Happy new year and welcome back to a new issue of The Art List! I’m so excited to be back to sharing all about the best exhibitions, openings, and art events happening in London this month!
Two shows I’m very excited to see this month are the group shows Threshold, a presentation of women artists exploring ritual and spiritualism in contemporary art, opening Thursday at Simon Lee Gallery, and (It’s My Party) I Can Cry If I Want To up at Guts Gallery, which revels in transgression notions of female excess and consumption.
For the portrait painting fans, I highly recommend visiting the Lucian Freud show at The National Gallery before it closes on the 22nd, as well as the historical group painting show Friends and Relations (which includes Freud) currently up at Gagosian on Grosvenor Hill until the 28th.
P.S. if you are looking for a custom art itinerary or gallery hop route DM me and I’ll make one for you!
X,
Amanda
Openings & Events
Organised by date, Rsvp & ticket requirements indicated where necessary
This week:
Opening of Cuckoo, a group exhibition of the three 2022 Freelands Painting Fellowship artists, hosted at the Freelands Foundation in Primrose Hill, Tuesday 17 January, 6.30-8.30pm
Opening of Catherine Murphy at Sadie Coles on Bury St in St James’s, Wednesday 18 January, 6-8pm
London Art Fair, Wednesday 18 January - Sunday 22 January, at the Business Design Centre in Islington (tickets start at £15, purchase here)
Check out their Talks programme, highlights of which include:
“What is the Role of Museums Today?” talk hosted by curator, art historian, and author Catherine McCormack on Wednesday, 10.30-11.45am
“Reframing the Muse” panel discussion chaired by art historian and author Ruth Millington on Thursday, 1-2pm
“Next Generation Collectors” panel discussion of speakers from the worlds of art and tech discussing how collecting is evolving on Thursday, 5.30-6.30pm
“Searching for Homeplace and Performing the Home” performance and talk on Friday, 4-5pm
“Art Institutions in a Period of Social Change” discussion hosted by Amal Khalaf from Cubitt Gallery on Saturday, 12-1pm
Opening of when i was walking on the edge of a teacup at Roman Road in Notting Hill, Thursday 19 January, 6-8pm
Openings of Konstantinos Argyroglou: Re-touching Memory and Hannah Beerman: Call me if you get lost at Claas Reiss gallery in Marylebone, Thursday 19 January, 5-8pm
Opening of Threshold at Simon Lee Gallery in Mayfair, Thursday 19 January, 6-8pm
Go to Isabel after for a nice cocktail
Openings of Zayn Qahtani: Angels in Purgatory and Ludovica Gioscia: Follicle Symphony at VITRINE gallery in Fitzrovia, Thursday 19 January, 6-9pm
Opening of Winter Garden at APT Gallery in Deptford, Thursday 19 January, 6-8pm
Drawing class: Louise Bourgeois - Doodling and the Unconscious, hosted by the London Drawing Group, online, Thursday 19 January, 6.30-8pm (donation-based ticket required)
Next week:
Online lecture: “Draw me like one of your French girls” - The History of the Artists Model, hosted by the London Drawing Group’s Feminist Lecture Programme, Monday 23 January, 6.30-8.30pm, (donation-based ticket required)
Openings of two shows, Jem Southam: The Seventh Winter and Delphine Hennelly: Through Perseus’ Sheild at Huxley Parlour in Mayfair at both their Swallow St and Maddox St locations, Tuesday 24 January, 6-8pm (rsvp required)
Opening of Wynnie Mynerva: Bones of my Bones, Flesh of my Flesh at Gathering in Soho, Tuesday 24 January, 6-8pm
Opening of DES BAINS gallery’s new space in Hackney, Tuesday 24 January, 5-8pm
Opening of The Picture at Brooke Bennington in Fitzrovia, Wednesday 25 January, 6-8pm
Opening of Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Now I’m home, lips that know my name at Sadie Coles on Kingly St, Wednesday 25 January, 6-8pm
Panel discussion: Women’s journeys in the city and beyond, in conjunction with the exhibition Making Modernism, at the Royal Academy in Mayfair, Wednesday 25 January, 6.30-8pm (ticket, £15)
Talk: Artist Richard Maguire and Curator Gemma Rolls-Bentley in Conversation at Maximillian William in Fitzrovia, Thursday 26 January, 6.30-7.30pm
Then grab a drink across the street at Mortimer House Kitchen
Cromwell Place x Philharmonia Orchestra: Emerging Art at Cromwell Place in South Ken, Saturday 28 January, 2.30pm (tickets, £20)
Feminist Duration Reading Group: Letters to the Future, Brixton, Saturday 28 January, 4-5pm (rsvp required)
Curator and artist-led exhibition tour of Leah Clements: INSOMNIA at South Kiosk gallery in Peckham, Saturday 28 January, 5pm (rsvp required)
Exhibitions
This is a running list, so you’ll always have a complete, up-to-date exhibitions list in each newsletter!
