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Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence

2 Mar-22 Sep 2024

Upcoming

Talks & Events
Siân Davey in conversation with Jennifer Higgie
1 May 2024, 6-9pm
Talks & Events
Martin Parr: Fashion Faux Parr
13 May 2024, 7-8.45pm
Talks & Events
Lunchtime Lecture: The Destruction of the Country House: 50 Years On
16 May 2024, 1-1.45pm
Exhibition
Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection
18 May 2024-1 Jan 2025
Talks & Events
Collecting Fashion
6 Jun 2024, 7-8.45pm
Talks & Events
I Was There: Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll
10 Jun 2024, 7-8.45pm

Past

Talks & Events
George Hoyningen-Huene: Photography, Fashion & Film
27 Mar 2024
Talks & Events
Friday Late: Here and Elsewhere
22 Mar 2024
2023
Talks & Events
John Stefanidis: A Designer's Eye
23 Nov 2023
Talks & Events
Images, Artists and AI – evening event with The New Real
17 Nov 2023
Talks & Events
Tam Joseph in Conversation: I Know What I See
17 Nov 2023
Talks & Events
Gabrielle Chanel and Diaghilev
16 Nov 2023
Talks & Events
Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award Symposium 2023
14 Nov 2023
Talks & Events
BSL Interpreted Talk: Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto.
10 Nov 2023
Talks & Events
Gabrielle Chanel's Fashion Manifesto
6 Nov 2023
Talks & Events
Es Devlin in Conversation
3 Nov 2023
Talks & Events
Black Joy Day: Windrush Stories at the V&A
26 Oct 2023
Talks & Events
Subtitled Talk: Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto
20 Oct 2023
Talks & Events
National Album Day at the V&A: Goldie
13 Oct 2023
Talks & Events
Vanley Burke In Conversation: Tell It Like It Is
13 Oct 2023
Exhibition
Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto
16 Sep 2023-10 Mar 2024
Exhibition
DIVA
24 Jun 2023-10 Apr 2024
Talks & Events
Lunchtime Lecture: Jake Elwes and The Zizi Show - a Deepfake Drag Cabaret
15 Jun 2023
Talks & Events
Joel Meyerowitz: The Pleasure of Seeing
26 May 2023
Talks & Events
Film Premiere- Nam June Paik: Moon Is The Oldest TV
10 May 2023
Exhibition
Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance Banner
11 Feb-11 Jun 2023
2022
Exhibition
Hallyu! The Korean Wave
24 Sep 2022-25 Jun 2023
Exhibition
Africa Fashion
2 Jul 2022-16 Apr 2023
Exhibition
Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear
19 Mar-6 Nov 2022
Exhibition
Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature
12 Feb 2022-8 Jan 2023
2021
Exhibition
Prix Pictet: Fire
16 Dec 2021-9 Jan 2022
Exhibition
Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution
20 Nov 2021-8 May 2022
Exhibition
Bags: Inside Out
1 Jul 2021-16 Jan 2022
Exhibition
Epic Iran
29 May-1 Jul 2021
Exhibition
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser
22 May-31 Dec 2021
Exhibition
Katerina Jebb / Elizabeth Parker
8 Mar-29 Aug 2021
2020
Exhibition
Kimono : Kyoto to Catwalk
27 Aug-25 Oct 2020
Exhibition
Filthy Lucre : Whistler's Peacock Room Reimagined
25 Jan-3 May 2020
2019
Exhibition
Cars : Accelerating The Modern World
23 Nov 2019-19 Apr 2020
Exhibition
DISPLAY |Valerie Belin/Reflection
20 Oct 2019-31 Aug 2020
Exhibition
Tim Walker : Wonderful Things
21 Sep 2019-22 Mar 2020
Exhibition
FOOD : Bigger than the Plate
18 May-20 Oct 2019
Exhibition
Mary Quant
6 Apr 2019-16 Feb 2020
Exhibition
Christian Dior : Designer of Dreams
2 Feb-1 Sep 2019
2018
Exhibition
Videogames : Design/Play/Disrupt
