Exhibitions 2018
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Yayoi Kusama: THE MOVING MOMENT WHEN I WENT TO THE UNIVERSE
3 October – 21 December 2018 Victoria Miro, Wharf Road THE MOVING MOMENT WHEN I WENT TO THE UNIVERSE, a major exhibition of new works by Yayoi Kusama, takes place across the Wharf Road galleries and waterside garden. T he exhibition features new paintings, including works from the iconic My Eternal Soul series, painted bronze pumpkin and flower sculptures, and... 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 -
Conrad Shawcross: After the Explosion, Before the Collapse
13 September – 27 October 2018 Victoria Miro Mayfair An exhibition of new works by Conrad Shawcross features new Fracture sculptures and two new mechanical works, in addition to a sequence of unique photographic prints created by firing a laser through a series of faults in fragments of glass. United by an aesthetic akin to that of scientific models,... 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 -
Alex Hartley: The Houses
21 June – 28 July 2018 Victoria Miro Mayfair The Houses is a series of new wall-based works by Alex Hartley inspired by iconic examples of modernist domestic architecture. Alex Hartley’s work addresses complicated and sometimes contradictory attitudes toward the built and natural environments, showing us new ways of physically experiencing and thinking about our constructed surroundings. In The... Learn More -
Sarah Sze: Afterimage
8 June – 28 July 2018 London Gallery I An exhibition featuring two new site-specific works: Images in Debris , an installation of images, light, sound, film, and objects, that seeks to transform the visitor's perception and experience of the first-floor gallery; and Afterimage, an environment of wall-based works in the ground-floor gallery that replicates aspects of the artist’s... 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 -
Surface Work
11 April – 19 May 2018 London Gallery I Taking place across Victoria Miro's London galleries, this international, cross-generational exhibition is a celebration of women artists who have shaped and transformed, and continue to influence and expand, the language and definition of abstract painting. The exhibition was additionally on display at Gallery II Wharf Road and Victoria Miro Mayfair.... Learn More -
Surface Work
11 April – 19 May 2018 London Gallery II Taking place across Victoria Miro's London galleries, this international, cross-generational exhibition is a celebration of women artists who have shaped and transformed, and continue to influence and expand, the language and definition of abstract painting. The exhibition was also held at Gallery I Wharf Road and Victoria Miro Mayfair .... Learn More -
Surface Work
11 April – 16 June 2018 Victoria Miro Mayfair This international, cross-generational exhibition is a celebration of women artists who have shaped and transformed, and continue to influence and expand, the language and definition of abstract painting. The exhibition was additionally on display at Gallery I and Gallery II Wharf Road (until 19 May 2018). Victoria Miro Mayfair Gallery... Learn More -
Jorge Pardo
2 February – 24 March 2018 London Gallery I An exhibition comprising paintings and an installation of lamps by the Mexico-based Cuban-American artist. Celebrated for his use of vibrant colours, eclectic patterns and natural and industrial materials, Pardo, a MacArthur Fellow, has since the 1990s drawn on the historical intersections of fine art, architecture and design to create a... 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 -
Jules de Balincourt: They Cast Long Shadows
19 January – 24 March 2018 Victoria Miro Mayfair Quiet, reflective and mysterious, new paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Jules de Balincourt continue an intuitive approach to image-making, where the world we inhabit is filtered through the artist’s own psychological landscape. In Troubled Eden , 2017, a snaking river, encroached upon by signs of human activity, is worn like a... Learn More