Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask trailer
Isaac Julien and Mark Nash’s Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1996) is a film portrait of the revolutionary, writer and psychiatrist, whose classic publications The Wretched of the Earth (1961) and Black Skin White Mask (1952) remain the bibles of decolonisation. The new, digitally-remastered 2K version of the film receives its world premiere at the 2017 BFI London Film Festival.
Doug Aitken: Return to the Real
Doug Aitken: All Doors Open
A preview of Doug Aitken's exhibition Return to the Real at Victoria Miro.
Doug Aitken: Inside Out
A preview of Doug Aitken's exhibition Return to the Real at Victoria Miro.
Doug Aitken: Slow Wave
A preview of Doug Aitken's exhibition Return to the Real at Victoria Miro.
Grayson Perry: Super Rich Interior Decoration
Grayson Perry discusses Super Rich Interior Decoration, his new exhibition at Victoria Miro Mayfair (25 September–20 December 2019), casting an anthropological eye on the heady collision of art, money, power and desire.
Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement (teaser)
A teaser of Isaac Julien's new nine-screen installation, which premiered at Victoria Miro. The work traverses a collection of Lina Bo Bardi’s most iconic buildings, offering a meditation on the work and legacy of the visionary modernist architect and designer (1914–1992).
Howardena Pindell at Victoria Miro Mayfair
Held at Victoria Miro Mayfair (5 June–27 July 2019) Howardena Pindell’s first solo exhibition in the UK included abstract paintings and collages drawn from two distinct periods in the artist’s career: large-scale spray paintings from the early 1970s; and smaller wall-mounted three-dimensional works completed since 2007.
Chantal Joffe: Self-Portraits
On New Year’s Day, 2018, the artist set herself the challenge of working on a self-portrait every day for the coming year. This daily practice – through personal lows and highs, in the shifting white light of a prolonged London winter and the savage heat of New York in summer – has resulted in a series of characteristically unflinching works.
NS Harsha at Victoria Miro
As a new exhibition opens at Wharf Road, the renowned Indian artist discusses the ideas and process behind his major installation Reclaiming the Inner Space.
Ilse D’Hollander
In this film of the exhibition at Victoria Miro Mayfair (on view until 21 December 2018) David Anfam, writer, critic and Senior Consulting Curator at the Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, reflects on the poetic and historical resonances in Ilse D'Hollander's work. Anfam's essay, Silent Songs, features in a new book on the artist, published by Victoria Miro.
Ilse D’Hollander, a film by Gautier Deblonde
A new film by Gautier Deblonde shot on location in Paulatem, Ilse D’Hollander’s home between 1995 and 1997, Galerie In Den Bouw, Kalken, the venue of the artist’s first and only solo exhibition during her lifetime, and the Zwalm countryside, summer 2018. Produced on the occasion of the first solo exhibition in the UK of works by the late Belgian artist, the film features a rare text written by D'Hollander, read by the Belgian actor Francesca Vanthielen.
Adriana Varejão
On the occasion of her solo exhibition at Victoria Miro Venice, the renowned Brazilian artist discusses the ideas behind and links between the works and their powerful resonances with the city of Venice.
Conrad Shawcross, Optic Labyrinth (Arrangement I), 2018
For Frieze Sculpture 2018, selected by Clare Lilley, Director of Programme, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Conrad Shawcross has created a new work, titled Optic Labyrinth (Arrangement I), 2018. Taking the form of a simple immersive maze, the work engages with the sun and its shifting position throughout the day and the seasons, focusing specifically on how people navigate and orientate themselves both emotionally and physically in relation to its rise and fall.
Sarah Sze: Afterimage
‘You’re having this filmic way of reading images as they move, and you move, through space.’ In this film, the artist discusses the site-specific works in her new exhibition at Victoria Miro.
Chantal Joffe: Pastels
A short film on the occasion of the artist's exhibition of new and recent pastels at Victoria Miro Venice (14 April – 19 May 2018).