8 Sep 2018-24 Feb 2019
Exhibition
Jameel Prize 5
28 Jun-25 Nov 2018
Exhibition
Frida Kahlo : Making Her Self Up
13 Jun-18 Nov 2018
Exhibition
The Future Starts Here
12 May-4 Nov 2018
Exhibition
Fashioned from Nature
21 Apr 2018-27 Jan 2019
Exhibition
Ocean Liners : Speed & Style
3 Feb-17 Jun 2018
2017
Exhibition
Winnie-the-Pooh : Exploring a Classic
9 Oct 2017-8 Apr 2018
Exhibition
Opera : Passion, Power and Politics
30 Sep 2017-25 Feb 2018
Exhibition
Balenciaga : Shaping Fashion
27 May 2017-18 Feb 2018
Exhibition
The Pink Floyd Exhibition : Their Mortal Remains
13 May-1 Oct 2017
Exhibition
Lockwood Kipling: Arts and Crafts in the Punjab and London
14 Jan-2 Apr 2017
2016
Exhibition
Opus Anglicanum : Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery
1 Oct 2016-5 Feb 2017
Exhibition
You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966 - 1970
10 Sep 2016-26 Feb 2017
Exhibition
Engineering the World : Ove Arup and the Philosophy of Total Design
18 Jun-6 Nov 2016
Exhibition
Undressed : A Brief History of Underwear
16 Apr 2016-12 Mar 2017
Exhibition
Paul Strand : Photography and Film for the 20th Century
19 Mar-3 Jul 2016
Exhibition
Botticelli Reimagined
5 Mar-3 Jul 2016
2015
Exhibition
Julia Mararet Cameron
28 Nov 2015-21 Feb 2016
Exhibition
Bejewelled Treasures : The Al Thani Collection
21 Nov 2015-10 Apr 2016
Exhibition
The Fabric of India
3 Oct 2015-10 Jan 2016
Exhibition
Captain Linnaeus Tripe : Photography of India and Burma
24 Jun-11 Oct 2015
Exhibition
Shoes : Pleasure and Pain
13 Jun 2015-31 Jan 2016
Exhibition
What is Luxury?
25 Apr-27 Sep 2015
Exhibition
All of This Belongs to You
1 Apr-19 Jul 2015
Exhibition
Yinka Shonibare
20 Mar 2015
Exhibition
Alexander McQueen : Savage Beauty
14 Mar-2 Aug 2015
Exhibition
Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience 1950s-1990s
16 Feb-24 May 2015
2014
Exhibition
Constable: The Making of a Master
20 Sep 2014-11 Jan 2015
Exhibition
Horst: Photographer of Style
6 Sep 2014-4 Jan 2015
Exhibition
Disobedient Objects
26 Jul 2014-1 Feb 2015
Exhibition
M. F. Husain : Master of Modern Indian Painting
28 May-27 Jul 2014
Exhibition
Prix Pictet at the V&A
22 May-14 Jun 2014
Exhibition
Wedding Dresses 1775–2014
3 May 2014-15 Mar 2015
Exhibition
The Glamour of Italian Fashion 1945 - 2014
5 Apr-27 Jul 2014
Exhibition
William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain
22 Mar-13 Jul 2014
2013
Exhibition
Kaffe Fassett
13 Dec 2013
Exhibition
Jameel Prize 3
11 Dec 2013-21 Apr 2014
Exhibition
Cornelia Parker
6 Dec 2013
Exhibition
Designing for Stadiums : A Shared Space
21 Nov 2013
Exhibition
Uncertain State : The Art of Collaboration
1 Nov 2013
Exhibition
Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700 - 1900
26 Oct 2013-19 Jan 2014
Exhibition
Tomorrow - Elmgreen & Dragset
1 Oct 2013-2 Jan 2014
Exhibition
Pearls
21 Sep 2013-19 Jan 2014
Exhibition
Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s
10 Jul 2013-16 Feb 2014
Exhibition
Sky Arts Ignition : Memory Palace
18 Jun-20 Oct 2013
Exhibition
Architecture& : Ole Sheeren
28 May 2013
Exhibition
Gavin Turk and Iain Sinclair
17 May 2013
Exhibition
David Bowie is
23 Mar-11 Aug 2013
Exhibition
Treasures of the Royal Courts : Tudors, Stuarts & the Russian Tsars
9 Mar-14 Jul 2013
2012
Exhibition
Light from the Middle East : New Photography
13 Nov 2012-7 Apr 2013
Exhibition
Hollywood Costume
20 Oct 2012-27 Jan 2013
Exhibition
Rankin
