Past
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Barbara Walker: Any Time, Any Place, Any Where
22 March – 3 May 2025 Venice Completed during a recent residency with the gallery in Venice, this new body of work features self-portraits created in dialogue with Old Masters and the experience of being an anonymous figure immersed in the city. Learn More -
Saskia Colwell: Skin on Skin
1 February – 15 March 2025 Venice Works on view explore themes of voyeurism, intimacy and representation. The interplay between the softness of charcoal and the organic quality of vellum creates a close connection to the human body in images which question norms surrounding female representation and contemporary issues of censorship and agency. Learn More -
Chris Ofili: Joyful Sorrow
26 October – 14 December 2024 Venice Joyful Sorrow is a two-site exhibition in Paris and Venice of the acclaimed British painter Chris Ofili’s newest body of work that continues his exploration of Shakespeare’s Othello. Learn More -
Maria Nepomuceno: Expiro
14 September – 12 October 2024 Venice The title of the exhibition is derived from a work by the artist of the same name: Expiro, a Portuguese word chosen for its similarity, in sound and meaning, to the Italian espiro, to exhale, which in turn relates to the traditional glassblowing techniques used for the first time by the artist in the creation of these works. Learn More -
Eric Fischl: Bathers
29 June – 17 August 2024 Miro Presents, Venice Created as part of Vortic Artists Projects, Bathers is Eric Fischl’s first exhibition at Victoria Miro Venice and brings together painted bronze reliefs derived from virtual paintings. Learn More -
Sarah Sze
16 April – 16 June 2024 Venice The artist’s sixth exhibition with Victoria Miro marks a return to Venice for Sze, who featured in the 1999 and 2015 Biennales and represented the United States with her exhibition Triple Point in the 2013 Biennale. Learn More -
Doron Langberg: Flowers
3 February – 30 March 2024 Venice The works on view in Venice were painted en plein air at different times of the year. Langberg paints these fleeting moments spontaneously in one session, alighting on patches of ground and recording them in bursts of activity. Learn More -
Celia Paul: Myself, Among Others
28 October – 9 December 2023 Venice New paintings completed during a recent residency with the gallery in Venice. The exhibition is accompanied by a new text by Eleanor Nairne. Learn More -
Chantal Joffe: The Eel
5 September – 21 October 2023 Venice An exhibition of new paintings completed this summer during a residency with the gallery in Venice. Learn More -
Tal R: How to Count to Tree
1 July – 26 August 2023 Venice Victoria Miro is delighted to present How to Count to Tree , an exhibition in Venice of new paintings by Tal R. Tal R often employs apparently simple compositional devices and motifs from everyday life to create complex, atmospheric worlds that, beginning with the recognisable and known, expand or collapse... Learn More -
Alex Hartley: Closer Than Before
22 April – 17 June 2023 Venice The first site-specific installation at Victoria Miro Venice features a dynamic architectural intervention that transforms part of the gallery, providing context for new wall-mounted works that continue the artist’s interest in layering, materiality, illusion and how art questions our relationship to time. Learn More -
Grayson Perry
11 February – 2 April 2023 Venice Two exhibitions by Grayson Perry in London and Venice. The Venice exhibition features ceramics and works in silver and bronze, and works on paper including collages and a new etching. Learn More -
Hedda Sterne: Metamorphoses
5 November – 10 December 2022 Venice This exhibition features works drawn from the late 1960s and early 1970s, including important paintings from 1967 created by pouring thinned acrylic paint on to raw canvas. Learn More -
María Berrío: The Land of the Sun
17 September – 29 October 2022 Venice In this new body of work, Berrío conjures an apocalyptic scenario, against which the efforts of her central character become Sisyphean as she journeys through a world of heat and dust. Learn More -
Chris Ofili: Harvest
25 June – 10 September 2022 Venice Victoria Miro is delighted to present Harvest , an exhibition in Venice by Chris Ofili. The exhibition debuts a suite of new works that share the title Harvest – Flower Eaters . Completed over the past year in watercolour, charcoal and gold leaf on paper, these works comprise two rectangular... Learn More -
Paula Rego: Secrets of Faith
23 April – 18 June 2022 Venice Completed in 2002, the works on view depict episodes from the life of the Virgin Mary – subjects familiar in Christian art radically retold by Rego that are among the most special to the artist. Learn More -
Unmasked
12 February – 27 March 2022 Venice An exhibition in Venice of works by Milton Avery, Jules de Balincourt, Hernan Bas, María Berrío, Chantal Joffe, Doron Langberg, Alice Neel and Celia Paul. Learn More -
Inka Essenhigh
6 November – 11 December 2021 Venice Essenhigh’s first exhibition at Victoria Miro Venice will present new paintings from her ongoing series of botanical works in enamel paint, a medium the artist first worked with two decades ago. Learn More -
Doug Aitken: Microcosmos
15 July – 30 October 2021 Venice Victoria Miro is delighted to present an exhibition in Venice by the celebrated American artist Doug Aitken. Microcosmos features a new series of handmade fabric wall hangings that, engaging with the physical act of making, visually articulate a world that is driven by information and continuously in flux. The exhibition... Learn More -
Conrad Shawcross: The Measures of Change
19 May – 10 July 2021 Venice Coinciding with the opening of La Biennale di Venezia: The 17th International Architecture Exhibition, The Measures of Change features a number of the artist’s celebrated Fracture sculptures, the debut of a new series of Perimeter Studies sculptures, and prints from a new body of work, Studies for The Patterns of Absence.
