Crossing Into Darkness

group show, curated by Dame Tracey Emin

The British artist, Dame Tracey Emin is regularly invited to curate exhibitions herself. Her latest exhibition at the Carl Freedman Gallery, “Crossing Into Darkness,” brings together a group of artists whose works deal with the darkness inherent in the human experience. Emin is not concerned with the dark side of a personality that one must fear, but rather with darkness as a necessary threshold to renewal. In times of upheaval and uncertainty, this journey seems both universal and deeply personal.

Hermann Nitsch’s „Design for Grablegung“ is on display in Margate thanks to a loan by the Hall Art Foundation. Further artists in the exhibition are Georg Baselitz, Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, Francisco Goya, Anselm Kiefer, Edvard Munch, and others.

Image credits: Crossing Into Darkness, curated by Dame Tracey Emin, Carl Freedman Gallery, installation view with Hermann Nitsch, Laura Footes, Johnnie Shand Kydd, Anselm Kiefer; Margate, 2026. Photography by Mine Yanyali and Ollie Harrop.