Forty Never Looked So Good

City Hospital, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

Co-curated with Conor McCafferty, Arts & Heritage Collections Manager

22 January – 16 April 2026 

This exhibition offers an irreverent look at this iconic and divisive building in its fortieth year. Visible from all over the city, the City Hospital Tower provokes strong opinions, whether brilliant, bad, or… Brutalist.

Drawing on archive material, contemporary artistic responses, and new commissions from artists Sally O’Dowd and Leo Boyd, this programme is a celebration of an architectural anomaly in Belfast’s built environment.