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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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
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
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
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
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
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: 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.
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
OPENING: 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.
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
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)
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.
OPENING: 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.
OPENING: 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.