Exhibitions 2019
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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 -
Rock My Soul
2 October – 2 November 2019 London Gallery II New and historical works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Sonia Boyce, Karon Davis, Zanele Muholi, Wangechi Mutu, Frida Orupabo, Howardena Pindell, Betye Saar, Khadija Saye, Tschabalala Self, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Curated by Isaac Julien. ‘Rock My Soul borrows its title from the eminent black feminist scholar and writer bell hooks’ 2003 book,... Learn More -
Doug Aitken: Return to the Real
2 October – 20 December 2019 London Gallery I Victoria Miro presents Return to the Real, an exhibition of new works by Doug Aitken. Conceived as a unified composition of sound, light, form and movement, the exhibition explores our rapidly changing relationships to one another and the world around us in an age dominated by technology. ‘We are living... Learn More -
Grayson Perry: Super Rich Interior Decoration
25 September – 20 December 2019 Victoria Miro Mayfair In these new works, the artist casts an anthropological eye on the heady collision of art, money, power and desire. 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 -
María Berrío, Caroline Walker, Flora Yukhnovich
7 June – 27 July 2019 London Gallery II A summer exhibition featuring three young artists who rethink traditional genres to touch upon themes of migration, the workplace, and the gendered language of painting. Learn More -
Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement
7 June – 27 July 2019 London Gallery I Isaac Julien’s nine-screen installation, premiering at Victoria Miro, traverses a collection of Lina Bo Bardi’s most iconic buildings, offering a meditation on the iconic work and on the legacy of the visionary modernist architect and designer (1914–1992). ‘Linear time is a western invention; time is not linear, it is a... Learn More -
Howardena Pindell
5 June – 27 July 2019 Victoria Miro Mayfair Victoria Miro presents an exhibition of recent works and large-scale paintings from the 1970s by Howardena Pindell, the artist's first solo exhibition in the UK. 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 -
Chantal Joffe
11 April – 18 May 2019 Victoria Miro Mayfair On view at Victoria Miro Mayfair are selected self-portraits from a series begun in January 2018, by the acclaimed British painter Chantal Joffe. The exhibition continues at Wharf Road , featuring large-scale canvases depicting the artist’s family and friends. On New Year’s Day, 2018, the artist set herself the challenge... Learn More -
Chantal Joffe
11 April – 18 May 2019 Victoria Miro and Victoria Miro Mayfair On view at Wharf Road are large-scale canvases depicting the artist’s family and friends. The exhibition continues at Mayfair , featuring selections from a year of self-portraits completed during 2018. Joffe has often talked about her paintings in terms of transitions, those associated with growing and ageing, as well as... Learn More -
NS Harsha
11 April – 18 May 2019 London Gallery I This solo exhibition by the renowned Indian artist NS Harsha features new and recent works, including the major installation Reclaiming the Inner Space.
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John Kørner: Life in a Box
1 February – 23 March 2019 London Gallery I Victoria Miro presents Life in a Box , an exhibition by the Copenhagen-based artist John Kørner, featuring new and recent paintings, and sculptural elements including a climbing frame that also functions as a bar. A painter of erudite, questioning canvases in which topical content is tackled with various degrees of... 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 -
Asger Jorn, Per Kirkeby, Tal R
23 January – 23 March 2019 Victoria Miro Mayfair Victoria Miro presents an exhibition celebrating three generations of internationally acclaimed Danish artists: Asger Jorn (1914–1973), Per Kirkeby (1938–2018), and Tal R (born 1967). Asger Jorn, Per Kirkeby and Tal R are great artist-experimenters. Danish by birth or residence, each has looked simultaneously to Denmark and outwards to international movements... Learn More -
Ilse D’Hollander
7 November 2018 – 11 January 2019 Victoria Miro Mayfair Victoria Miro presents the first solo exhibition in the UK of paintings by Ilse D’Hollander. Learn More