Turner Contemporary is a contemporary art gallery located on Margate’s seafront, where the extraordinary light inspired JMW Turner. Our summer exhibition is now closed. As we prepare for our next exhibition, our opening hours will look a little different.
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ExhibitionHulda Guzmán:
Please awake – asked Nature kindlySat 23 May–Sun 13 Sep 2026Free entry, donations welcomeTurner Contemporary presents the first European institutional exhibition of the Dominican artist, Hulda Guzmán.
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DisplayDavid Hockney: Sunley Window 2026
19–22 Sep, 25–27 Sep, 29 Sep–1 Oct, reopening 3 Oct 26Free entry, donations welcomeCelebrating the gallery’s 15th anniversary, David Hockney’s Sunley Window focuses on the nature of light and the many ways its effects can be represented pictorially.
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DisplayJMW Turner: Breaking Waves
19–22 Sep, 25–27 Sep, 29 Sep–1 Oct, reopening 3 Oct 26Free entry, donations welcomeJoin us to see JMW Turner’s oil sketch 'Waves Breaking on a Lee Shore at Margate (Study for ‘Rockets and Blue Lights’)' at Turner, part of a year-long festival celebrating 250 years since the artist's birth.
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Clore Learning StudioThe Drawing Studio
19–22 Sep, 26–27 Sep, reopening 3 Oct 26Free entry, donations welcomeWe’ve transformed our Clore Learning Studio into a cabinet of curiosities full of inspiration and surprises to make drawing fun.
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DisplayI Never Stopped Loving You
Since 2010Outdoor artworkTracey Emin's love letter to her hometown lights up Droit House on the Harbour arm. I Never Stopped Loving You uses Emin's own handwriting moulded in pink neon to reflect her feelings across the main sands to Margate.
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CommissionAntony Gormley: Another Time
Since 2017Outdoor commissionSee one of a series of one hundred, solid cast-iron figures by Antony Gormley exploring the experience of being human.
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CommissionYinka Ilori: Slices of Peace
Since April 2024Public commission'Slices of Peace' is a public artwork by artist and designer Yinka Ilori MBE installed in Orchard Park – a new public park in Kings Hill, near West Malling in Kent.
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