A walk-through of Jules de Balincourt’s exhibition, They Cast Long Shadows, at Victoria Miro Mayfair
Quiet, reflective and mysterious, new paintings by the Brooklyn-based artist continue an intuitive approach to image-making, where the world we inhabit is filtered through the artist’s own psychological landscape.
A walk-through of Jorge Pardo’s exhibition at Victoria Miro, Wharf Road
An exhibition comprising paintings and an installation of unique chandeliers by the Mexico-based Cuban-American artist is on view until 24 March 2018 at Victoria Miro, Wharf Road.
Mark Wallinger: Italian Lessons, a short film of I Am Innocent, 2010, installed at Victoria Miro Venice
An exhibition by Mark Wallinger, presented by Victoria Miro in collaboration with Hauser & Wirth. 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. Many of the works on show make use of photography or simulacra in order to test the extent to which the potency of an image or object transcends reproduction. In his celebrated work, I am Innocent, 2010, Wallinger makes a life-size, double-sided reproduction of Velazquez's Pope Innocent X (in the Palazzo Pamphilj, Rome), one side as Velázquez painted it, the other reversed, and, suspending it from the ceiling, sets it in motion so that it spins continuously, to beguiling optical effect.
Tal R discusses his work with Elephant
'It doesn't matter how conceptual a work is, it's still the idea that you're looking through a keyhole.' On the occasion of his exhibitions Academy of Tal R at at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (until 21 January 2018), and Sexshops at Victoria Miro (until 20 December 2017), Tal R talks about his work in a video interview with Elephant.
Film ©/courtesy Elephant
John Kørner: Altid Mange Problemer
Filmed on the occasion of John Kørner: Altid Mange Problemer at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (18 June – 13 August 2017), the largest exhibition of the artist’s work to date, Kørner talks about the genesis of his work, including his signature use of yellow, his 2008 series based on the human tragedy of war, and the shifting form and meaning of ‘Problems’ in his work. As he says: ‘I mostly recognise a “Problem” as a metaphor for ongoing life.’
Milton Avery: an exhibition talk by Edith Devaney
Edith Devaney, Contemporary Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and author of the catalogue essay for Milton Avery at Victoria Miro Mayfair (7 June - 29 July 2017) introduces Avery's work and talks about the exhibition. The talk took place at Victoria Miro Mayfair on the evening of 10 July 2017.
Hilton Als reads an undated poem by Alice Neel
“I love you Harlem…” Filmed on the occasion of the exhibition Alice Neel, Uptown curator Hilton Als reads an undated poem by the painter Alice Neel. The exhibition focuses on paintings made by the artist during the five decades in which she lived and worked in upper Manhattan, first in Spanish (East) Harlem, where she moved in 1938, and, later, the Upper West Side, where she lived from 1962 until her death in 1984. Alice Neel, Uptown continues at Victoria Miro, Wharf Road, London until 29 July 2017, and Victoria Miro Venice until 16 September 2017.
Sarah Sze’s Hammock (For Rauschenberg) featured in ARoS Triennial
A new commission for the inaugural ARoS Triennial: The Garden, End of Times, Beginning of Times, Sarah Sze's Hammock (For Rauschenberg) stretches across a wooded ravine which drops sharply to the sea. Divided into three sections (The Past, The Present and The Future) the Triennial focuses on depictions of nature throughout history and features works by international artists. Sze's work is included in The Future, which explores artistic responses to environmental change. Film by outofsync-artinfocus.com.
Looking for Langston: Isaac Julien in conversation with Hilton Als
On the occasion of Julien’s exhibition of photographic works “I dream a world” Looking for Langston, at Victoria Miro (until 29 July 2017), Isaac Julien and Hilton Als discuss the genesis of the film, their shared love of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, the work’s relationship to black gay desire, to AIDS and to questions of discrimination, and how, as Julien says, “these questions return to haunt the present.”
