This the first UK exhibition dedicated to Behjat Sadr (1924-2009), now regarded as one of Iran’s most influential and radical visual artists. The exhibition brings together a selection of masterpieces by the artist never seen before in the UK. The display reveals Sadr’s dramatic artistic journey against the backdrop of bitter political events and her struggles as a […]
Who Wants to Look at Somebody’s Face?, celebrates the role of photography in sculpture and painting, with reference to some of the greats of modern sculpture and how they used photography as an archive. Maude Maris' exhibition will feature 12 new paintings of playful compositions, titles of which relate to extracts from texts written by […]
Stages and Tales is a solo exhibition by Berlinde De Bruyckere, in which she presents two new bodies of sculptural works, selected in direct relation to the spaces they are exhibited in. The pieces presented in ‘Stages & Tales’ are a new artistic direction for De Bruyckere, moving away from the figurative work she is best known […]
LCD takes shape around an ambitious new commission by artist Anna Barham, titled Crystal Fabric Field. Based on the fundamental geometric form of naturally growing crystals, the sculpture operates as a cabinet of curiosities, housing artworks by 16 other artists, all exploring the material possibilities of crystals. The works examine and observe liquid crystal phenomena, […]
Collections: Prints 1963 - 1984, is a major retrospective of Anni Albers’ prints. The exhibition, including archival material, coincides with the Tate Modern’s first survey of Albers’ textiles; together these shows will shed light on an often-overlooked artist.
An exhibition of new works called In the Trees II, by Joan Jonas.
Lucy Beech’s solo exhibition Hyperstimulation presents a new film accompanied by a text by Naomi Pearce. The looping film, entitled Reproductive Exile, follows the fictional story of a woman undertaking cross-border fertility treatment. The film is set in private international clinic in the Czech Republic, where lack of legislation associated with reproductive rights sustains a booming fertility industry. […]
Stand, is a site-specific work by Jodie Carey reconfigured for a four-day exhibition over the course of Frieze Art Fair. The spectacular Victorian church provides an evocative new context for one of Carey’s most ambitious installations to be restaged. Fifty vertical earth-cast sculptures populate the church’s transept, at once industrial and abstract, whilst also organic […]
An exhibition of Clare Inskip’s new paintings.
Lydia Corbett (nickname) Sylvette was Picasso’s muse, and he turned her radiant beauty into art, making some of his finest paintings. Later, he created an entirely new art form for her; Sylvettes in sheet metal, and later monumental Sylvette sculptures. Their meeting altered Sylvette’s life although she already had artistic aspirations for herself, as art was […]
Italian-born, Paris-based Tatiana Trouvé is known for her sculptures, installations and drawings often brought together in precisely-scaled architectural installations which suggest the possibility of underlying narratives. Frequently using cast materials, such as concrete, marble, copper and bronze, she transforms everyday objects into poetic architectural sculptural forms. This exhibition is that of a Navigation Map.
For three decades, Jacqueline Humphries’ work has grappled with critical questions about contemporary abstract painting in a visual culture that is increasingly influenced by screens and technology. Testing the limits of her medium, her work frequently turns in on its own making; scraping back to reveal alternative roads of enquiry. The tension between erasing all […]
‘Miss Mars’, is a solo exhibition of new paintings by the American artist Lucy Dodd. Her work includes large canvases using pigments incorporating organic matter, such as berries, nettles and tea.
Following her acclaimed exhibition of historical works from 1997-1998 in New York, Sue Williams' New Paintings demonstrate a continuing interest in exploring the fluid boundary between figuration and abstraction and her pursuance of the transformation of one into the other. In this body of work, the paintings have an increasing ethereality. They utilise the lightness […]
Tania Bruguera's work is a community-driven response to the global migration crisis that engages with 'the role of emotions in politics'. Her main concerns are institutional power, borders and migration. Her work spans performance, events, action, film, installation, sculpture, writing and teaching alongside site-specific works. Often, she sets out to cause change through her work. […]
The exhibition is a solo presentation of hand-painted sculptures by Yinka Shonibare MBE in the exquisite and intimate setting of Grade II* listed Fitzrovia Chapel, London. In the central nave stand three unique sculptures in which Shonibare reinterprets masterpieces of Greek and Roman antiquity. In each work, Shonibare's figures are transformed by the artist's uniquely […]
Gabrielle Ruffle's focus is on landscape painting using oils on canvas and chalk drawings. Her landscapes are based on snapshots of places she has visited such as London, New York, Manchester and Hong Kong as well as her home towns of Merseyside and Bristol. The common theme of the paintings is an abundance of colour […]
Faye Wei Wei's bold, poetic works quiver with a lively, lyrical motion, combining classical poise with vibrant immediacy. Working on a large scale, Wei Wei conceives of the painting process as an intimate choreography between actual and pictorial space. Often revolving around spiritual iconography and classical myth, love rituals and the theatricality of gender, her works […]
Known for her sumptuously detailed large-scale drawings and installations, Nina Mae Fowler’s work interrogates themes of celebrity, beauty, power and sexuality. Preoccupied with Hollywood’s ‘Golden Age’, Fowler treats the period as a crucible of our own, revelling in its sheer visual richness at the same time as it critiques our culture’s obsession with stardom, as […]
This major exhibition of new work by Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirror Room, takes place across the Wharf Road galleries and waterside garden. The exhibition will feature new paintings, including works from the iconic My Eternal Soul series, painted bronze pumpkin and flower sculptures, and a large - scale Infinity Mirror Room, created for this presentation. Throughout her career, Yayoi […]