Hayward Gallery announces major exhibition by Nan Goldin opening in November 2026
The Hayward Gallery has announced a major solo exhibition by acclaimed American artist and activist Nan Goldin titled You Never Did Anything Wrong. Opening on 24 November 2026, the exhibition marks Goldin’s first institutional UK show since 2002 and forms part of the Southbank Centre’s 75th anniversary year.
Nan Goldin. Image credit Max Michael Cramer.
Over the past five decades, Nan Goldin has created one of the most influential bodies of photographic work in contemporary art, known for its raw, intimate documentation of relationships, addiction, queer communities, and everyday life. Her practice often operates like an ongoing visual diary, collapsing the distance between artist and subject and presenting lived experience as both personal and widely resonant. Through photographs and slideshow installations, Goldin’s work captures moments of love, vulnerability, and loss with unflinching honesty.
Nan Goldin, The crowd, Paterno, 2004. © Nan MGoldin, courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
The exhibition at the Hayward Gallery will bring together key works across her career, offering audiences in the UK a major institutional presentation of her practice for the first time in more than two decades. Curators describe the show as an encounter with Goldin’s storytelling approach, highlighting how her images transform personal experience into broader social and political reflection.
Southbank Centre Artistic Director Mark Ball has described Goldin as an artist who has “reshaped the language of photography,” while curator Rachel Thomas emphasises the exhibition’s focus on the connection between personal narrative and political action.
Date: 24 November 2026 – 7 March 2027. Location: Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX. Discover more at southbankcentre.co.uk
