Free exhibition of Bharti Kher's sculptures, which blend the female body, South Asian motifs and mythology, with the V&A's historic collections.
Bharti Kher is showing at the V&A South Kensington from 20 July 2026 to 24 January 2027, with her sculptures spread across the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Galleries (Rooms 22, 24 and 25) and the Exhibition Road Courtyard. The display brings her work into conversation with the V&A's historic collections, so you'll see her pieces sitting alongside the museum's own archives rather than in a separate, isolated room.
Kher is a British Indian sculptor born in London in 1969, educated at Newcastle Polytechnic, and she works between London and New Delhi. For over thirty years, her practice has drawn on animism, surrealism and the interconnectedness of living systems, informed by a transnational life. At the heart of her work is the female body, rendered through forms that blur the fantastical and the real and push the boundaries between human and nature, ecology and mythology.
She references European sculptural traditions while incorporating materials and visual vocabularies associated with South Asian cultures, such as saris and bindis, and reimagines established narratives through hybrid beings, human-animal forms and fragmented bodies. Her work is held in major collections including the British Museum, Tate, Centre Pompidou, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art.
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Entry is free and no booking is required, so you can just turn up whenever suits you. The exhibition runs from 20 July 2026 to 24 January 2027 at the V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL.
