Joanna Piotrowska presents Untitled (2017) — a situation in which men and women feed each other for the duration of the exhibition. Piotrowska’s Untitled continues with themes found in her wider practice including the examination of human condition through performative acts, and the constructing of multiple ‘social landscapes’ using photography, usually in black and white format. From family archives, self-defence manuals, […]
Before the installation of her work Timely Tale, Natasha Caruana talks to us about working with 360° film, and how her work relates to the HOUSE Biennial 2017 theme of Excess. The lens-based work, Timely Tale, is set against a backdrop of love, desire and health in the age of Excess – the theme for this year’s festival. Through the vehicle […]
Picture Lake is the first UK exhibition by American artist Cynthia Daignault, and the inaugural show in our new Vauxhall gallery. In 2015, Daignault traveled around the entire circumference of America, stopping every 25 miles to paint the scene before her. The resulting work, Light Atlas, became an epic of 360 painted scenes. Here, in her […]
This exhibition, Unfolded is the first occasion Grace Weir’s recent films and installation works are being shown in London. The filmic processes Grace Weir employs take us on journeys where we witness unfolding contingencies; how her source material leads research and the decisions ensuing from these encounters with specifics; thinkers, locations, theories, archives, and objects. As […]
‘Turning Air Blue’ extends through two galleries and doubles as an organic continuation of Somerset’s rural setting. Rita Ackerman's exhibition starts in the Rhoades gallery, which features a body of work titled The Coronation and Massacre of Love. The paintings are large-scale compositions on canvas primed with chalkboard paint, on which washes of white chalk and […]
Turning Air Blue is an exhibition of new works by Hungarian born, New York-based artist Rita Ackermann. It extends through two galleries and doubles as an organic continuation of Somerset’s rural setting. The Rhoades gallery features a body of work titled ‘The Coronation and Massacre of Love’ that are large-scale compositions on canvas primed with […]
Mehreen Murtaza will fill Manchester Art Gallery’s ground floor gallery with living plants for a new work exploring plant communication and consciousness. Through in-depth research, Murtaza has developed a unique […]
Neha Choksi sets up simple yet memorable situations to create poetic, absurd and psychologically engaging works. Her new multi-channel film installation features the artist and her friends. Exploring the relationship […]
A rare opportunity to see Dame Paula Rego's preparatory drawings for her paintings, providing an insight into her remarkable draughtsmanship and the development of her ideas. The exhibition, The Sketchbooks draws largely from sketchbooks from the 1980s and 90s, including studies for some of her most famous works and provides a new understanding of the work […]
An exhibition of Jessi Reaves work at Frieze.
Explore the lives of three German princesses, whose marriage into the British royal family and wide-ranging interests placed them at the very heart of the enlightenment underway in 18th century Britain. From advocating the latest scientific and medical advancements to their involvement in charity work, each princess would subtly alter the role women played in the […]
In Softer, Jenny Holzer create new work that directly addresses our military and political history in relation to themes which have figured prominently in her practice since the 1980s: power, conflict and activism. Alongside many new works, the exhibition will use augmented reality to explore the potential of the virtual space via a dedicated app and will also […]
Please join us for a private tour of the renowned Deutsche Bank Art Collection at the firm’s offices in the City led by one of the collection's curators. We will see work by both emerging and famed artists such as that of Bridget Riley, Gillian Ayres, Laure Prouvost, Damien Hirst and Anish Kapoor. While walking […]
Pamela Kay NEAC RBA RWS ARCA is one of this country’s most highly regarded painters of flowers and still life. Her skill at capturing the transient glory of delicate blooms and the enduring beauty of simple everyday objects finds many excellent examples in this collection of her work. The show includes several interiors and garden views […]
In her many portrait series, Annie Kevans has always found new ways of presenting figures from the past, both the famous and the marginalised. From child stars to dictators, artists and the insane, Kevans imbues her subjects with a tangible humanity and sensuality. Her unusual portraits, which may or may not be based on historical […]
Martha Jungwirth’s painting process emerges from a combination of intuitive spontaneity and control of her aesthetic principles at the same time. This tension between the unconscious and the calculated, between gesture, form, trace and color, provides the environment for the artist not only to examine mirror images of her inner moods, but also the essential […]
Rivane Neuenschwander's unique practice draws on the history of Latin American conceptualism to investigate phenomena that lie just outside our collective field of vision. Each work begins with a particular cultural idea - a game, a religious offering or a childhood memory - that is then dissected and reborn in Neuenschwander's unique style. The works […]
Catherine Opie presents new work from her ongoing series Portraits and Landscapes. This, her most recent body of work, draws inspiration from Old Master European portraiture and historical landscape photography, and is […]
Naomi Hart has been travelling all her life and records her journeys in sketches and paintings exploring how myth and reality can coincide within the same landscape. From the forests of France to the deserts of Australia, the exhibition Some Far Off Magic Land conveys a sense of place and the mystery that we can […]
An exhibition of rare ballet and theatre designs by Dorothea Tanning, dating from 1945 through to 1961; this body of work has not been exhibited in Europe previously. The series of ink, gouache and watercolour works on paper shown in London feature over twenty costumes and two set designs. Exceeding their practical intention as instructions for […]