To Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Sunbird 3, 2025. Charcoal on paper. Courtesy the Artist, Corvi-Mora, London, and Jack Shainman, New York
Adults £14.50/£15.95*
Concessions £10.25
Members FREE
MK residents £1 every Tuesday, £10.25 Wednesday – Sunday
Under 21s FREE
Art Fund Pass £7.25
Pay What You Can £5 – £15, first Sunday of every month
*Including donation
David Wojnarowicz, Untitled (Face in Dirt), 1991/2018. Pigmented ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 gsm, 50.48 x 60.33 cm. Courtesy of the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and PPOW, New York
Zoe Leonard, I want a president, 1992. Typewritten text on paper. 35.56 cm x 21.59 cm. © Zoe Leonard. Courtesy the artist, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, and Hauser & Wirth
Lisa Brice, Untitled (After Vallotton), 2021. Ink synthetic tempera, gouache, neopastel, on canvas mounted on wooden panel, 200 x 82.6 x 2.5 cm. Copyright: Lisa Brice. Photo: Charles Duprat
Kahlil Joseph, Wildcat, 2013. Single-channel film work with audio, HD digital. 13 mins. Courtesy the artist
Samuel Fosso, Self Portrait c. 1977, printed in 1996. Black & white print, 60 x 50 cm. Courtesy greengrassi, London
Exhibitions
25 October 2025 - 25 January 2026
Curated by acclaimed figurative painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, this exhibition brings together a diverse group of international artists working across painting, sculpture, photography, film, and drawing from the 19th century to the present day.
Featuring works by Bas Jan Ader, Pierre Bonnard, Lisa Brice, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Samuel Fosso, Peter Hujar, Kahlil Joseph, Zoe Leonard, Glenn Ligon, Toyin Ojih Odutola, The Otolith Group, Jennifer Packer, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Walter Sickert, Édouard Vuillard, David Wojnarowicz and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye herself.
See paintings by post-impressionist masters like Walter Sickert alongside some of the most exciting artists working today, including Jennifer Packer, and video works by filmmaker Kahlil Joseph and artist collective, The Otolith Group.
This exhibition is a Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition curated by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye with Hayward Gallery Touring.
£10.25 tickets throughout January 2026 for MK Residents
Exhibition Events
Conversational Tours: [Starting 11th November] Tuesdays, 11am
General Tours: [Starting 11th November] Tuesdays and Saturdays, 2pm
To Improvise an Archive: A Women’s Oral History Of West Africa | 16 January, 2026
Accessibility
MK Gallery is accessible to all. The building is wheelchair friendly and we welcome assistance dogs. Accessible toilets can be found on every floor, with a Changing Places toilet on the ground floor.
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Visit details
Large bags, food and drink are not allowed in the exhibition. We have a range of lockers available on the first floor of the building for storing personal belongings.
Please be advised that the exhibition contains racialised and sexually graphic language from historic sources that some visitors may find offensive.
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