Barbican Art Gallery

For his first solo exhibition in a major UK public gallery, Chinese artist Song Dong recreates his monumental work, Waste Not, in The Curve.

Comprising over 10,000 items collected by Song Dong’s mother over five decades, ranging from a section of the house to metal pots and plastic bowls to blankets, bottle caps, toothpaste tubes and toys, the installation is a personal meditation on family and the artist’s own childhood during the Cultural Revolution.

Where

The Curve

Admission

Free.

Website

http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=12878

Opening up the west entrance to the Art Gallery for the first time, the show features an eloquent display of select materials from its offices worldwide and its archive in the Netherlands (dating from the 1970s) that reveals a complex attitude towards the notion of progress, within architecture and beyond.

Admission

£10,£8,£6

The biggest Bauhaus exhibition in the UK in over 40 years presents the modern world’s most famous art school. From expressionist beginnings to a pioneering model uniting art and technology the Bauhaus’ utopian vision sought to change society in the aftermath of the First World War.

Bauhaus: Art as Life explores the diverse artistic production that made up its turbulent fourteen-year history and delves into the subjects at the heart of the school: art, culture, life, politics and society, and the changing technology of the age.

Suitable for

• Any age

Admission

Standard - £8 online/£10 on the door
Concessions - £7 online/£8 on the door
Secondary school (groups of ten or more) - £4
13-17s yrs - £6 online/£7 on the door
Children aged 12 and under - free

Book tickets using the url below

Website

https://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing/performancelist.asp?shoid=34291