PMC-Supported Exhibitions to Visit This Spring

All of the exhibitions listed below have been supported by the Paul Mellon Centre (PMC) funding programme.

Resistance
22 February – 1 June 2025
Turner Contemporary, Margate

From the suffragettes marching through London’s streets to the mass protest against the Iraq War, photographers have witnessed a century of British resistance. This landmark exhibition, conceived by acclaimed artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen, chronicles how ordinary people fought for change between 1903 and 2003.

Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker
12 February – 4 May 2025
Whitechapel Gallery, London

Visceral Canker encompasses the majority of Donald Rodney’s surviving works from 1982 to 1997 including large-scale oil pastels on X-rays, kinetic and animatronic sculptures as well as his sketchbooks and rare archival materials. The exhibition showcases the extraordinary breadth and influence of Rodney’s work, confirming him as a vital figure in British art and introducing him to a new generation of audiences.

Planetary Portals: I am in your dreams, but you are not in mine
7 March – 25 June 2025
The Photographers’ Gallery, London

A new exhibition and commission by the collective Planetary Portals interrogates archival photography and artificial intelligence (AI), the exhibition weaves together the environmental landscapes of nineteenth-century mining of gold and diamonds in South Africa with the scripting process of AI. Central to the exhibition is a series of single-shot films that use a variety of generative AI and digital processes, crafted from archival photographs sourced from the Papers of Cecil Rhodes at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

One Self: The Creative Life of Colin Self
29 March – 21 September 2025
Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery

The first major retrospective of Colin Self in 17 years. Containing over 120 works, the exhibition explores the artist's significant contribution to twentieth-century art, complex relationship with the London art scene and deliberate positioning on the margins of the art world, including periods of self-imposed exile and solitude.