EXHIBITION CALENDAR
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An exclusive selection of exhibitions showcasing the POC London art scene, curated for you to stay abreast of the latest shows and events in the city.
Our meticulously curated collection encompasses a diverse array of artistic genres and cultural themes. From prestigious museums to intimate galleries, this online guide strive to highlight the finest cultural experiences available in London.
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Chris Ofili: Requiem - Tate Britain
Requiem pays tribute to Khadija Saye and remembers the tragedy of the Grenfell Tower fire
Tate commissioned British artist Chris Ofili to create an artwork for the North Staircase at Tate Britain. Ofili considered the significance of painting directly onto the walls of a public building and wanted to choose a subject that affected us as a nation. Requiem is a dream-like mural, resulting from his poetic reflections.
Free
Art Now: Zeinab Saleh - Tate Britain
Zeinab Saleh presents an intimate new series of paintings and drawings which trace both fleeting movement and suspended time
Free
Andrew Pierre Hart: Bio-Data Flows and Other Rhythms – A Local Story - Whitechapel Gallery
This new commission from London-based interdisciplinary artist and experimental music producer Andrew Pierre Hart draws on Whitechapel’s longstanding history as a home for migrant and diasporic communities and continues the artist’s interest in exploring connections between sound and painting.
Free
Zineb Sedira: Dreams Have No Titles - Whitechapel Gallery
Originally conceived for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, Dreams Have No Titles is an immersive installation comprising film, sculpture, photography and performance, that interweaves the artist’s biography with activist films produced across France, Algeria and Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, a pivotal moment in the history of avant-garde film production.
£12.50
Wilfred Ukpong: Niger-Delta / Future-Cosmos - Autograph
Utilising aspects of Afrofuturism and mysticism, artist Wilfred Ukpong creates compelling and poetic reflections on the crisis of environmental degradation and exploitation in the Niger Delta. Drawing on historical and personal archives, ecology politics and indigenous environmentalism, his work demonstrates how artmaking can be used as a tool for social empowerment and to confront continued, aggressive colonial practices.
Free
Mónica Alcázar-Duarte: Digital Clouds Don't Carry Rain - Autograph
Curated by Bindi Vora
Affirming the value and survival of her ancestors’ indigenous knowledge, Mexican-British artist Mónica Alcázar-Duarte examines western society’s obsession with speed, expansion and resource accumulation at a time when ecological disaster looms. She raises critical questions – where does knowledge lie? Who and what is classified? – joining together the threads of dissociated knowledge systems.
Free
The Time is Always Now Artists Reframe the Black Figure - National Portrait Gallery
A major study of the Black figure – and its representation in contemporary art.
The exhibition, curated by writer Ekow Eshun, showcases the work of contemporary artists from the African diaspora, including Michael Armitage, Lubaina Himid, Kerry James Marshall, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Amy Sherald, and highlights the use of figures to illuminate the richness and complexity of Black life. As well as surveying the presence of the Black figure in Western art history, we examine its absence – and the story of representation told through these works, as well as the social, psychological and cultural contexts in which they were produced.
£16
Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence - V&A
Tropical Modernism was an architectural style developed in the hot, humid conditions of West Africa in the 1940s. After independence, India and Ghana adopted the style as a symbol of modernity and progressiveness, distinct from colonial culture.
Memory - Chilli Art Project
Chilli Art Projects are pleased to present Memory, bringing together 7 artists exploring the concept of memory, specifically in relation to objects, places or journeys. These transient works effectively capture moments in time, and the tension or balance between object, figure and environment.
Free
Japan, outside Japan: Miyuki Okuyama - The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is pleased to present Miyuki Okuyama’s first UK solo exhibition, Japan, outside Japan. The show will feature Okuyama’s two recent works, Dear Japanese: Children of War (2012-17) and Michinoku Homeward: Walking towards the Northeast (2021).
Free
Acts Of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms And The Art Of Protest - South London Gallery
Photography has long been associated with acts of resistance. It is used to document action, share ideas, inspire change, tell stories, gather evidence and fight against injustice. This group exhibition at the SLG, organised in collaboration with the V&A, brings together works by international artists and collectives who are using the camera to challenge and move beyond traditional protest photography.
