CURRENT EXHIBITS [175]

Phoebe Cummings has been awarded the second Camden Arts Centre Ceramics Fellowship. The Fellowship supports artists extending the possibilities of working with clay. It offers space and resources to research, develop and produce new work while engaging in discussions around contemporary ceramics. Cummings creates sculptural installations which change over time. She approaches clay as a sculptura...   [more]

CHARLIE SMITH london is pleased to announce its second edition of the annual juried exhibition Anthology, in association with Winsor & Newton, suppliers of the world’s finest artists’ materials; re-title.com, the international directory service for contemporary artists and galleries; WelcomeToCOMPANY, the website for collectors by collectors; Spoonfed, the ultimate guide to what's on in London; and The...   [more]

Opening: August 3rd, 2012   11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Chelsea Futurespace is delighted to present 8 + 1 = 16, an exhibition that examines approaches to painting, image, narrative, abstraction, materials, and modes of display.   For this exhibition eight artists (8) were invited to each show a single work alongside a series of paintings by artist/exhibition maker Donald Smith (1) to create eight pairs (16). As the viewer goes from wall to wall Smith�...   [more]

Opening: June 26th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

In asking, “who is listening?” you are at first conscious of the question as well as the sound. When the questioning penetrates deeper, you cease to be aware of it. So when a bell rings it is only the bell listening to the sound of the bell. Or to put it another way, it is the sound of yourself ringing. From: Kapleau, P. (1965) The Three Pillars of Zen. In many Oriental cultures, the bowl is...   [more]

Slow Boat: Summer 2012 is a major national collaboration between Chisenhale Gallery and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham in partnership with the Canal & Rivers Trust. Slow Boat is a converted canal boat that acts as a catalyst for young people (aged 15-20 years) to produce and present their own work, as well as that of other artists. Travelling at an average speed of four miles an hour the journey al...   [more]

Opening: August 2nd, 2012   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Designed to Win celebrates the ways in which design and sport are combined, pushing the limits of human endeavour to achieve records and victories of increasing significance and wonder. From the design of F1 cars to running shoes, racing bikes to carbon fibre javelins, the quest for enhanced performance and function is endless. Coinciding with London's biggest year of sport, Designed to Win explo...   [more]

Opening: July 26th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:45 PM

“I noticed a lightness that moved me. It probably was how things were, myself included, all of us transparent in the cadence of the world.” (Gottfried, Benn. Primal Vision. New York: New Directions Publishing, 1971) Faggionato Fine Arts is pleased to announce White River, the second London exhibition of works by Italo-American artist Tristano di Robilant. The exhibition will present 8 new glass sculptures and...   [more]

Opening: July 11th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Uncommon Ground is an exploration of environmental interventions in contemporary photography. Inspired by the work of Keith Arnatt and Gabriel Orozco, this exhibition aims to obscure the intersection between photographs of observed reality and artistically altered reality. Here, environment is taken in its broadest sense: natural ecosystems, urban and suburban space, domestic interiors, industrial lands...   [more]

Opening: July 11th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The Foto8 Summershow is London’s greatest photographic spectacle, a veritable ‘salon de photographie’ – an inspiring array of framed and mounted images of all shapes and sizes, installed from floor to ceiling. London’s prestigious FOTO8 Gallery is the setting for the fifith annual Summershow which will features 159 framed photographs, selected from some 3200 entries spanning over 30 countries. Th...   [more]

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

Psychoanalysis and jazz were both born at the end of the nineteenth century, though under very different circumstances. Their founding fathers were respectively Sigismund Schlomo Freud (1856-1939), a doctor and medical researcher in Vienna, and Ferdinand ‘Jelly Roll’ Morton (1885-1941), a Creole musician who had honed his musical skills playing in the brothels of New Orleans. Whilst Freud nev...   [more]

Opening: June 29th, 2012   12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Frith Street Gallery is please to present a group exhibition evoking ideas of stillness and cinematic space by painters rarely seen in London.    CREATING AND DESTROYING PAINTINGS / The paintings of Secundino Hernández (b 1975, Spain) show the relationship between life as it is lived and as it is painted. The attempt to link both in a complete, human piece is at the core of his work – a n...   [more]

Everything I do, I intend to make on a large scale... Size itself has its own impact, and physically we can relate ourselves more strongly to a big sculpture than to a small one.—Henry Moore Gagosian Gallery, in collaboration with The Henry Moore Foundation, is pleased to present a major exhibition of large-scale sculptures by Henry Moore, some of which are being presented indoors for the first ti...   [more]

Opening: May 31st, 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