Ilse D’Hollander at Victoria Miro Mayfair
Exhibition 7 November–21 December 2018. Image: Ilse D’Hollander, Untitled, 1996, © The Estate of Ilse D’Hollander, courtesy The Estate of Ilse D’Hollander and Victoria Miro, London/Venice
Yayoi Kusama: THE MOVING MOMENT WHEN I WENT TO THE UNIVERSE at Wharf Road
Exhibition 3 October–21 December 2018 by free timed ticket. This exhibition is currently fully booked. Please follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook for updates on any additional ticket availability.
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Exhibition
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1 December 2018
Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Counterparts at The Modern, Fort Worth
For this exhibition (1 December 2018–13 January 2019), the artist has created a series of visually and conceptually mirrored pairs of paintings. One juxtaposes a Nigerian interior with Akunyili Crosby’s Los Angeles home. In another, a Nigerian table setting is matched with an American example. The Modern, Fort Worth, Texas -
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Exhibition
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10 November 2018
Do Ho Suh – Corridor at ARoS, Denmark
An installation (10 November 2018–17 February 2019) of Do Ho Suh's Hub works – transitory, connecting spaces between rooms that speak metaphorically about movement between cultures and the blurring of public and private, as well as reflecting on the passage of the artist’s own life. ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark -
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Review
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10 December 2018
Frieze reviews Ilse D’Hollander
'D’Hollander’s edges always blur and lines wobble in a way that feels very human.' Skye Sherwin, Frieze -
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Exhibition
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22 November 2018
Michael Jackson: On the Wall, featuring Isaac Julien and Grayson Perry, travels to the Grand Palais, Paris
Travelling from the National Portrait Gallery, London, the exhibition (23 November 2018–14 February 2019) explores the influence of Michael Jackson on some of the leading names in contemporary art. Grand Palais, Paris -
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Exhibition
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17 November 2018
Njideka Akunyili Crosby: The Beautyful Ones at the National Portrait Gallery
This display (17 November 2018–3 February 2019) brings together new and existing works from the ongoing series The Beautyful Ones, some of which are being exhibited for the first time. National Portrait Gallery, London -
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Exhibition
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12 November 2018
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta
The major touring exhibition travels to Atlanta (18 November 2018–17 February 2019). The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA -
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News story
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23 November 2018
New publication – Yayoi Kusama: THE MOVING MOMENT WHEN I WENT TO THE UNIVERSE
To celebrate, we have released a limited number of books with an invitation for two people to visit the exhibition in aid of our Christmas charities. Please note: this offer has now sold out. Please email foh@victoria-miro.com and we will contact you if any returns become available. -
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Publications
13 November 2018
Ilse D’Hollander
Published on the occasion of the first exhibition of the late Belgian artist in the UK, this book focuses on the rich dialogue between abstraction and representation in D’Hollander’s paintings, with an illuminating essay by David Anfam, writer, critic and Senior Consulting Curator at the Clyfford Still Museum, Denver. Victoria Miro, 2018Ilse D’Hollander£ 25.00Add to cart -
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Exhibition
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16 October 2018
Idris Khan creates the British Museum’s first site-specific work as part of the new Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World
Opening on 18 October 2018, the new gallery is a new exploration of the Islamic world through art and material culture. In response to the BM's Islamic world collection and building on the collection of contemporary works on paper, Khan has created 21 Stones, an installation of twenty one unique paintings, British Museum -
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Review
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12 December 2018
Wallpaper* features Conrad Shawcross: Psychogeometries
'What strikes you immediately when reading it: Shawcross’ practice is remarkably complex. Hang from every word as he jumps from reference to reference, from the philosophy of science, to childrens’ toys, Greek mythology, Renaissance architecture and Buckminster Fuller.' Elly Parsons, Wallpaper* -
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Exhibition
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15 October 2018
Grayson Perry: Vanité, Identité, Sexualité at La Monnaie de Paris
The artist's first major solo exhibition (19 October 2018-3 February 2019) in France is divided into ten themed chapters that look at universal topics such as identity, gender, class, religion and sexuality. La Monnaie de Paris -
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Exhibition
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18 December 2018
Final weeks – Elmgreen & Dragset: This Is How We Bite Our Tongue at the Whitechapel Gallery
The first major UK survey of artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, this exhibition (27 September 2018–13 January 2019) spans twenty years of extraordinary artistic collaboration. Whitechapel Gallery -
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Exhibition
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20 September 2018
A new work by Njideka Akunyili Crosby is unveiled at Brixton Underground station
'Remain, Thriving', unveiled on 20 September 2018, is the first commission in a new programme at Brixton station and will be on view for six months. Brixton Underground station -
