Exhibition of the week: British Art Show 9 at Aberdeen Art Gallery

Socially conscious but ‘rarely preachy’, it is as exciting a survey of contemporary art as you’re likely to encounter

Work from British Art Show 9
Clockwise from left: Cooking Sections - an installation addressing urgent issues concerning food and climate; im here to learn so - a video installation by Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman; an installation by the artist Patrick Goddard
(Image credit: British Art Show 9)

If anyone “has a finger on the pulse of contemporary art in Britain”, it’s the curators of the British Art Show, said Alastair Sooke in The Daily Telegraph. Staged in partnership with London’s Hayward Gallery, this touring exhibition takes place in different British cities once every five years with the aim of showcasing “the country’s most exciting artists”.

The latest iteration will travel to four cities – Aberdeen, Wolverhampton, Manchester and Plymouth – offering a slightly different show in each. And if this first segment at Aberdeen Art Gallery is anything to go on, visitors are in for a treat.

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