Past Exhibitions and Events
Discover our past Seasons, Exhibitions, Displays and Events. Click here to find out what’s on and coming up at the Gallery.
Past Displays and Events
Past Seasons
08.10.2025 - 28.03.2026
QUANTUM UNTANGLED
Through the eyes of artists, scientists, philosophers and poets, Quantum Untangled considered the ways quantum ideas might alter how we understand reality. The season invited visitors to consider the power quantum possesses to transform our futures, travel through quantum’s shifting scales from tiny subatomic particles to the ever-expanding universe, and encounter mind-altering perspectives along the way.
13.11.2024 - 17.05.2025
VITAL SIGNS: ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE
With original works from artists and researchers, Vital Signs: another world is possible shared the many ways people are shaping liveable and hopeful futures, here in London and around the world. Confronting environmental injustices, from air pollution to the rights of the ocean and the impact of our waste, this season explored the differences we could all make, if we viewed the planet’s health as an extension of our own.
21.06.2023 - 20.01.2024
AI: WHO’S LOOKING AFTER ME?
AI: Who’s Looking After Me? took a questioning and playful look at the ways AI is shaping so many areas of our lives - from our healthcare and justice systems to how we look after our pets.
Presented in collaboration with FutureEverything, the exhibition brought together different disciplines and life experiences to invite visitors to reflect on what it means to entrust our care to autonomous machines.
20.09.2022 - 20.01.2023
TESTING GROUND
Testing Ground was an exhibition of five collaborative projects between King’s College London researchers and creative practitioners, it reveals how conversations between artists, researchers, and wider communities can change the ways we think about and engage with the world around us.
13.01.20 - 28.06.20
GENDERS: SHAPING AND BREAKING THE BINARY
The GENDERS season took a playful and kaleidoscopic view of genders and its relationship with science, as well as factors like class, culture, race, age and sexuality. The exhibition aimed to open conversation through personal perspectives on and beyond the female and male ‘binaries’.
19.09.19 - 19.01.20
ON EDGE: LIVING IN AN AGE OF ANXIETY
We all experience anxiety to a greater or lesser extent at some point in our lives. For some anxiety is ongoing, for others it is a feeling that passes. Anxiety can be disabling, controlling many aspects of a person’s life, or it can be a motivational force.
06.06.2019 - 26.08.2019
DARK MATTER: 95% OF THE UNIVERSE IS MISSING
One of the biggest mysteries in physics today is what exactly makes up our Universe, and why – according to the world’s leading scientists – 95 per cent of it cannot be observed.
28.2.2019 - 12.5.2019
SPARE PARTS: RETHINKING HUMAN REPAIR
SPARE PARTS explored the art, science, ethics and technology that enables human repair and alteration. It considered the emotional and psychological aspects of living with a replacement organ or limb; organic or engineered.
21.9.2018 - 27.1.2019
HOOKED: WHEN WANT BECOMES NEED
From gambling to gaming and smartphones to social media, HOOKED invited you to question what makes us as humans vulnerable to addiction and interrogated the underlying factors and routes to recovery.
27.07.2017 - 13.11.2017
BLOOD: LIFE UNCUT
BLOOD: Life Uncut was a pop-up season revealing the essential, expressive and visceral nature of blood. The season highlighted the scientific and symbolic nature of blood by telling personal and provocative stories of this vital, life-affirming fluid that connects us all.
7.2016 - 11.2016
MOUTHY: INTO THE ORIFICE
From human spit crystals and the science of snogging to hacked prosthetics that allow your facial movements to control digital games, MOUTHY was a season packed full of surprising experiences that invited you to get involved and connect with your mouth in new ways…
7.2015 - 3.2016
FED UP: THE FUTURE OF FOOD
From July 2015 to March 2016 Science Gallery London explored the future of food including fermentation, food waste, sustainability, sensory experience, and perception. Through demonstrations and participation we invited audiences to re-examine their current approach to food and to consider potential alternatives to food production and consumption in the future.
9.2014 - 10.2014
FREQUENCIES
Musicians, artists, young people and King’s College London students and researchers came together to create unique sound pieces and performances which explored the biological rhythms in their lives.