Welcome to The Art List isse no. 6!
I hope you enjoy these recommendations for talks, graduate art shows, exhibition openings, and more. On a free weekday or Saturday, I suggest picking a neighborhood for a gallery hop. For a more leisurely art visit, there are a number of great museum shows on right now.
This will be the last normal issue of The Art List for 2022 since things will be quieter and galleries closed over the holidays! The next issue will be some sort of special edition, perhaps weekend art destinations near London to visit in the new year.
X,
Amanda
Openings & Events
Organised by date, Rsvp & ticket requirements indicated where necessary
This week:
Opening of Paper & Clay, hosted by Canopy Collections at Cromwell Place, South Kensington, Tuesday 6 December, 6-8pm
Cromwell Place also has several other exhibitions opening that night (check them out here), so it’s sure to be a fun evening! They have a lovely bar in the building if you fancy an extra post-exhibition drink.
Talk: On Bruce Bernard and Lucian Freud with Bella Freud, Celia Paul, and Virginia Verran at Gagosian on Grosvenor Hill, Mayfair, Wednesday 7 December, 6.30pm (rsvp)
Talk: The Studio as a Site of Community and Collective Action at the Freelands Foundation, Primrose Hill, Wednesday 7 December, 6.30pm (rsvp)
Opening of Hajar Benjida: Atlanta Made Us Famous at TJ Boulting, Fitzrovia, Thursday 8 December, 6-9pm
Book launch with talk and sound performance on the occasion of artist Tai Shani’s new publication The Neon Hieroglyph, at Gathering Gallery, Soho, Thursday 8 December, 6.30-9pm
Opening of Paris Calling at Siegfried Contemporary, Notting Hill, Friday 9 December, 6-8pm (rsvp)
Launch with live performance of Correspondance Astrale at Bosse and Baum, featuring new work by contemporary artists responding to astrological predictions, Camberwell, Friday 9 December, 6-9pm (rsvp)
Studio Voltaire Open House 2022 featuring open studios, performances, tours, screenings & DJs, Clapham, Friday 9 December - Saturday 10 December
Programme highlights:
Gasworks Winter Open Studios, Vauxhall, Saturday 10 December, 12-6pm with artist presentations at 4pm
Curator-led tour of Kamala Ibrahim Ishag: States of Oneness at The Serpentine, Kensington, Saturday 10 December, 3pm
Poetry evening on occasion of the exhibition Leah Clements: Insomnia at South Kiosk, hosted in collaboration with Ache Magaazine, Peckham, Saturday 10 December, 5-7pm (rsvp)
Talk: Rebecca Parkin at Zabludowicz Collection, Chalk Farm, Sunday 11 December, 3-4.30pm (rsvp)
Talk: Artist Alberta Whittle in Conversation with Curator Lydia Yee, on occasion of the exhibition Moving Bodies Moving Images at Whitechapel, Sunday 11 December, 5-7pm (ticket required, £5)
Next week:
Feminist Duration Reading Group: Sleepless Texts by Leah Clements at South Kiosk, Peckham, Wednesday 14 December, 7-9pm (rsvp)
Opening of Ancient Vessels at APT Gallery, Deptford, Wednesday 14 December, 5-9pm with a performance at 8pm
Talk: Making Your Words Count! Writing About Culture in Age of Digital Media, hosted by Dazed & ICA London, St James’s, Thursday 15 December, 7-9pm (ticket required, £6)
Peformance: Transphoria at ICA London, St James’s, Friday 16 December, 8pm, (ticket required £5)
Exhibition Tour and Artist Q&A of Ancient Vessels at APT Gallery, Deptford, Sunday 18 December, 3-5pm
Exhibitions
This is a running list, so you’ll always have a complete, up-to-date exhibitions list in each newsletter!