Motunrayo Akinola: Knees Kiss Ground - South London Gallery
The South London Gallery’s 13th Postgraduate Artist in Residence, Motunrayo Akinola, presents Knees Kiss Ground, an exhibition exploring faith and belonging through everyday objects.
Constellations Part 1: Figures On Earth & Beyond - Gallery 1957
Gallery 1957 is proud to present its sister-city exhibition project Constellations, opening in London with Part1: Figures on Earth & Beyond on 14 March. Coinciding with the gallery’s 8-year anniversary, this multimedia exhibition project brings together emerging and established artists from within the gallery’s programme and beyond, celebrating the creative communities burgeoning in Ghana and the UK.
Sonia E. Barrett: Maplective - UCL Urban Room
Artist Sonia E. Barrett takes European colonial tools, instrumental in creating colonial power, and reconfigures them to do the cultural work they disrupted.
Free
Fathi Hassan: I can see you smiling Fatma - Richard Saltoun Gallery
Richard Saltoun Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition with new works by Edinburgh-based, Egyptian born artist, Fathi HASSAN (b. 1957, Egypt), fusing his distinctive calligraphic motifs with a rich visual iconography drawn from his Nubian heritage. This will be Hassan's first exhibition at the gallery, following his participation in the 2023 Sharjah Biennial. I can see you smiling Fatma highlights Hassan's engagement with the experience of migration, dislocation, diasporic identity, and shifting notions of heritage through language, iconography, memory, and mythmaking.
Marcellina Akpojotor: Joy of More Worlds - Rele Gallery
Rele, London is delighted to announce Nigerian artist, Marcellina Akpojotor's first solo exhibition in the UK, running from 11 April - 18 May 2024. The series is a continuation of her survey into generational legacy and the evolving nature of archives. Building upon investigations of her maternal bloodline, this new body of work titled, Joy of more Worlds traces a timeline of family life that connects and captures the spirit of the contemporary African women, exploring female empowerment and the role of motherhood in society. The large-scale paintings are densely collaged with the Ankara fabric to delicately display intimate celebrations of memories.
Free
Tawfik Naas: Chaos is a Flower - San Mei Gallery
San Mei Gallery presents Chaos is a Flower, a new exhibition by Libyan artist Tawfik Naas featuring a newly commissioned body of work including sculpture, wall and installation-based artworks.
Free
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA: Suspended States - Serpentine (South) Gallery
Serpentine presents a solo exhibition of new and recent works by British Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare (b. 1962, London, UK). Titled Suspended States, the exhibition coincides with the artist’s presentation at the 60th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia from April 2024.
The first solo exhibition of Shonibare’s work for over 20 years in a London public institution, it marks a return for the artist who first exhibited at Serpentine South in 1992 as a finalist in the Barclays Young Artist Award, and as a participant in Serpentine’s 2006 Interview Marathon.
Free
Jack Kabangu: Smiling Through The Pain - BEERS London
BEERS London is very pleased to announce the debut solo exhibition of Zambian-born, Copenhagen-based Jack Kabangu opening 18 April 2024. Kabangu has had a meteoric rise in the past couple years, and we are really excited to present his first UK-based exhibition - Smiling Through The Pain - (Smiler gennem smerten), the first of two-major solo exhibitions we will present to London audiences in the 2024 calendar year.
LR VANDY: TWIST - October Gallery
October Gallery is delighted to present the second solo exhibition of LR Vandy, following last year’s display of her large-scale installation, Dancing in Time: The Ties That Bind Us, a five-meter-high rope sculpture commissioned for the International Slavery Museum’s Martin Luther King celebrations at Liverpool’s Canning Dock waterfront. Twist features a new series of sculptures created from a variety of ropes and other materials; one large-scale rope work, several smaller rope sculptures, a collection of photographic prints and further new works from the artist’s signature Hull series.