The making of Conrad Shawcross’ The Interpretation of Movement (a 9:8 in blue), on display at St Pancras International
The Interpretation of Movement (a 9:8 in blue) is Conrad Shawcross RA’s largest mechanical work to date, stretching out to a 16m diameter as it methodically turns above St Pancras International station. It marks the fifth year of the Terrace Wires public sculpture commission at the station and the third in partnership with the Royal Academy. The commission is the Royal Academy’s only external public sculpture series in London and is free to view. Film courtesy Terrace Wires in partnership with the Royal Academy of Arts.
Isaac Julien: Looking for Langston (excerpt)
Isaac Julien’s seminal work Looking for Langston (1989/2017) is the focus of the exhibition “I dream a world” Looking for Langston, an exhibition of newly-conceived, large-scale and silver gelatin photographic works and archival material, on display at Victoria Miro (18 May – 29 July). A rare screening of Looking for Langston in its original 16mm format, followed by a conversation between Isaac Julien and Tate curator Zoe Whitley, will take place in the Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain, Thursday 20 July, 7 - 9pm.
Doug Aitken: Mirage
On display during 2017 as part of Desert X in the Coachella Valley, Mirage presents a continually changing encounter in which subject and object, inside and outside, are in constant flux.
A walk through of Do Ho Suh’s installation Passage/s
Created from stitched planes of translucent, coloured polyester fabric Suh's Hubs – delicately precise, weightless impressions of corridor-like points of intersection between rooms – seem to exist between imagination and reality, past and present. To move through them is to experience a distinct emotional register, a sense of being in flux, crossing boundaries and moving between psychological states. Filmed on the occasion of Do Ho Suh: Passage/s at Victoria Miro, February – March 2017. © Do Ho Suh, courtesy Marjoleine Boonstra and Reinier van Brummelen.
Stephen Willats: Going Round a Corner, North Ormesby, Middlesbrough 2016
An exclusive preview of a new film by Stephen Willats, ahead of his major exhibition Human Right at Mima, Middlesbrough (4 March – 4 June 2017).
Secundino Hernández
A sneak peek in the studio with the artist, on the occasion of his being honoured at the 2016 Hirshhorn Gala
Conrad Shawcross: Monolith (Optic)
The artist's work for Frieze Sculpture Park 2016. Selected by Clare Lilley, Director of Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 'Monolith (Optic)' is an entrancing new addition to Regent’s Park, appearing to change endlessly according to shifting light conditions. On view 5 October 2016 - 8 January 2017. Filmed by Digital Wasp.
Alex Hartley: Nowhereisland excerpt
Yayoi Kusama at Victoria Miro, 2016
A tour through the exhibition Yayoi Kusama, at Victoria Miro and Victoria Miro Mayfair.
