The annual exhibition will run at the venue from the 17th June until the 17th August.
The Royal Academy of Arts has unveiled details of its 257th Summer Exhibition which will go on display to the public next month.
Artists exhibiting work this year will include British artist Alice Channer, whose 6m high installation of ostrich feathers and steel chain will greet visitors as they enter the exhibition. Brazilian artist Antonio Tarsis will create a work especially for the show consisting of a 4.5m high and 7m wide wall made from deconstructed matchboxes. Suspended works will be a theme that continues throughout the exhibition; hanging above visitors in the largest gallery will be an installation of textile carcasses by Argentine American artist Tamara Kostianovsky. Other artists invited to exhibit this year include Lucy and Jorge Orta, Hussein Chalayan, Anya Gallaccio and John Walker.
In addition to the large number of public submissions, Royal Academicians will be showing works, including Rana Begum, Frank Bowling, Grayson Perry, Lubaina Himid, Cornelia Parker, Veronica Ryan, Conrad Shawcross, Yinka Shonibare and Rose Wylie. Honorary Royal Academician Jenny Holzer will be showing work at the Summer Exhibition for the very first time. Other Honorary Royal Academicians will include Marina Abramović, El Anatsui, Marlene Dumas, William Kentridge, Mimmo Paladino and Kiki Smith. There will also be memorials to the late Royal Academicians Norman Ackroyd and Timothy Hyman.
The majority of works will be available to buy and sales will directly support the exhibiting artists and the RA’s charitable work, including training the next generation of
artists at the Royal Academy Schools. Internationally acclaimed architect and Royal Academician Farshid Moussavi has co-ordinated this year’s Summer Exhibition and, with the Summer Exhibition Committee, will explore the theme of ‘Dialogues’.
Talking about the news, Farshid Moussavi RA said “The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025 will be dedicated to art’s capacity to forge dialogues and to afford us sensitivity towards societal concerns, such as ecology, survival and living together. These dialogues can be between people of different races, genders, or cultures; between humans, all species, and the planet; or across different disciplines – art, science,
politics for example.”
In addition, committee members s Tom Emerson and Stephanie Macdonald RA have nvited architectural submissions that explore how architecture can bring society together and reconnect with nature and its entangled global past and present. On display will be work by architects and designers including Material Cultures, DK-CM, Arinjoy Sen and JA Projects, who will present an interactive installation first seen at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. A 6m high multipurpose roost for wildlife, designed by 51 architecture, will be on view in the Lovelace Courtyard, located
between Burlington House and Burlington Gardens.
To book tickets for the exhibition visit: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/summer-exhibition-2025