Nan Goldin Comes Back to London After Twenty Years

Nan Goldin has not had an institutional exhibition in this country since 2002. That ends on 24 November, when 'Nan Goldin: You Never Did Anything Wrong' opens at the Hayward Gallery and runs to 7 March, curated by Rachel Thomas, the Hayward's Roden Chief Curator.

At the centre is a world premiere: 'You Never Did Anything Wrong, Part II' (2026), a moving-image work made with filmmaker David Sherman, carrying an original score by Mica Levi. Around it sit Part I (2024), 'Stendhal Syndrome' (2024) with sound by Soundwalk Collective, 'Memory Lost' (2019–2021), and a new selection of photographs including work never shown before. The architect Hala Wardé has designed the immersive environments the whole show sits inside.

Curator Rachel Thomas: the show urges visitors 'to look at our fragile world with a deeper sense of empathy, wonder and shared survival'.

The timing is not accidental. The exhibition marks a major moment in the Southbank Centre's 75th anniversary programme, and closes it. To mark the anniversary, 750 tickets across the opening two weeks are going at £7.50 under a 75th Anniversary Opening Weeks Offer, bookable until 10am on Monday 23 November. Southbank Centre members go free.

For anyone in this city who points a camera at people they know, this is the appointment of the season — an artist whose entire method was to photograph her own life as it happened, given the run of a South Bank gallery from late November to March. Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX, from 24 November.