2 Oct 2012-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Carmody Groarke : Talking Architecture
18 Sep 2012-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Heatherwick Studio : Designing the Extraordinary
31 May-30 Sep 2012
Exhibition
Ballgowns : British Glamour Since 1950
19 May 2012-6 Jan 2013
Exhibition
British Design 1948-2012 : Innovation in the Modern Age
31 Mar-12 Aug 2012
Exhibition
Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton
8 Feb-22 Apr 2012
2011
Exhibition
Private Eye at 50
19 Oct 2011-8 Jan 2012
Exhibition
Ai Weiwei : Dropping the Urn
15 Oct 2011-18 Mar 2012
Exhibition
Postmodernism : Style and Subversion 1970-1990
24 Sep 2011-15 Jan 2012
Exhibition
Power of Making
6 Sep 2011-2 Jan 2012
Exhibition
V & A Summer Sessions : Last Dance with Valentino
18 Aug 2011-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
V & A Summer Sessions : Bred of Heaven
11 Aug 2011-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Signs of a Struggle
11 Aug-27 Nov 2011
Exhibition
The Jameel Prize 2011
21 Jul-25 Sep 2011
Exhibition
Figures and Fictions
12 Apr-17 Jul 2011
Exhibition
David Goldblatt. Lifetimes : Under Apartheid
8 Apr-31 Jul 2011
Exhibition
The Cult of Beauty : The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900
2 Apr-17 Jul 2011
Exhibition
Yohji Yamamoto
12 Mar-10 Jul 2011
2010
Exhibition
Imperial Chinese Robes from the Forbidden City
7 Dec 2010-27 Feb 2011
Exhibition
Shadow Catchers : Camera-less Photography
13 Oct 2010-20 Feb 2011
Exhibition
Diaghilev & the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes
25 Sep 2010-9 Jan 2011
Exhibition
Raphael Cartoons&Tapestries For the Sistine Chapel
8 Sep-17 Oct 2010
Exhibition
Forgotten Japonisme
9 Jul-10 Jul 2010
Exhibition
1:1 - Architects Build Small Spaces
15 Jun-30 Aug 2010
Exhibition
Grace Kelly: Style Icon
17 Apr-26 Sep 2010
Exhibition
Quilts : 1700-2010
20 Mar-4 Jul 2010
Exhibition
Richard Hamilton In Conversation
9 Mar 2010-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill
6 Mar-4 Jul 2010
2009
Exhibition
Graphic Thought Facility - Paul Neale & Alice Rawsthorn
8 Dec 2009-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Decode : Digital Design Sensations
8 Dec 2009-11 Apr 2010
Exhibition
Konstantin Grcic and Alice Rawsthorn
26 Nov 2009-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Martin Parr : On Photography
13 Nov 2009-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Fashion Matters : Fashion and Ethics
27 Oct 2009-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Telling Tales
16 Oct 2009-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Maharaja : the Splendour of India's Royal Courts
10 Oct 2009-17 Jan 2010
Exhibition
Kelly Hoppen : Interior Design
9 Oct 2009-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Introducing Fairytales Meaning, Magic and the Mind
3 Oct 2009-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Grayson Perry & Richard Slee Inspiring Ceramics
2 Oct 2009-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Yves Behar Talking Design
24 Sep 2009-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
London Design Festival
21 Sep-25 Sep 2009
Exhibition
EDMUND DE WAAL : OUT OF THE FURNACE
18 Sep 2009-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Telling Tales
14 Jul-18 Oct 2009
Exhibition
Baroque 1620-1800 : Style in the Age of Magnificence
4 Apr-19 Jul 2009
Exhibition
Hats : An Anthology by Stephen Jones
24 Feb-31 May 2009
