Explore a selection of The Arts Institute's previous exhibitions shown at the University of Plymouth's contemporary arts space The Levinsky Gallery, and online.
Previous exhibitions
at The Arts Institute

'Narrenschiff', 2017, Kehinde Wiley Three-channel digital film Duration:16.40 minutes. 'Kehinde Wiley: Ship of Fools', The Levinsky Gallery, University of Plymouth | 29 September - 20 December 2020
Explore a selection of The Arts Institute's previous exhibitions shown at the University of Plymouth's contemporary arts space The Levinsky Gallery, and online.
This, the third Plymouth Contemporary exhibition since its launch in 2015, continued to support new ideas and a risk-taking approach across all art forms. Themed 'Making it' the chosen artists were invited to open up, interrogate, unpick and shake out what does it might mean to ‘make it’ as an artist in 2021.
Delivered in partnership with The Box, Plymouth. Find out more about the exhibition.
Photography by Helge Mruck.
What might the future look like in our littered world? Are there ways that humans, animals and plants can co-exist with or even prosper amongst the rubbish? And what will it take to clean up our act? Everywhere was launched alongside the international conference MICRO2020 which explored the fate and impacts of microplastics in the environment.
Curated by Joanne Lee and Rosemary Shirley for The Arts Institute. Find out more about the exhibition.
Kehinde Wiley is a world renowned Nigerian-American artist whose naturalistic portraits challenge the conventional view of power, taste and privilege by portraying black people of disparate origins and social status as celebrated figures.
Curated by The Box, Plymouth in partnership with The Arts Institute and Royal Museums Greenwich. Find out more about the exhibition.
Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition curated by writer and critic, Martin Herbert, featuring the work of 19 talented artists. An exhibition of paintings that take their time, and invite us to do the same. Find out more about the exhibition.
This exhibition featured new commissions and artworks that considered the contemporary resonance of the poem, including Zubenelgenubi, a new film by Serena Korda; a bespoke installation by Mary Evans, which draws on historical artefacts held at The Box, Plymouth; new sculptural works by Grace Schwindt; a new multi-sensory installation of the Raft of Medusa by Lucy and Jorge Orta and special contributions from Ellen Gallagher and Edgar Cleijne and Linder Sterling. Find out more.