Art After Dark: West End Gallery Hop!
I recommend a visit to the current show at Waddington Custot!
Yves Dana & Richard Höglund are connected by the basal simplicity of their works, which are rich in historical references. The sculptor — originally from Egypt, and the painter from the USA — combine the ancient and the contemporary in their morphology, bringing us into a utopian new world, as if we were in a Dune novel. Their artworks created for me the art addiction — like the spice from the famous science fiction novel, we can travel to new worlds thanks to their work!
Lenka Bakes, director of Prague Art Week
Curatorially I have a particular interest in artists who exist at intersections: music and sound art, film and video art etc. Olukemi Lijadu is one such artist: her musical practice (often DJing under her moniker Kem Kem) informs her fine art practice and visa versa.
Lijadu’s three channel moving image work Guardian Angel (which first premiered at the ICA London) was, for me, a highlight of V.O Curation’s 2022 exhibition programming. In Guardian Angel (and her work as a whole) Lijadu examines Western belief systems, religious nuance & generational exchange within the context of her own upbringing in Lagos… all sewn together with immersive sonic installation.
Ben Broome, curator
Mayfair Art Weekend
Brown’s Hotel
Brown’s Hotel
The first time I met Francesco Arena must have been in 2013 or 2014, over a gin and tonic in Madrid during ARCO Fair… His work is a mixture of histories and The History, a mix of materials and aesthetics, or a minimalist Arte povera. The acute use of language, of numbers and facts, characterise his artistic practice that unfolds in performances, installations, and sculptures…
I am very curious to see how he plays with the tangible and the intangible in his new exhibition There is Nothing Here at Sprovieri gallery, and how he talks about absence by presenting objects with the intelligence that characterises him.
Andrea Rodriguez Novoa, Codirector and Program Lead of Barcelona Gallery Weekend
JD Malat Gallery
30 Davies Street, W1K 4NB
Sophie-Yen Bretez, Powerful, despite it all
Exhibition dates: Thursday 8 June—Saturday 8 July
Sophie-Yen Bretez, And maybe one day, When the blue of the night, Will drop on the World, I will no longer be like the rain, Nor the word: - Melancholy, 2023
Image courtesy JD Malat Gallery
Koppel 180º
177 – 180 Piccadilly, W1J 9ER
AND THE BEAT GOES ON…
Exhibition dates: Thursday 12 October—Sunday 15 October
And The Beat Goes On..., Image courtesy of Koppel 180º
Unit London
3 Hanover Square, W1S 1HD
Jason Boyd Kinsella, Anatomy Of The Radiant Mind
Exhibition dates: Tuesday 3 October—Saturday 4 November
Robilant + Voena
1st Floor, 38 Dover Street, W1S 4NL
Daniel Ambrosi. AI and the Landscapes of Capability Brown
Exhibition dates: Friday 6 October—Friday 15 December
Daniel Ambrosi, Blenheim detail, 2023, Image courtesy of the artist and Robilant+Voena
Elizabeth Garouste: Beans
Exhibition dates: Monday 18 September—Friday 8 December
Elizabeth Garouste, Herman Mirrors, Image courtesy of Antoine Bootz
Crafted Wonder
Exhibition dates: Friday 15 September—Monday 16 October
La Manufacture Cogolin x Christian Bérard, Detail of the Idylle collection rug, Courtesy of design entities and sketch
Waddington Custot
11 Cork Street, W1S 3LT
Ian Davenport: Lake
Exhibition dates: Friday 6 October—Saturday 11 November
Ian Davenport, Trace, 2022, Courtesy the artist
Viewer/Voyeur: The Female Form in Modern Art 1890 — Present
Exhibition dates: Monday 24 April—Friday 30 June
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Femme de Maison, 1894
Image courtesy Alone Zakaim Fine Art
Gary Simmons, This Must Be The Place
Exhibition dates: Thursday 25 May—Saturday 29 July
Gary Simmons, How Soon is Now, 2023. Image courtesy Hauser & Wirth
The Mayor Gallery
21 Cork Street, 1st floor, W1S 3LZ
Sue Dunkley
Exhibition dates: Thursday 21 September—Friday 3 November
Sue Dunkley, Untitled (JFK), 1970. Image courtesy of the artist and The Mayor Gallery
Mazzoleni
1st Floor, 15 Old Bond Street, W1S 4AX
The Paradox of Proximity: Agostino Bonalumi and Lee Seung Jio
Exhibition dates: Wednesday 11 October—Thursday 30 November
Agostino Bonalumi, Bianco, 1975. Image courtesy of Mazzoleni London Torino
Skarstedt Gallery
8 Bennet St, SW1A 1RP
Radical Abstraction
Exhibition dates: Thursday 27 April—Saturday 1 July
Charline Von Heyl, Crash Course Atalante, 2016
Image courtesy Skarstedt Gallery
Carl Kostyál
12a Savile Row, W1S 3PQ
Arnaud Adami: The Visible Turn
Exhibition dates: Monday 9 October—Sunday 29 October
Arnaud Adam. © the artist. Courtesy of Carl Kostyál, London | Stockholm
Gillian Jason Gallery
19 Great Titchfield St., W1W 8AZ
Megan Baker: I See You in the Clouds, You Move with the Wind
Exhibition dates: Thursday 5 October—Saturday 11 November
Magan Baker, There is only one thing I know to be true, 2023. Image courtesy of the Gillian Jason Gallery and the Artist
Francesco Arena, There is Nothing Here
Exhibition dates: Friday 2 June—Friday 25 August
Francesco Arena, Cross Threshold, 2023
Image courtesy of Sprovieri
Opera Gallery
Unit 6, Burlington Arcade, 51 Piccadilly, W1J 0QJ
David Kim Whittaker, The Monstrosities & The Love, part 1
Exhibition dates: Friday 2 June—Saturday 1 July
David Kin Whittaker, Unleash the Beast, 2021
Image courtesy of Opera Gallery
45 (Between the Seams)
Exhibition dates: Friday 22 September—Tuesday 31 October
46 (Raelis Vasquez)
Exhibition dates: Friday 22 September—Tuesday 31 October
Stern Pissarro Gallery
66 St. James’s Street, SW1A 1NE
Lélia Pissarro: Traces of Giverny
Exhibition dates: Thursday 12 October—Saturday 28 October
Lélia Pissarro, To know what you know and what you do not know... that this true knowledge “Confucius", 2023. Copyright Stern Pissarro Gallery, London. Courtesy of the Artist.
