Explore some 700 exhibitions across 3 different platforms
Whether you just want to meander or are looking to research, we have developed 3 different ways you can engage with over 700 exhibitions covering a century of Ben Uri in London.
To explore our century of exhibitions in whichever format you prefer, please click on the titles below.
Classic exhibitions
Scroll down and choose from over 45 exhibitions. Please keep checking as we continue to curate and add new exhibitions.
New 3D exhibitions
Ben Uri is excited to launch new 3D exhibition presentations in a range of elegant gallery settings. They are designed to give you greater accessibility and insight to the art and stories behind them.
Ben Uri Archive from 1925 to date
Since 2015, we have researched and chronicled our century of archives and listed every recorded Ben Uri exhibition since our first in 1925 which celebrated the opening of our first gallery in Great Russell Street in Bloomsbury, just by the British Museum. We have created links from each exhibition to any related archival material identified to date. We have over 700 exhibitions to survey of which over 600 were Ben Uri curated. This extraordinary research resource is an ongoing project and is being continually updated, so please keep checking.
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Classic exhibitions
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13 Ukrainian artists
Who migrated or were displaced not so many years ago Please think of Ukraine as you review 20 artworks by past generations of émigré artists from this country. -
Exhibition of the week
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Out of Austria
Austrian Artists in Exile in Great Britain, 1933-45 Marking the 80 th anniversary of the Anschluss (annexation of Austria), the exhibition Out of Austria brings together around 40 works by more than 20 Austrian artists who fled to... -
Further exhibitions
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German Refugee Artists to Britain since 1900
This exhibition brings together art works and archival material by an array of both celebrated and lesser-known German-born refugee artists, principally from the Ben Uri Collection, supplemented by important external... -
Migrations
Masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection Ben Uri is delighted to be working in partnership with GARAS and Gloucester Museum and Gloucester City Council to present the exhibition Migrations: Masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection (3rd... -
Art and the Holocaust
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Interned Artists
Ben Uri and the 80th Anniversary of Internment In memory of Eva Aldbrook 1925-2020 On the 80 th anniversary of internment in Britain, Ben Uri is celebrating the many artist internees who are represented within its permanent collection... -
Finchleystrasse
German artists in exile in Great Britain and Beyond, 1933–45 Between 1933 and 1945, whether for religious, political or artistic reasons, over 300 painters, sculptors and graphic artists fled into exile or immigrated to Great Britain from Nazi Germany. This... -
Jankel Adler
A 'Degenerate' Artist in Britain, 1940-49 Marking the 70th anniversary of the artist's death, Jankel Adler: A 'Degenerate' Artist in Britain, 1940-49 is the first museum exhibition of Adler's works in Britain since the Arts... -
Yiddish: the language, people, and heritage
From the Art and Archives of the Ben Uri Collection This online exhibition, Yiddish: the language, people and heritage, explores Ben Uri's extensive collections of artworks and archives, both more than a century old, with unique pieces reflecting the prevailing... -
Liberators
Twelve Extraordinary Women Artists from the Ben Uri Collection This exhibition celebrates the lives, courage and strength of character, across so many human endeavours, of extraordinary women artists from the Ben Uri Collection. Liberators explores the lives and works... -
Rothenstein's Relevance
Artist, writer, teacher and consummate networker, Sir William Rothenstein was a leading British artist in the years before the First World War and a highly influential and well-connected figure throughout... -
Jacob Kramer (1892 - 1962)
Works from the Ben Uri Collection A Russian-Jewish immigrant, Kramer arrived in Britain in 1900. He studied at Leeds School of Art and briefly at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, supported by modernist... -
Mark Gertler and the Whitechapel Boys
Paintings from the Luke Gertler Bequest & Selected Important UK Collections BURU (the Ben Uri Research Unit) is delighted to present the exhibition, Mark Gertler: Paintings from the Luke Gertler Bequest & Selected Important UK Collections, curated by Sarah MacDougall, the... -
David Bomberg - A Pioneer of Modernism
David Bomberg was born to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents in Birmingham, England, in 1890. The family moved to Whitechapel in 1895, where he became prominent among the ‘Whitechapel Boys’ — a... -
Becoming Gustav Metzger
Uncovering The Early Years, 1945-59 Becoming Gustav Metzger: Uncovering the Early Years, 1945–59 The Ben Uri Research Unit (BURU), in partnership with The Gustav Metzger Foundation, is delighted to present the first museum exhibition to... -
Teacher and Pupil
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Frank Auerbach
Works from the Ben Uri Collection Frank Auerbach was born in Berlin to Jewish parents in 1931 and immigrated to England in 1939 (naturalised in 1947); his parents, who remained behind, subsequently perished in concentration camps.... -
Friends and Influences
Auerbach, Kossoff, Kitaj, Freud BURU (the Ben Uri Research Unit) presents Friends and Influences, the third in our series of snapshot survey exhibitions exploring a particular aspect of the Jewish and immigrant contribution to... -
Self Portraits from the Ben Uri Collection
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Midnight's Family
70 years of Indian Artists in Britain This timely exhibition, which coincides with the date of Indian Independence (declared at midnight on 15 August 1947), addresses the representation of Indian immigrant artists (both first and second generation)... -
Shanti Panchal
A Personal Language of Painting 2007-2018 Shanti Panchal: A Personal Language of Painting is Ben Uri Research Unit’s first digital show devoted to a contemporary émigré. Born in the mid-1950s (exact date unknown) in rural Gujarat,... -
Chaïm Soutine and his Contemporaries
From Russia to Paris To celebrate the museum’s acquisition of Soutine’s La Soubrette, c. 1933, the exhibition, Chaïm Soutine and his Contemporaries: from Russia to Paris, unveils this important portrait, together with a small selection of... -
A Farewell to Art
Chagall, Shakespeare and Prospero A Farewell to Art: Chagall, Shakespeare and Prospero is the first UK exhibition of a rare limited edition portfolio by Marc Chagall, which features 50 illustrations created to reflect his... -
100 for 100
Ben Uri: Past, Present and Future From 21 May until 9 June 2016, at the generous invitation of Christie's, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum presents a unique exhibition celebrating its past, present and future sharing the... -
Uproar!
