The Art List issue no.9
13 - 26 February
Welcome to the latest issue of The Art List!
Never a dull or resting moment in the London art scene, there is a plethora of wonderful gallery and museum exhibitions on right now.
I personally am most excited about the Alice Neel show at the Barbican, opening this week. There are a number of new shows in the running exhibitions lists so be sure to comb through those!
Enjoy and as always please let me know if you have any feedback or questions.
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Amanda
P.S. Looking to plan some fun art outings this year? Check out this special issue on Day & Weekend Art Trips in the UK.
Openings & Events
Organized by date, Rsvp & ticket requirements indicated where necessary
This week:
Talk Abstract Colour: In Conversation at Marlborough in Mayfair on Wednesday 15 February, 6-8pm (book free ticket here)
Opening of Tomas Harker: Multiple Choice Fairytale Ending at The Sunday Painter in Vauxhall on Thursday 16 February, 6.30-9pm
Opening of Baggage Claim, curated by Georgia Stephenson and Rosalind Wilson, at Staffordshire Street in Peckham on Thursday 16 February, 6-9pm
Opening of Ebun Sodipo: Nasty Girl (The Sharpest Girl in Town), curated by Languid Hands, at V.O Curations in Mayfair on Thursday 16 February, 6-8pm
Panel discussion in response to Zadie Xa’s installation at Whitechapel Gallery on Thursday 16 February, 7-8.30pm (£5 ticket)
Talk and drawing class Niki de Saint Phalle: A Feminine Joy on Thursday 16 February, hosted by the London Drawing Group online, 6.30-8.30pm (donation-based ticket)
Opening of a small showcase of Emily Kraus and Matija Čop at Sapling on Saturday 18 February, 12-6pm
Performances Lacuna + The Well at the ICA in St James’s on Saturday 18 February, 8pm (£19 ticket, discount options available)
Next week:
Opening of R.I.P. Germain: Jesus Died For Us, We Will Die For Dudus at the ICA in St James’s on Tuesday 21 February, 6-11pm with music and drinks starting at 9pm (free but booking recommended)
Opening of Haroon Mirza: III at Lisson Gallery in Marylebone, on Thursday 23 February, 6-8pm
Friday Lates at Studio Voltaire in Clapham, with late exhibition viewing and drinks & bites in the courtyard garden, on Friday 24 February, 6-9pm
Day of film screenings and conversations: The Survivor Lens - Reframing Trauma Narratives through Filmmaking curated by artists Laura E. Fischer and Andrea Luka Zimmerman, at Whitechapel Gallery on Saturday 25 February, 11.30am-6pm (ticket required, £5)
Book lunch or dinner at St. John Bread + Wine in Spitalfields for after!
Film screenings and talk: Casual Encounters at LUX in Waterlow Park in Highgate on Sunday 26 February, 2-4pm (ticket required, £5)
Exhibitions
This is a running list, so you’ll always have a complete, up-to-date exhibitions list in each newsletter! New additions are added in every issue.
