Current Exhibitions
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White Psyche
The exhibition takes a refreshingly challenging look at the story of Cupid and Psyche. Power, sex, and social status are played out through beauty and desire in this ancient tale.
16 September 2020 – January 2021
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Utopias
This exhibition brings together historic and modern and contemporary works to examine how utopian strategies have been imagined, represented and tested in the Whitworth Collection.
16 September 2020 – January 2021
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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.
16 September – November 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.
16 September 2020 – June 2021
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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.
16 September – December 2020Read more
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Exchanges: Recent Additions to the Collection
Exchanges sets art and artists together, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in opposition – always with insight and intention.
16 September 2020 – February 2021
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Anya Gallaccio
A 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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