After moving to Paris from Beirut in 1970, Huguette Caland achieved artistic recognition with her exuberant and erotically charged paintings that challenged traditional conventions of beauty and desire. The female physique is a recurrent motif in her work, often painted like landscapes with voids and mountain-like forms. Shifting between figuration and abstraction, large, colourful canvasses and detailed drawings […]
Posy Simmonds’ sharp satire and progressive female characters have defined a career spanning 50 years. This retrospective will feature her early-career pastiches, iconic cartoon strips for The Guardian and children’s books such as Fred, which became an Oscar-nominated film. It will also include the first ever British graphic novel, True Love, unseen pages from Tamara Drewe and drawings […]
A solo exhibition and premiere of Zoe Williams’s new moving image work, Sunday Fantasy. The work uses the language of fantasy to play with and subvert dominant power structures, dissecting and interrogating current representations of the erotic and viewing them through an importantly female and queered lens.
This exhibition celebrates the work and life of Lee Krasner (1908–1984), a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism. The first major presentation of her work in Europe for more than 50 years, Living Colour tells the story of a formidable artist, whose importance has too often been eclipsed by her marriage to Jackson Pollock. Discover Krasner’s spirit […]
Business As Usual, is a solo exhibition by Alberta Whittle, a multi-faceted artist whose practice includes film, performance, and various forms of collage and assemblage, Whittle is known for work which uses the body as a site of potential for transformation and resistance. Creating space to acknowledge the effects of history on the present, she […]
Nightjars and Allies, is the fourth solo exhibition by American artist Elizabeth Neel. The exhibition features new paintings on canvas that continue to foreground Neel’s reflections on our surrounding physical landscape well as the inner landscape of the mind. The exhibition takes its name from a new painting, Nightjars and Allies, and is the largest scale […]
Intimate, powerful and sometimes deliberately uncomfortable, Claudette Johnson’s studies of black men and women demand attention and command respect. This show, I Came to Dance, is an overview of one of the most accomplished figurative artists working in Britain today.
Phoebe Boswell combines traditional draftswoman-ship and digital technology in The words I do not have yet. The words of poet Audre Lorde and Kenyan activist Wambui Mwangi with other female voices are overlaid on drawings of women’s contested bodies. Apariciones/Apparitions, by Carolina Caycedo, features costumed dancers performing. Brown, black and queer bodies, informed by the rituals associated with the Afro-Brazilian […]
A Retrospective of Natalia Goncharova, who gained international fame in her own lifetime for her trailblazing experiments in painting and design. She designed costumes and backdrops for Ballets Russes performances in cities including Paris, Madrid and London, and her artistic output traces, influences and transcends the art movements of the 20th century. The exhibition explores her diverse sources and […]
Renewing our links with Faith Ringgold, whose work is in NMWA's collection and who was featured in NMWA's 2013 solo show American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960s, we are honoured to be able to offer a tour of Faith Ringgold led by the 88-year old artist on 6 June at 2 pm (TBC). […]
Senga Nengudi's work has been at the forefront of sculptural, performative, and photographic practices for over forty years. Using simple materials in innovative, unexpected ways, Nengudi’s compositions evoke a rich array of references, from subtle allusions to the body, to feminist considerations of space and movement, to the confluence of different cultural and religious rituals. […]
If they come is Deborah Roberts' first solo exhibition in Europe, in which she combines collage with mixed media. Roberts' figurative works depict the complexity of black subject-hood and explore themes of race, identity and gender politics. The exhibition is accompanied by a new publication featuring an essay by Daniella Rose King, Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow at […]
The Echo of Your Departures by artist and curator Azadeh Fatehrad, explores the history of the feminist movement in Iran, as well as the lives of contemporary women in diasporas, focusing on issues of identity, femininity, emotion, desire, clothing norms and moral values. The exhibition comprises three multi-media installations; National Unity of Women (2016), The Dance of Fabric (2015) and The […]
For Found Gestures, Susan Giles and Sally Morfill record visuospatial imagery made by those who witnessed exhibitions and events at Five Years’ primary venues during its twenty-year history. They select fragments of these threads from a mass of motion capture data, removing them from their fleeting context and translating them into material objects. In attending to […]
Kiss My Genders is a group exhibition celebrating more than 30 international artists whose work explores and engages with gender identity. Spanning the past 50 years, Kiss My Genders brings together over 100 artworks by artists who employ a wide range of approaches to articulate and engage with gender fluidity, as well as with non-binary, trans and intersex […]
Liz Johnson Artur presents new sculptural works incorporating photographs selected from her substantial archive of images documenting the lives of people from the African diaspora. This exhibition, If you Know the Beginning, the End is no Trouble focuses on London, where Artur has lived since 1991, capturing the richness and complexity of Black British life. “What […]
Brenda Hartill's work is a celebration of life and art – inspirational, uplifting and joyful.
Obedience and Defiance, is an exhibition of Paula Rego's works spanning her entire career since the 1960s; her first major retrospective in England for over 20 years. The exhibition includes previously unseen paintings and works on paper from the artist’s family and close friends, which reflect Rego’s perspective as a woman immersed in urgent social […]
This exhibition, Iris, takes its name from the artist’s late maternal grandmother and reflects on the ideas surrounding how the iris works, moving from the intimate and unspoken to the communal, stretching to different times, reflective of the nature of painting itself.
Dineo Seshee Bopape addresses politics, race, spirituality, gender and sexuality in her ambitious large scale installations which are created with using sound, found objects and moving image. Sedibeng, it comes with the rain is an immersive installation set in an environment of reflecting and refracting light, on a floor strewn with feathers, metal abstractions, letter charms, […]