Curated by Iwona Blazwick and Magnus af Petersens

Marking the centenary of Kazimir Malevich’s iconic (in both senses of the word) Suprematist painting, this ambitious exhibition will examine abstraction as an international phenomenon, considering its relationship to politics, its potential as a catalyst for social change, and its imbrication with design. Taking a broad chronological and geographic approach, and with a particular focus on geometric abstraction, the survey will encompass painting, sculpture, film, and photography by one hundred artists as diverse as Carl Andre, Hélio Oiticica, Aleksandr Rodchenko, and Andrea Zittel. Accompanied by a catalogue with essays by the curators and by scholars such as Briony Fer and Tom McDonough, the exhibition will apparently aim at nothing less than reinventing abstraction.

— Nicholas Cullinan