CURRENT EXHIBITS [202]

… (The Collaboration Paintings are) a physical conversation happening in paint instead of words. The sense of humor, the snide remarks, the profound realizations, the simple chit-chat all happened with paint and brushes…There was a sense that one was watching something being unveiled and discovered for the first time.— Keith Haring To coincide with the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in Lond...   [more]

Opening: June 19th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

In an effort to ripple the smooth surface of the quotidian, The Impossible Heap brings together a selection of artists who vehemently address complexities at play in systems of control. The exhibition features new work that revisits traditional mediums through experimental processes: painting, sculpture, drawing, assemblage, collage, performance, video, and a wide range of activities are reconside...   [more]

Opening: July 18th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, Gimpel Fils are holding an exhibition of Albert Irvin's paintings. Irvin has chosen Fidelio as the title, for a number of reasons. There is his fidelity to abstraction, a consistent abstraction in which, over the decades, the artist has been careful to eschew figuration in any form. A S Byatt observed in a text on the artist, 'It is art about experiencing the w...   [more]

Opening: July 26th, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Garden of Reason is an exciting contemporary art exhibition taking place at Ham House and Garden from 28 April to 23 September.  A new perspective The garden was established in 1670, which was a time of great change and innovation in science and the arts. We've been inspired in the title of the exhibition by what's often known as the ‘Age of Reason’. The artists will install works that inte...   [more]

Opening: April 25th, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Haunch of Venison presents the first UK solo exhibition of American artist Nancy Holt Nancy Holt is one of the leading artists of her generation and a pioneer in site-specific art and film and video work. She is one of a group of important international artists who initiated the Land art movement in the late 1960s. This exhibition will include over one hundred photographs from 1967 onwards, many se...   [more]

This exhibition shows a series of photographs of equestrian statues from around the world. Each statue is shown paired with another in a relation that suggests their being bartered and exchanged. The idea comes from the historical term ‘under cartel’ which was a written or verbal protocol regarding the status of exchanged prisoners of war or hostages. Rather than people, Patterson’s propo...   [more]

Invisible Art will bring together works from the past half century that explore ideas related to the invisible and the hidden, including work by some of the most important artists of our time as well as younger artists who have expanded on their legacy. From Yves Klein's utopian plans for an "architecture of air" to Robert Barry’s Energy Field (AM 130 KHz) piece from 1968 —which encourages a height...   [more]

Opening: June 12th, 2012   10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

For his first solo exhibition in the UK, Korean artist Kim Beom presents a series of works that wryly and unpredictably engage with the subject of education. Working in a deliberately low-fi style and using a variety of media including drawing, video and sculptural installations, Kim inverts cultural norms by placing objects, animals and viewers in absurd situations, and turning conventional role...   [more]

Opening: September 10th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Enter If You Dare... Travel back 250 million years, and discover some of the most iconic and awe inspiring creatures to walk the Earth. Come face to face with the skull of the ferocious Tyrannosaurus Rex, witness the strength of the Stegosaurus' armour plating and be astonished by the Triceratops' three horned might. Featuring amazing life-size dinosaurs, real and replica fossils and holographic v...   [more]

Opening: July 21st, 2012   10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Be enthralled by the Monsters of the Deep… This unique CGI prehistoric aquarium shows the reptiles that swam the Earth's seas millions of years ago as the dinosaurs roamed the land. Take a tour of some of these amazing creatures including plesiosaurs, pliosaurs, marine crocodiles and icthyosaurs, and the remarkable underwater world they inhabited.    Early Years Activity Space Explore the...   [more]

Opening: July 21st, 2012   10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Qvist Gallery, Hunterian Museum. Open Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm.  The Hunterian Museum has worked with the Medical Artists’ Association of Great Britain to generate new artworks that explore the anatomy and physiology of elite athletics. Ranging across different media and sporting disciplines, the artists illustrate the key role played by sports and exercise medicine, and surgery in particular....   [more]

Opening: March 13th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Anatomical models of the human body have been used to educate and entertain since the late seventeenth century. Artists created écorchés, anatomical studies of flayed men, to study the action of muscles. Midwives made leather and wood “obstetric phantoms” to provide hands-on training for assisted births. Clean and sanitised, wax models were valuable tools for social improvement and public ed...   [more]

Opening: March 13th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Art Cases, Hunterian Museum. Open Tues-Sat 10am-5pm The museum’s stored collections include specimens and images of extinct and endangered animals. This temporary exhibition will display the remains of prehistoric giants, such as the impressive woolly mammoth, and the immense Megalodon shark, alongside creatures lost only a few decades ago, including the Tasmanian tiger. ‘Extinct’ raises ques...   [more]

Opening: March 13th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM