision Exhibition featuring work by fourteen artists selected for the DAAD British Artists' Programme, presenting a cross-generational section of Britain's artistic landscape by artists who have all spent time living and working in Germany. Covers a broad spectrum of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, installation as well as sound and video work.
Exhibition of 82 works on paper from the
British Council Collection, dating from the Vorticists and Stanley Spencer up to the present day.
Field Day Comprising 61 works by 23 artists, the exhibition covers the 40 year period 1961-2001 and provides the first opportunity for audiences in Taiwan to see something of the spirit and invention that has characterised British art during this exceptional period.
Happy Outsiders Exhibition presenting the work of middle and younger generation artists living and working in London, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee, providing an overview of artists whose work explores the external and internal world in a contemplative or ironic manner.
Landscape Providing an opportunity to examine the enduring interest shown by contemporary British artists in the richness and complexity of the landscape tradition in art, the exhibition incorporates a variety of media including sound, text, projections, video, photography and realist and abstract painting and sculpture.
Exhibition of prints produced since 1992 from the British Council Collection, featuring work by 16 contemporary artists including Rachel Whiteread, Michael Landy, Gavin Turk, Dominic Denis and Abigail Lane.
Exhibition of prints and graphics from 1946-1976, drawn from the British Council Collection
Tailsliding Exhibition featuring 12 young British artists currently creating eclectic work within the conventions of painting and sculpture.
Exhibition of 35 paintings made by 23 British artists over the decade which followed World War II, includes important works by Prunella Clough, Sandra Blow, Terry Frost, Victor Pasmore, Roger Hilton, Barbara Hepworth, Peter Lanyon, Alan Davie, Ben Nicholson, Patrick Heron and Graham Sutherland.
At the invitation of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, we organised the first exhibition of British art ever to be seen in the Islamic Republic, covering developments in British sculpture during the 20th century, from Hepworth’s stringed compositions and Gilbert & George’s early videos to Damien Hirst’s use of a real skeleton in his new work,
Resurrection, never shown before, and debuting in Iran.
A major new exhibition of 20th Century British sculpture for the prestigious National Museum of Art of Romania in Bucharest.Comprising sixty works by eighteen artists, the show is the largest British contemporary sculpture exhibition in Romania for several decades.
This exhibition focuses on the arrangement of everyday objects, the still life, which evolved as an independent category of art in the seventeeth century. The works in this exhibition include both contemporary explorations of traditional still life imagery and object assemblages representing current expressions of an evolved genre. The exhibition incorporates a full range of media including sculpture, photography, installation, painting and video.
A group exhibition presenting more than a hundred works by twenty-one artists who have risen to prominence in the past ten years. Sculpture, drawing, painting, text and installation are included.
This collaborative exhibition, co-curated by the Vancouver Art Gallery and the British Council, presented the work of 14 British artists whose works have been inspired by investigations into the body and cultural geography.
Bringing together a group of works by contemporary British artists, Supernova examines new tendencies in geometric abstraction. Artists included in the exhibition are: Haluk Akakce, Philip Allen, Keith Coventry, Liam Gillick, Gary Hume, Sarah Morris, Dan Norton, Toby Paterson, Tony Swain, Jane and Louise Wilson, John Wood and Paul Harrison, Richard Wright and Toby Ziegler