Free
Gareth Nyandoro: Pfumvudza - Tiwani Contemporary
Tiwani is delighted to open our spring solo exhibition with Gareth Nyandoro: Pfumvudza. Living in Ruwa, a town 30 minutes’ drive from Harare, Nyandoro has been observing and documenting the everyday lives, and informal entrepreneurship of its residents in small to large-scale mixed-media drawings in his inimitable Kuchecka-cheka style influenced by etching techniques and paper-cutting, assemblage, and props.
Amel Bashier: ورد الجوري ‘Ward el Juri’ - Addis Fine art
Addis Fine Art presents Amel Bashier’s solo exhibition ورد الجوري ‘Ward el Juri,’ named for her daughter and translating to ‘damask rose.’ The exhibition features new paintings and recent works on paper.
Free
Andrew Omoding: Animals to Remember Uganda - Camden Art Centre
In an ambitious new commission developed site-responsively for Gallery Three and the Reading Room, Omoding will repurpose abandoned materials and objects, interweaving them with new metalwork produced in a London foundry, music, and video in an installation that embraces the characteristic exuberance and generosity of his practice.
Free
Shaqúelle Whyte: Yute, you’re gonna be fine - Pippy Houldsworth
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery presents Shaqúelle Whyte’s first solo exhibition, Yute, you’re gonna be fine.
In his paintings, Whyte presents imagined spaces imbued with a sense of ambiguity that interrogate the human condition, all the while exploring the material qualities of the medium. Loosely rendered, energetic brushwork and an expansive approach to composition are hallmarks of the artist’s practice.
Free
Tesfaye Urgessa - Saatchi Yates
A solo exhibition by Ethiopian artist Tesfaye Urgessa, coinciding with the artist’s representation at Ethiopia’s inaugural participation in La Biennale di Venezia.
Qian Qian: Portals to The Past - Lychee One
Lychee One presents ‘Portals to The Past’, the first solo exhibition in our space by Chinese- born artist Qian Qian. This exhibition advances Qian’s artistic explorations over the past five years, intertwining the realms of technology with mythology, the material with the spiritual, and the tangible with the transcendent. In addition to her latest watercolours on paper, the exhibition also features her first attempt at presenting oil paintings on canvas, alongside a sculptural installation piece titled Form and Emptiness.
Free
Adam Rouhana: Before Freedom - Frieze No. 9 Cork Street
Adam Rouhana has been taking photographs in Palestine since he was a child, a practice which has grown into the body of work Before Freedom (2022-ongoing).
Free
Tai Shan Schierenberg: Mixed Emotions - Flowers Gallery
Flowers Gallery presents "Mixed Emotions," a solo exhibition by NPG Portrait Prize winner Tai Shan Schierenberg, opening on 15 May 2024. This exhibition marks a profound exploration of Schierenberg’s German and Chinese Malaysian heritage, offering a series of self-portraits and landscapes that navigate the intricacies of identity and belonging.
Free
OPENING: Dayanita Singh - Frith Street Gallery
Frith Street Gallery announces an exhibition of new work by Dayanita Singh. Over the last 40 years Singh has created pioneering works that cross genres, explore the boundaries of photography and expand our perception of the photographic image.
Free
Dayanita Singh - Frith Street Gallery
Frith Street Gallery announces an exhibition of new work by Dayanita Singh. Over the last 40 years Singh has created pioneering works that cross genres, explore the boundaries of photography and expand our perception of the photographic image.
Free
TALK: Lunchtime Lecture: British West Indies: Luxury, Identity and the “New World” - Victoria and Albert Museum
Join Joy Johnson as we seek to explore luxurious items patronised by the wealthy which symbolised the identity of the New World, the “Americas” during the 18th & 19th centuries.
Free
TALK: Each One Teach One: Visibility and Identity - Victoria and Albert Museum
An ‘in conversation’ public talk at the V&A to share knowledge and insight into discussions on Anti-Racism and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion within the Arts, Heritage, and Cultural sector.
Free
Alvaro Barrington - Tate Britain
Alvaro Barrington will be the next artist to create a new installation for the Tate Britain Commission.
