Art at the Barbican

The exhibition was one of our most popular installations in The Curve and has since gone on to tour in New York’s MoMa and Shanghai’s Yuz Musuem.

As part of the Rain Room installation, we invited contemporary dance choreographer Wayne McGregor to create a special performance for this unique space.

Bringing together more than 200 works by over 70 artists and designers, the exhibition included works by such artists as Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, Judy Chicago, Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Joe Tilson and Andy Warhol, Gaetano Pesce and Ettore Sottsass.

We welcomed new commissions including Google's DevArt, an installation by global music artist and entrepreneur will.i.am and Yuri Suzuki, works by artists Umbrellium and experienced the Oscar-winning visual effects behind Christopher Nolan's Inception and Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity.

In partnership with Google, we launched a call out to artists working with digital technology and code to create a series of special commissions for 'Digital Revolution'.

With his avant-garde fashion creations and cutting-edge designs, Gaultier has shaped the look of fashion over the last 40 years.

The exhibition featured Madonna's now iconic conical bra, as seen on the Blonde Ambition tour.

From personal letters, photographs, drawings and artwork, to their products, models, multi-media installations and furniture, The World of Charles and Ray Eames celebrated the many facets of the work of these dynamic designers and bringing their ideas and playful spirit to life in our Art Gallery.

Artists include: Berenice Abbott, Iwan Baan, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Hélène Binet, Walker Evans, Luigi Ghirri, Andreas Gursky, Lucien Hervé, Nadav Kander, Luisa Lambri, Simon Norfolk, Bas Princen , Ed Ruscha, Stephen Shore, Julius Shulman, Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Guy Tillim.

Striking and insightful, Strange and Familiar allowed us to see how Britain is perceived through the lens of international photographers. Such as these shots from American photographer, Bruce Gilden's 'Black Country' series.

From social documentary and portraiture to street and architectural photography, the exhibition celebrates the work of leading photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rineke Dijkstra, Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand.

Visitors were greeted by ten troubadours, performing the song 'Take Me Here by the Dishwasher' on repeat throughout the day in one of Kjartansson's trademark durational performances.

All 144 of the paintings in 'The End' were completed when Ragnar Kjartansson represented Iceland at the Venice Biennale.

The troubadours performed before a looping short erotic film of Kjartansson's mother and father - rumour has it this was the moment Kjartansson was conceived...

From historical costumes to couture and ready-to-wear looks, The Vulgar featured contributions from leading contemporary designers such as Walter van Beirendonck, Chloé, Christian Dior, Pam Hogg, Christian Lacroix, Lanvin, Moschino, Miuccia Prada, Agent Provocateur, Elsa Schiaparelli, Viktor & Rolf, Louis Vuitton and Vivienne Westwood.