Multibuy: Modern Couples

Attend a Modern Couples talk for just £5 when you book your exhibition ticket at the same time. Discount applied at checkout.

Explore modern art and modern love; Modern Couples reveals how relationships can become a playground for creativity.

Featuring the biggest names in Modern Art, Modern Couples explores creative relationships, across painting, sculpture, photography, design and literature. Meet the artist couples that forged new ways of making art and of living and loving. The exhibition illuminates these creative and personal relationships, from the obsessional and fleeting to the life-long. The accompanying events will shine a light on the exhibition in new ways.

Including Dora Maar & Pablo Picasso; Salvador Dalí & Federico García Lorca; Camille Claudel & Auguste Rodin; Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera; Emilie Flöge & Gustav Klimt – plus many more.

This deal applies when a full price gallery ticket and talk ticket are bought together.

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Tamara de Lempicka, Les Deux Amies, 1923. Photograph: Association des Amis du Petit Palais, Geneve. © DACS 2018

Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde

10 Oct 2018 –27 Jan 2019

Explore modern art and modern love; this major exhibition reveals how relationships can become a playground for creativity.

Rachel Mars: Your Sexts are Shit – Older Better Letters

13 Dec 2018, 19:00

Performer and writer Rachel Mars considers the queer female body, focusing on artists such as Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe, who feature in our exhibition Modern Couples.

Modern Couples: Make Your Own Relationship Rules

17 Jan 2019, 19:00

Justin Hancock and Meg-John Barker are here to help you explore the different kinds of relationship models seen in Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde.

Modern Couples: Beloved Muse – Emilie Flöge

24 Jan 2019, 19:00

Acclaimed Viennese actor Maxi Blaha presents a solo performance exploring the life of Emilie Flöge, the companion and muse of Gustav Klimt.

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Meet the Couples: Jean Arp & Sophie Taeuber-Arp

In 1915, Sophie Taeuber met Jean Arp at his exhibition. From then on, the two immediately began collaborating and creating together, a creative relationship that would last for almost three decades.

Meet the Arps

Multibuy: Modern Couples

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Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde

Rachel Mars: Your Sexts are Shit – Older Better Letters

Modern Couples: Make Your Own Relationship Rules

Modern Couples: Beloved Muse – Emilie Flöge

Grace Banks: The Other Half

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