Since the 1950s, Paula Rego has played a key role in redefining figurative art in the UK and internationally. An uncompromising artist of extraordinary imaginative power, she has revolutionised the way in which women are represented. This retrospective will tell the story of this artist’s extraordinary life, highlighting the personal nature of much of her work and […]
Paula Rego: An Enduring Journey, focuses on Rego’s printmaking oeuvre, bringing together almost fifty years of her graphic works, which explore the themes of power, rebellion, sexuality and gender, grief and poverty. Over fifty prints and unique works on paper – many previously unseen – which come directly from the artist’s archive, will be shown together with […]
399 Days, by Rachel Kneebone is in the unique environment of the 18th Century Chapel, which allows for another view of the sculpture at height from the balcony. Here, drawings from the artist’s Ovid in Exile (2016) series show different aspects of her practice as well as the relationship between works on paper and sculpture. The series refers to the […]
This exhibition, Body Topographies, brings together five influential female artists whose work offers a nuanced understanding of the female gaze. It spans multiple generations and continents, and presents work by Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010, Paris, France), Heidi Bucher (1926- 1993, Winterthur, Switzerland), Mandy El-Sayegh (b. 1985, Malaysia), Adriana Varejão (b. 1964, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and Cecilia Vicuña (b. […]
Sophie Taeuber-Arp was one of the foremost abstract artists and designers of the 1920s and 30s. Her multidisciplinary work has enduring influence, inspiring innovative artists and designers around the world. Taeuber-Arp’s creative output was extraordinarily diverse and at times controversial. She made embroideries and paintings, carved sculptures and edited magazines, created puppets and mysterious Dada […]
Hall of Mirrors, by Sarah Jones builds upon her distinct photographic language, which dissolves the hazy glare of day into the weight of a photographic night. Her subjects and objects are chosen as much for their illusionary surfaces as for their metaphysical and metaphorical potential. The imagery in her latest work references Cocteau’s 1930 film Le Sang […]
Alison Watt is widely regarded as one of the leading painters working in the UK today. This significant body of new work consists of paintings made in response to the practice of the celebrated eighteenth-century portrait artist Allan Ramsay (1713-84) and are on show for the first time. In A Portrait Without Likeness the artist explores […]
Mend carefully. Think of mending the world at the same time. y.o. MEND PIECE for London draws on the Japanese tradition of kintsugi, the art of repairing broken pottery using lacquer mixed with precious metals such as gold and silver. The process nurtures breakage as an important part of an object’s history, rather than seeking to […]
Angela Heisch's paintings are rendered with a luminous application of colour and are composed of repeated motifs, curving forms, and delicate dark lines. Drawing inspiration from organic bodies, patterns in nature, and architecture, the artist’s abstract language seeks to capture the sensation of her observations. Heisch presents her paintings as psychological spaces, and seeks an […]
Marina Abramović presents the culmination of her lifelong passion and empathy for the talented and tragic figure of singer Maria Callas (1923-1977). Abramović has created Seven Deaths, a new, immersive cinematic experience based on seven untimely demises she undergoes on screen, set to the moving soundtrack of seven Callas solos at Lisson. In Cork Street, Abramović exhibits […]
An exhibition of woodcuts by leading Abstract Expressionist, Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011), who is widely credited for her pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting. Opening ten years after her death, this exhibition, Radical Beauty, shines a light on the artist’s groundbreaking woodcuts, which appear painterly and spontaneous with expanses of colour and […]
An exhibition of new work by Tacita Dean at two locations. At the Golden Square gallery, the ground floor features works relating to Dean’s forthcoming designs for The Dante Project, a new commission […]
A new selection of sculptures, drawings and tapestries by Annie Morris. The exhibition coincides with Morris’s first solo museum exhibition in the UK, When A Happy Thing Falls at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, […]
This large-scale Theatrical Exhibition, presents recent work and include selected highlights from Lubaina Himid’s influential career. Taking inspiration from her interest in theatre, the exhibition unfolds in a sequence of scenes designed to place visitors centre-stage and backstage. Initially trained in theatre design, Himid is known for her innovative approaches to painting and to social engagement. She has […]
Jutta Koether's Femme Colonne, features seven new, large-scale paintings, spread across two gallery sites. Koether utilises appropriation to situate herself within an eclectic artistic genealogy that references idioms from French baroque painting to Symbolism, Post-Impressionism, and Surrealism. In a recurring repertoire of pixelated or “bruised” grids, vibrant red paint, and unfurling ribbons and curtains, Koether layers her […]
To celebrate Bridget Riley's 90th birthday this year; this exhibition explores the artist's love of sight and how it surprises us. Pleasures of Sight delves into the historical roots of Bridget Riley’s art and her working methods, through a selection of exemplary striped, curved, colour and black-and-white works. Examples are drawn from each decade – the 1960s to […]
Body Vessel Clay spans 70 years of ceramics, celebrating the medium in new and surprising ways. Beginning with the seminal Nigerian potter, Ladi Kwali, and examining her interaction with 1950s British Studio Pottery, this important new exhibition brings together a rich history with experimental new works by Black women working with clay today. Artists celebrated […]
Your Arms Outstretched Above Your Head, Coding With the Angels, is Tai Shani’s new show, which encompasses watercolours, acidic geometries, glass eyes glowing with hunger as well as strained concepts of love, many candles, the sun. (The sun is a ghost here.) What brings these divergent things together in the precarious cosmology of this situation, is […]
Leonor Antunes engages with traditions of modernist art, architecture and design through sculpture made and displayed with the specifics of a given place in mind. The forms and materials of […]
An exhibition that examines the historical representation and shifting legacy of Black women in visual culture. Curated by Aindrea Emelife, BLACK VENUS brings together the work of 18 Black women […]