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The Horror Show! (c) Barnbrook; Somerset House
Exhibition
The Horror Show! A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain
27 Oct 2022 – 19 Feb 2023
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 20:00
Cost of entry
£16.50/£12.00 conc
Address
- Strand
- WC2R 1LA
- London
- WC2R 1LA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 23, 77a, 91 and 176, while the River Bus Service can be taken to Embankment and Savoy Piers.
- Temple, Covent Garden, Charing Cross and Embankment.
- Charing Cross, Waterloo and Blackfriars.
Somerset House presents The Horror Show!: A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain, a major exhibition exploring how ideas rooted in horror have informed the last 50 years of creative rebellion.
About
THE HORROR SHOW! A TWISTED TALE OF MODERN BRITAIN
Thursday 27 October 2022 – Sunday 19 February 2023.
Tickets: £16.50/£12 concessions. Money-saving exhibition tickets combined with catalogue and poster purchases also available. Tickets via somersethouse.org.uk.
From 27 October to 19 February 2023, Somerset House presents The Horror Show!: A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain, a major exhibition exploring how ideas rooted in horror have informed the last 50 years of creative rebellion. The show looks beyond horror as a genre, instead taking it as a reaction and provocation to our most troubling times. The last five decades of modern British history are recast as a story of cultural shapeshifting told through some of our country’s most provocative artists. The Horror Show! offers a heady ride through the disruption of 1970s punk to the revolutionary potential of modern witchcraft, showing how the anarchic alchemy of horror – its subversion, transgression and the supernatural – can make sense of the world around us. Horror not only allows us to voice our fears; it gives us the tools to stare them down and imagine a radically different future.
Featuring over 200 artworks and culturally significant objects, this landmark show tells a story of the turbulence, unease and creative revolution at the heart of the British cultural psyche in three acts – Monster, Ghost and Witch.
Content guidance: This exhibition contains some graphic and disturbing artworks and therefore may not be suitable for children under 12.
