Exhibitions 2017
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Idris Khan: Absorbing Light
3 October – 20 December 2017 London Gallery II The exhibition marks an important departure for Khan, who will show works in bronze for the first time along with an entirely abstract painting. Uniting aesthetic and metaphysical questions, Khan has often employed techniques of layering and repetition to realise fragmentary experience or disparate ideas as a single image or... 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 -
Tal R: Sexshops
20 September – 20 December 2017 London Gallery I With their areas of flat, unmodulated colour and deceptively simple compositions, Tal R’s paintings have long questioned our conception of and presumptions about our surrounding reality – what we see and where its meaning and beauty lies. In these new works he brings a quizzical eye to the largely unconscious... Learn More -
Hernan Bas: Cambridge Living
6 September – 21 October 2017 Victoria Miro Mayfair Following a period of research while in residence at Jesus College Cambridge in 2016, Bas has developed new subject matter including the famed ‘Night Climbers of Cambridge’, a group of students whose nocturnal ascents of the ancient buildings of the university and town, taking photographs while trying to avoid detection,... 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 -
Milton Avery
7 June – 29 July 2017 Victoria Miro Mayfair Victoria Miro’s first exhibition by the twentieth century master Milton Avery (1885 – 1965) since announcing the gallery’s representation of his work in Europe, and also the first exhibition of the artist’s work in London for ten years, features paintings and works on paper from throughout his career. Many of... Learn More -
Isaac Julien: “I dream a world” Looking for Langston
18 May – 29 July 2017 London Gallery II Isaac Julien’s seminal work Looking for Langston (1989/2017) is the focus of this exhibition of newly-conceived, large-scale and silver gelatin photographic works and archival material. Shot in sumptuous monochrome Looking for Langston is a lyrical exploration - and recreation - of the private world of poet, social activist, novelist, playwright,... Learn More -
Alice Neel, Uptown
18 May – 29 July 2017 London Gallery I Curated by the celebrated US critic and author Hilton Als, Alice Neel, this exhibition focuses on paintings made by the artist during the five decades in which she lived and worked in upper Manhattan. 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 -
Secundino Hernández: Paso
1 April – 20 May 2017 Victoria Miro Mayfair Meaning ‘step’, the exhibition title, Paso, refers to a series of movements through abstraction and figuration. A new series of figurative works is on display at Victoria Miro Mayfair. Learn More -
Secundino Hernández: Paso
1 April – 6 May 2017 London Gallery I At Wharf Road, Hernández is showing abstract paintings that continue his investigation into gesture and form while extending the innovative techniques of accumulation and removal for which he has become widely known. Learn More -
Do Ho Suh: Passage/s
1 February – 18 March 2017 Victoria Miro Gallery I & II Inspired by his peripatetic life, Do Ho Suh has long ruminated on the idea of home as both a physical structure and a lived experience, the boundaries of identity and the connection between the individual and the group across global cultures. Meticulously replicating the architecture of the places in which... Learn More -
House Work
25 January – 18 March 2017 Victoria Miro Mayfair Including Mamma Andersson, Jules de Balincourt, Hernan Bas, Marc Chagall, Peter Doig, Adrian Ghenie, David Harrison, Karen Kilimnik, John Kørner, LS Lowry, Alice Neel, Celia Paul, Grayson Perry, Tal R, David Rayson, George Shaw and Cy Twombly. A group exhibition of contemporary and historical paintings looks at ideas of home... Learn More -
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