Price TBD
OPENING: Emergent Energies - October Gallery
Emergent Energies presents a selection of innovative artwork by: Theresa Weber, Matheus Marques Abu, Dafe Oboro, Gosette Lubondo, Eyasu Telayneh and Zana Masombuka. Comprising photographic works, paintings and sculpture, the exhibition highlights the dynamic range and vitality that each of these young artists brings to their work.
Free
Emergent Energies - October Gallery
Emergent Energies presents a selection of innovative artwork by: Theresa Weber, Matheus Marques Abu, Dafe Oboro, Gosette Lubondo, Eyasu Telayneh and Zana Masombuka. Comprising photographic works, paintings and sculpture, the exhibition highlights the dynamic range and vitality that each of these young artists brings to their work.
Free
OPENING: Adam Rouhana: The Revolution Cannot be Built on Dreams Alone - TJ Boulting
Adam Rouhana’s second London solo exhibition constructs a prism that rejects constituent ontological violence and instead works toward the formation of emancipatory potentialities. ‘The Revolution Cannot Be Built on Dreams Alone: The Beauty of Truth and Right’ will feature new work made in 2024, drawing inspiration from the fertility of the land and the verdancy of spring in Palestine.
Free
Fathi Hassan: Shifting Sands - The Sunderland Collection, Frieze No. 9 Cork Street
The Sunderland Collection, a private collection of rare antique world and celestial maps, is pleased to announce the inaugural exhibition of its newly launched Art Programme: Fathi Hassan: Shifting Sands.
Free
Kenturah Davis: clouds - Stephen Friedman Gallery
Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to present clouds, Kenturah Davis’ debut solo exhibition in the UK. The drawing series that comprise this show are united by a common text—an essay penned by Davis that explores perception as an expressive and existential state.
Free
Adam Rouhana: The Revolution Cannot be Built on Dreams Alone - TJ Boulting
Adam Rouhana’s second London solo exhibition constructs a prism that rejects constituent ontological violence and instead works toward the formation of emancipatory potentialities. ‘The Revolution Cannot Be Built on Dreams Alone: The Beauty of Truth and Right’ will feature new work made in 2024, drawing inspiration from the fertility of the land and the verdancy of spring in Palestine.
Free
OPENING: Kenturah Davis: clouds - Stephen Friedman Gallery
Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to present clouds, Kenturah Davis’ debut solo exhibition in the UK. The drawing series that comprise this show are united by a common text—an essay penned by Davis that explores perception as an expressive and existential state.
Free
Boscoe Holder | Geoffrey Holder - Victoria Miro
Victoria Miro is delighted to present exhibitions by Boscoe Holder and Geoffrey Holder. Shown in tandem for the first time, exhibitions by Boscoe (1921–2007) and his younger brother Geoffrey (1930–2014) foreground the siblings as painters against the significance of their achievements in theatre, dance, and film.
Free
OPENING: Qian Qian: Portals to The Past - Lychee One
Lychee One presents ‘Portals to The Past’, the first solo exhibition in our space by Chinese- born artist Qian Qian. This exhibition advances Qian’s artistic explorations over the past five years, intertwining the realms of technology with mythology, the material with the spiritual, and the tangible with the transcendent. In addition to her latest watercolours on paper, the exhibition also features her first attempt at presenting oil paintings on canvas, alongside a sculptural installation piece titled Form and Emptiness.
Free
OPENING: Tesfaye Urgessa - Saatchi Yates
A solo exhibition by Ethiopian artist Tesfaye Urgessa, coinciding with the artist’s representation at Ethiopia’s inaugural participation in La Biennale di Venezia.
OPENING: Andrew Omoding: Animals to Remember Uganda - Camden Art Centre
In an ambitious new commission developed site-responsively for Gallery Three and the Reading Room, Omoding will repurpose abandoned materials and objects, interweaving them with new metalwork produced in a London foundry, music, and video in an installation that embraces the characteristic exuberance and generosity of his practice.
Free
OPENING: Shaqúelle Whyte: Yute, you’re gonna be fine - Pippy Houldsworth
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery presents Shaqúelle Whyte’s first solo exhibition, Yute, you’re gonna be fine.
