Sophie Calle at Turner
French artist Sophie Calle to Turner Contemporary
(Copyright text and images Turner Contempoary reproduced with kind permission)
Turner Contemporary is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition with internationally renowned artist Sophie Calle, her first in the UK since 2009.
From 3 October 2026–24 January 2027, Something Missing? brings the work of French artist Sophie Calle to Turner Contemporary. Celebrated for her distinctive blend of fact and fiction, intimacy and distance, Calle has spent five decades tackling the big questions of human experience–from love, loss and longing, to guilt, fear and embarrassment–with equal parts poetry, humour and conceptual rigour.
Organised by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with Turner Contemporary and De Pont Museum, the exhibition explores new facets of Calle's practice through seven major series of photography, text and film from 1986 to 2024.
Highlights include The Blind (1986), in which people born without sight describe their idea of beauty; the video installation Voir la mer (2011), capturing the emotional moment when Istanbul residents see the sea for the first time andCatalogue raisonné of the unfinished (2023) in which Calle revisits projects she previously conceptualised but didn't pursue.
Created in close collaboration with the artist, Something Missing? offers a powerful and moving encounter with one of contemporary art's most original voices.
Photo: Sophie Calle, 2026. Photo: Rasmus Quistgaard / Louisiana Channel
