Self-portraits

When artists turn their gaze on themselves, the picture becomes both a face and a statement about who they are. We follow the self-portrait from the hidden signatures of the Middle Ages through Dürer, Rembrandt and van Gogh to Frida Kahlo, Cindy Sherman and the smartphone selfie.

• The artist slips into the picture
• Albrecht Dürer – the artist as Christ
• Mirrors and disguises – the 16th and 17th centuries
• Rembrandt – a life in a face
• From the Enlightenment to Romanticism
• Mirror of the soul – van Gogh, Munch and Schjerfbeck
• Self-portraits in China and Japan
• From Frida Kahlo to the selfie