CURRENT EXHIBITS [187]

Simon Raven has been awarded the 2012 Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary. Raven engages with ideas around performance, futility and achievement and is developing a series of new works both in the Artists’ Studio and off-site. These will address the history of Camden Arts Centre’s previous incarnation as a public library, the music culture of Camden Town and the proximity of the Artists’ Studio to th...   [more]

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]

For UR Feeling, Simon Martin brings together a selection of objects and images from artists and designers including Ettore Sottsass, Scott Burton and Stephen Shore. It is an investigation into affect and the state between knowing and sensing, in relationship to materiality and the built environment. Martin’s collection forms an open ended dialogue around the ideas and influences which form the basis of...   [more]

Opening: September 27th, 2012   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

For his first solo exhibition in London for over ten years, Eric Bainbridge brings together a series of new sculptural works made from steel and other materials. Using steel for the first time, Bainbridge has drawn himself close to a conversation with 1950s and 1960s modernist abstraction particularly embodied by sculptors David Smith and Anthony Caro. These new works combine formal, absurd and u...   [more]

Opening: September 27th, 2012   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

CHARLIE SMITH London is delighted to present Emma Bennett with her second one person show at the gallery.   In this exhibition Bennett continues to explore subjects that have dominated her work for several years, whilst focusing particularly on themes of gravity, time and transience. Still life elements appropriated from historical Dutch and Italian painting are set against monochromatic black grounds to...   [more]

Opening: September 6th, 2012   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

As part of the 2012 London Design Festival and Icon Design Trail  CHELSEA space presents a unique opportunity to view material from the personal archive of Ralph Tubbs, architect of the iconic Dome of Discovery constructed for the Festival of Britain in 1951. The Exhibition will focus on previously unseen drawings by Tubbs, photographs, ephemera and personal mementos. The exhibition will also includ...   [more]

Opening: September 11th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Chisenhale Gallery presents a new commission by Ed Atkins in his largest solo exhibition to date, Us Dead Talk Love. Atkins works primarily with high definition video and writing, exploring ideas of corporeality and materiality through digital and immaterial means. Using prosumer technology, he exploits the conventions of cinema and literature, attempting to materialise the body of the imagery, the...   [more]

Opening: September 20th, 2012   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Krister Klassman’s sculptures engage with the possibilities and traditions of the medium, utilising a range of processes along the way. In his first solo show Klassman incorporates ink drawings, digital manipulations, domestic printing and chemical reactions to produce a body of work that suggests a way of approaching a poetic dimension via digital technology. The plaster panels have had abstract co...   [more]

Opening: September 7th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Opening: September 7th, 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

Over the past decade, Swarovski’s design and architecture commissions have served as an experimental platform for leading figures in design to conceptualise, develop and share their most radical ideas. Building on this platform, the Design Museum and Swarovski are now challenging some of the most exciting talents in contemporary creativity to explore the future of memory in the fast-developing digital age...   [more]

Opening: September 5th, 2012   11:00 AM - 7:30 PM

Celebrating new and emerging design talent, the Design Museum’s annual Designers in Residence programme supports designers at an early stage in their career. Now in its fifth year, the residency demonstrates the museums commitment to showcasing and supporting the next generation of design talent. Selected via an open-call, this years residents will be Freyja Sewell, Harry Trimble and Oscar Medley-Whitf...   [more]

Opening: September 5th, 2012   11:00 AM - 7:30 PM

Domo Baal is delighted to present 'The Line of Beauty', the first of a 2–part solo exhibition by Lothar Götz. 'The Line of Beauty' will be Lothar Götz's first solo show in London and follows 5 solo exhibitions over the last 2 years in public galleries in Germany and at Chapter in Cardiff. The exhibition will show new studio–based work as well as a site–specific mural. Following directly on from...   [more]

Opening: September 21st, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Drawing Room will present the first major Paul Sietsema exhibition in the UK to include newly commissioned works. Sietsema’s drawings and films reveal a forensic interest in the materiality of objects and images combined with a more conceptualised concern with the legacies of past eras of art history, the process of image making, and the contextualisation of artefacts. A photo-perfect diptych draw...   [more]

Opening: September 19th, 2012   7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Faggionato Fine Arts is proud to present the first London exhibition of Romanian-born American artist Serge Spitzer, comprising a large-scale site-specific installation in Victoria SW1 and a gallery exhibition. Long regarded as one of the most significant artists of his generation the last exhibition in the UK was a survey, Serge Spitzer / Index 1972-1992, at the Henry Moore institute in Leeds i...   [more]

These compositions have a tenderness and poetry. [...]. It is an image with real magic, self-sufficient yet redolent of reality. David SylvesterNew Statesman, April 1962 (Review of Grabowski Gallery, 1962) Dreams of the World Order, Early Paintings explores four areas of Michael Kidner’s painting practice: After Image, Stripe, Moiré and Wave. Works are predominantly from the 1960’s and are p...   [more]

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