Jacco Olivier
desdemona for celia by hilton
Conrad Shawcross
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Idris Khan
Sarah Sze
Tal R
Doug Aitken
Isaac Julien
Sarah Sze
Celia Paul in conversation with Hilton Als
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkins
Yayoi Kusama reading her poem 'On Pumpkins'
Alice Neel
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2 October 2019
Doug Aitken: Return to the Real
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1 October 2019
Doug Aitken: All Doors Open
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1 October 2019
Doug Aitken: Inside Out
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1 October 2019
Doug Aitken: Slow Wave
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24 September 2019
Grayson Perry: Super Rich Interior Decoration
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21 June 2019
Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement (teaser)
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5 June 2019
Howardena Pindell at Victoria Miro Mayfair
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16 May 2019
Chantal Joffe: Self-Portraits
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16 April 2019
NS Harsha at Victoria Miro
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27 November 2018
Ilse D’Hollander
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7 November 2018
Ilse D’Hollander, a film by Gautier Deblonde
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31 July 2018
Adriana Varejão
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19 July 2018
Conrad Shawcross, Optic Labyrinth (Arrangement I), 2018
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11 June 2018
Sarah Sze: Afterimage
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11 April 2018
Chantal Joffe: Pastels
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1 March 2018
A walk-through of Jules de Balincourt’s exhibition, They Cast Long Shadows, at Victoria Miro Mayfair
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27 February 2018
A walk-through of Jorge Pardo’s exhibition at Victoria Miro, Wharf Road
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31 January 2018
Mark Wallinger: Italian Lessons, a short film of I Am Innocent, 2010, installed at Victoria Miro Venice
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16 November 2017
Tal R discusses his work with Elephant
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3 October 2017
John Kørner: Altid Mange Problemer
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27 July 2017
Milton Avery: an exhibition talk by Edith Devaney
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21 July 2017
Hilton Als reads an undated poem by Alice Neel
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18 July 2017
Sarah Sze’s Hammock (For Rauschenberg) featured in ARoS Triennial
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29 June 2017
Looking for Langston: Isaac Julien in conversation with Hilton Als
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27 June 2017
The making of Conrad Shawcross’ The Interpretation of Movement (a 9:8 in blue), on display at St Pancras International
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2 April 2017
Isaac Julien: Looking for Langston (excerpt)
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19 March 2017
Doug Aitken: Mirage
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16 March 2017
A walk through of Do Ho Suh’s installation Passage/s
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24 February 2017
Stephen Willats: Going Round a Corner, North Ormesby, Middlesbrough 2016
An exclusive preview of a new film by Stephen Willats, ahead of his major exhibition Human Right at Mima, Middlesbrough (4 March – 4 June 2017). -
4 November 2016
Secundino Hernández
A sneak peek in the studio with the artist, on the occasion of his being honoured at the 2016 Hirshhorn... -
7 October 2016
Conrad Shawcross: Monolith (Optic)
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13 September 2016
Alex Hartley: Nowhereisland excerpt
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15 July 2016
Yayoi Kusama at Victoria Miro, 2016
25 May - 30 July 2016 A tour through the exhibition 'Yayoi Kusama', at Victoria Miro and Victoria Miro Mayfair. -
5 June 2016
Jacco Olivier
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6 November 2015
desdemona for celia by hilton
22 September 2015 - 2 January 2016 Celia Paul and Hilton Als discuss their collaborative exhibition, 'desdemona for celia by hilton'. -
18 June 2015
Conrad Shawcross
10 June - 31 July 2015 Conrad Shawcross discusses his exhbition, Inverted Spires and Descendent Folds, at Victoria Miro; as well as his installation in the RA courtyard, his Dulwich Park commission, and more. -
10 June 2015
Ian Hamilton Finlay
10 June - 31 July 2015 Filmed in 2015 on the occasion of Ian Hamilton Finlay's exhibition, 1789 1794, at Victoria Miro. -
28 May 2015
Idris Khan
1 May - 6 June 2015 Idris Khan's show - Conflicting Lines at Victoria Miro Mayfair - is a play on the palimpsest, only this time the traces are his own. -
27 May 2015
Sarah Sze
The Last Garden, Venice Sarah Sze discusses her installation, The Last Garden, in La Biennale di Venezia 2015. -
27 May 2015
Tal R
23 April - 30 May 2015 Filmed in 2015 on the occasion of Tal R's exhibition, Chimney school of sculpture, at Victoria Miro. -
20 May 2015
Doug Aitken
12 June – 31 July 2015 This specific constellation of five key works has been conceived for the Mayfair gallery by the artist. -
6 March 2015
Isaac Julien
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5 March 2015
Sarah Sze
30 January - 28 March 2015 Filmed in January 2015 on the occasion of Sarah Sze's exhibition across Victoria Miro, London's three gallery spaces. -
4 March 2015
Celia Paul in conversation with Hilton Als
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4 March 2015
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkins
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4 March 2015
Yayoi Kusama reading her poem 'On Pumpkins'
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4 September 2014
Alice Neel
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