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Exhibitions

Contemporary art in our beautiful galleries

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A multicoloured painting hung on a white wall. colours bleed into each other in the painting

We Contain Multitudes

Sat 7 Feb - Sun 26 Apr 2026

Preview events

An exhibition space with small sculptures on plinths

Quiet Preview: We Contain Multitudes

Fri 6 Feb 2026
A dedicated viewing time designed to provide a calmer, less crowded, and sensory friendly environment
Artwork of fine lines in spiral pattern on a yellow background

Masked Preview: We Contain Multitudes

Fri 6 Feb 2026
A dedicated time to offer a space for visitors who are shielding or have extra health consideration
A multicoloured painting hung on a white wall. colours bleed into each other in the painting

Meet the Artists: We Contain Multitudes

Fri 6 Feb 2026
Join us for our Meet the Artists event featuring Andrew Gannon, Charlotte Hollinshead (Artist Facilitator for Nnena Kalu), Daisy Lafarge, and Jo Longhurst, hosted by DCA’s new Head of Exhibitions, Dan Brown
Colourful sculptures made from brightly coloured materials suspended from a gallery space

Exhibition Preview: We Contain Multitudes

Fri 6 Feb 2026
Join us to see the exhibition from 19:00 - 21:00

Artist's Choice Screenings

Dundead
A black and white photo of the cast of Tod Browning's Freaks

Artist's Choice Screening: Dundead presents Freaks

Duration: 1h 4m
Mon 16 Feb 2026
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Artist's Choice
a blonde woman with her hair tied back looks up, a man with brown hair looks at her. They both wear formal clothes

Artist's Choice Screening: Gattaca

Duration: 1h46m
Tue 31 Mar 2026
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Artist's Choice
Three women with curly 80s style hair

Artist's Choice Screening: Safe

Duration: 119 minutes
Wed 22 Apr 2026
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Exhibitions stories

A pair of silver slippers on a ruby red carpet

Our 2026/27 Exhibitions programme

Wed 1 Oct 2025
Person looking at a hanging artwork in DCA galleries as groups of people talk in the background

Introducing our new Head of Exhibitions

Thu 11 Sep 2025

Upcoming exhibitions

Exhibition
Two horses pull a fuel tanker on a track in a rainforest

Adrián Balseca: In the Forest Ruins

Sat 16 May - Sun 2 Aug 2026
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Exhibition
A pair of silver slippers on a ruby red carpet

Francis Dosoo: Portrait of Dorothy Gale

Sat 16 May - Sun 2 Aug 2026
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A painting on the wall with female figures the images spread onto the walls

France-Lise McGurn

Sat 22 Aug - Sun 15 Nov 2026
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a dark gallery space red lighting pushes up with screens on the wall

John Akomfrah: Listening All Night To The Rain

Sat 5 Dec 2026 - Sun 21 Mar 2027
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Two people smile and hold glasses of wine as they look at Michelle William's Gamaker's work in a hanging round vitrine.

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A photo of Zineb Sedira's exhibition

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