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Jacqueline Poncelet’s, exhibition spans fifty years of work in, this, that and the other.  It brings together Poncelet’s early sculptural ceramics, large-scale drawings, and small paintings from the 1970-1980s, with recent watercolours, tracing a continuous dialogue between material, process, and pattern across diverse media.

Der letzte Tag ist der schlimmste (The Last Day is the Worst) presents new works by Martha Jungwirth. Known for a colour palette that dwells in a corporeal and sensuous register of pinks and reds, some of these latest works feature bold, bright yellows and turquoise hues.

In her exhibition, The Book of Flowers, Agnieszka Polska uses cinematic storytelling and affective technologies,  to address the perpetually negotiated relationship between human and technology. She examines the processes that mutually influence and legitimate this relationship in language, history and consciousness.

Nora Turato: Pool7 presents new work by the artist, spanning performance, writing, graphic design, video and sound. The installation investigates our collective relationship to language and communication.

J’Accuse…! is a new exhibition of sculpture by artist and designer Nicole Farhi.  The display includes 25 cast cement fondu busts, each hand painted with acrylic paint and depicting victims of miscarriages of justice across multiple countries around the world over the past 125 years. The exhibition portrays victims whose wrongful convictions have shaped legal history.

From Light, includes 18 new paintings created specifically for the gallery. The title reflects the centrality of light in both Watt’s work and that of Sir John Soane, the architect of Pitzhanger, in harnessing light to shape space and create atmosphere. For Watt, light is the ‘very substance of painting’, while for Soane, it defined the architecture of Pitzhanger.

Sue and Terry Atkinson’s exhibition combines drawings and paintings with a prescient relationship to current geopolitical events. The work of both artists have focussed on overtly radical subject matter since the 1960s, with the potency of their work becoming stronger over time.

Eunjo Lee is an artist and filmmaker, who works primarily with 3D experimental animation and video art. Within mesmeric digital realms, Lee’s work employs immersive world-building to construct ecological narratives that emphasise the interconnectedness of all beings.

Jaki Irvine works across video, installation, photography, music composition, and writing to explore the complex ways we imagine ourselves and the world around us. For Irvine, this process has both philosophical and political dimensions.  She weaves real events into films and videos that reflect on the fragmented, mysterious and often absurd nature of the human condition.

This group exhibition, A place for modernism, brings together five artists, whose work responds to the wide-ranging legacy of modernism. Rather than treat the movement as a closed historical episode, Josiah McElheny, Carrie Moyer, Hasani Sahlehe, Arlene Shechet and Dan Walsh view modernism as a perennial method that can be adapted to address the political and aesthetic questions of the present day.