Just Announced! Gilbert & George will present their 21ST CENTURY PICTURES at the Hayward Gallery, London, opening 7 Oct 2025 – on view until 4 Jan 2026.
The exhibition will showcase Gilbert & George’s artistic journey from the past 25 years, with vibrant, large-scale images that centre the human experience and reflect their motto, ‘Art for All’, highlighting new pictures created since the start of the millennium.
With bold, single-word titles, each piece delves into societal norms and taboos, spanning the mundane and the illicit. Their art challenges boundaries of taste and propriety.
21ST CENTURY PICTURES features key series including NEW HORNY PICTURES (2001), THE LONDON PICTURES (2011), THE BEARD PICTURES (2016), and THE CORPSING PICTURES (2022), exploring themes of hope, fear, sex, religion, corruption and death.
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Image: ‘HA-HA’ (190 x 226 cm) – from Gilbert & George’s 2022 ‘THE CORPSING PICTURES’.