Exhibitions 2016
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Maria Nepomuceno: Sim
11 November 2016 – 14 January 2017 Victoria Miro Mayfair Vibrant and seductive floor- and wall-based sculptural works feature in this exhibition, the artist’s first at Victoria Miro Mayfair. Displaying a characteristically dynamic approach to form, these new works expand upon the Rio de Janeiro-based artist’s methods of rope weaving and straw braiding, in which pre-existing and found elements such... Learn More -
Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Portals
4 October – 5 November 2016 Gallery II, Victoria Miro, 16 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s first solo exhibition in Europe features a new body of work made especially for Victoria Miro. The Los Angeles-based artist, who relocated from Nigeria to the United States at the age of 16, draws on art historical, political and personal references to make luminous, densely layered figurative... Learn More -
Protest
23 September – 5 November 2016 London Gallery I Doug Aitken, Jules de Balincourt, Vlassis Caniaris, Elmgreen & Dragset, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Christian Holstad, Isaac Julien, Yayoi Kusama, Wangechi Mutu, Alice Neel, Chris Ofili, Richard Prince, Sarah Sze, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Kara Walker. Learn More -
Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia
16 September – 29 October 2016 Victoria Miro Mayfair New and recent works by Celia Paul draw on the artist’s delicate and moving explorations of intimacy with people and landscape. Since her first solo exhibition at Victoria Miro in 2014, there has been an increased focus on self-portraiture and seascapes. For this exhibition, examples from both bodies of work... Learn More -
Yayoi Kusama: My Eternal Soul paintings
25 May – 30 July 2016 Victoria Miro Mayfair Spanning the gallery’s three locations and waterside garden, this major exhibition features new paintings – including her important, ongoing My Eternal Soul series and signature Infinity Nets – iconic pumpkin sculptures, and immersive mirror rooms, all conceived specially for this presentation. These new works reflect her lifelong preoccupation with the... Learn More -
Yayoi Kusama: Sculptures, Paintings & Mirror Rooms
25 May – 30 July 2016 Victoria Miro Gallery I, Gallery II and Garden Spanning the gallery’s three locations and waterside garden, this major exhibition features new paintings – including her important, ongoing My Eternal Soul series and signature Infinity Nets – iconic pumpkin sculptures, and immersive mirror rooms, all conceived specially for this presentation. These new works reflect her lifelong preoccupation with the... Learn More -
Jules de Balincourt: Stumbling Pioneers
14 April – 14 May 2016 London Gallery I Perched on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, Los Angeles has, since the pioneering age, been the limitless repository of America’s dreams of the frontier, of desires that saturate the sunsets, freeways, canyons and swimming pools that de Balincourt paints. This landscape, a disjunctured synthesis of the human, the architectural,... Learn More -
John Kørner: Apple Bombs
8 April – 14 May 2016 Victoria Miro Mayfair An exhibition of new paintings by the Copenhagen-based artist. Painting, for Kørner, serves the unambiguous, if impalpable, function of exercising the imagination much in the same way as a bicycle stretches out the legs. The artist’s previous work has variously taken the situations of sex workers and Danish soldiers killed... Learn More -
Stan Douglas: The Secret Agent
2 February – 24 March 2016 London Gallery I A solo exhibition by the celebrated Canadian artist Stan Douglas, featuring the UK premiere of a new multi-screen film installation along with a series of large-scale photographs. Saturated with information, and yet rejecting easily consumable messages, these works place the viewer within the charged atmospheres and ambiguous political and social... Learn More -
Chantal Joffe
22 January – 24 March 2016 Victoria Miro Mayfair An exhibition of new work by Chantal Joffe, in which celebrated writers keep company with the artist's friends and family members. Practising painting and drawing as the loving collection of subjects, people met in the flesh and on the page, Joffe prompts a re-evaluation of notions of self-disclosure and intimacy... Learn More -
Kara Walker
Norma 13 November 2015 – 16 January 2016 Victoria Miro Mayfair The second of two exhibitions at the gallery in autumn 2015 by the celebrated American artist Kara Walker. Often provocative and humorous, Kara Walker's work explores the tensions and power plays of racial and gender relations. Walker's work engages with historical narratives and the ways in which these stories have... Learn More
