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"Collage was a major turning point in the evolution of Cubism, and therefore a major turning point in the whole evolution of modernist art in this century." -Clement Greenberg, 1959 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to announce its latest exhibition A Century of Collage, showing at the London gallery from 8 April - 24 May 2013. Part of our season of collage, the exhibition presents a survey of col...   [more]

“We see memory as this expanding architecture, rooms which open out on rooms - it’s very labyrinthine - and I’m trying, with paint, to furnish those rooms.”(Ivan Seal with Harriet Loffler, Norwich University of the Arts November 2012) Plemploted fowidead and its accompanying drawing ors devurth at seven (swingerbuffetbit), both 2011, were recently gifted by the Contemporary Art Society t...   [more]

Opening: April 19th   7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Opening: April 8th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present “Detached,” an exhibition of new sculpture by Rachel Whiteread. Her title calls by name the process of abstracting or distantiating from reality that is an intrinsic part of the artistic process. Whiteread’s sculpture is predicated on casting procedures, and the traces left on the sacrificial objects and spaces from which the final inverse form is derive...   [more]

Opening: April 11th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Photography used to be like alchemy in the nineteenth century. It was the medium of the few; now it is a mass medium—and slightly dead. Maybe it is reactionary to turn backwards, to try and establish art history again, but that is the most interesting part of the process—not just the black box.—Florian Maier-Aichen Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present recent photographs by Florian Maier-Aic...   [more]

Opening: April 12th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

A performance by Ruth Proctor will take place at 7.30 pm, during the opening 18 April. …we are participants in complex choreographies (histories, politics) where the most measurable properties and forces of the  material world produce, fold into, collide with and emerge from our laws, languages and loves… (Jay Tan)   Reach Out and Touch Me brings together works by Helen Cammock, Rut...   [more]

Opening: April 18th   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Stephen Friedman Gallery is delighted to announce its first exhibition of work by Andreas Eriksson. Born in 1975, this is the Swedish artist’s first solo exhibition in the UK and follows his lauded presentation for the Nordic Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale. Eriksson's acutely atmospheric paintings, tapestries, sculptures and photographs relate to his daily life and the natural surroundings...   [more]

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

Stephen Friedman Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of new paintings by established Swedish artist Mamma Andersson.   This is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery and follows highly acclaimed survey shows at Moderna Museet, Sweden; Camden Arts Centre, UK and Aspen Art Museum, USA. Born in 1962, Andersson paints from her subconscious, creating complex compositions that...   [more]

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

Stuart Shave/Modern Art is pleased to announce a two-person show of new collages by Linder, and a group of new sculptures by Tom Burr. This is the first exhibition in Modern Art’s new gallery spaces at 6 Fitzroy Square.Linder lives and works in Heysham. She was born in Liverpool in 1963. Recent solo exhibitions include Linder, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, travelling to Kestner...   [more]

Opening: April 16th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The Outsiders is pleased to open its doors for the return of Pete Hawkins for his new solo exhibition ‘Behind Closed Doors’. This new show follows in the footsteps of his previous work featured in ‘Every Day’s a School Day’, where Pete explores the process of painting on found materials. ‘Behind Closed Doors’ sees further evolution of this method; it features modern fables painted on antiqu...   [more]

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

In Freudian psychoanalysis, there are two basic drives that serve to prompt and justify most of our thoughts, emotions, and behavior.  These two drives, or 'Heavenly Forces', are, simply put, Sex and Aggression - also called 'Eros' and 'Thanatos', or Life and Death, they underlie every motivation which we, as humans, experience.  In his third exhibition at Thomas Dane Gallery - his first in London s...   [more]

Opening: April 25th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Victoria Miro is delighted to announce an exhibition of new works by Barnaby Furnas, the New York-based artist's first show with the gallery.   The active moment versus painting's innate stillness has been a central concern of Barnaby Furnas' work over the past decade. Pitched between depicted action and the act of painting - paint's illusory potential and its materiality - Furnas entwines history with...   [more]

Opening: April 25th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Victoria Miro is delighted to present seven new sculptures by Yayoi Kusama alongside a series of twelve recent paintings. These sculptures are the latest in Kusama's ongoing Accumulations series of works, originated in the 1960s, in which Kusama covered the surfaces of everyday objects, items of clothing, furniture, boats - even entire rooms - with hand-sewn phallic protrusions. Kusama worked both i...   [more]

Opening: April 25th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

“.. only where I find a face do I encounter an exteriority and does an outside happen to me.” G. Agamben, Means without End, Notes on Politics (2000) Rebecca Fortnum’s exhibition at the Freud Museum, 'Self Contained', develops several strands of her recent work on the formation of identity, dreams and the power of the gaze. The series 'Dream' depicts children with their eyes closed in paired...   [more]

Opening: March 6th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Aura Satz premieres a new film and sound installation that centres on the invention of 'frequency hopping', patented in 1941 by Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil. The 'Secret Communication System' enabled radio-controlled guidance of torpedoes by synchronising frequency changes in transmitter and receiver, thus avoiding enemy detection. It drew on Antheil's failed attempt to sync...   [more]

Opening: March 22nd   10:00 AM - 8:00 PM

The Catlin Art Prize 2013, now in its seventh year, is an annual exhibition featuring the most exciting art graduates in the UK one year on from their degree shows. This year’s exhibition will be held at Londonewcastle Project Space, London (2nd – 26th May 2013) and showcases brand new work by nine artists, each chosen for their potential to make a significant impact in the art world over the next deca...   [more]

Opening: May 2nd   6:30 PM - 9:00 PM