Top 5 #LondonExhibitions
This weekend is time for love, what could be better than visiting an exhibition with your better half?
Of People and Places
Reflections on the relationship between people and landscape by international photographers. Of People and Places explores both the ways in which society’s impact visually manifests itself on the landscape, and the ways in which the land can be of significant influence to individuals, communities and - more specifically - to artists.
5th February – 8th March 2015
Oxford House Gallery, London E2 6HG
Open Monday-Friday 9am-10pm, Sat/Sun 10am-2pm
Nearest Station: Bethnal Green
Free
History is Now: 7 Artists Take On Britain
The Hayward Gallery is to devote an exhibition to the history of Britain from 1945 to the present day. A selection of artists have been invited to select works that best represent the British Isles through these decades of history and which 'shed new light on how we remember, rethink and reconsider the past', including this image by Tony Ray-Jones of Glyndebourne festivalgoers enjoying a picnic in a field of cows.
10th February-26th April 2015
Hayward Gallery
Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX
Open Monday 12 noon – 6pm, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday 11am – 7pm, Thursday and Friday 11am – 8pm.
Nearest Station: Waterloo/Embankment
Tickets £10.90 here, concessions apply.
Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915–2015
This epic show takes Kazimir Malevich’s radical painting of a black square – first shown in Russia 100 years ago – as the emblem of a new art and a new society. The exhibition features over 100 artists who took up its legacy, from Buenos Aires to Tehran, London to Berlin, New York to Tel Aviv. Their paintings, photographs and sculptures symbolise Modernism’s utopian aspirations and breakdowns.
15th January-6th April 2015
Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX
Open Tuesday/ Wednesday 11am-6pm, Thursday 11am-9pm, Friday-Sunday 11am-6pm. Closed Mondays .
Tickets £11.95 here, concessions apply.
Wilhelm Sasnal
Wilhelm Sasnal’s 2015 exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ brings together an extensive series of new paintings. Diverse in size and subject, the works at once bear witness to everyday life and to far-flung moments from history, mediating between realism and fantasy, figuration and quixotic decorativeness.
14th January – 21st February 2015
Sadie Coles HQ
62 Kingly Street, London W1B 5QN
Open Tuesday-Saturday 10am-6pm
Nearest Station: Piccadilly Circus
Free
Collection of Small Paintings
The Contemporary London Art Gallery & Representation
Collection of Small Paintingsbrings together the work of 20 contemporary painters.
The concept of the exhibition stems from the history and tradition of Miniatures and small Cabinet paintings.
5th February-22nd February 2015
Space W10
591-593 Harrow Road, London W10 4RA
Open Monday-Saturday 10-6pm
Nearest Station: Kendal Rise
Free
Happy weekend! - Christine