The major solo exhibition, Yinka Shonibare CBE: End of Empire, gathers over sixty works from the past thirty years, celebrating Yinka Shonibare CBE's multimedia oeuvre and its probing constructions of race, class, and national and cultural identities through a sustained study of the historic interdependencies between Africa and Europe.
A self-described “postcolonial hybrid,” Shonibare zooms in on episodes from art and history, primarily from eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe, employing subversive creative strategies to visualise them in tragicomic scenes of human activity.