History, myth, storytelling and archaeology are just some of the fascinating themes that Compton Verney’s 2025 exhibition programme.
The Warwickshire art gallery and park will invite visitors to consider how such things relate to the cycles of life, nature and our experience, as humans, of living in and understanding the modern world.
Breathing with the Forest: Marshmallow Laser Feast (MLF): 8 February - 6 April 2025
This immersive video installation – created by experiential artist collective Marshmallow Laser Feast (MLF) - will inhabit Compton Verney’s iconic Adam Hall, with its direct connection to the landscape outside.
Emii Alrai: 15 February - 15 June 2025
Emii Alrai (b.1993) will present a series of reworked and newly commissioned installations, plus sculptural works, for her exhibition at Compton Verney. The new work is inspired by the gallery’s nationally important Naples Collection and will focus on themes of volcanic eruption and geological rupture as metaphors for our times.
Towering Dreams: Extraordinary Architectural Drawings:15 March – 31 August 2025
This exhibition explores how draughtsmen of the 18th and early 19th centuries understood the world around them and the ideas and cultures that inspired them. Drawn from the collection of Sir John Soane’s Museum, Towering Dreams features plans for buildings which were realised and ideal constructions that never went further than the architect’s drawing board.
Emma Talbot : 5 July - 5 October 2025
For Compton Verney’s major summer exhibition, award-winning artist Emma Talbot (b.1969) has assembled a collection of new and recent work that powerfully explores the experience of life, from birth to death.
Renee So: 21 September 2025 - 8 March 2026
This solo exhibition by Renee So (b.1974) is the first to focus specifically on her relationship with Chinese history and identity. Through a range of sculptural and ceramic work, the Hong Kong-born artist will consider the trade of goods and ideas between China and the West, and how perceptions of this history have been distorted and re-fashioned, largely by western preconceptions and orientalism.
The Shelter of Stories: Ways of Telling, Ways of Dwelling curated by Marina Warner: 25 October 2025 – 22 February 2026
Curated by the writer Marina Warner, this groundbreaking exhibition explores the art of storytelling, its close relationship with the sense of home and belonging and its vital role in times of upheaval and displacement.
Compton Verney, Warwickshire,CV35 9HZ
Opening Times
Tue – Sun: 10am-4.30pm
Mondays: Closed, except bank holidays
Galleries are open: 10.30am – 4.30pm
Grounds are open: 10am – 4.30pm
Further Information: Welcome to Compton Verney