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Exhibition
Posted
10 December 2018
Final weeks – Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus Garden is featured in Space Shifters at the Hayward Gallery
This major exhibition (26 September 2018–6 January 2019) brings together sculptures and installations that explore perception and space. Hayward Gallery -
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Commission
Posted
21 September 2018
Do Ho Suh: Bridging Home, London
Do Ho Suh's new installation at Wormwood Street, EC2, commissioned by Art Night and Sculpture in the City, is on view until 2020. Wormwood Street, London EC2 -
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Exhibition
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18 December 2018
Final weeks – Do Ho Suh: Specimens at Frist Art Museum
The centrepiece of this exhibition (12 October 2018–6 January 2019) will be the artist's Specimen Series, which explores details of Suh’s domestic existence such as light switches, door handles, electric panels and appliances taken from his living spaces and recreated in fabric. Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee -
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Exhibition
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17 December 2018
Final weeks – Wangechi Mutu: A Promise to Communicate at ICA Boston
A new commission for the ICA Boston (19 January–31 December 2018). ICA Boston -
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Exhibition
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17 December 2018
Final weeks – Doug Aitken’s Song 1 inaugurates the new Copenhagen Contemporary
The opening programme (29 June–30 December 2018) includes Aitken's installation Song 1, 2012/2015. Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark -
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Exhibition
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14 December 2018
The major exhibition Stephen Willats: Languages of Dissent opens at Migros Museum, Zürich, in May 2019
This exhibition (25 May–18 August 2019) is themed around two aspects of Willats' practice: cybernetics, the regulation and control of dynamic systems, which enables him to frame structures of communication and relationships in society, and also enables him to influence the fabric of actual social realities, serving him as both method, aesthetic vocabulary, and formal model; and his specific interest in subcultures, where nonconformism and self-determination manifest themselves. Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich -
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Review
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14 December 2018
This is tomorrow reviews Ilse D’Hollander
'A fragile moment takes shape, like a sharp intake of breath, as these forms meet: the tangible land of the living and a softer, internal landscape of the soul.' Claire Phillips, This is tomorrow -
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Exhibition
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10 December 2018
Final weeks – Inka Essenhigh: A Fine Line tours to Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
This survey (15 September 2018–6 January 2019) of some 30 paintings from across the artist's career tours from Virginia MOCA. Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan -
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Channel
27 November 2018
Ilse D’Hollander
In this film of the exhibition at Victoria Miro Mayfair (on view until 21 December 2018) David Anfam, writer, critic and Senior Consulting Curator at the Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, reflects on the poetic and historical resonances in Ilse D'Hollander's work. Anfam's essay, Silent Songs, features in a new book on the artist, published by Victoria Miro. -
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Review
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18 November 2018
Read Laura Cumming’s review of Ilse D’Hollander in The Observer
★★★★★ 'Small, calm and balanced, these landscapes are exceptionally beautiful.' Laura Cumming, The Observer -
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Publications
13 November 2018
Conrad Shawcross: Psychogeometries
Psychogeometries is the first substantial book to consider the conceptual, thematic and material development of Conrad Shawcross’s art. It follows his career, from the extraordinary machines that marked his emergence in the early 2000s to his most recent projects, which extend the possibilities of art in the public realm, examining the geometries and topologies with which he has experimented, and exploring his ongoing interest in the tension between the rational and the irrational. Elephant and Victoria Miro, 2018Conrad Shawcross: Psychogeometries£ 35.00Add to cart -
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News story
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11 November 2018
The Art Newspaper reports that Do Ho Suh’s Bridging Home, London will remain on view until March 2020
'Korean artist Do Ho Suh’s replica of a Korean house and surrounding bamboo garden (Bridging Home, London), installed on a footbridge at Wormwood Street in central London, will remain in situ for another 16 months.' Gareth Harris, The Art Newspaper -
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Review
Posted
10 November 2018
Jackie Wullschlager features Ilse D’Hollander in the FT Critics’ Choice
'… spare, still, subtle, small-scale but rhapsodic compositions, flitting between abstraction and evocations of the Flemish countryside…' Jackie Wullschlager, The Financial Times -
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News story
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9 November 2018
The FT announces that David Zwirner is to partner with Victoria Miro in the representation of Njideka Akunyili Crosby
'David Zwirner has joined forces with Victoria Miro to share the sought-after, Nigerian-born Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who now lives in Los Angeles.' Melanie Gerlis, The Financial Times -
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Event
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7 November 2018
