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Pick Me Up Graphic Arts Festival 2016
From 21 April 2016
Embankment Galleries, South Wing
Returning for an incredible seventh year, the 12-day festival celebrates all aspects of the graphic arts, bringing together international emerging illustrators and designers as well as more established names. Immerse yourself in specially created studio spaces and enjoy a diverse programme of daily talks and workshops. A special edition to this year's festival is a retrospective exhibition of typographer and printmaker, Alan Kitching. This year’s Pick Me Up is part of UTOPIA 2016.
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Now Play This
Utopia at the London Games Festival
1-3 April 2016
New Wing
Returning to Somerset House for a second year, and this year as part of the London Games Festival. The three-day event will include dozens of games to play, many created especially for this weekend. The festival showcases the wider possibilities of games. The peculiar, the beautiful, the deeply experimental. Part of UTOPIA 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility.
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2016 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition
From 22 April 2016
East Wing Galleries, East Wing & West Wing Galleries, West Wing
Bringing vibrancy and colour to the spring's arts calendar, the exhibition will showcase over 500 of the best contemporary photographs from around the world from the past year, each are winning and shortlisted entries from the world’s largest photography competition. The show will also include a special dedication to the recipients of the awards' Outstanding Contribution to Photographyprize.
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COMING SOON
Summer Series at Somerset House
with American Express®
7 – 17 July 2016
Tickets available for London's intimate live music festival set in the picturesque The Edmond J. Safra Fountain Court. Playing host to an eclectic and world-class array of headline artists including Grammy Award-nominated Hiatus Kaiyote, Mercury Prize-winning Benjamin Clementine, indie rock newcomer Courtney Barnett and a unique audio-visual show from UNKLE: REDUX to perform an unforgettable finale. The festival sold out last year, so don’t miss tickets for this year.
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Last chance to see exhibitions The Museum of Innocence, a physical manifestation of Orhan Pamuk’s novel (until 3 April) and Out There: Our Post-War Public Art with Historic England (until 10 April).
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MORE EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS:
Learning and Events
This month we continue our investigations into people’s personal utopias with 15 minute talks in the Utopia Treasury and Venturing Beyond Discourses with Matthew Beaumont and Ruth Austin. For the return of Pick Me Up we host daily drop-in workshops including book binding, skateboard design, sign painting, comic books, family events, and much more.
Botticelli and Treasures from the Hamilton Collection
Until 15 May 2016
The Courtauld Gallery, North Wing
This major exhibition offers a rare opportunity to enjoy a rich selection of Sandro Botticelli’s exquisite drawings for Dante’s Divine Comedy alongside a selection of outstanding Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, including the monumental Hamilton Bible, acknowledged as one of the most important illuminated manuscripts in the world.
Katie Paterson: Totality
A new commission by the Arts Council Collection
From 27 April 2016
New Wing
Free admission
Don’t miss this mirror ball comprising images of nearly every solar eclipse that’s been documented by humankind, including the oldest solar eclipse drawings from hundreds of years ago, to images from the most technological advanced telescopes now. The commission is part of UTOPIA 2016.
COMING SOON: Photo London
19 – 22 May 2016
Bringing together 80 of the world’s leading galleries under one roof, in a major international photography fair combined with an innovative public programme supported by the LUMA Foundation. Photo London was created to give London an international photography event befitting the city’s status as global cultural capital.
From our friends at The Photographers' Gallery
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2016
From 15 April 2016
This year's shortlisted artists are Laura El-Tantawy, Erik Kessels, Trevor Paglen and Tobias Zielony, with diverse bodies of work expressing political and personal concerns with identity, migration, surveillance and loss.
From our friends at Wellcome Collection
THIS IS A VOICE
From 14 April 2016
Trace the material quality of the voice by looking inside vocal tracts, restless minds and speech devices, and explore the complex psychological and physiological origins of the voice.
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