Gallery Shows
Mayfair
Dan Flavin: colored fluorescent light at David Zwirner, through 18 February
Let the Sunshine In at Pilar Corrias (both spaces), through February 18
Kenneth Noland: Stripes/Plaids/Shapes at Pace, through 25 February
Jeremy Demester: Ram Muay at Max Hetzler, through 25 February
Paolo Salvador at Goodman Gallery, through 25 February
Ciarán Murphy: this appear at GRIMM, through 25 February
Delphine Hennelly: Through Perseus’ Sheild at Huxley Parlour on Maddox St, through 4 March (note that their Saturday hours are 10am - 1pm)
Antoni Tàpies at Timothy Taylor, through 4 March
Adam McEwen at Gagosian on Davies St, through 11 March
Liza Giles: The Shape of Things at Flowers Gallery, through 11 March
Linder - Hannah Wilke at Alison Jacques, through 11 March
Zarouhie Abdalian: Bells for Baku at Pippy Holdsworth, through 18 March
Antigone: Women in Fibre Art at Richard Saltoun, through 18 March
Hao Liang: The Sad Zither at Gagosian on Grosvenor Hill, through 18 March
Joseph Beuys: 40 Years of Drawing at Thaddaeus Ropac, through 22 March
Gretchen Bender and Jon Rafman at Sprüth Magers, through 25 March
Günther Förg: Tupfenbilder at Hauser & Wirth, through 29 April
Soho
East of the Sun and West of the Moon at Soho Revue, through 25 February
Wynnie Mynerva: Bones of my Bones, Flesh of my Flesh at Gathering, through 4 March
St. James’s
Joy Gerrard & Paula Rego: Image as Protest at Cristea Roberts, through 4 March
Jem Southam: The Seventh Winter at Huxley Parlour on Swallow Street, through 4 March (note that Saturday their hours are 1.30 - 5.30pm)
Fitzrovia
Hysteria at Gillian Jason Gallery, through 18 February, then Duo show: Mizuki Nishiyama & Julia Bennett, 23 February - 25 March
Johanna Bath: Shivers at Pipeline Contemporary, through 25 February
Richard Maguire: What Happens to Remain Unsaid at Maxmillian William, through 25 February
The Picture at Brooke Bennington, through 25 February
Laura & Rachel Lancaster: Cadence at Workplace, through 4 March
Marylebone
Haroon Mirza: III at Lisson Gallery in Marylebone, 24 February - 8 April
Bloomsbury
Joseph Yaeger: Time Weft at The Perimeter, through 18 February (book your visit here)
South Kensington
Beneath the Surface at Lehmann Maupin in Cromwell Place, through 4 March
There’s a Gail’s just down the street for your caffeine fix or walk a bit further to HJEM Kensington (get a cardamom bun) or Café Kitsuné (for matcha)
North West London
when i was walking on the edge of a teacup at Roman Road in Notting Hill, through 17 February
Then get a coffee and covetable pastry at Layla Bakery
Primeval, hosted by Collective East at Unit 1 Gallery in Notting Hill, through 25 February
Fa Razavi: Dancing on a Knife’s Edge, curated by Mollie Barnes founder of She Curates, at Wilder Gallery in Kensal Rise, 22 February - 11 March
East London
Kemi Onabulé: The Lunatics at Guts Gallery in Hackney, through 3 March
Pophams London Fields is a short walk away for a coffee
The sun rises under the pillar of your tongue at The Approach in Bethnal Green, through 18 February
South London
Baggage Claim, curated by Georgia Stephenson and Rosalind Wilson, at Staffordshire Street in Peckham, 17 February - 5 March
Serena Korda: The Maidens at Cooke Latham Gallery in Battersea, through 17 March
Tomas Harker: Multiple Choice Fairytale Ending at The Sunday Painter in Vauxhall, through 1 April
Museum Shows
Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle at the Barbican, open from 16 February (£18 ticket, discount options available)
Thursdays and Fridays the museum is open late until 8pm (last entry 7pm) so you could visit the show after work and then head to The Ned nearby for a cocktail
Action. Gesture. Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70 at Whitechapel Gallery (£16.50 ticket, discount options available)
For your post-exhibition eats, Bubala and St. John Bread + Wine are great nearby options, or hit up the Crosstown doughnuts cart in Spitalfields Market
Giorgio Morandi at the Estorick Collection, Islington (£7.50 ticket)
Pair with a visit to the nearby Pophams Bakery for a coffee and sweet treat; or, for a sit-down meal Italian favorite Trullo is only a five-min walk away
Bloomberg New Contemporaries showcasing graduates from UK art schools at South London Gallery, Camberwell through 12 March
M.K. Čiurlionis: Between Worlds at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Dulwich Village (£16.50 ticket) through 12 March
Mohammed Sami: The Point 0 at Camden Art Centre in Hampstead
Ginger & White is just a ten-minute walk away for coffee or brunch
Several recommended shows at the Tate Modern:
Cecilia Vicuña’s Turbine Hall commission
The EY Exhibition: Cezanne (£22 ticket) through 12 March
Maria Bartuszová (£16 ticket)
Magdalena Abakanowiccz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope (£16 ticket)
Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 - Today at the Design Museum, Kensington, (£17 ticket, discount options available) through 19 February
Fuel your visit with a coffee from the Gail’s next door
Barbara Chase Riboud: Infinite Folds at Serpentine in Kensington Gardens
Follow with a late lunch at rustic British restaurant Maggie Jones