Tarot – Origins & Afterlives

EVENT DESCRIPTION

31 January-30 April 2025, opening times to be confirmed

Tarot cards are everywhere; but where do they come from, and what is at stake in the different forms they have taken? Even a quick glance at the available decks reveals that few sets of symbols have travelled as widely or been put to a more radical range of uses. As tools to explore the unconscious, sources of artistic inspiration and emblems of counterculture, Tarot decks have served as some of our most powerful shapers of fortune, creativity and even identity.

A major new exhibition, Tarot – Origins & Afterlives, will present a sequence of critical moments from Tarot’s long history, exploring the cards’ iconographic origins and the profound transformations they have undergone in the hands of artists, mystics and writers.

An extensive public program will accompany the exhibition, including academic symposia, screenings, readings and immersive events.

ENTRANCE FREE WITH TIMED TICKETS. BOOKING TO OPEN SOON.

image: Austin Osman Spare tarot deck (c.1906). Courtesy The Magic Circle Collection and Darren Martin.

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