Reporter – DesignCurial

Celebrating 200 years of the Nationwide Gallery

Phrases by Emily Martin

Nationwide Gallery Bicentenary: NG200
Could 2024 – Could 2025
www.nationalgallery.org.uk

ON 10 MAY 2024 the Nationwide Gallery will likely be 200 years previous, and to mark two centuries of bringing folks and work collectively it should have a good time each its previous and future with a year-long pageant of artwork, creativity and creativeness.

An formidable programme of occasions and exhibitions – that extends from the gallery into Trafalgar Sq., throughout the nation, and to the world – may be witnessed by means of a sequence of on-line and digital experiences.

The gallery is making it simpler than ever to work together with among the biggest work on the planet: from seeing an actual work within the context of your native museum or gallery to having fun with a dive into the digital historical past of the gallery’s assortment, everybody can discover new methods to attach with artwork.

Serving to to kick off the celebration is Nationwide Treasures: 12 simultaneous exhibitions opening on the identical day – 10 Could 2024 – at a dozen museums throughout the 12 areas of the UK’s 4 nations, and every centred round a nationwide treasure. Consequently, greater than half of the UK’s inhabitants will likely be inside an hour’s journey of a Nationwide Gallery masterpiece.

Different highlights embrace NG200: Artwork Highway Journey, which is able to see two travelling artwork studios touring the UK by means of the 12 months, bringing Nationwide Gallery workshops and studying actions to 200 completely different communities that in any other case wouldn’t have prepared entry to them. Additionally, remember to catch NG200: Jeremy Deller’s Triumph of Artwork, a nationwide public artwork fee that exhibits how festivals are part of artwork, tradition and civic life, and the way artwork and artists may be catalysts of collaboration and pleasure.

The Nationwide Gallery will shut the celebrations with the most recent addition to its constructing in Trafalgar Sq.: a brand new entrance to the Sainsbury Wing and a welcome match for the twenty first century.

To be part of the bicentenary celebrations or to search out out extra about it, head over to the Nationwide Galley’s web site at www.nationalgallery.org.uk.