Njideka Akunyili Crosby delivers a Visiting Artist lecture at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
A free lecture (12noon–1pm, Friday November 9 2018) by the artist at her alma mater, as part of PAFA’s Visiting Artist Program. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia -
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Feature
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7 November 2018
ASAP Journal publishes Steven Nelson on Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s Obodo (Country/City/Town/Ancestral Village)
'… the mural transforms architect Arata Isozaki’s red sandstone façade into a massive tableau on which Crosby explores personal history, the workings of memory, and quotidian experience.' Steven Nelson, ASAP Journal -
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Channel
7 November 2018
Ilse D’Hollander, a film by Gautier Deblonde
A new film by Gautier Deblonde shot on location in Paulatem, Ilse D’Hollander’s home between 1995 and 1997, Galerie In Den Bouw, Kalken, the venue of the artist’s first and only solo exhibition during her lifetime, and the Zwalm countryside, summer 2018. Produced on the occasion of the first solo exhibition in the UK of works by the late Belgian artist, the film features a rare text written by D'Hollander, read by the Belgian actor Francesca Vanthielen. -
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Event
Posted
1 November 2018
Grayson Perry artist’s talk at La Monnaie de Paris
In the special talk (Wednesday 21 November 2018; sold out) the artist discusses his life, career and current exhibition Vanité, Identité, Sexualité at La Monnaie de Paris (until 3 February 2019). La Monnaie de Paris -
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Exhibition
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26 October 2018
Conrad Shawcross and Doug Aitken feature in Foresta Urbana at Palazzo Belmonte Riso, Palermo
Curated by Paolo Falcone, the exhibition (27 October 2018–20 January 2019) features contemporary interpretations of the natural world by major international artists. Palermo, Sicily -
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Picture story
Posted
26 October 2018
Anatomy of an Artwork: Yayoi Kusama’s Pumpkin, 2018
'Kusama has said she likes pumpkins for their “human-like” form and humour. Her fixation on repetition and infinity, however, has a darker side: a kind of obliteration, where you lose yourself in the vastness of her singular universe…' The Guardian Skye Sherwin -
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Exhibition
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25 October 2018
Chantal Joffe in Exposed: The Naked Portrait at Laing Art Gallery
This exhibition (27 October 2018–3 March 2019) of works from the National Portrait Gallery collection invites questions about identity and gender, the real and ideal. Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne -
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Exhibition
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21 October 2018
Elmgreen & Dragset participate in the Bangkok Art Biennale
The duo's new outdoor sculpture, Zero, is on display at the East Asiatic Building until 3 February 2019. The East Asiatic Building, Bangkok -
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Exhibition
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20 October 2018
Chantal Joffe, Wangechi Mutu and Celia Paul feature in Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto at the Ca’ d’Oro, Venice
The exhibition (20 October 2018–7 January 2019) focuses on dialogues between Tintoretto’s masterpieces preserved at Palazzo Ducale and Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca’ d’Oro, with the artworks by leading contemporary artists. Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, Venice -
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Review
Posted
17 October 2018
Press for Idris Khan: 21 Stones, the British Museum’s first site-specific artwork
The work forms part of the new Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World (from 18 October 2018). -
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Commission
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15 October 2018
Now open – the Comcast Technology Center, featuring a site-specific work by Conrad Shawcross
The new Comcast Technology Center building, designed by Foster + Partners, in Philadelphia, features a major site-specific sculpture by the artist. Philadelphia, PA -
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Exhibition
Posted
12 October 2018
Do Ho Suh: The Perfect Home II at Brooklyn Museum
A display (12 October 2018–27 January 2019) as part of Brooklyn Museum's One series, of Suh's 2003 work The Perfect Home II. Brooklyn Museum -
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Exhibition
Posted
10 October 2018
Doug Aitken – Mirage Detroit
Opening on 10 October 2018, this immersive, mirrored installation is set within the former State Savings Bank, a seminal historic building in downtown Detroit. Detroit, Michigan -
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Review
Posted
10 October 2018
Frieze writes about Do Ho Suh: Bridging Home, London
'The confounding presence of Bridging Home, London – both unstable yet rooted in its new environment – makes the individual experience of migration both tangible and collective…' Alice Bucknell, Frieze -
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Event
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9 October 2018
Sarah Sze artist’s talk at Tate Modern
The artist discusses her practice at this evening talk (6.30-8pm, Thursday 15 November 2018) in conversation with Mark Godfrey, Senior Curator of International Art. Tate Modern -
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News story
Posted
9 October 2018
The New York Times reports on Fallen Sky by Sarah Sze, Storm King Art Center’s first public commission in nearly a decade
Responding to a hollow in the ground, the work will be installed at the 500-acre sculpture park in 2020. Sara Aridi, The New York Times -
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Exhibition
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5 October 2018
Tal R: The Minute at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia
A major exhibition (5 October–16 November 2018) of paintings and drawings, including recent works, by the artist. University of the Arts, Philadelphia -
