Victoria Miro is delighted to participate in Art Basel Paris with works by Milton Avery, Hernan Bas, Stan Douglas, Chantal Joffe, Yayoi Kusama, Wangechi Mutu, Chris Ofili, Grayson Perry, Paula Rego, Shahzia Sikander, Hedda Sterne, Sarah Sze, Adriana Varejão and Clare Woods.
This year, we celebrate new solo institutional exhibitions opening this autumn by artists including Stan Douglas, whose exhibition Parallax opens at Jeu de Paume, Paris, on 20 October; Chris Ofili, who will open an exhibition at Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin, on 30 October; and Sarah Sze, whose SFMOMA exhibition Forever is Composed of Nows opens on 21 November.
A further focus of our presentation is LIFE, 2015, by Yayoi Kusama. A series of tentacular forms which extend and curve into space, this major work creates a sense of proliferation, while its mosaic gold and silver surfaces are punctuated by coloured polka dots, combining the reflective qualities of the metallic tiles with Kusama's recognisable language of repetition and infinity.
We also celebrate the strength of painting in the gallery programme, with new and recent works by artists including Hernan Bas, Chantal Joffe, Wangechi Mutu, Adriana Varejão and Clare Woods presented in dialogue with works ranging in date from the 1940s to the 1980s by an earlier generation of artists including Milton Avery, Paula Rego and Hedda Sterne.
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Sarah Sze, Rain Check, 2026
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Stan Douglas, Candlelight, 2017
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Adriana Varejão: Modernisms
At Victoria Miro Venice until 31 October
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Paula Rego, Creatures, 1981 -
‘The 1980s drew in an era of “anything goes”, of letting loose. This new-found freedom set off an explosion in the studio… Animals appeared, scheming, smoking, cheating, fighting, crowding large canvases, acting out her fantasies with humour and malice.’
– Nick Willing
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Milton Avery, Bird in Evening Sky, 1963
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‘She notices the smallest contrast or variation, and incorporates it deep within her paintings. The means appear limited… but the effects are magical, as if light itself were breaking inside these works of art.’
– Laura Cumming, The Observer
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Hedda Sterne, N. Y. I, 1947–48
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Hernan Bas: TIME TO SHINE! (the salesmen)
On view at Victoria Miro, London, until 14 November
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Shahzia Sikander, Rich in Ghazal, 2026 -
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Hernan Bas: TIME TO SHINE! (the salesmen)
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