YOUR LENS, YOUR TRUTH (Shutter Hub x Sainsbury Centre)

Online exhibition: Sometimes seen as superior to text, photographs are now a mainstay of how the media and the public understand events. Is what we see in the image the truth of the subject being photographed?

1 October - 20 October 2024

Enjoy October Half Term at the Sainsbury Centre

Visit the Sainsbury Centre this Half Term for fun activities and artistic inspiration for all the family.

Free Guided Tours

Join our free guided Living Area and exhibition tours every Tuesday-Sunday.

Young Associates Autumn 2024

A free creative programme for young people aged 16-25. Work collaboratively with other young people in a supportive environment

15 October - 26 November 2024

Artist Teacher Group

Regular informal peer-led studio session developed with The Network of East Anglian Art Teachers (NEAAT) to give teachers the opportunity to develop their personal art practice.

14 September - 12 July 2025

Teachers’ INSET – VESSELS: Ceramics and more

Join in this practical workshop led by our Associate Artists exploring some of the numerous vessels in the Sainsbury Collection

10 October 2024

Ivan Morison: Towards the Weird Heart of Things

The Sainsbury Centre, in collaboration with Orleans House Gallery, presents Towards the Weird Heart of Things, a new site-specific series of sculptures by artist Ivan Morison in response to the curatorial provocation, Why Do We Take Drugs?

21 October - 28 February 2025

Heroin Falls

Heroin Falls highlights the realities of heroin addiction through the juxtaposition of two different worlds through the eyes of two incredible photographers. The exhibition aims to show connections which will lead viewers to acknowledge substance misuse is a global challenge that transcends race, location and class.

23 November - 27 April 2025

Ayahuasca & Art of the Amazon

This exhibition considers the impact of the mind-altering, psychotropic vine – ayahuasca – within Western Amazonian social life. It explores how the ritual consumption of ayahuasca is linked to their artistic production.

14 September - 2 February 2025

Why Do We Take Drugs?

In September 2024, the Sainsbury Centre will activate art to address its next big question through a six-month season of interlinked exhibitions and programmes exploring Why Do We Take Drugs? From alcohol and caffeine to ayahuasca and heroin, this season uses art to take visitors on a journey of investigation, inviting audiences to explore the world of global drug cultures from illegal to familiar across one mind-blowing museum landscape.

14 September - 27 April 2025

What is Truth?

This year, the Sainsbury Centre is investigating how we can know what is true in the world around us through a series of fascinating, interlinked exhibitions – In Event of Moon Disaster, Liquid Gender, Jeffrey Gibson: no simple word for time and The Camera Never Lies – bringing together some of the world’s leading artists and creative thinkers, plus a new, interlinking publication.

17 February - 20 October 2024