In his paintings, Whyte presents imagined spaces imbued with a sense of ambiguity that interrogate the human condition, all the while exploring the material qualities of the medium. Loosely rendered, energetic brushwork and an expansive approach to composition are hallmarks of the artist’s practice.
Free
OPENING: LR VANDY: TWIST - October Gallery
October Gallery is delighted to present the second solo exhibition of LR Vandy, following last year’s display of her large-scale installation, Dancing in Time: The Ties That Bind Us, a five-meter-high rope sculpture commissioned for the International Slavery Museum’s Martin Luther King celebrations at Liverpool’s Canning Dock waterfront. Twist features a new series of sculptures created from a variety of ropes and other materials; one large-scale rope work, several smaller rope sculptures, a collection of photographic prints and further new works from the artist’s signature Hull series.
Free
OPENING: Marcellina Akpojotor: Joy of More Worlds - Rele Gallery
Rele, London is delighted to announce Nigerian artist, Marcellina Akpojotor's first solo exhibition in the UK, running from 11 April - 18 May 2024. The series is a continuation of her survey into generational legacy and the evolving nature of archives. Building upon investigations of her maternal bloodline, this new body of work titled, Joy of more Worlds traces a timeline of family life that connects and captures the spirit of the contemporary African women, exploring female empowerment and the role of motherhood in society. The large-scale paintings are densely collaged with the Ankara fabric to delicately display intimate celebrations of memories.
Free
OPENING: Marcellina Akpojotor: Joy of More Worlds - Rele Gallery
Rele, London is delighted to announce Nigerian artist, Marcellina Akpojotor's first solo exhibition in the UK, running from 11 April - 18 May 2024. The series is a continuation of her survey into generational legacy and the evolving nature of archives. Building upon investigations of her maternal bloodline, this new body of work titled, Joy of more Worlds traces a timeline of family life that connects and captures the spirit of the contemporary African women, exploring female empowerment and the role of motherhood in society. The large-scale paintings are densely collaged with the Ankara fabric to delicately display intimate celebrations of memories.
Free
Fowokan George Kelly: Speak To Me Great Lionheaded Ancestors - Felix & Spear
Felix & Spear present Speak To Me Great Lionheaded Ancestors, an exhibition of sculptures and wall-based works by Fowokan George Kelly (b. 1943).
Free
DECOLONISING THE BODY - Bermondsey Project Space
Following their successful programme Decolonising the Body, Skaped has curated this exhibition of community art as a celebration of the experiences and learning undertaken.
Free
Standing in the Gap - Goodman Gallery
Standing in the gap considers a group of artists and artworks making suppressed histories visible across a range of practices and generations, filling in the gaps where things were once omitted. Weaving narrative with a blend of fact and fiction they imagine different histories and speculate on the future. They are interested in the footnotes, marginalia and on connections yet to be made. Works range from iconic works from 1970s and 1980s by Faith Ringgold through to recent and new works created from 2021-2023 by burgeoning artists Nolan Oswald Dennis, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum and Ravelle Pillay.
Free
Lindokuhle Sobekwa: Heart of the garden - Goodman Gallery
South African photographer Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s first solo presentation in London titled Heart of the garden explores the multiplicity of place and identity. This new body of work reflects on the lingering effects of Apartheid with reference to his family history and his ancestral home in South Africa’s Eastern Cape.
Free
Bunmi Agusto: Lands Of The Living - Dada Gallery
DADA Gallery is pleased to announce Bunmi Agusto’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, ‘Lands of the Living’. The exhibition features mixed-media works on paper continuing the artist’s world-building practice that follows life in her fantastical paracosm known as ‘Within’.
Free
Hysterical 2024 : Radical Creativity - Bermondsey Project Space
For Women’s History Month 2024, Hysterical Collective presents: Hysterical: Radical Creativity – the third instalment of the annual charity art exhibition and cultural programme taking place in March each year. Co-founded and curated by Eliza Hatch of Cheer Up Luv and Bee Illustrates, Hysterical is a queer and feminist-led exhibition and event showcase; centred around community, collaboration, and activism.
