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 between herself and her community, she tests her belief that to learn to be oneself, one always needs others. The film has been shot on […]
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 shown here for the first time in the UK. Catherine is considered to be one of the leading photographers of her generation and one of […]
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 […]
In Stones of Peace we encounter and experience various aspects of Sheila Hicks’ practice, from densely woven linen panels to soft sculptures and large scale Boules of intertwined yarns. While creating the show, she referred to works in progress as ‘slivers of sentiment, slumbering on the doorstep’. Through her limitless inquiry, we encounter a cacophony of colour, texture […]
Sherrie Levine’s work engages many of the core tenets of postmodern art, in particular challenging notions of originality, authenticity, and identity. Levine rose to prominence as a member of the Pictures Generation, a group of artists centered in New York in the late 1970s and 1980s whose work examined the structures of signification underlying mass-circulated […]
Juliana Cerqueira Leite’s exhibition Bloom includes new sculpture, photo-collage and video that explore the steady stream of recent online news that focuses on humanitarian crises. These works examine the gesticulations of individual subjects interviewed by the news as representatives of a certain crisis: a refugee, a soldier, a doctor or aid worker. Gesticulations by politicians […]
Andromedan Sad Girl is the first major collaborative exhibition by artists Florence Peake and Tai Shani. Drawing on their research into structures of feminism, their immersive installation is an imagining of what a pre or post patriarchal site could be. Peake and Shani are interested in exploring the fluid mythologies and imagined futures of lost civilizations. […]
The pieces selected by Lubaina Himid are all by women artists, and occupies one room within the gallery. At the centre of this display is her 1987 series of watercolour drawings, ‘Scenes from the life of Toussaint L’Overture’, about the former slave who led the Haitian revolution. The meticulous detail within this series, and its […]
This landmark exhibition explores the life and work of May Morris, the younger daughter of William Morris and one of the most significant artists of the British Arts and Crafts movement. May Morris: Art & Life is the most comprehensive survey of May’s work to date, bringing together over 80 works from collections around the UK, many […]
An exhibition of Annabel McCourt’s bold, visceral installation Electric Fence. Created in collaboration with interactive audio and technology specialists Interact and Connect, this thought-provoking and confrontational piece encourages viewers to examine the perceptions, challenges and preconceptions that impact us all in modern life, and compels us to turn to face them. Inspired by homophobic hate speech and resonating […]