Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor will return to London’s Hayward Gallery with a full-building exhibition that takes over the Southbank Centre. Nearly thirty years after his first major UK survey at the same gallery, Kapoor fills the space with mirrored steel forms, Vantablack objects, vertiginous voids, and works that press against the walls, floors, and ceiling.

The show moves through the artist’s long-running interest in perception, scale, and bodily unease. Reflective surfaces bend the room around the viewer, black forms absorb light, and recent paintings and sculptures bring a more visceral charge into the gallery. Several new works also appear, including two monumental red installations that turn Kapoor’s spatial language into something physical, disorienting, and hard to look away from.