remiQXing still, is an exhibition of video and physical works exploring the emerging field of quantum computing as both a subject and medium, by Libby Heaney. The gallery space is turned into the showroom of her fictional quantum computing company QX (Quantum eXperience). In this exhibition she continues her exploration of the possibilities of quantum computing […]
Our Bodies are Not the Problem, by Olivia Plender is based on historical research that analyses pedagogical methods and revolutionary, social, political, and educational movements mainly of the 19th and 20th centuries. She finds her sources in archives, as well as through collaborations with community groups, in order to make installations, videos, and comics that address the present, […]
An exhibition of new work by Jadé Fadojutimi whose large-scale paintings combine abstract and figurative elements in compositions that have intense graphic energy. At the heart of Fadojutimi’s work is an introspective mining of facets of her own identity and the social and cultural environments that shape them. Her paintings are typically made in bursts of energetic […]
Life is Still Life presents an exciting selection of modern and contemporary works by women artists in the genre of still life. The exhibition brings together works by 15 artists created between the 1940s and the present day in a range of mediums including painting, photography, video and ceramics. It features key works from The Women’s […]
Marlene Steyn’s work is concerned with the relationship between painting and psychoanalysis, exploring the formation of reality and of self. Each painting offers a deep dive into the psyche, bringing the viewer face to face with the other within. Steyn’s work encourages us to find the unfamiliar within ourselves and to challenge the boundaries of […]
Working from her garden studio in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, Samantha Bryan has produced a new body of work for her exhibition at YSP celebrating 20 years of making, The Adventure so Far. Known for creating distinctive figures, she has gained a worldwide cult following. For two decades Bryan has been making humorous yet industrious fairy-like creatures; […]
Carolee Schneemann (1939-2019): the exhibition 1955–1959 brings together significant nude figurative paintings and an early body of drawings, on view together for the first time. Made at a critical period of intellectual and artistic growth, the works demonstrate the importance of the act of drawing as action that would remain constant. This exhibition of early work runs alongside Body Politics — […]
In this exciting new installation, Linder brings together a series of objects alongside new and existing works to create a multi-sensory collage in dialogue with Duncan Grant and Charleston. A Dream Between Sleeping and Waking is how Linder interprets the landscape, history and mythology of Charleston. The surreal, dream-like installation is the artist’s homage to […]
This Retrospective highlights the abstract sculptures of Maria Bartuszová, who created around 500 sculptures, from small organic forms to commissions for public spaces, as well as works in the landscape, despite restrictions on her artistic life during this period. The exhibition starts in the 1960s, when Bartuszová experimented using her own distinctive method of casting plaster […]
Zadie Xa presents a new body of work commissioned by the Gallery, House Gods, Animal Guides and Five Ways 2 Forgiveness. It is an ambitious installation created by Xa, where sculptures, textiles and paintings act as ‘tricksters’ and ‘shapeshifters’ in and amongst a large-scale fabric structure that is inspired by a traditional Korean home known […]
Keisha Scarville’s exhibition, Hot/Slow/Step, turns conceptually on the Caribbean limbo dance as a symbol of thresholds, the liminal, and the in between, through both abstract photography and sculpture. Using both narrative frameworks and archival material, the exhibition explores black subjectivity through metaphors of movement, negotiation and exchange.
Nettle Grellier's exhibition, She Always Does Have a Good Time, considers feral womanhood through several semi-autobiographical motifs: disobedient dogs, soft bodies, and disquieting, gossiping subjects. The exhibition uses references across high and low culture to delight in unashamedly slovenly, feral, and unpredictable womanhood.
Joy Revision, is an exhibition of work by Andra Ursuţa. The exhibition debuts new photograms and lead crystal sculptures that stem from a premodern conception of art as an essential tool to deal with mortality, loss, and grief. Ursuţa’s photograms, which have been a core element of her practice for many years, engage with the history […]
Avatar II is an exhibition of new works by Anne Imhof, which range from large scale aluminium panels, drawings and paintings to film and sound works that interweave notions of reality and artifice, presence and absence, exposure and concealment.
LuYang’s work destabilises the divisions between past and future, human and machine, and life and death, reflected in the title of the exhibition, which incorporates the Sanskrit expression ‘Neti Neti’, meaning “not this, not that”, or “neither this, nor that”. Immersed in the cultures of anime, video games and sci-fi, the artist’s wildly engaging and […]
This exhibition features Olga de Amaral’s characteristic intertwined surfaces of linen or another base material warp, which is then encrusted in gesso and even adorned with gold leaf or palladium, transforming the simplest of supports into shimmering walls of indeterminate, alchemical matter. A centrepiece of the presentation is a cascading installation of layered polyurethane entitled Luz […]
Dancers & Goddesses, is an exhibition, which represents the Estate of Nancy Spero (1926–2009). It focusses on a particularly productive time for the artist, 1984–96, Dancers & Goddesses shows the dynamic range of Spero’s ‘pantheon’ of figures, including athletes, mourners, dancers and goddesses.
Focusing on portraiture, interiors and landscapes, the show brings together a group of new paintings that Anne Rothenstein created in the last two years. Rothenstein’s enigmatic paintings are characterised by a dreamlike quality. Mysterious figures populate flattened landscapes and interiors. Her protagonists, often androgynous and vulnerable, provide intriguing subtle suggestions of narratives. Drawing inspiration from found […]
Focusing on her local neighbourhood in West London, Caroline Coon's exhibition, Love of Place, brings together a selection of the artist’s ‘Urban Landscapes’ made over the past twenty-five years. Scenes of everyday life depicting roadways, social housing and canals, shoppers and pram-pushing mothers, are peppered with subtle allusions to the city’s darker underbelly.
Heather Agyepong’s ego death is a project inspired by psychiatrist Carl Jung’s concept of ‘The Shadow’. According to Jung, the shadow is composed of aspects of one’s personality deemed inappropriate, that have […]