Current Exhibitions
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Other Transmissions: Conversations with Outsider Art
An exhibition of work initiated during a long artistic collaboration between the Whitworth, Venture Arts and Castlefield Gallery, Other Transmissions brings together a group of six artists - Joe Beedles, James Desser, Amy Ellison, Frances Heap, Andrew Johnstone, John Powell Jones.
14 February – 14 June 2020
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Utopias
This exhibition will bring together historic and modern and contemporary works to examine how utopian strategies have been imagined, represented and tested in the Whitworth Collection.
31 January – 27 September 2020
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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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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 – 29 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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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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