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Rudy Loewe exhibition Intimacies of Care opens at Wellcome Collection

A new display at the Wellcome Collection explores grief, care and human resilience through sculpture, painting and sound. The show affirms the dignity of personal bonds and community support in the face of loss.
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Intelligent summary
  • Rudy Loewe exhibition opened on 10 July 2026 at Wellcome Collection and runs until February 2027.
  • Central work is the 2026 Activation Sculpture incorporating sound, plants and herbs.
  • The show emphasises dignity in grief, family and community care over politicised readings.

The exhibition Rudy Loewe: Intimacies of Care – Spaces of Grief and Possibility opened at the Wellcome Collection on 10 July 2026.

It runs in Gallery 2 on level 1 of the institution at 183 Euston Road until 7 February 2027. Admission is free.

The display brings together sculptures, paintings, text-based works and sound installations by the multidisciplinary artist Rudy Loewe, who was born in London in 1987. At its centre stands the Activation Sculpture from 2026, a large-scale commission that incorporates sound elements activated during intimate live events alongside plants and herbs including tinder fungus and damiana.

Other pieces include The Search for Care / The Lack of Care and List of Demands, both completed in 2026, together with And Here We Found One Another and Rage from 2025. These works examine the weight of grief and the spaces where care takes root within families and communities.

The exhibition forms part of the Wellcome Collection’s 2026 visual arts programme. It runs alongside Audrey Amiss: The Surviving Exhibitions, the first museum show dedicated to the late artist whose archive the collection holds.

Press previews took place on 8 July. Galleries open from 10:00 to 18:00 Tuesday to Sunday.