Brain Forest Quipu is the seventh annual Hyundai Commission for the Turbine Hall. The installation brings together different strands of Cecilia Vicuña’s practice: her use of found materials to create delicate […]
Kristy M Chan’s practice looks at the ways in which environments shape one’s identity. Previous series of work have seen the artist explore feelings of disorientation whilst existing between Eastern and Western cultures through kaleidoscopic colour fields and indistinct figures. Created this summer in London, the paintings in Binge mark a jump in Chan’s practice from the semi-figurative to total […]
Since 1999, Sonia Boyce’s Devotional project has worked in dialogue with the public to collectively gather the names and memorabilia of black British women in music. Just for the Record presents a series of new works that both extend this project and turn memorabilia into material through which ideas of appropriation, play and chance in the art- making process […]
In The World We Make, Amy Sherald humanises the Black experience by depicting her subjects in both historically recognisable and everyday settings, at once immortalising them and reinserting them into the art historical canon. Sherald proposes the idea that Black life and identity are not solely tethered to grappling publicly with social issues and that […]
Reverse Shot is an exhibition by Marwa Arsanios surveying her interdisciplinary practice. The exhibition reflects on colonial and ecological violence and the alternative possibilities in grassroots community resistance and a more harmonious relationship with the land.
Moneygame, combines portraits and photographs of the real and now of the strip world in the USA and captures the dancers’ beauty, playfulness and power. In a nod to the show’s title, by Elizabeth Waterman.
The exhibition focuses on Tanoa Sasraku’s, ' Terratypes', a recent body of work which draws on the artist’s personal and historical connection to the British landscape. Through this body of work, Sasraku continues her exploration of British geology and topography informed by her perspective as a bi-racial and lesbian artist, raised in the West Country.
Burcak Bingöl’s fragile clay objects are often broken or only partially fired and glazed, embracing mistakes and accidents that occur during the process of making. The action of rebuilding after such faults has become Bingöl’s metaphor for the continued disintegration and reconstruction of cultural traditions and heritage. Bingöl draws on the rich ceramic history of […]
A pioneer of abstract art in Britain, Helen Saunders (1885–1963) was one of only two women to join the Vorticists, the radical but short-lived art movement that emerged in London on the eve of the First World War. Saunders will be celebrated in a new monographic exhibition, the first devoted to her work in over 25 […]
Contact Prints, is an exhibition by surrealist photographer, Dora Maar. Taken throughout the 1930s, the works in the exhibition provide an intimate encounter with Maar’s early photographic interests and her preoccupation with the subtle and uncanny. The exhibition anticipates her later foray into surrealism for which she is renowned today. Contact Prints is testament to her position […]
Gatherer, is an exhibition of work by Catherine Repko. Using an emphasis on reduced forms and negative space, Repko explores the intersection between documentary and painting, memory and obfuscation, to create nostalgic and painterly tableaux. The exhibition title, Gatherer, references the archaic practice of gathering as a framework through which to understand practices of care, worldbuilding, […]
An exhibition of contact prints by surrealist photographer, Dora Maar. Taken throughout the 1930s, the works in the exhibition provide an intimate encounter with Maar’s early photographic interests and her preoccupation with the subtle and uncanny. The exhibition anticipates her later foray into surrealism for which she is renowned today.
This exhibition looks at the ways in which artists have used a range of printmaking processes from centuries-old methods to digital technologies to produce very different images. It is the first in a series of print exhibitions that will take a closer look at the connection between craft and printmaking. The Print Studio presents both established […]
Shelf Life, a selection of works exploring the theme of still lives curated by Jessica Draper and including works by Oda Iselin Sønderland, Taylor Simmons, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Aubrey Levinthal, Nada Elkalaawy, Igor Moritz, Ryan Flores, Nick Farhi, Wolfgang Tillmans, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Julie Curtiss, Karyn Lyons, Shannon Cartier Lucy, Anna Freeman Bentley, Esme Hodsoll and Mia […]
Holmes’ practice currently revolves around a set of ‘Contradictions and Notes on Painting’: a list of thoughts on, and rules for, painting. This forms the basis of Holmes’ current show.
Proper Time, an exhibition of new work by Margarita Gluzberg. Taking the form of a series of large-scale drawings, the works feature spheres rendered in pastel and coloured pencil that seem to sit lightly upon the raw canvas ground; yet this ethereal appearance belies the long labour and physical effort of their making.
Reena Saini Kallat’s exhibition Common Ground, is a carefully woven tapestry of themes, investigating notions of borders, migration, inequity and citizenship. In Kallat’s powerful work maps, rubber-stamps, flags and the constitutions of nations become tools to address political and social boundaries and global inequalities.
A major survey of photographer Hannah Starkey, which traces the development of her work across two decades. Throughout her career, Starkey’s meticulously choreographed photographs have determinedly engaged with how women […]
An exhibition of work by the four artists nominated for the Turner Prize 2022: Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan and Sin Wai Kin. Heather Phillipson presents RUPTURE NO 6, which conjures up what she calls ‘a maladapted ecosystem, an insistent atmosphere.’ Charged with colour, video and kinetic sculpture, and augmented with a brand-new audio composition;’ […]
‘Discover Manet and Eva Gonzalès’ is the first in a series of exhibitions that look at a single painting from fresh and unexpected perspectives. Eva Gonzales (1847–1883), the daughter of a prominent writer, entered Manet’s studio in 1869, at the age of 22. This exhibition is a chance to find out more about her; her […]