Maria Bell-Salter’s paintings of tulip beds and herbaceous borders immerse the viewer in vitality and colour – sometimes strong and vibrant, sometimes subtle with undefined mystery in the depths. They convey a sense of the inspiration, joy and wonder at the sight of a garden brought to fruition. The title of the exhibition is Fruition, […]
Jemima Stehli's work explored themes of sexuality and the gaze throughout her practice. She is best known for her photographic works, which explore performativity and complicity in the representation of the female nude. HAPPENSTANCE marks a departure from the well-established photographic work and an introduction to her new practice of abstract painting - a progression […]
The relationship between performativity and the gaze has always been central to Jemima Stehli’s artistic practice. Her photographic works of the late 1990s and early 2000s often cite well-known imagery by established male artists such as Francis Bacon, Allen Jones and Helmut Newton, which she re-stages with her own body. Her hybrid position as the subject/object […]
In her exhibition, Regeneratrix, Yulia Pinkusevich presents recent paintings from two ongoing bodies of work, The Sakha Series and The Isorithm Series, which excavate the layers of her cultural identity as a former citizen of the USSR. The Sakha Series depicts the artist's journey through time, meditating upon the connection with her ancient Eastern European and North Asian lineage to […]
HUNROD GOLD, is a collaboration between Michèle Lamy and Loree Rodkin, both influential figures in contemporary jewelry design. Lamy and Rodkin have masterfully crafted this collection of rings as an interpretation of the Chinese Zodiac – a rich tradition laden with symbolism. HUNROD GOLD features seven zodiac rings, where bands of yellow and white gold […]
Outi Pieski's paintings and installations explore several themes, including the culture and identity of the Sámi people – who live in the region of Sápmi. In many of her projects, she incorporates duodji (the traditional craft practices of the Sámi people) using materials such as wood and textile. For Pieski, duodji is also a way […]
A collection of contemporary artists who explore the transformative and subversive potential of textiles to challenge power structures and reimagine the world. The exhibition brings together over 100 artworks by a diverse range of international practitioners, to examine the ways in which artists have embraced textiles to communicate multi-layered stories about lived experience. It addresses […]
Soulscapes explores our connection with the world around us through the eyes of artists from the African Diaspora. It considers the power of landscape art and reflects on themes of belonging, memory, joy and transformation. Artists include: Hurvin Anderson, Phoebe Boswell, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Kimathi Donkor, Isaac Julien, Marcia Michael, Mónica de Miranda and Alberta […]
Dreams Have No Titles is an immersive installation comprising film, sculpture, photography and performance. It interweaves the artist’s biography with activist films produced across France, Algeria and Italy in the 1960s and 1970s - a pivotal moment in the history of avant-garde film production. Dreams Have No Titles blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality, using […]
Spanning more than seven decades, the exhibition, Music of the Mind, focusses on key moments in Ono’s career, including her years in London from 1966 to 1971. The show explores some of Ono’s most talked about artworks and performances, from Cut Piece (1964), where people were invited to cut off her clothing, to her banned Film No.4 (Bottoms) (1966-67) […]
Maybe my fairy-tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that’s OK., is the title of an exhibition by Ruby Dickson. The exhibition relies on a simple premise: a series of human-sized paintings representing Kim Kardashian being captured by paparazzi.
Monica Alcázar-Duarte examines western society's obsession with speed, expansion and resource accumulation at a time when ecological disaster looms. She raises critical questions - where does knowledge lie? Who and what is classified?- joining together the threads of dissociated knowledge systems, as displayed in her exhibition, Digital Clouds Don't Carry Rain.
In this exhibition, I Kept the Money for Myself, Kaye Donachie merges Münter’s symbolism with the short fiction of British writer Virginia Woolf, The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection, published in Harper’s, December 1929. The juxtaposition and conflict between perception and reality is the underlying theme in the story, which describes images reflected in […]
As Feeling Births Idea, is a group show featuring - Virginia Chihota, Rita Alaoui, Ranti Bam, Euridice Zaituna Kala, Paula Do Prado, and Wura-Natasha Ogunji. The exhibition gathers together a reflection on each artist's poetics of interiority and engagement: the phenomena, live, or recollected encounters that inform and shape the featured works in the show.
The exhibition, The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, showcases the work of contemporary artists from the African diaspora, including Michael Armitage, Lubaina Himid, Kerry James Marshall, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Amy Sherald; and highlights the use of figures to illuminate the richness and complexity of Black life. In addition, the exhibition […]
Thea Djordjadze creates sculptures and installations of singular, idiosyncratic poetry. Her works are suffused with multiple art-historical references, while at the same time they respond to the particular conditions of the exhibition setting. The fragile, process-driven character of the artist’s practice dissolves the notion of the artwork as a fixed entity. Her sculptures and installations […]
Cristina de Miguel's art is fun and friendly. It is also uncanny, just different enough to perplex, but possessing of a certain effect and affect that demands some explanation as to a how and why. The essence of her process is embodied in the fluidity of surface and form, a way of mixing paint, gesture […]
Mineral Lick, is the exhibition of Saskia Noor van Imhoff, who examines systems, hierarchical structures, and ideas about collecting in her work. In recent years, she has expanded her focus beyond the institutional framework towards an outdoor space, acquiring a plot of rural farmland on the northern coast of the Netherlands.
Obscured still lifes and veiled canvases beg patience and proximity in “Shallow Invitations.” With the title, Danielle Fretwell chooses “shallow” to point to the objects of superficial value she has selected as subject matter, as well as the lack of depth in the work’s pictorial space.
Angelica Kauffman RA was one of the most celebrated artists of the 18th century. In this major exhibition, her trajectory is traced from child prodigy to one of Europe's most sought-after painters. This exhibition covers Kauffman’s life and work: her rise to fame in London, her role as a founding member of the Royal Academy […]