Nowadays, the UK’s stately properties are locations to see modern artwork, typically within the nice outside. This 12 months sees the opening of two necessary new venues: Goodwood Artwork Basis in Sussex and Wolterton Corridor in Norfolk, who be part of the likes of Derbyshire’s Chatsworth Home and Compton Verney in Warwickshire. Over the subsequent few months, these homes and estates supply a outstanding vary of worldwide artists in among the nation’s most romantic and evocative settings.
Maggi Hambling and Ro Robertson, ‘Sea State’ | Wolterton Corridor, Norfolk | Till 7 December 2025
Norfolk’s Wolterton Corridor was based by the influential Walpole household (Robert was Britain’s first prime minister; Horace constructed Strawberry Hill and invented the English gothic novel). Following a number of fires and restorations, this necessary property has reopened to guests and has an accompanying arts and tradition programme. The inaugural exhibition, ‘Sea State’, options new work by Maggi Hambling and Ro Robertson and is co-curated by Simon Oldfield and Gemma Rolls-Bentley. The location-specific presentation responds to the home’s proximity to the North Norfolk coast, and the limitless mutation of the ocean, its historial position in empire and its metaphorical resonances for the queer physique.
Wolterton Corridor, Norfolk, NR11 7LY.
Rachel Whiteread | Goodwood Artwork Basis, West Sussex | Till 2 November 2025
Launched this summer time, Goodwood Artwork Basis is a brand new not-for-profit on the South Downs in West Sussex dedicated to modern artwork. In addition to a gallery area, it situates works all through a fastidiously landscaped surroundings, like an up to date model of an 18th-century property. Alongside outside works by Isamu Noguchi, Hélio Oiticica, Susan Phillipsz, Veronica Ryan and Rose Wylie, there’s a movie set up by New Yorker Amie Siegel within the Pigott Gallery, whereas the primary season’s headliner is Rachel Whiteread. Whiteread is exhibiting latest sculptural items and infrequently seen pictures indoors, and a number of other forged concrete works set throughout the panorama, together with Pair (1999) and Indifferent II (2012). There’s additionally a model new giant outside work, Down and Up.
Goodwood Artwork Basis, New Barn Hill, Chichester, West Sussex, PO18 0QP.
‘The Beautiful Nothings’ | Chatsworth Home, Derbyshire | Till 5 October 2025
‘The Beautiful Nothings’ at Derbyshire’s Chatsworth Home celebrates flowers by historic and modern work from the Devonshire Collections, loans from nationwide and worldwide museums, and new commissions from artists together with Kapwani Kiwanga and Elliot Hundley. Because the seat of the Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth was a pioneering property each in artwork amassing and the landscaping motion of the 18th century. Impressed by this, ‘The Beautiful Nothings’ displays not simply flora, however the generations of panorama designers, gardeners, engineers and scientists who’ve had a hand in altering ‘nature’ at Chatsworth to replicate altering tastes and out of doors influences.
Chatsworth Home, Bakewell, Derbyshire, DE45 1PP.
Pablo Bronstein, ‘The Temple of Solomon and Its Contents’ | Waddeson Manor, Buckinghamshire | Till 2 November 2025
Waddesdon Manor is a hanging, French-chateau-style stately house that was a weekend retreat and ‘occasion home’ of the Rothschild household by the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It additionally housed Baron de Rothschild’s enormous assortment of objets d’artwork, a lot of which was finally bequeathed to the British Museum. On this exhibition, Pablo Bronstein responds to Waddesdon each as a treasure home and as a British Jewish stately house. ‘The Temple of Solomon and Its Contents’ options imaginary plans and depictions of the mythic Biblical temple, famed for its lavishness of ornament and inconceivable riches, alongside items from the Rothschild assortment, together with distinctive 18th-century Jewish Italian embroidered hangings that depict each the Temple of Solomon and the Second Temple.
Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP18 0JH.