The first 50 years of the London Group 1913-1963 Ben Uri is honoured to present 'Uproar!': The first 50 Years of The London Group 1913‒63, showcasing 50 works by 50 artists during this half century. The exhibition marks the... -
Out of Chaos
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Biblical Stories
Photographs by Adi Nes Ben Uri Gallery and Museum is honoured to launch an exhibition of Israeli born artist Adi Nes’ seminal Biblical Stories series from 2006. Born of Iranian parents and raised in... -
Interstices
Discovering the Ben Uri Collection, Curated by René Gimpel Interstices Curated by René Gimpel 'The Ben Uri collection is a treasure trove. It’s an honour and a privilege to be invited to delve into it, with carte blanche as... -
Reinvesting in New Acquisitions and Long-term Loans
The exhibition showcases key recent new acquisitions and long-term loans to the Ben Uri Collection, arranged to reflect both Ben Uri's own history and three principal waves of migration to... -
Alfred Cohen
An American Artist in Europe - Between Figuration and Abstraction This is an online version of the recent Alfred Cohen exhibition at Bush House, London, co-curated by Max Saunders and Sarah MacDougall. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Alfred... -
Golden Drawings and the Coviad
David Breuer-Weil Drawing is like breathing, the most natural form of making a work of art and the beginning of any painting or sculpture. A sketchbook is an extra limb, always there,... -
Refiguring the 50s
Joan Eardley, Sheila Fell, Eva Frankfurther, Josef Herman and L S Lowry Refiguring the 50s featured works by Joan Eardley, Sheila Fell, Eva Frankfurther, Josef Herman and L.S. Lowry: five figurative artists working in Britain in the 1950s, whom each had a... -
Selected Works by Eva Frankfurther (1930-1959)
Two contexts inform the life and work of Eva Frankfurther: the decade through which she lived and worked in 1950s Britain and its concern with the realist tradition; and the... -
Portraits - Expressionist and Surreal
Becoming Gustav Metzger: Uncovering The Early Years, 1945-59 Portraits — Expressionist and Surreal features 23 paintings and drawings, including an experimental series of portrait heads, surreal figures and large-scale thematic works, the majority probably completed as a result... -
Frank Auerbach's Portrait Etchings
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Antwerp Models
Becoming Gustav Metzger: Uncovering The Early Years, 1945-59 The second in the Becoming Gustav Metzger online exhibition series, Antwerp Models features 33 drawings in pencil, crayon and ink, the majority of which are thought to have been executed... -
Towards Abstraction and Beyond
Becoming Gustav Metzger: Uncovering The Early Years, 1945-59 Towards Abstraction and Beyond is the fourth and final instalment in a series of exhibitions designed to showcase the breadth of Gustav Metzger’s early work, as he moved towards the... -
British Museum and Architectural Studies
Becoming Gustav Metzger: Uncovering The Early Years, 1945-59 The third instalment of the Becoming Gustav Metzger online exhibition series features 19 British Museum and architectural studies, as well as Belgian landscapes dating from the late 1940s and early... -
Yalta 1945 by Komar & Melamid
Ben Uri is honoured to launch the world tour of this seminal monumental installation of Yalta 1945 from 1986-87, previously exhibited at D ocumenta 8 in 1987 and at Brooklyn... -
Thirty-six Pounds and Ninety-five Pence
Artworks by Contemporary Migrant Artists In honour of Refugee Week, Ben Uri Gallery and New Art Studio celebrate “our shared future” through a partnership of refugee and asylum seekers' artwork. Contrary to common belief, asylum... -
Art-exit 1939: A Very Different Europe
Adler, Chagall, Bloch, Auerbach, Daghani, Feibusch and other This exhibition shines a spotlight on a very different Europe in 1939 and the forced journeys made by many of Central Europe’s most distinguished, talented and pioneering artists, who escaped... -
From Adler to Żuławski
A Century of Polish Artists in Britain This exhibition is the first in Ben Uri’s series on refugee and migrant artists, highlighting the Polish contribution in Britain over the last century. This focus is particularly apt as... -
Czech Routes
Selected Czechoslovak Artists in Britain from the Ben Uri and private collections Czech Routes is the fourth in Ben Uri’s series of exhibitions designed to highlight the contribution of émigré artists to Britain since 1900. Featuring the work of 21 painters, printmakers...
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Ben Uri is a registered British charity (280389). We seek and need your donations to be able to fund and expand our work across our 3 principal and distinctive areas of public benefit being:
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Research and digitally record the Jewish and immigrant contribution to British visual culture since 1900 - including the current;
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Research and commission collection inspired art interventions for the over 70s to enrich their quality of life through digital channels;
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Develop our pioneering first full scale virtual museum and research centre to maximise engagement across a global digital audience.
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