The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

Past Exhibitions

15 January – 11 April 2010 The Business of Art: Artists and Guilds in 17th-century Holland	23 October 2009 - 10 January 2010 Inspired Stitches: Textile Responses to the Barber Collection
13 November 2009 - 28 February 2010 Going Dutch: Golden Age Treasures from the Holburne & Barber Collections	10 July - 25 October 2009 Dürer to Spencer: Highlights on Paper from University College London
7 August – 11 October 2009 Parallels in Print: Highlights on Paper from the Barber Institute	9 October - 8 November 2009 The Sunday Times/ Royal Watercolour Society Competition
27 February - 31 May 2009 Northern Lights: Swedish Landscapes from the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm	29 January 2008 – 13 September 2009 Claims to Power: Coins and Political Spin
5–18 June 2009 Building the Future: Birmingham’s Architectural Story	6 February - 31 May 2009 Changing Nature: Northern European Landscape Prints
12 June – 26 July 2009 This is Me!	8 May – 6 September 2009 Exotic Eccentricities: Petitot’s ‘Suite de Vases’
3 December 2008 – 28 January 2009 Jack Kerouac: Back On the Road	3 October 2008 – 25 January 2009 The Past within the Present
4 July – 21 September 2008 Reunited: Gwen John, Mère Poussepin and the Catholic Church	22 May – 14 September 2008 Mysterious Depths: Dreams, Mortality and the Subconscious
8 February – 11 May 2008 Fates: Sculpture by Katerine M Waters	6 – 15 June 2008 Publicity & Perversity: The British Print 1750-1950
25 January–27 April 2008 Behind Closed Doors: Birmingham’s Private Collections from Van Dyck to Cornelia Parker	2 April – 6 July 2008 Interventions: Ruth Claxton
28 September 2007 – 20 January 2008 Exceptional Beauty and Outstanding Merit: Acquisitions at the Barber Institute, 1991–2007	5 October 2007 – 20 January 2008 From Constable to Cézanne: Recent Nineteenth-century Acquisitions
15 February 2007 – 20 January 2008 Encounters: Travel and Money in the Byzantine World	1 February 2007 – 15 January 2008 The Currency of Femininity: Women on Coins
4 May – 23 September 2007 Italy versus the Netherlands	25 May – 23 September 2007 Dual Nationalities: The Exchange of Artistic Ideas

27 October 2006 - 21 January 2007 Classicism: Art above Life	2 February – 6 May 2007 Flight of Fancy: Birds and Winged Creatures in Art
27 October 2006 - 21 January 2007 A National Barber Benefactor: 125 Years of the V&A Purchase Grant Fund	Until 14 January 2007 · Coin Gallery Talking Coins: 1800 Years of Numismatic Treasures
29 July - 22 October 2006 Dürer to Kollwitz: German Works on Paper	1 September - 29 October 2006 Jangzadeh ('Victim of War')
26 May - 27 August 2006 Families on Earth and in Heaven	8 - 13 June 2006 Travel by the Book: Eighteenth-Century Illustrated Travel Writing
20 January - 23 April 2006 Moonrise Over Europe: J C Dahl and Romantic Landscape	20 January - 23 April 2006 Looking at the Moon
27 January - 30 April 2006 Romantic Landscapes on Paper: Britain and Beyond	21 October 2005 - 15 January 2006 Nelson's Muse: Lady Hamilton and her Attitudes
14 October 2005 - 15 January 2006 Face to Face: The Portrait Explored	29 July - 2 October 2005 Klinger and his Contemporaries
2 September - 16 October 2005 ArtReach!	27 May - 30 August 2005 The Art of Love
11 July - 15 July 2005 Art and Migration: Art Works by Refugee Artists from Nazi Germany in Britain	18 February - 15 May 2005 Reunited: Degas and ‘Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando’
28 January - 2 May 2005 Space versus Surface: Illusionism and Abstraction in Art	17 November 2004 - 23 January 2005 John Murphy: And Things throw Light on Things...
29 October 2004 - 23 January 2005 Concocting a Masterpiece — Bartholomeus Breenbergh: ‘Joseph distributing corn in Egypt’	20 August 2004 - 24 October 2004 Beauty of the Beasts: The African Savannah
29 October 2004 - 23 January 2005 Crossing Genres: Dutch Landscape and History Prints of the 17th Century	24 October 2003 - 1 February 2004 Turner, Printmaking and the Liber Studiorum
24 October 2003 - 25 January 2004 The Sun rising through Vapour: Turner's Early Seascapes	5 December 2003 - 6 June 2004 Works on Paper: New Acquisitions at the Barber Institute
6 February 2004 - 9 May 2004 The Great and the Good: Judging Quality in Art	27 February 2004 - 23 May 2004 Inspired: an exhibition of work produced by participants in our adult workshops.
27 May 2004 - 15 August 2004 From the Depths: Water in Art