Exhibitions 2009
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NS Harsha: Picking through the Rubble
10 October – 14 November 2009 London Gallery I Victoria Miro Gallery and Iniva present the first solo shows in London by Indian artist NS Harsha. Working across media including sculpture, installation and community-based collaborations, NS Harsha is known for his paintings that often depict fields of vast, sparsely detailed space populated by highly individuated figures in miniature as... Learn More -
Grayson Perry: The Walthamstow Tapestry
9 October – 14 November 2009 London Gallery II The Walthamstow Tapestry explores the emotional resonance of brand names in our lives and our quasi-religious relationship to consumerism. Charting man's passage from birth to death, the tapestry is peppered with leading brands encountered along the way. Stripped of their logos and thus much of their identity, the names run... Learn More -
David Harrison: Existence
3 – 26 September 2009 London Gallery I David Harrison's paintings, sculptures and collages make strange our relationship to the natural world. Harrison makes use of a multitude of materials and techniques, whether they be found materials or characters and stories from literature, myth, and history, to create his distinctive personal mythology. In his imagined world, we encounter... Learn More -
Yayoi Kusama: Outdoor Sculptures
23 June – 25 July 2009 Yayoi Kusama - whose legendary career spans six decades - celebrates her 80th birthday this year. To mark the occasion Victoria Miro is delighted to present, for the first time in London, three new pumpkin works. Situated in the gallery's canalside garden the sculptures will be presented alongside her permanently... Learn More -
Tal R: armes de chine
21 May – 25 July 2009 London Gallery I 'armes de chine refers to a classic manual about weapons from ancient China. These objects, which once had a very specific and practical purpose, now several hundred years later seem completely abstract. Like a long lost slang…' Tal R Victoria Miro Gallery will present the latest body of work by... Learn More -
Alice Neel: Works on Paper
18 April – 14 May 2009 London Gallery I The first exhibition of works on paper in the UK by the acclaimed figurative painter Alice Neel. Learn More -
The Collection
24 March – 9 April 2009 London Gallery I Victoria Miro collaborates with Siobhan Davies to present The Collection . For three weeks, performers and artists present specially commissioned dance and artworks at Victoria Miro Gallery in North London and Siobhan Davies Studios in South London. The Collection is a series of ambitious collaborations that look at the interfaces... Learn More -
Christian Holstad: american standard
6 February – 14 March 2009 London Gallery I Victoria Miro announces the second solo exhibition in the UK by American artist Christian Holstad, whose distinctive practice encompasses large-scale installations, performances, labour-intensive collage and hand-made textiles. american standard will comprise a number of new sculptural works, as well as a new body of drawings from Holstad's ongoing 'eraserhead' series.... Learn More -
John Kørner: War Problems
25 November 2008 – 24 January 2009 London Gallery I War Problems is a new series of sixteen large-scale works, each representing a Danish solider killed in Afghanistan and each bearing a single name - Anders , Mikkel , Thomas , Sonny . Recently on view as part of the 2008 U-Turn Copenhagen Quadriennial, the paintings on exhibition are a... Learn More