Free
Li Hei Di: 700 Nights of Winter - Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
In new paintings, Li explores primal, sexual urges with her signature fluid application of paint. Balanced on a knife edge between abstraction and representation, her paintings feature figures that swim in and out of view beneath diaphanous veils of paint; each layer offers a different world, or a portal to an altered oneiric space, guided by desire and emotion. Multiple perspectives collide and overlap, creating dynamic compositions that offer manifold realities within a single work. Luminescent orbs appear as though submerged in deep water, giving her compositions a nebulous quality.
Free
Kimathi Donkor: Black History Painting - Niru Ratnam Gallery
In his new exhibition 'Black History Painting' Kimathi Donkor continues his ongoing re-centering of black historical figures who have been ignored by mainstream western history or are victims of police and state brutality. He references and uses the tools of the genre of history painting, evoking that visual language to actively difference the canon. Donkor has been working in this way since the early 2000s, and these works can be seen as prefiguring more recent debates in both art history and wider society. In particular Donkor's way of working has a strong parallel with the academic Saidiya Hartman's idea of 'critical fabulation' a way of working that Hartman says "troubles the line between history and imagination."
Tomashi Jackson: Silent Alarm - Pillar Corrias
Pilar Corrias is delighted to present Silent Alarm, a solo exhibition of new mixed media paintings by American artist Tomashi Jackson. On the occasion of her first exhibition with the gallery, the artist debuts a body of work that traces a constellation of historic events that took place in Los Angeles and London over nearly a century, examining the underlying connections between riots, patterns of systemic oppression, and community sound systems.
Free
Faith, place and Migration - Staffordshire St Gallery
Staffordshire St presents Faith, Place and Migration, co-curated by Shahed Saleem and Julie Marsh in collaboration with the congregation at the Old Kent Road Mosque.
Rachid Koraïchi: Celestial Blue - October Gallery
October Gallery presents Celestial Blue, a solo exhibition of new works by the renowned artist Rachid Koraïchi. Born in the Aurès mountains of Algeria, Koraïchi’s creative explorations have employed an impressive range of media, which include paintings on canvas, paper and silk, bronze, wood and steel sculptures, ceramics and textiles. Koraïchi’s abiding fascination with signs of all kinds is the unwavering constant informing his conscious and finely detailed work.
Free
John Edmonds: One - Maximillian William
Maximillian William is pleased to present John Edmonds’ first solo exhibition in London. Titled One, the exhibition unites Edmonds’ work in Black and white from several bodies of work made between 2016–2022.
Free
Omar El Lahib - Saatchi Yates
Saatchi Yates presents the second solo show by Lebanese artist Omar El Lahib. Blurring lines between the fantastical and the everyday, El Lahib’s latest paintings come alive in a mystical world beyond the ordinary, where sunflowers reign supreme.
Secret 7" - NOW gallery
War Child presents Secret 7”, the anonymous charity record sale where leading names from the worlds of music and art collaborate to produce 700 one-of-a-kind 7” singles. The exhibition will transform NOW Gallery into a display of 700 individual sleeve designs submitted by creatives from around the world – ranging from household names to talented newcomers. At the end of the exhibition run, the 700 records feature in an online auction. There’s just one twist: the identity of the artist behind the record sleeve isn’t revealed until it’s sold. Therein lies the secret. All proceeds will benefit War Child.
Chromoscopic - APT Gallery
This exhibition examines an exploration of colour its history and the multifarious ways in which contemporary artists have employed it to extraordinary effect. Bringing together an eclectic group of contemporary artists spanning the generations.The show examines both gestural and geometric painting and the possibility and potential of colour in today's environment.
Free
Frank Bowling 90 - Hauser and Wirth
A special presentation of two monumental works at Hauser & Wirth London to celebrate the 90th birthday of Sir Frank Bowling OBE RA
Sir Frank Bowling OBE RA celebrates his 90th birthday with a presentation at Hauser & Wirth London of two monumental works, dating from 1973 and 2023 – 2024.