Gallery Shows
Mayfair
Radhika Khimji, Lee Miller: Portraits in Space at Sapling Gallery, through 17 December
Grab a cappuccino after at The Connaught Patisserie (or a crêpe at their cute winter Hütte stand in front of the Connaught hotel) and walk through Mount Street Gardens
Haley Josephs: Every Part of the Dream at Almine Rech, through 22 December
Adrian Ghenie: The Fear of NOW at Thaddaeus Ropac, through 22 December
Marcel Dzama: Child of Midnight at David Zwirner, through 22 December
Amy Sherald: The World We Make at Hauser & Wirth, through 23 December
Anne Imhof: Avatar II at Sprueth Magers, through 23 December
Small is Beautiful at Flowers Gallery, through 7 January
Grace Weaver: Trash-Scapes at Galerie Max Hetzler, through 7 January
On Sexuality: Helen Chadwick at Richard Saltoun, through 10 January
Hannah Lim: The Tiger’s Eye at Huxley Parlour (Maddox St location), through 21 January
Stacey Gillian Abe: Shrub-let of Old Ayivu at Unit London, through 27 January
Friends and Relations: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews at Gagosian on Grosvenor Hill, through 28 January
Soho
Dialogue, a group show of three London-based women artists working with portraiture, at The Artist Room, through 17 December
Even the Worm Will Turn, a duo show of Nettle Grellier and Georg Wilson, at Soho Revue, through 30 December
Aman Aheer: Body Double at Indigo Madder, through 14 January
St. James’s
Cecily Brown: Studio Pictures at Thomas Dane Gallery, through 17 December
Fitzrovia
Somaya Critchlow: Afternoon’s Darkness at Maximililan William, through 14 December
Face to Face at Gillian Jason Gallery, through 17 December
Hajar Benjida: Atlanta Made Us Famous at TJ Boulting, through 17 December
Kate Tomlinson: At Least Buy Me Dinner First at Brooke Benington, through 14 January
Do a Fitzrovia gallery hop and stop at Scandinavian Kitchen for coffee & a cinnamon bun or at Kaffeine for something a bit healthier but equally as delicious
Bloomsbury
Hannah Catherine Jones: OWED TO CHIRON (The Wounded Healer) at Mimosa House, through 23 December
East London
Buffer, showing the work of recent graduates from UK art universities, at Guts Gallery, Hackney, through 8 December
Pair with coffee & lunch at nearby Pophams Bakery (also a good spot to sit and read or work)
Nana Wolke: Wanda’s at Nicoletti Contemporary, Bethnal Green, through 28 January
Southwark
Oracles and Algorithms, a duo show featuring Rebeca Romero and Maria Joranko, at Copperfield Gallery, through 28 January
Museum Shows
Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art at the Hayward Gallery (ticket required, £15)
Rebeca Parkins at Zabludowicz Collection, Chalk Farm/Primrose Hill
Bloomberg New Contemporaries at South London Gallery, Camberwell
Showcasing graduates from UK art schools - a great opportunity to discover emerging artists!
The Drawing Year 2022 End of Year Exhibition at Royal Drawing School, Shoreditch
Moving Bodies, Moving Images at Whitechapel Gallery, Whitechapel/Spitalfields
Barbara Chase-Riboud: Infinite Folds and Kamala Ibrahim Ishag: States of Oneness at The Serpentine, Kensington
Making Modernism at the Royal Academy, Mayfair (ticket required, £15)
Several recommended shows at the Tate Modern:
Cecilia Vicuña’s Turbine Hall commission
The EY Exhibition: Cezanne (ticket required, £22)
Maria Bartuszová (ticket required, £16)
Magdalena Abakanowiccz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope (ticket required, £16)
Then after walk to Borough Market for a bite! Or for a caffeine fix, Monmouth Coffee, Grind (London Bridge) and Caravan (Bankside) are all nearby.
Lucian Freud: New Perspectives at The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square (ticket required, £26)
Pair with a stroll through Covent Garden, where you can stop for a hot chocolate at 26 Grains in Neal’s Yard
Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 - Today at the Design Museum, Kensington, (ticket required, £17)