The newly announced exhibition programme will include a solo exhibition by celebrated contemporary artist Lina Iris Viktor.
Sir John Soane’s Museum has confirmed details of its upcoming exhibition programme for 2024.
The winners and shortlisted entries of The Architecture Drawing Prize will be exhibited at the Museum from 31st January until the 3rd March. Now into its seventh year The Architecture Drawing Prize celebrates the art of drawing in three categories: hand-drawn, digital and hybrid. The overall winner will be announced ahead of the exhibition as part of a webinar hosted on January 29th at 5pm GMT. Meanwhile, later in the year, the recipient of of the seventh Soane Medal will be revealed, an annual prize celebrating the impact of a leading voice in contemporary architecture. Recent winners include Lacaton and Vassal, Peter Barber and Marina Tabassum.
Also in January, Will Gompertz will take up his position as Director of the Soane Museum. Announced in August 2023, Will succeeds Dr Bruce Boucher, the Deborah Loeb Brice Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum, who retires at the end of 2023 after nearly eight years leading the museum.
Following The Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition, will be Fanciful Figures (20th March-2nd June), which will explore ‘staffage’, the small human and animal figures in architectural drawings, which first appeared in the late seventeenth century in Britain. This exhibition will explore their historical significance, as well showcasing work by architectural practices leading the field in the area of staffage today.
Meanwhile, heading into summer the museum will present Lina Iris Viktor: Mythic Time / Tens of Thousands of Rememberings (10th July-19th January 2025). This collaborative exhibition will feature new sculptures by the artist, which were made in response to the Museum and will be viewed across its spaces in dialogue with Soane’s own collections of ancient and modern sculpture. Paintings and works on paper will reveal the ways in which Viktor, like Soane, brings together fragments from multiple periods and cultures, from ancient Egypt to medieval illumination and indigenous Australian art. Works from Viktor’s Constellations series featuring intricate golden ‘labyrinths’ will form a contemporary counterpoint to Soane’s own labyrinthine spaces and his trademark use of symbolic golden light.
For more information about the exhibitions visit: https://www.soane.org/