Modern Art Oxford is now open. Find out more about our exhibitions, Belkis Ayón: Sikán Illuminations and Tender Grounds.

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Movements for Staying Alive

28 June 2025
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7 September 2025
Free, booking essential

Join us to celebrate the vital movements of life.

From the simple act of breathing and the regular movements we make throughout the day, to choreographed motions or gestures, this exhibition invites you to experience movement as a way to explore – your potential, your choices, and your connection and exchange with others.

Emphasising the importance of participating in the world from a place of motion rather than stasis, Movements for Staying Alive will prioritise your bodily experience of being in our spaces with others, by creating one that does not privilege sight over all other senses.

With new commissions by artists, collectives, schools and young people all made for touch and collaboration, we want to create a space to learn, to communicate and to foster a sense of community through movement that both keeps us alive, and makes us feel alive.