The Photographers’ Gallery
Soho Photography Quarter, Ramillies Place, W1F 7LW
Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective
Exhibition dates: Friday 6 October—Sunday 11 February
Miho Kajioka: How Long is Now?
Exhibition dates: Friday 15 September—Sunday 19 November
Saatchi Yates
14 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AL
Will St. John
Exhibition dates: Wednesday 13 September—Sunday 22 October
Will St. John, Big Boi, 2023, Courtesy of the artist and Saatchi Yates
White Cube
(Mason’s Yard)
25 — 26 Mason’s Yard, SW1Y 6BU
Marina Rheingantz: Maré
Exhibition dates: Tuesday 10 October—Saturday 11 November
Marina Rheingantz, Schmetterlinge im bauch, 2023. © the artist. Photo © White Cube (Theo Christelis)
Frith Street Gallery
17 – 18 Golden Square, W1F 9JJ
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
Exhibition dates: Friday 15 September—Saturday 11 November
Małgorzata Mirga-Ta, Augustyn Gabor z córką Elżbietą / Augustyn Gabor with his daughter Elżbietą, z cykly / from the series Siukar Manusia, 2022. Image courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London
David Gill Gallery
2 – 4 King Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6QP
Mattia Bonetti, Florida
Exhibition dates: Friday 23 June—Saturday 22 July
Installation view of Mattia Bonett: Florida
Image courtesy David Gill Gallery
Cristea Roberts Gallery
43 Pall Mall, SW1Y 5JG
Yinka Shonibare CBE: Ritual Ecstasy of the Modern
Exhibition dates: Friday 22 September—Saturday 4 November
Yinka Shonibare, Modern Spiritual II, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and Cristea Roberts Gallery
W.SHANSHAN 珊然軒
3 Duke of York Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6JP
Tang: Beauty and Beast
Exhibition dates: Friday 17 November—Tuesday 28 November
Sancai Chicken Head Ewer 唐三彩龍柄雞頭壺 Tang dynasty 7 10th century AD, Courtesy of W. SHANSHAN 珊然軒 Gallery
Alanna Hernandez, ‘Under the Strain’
Exhibition dates: Wednesday 7 June—Friday 30 June
Courtauld Institute of Art
Vernon Square King’s Cross, WC1X 9EW
Centre for British Photography
49 Jermyn Street, SW1Y 6LX
Dorothy Bohm, London Street Markets
Exhibition dates: Thursday 5 October—Sunday 17 December
Grace Lau, Portraits In a Chinese Studio
Exhibition dates: Thursday 5 October—Sunday 17 December
Charlie Phillips, How Great Thou Art, 50 Years of African Caribbean Funerals in London
Exhibition dates: Thursday 5 October—Sunday 17 December
Arpita Shah, Modern Muse
Exhibition dates: Thursday 5 October—Sunday 17 December
Daniel Meadows, Free Photographic Omnibus, 50th Anniversary
Exhibition dates: Thursday 5 October—Sunday 17 December
Brown’s Hotel
33 Albemarle Street, W1S 4BP
East Wing Biennial (Courtauld Institute of Art Student Union + Mayfair Art Weekend Partnership). Presentation of the Upcoming Edition by Directors of exhibition Amy Brand & India Harvey with Head of Curation Luisa Hutchinson (Ticketed Event)
East Wing Biennial (Courtauld Institute of Art Student Union + Mayfair Art Weekend Partnership). East Wing Biennial Panel Discussion by Courtauld Institute of Art’s Dr Catherine Grant and Dr Lucy Bradnock (Ticketed Event)
Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BD
National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts — keeping their doors open till 8pm
Summer Exhibition 2023
Summer Exhibition 2023
Installation view of the Summer Exhibition 2023 at the Royal Academy of Arts
Image courtesy of Royal Academy of Arts, photo by David Parry
The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN
The Credit Suisse Exhibition Frans Hals
Exhibition dates: Saturday 30 September—Sunday 21 January
Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden
Exhibition dates: Friday 22 September—Sunday 29 October
National Portrait Gallery
St. Martin’s Pl, WC2H 0HE
National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts — keeping their doors open till 8pm
Drop-in Drawing; Gallery Room/Floor 2 (Event)
Curators’ insights – a fresh look at the Collection; Making portraits 2000 with Sarah Howgate, Room 30/ Floor 1 (Tour)
Guest DJ: Lady Kamikaze, Main Hall (Event)
Architect Jamie Fobert in conversation with National Portrait Gallery Director Nicholas Cullinan, The Ondaatje Wing Theatre (Talk, Paid Event)
Curators’ insights – a fresh look at the Collection; The Tudors with Charlotte Bolland, Rooms 1 and 2/ Floor 3 (Tour)
Yevonde: ‘Life and Colour’ (Exhibition)
Paul McCartney, ‘Photographs 1963 – 64: Eyes of the Storm’ (Exhibition)
Art After Dark installations
Art After Dark installations
Art After Dark screenings
Art After Dark screenings
