Mona Hatoum’s work reflects on subjects that arise from our current global condition, including systems of confinement, the architecture of surveillance and themes of mobility and conflict. Channelling the poetic charge and metaphoric resonance of a wide range of materials from steel, brick and concrete, to rubble, glass and human hair, in this exhibition, Remains […]
This exhibition by Harmony Hammond. features early and recent works, ranging in date from 1971 to 2019. As artist, curator, author and activist, Hammond was a pivotal figure in the feminist art movement in New York during the 1970s. Her early work combined gender politics with both a minimal and post-minimal understanding of materials and […]
This show celebrates the humanity and enduring impact of one of the most influential 20th-century printmakers – Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945). Notable for the emotional power of her drawing, printmaking and […]
Join us to celebrate the sixth Women to Watch programme, this year featuring female artists who focus on paper as a means of expression. The Women to Watch exhibition series features emerging or underrepresented artists from the states and countries in which NMWA has outreach committees. From illustrative to sculptural, this year’s exhibition explores paper […]
Details TBC but save the date for a very special opportunity to meet the artists over dinner in a private home in South Kensington after the Vernissage at Sotheby's. This key note event for UK Friends of NMWA will help us to defray the costs of mounting the show, and sending the British artist selected […]
A fascinating selection from Lessing’s extensive personal archive, is displayed for the first time, giving unprecedented insight into Doris Lessing’s life. The exhibition uses visual art and objects, alongside private correspondence and working papers, to explore the unfamiliar or forgotten aspects of Lessing’s life as well as iconic works that shaped her legacy. This exhibition […]
Start the day with UK Friends of NMWA and Women to Watch: Paper Work. We open the exhibition with a guided walk-through of the exhibition with one of our curators. Details TBC.
Joanna Rajkowska has produced a series of photographs, Avant-garde for Insects, which offers a different context for reflections on the environment and post-human nature. They show six rooms of an insect-house, where insects are exposed to the classics of the Avant-garde in an old doll's house. It is a long term project to observe how the insects […]
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami left her homeland (Zimbabwe) at the age of nine amidst political turmoil. Drawing on personal experiences of geographical dislocation and displacement, her intensely pigmented paintings combine visual fragments from a myriad of sources such as online images and haunting family photographs, which collapse past and present into bold afro-futuristic visions.
Concrete Shadows is an exhibition of new large-scale paintings by Rebecca Harper. These new works, build and expand on themes that Harper has explored throughout her career. The five works exhibited explore ideas of transience, displacement and nostalgia. Harper is interested in how we interact with the world around us, specifically connected to the ideas of displacement and […]
Dayanita Singh's art uses photography to reflect and expand on the ways in which we relate to photographic images. Her recent works, drawn from her extensive photographic oeuvre, are a series of mobile museums that allow her images to be endlessly edited, sequenced, archived and displayed. Based on her interest in the archive, Singh's […]
Beast Type Song is a new film exploring the erasure and revision of identities and histories past and future. The work features performances by Yumna Marwan, Elizabeth Peace and boychild, and by Al-Maria herself. Each one is cast against the science fiction backdrop of a solar battle, as evoked by Etel Adnan in her 1989 war poem, The […]
From Where I Stand is the first UK museum show of artist Otobong Nkanga, whose practice spans tapestry, drawing, photography, installation, video and performance. The exhibition explores the politics of land and its relationship to the body, and histories of land acquisition and ownership. It features new works created especially for the Tate St Ives exhibition, […]
Peggy Guggenheim and London, is intended as an anniversary celebration of Guggenheim as one of the first female gallerists in London and showcases her parallel collecting interests in Abstraction and Surrealism through a display of works by Jean (Hans) Arp and Yves Tanguy.
With simple materials like clay, paper and ink Anna Maria Maiolino constructs a fascinating world rooted in human conditions such as longing, fragility and resistance. In this first retrospective in the UK, which spans six decades of work, her oeuvre, Making Love Revolutionary gives form to her experience of exile, deprivation and survival under authoritarian and patriarchal regimes.
Three artists explore materiality and the passage of time in Hackney's Oldest Building. Anne Krinsky, Carol Wyss and Susan Eyre present an exhibition of site-specific works in response to the history and architecture of Saint Augustine’s Tower. Through their respective interests in the land, the body and the cosmos, Krinsky, Wyss and Eyre explore relationships between time and materiality. […]
‘Tomaso Binga’ is the artistic pseudonym of Bianca Pucciarelli Menna, which was adopted by the artist in the early 1970s. Working with poetry, writing, performance, collage and painting, Binga dissects and challenges the gendered nature of language – exposing patriarchy encrypted within its very structure. The paradoxical act of appropriating a masculine name allowed the artist […]
In celebration of fifty years of the Zandra Rhodes’ label, the Fashion and Textile Museum presents Zandra Rhodes: 50 Years of Fabulous. This retrospective will highlight more than 50 key […]
An exhibition entitled, American Birds (Endangered, Extinct, After Audubon), by Ann Craven.
This retrospective exhibition, I am a Wanderer, organised in close collaboration with the artist, focusses on three distinctive areas of Kiki Smith’s practice: small sculptures created from the mid-1980s to present day; a selection from her printmaking, and the intricate Jacquard tapestries produced since 2012. Kiki Smith, Sky, 2012. Jacquard tapestry ©Kiki Smith. Courtesy Timothy Taylor, […]