YORKSHIRE
Holocaust Centre North, Huddersfield
Through Our Eyes
This is an interactive multimedia exhibition driven by survivor testimony, focusing on 16 children and young people who survived Nazi persecution across Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. See personal photos, artefacts and documents, together with an original prisoner uniform and other items from the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora. The survivors reveal their experience of discrimination, persecution, escape, hiding, ghettos, forced labour, concentration camps and liberation.
No end date specified
HD1 3DH. 01484 471939. www.hcn.org.uk
Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds
Memorial Gestures
A group of contemporary artists present works created in response to archival Holocaust collections, survivor testimonies and objects donated to Holocaust Centre North.
6-28 June
LS28 5UJ. www.sunnybankmills.co.uk
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
William Kentridge: The Pull of Gravity
In the first exhibition of William Kentridge’s sculpture outside of South Africa, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents over 40 works by the Jewish artist. The Pull of Gravity takes audiences on a multisensory journey into Kentridge’s world, using a variety of materials, including metals, paper, plaster, wood and found objects. Alongside the pieces, a series of short films will be shown across 20 metres of screens that wrap around viewers, revealing an insight into Kentridge’s studio and the workings of his mind. Read more about William Kentridge’s work in the Spring 2025 issue of JR.
28 June – 19 April
WF4 4JX. www.ysp.org.uk