Inspired by the Brazilian song ‘Um Girassol da Cor de Seu Cabelo’, Claire Fahys’ exhibition 'Viento Solar, or ‘Solar Wind’, follows a residency in Mexico City reflecting on the pulsating spirit and light of the city. In her paintings Fahys pays close attention to colour planes and subdivisions, at the same time, she manipulates space […]
Simryn Gill's exhibition, includes photography, works on paper and sculpture, featuring works from the last six years. Shelter highlights the artist’s pivotal role in contemporary ecological discourse.
Mourning Marsyas, is an exhibition of new works by Marlene Dumas. The paintings in this show are created through a mixture of chance and intention, mostly evolving in a dance through time, combining very fast and focused actions with reflective pauses. Here, Dumas’s style as well as subjects move between being in and out of […]
For this series Alice Mann spent four years photographing drum majorettes in Western Cape and Gauteng schools. Her images capture the strength, confidence, and pride of the girls, all crucial character components in communities where opportunities for young women are far too slim. Alice explains, ‘Drummies is part of my ongoing work exploring notions of […]
The paintings in this exhibition form part of an ongoing series of works Yelena Popova calls Post-Petrochemical paintings. Of Dust and Breath is an ode to the land, life and the unique interconnected imprints we leave behind as we make our way through time and place, forging and crossing paths as we and our loved […]
In this project dedicated to Jewish Country Houses, Binet engaged with a rich historical narrative, steeped in memory and challenging to capture. The body of work is featured in the exhibition 'Discovering Jewish Country Houses'. There are over 20 captivating works by Binet, a master of analogue photography. Her stunning images reveal the beauty and deep […]
Immortal Apples, Eternal Eggs is the merging of two collections – The Ingram Collection and the David and Indrė Roberts Collection – and includes work from artists including Phyllida Barlow, Louise Bourgeois, Sir Anthony Caro, Patrick Caulfield, Michael Craig-Martin, Dame Elisabeth Frink, Sarah Lucas, Henry Moore and Ben Nicholson. The exhibition juxtaposes world-class contemporary sculpture, […]
The exhibition, Visions of English Literature, casts a spotlight on Paula Rego's remarkable practice as a graphic artist, and in particular the British literary influences that inspired her most ambitious bodies of works in printmaking: Nursery Rhymes, Peter Pan and Jane Eyre. Showcasing each series of prints combined with unseen preparatory sketches, etching plates and other […]
For her debut exhibition, Daria Blum's, Drip Drip Point Warp Spin Buckle Rot, transforms the space into an enveloping, multimedia installation. Immersive video and sound pieces spark an evocative dialogue with the architecture of the gallery itself. Blum’s artistic practice draws on movement, choreography, and staging. Regular live performances are complemented by photographs.
Yayoi Kusama’s exhibition premieres a new Infinity Mirror Room and introduces works from a new series of paintings, entitled Every Day I Pray for Love. Created in a more intimate format, these paintings continue the artist's singular explorations of line and form. Often minutely detailed, with characteristically bold accents of colour, they evoke both microscopic and macroscopic […]
This exhibition interrogates Friendship as a fundamental human relationship that is essential to individual well-being and society. Taking place in the partner cities of Birmingham and Lyon, Friends in Love and War – L’Éloge des meilleur·es ennemi·es also reflects on diplomatic friendships, and how regional capitals and cultural organisations can create new ways of living […]
Exploring states of psychological transition, Anna Blom’s exhibition, Transference, is conceived as an exploration of variance. It responds to contextual change and liminality, as well as the changes in oneself. The works are a series of articulations: poetic verbiage taking on a diaristic methodology.
The exhibition, La Perez es el Milagros de dies (Idleness is the Misrule of God) presents eleven new works on canvas made by the artist this year. Torres practice is deeply rooted in her upbringing and the culture of Colombia’s Caribbean coast, in this body of work the artist explores notions of the absurd, miracles and […]
Yuko Shiraishi's exhibition, Through, presents a series of exquisite recent paintings and a major new architectural installation; ‘Bunk Bed Odyssey - Parallel Lullaby’. Paintings in this exhibition reference Shiraishi’s long-standing fascination with dreams, which spans the scientific and the poetic and goes beyond the dreams we remember.
Under Construction, the exhibition by Geumhyung Jeong, features a newly commissioned installation of sculpture, video, and a series of live performances. Working from her background in choreography and a studied interest in the role of objects and technology in our lives, Jeong uses her body and animatronic figures built from DIY parts to parse the […]
Yu Hong presents a series of large-scale new acrylic-on-canvas paintings in her exhibition Islands of the Mind. Described as one of the most important voices of her generation, she unveils a selection of poignant and poetic paintings that each explore a distinctive state of mind or consciousness.
The exhibition, Uncanny Visions, presents Francisco de Goya’s Los Disparates (The Follies) (1815-1824), alongside Paula Rego’s complete Nursery Rhymes, a series of over 30 etchings and aquatints. Exploring how two artists living a century apart resorted to similar visual motifs and narrative devices, the exhibition examines how Goya’s influence on Rego is apparent through the media […]
Sikelela Owen RA, in her exhibition, Where My Gaze Falls pays attention to the nature and spirit of communion, particularly the familial and socio-cultural events that underpin and shape our everyday encounters.
Nairy Baghramian makes sculptures that ask you to reconsider your sense of self, space and relation to the object. Made from materials such as marble, wood, metal and resin, her sculptures often respond to the surrounding environment, engaging with architecture and people. Using a wide range of techniques, they subtly explore connections between art and […]
The World at Our Command illustrates the importance of intimacy within platonic relationships. Defined by overlapping compositions that echo surrealist photomontages, Bobbie Essers’ fragmented canvases are full of limbs, bodies, clothes and accessories taken from candid photographs of her friends. The exhibition demonstrates the maturity with which the artist is developing her contemporary portraiture.