Current Exhibitions
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Standardisation and Deviation: The Whitworth Story
Standardisation is a theme that is woven throughout this exhibition, telling the history of the Whitworth and the development of its diverse and internationally significant collections.
Opens 14 December 2019 – June 2021
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Elizabeth Price: A LONG MEMORY
Bringing together many new and acclaimed works, this exhibition engages with Price’s pre-occupations of technology, history, politics and pop music.
25 October 2019 – 1 March 2020
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Tapestries
A tapestry is a coming together of people or things, usually thread, to make an intricate whole. This exhibition shows the breadth of the textiles at the Whitworth that are made with this method of weaving.
12 October 2019 – 23 February 2020Read more
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Cézanne at the Whitworth
This exhibition celebrates an extraordinary collection of drawings and prints by Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) that has been gifted and placed on long-term loan to the Whitworth by gallerist, collector, author and publisher Karsten Schubert.
24 August 2019 – 1 March 2020
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Unreformed: Wallpaper and Design Diversity
This exhibition looks at how powerful the voices of the people who called for Design Reform were.
17 August 2019 – July 2020Read more
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Beyond Faith: Muslim Women Artists Today
An exhibition of the work of five contemporary artists in conversation with pieces selected from the Whitworth’s art collection, that explore themes of identity, faith, cultures, otherness and belonging.
14 June 2019 – 2 February 2020
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The Reno at the Whitworth
For a period of one year Linda Brogan and a group of local residents, who went to the Reno nightclub in the 1970s and 80s, will occupy the Whitworth.
15 March 2019 – 19 April 2020
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Exchange: New Acquisitions
Exchanges sets art and artists together, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in opposition – always with insight and intention.
16 February 2019 – June 2020
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Anya Gallaccio
A new permanent commission in Whitworth Park by artist Anya Gallaccio, exploring themes of loss, memory and physical presence in both nature and architecture.
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