2008
Exhibition
Magnificence of the Tsars
10 Dec 2008-29 Mar 2009
Exhibition
Cold War Modern
25 Sep 2008-11 Jan 2009
Exhibition
Fashion V Sport
5 Aug 2008-4 Jan 2009
Exhibition
The Story of The Supremes
13 May-19 Oct 2008
Exhibition
Thomas Hope
21 Mar-22 Jun 2008
Exhibition
China Design Now
15 Mar-13 Jun 2008
2007
Exhibition
Out of the Ordinary
13 Nov 2007-17 Feb 2008
2006
Exhibition
Volume
24 Nov 2006-28 Jan 2007
Exhibition
Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour
10 Oct-17 Dec 2006
Exhibition
At Home in Renaissance Italy
5 Oct 2006-7 Jan 2007
Exhibition
Leonardo da Vinci
14 Sep 2006-7 Jan 2007
Exhibition
Che Guevara: Revolutionary and Icon
7 Jun-28 Aug 2006
Exhibition
Anne Piaggi : Fashionology
2 Feb-23 Apr 2006
2005
Exhibition
V&A Illustration Awards
7 Dec 2005-30 Apr 2006
Exhibition
Diane Arbus Revelations
13 Oct 2005-15 Jan 2006
Exhibition
Between Past and Future
15 Sep 2005-15 Jan 2006
Exhibition
touch me: design and sensation
16 Jun-29 Aug 2005
Exhibition
abbas kiarostami festival forest without leaves
3 May-5 Jun 2005
Exhibition
Abbas Kiarostami festival trees in snow landscape
26 Apr-21 Jun 2005
Exhibition
Spectres: When fashion turns back
24 Feb-8 May 2005
Exhibition
COLLECT
12 Jan-17 Jan 2005
2004
Exhibition
Beauty
2 Dec 2004-27 Feb 2005
Exhibition
The Other Flower Show
28 May-11 Jul 2004
Exhibition
SHHH...
20 May-30 Aug 2004
Exhibition
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD
1 Apr-18 Jul 2004
Exhibition
BILL BRANDT: A Centenary Retrospective
24 Mar-25 Jul 2004
Exhibition
COLLECT: The new art fair for contemporary objects
20 Feb-24 Feb 2004
Exhibition
BRILLIANT
12 Feb-25 Apr 2004
2003
Exhibition
GOTHIC: ART FOR ENGLAND 1400 -1547
9 Oct 2003-18 Jan 2004
Exhibition
ZOOMORPHIC
18 Sep 2003-4 Jan 2004
Exhibition
OSSIE CLARK
15 Jul 2003-2 May 2004
Exhibition
GUY BOURDIN
17 Apr-17 Aug 2003
Exhibition
ART DECO 1910 - 1939
27 Mar-20 Jul 2003
Exhibition
THE ADVENTURES OF HAMZA
6 Mar-8 Jun 2003
2002
Exhibition
MILAN IN A VAN
21 Apr-30 Apr 2002
Exhibition
TIARAS
21 Mar-14 Jul 2002
Exhibition
EARTH AND FIRE
14 Mar-7 Jul 2002
Exhibition
SEEING THINGS
21 Feb-18 Aug 2002
2001
Exhibition
DUNNE + RABY : PLACEBO
8 Nov 2001-6 Jan 2002
Exhibition
COLIN PAINTER
1 Nov 2001-13 Jan 2002
Exhibition
Radical Fashion
18 Oct 2001-6 Jan 2002
Exhibition
Out of Japan
20 Sep 2001-3 Feb 2002
2000
Exhibition
BLACK BRITISH STYLE
1 Jan 2000-16 Jan 2005
Exhibition
MILAN IN A VAN
1 Jan 2000-9 Jun 2002
Exhibition
CONTEMPORARY SPACE
1 Jan 2000-30 Apr 2002
Exhibition
Chihuly at the V&A
1 Jan 2000-21 Oct 2001

Locations

V&A
V&A Dundee
Young V&A

Accessibility & facilities

Step-free access
Accessible toilet
Gender neutral toilet
Baby changing facilities
Assistive audio
Large print guides
Book shop
Cafe
Cloakroom

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until 27 Apr
It’s After the End of the World, Don’t You Know That Yet
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until 18 May
The Cluj Collective
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until 27 Apr
Hélène Fauquet: Phenomena
Rodeo
until 25 May
Albert Oehlen: New Paintings
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Fathi Hassan: I can see you smiling Fatma
Richard Saltoun
until 25 May
Robert Rauschenberg: ROCI
Thaddaeus Ropac
until 15 Jun
N. Dash
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until 12 Jun

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