Gallery Shows
Mayfair
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
Conscious Unconscious at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, through 4 February
Paris Calling at Sapling Gallery, through 11 February
Dan Flavin: colored fluorescent light at David Zwirner, through 18 February
Let the Sunshine In at Pilar Corrias (both spaces), through February 18
Threshold at Simon Lee Gallery, through 25 February
Catherine Murphy at Sadie Coles on Bury St, through 25 February
Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Now I’m home lips, that know my name, through 25 February
Delphine Hennelly: Through Perseus’ Sheild at Huxley Parlour on Maddox St, through 4 March
Joseph Beuys: 40 Years of Drawing at Thaddaeus Ropac, through 22 March
Soho
Wynnie Mynerva: Bones of my Bones, Flesh of my Flesh at Gathering, through 4 March
St. James’s
Gideon Mendel: The Ward - Revisted at Fitzrovia Chapel, through 5 February
This unique spot is a beautiful chapel in Fitzrovia that also hosts contemporary art exhibitions!
For coffee afterward, Kaffeine and Scandinavian Kitchen are two great cafes nearby. For a sit-down coffee and bite, go to Caravan, also just a few minutes away.
Jem Southam: The Seventh Winter at Huxley Parlour on Swallow Street, through 4 March
Fitzrovia
Hysteria at Gillian Jason Gallery, through 18 February
Hajar Benjida: Atlanta Made Us Famous at TJ Boulting, through 28 January
Gabriel Kidd: I’ve always kept a unicorn at Pipeline Contemporary, through 28 January
While you are on the street, see the current group show at Pilar Corrias next door while you are there and then stop for coffee at Kaffeine
Richard Maguire: What Happens to Remain Unsaid, through 25 February
The Picture at Brooke Bennington, through 25 February
Bloomsbury
Joseph Yaeger: Time Weft at The Perimeter, through 18 February (book your visit here)
Go towards the end of the day then get a drink & dinner on Lamb’s Conduit Street, just a 5 min walk from the gallery. Highly recommend Noble Rot, a cosy classic British neighborhood restaurant.
South Kensington
Celeste: A Portable Landscape, presented by Canopy Collections at Cromwell Place, through 29 January
Beneath the Surface at Lehmann Maupin in Cromwell Place, through 4 March
Notting Hill
When i was walking on the edge of a teacup at Roman Road in Notting Hill, through 17 February
East London
Nana Wolke: Wanda’s at Nicoletti Contemporary, Bethnal Green, through 28 January
(It’s My Party) I Can Cry If I Want To at Guts Gallery, Hackney, through 2 February
Jolene on Newington Green is just a 10 min car ride away if you want to pop over there for lunch after!
South East London
Paloma Proudfoot: The Memory Theatre at Bosse & Baum in Peckham, through 28 January
Leah Clements: INSOMNIA at South Kiosk in Peckham, through 29 January
Winter Garden at APT Gallery in Deptford, through 5 February
Museum Shows
Lucian Freud: New Perspectives at The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square (ticket required, £26), Closing 22 January
Pair with a walk through Covent Garden, where you can stop for a matcha at 26 Grains in Neal’s Yard
Barbara Chase-Riboud: Infinite Folds and Kamala Ibrahim Ishag: States of Oneness at The Serpentine, Kensington, Closing 29 January
Giorgio Morandi at the Estorick Collection, Islington (book advance ticket £7.50 or get same day ticket in person)
Bloomberg New Contemporaries at South London Gallery, Camberwell
Showcasing graduates from UK art schools - a great opportunity to discover emerging artists!
Making Modernism at the Royal Academy, Mayfair (ticket required, £15)
M.K. Čiurlionis: Between Worlds at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Dulwich Village (ticket required, £16.50)
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)
Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 - Today at the Design Museum, Kensington, (ticket required, £17)