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News story
Posted
4 October 2018
Idris Khan creates the first ever artwork for the Evening Standard’s Comment section
For the first time in its history, the Evening Standard has commissioned an artwork for its Comment section. Khan has responded with a work that addresses the question 'why art matters'. The Evening Standard -
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Review
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4 October 2018
Yayoi Kusama’s new exhibition is featured on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row
Jacky Klein reviews THE MOVING MOMENT WHEN I WENT TO THE UNIVERSE. The programme also features an interview with Heather Lenz, director of Kusama – Infinity. Jacky Klein, Front Row -
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Profile
Posted
3 October 2018
Francesca Gavin writes about Yayoi Kusama in the Financial Times
From painted bronze pumpkins to flower sculptures and a fresh take on her Infinity Mirror Rooms, Yayoi Kusama’s new work brings her kaleidoscopic polka-dot-filled fantasy world to life. Francesca Gavin, The Financial Times -
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Event
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2 October 2018
Conrad Shawcross presents Exploding Paradigms and Parallax Disruptions as part of the Frick Collection’s Artists, Poets, and Writers Lecture Series
The free lecture (6–7pm, 17 October 2018) outlines the breadth of his practice, focusing specifically on recent works from his two series Paradigms and Optics. The Frick Collection, New York -
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Picture story
Posted
2 October 2018
Yayoi Kusama creates a special cover for Harper’s Bazaar Art
The design is available as a limited-edition collectable cover distributed alongside the November issue of Harper’s Bazaar. Harper's Bazaar -
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Preview
Posted
1 October 2018
The Art Newspaper previews Yayoi Kusama’s new exhibition at Victoria Miro
Gareth Harris gets a first look at THE MOVING MOMENT WHEN I WENT TO THE UNIVERSE, which opens to the public by free timed ticket on 3 October 2018. Gareth Harris, The Art Newspaper -
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Preview
Posted
1 October 2018
The Evening Standard previews Yayoi Kusama’s new exhibition at Victoria Miro
' …the walls and ceiling of the installation are covered with a reflective surface, giving the lanterns the appearance of continuing on forever for all those who stand in the space.' Ailis Brennan, The Evening Standard -
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Interview
Posted
25 September 2018
Elmgreen & Dragset talk to the Evening Standard and reveal their new Whitechapel Gallery installation
'Humour is a way of dealing with it, to make it bearable, not to cry or scream.' Ben Luke, The Evening Standard -
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Profile
Posted
23 September 2018
Read Tim Adams’ Yayoi Kusama cover feature in The Observer New Review
'This autumn sees more new work on display at the Victoria Miro gallery in London – only two years since its last open-all-hours event. The exhibition coincides with the UK release of a film about the artist’s extraordinary life, Kusama: Infinity.' Tim Adams, The Observer -
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Exhibition
Posted
21 September 2018
A Brief Intermission, a major solo exhibition by Hernan Bas at CAC Málaga
The artist's first solo museum exhibition in Spain (21 September–9 December 2018) features a selection of work made over the past ten years. CAC Málaga, Spain -
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Event
Posted
20 September 2018
Artist talk: Elmgreen & Dragset
Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset discuss their major exhibition and new commission for the Whitechapel Gallery on Saturday 29 September 2018. Whitechapel Gallery -
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Interview
Posted
18 September 2018
Conrad Shawcross discusses his new exhibition with Wallpaper*
'I’m still bamboozled by the way this simple shape can form these tendril like structures that branch out and don’t join into themselves again.' Tom Seymour, Wallpaper* -
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Event
Posted
18 September 2018
Idris Khan talks about his work as part of Art Out Loud at Chatsworth
On Friday 21 September, Khan talks about his practice, exploring the influences and the creative process behind his work. Chatsworth House, Derbyshire -
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Preview
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18 September 2018
AnOther writes about Francesca Woodman: Italian Works at Victoria Miro Venice
'Many celebrated images came from this time, including the Angel series, where Woodman leaps joyfully towards two wings hanging from the ceiling of the Cerere…' Tish Wrigley, AnOther -
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Preview
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17 September 2018
Dazed writes about the influence of Italy on the work of Francesca Woodman
'Across her lifetime, the artist also held an extraordinary relationship with Italian art and culture, now the subject of a new show at Venice’s Victoria Miro gallery.' Phoebe Gardner, Dazed -
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Preview
Posted
17 September 2018
Francesca Woodman: Italian Works is featured in i-D Italy
Fabrizio Meris previews the exhibition in the Italian language edition of i-D. i-D Italy
In Focus
Ilse D’Hollander, a film by Gautier Deblonde
A new film by Gautier Deblonde shot on location in Paulatem, Ilse D’Hollander’s home between 1995 and 1997, Galerie In Den Bouw, Kalken, the venue of the artist’s first and only solo exhibition during her lifetime, and the Zwalm countryside, summer 2018. Produced on the occasion of the first solo exhibition in the UK of works by the late Belgian artist, the film features a rare text written by D'Hollander, read by the Belgian actor Francesca Vanthielen.
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News
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10 September 2018
