Exhibitions

‘Norman Foster’ at Centre Pompidou, Paris

From 10 May to 7 August 2023, Centre Pompidou in Paris held the largest Norman Foster retrospective, curated by Frédéric Migayrou in collaboration with the Norman Foster Foundation and Foster + Partners.

Technoscape, The Architecture of Engineers

From 1 October 2022 to 10 April 2023, The Norman Foster Foundation collaborated with Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo (Roma, Italia) in its latest exhibition, 'Technoscape. The Architecture of Engineers', by lending a selection of drawings by Norman Foster from our Archive.

Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture

From 8 April to September 18, 2022, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao hosted 'Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture', an exhibition curated by Norman Foster and organized in collaboration with the Norman Foster Foundation.

Shukhov. The Formula of Architecture

The Arsenal Centre of Contemporary Arts presented the exhibition Shukhov. Formula of Architecture, in collaboration with the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture (MuAr), the OMK (United Metallurgical Company) and the charitable foundation OMK-Uchastie. The exhibition, curated by Mark Akopyan and Elena Vlasova, will run from 20 July to 7 November 2021 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

Otl Aicher. Metro Bilbao. Architecture and Landscape at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao

This November sees the opening at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, of the largest exhibition to date spotlighting German graphic designer Olt Aicher’s, with more than 200 works and projects.

Buckminster Fuller at Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Madrid

The Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Madrid, Spain, presents a new exhibition into the mind of Richard Buckminster Fuller, an American designer, architect, thinker, philosopher and visionary.

Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design

The exhibition Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design is the first big retrospective on the designer, author and activist Victor J. Papanek (1923-1998).

Shukhov: The Formula of Architecture

In collaboration with Shukhov Tower Foundation, the Schusev State Museum of Architecture presented 'Shukhov: The Formula of Architecture'.

‘Oldenburg and Van Bruggen: The Typewriter Eraser, A Favored Form’ exhibition

Considered one of the founders of Pop Art, Claes Oldenburg's (American, born Sweden, 1929)

Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design

The Vitra Design Museum presented the first large retrospective focusing on the designer, author, and activist Victor J. Papanek (1923–1998).

Osvaldo Borsani Exhibition

The first retrospective exhibition of Osvaldo Borsani - architect, designer and co-founder of Tecno - is open at Milan’s Triennale Design Museum until 15 September 2018. The show is curated by Norman Foster and Tommaso Fantoni.

‘Superstructures: The New Architecture 1960-90’

The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts presents ‘Superstructures: The New Architecture 1960-90’, curated by Jane Pavitt and Abraham Thomas, and marking the 40th anniversary of the opening of the gallery, the first public building designed by Norman Foster.

Norman Foster. Common Futures

The exhibition 'Norman Foster. Common Futures', curated by Prof. Luis Fernández-Galiano, and sought to popularise the architect’s work and his vision of the future among a wide audience while revealing his sources of inspiration. The show, open from 6th October 2017 until 4th February 2018, focused on the continuities in Foster’s work and confirms how the future and the past can inspire the present.