Barbican Art Gallery: Michael Clark - Cosmic Dancer & Toyin Ojih Odutola - A Countervailing Theory

Barbican Art Gallery presents a special viewing of the first exhibition dedicated to the work of groundbreaking dancer and choreographer Michael Clark.



The exhibition unfolds as a constellation of striking portraits of Clark through the eyes of legendary collaborators and world-renowned artists including Charles Atlas, BodyMap, Leigh Bowery, Duncan Campbell, Peter Doig, Cerith Wyn Evans, Sarah Lucas, Silke Otto-Knapp, Elizabeth Peyton, The Fall and Wolfgang Tillmans.



In the Curve, the first UK exhibition of Nigerian-American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola’s work. Featuring forty new drawings, this epic commission explores an imagined ancient myth, with an immersive soundscape by artist Peter Adjaye.

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