The Horror Show

An exhibition from the dark side, celebrating our greatest cultural provocateurs and visionaries.

This autumn, Somerset House invites visitors to journey into the underbelly of Britain’s cultural psyche. Through some of our country’s most provocative artists, landmark exhibition The Horror Show! presents an alternative perspective on modern Britain. Told in three acts – Monster, Ghost and Witch – it takes you on a heady ride through the past 50 years of counter-cultural movements, from the disruptive stance of 1970s punk to the enchanted otherness of modern witchcraft today, showing how through turbulent times, the subversive makes sense of the world around us.

Celebrating the mavericks who draw inspiration from the monstrous, the mystic and the magical, The Horror Show! sets the stage for a spellbinding spectacle of art, music and film with over 150 works and cultural objects from artists including: Gazelle Twin, Tai Shani, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Juno Calypso, Jenkin Van Zyl, Laura Grace Ford, Linder, Cornelia Parker, David Shrigley, Jamie Reid, Derek Jarman, Helen Chadwick, Marc Almond, Derek Ridgers, Noel Fielding, Pam Hogg, Rachel Whiteread, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, and Tyreis Holder.