New immersive David Bowie exhibition set to open in London
A new David Bowie exhibition is coming to London; the immersive exhibition, titled David Bowie: You’re Not Alone, at Lightroom, promises to be both a multimedia spectacle and a revealing self-portrait.
Coming to Lightroom, situated ten minutes from London’s King’s Cross, the new exhibition is slated for an April 22nd, 2026, launch.
The 360 experience will showcase a handful of Bowie’s landmark performances, using rarely seen and never-before-exhibited material selected meticulously from thousands of hours of films in the vaults of the David Bowie Archive in New York.
The exhibition aims to show Bowie as “the man himself”, stripping back the layers of his characters Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Halloween Jack, and The Thin White Duke to reveal the “human form” behind the glamour.
It will be structured in thematic chapters in one looping presentation; the “surreal” elements include a transatlantic TV interview with Russell Harty in 1975. A reconstructed set of the Diamond Dogs tour materialises out of the dust, too.
The new exhibition is produced by Lightroom and designed by 59, a Journey studio. It is written and directed by 59’s Mark Grimmer, creative director for the V&A’s David Bowie Is exhibition, and Tom Wexler.
The deep dive into Bowie’s brain joins a host of other critically acclaimed shows at Lightroom, including collaborations with David Hockney, Tom Hanks, and Anna Wintour.
Director Grimmer has shared of the exhibition’s intention: “Throughout his career, Bowie repeatedly resisted being figured as anything but human. Rather than undermining his mystique, we designed a show to celebrate Bowie as a champion of human creativity – focusing on the message he expressed time and again: that art, in all its forms, is our best hope for understanding what it means to be alive.”
Tickets for David Bowie: You’re Not Alone are on sale now.