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Christian Holstad: Time wounds all heels
10 April – 8 May 2021 Venice Victoria Miro is delighted to present an exhibition in Venice by Christian Holstad. The US artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Time wounds all heels features new two- and three-dimensional works in ceramic, crochet, fabric and pencil, and an earlier Eraserhead drawing that acts as a touchstone for this... Learn More -
Francesca Woodman: New York Works
31 October – 12 December 2020 Venice Victoria Miro is delighted to present an exhibition of works made in New York from 1979–80 , focusing on a rare series of colour photographs by Francesca Woodman staged in her New York apartment. In her short career Francesca Woodman (1958–1981) produced an extraordinary body of work acclaimed for its... Learn More -
Flora Yukhnovich: Barcarole
12 September – 24 October 2020 Venice Inspired by a residency with the gallery in Venice, these new works reflect on the influence of the city and Venetian culture. Learn More -
Hernan Bas: Venetian Blind
8 February – 14 March 2020 Venice The exhibition, which includes a decorative room screen and several large-scale works on paper, weaves characteristically expansive lines of enquiry around themes of privacy, mourning and seclusion, and the physical, emotional and symbolic conduits between the living and the dead. Its anchor point, conceptual and physical, is A Private Morning... Learn More -
Idris Khan: Words Beneath Words
26 October – 14 December 2019 Venice For this latest body of work, Khan uses wood blocks, stamping oil-based ink on to the surface of panes of glass to create images of intense power and presence. Learn More -
Secundino Hernández: Grapado a la piel
13 September – 19 October 2019 Venice Victoria Miro has established a studio space in Venice for invited artists to spend extended time in the historic city and make new bodies of work. This exhibition of small-scale figurative paintings was created in the Venice studio by the acclaimed Spanish artist Secundino Hernández. Learn More -
Milton Avery: The Late Portraits
20 July – 8 September 2019 Venice Victoria Miro presents an exhibition of portraits drawn from the last four years of Milton Avery’s life. Characterised by economy of touch and luminescence of colour, the works on view see the artist apply a lifetime of experience to cherished subjects and motifs. Milton Avery (1885–1965) made portraits throughout his... Learn More -
Njideka Akunyili Crosby: “The Beautyful Ones”
11 May – 13 July 2019 Venice Victoria Miro presents the most recent works from Los Angeles-based artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s acclaimed series “The Beautyful Ones” . Begun in 2014, Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s ongoing series “The Beautyful Ones” is comprised of portraits of Nigerian children, including members of the artist’s family, derived from personal photographs and, more... Learn More -
Christian Holstad, Grayson Perry, Tal R, Betty Woodman
26 January – 18 April 2019 Venice This exhibition brings together ceramic works by four artists who, through a diversity of approaches, explore the possibilities of the medium: its fluidity, in spite of an undeniable physicality, in relation to genres such as painting and sculpture, and equally flexible capacity for both figuration and abstraction. Learn More -
Francesca Woodman: Italian Works
15 September – 15 December 2018 Venice An exhibition of works made in Italy by the celebrated photographer Francesca Woodman (1958–1981), including examples from the Eel Series , created in Venice in 1978. Born and raised in the United States, Francesca Woodman considered Italy her second home. She lived in Florence for a year as a child,... Learn More -
Adriana Varejão
14 July – 8 September 2018 Venice An exhibition of new Saunas and Baths paintings, and Meat Ruins by the renowned Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão, her sixth exhibition at the gallery. Since the mid-1990s, Adriana Varejão has explored two juxtaposing motifs – flesh and tiles (azulejos ) – drawing on the decorative tradition of her native Brazil... Learn More -
Do Ho Suh
25 May – 7 July 2018 Venice Made at the STPI Creative Workshop in Singapore, the new works in this exhibition are part of the artist’s ongoing Rubbing/Loving project, in which rubbings of interior spaces and everyday objects are created in a process that discloses and memorialises details of the artist’s surroundings. Do Ho Suh has visited... Learn More -
Chantal Joffe: Pastels
14 April – 19 May 2018 Venice An exhibition of new and recent pastels by Chantal Joffe. This is the first exhibition by the artist comprising solely of pastel works on paper. ‘When you change the medium, you change everything.’ – Chantal Joffe Chantal Joffe brings a combination of insight and integrity, as well as psychological and... Learn More -
Mark Wallinger: Italian Lessons
27 January – 24 March 2018 Venice Victoria Miro, in collaboration with Hauser & Wirth, presents Italian Lessons , an exhibition by Mark Wallinger. Selected by the artist especially for Victoria Miro Venice, the works on display date from 1991 to 2016 and reflect a career-long engagement with ideas of power, authority, artifice and illusion. While sources... Learn More -
Celia Paul: The Sea and The Mirror
23 September – 16 December 2017 Venice Celia Paul’s art stems from a deep connection with subject matter and is quiet, contemplative and ultimately moving in its profound attention to detail and deeply-felt spirituality. She is renowned for her intimate depictions of people and places she knows well. From 1977 to 2007 Paul worked on a series... Learn More -
Alice Neel, Uptown
15 July – 16 September 2017 Venice A new chapter of the acclaimed exhibition Alice Neel, Uptown, curated by the Pulitzer Prize winning critic and author Hilton Als, is on display at Victoria Miro Venice. Learn More -
Chris Ofili: Poolside Magic
10 May – 8 July 2017 Venice Victoria Miro is pleased to announce the opening of a new gallery in Venice. The inaugural exhibition is Poolside Magic by Chris Ofili. T he exhibition comprises a suite of pastel, charcoal and watercolour works on paper, which are being shown together for the first time. Poolside Magic , in... Learn More
