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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Renee So’s exhibition is comprised of an entirely new body of work. It includes hand-woven textiles, furniture, and ceramic works that refer to representations of the female figure in prehistoric […]
Markéta Luskačová celebrates in the exhibition of her ‘By the Sea: Photographs from the North East, 1976-1980’.
Sara Shamma: Modern Slavery draws attention to this pressing global issue through a new series of large-scale portraits by London-based Syrian artist. After becoming aware of the display and sale of women and girls in slave markets in Syria and Iraq, Shamma was moved to explore and draw attention to the psychological impact of modern slavery. […]