‘Sculpture within the Park’ | Compton Verney, Warwickshire | Till 28 September 2025
One other property that bears the imprint of Lancelot ‘Functionality’ Brown, Compton Verney opened a brand new rolling sculpture show throughout 120 impressively landscaped acres final 12 months. Moderately than chiming with their environment, although, the artists in ‘Sculpture within the Park’ appear to face in stark distinction to its faux-naturalism, permitting their work to be seen in a radical awnd difficult context. Items by Larry Achiampong, Nic Deshayes, Hew Locke, Sarah Lucas (Perceval [2006], her solely piece of public sculpture) and Augustas Serapinas observe landmark works by Louise Bourgeois and Helen Chadwick on this daring gesture to artwork en plein air.
Compton Verney, Warwickshire, CV35 9HZ.
Linder, A form of glamour about me | Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland | Till 31 August 2025
Following its extremely acclaimed run at London’s Hayward Gallery, ‘Linder: Hazard Got here Smiling’ is touring to Edinburgh this summer time. To accompany it, Edinburgh Artwork Competition and Mount Stuart Belief have co-commissioned a brand new efficiency work by the artist. A form of glamour about me, whose title quotes Sir Walter Scott, explores the inventive technique of art-making and identity-fashioning, with Linder collaborating with choreographer Holly Blakey, composer Maxwell Sterling and dressmaker Ashish Gupta. Skilled within the setting of Mount Stuart’s high-Victorian gothic insanity, it needs to be fairly a spectacle.
Mount Stuart, Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland, PA20 9LR.
Prem Sahib, ‘Doubles’ | Pitzhanger Manor, London | 26 June – 21 September 2025
As Sir John Soane’s second house on the outskirts of London, Pitzhanger Manor is an apt location for an exhibition dedicated to duplication. In ‘Doubles’, Prem Sahib explores copies and replicas, efficiency, mimicry, reminiscence and duplicity. Sahib attracts on Soane’s many casts of objects and his modern use of mirrors in interventions that destabilize how areas could be learn. ‘Doubles’ additionally considers the connection between inside and out of doors, with a serious new bronze sculpture sited within the gardens that mirrors a counterpart, Apotropaic 1 (2023), inside the home. Different works embrace an architectural rendering of a window from a public bathroom that when stood in close by Walpole Park and an set up of fabric from the archive of Sahib’s uncle, a race equality campaigner throughout the Eighties in Southall. Sahib has beforehand used lockers salvaged from homosexual sauna Chariots and a speech by Suella Braverman in his work, and ‘Doubles’ is one other compelling and sensible chapter from the artist. Alongside Sahib’s work is an exhibition by Permindar Kaur, whose work has additionally been commissioned for Compton Verney.
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, Ealing Inexperienced, London, W5 5EQ.
‘Henry VIII’s Misplaced Ottoman Dagger’ | Strawberry Hill Home, Twickenham | 27 September – 12 January 2026
On the outskirts of London, Strawberry Hill Home was the imaginative and prescient of novelist, politician and aesthete Horace Walpole, who from 1747 reworked a humble cottage right into a sugary, neo-gothic confection of battlements, finials and fan vaulting. In its Robert Adam inside, Walpole stored his assortment of Reynolds portraits, Elizabethan miniatures and historical Greek vases. The home supplies a suitably theatrical setting for ‘Henry VIII’s Misplaced Ottoman Dagger’, a centered exhibition analyzing the historical past of a jewel-encrusted sixteenth century weapon as soon as owned by Walpole, then acquired by the well-known thespian Charles Kean. It consists of necessary loans from the Portland Assortment at Welbeck Abbey and an Ottoman dagger, as soon as belonging to Rudolf II, from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
Strawberry Hill Home, Twickenham, London, TW1 4ST
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Fundamental picture: Sarah Lucas, Perceval, 2006, in ‘Sculpture within the Park’. Picture: Jamie Woodley © Compton Verney
