Warburg Institute Unveils Inaugural Artistic Programme After Major Transformation
This autumn we’re excited to be launching our inaugural programme of exhibitions, events, and residencies.
This milestone follows the completion of our transformative Warburg Renaissance renovation, led by the acclaimed award-winning architects Haworth Tompkins. From 2 October 2024, visitors can explore our new state-of-the-art facilities, including a dramatic auditorium and our first ever gallery space. These enhancements position the Warburg Institute as a dynamic hub for exhibitions, residencies, and events, inviting new audiences to engage with our rich collections and participate in a dialogue about art, culture, and history. Among the highlights of our new Kythera Gallery is Edmund de Waal's evocative library of exile, an installation fostering dialogue on books, memory, and migration.
Programme highlights for 2024 / 2025 include:
Memory & Migration: The Warburg Institute 1926-2024
2 October 2024 – 20 December 2024
A selection of remarkable moments in the Warburg Institute’s intellectual and institutional journey from Hamburg to London will be narrated by artists, writers, and historians. The opening display will feature Aby Warburg’s trunk and sketchbook, original illustrations from Frances Yates’ The Art of Memory, and a diagram Einstein drew for Warburg, among other notable artifacts. It will also showcase images from the Bilderatlas and The Menil Archive of the Image of the Black in Western Art; as well as newly commissioned photographs by artist in residence Tereza Červeňová.
Tarot: Origins & Afterlives
31 January - 30 April 2025
The inaugural exhibition in the new gallery will explore the evolution of tarot, from a fifteenth-century courtly card game to its contemporary adaptations. It will feature significant items such as selections from the earliest surviving complete deck, the Sola Busca Tarot, and Lady Frieda Harris’s paintings for the Thoth Tarot, designed with Aleister Crowley.
Art & The Book
May - July 2025
This summer event season and collection display will bring together the world of art books and artist’s publishing. Partnering with Biblioteka, the programme will include book fairs, talks, and workshops, celebrating the 75th anniversary of Sir Ernst Gombrich’s The Story of Art.
Black Atlas, Edward George
September - December 2025
A major new film commission and curated exhibition by Edward George, drawing from the Warburg’s Menil Archive. Black Atlas will present a kinetic, interpretive visual history of Black figures in art through a series of critical fictions.
We are also delighted to announce the Assetto Fellowships for Creative Practitioners in Residence. These fellowships will annually host three creative practitioners, fostering interdisciplinarity across various artistic fields. Fellows will have the unique opportunity to engage with the Institute’s collections and actively contribute to its public programmes.
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As we approach our building's reopening, the involvement of our Friends will be more vital than ever in maintaining the Warburg as a hub of interdisciplinary research and in advancing the Warburg Renaissance Project.
