‘My Kind of Protest’, is an exhibition of works by Emma Amos, Vivian Browne and Chemu Ng’ok. Working across different time periods, each of these artists creates psychologically charged portraits […]
Lucy Jones’s paintings conduct a journey through both interior landscapes and the external world beyond. Landscapes and Inscapes, an exhibition of new landscape and portrait paintings includes a portrait of artist Grayson […]
An exhibition of works by Luchita Hurtado. I Die I will be Reborn traces the trajectory of Hurtado’s expansive, 80-year career and reveals the scale, experimentation and playfulness of her impressive oeuvre. […]
An exhibition in Paris by Annette Messager with new works and a set of new drawings, including her first video installation, Lost in Limbos (2019). The exhibition opens with a series of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]