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
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
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
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
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
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
SCREENING: The Watermelon Woman - National Portrait Gallery
Set in Philadelphia, The Watermelon Woman is the story of Cheryl (Cheryl Dunye), a twentysomething black lesbian struggling to make a documentary about Fae Richards, a beautiful and elusive 1930s black film actress popularly known as 'The Watermelon Woman'.
Free (booking required)
OPENING: 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
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
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.
TALK: LR VANDY: TWIST - October Gallery
LR Vandy will discuss her new works and artistic practice in a Gallery Talk with Elisabeth Lalouschek, October Gallery’s Artistic Director.
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.
Free
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
TALK: 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 (rsvp essential)
EVENT: The Air We Share Roundtable - Soulscapes - Dulwich Picture Gallery
Join The Brixton Project, Impact On Urban Health and special guests for an engaging roundtable discussion on our rights and access to a healthy urban landscape. From ULEZ to LTNs, we’ll explore vital topics, including the privilege of private gardens.
Free
SCREENING: Holding Places - TACO!
TACO! presents a new film Our Future, Our Past: whisper it to me (2024) - by Charlotte Ginsborg (commissioned by Cement Fields), alongside I Carry it With me Everywhere (2024) by Turab Shah and Arwa Aburawa, and selected archival material that addresses memory, belonging, home and transience in relationship to contemporary built environments and large-scale regeneration.
Free
TALK: Japan, outside Japan: Miyuki Okuyama - The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (online)
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
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
EVENT: Acts Of Resistance: Study Session At The V&A
Join curators from the V&A’s Photography and Prints department as they introduce key Collection objects which represent art’s close relationship to forms of protest and resistance.
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
TALK & WORKSHOP: 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 (booking required)
SCREENING: Rachid Koraïchi: Tu manques même à mon ombre - 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
OPENING: 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
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
EVENT: Tate Late: Women in Revolt! - Tate Britain
At this Late at Tate Britain experience workshops, performances, DJ sets, talks and displays that imagine new futures, question the role of mothers in society and explore the politics of the body.
Free
OPENING: 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 (booking required)
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
WORKSHOP: BLACK GEOGRAPHIES : A CALL TO CONNECTION - Bermondsey Project Space
PHOENIX YEMI performing earlier this month at Bermondsey Project Space. A special off-site event at Morocco Bound Bookshop, in the wake of World Poetry Day.
Free (booking required)
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
TOUR: African Heritage Tours At Tate Britain
These tours explore the history and influence of people of African and Caribbean Heritage in British Art from the 1500s to the current day.
Tours are subject to change, please call the ticket desk on the morning of your visit to confirm which tours and talks are going ahead.
Free
TOUR: African Heritage Tours At Tate Modern
These tours explore the history and influence of people of African and Caribbean Heritage in British Art from the 1500s to the current day.
Tours are subject to change, please call the ticket desk on the morning of your visit to confirm which tours and talks are going ahead.
Free
TALK: 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.
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
OPENING: 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.
TOUR: African Heritage Tours At Tate Britain
These tours explore the history and influence of people of African and Caribbean Heritage in British Art from the 1500s to the current day.
Tours are subject to change, please call the ticket desk on the morning of your visit to confirm which tours and talks are going ahead.
Free