British Museum Announces 2019 Forthcoming Exhibitions
By: Stephi Wild Nov. 30, 2018
The British Museum has announced its lineup of forthcoming exhibitions for 2019. Exhibition titles and dates are subject to change and should be checked with the press office before publication.
Major ticketed exhibitions:
The Citi exhibition
Manga
23 May -26 August 2019
Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery
Supported by Citi
Logistics partner IAG Cargo
This major spring exhibition in the Sainsbury Exhibition Gallery will explore contemporary manga and digital anime and link them to their historic roots. Using the British Museum's growing collection of historic and contemporary works, with exciting loans, the exhibition will span Japanese and international forms of manga.
Literally meaning 'pictures run riot' this narrative art form has become a multimedia phenomenon and the exhibition will explore manga's global appeal and cultural crossover by showcasing original Japanese manga and its influence across the world.
Troy (title tbc)
21 November 2019 - 8 March 2020
Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery
In autumn 2019, come to the British Museum to be enchanted by the epic legend and reality of the city of Troy. The ancient city of Troy holds an enduring place in world literature and archaeology. It is one of the central places of Greek myth, and the legend of the Trojan War forms the basis of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. From the Trojan horse to Troilus and Cressida, this exhibition will tell Troy's fascinating stories, presenting the archaeological discoveries that proved Troy was more than just an ancient myth, and asking what these objects tell us about this legendary city.
The exhibition will introduce the Trojan Cycle of myths through objects including beautifully painted classical Greek vases and look at the archaeological evidence for Troy, based on excavations the 1870s. The remarkable finds persuaded the world that Troy had existed and was not just a myth. These and later Bronze Age discoveries have fuelled a debate on the historical Troy that is still ongoing today. The exhibition will also look at how Troy's story has been reworked and retold in the literary works of Virgil, Chaucer, Shakespeare and beyond.
Edvard Munch: love and angst
11 April- 21 July 2019
The Sir Joseph Hotung Exhibition Gallery
Supported by AKO Foundation
In collaboration with the Munch Museum in Oslo, this major exhibition will showcase the work of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Famous for his haunting depictions of raw human emotion - from love and desire, to jealousy, loneliness, anxiety and grief - his use of psychological themes made him a pioneer of modern art.
Focusing on Munch's remarkable and experimental prints - an art form which established his reputation and which he excelled throughout his life - the exhibition will demonstrate his creativity in expressing the deep emotional experiences of the human condition. It will show how his artistic vision was shaped by personal experience of tragedy, as well as the radical ideas expressed in art, literature, science and theatre in Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With a large number of loans coming from the Munch Museum, this will be a rare opportunity in the UK to see these acclaimed works by one of the world's best known artists.
Looking east (title tbc)
10 October 2019 - 26 January 2020
The Sir Joseph Hotung Exhibition Gallery
Supported by Jack Ryan
Sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank
This major autumn exhibition will explore what the Islamic lands have meant to western artists, designers and thinkers over the past 500 years. Using objects from the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia (IAMM), the British Museum and elsewhere, this show will reconsider five centuries of the west's long and complex interaction with the Islamic world.
On display will be objects dating from the late 15th century right through to the present day including works by well-known painters like Delacroix and Lewis alongside many examples of material culture - from costume books and decorative arts to ephemera and video installation. Visitors will discover a new way of looking at Orientalism, providing a fresh look at this fascinating relationship in global history.
Free displays
The world exists to be put on a postcard: artists' postcards from 1960 to now
7 February - 4 August 2019
Room 90
This exhibition highlights the largely unexplored way in which artists have used postcards as an art form since the 1960s. Featuring some of the most well-known contemporary artists from this period - including Carl Andre, Joseph Beuys, Tacita Dean, Gilbert & George, Susan Hiller, Richard Long, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Dieter Roth, Gavin Turk, Mark Wallinger and Rachel Whiteread - the show will reveal how the mundane form of the postcard has been embraced as a hugely versatile and frequently transgressive medium.
Rembrandt: thinking on paper
7 February 2019 - 4 August 2019
Room 90
To mark the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt's death, this show will examine his exceptional creative output on paper through the British Museum's exceptional holdings of his graphic works. Through around 70 prints and drawings, it will demonstrate Rembrandt's unrivalled immediacy and brilliance of touch as a graphic artist, while bringing us close to witnessing and following his creative thinking. This will be the most extensive exhibition in the UK devoted to his works on paper in this anniversary year.
Portrait of an artist: Käthe Kollwitz 1867-1945
12 September 2019 - 12 January 2020
Room 90
Featuring nearly 40 works from the British Museum's collection, this exhibition explores the work of the German artist Käthe Kollwitz through her self-portraits and images of the poor and dispossessed. Demonstrating her unique artistic talent and her technical prowess and intelligence, the exhibition arrives at the British Museum in London after a successful national tour which visited Birmingham, Salisbury, Swansea and Hull. As one of the most influential twentieth-century printmakers, this show celebrates the humanity and enduring impact of her images.