Free
Accordion Fields - Lisson Gallery
A group exhibition of cross-generational painters, 'Accordion Fields' presents a selection of works across both of Lisson Gallery’s London spaces. All eight artists, whether born or based in the UK or internationally, initially cultivated their artistic talent in London, studying at one of the city’s prominent arts schools and often in direct dialogue with one another. Across a thirty-year span, the artists have witnessed a multiplicity of socio-political shifts, including London’s evolving relationship with the rest of the UK, Europe and the world, and an evolution in the position of British painting on a global stage. With works in the show spanning densely layered landscapes to compressed portraits and composite re-imaginings of past events, the participating artists together produce a symphony of painterly styles, exploring the indeterminate, liminal and multi-dimensional notions of space.
Peju Alatise : We Came With The Last Rain - Rele Gallery
"We Came With The Last Rain" is a profound artistic endeavor, providing a glimpse into a larger collection centered around the empowering narrative of the girl-child, a theme I've nurtured over the years. At its core lies the story of "Flying Girls," a fictional exploration featuring Sim, a 9-year-old girl navigating the challenges of modern-day Lagos as a rented-out servant. This narrative extends to the unfortunate existence of children roaming the streets for survival, commonly known as ‘Almajiri’—children sent to Islamic boarding schools but ending up begging for alms.
Free
As Feeling Births Idea: Virginia Chihota, Rita Alaoui, Ranti Bam, Euridice Kala, Paula Do Prado And Wura-Natasha Ogunji - Tiwani Contemporary
Tiwani Contemporary proudly presents, As Feeling Births Idea a group show featuring: Virginia Chihota, Rita Alaoui, Ranti Bam, Euridice Zaituna Kala, Paula Do Prado, and Wura-Natasha Ogunji. The exhibition gathers together a reflection on each artist's poetics of interiority and engagement: the phenomena, live, or recollected encounters that inform and shape the featured works in the show. The title borrows a sentence extracted from African American poet and activist, Audre Lorde's short essay, Poetry Is Not A Luxury (1977) which draws together a constellation of thoughts, about the illuminatory power of introspection; the 'poetry' of experiences that can instigate action, inspire changes, enlighten our own and other's perspectives. How do each of the artists interpret and make legible the poetics of their experiences through their materials and methodologies?
Free
Yoi - JGM Gallery
Featured are paintings by nine Munupi artists, each characterised and aligned by the expressive marks they employ. Often painted with natural ochres and a Pwoja Comb, these canvases possess a unique textural materiality. At first glance, they are seemingly asemic in appearance. For example, Alison Puruntatameri’s Winga, meaning Tidal Movement or Waves, alludes to the rhythmic movement of the natural world. The result, free from a mimetic representation of reality, is inherently abstract in form.
Free
REEL: Dyke Hands - 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning
198 Contemporary Arts and Learning is pleased to present REEL: Dyke Hands, a group show of short films by black lesbians.* From an international open call that received over 50 submissions from across the globe, Languid Hands have selected short films from 8 artists to be displayed on a loop in the gallery for eight weeks. Selected works are made by artists from the USA, UK, Trinidad & Tobago and Botswana, and include artist moving image, narrative, mockumentary, essay film and archival assemblage.
Free
Refik Anadol: Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive - Serpentine Gallery
A pioneer in the aesthetics of machine intelligence, artist and technologist Refik Anadol is known for his innovative media works and large-scale public installations. Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive, Anadol’s first major institutional solo exhibition in the UK, envelops viewers in immersive environments that utilise years-long experimentation with visual data of coral reefs and rainforests and showcases the creative potential of AI.
Free
Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change - Royal Academy of Arts
J.M.W. Turner and Ellen Gallagher. Joshua Reynolds and Yinka Shonibare. John Singleton Copley and Hew Locke. Past and present collide in one powerful exhibition.
This spring, we bring together over 100 major contemporary and historical works as part of a conversation about art and its role in shaping narratives of empire, enslavement, resistance, abolition and colonialism – and how it may help set a course for the future.
£22