exhibitions and events

Bound Art Book Fair 2025

Bound Art Book Fair 2025

the modernist returns to the Bound Art Book Fair at the Whitworth Art Gallery. the modernist society will once again be exhibiting at the Bound Art...

Modern Architecture in Models: from the B.15 Workshop Archive

Curated by Eamonn Canniffe and Scott Miller Private View - Thursday 30th October 6pm-8pm all welcome 31.10.25-24.12.25 at the modernist58 Port Str...

Concrete at War

By Mark Wrigley Concrete at War is a photographic study documenting Britain's coastal wartime defences. These structures, built for purely function...

The Modernist Book Fair is back

This October, for the third year, the Modernist Book Fair returns to Vitsœ Mark your calendars for what promises to be an exciting celebration of m...

BRUTAL Bristol

Group exhibition BRUTAL Bristol is a collaborative exhibition that celebrates the power and geometry of Bristol's overlooked brutalist architecture...

The Perspectivists

Curated by Richard Brook and Martin Dodge A compact exhibition of perspective paintings made up of lost and forgotten artefacts uncovered by the ...

Book launch - Quiet Light

Join us to celebrate the launch of Quiet Light, a new book by photographer Gunner Gu, published by the modernist. Since 2022, Gunner Gu has been c...

Quiet light

Photographs by Gunner Gu 'An idea was sown in my head in 2015—that I should photograph the city without its inhabitants. What would that look and f...

Launch of the Modernist App tours for Glasgow

+ panel discussion 'Post War Urban Renewal' with Richard Brook 06.06.25 from 6pm at Glasgow City Heritage Trust, 54 Bell Street, Glasgow, G1 1LQ J...

Sparkling pictures big as life

35mm slides and the Design Council Slide Collection from the Manchester School of Art Slide Library 22.02.25-03.05.25 at the modernist58 Port Stre...

home IS WHERE THE hat IS

a work-in-progress in progress pop-up exhibition by a group of 2nd year design students from Manchester School of Art, MMU. March 7 — 22, The Mod...

Artists’ Bookmarket 2025

the modernist returns to the Artists' Bookmarket at the Fruitmarket, Edinburgh. Saturday 15.02.25, 10am–6pm Sunday 16.02.25, 10am–5pm. Free. Join...

View Through a Hole

Ceramics by Alison Waters with photography by Dylan Barker Alison’s hand-built stoneware ceramics are inspired by her hometown of Stockport, where ...