Drawing now
12 September 2019 - 12 January 2020
Room 90
Supported by the Bridget Riley Art Foundation
This display will show nearly 60 works of contemporary drawings - a little-known part of the British Museum's collection. It will investigate how contemporary artists as diverse as Tacita Dean, Imran Qureshi, Sol LeWitt, Cornelia Parker, Pablo Bronstein and Anish Kapoor have used drawing to examine themes including identity, place, memory, power, and process. Collaboratively conceived by curators from across the UK, this exhibition follows on from the successful touring exhibition Lines of thought and is supported by the Bridget Riley Art Foundation, who collaborate with the British Museum to raise the profile of drawing through workshops, displays and exhibitions.
Sir Stamford Raffles: views of Java, Sumatra and Singapore (title tbc)
19 Sept - 20 Jan 2020
Room 91
Supported by the Singapore High Commission
This exhibition explores Sir Stamford Raffles' collections from Java and Sumatra that arrived at the British Museum in 1859 and 1939. Consisting of models, theatrical and musical items, weapons, and images of people from various social classes, this fascinating collection explores Java's nineteenth century society and as well as its Hindu-Buddhist traditions. The display will address key questions of what Raffles collected and why, as well as what the shape of the collection can tell us about him, his ideas and beliefs, his contemporaries, and Java, including interactions between colonisers and locals.
Playing with money
Spring - Autumn 2019
Room 69a
Childhood games have the power to help shape the way we think about the world and this exhibition will explore this in relation to money and economics. The twentieth century witnessed the transformation of money from precious metals to paper currency, from credit cards to digital crypto-currencies. This took place against a backdrop of financial instability, during which global societies were faced with stock bubbles and crashes. These changes have been chronicled in the way we play and this exhibition will explore these connections. The displays will draw from the British Museum's rich collection of games, toys, gambling ephemera and money.
Notgeld: German emergency money 1914-23 (title tbc)
Autumn 2018 - Spring 2020
Room 69a
Notgeld, emergency money from the early Weimar Republic, is a powerful visual source illustrating German instability in and after the First World War and the German longing for an idyllic homeland. This exhibition will reveal how this emergency currency responded to a national crisis with distinctive designs that internalised regional landmarks and folk narratives. Through the British Museum's collection of paper Notgeld it will explore how Germans viewed their homeland and national of identity during a period of intense turmoil, from the First World War to the hyperinflation of 1923. Their varied and colourful designs include jokes, poems and topical comment.
The Asahi Shimbun Displays
The Asahi Shimbun Displays are a series of regularly changing displays that allow the Museum to showcase important objects, to create small exhibits of topical interest and to learn more about improving the future display of objects elsewhere in the Museum. These displays have been made possible by the generous sponsorship of The Asahi Shimbun Company, who are long-standing supporters of the British Museum.
How to feed the whole world (title tbc)
February - May 2019
Room 3
This Asahi Shimbun Display will bring together a small selection of objects that provide an insight into the history of agriculture and the role humans have played in its development. Ancient objects reflecting the domestication of plants and animals will stand alongside a contemporary artwork of barbed wire, made using the unique strand-twining technique of the Wasco Nation in Oregon. This poignant work resembles the barbed enclosures that were used to fence up prairies against communal ranching and buffalo in Western States in the USA. This display will use objects spanning across periods of history to demonstrate that social inequality has been a major barrier to people's access to food, an issue that remains today when hunger and malnutrition pose immense risk to the health of many across the world.
Solomon Islands: colonial collecting (title tbc)
June - September 2019
Room 3
This Asahi Shimbun Display will explore aspects of the Solomon Island's colonial relationship with Britain through a focussed selection of objects and photographs. To accompany this display will also be a trail highlighting key objects across the Museum's permanent galleries, inviting visitors to reflect upon the history of the British Museum's collection. Together the trail and the display will provide a series of thought-provoking interventions that consider the links between the history of the British Empire, colonial collecting and the British Museum.
Horyuji, Temple of the flourishing law: Buddhist faith and art in early Japan (title tbc)
October - November 2019
Room 3
The objects in this display will reveal some of the ways that the transmission of the Buddhist faith along the Silk Road to Nara transformed Japan during the AD 500-800 period. Founded in AD 600s, the Horyuji ('Temple of the Flourishing Law') was an early centre of Buddhist religion in Japan and the British Museum has engaged with the temple since the 1870s. On display will be a life size copy of a wall painting in the Golden Hall at Horyuii, an invaluable record since the original was damaged by a fire in 1949. This painting, believed to show the paradise of Miroku (Maitreya), the Buddha of the future, will stand alongside unique treasures of early Buddhist Art moving in their beauty and spirituality.
Disposable (title tbc)
December 2019 - February 2020
Room 3
Humans have always made and disposed of objects, and this Asahi Shimbun Display will take an archaeological approach to disposable plastics, exploring how we can learn about societies through the physical traces they leave behind.
The display will draw on first-hand narratives and responses developed with members of the UK Pacific diaspora about how their communities and ways of life are impacted by plastic waste. These will be juxtaposed against archaeological finds cast into the ditch surrounding an ancient settlement at Staple Howe in North Yorkshire c. 500 BC. Together these ancient and modern objects encourage us to consider what we dispose of and what this will tell future generations about us.
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