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Marie Neurath @ House of Illustration

House of Illustration , United Kingdom

Marie Neurath and her team at the Isotype Institute produced over 80 illustrated children’s books from 1944-1971 in a pioneering collaboration between researchers, artists and writers. Using infographics and illustrated diagrams to explain scientific concepts, Neurath’s books mark a defining moment in information design for children. The exhibition includes spreads and working materials from book […]

Lucy Jones @ Attenborough Arts Centre

Awkward Beauty is a Lucy Jones retrospective, spanning 25 years of work. For the first time her self-portraits, landscapes, and works on paper are exhibited together, offering a deep insight into Jones’ prolific and varied practice. Expressive colour, painterly brush work and bold simplicity distinguish her as one of the most significant British painters working today. Often […]

Dora Maurer @ Tate Modern

Tate Modern

An exhibition of the work of Hungarian artist Dóra Maurer , which brings together some 35 works, revealing the diversity of her output, including graphic works, photographs, films and paintings. Spanning more than five decades, the show highlights the playful conceptual approach that she brings to her experiments across all media.

Moyra Davey @ Greengrassi

Greengrassi Gallery

Moyra Davey is always aware of the inevitable end, she constructs a practice conscious of its own past and reliant on radical self-doubt. Her photographs, films, and essays cross-reference and depend on one another as she makes a subject of her own process and its intentions, fears, and failures.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye @ Corvi-Mora

Corvi-Mora 1a Kempsford Road (off Wincott St.), London, United Kingdom

"A Mind For Moonlight", is an exhibition of new work by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. The exhibition features a new group of paintings, including portraits and figures in landscapes. Her subjects, black men and women, are bold, often confronting the viewer; the works evoke a narrative that is up to the viewer to reconstruct.  

Candace Bahouth @ The Holburne Museum

The Holburne Museum, Bath

The Ballroom table’s Perspex box has been transformed by Candace Bahouth into a creative hot house - Box of Delights!  A riot of colour, pattern and mosaic, Candace takes the ordinary and reimagines it to create bizarre, surreal and fanciful objects.

Leonor Serrano Rivas @ Arcade

Arcade Fine Arts

Above the Eye Level is an exhibition of works in textile by Leonor Serrano Rivas.

Julie Cockburn @ Flowers Kingsland Rd

Flowers Gallery 82 Kingsland Road, London, United Kingdom

In the nineteenth century, long before the current era of fake news, Emily Dickinson wrote a meditation on truth in her poem Tell all the Truth but Tell it Slant. With a title alluding to the poem, this exhibition, Telling it Slant, of Julie Cockburn’s latest work similarly excavates authentic stories by circuitous means. Using a rich material language, […]

Mona Hatoum @ White Cube Bermondsey

White Cube, Bermondsey 144-152 Bermondsey Street, London, United Kingdom

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 […]

Harmony Hammond @ White Cube Bermondsey

White Cube, Bermondsey 144-152 Bermondsey Street, London, United Kingdom

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 […]

Kathe Kollwitz @ Mritish Museum

The British Museum

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 sculpture, the display explores the printed works of the socially-minded German artist through self-portraits and images of the poor and dispossessed.  

Women to Watch: Paper Work Vernissage

Sotheby's Gallery

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 […]

Women to Watch: Dinner with Artists

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 […]

Doris Lessing @ Sainsbury Art Centre

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

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 […]

Women to Watch: Paper Work — tour with curators

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 @ L’etrangere

L'etrangere

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 @ Gasworks

Gasworks 155 Vauxhall Street, London

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.  

Rebecca Harper @ Huxley Parlour

Huxley Parlour Gallery

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 @ Frith Street Gallery

Frith Street Gallery 17-18 Golden Square, London, United Kingdom

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 […]