CURRENT EXHIBITS [182]

BISCHOFF/WEISS is pleased to present Century Entropy, an exhibition of new work by Shannon Finley on view from May 22 - June 30, 2012. The artist's first solo exhibition at the gallery features a series of acrylic on canvas paintings. Through an intensive process, Finley applies numerous, translucent layers of acrylic paint and industrial polymers onto canvas with specially designed palette knives. T...   [more]

Opening: May 22nd, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

For his inaugural exhibition with Blain|Southern, Exit From the House of Being, Michael Joo has created a series of new sculptural works which aim to challenge and reformulate our understanding of space. Bringing together three groups of works so that they exist in dialogue, each engages the viewer in an assessment of spatial territory, referring to social, natural and personal boundaries. The wa...   [more]

Opening: April 24th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

This spring, New York-based artist Zoe Leonard (b. 1961, New York) transforms Gallery 3 into a camera obscura. Daylight filters-in through a lens, projecting an image of the world outside onto the floor, walls and ceiling, creating a spatially immersive experience. Alongside this, Gallery 1 is filled with a new series of photographs of the sun and in Gallery 2 there is an installation of found pos...   [more]

Opening: March 31st, 2012   4:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Rachael Champion takes up residency in the Artists' Studio later in April, working in response to Zoe Leonard's exhibition and the garden spaces. Champion's practice is based around large scale constructions and architectural interventions, typically fabricated environments which convey humanity's shifting and uncertain relationship with technology and the natural world. There will be a series of op...   [more]

CHELSEA space presents a rare opportunity to see the painted plywood furniture of renowned architect and interior designer Max Clendinning. Born in 1924 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, Clendinning’s designs, painted in flat, occasionally bright, gloss colours are highly original, enigmatic, and difficult to classify and have been variously described as ‘Postmodernist’, ‘Pop’ or ‘Late...   [more]

Opening: May 15th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Opening: April 26th, 2012   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

The Design Museum’s Design Awards, ‘the Oscars of the design world’, showcase the most innovative and progressive designs from around the world, spanning seven categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Product and Transport. A high profile judging panel will decide the best entries in each of the seven categories. Category award winners and the overall winner of the Design of...   [more]

Opening: February 8th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:45 PM

The Design Museum presents the first UK retrospective of iconic French shoe designer Christian Louboutin, celebrating a career which has pushed the boundaries of high fashion shoe design. This exhibition celebrates Louboutin’s career to date and showcases twenty years of designs and inspiration, revealing the artistry and theatricality of his shoe design from stilettos to lace-up boots, studded sneakers...   [more]

Opening: May 1st, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:45 PM

Mushrooms are essential – without them ground is not fertile and plants don't grow. Mushrooms are ephemeral – some species even grow over night silently and unseen only to disappear the next day in the rain. The Fairy Inkcap Coprinus Disseminatus, sometimes called the Trouping Inkcap or Trooping Crumble Cap, is a species that forms dense masses on rotting tree stumps and roots. These gregarious...   [more]

Opening: April 27th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Gallery closed during Diamond JubileeDue to unforseen circumstances the gallery will not be open on Saturday 2nd June. As planned the gallery will also be closed on Monday 4 & Tuesday 5 June, reopening on Wednesday 6 June.  Graphology considers the range of graphic devices, used by artists working across the disciplines of film, photography, painting and sculpture, to mediate direct experience. ...   [more]

Opening: May 9th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

I’m always interested in how humans shape the landscape. All my work is really about the pristine landscape being pushed back as a result of the expanding human footprint. And I kept thinking of farming as one of the largest terraforming events that humans have exercised on the planet. Edward Burtynsky Edward Burtynsky’s latest series Dryland Farming depicts the agricultural region of Monegros...   [more]

Julie Cockburn’s embellishment of found paintings and photographs by embroidering, painting and reassembling, delivers the images out of redundancy into a meaningful present. The very stuff of Portraits and Landscapes is, indeed, portraits and landscapes. Hand-tinted studio portraits of the 50s show the persistence of lives recorded in an instant: a mother and daughter, the vignetted emanation o...   [more]

Opening: May 22nd, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

In After the New Man, Dana Popa revisits her homeland, Romania, and the generation who were born just before or after the fall of the communist regime. This body of work is an intimate portrayal of youth and the fleeting memories of a bygone era that still permeate the individuals and landscape.Traces of Popa’s own childhood pervade not only through the blocks of flats and the cars from another era, but in t...   [more]

Opening: April 26th, 2012   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

The Freud Museum London is delighted to announce an exhibition of works by Louise Bourgeois. Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed will show original documents from the artist’s recently discovered psychoanalytic writings, as well as drawings and sculptures, in the house of the founding father of psychoanalysis. Following its first showing in Latin America, the exhibition has been re-imag...   [more]

Frith Street Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of sculpture and works on Paper by Juan Muñoz. Juan Muñoz (1953 -2001) came to international prominence in the mid-1980s with sculptural installations that placed the figure in architectural environments. He described himself as a storyteller, and often arranged his figures and objects in carefully staged configurations that hint at unse...   [more]

Opening: April 24th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Robert Adams (1917-1984) rose to prominence in the 1960's. He lived in London before moving to Saint Ives until his final years, when he lived in an isolated cottage near Great Maplestead in Essex.  During his lifetime he received numerous international commissions, including a large relief for the new Gelsenkirchen theatre in Germany in 1959, where he worked alongside Yves Klein, another recipi...   [more]

Opening: April 26th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM