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 looks, as well as 30 original textiles. This comprehensive exhibition will explore five decades of the distinguished career of a British design legend.  

An exhibition entitled, American Birds (Endangered, Extinct, After Audubon), by Ann Craven.

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 cultures.  

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. […]

Faye Wei Wei’s exhibition- ‘I Have Always Been A Weeper At The Cinema’, features a new suite of paintings, created over a summer in Berlin. Filled with iconography and steeped in the romanticism that Wei Wei’s paintings have become known for, the new works are inspired by seduction and the experience of love, personal memory and, more […]

The Queen of the Circus is an exhibition of works by Betty Parsons (1900 - 1982), one of the most influential and dynamic figures of the American avantgarde. The paintings and sculptures Parsons produced during her six-decade career formed part of a rigorous and experimental artistic practice that centred on abstraction and drew on diverse sources, from […]

Tschabalala Self’s new series, Street Scenes, pays homage to the energy of the city, from the frenetic visual culture of bodegas to the communal experience of waiting at a bus stop. These large-scale printed, painted, and collage works create a cityscape that brings the vibrancy and energy of Harlem into focus. Growing up nearby and […]

Claire Tabouret is acclaimed for her figurative painting representing groups and characters, which may recall those of Romantic painting. The tonalities adopted by Tabouret are sometimes dark and sometimes acidic, making her practice unique. For this exhibition, Claire Tabouret returns to portraiture. Depicting her relatives and friends’ figures, the canvases are tainted with personal experience, […]

Fons Americanus is a 13-metre tall working fountain inspired by the Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace, London. Rather than a celebration of the British Empire, Kara Walker’s fountain explores the interconnected histories of Africa, America and Europe. She uses water as a key theme, referring to the transatlantic slave trade and the ambitions, fates […]

This exhibition is the work of two separate solo projects by Mamma Andersson and Tonico Lemos Auad at Frieze London. Both artists have produced new bodies of work especially for the fair. Auad has made a new series of geometric textiles that disrupt traditional modes of weaving, whilst Andersson has completed a small group of […]

Shani Rhys James is arguably the most exciting and successful Welsh artist of her generation and her considerable reputation, both in Wales and beyond, continues to grow apace. This latest exhibition, Sunflowers and Scissors, consists of approximately twenty-five new paintings, all executed in Shani’s bold style, with sumptuous colours and rich textures, confirming her painterly and […]

Coinciding with Camilla Løw’s forthcoming publication outdoors utendørs, the exhibition introduces the idea of transferral — outdoor sculpture elements within an enclosed space. The show title, Alfabet refers to the book by Danish poet Inger Christensen (1935 – 2009), where each chapter represents a single letter. With this system the artist follows a self-imposed order, simultaneously gaining […]

Elizabeth Peyton's Aire and Angels, explores the development of Peyton’s unique art from the 1990s to the present day.  She is one of the world’s leading contemporary artists and is internationally renowned.  Her work has been at the forefront of a re-evaluation of figurative art and the tradition of portrait painting since the 1990s. The exhibition includes […]

Mary Sibande presents a series of photographic and sculptural works exploring the power of imagination and constructive anger in shaping identities and personal narratives in a post-colonial world. I Came Apart at the Seams follows the transformative journey of Sibande’s avatar, Sophie. Taking form as a series of colourful human-scale sculptures modelled on Sibande herself, Sophie transgresses […]

Goshka Macuga’s practice focusses on studying the art of rhetoric and artifical memory as intricately linked tools for the organisation and advancement of knowledge.  She presents 18 new collages and a series of small woven tapestries.  The series attempts to systematize Macuga’s interest in different fields of knowledge, and create a method similar to computer programming […]