Top 5 #LondonExhibitions
Get through your winter blues with a treat for the eyes and mind this weekend.
Powerful women are taking centre stage in the gallery this week, striking pieces from Catch-22, Hannah Adamaszek & Lowdown bring us motivation and inspiration.
Now-28th February
Curious Duke Gallery
173 Whitecross Street, London EC1Y 8JT
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 11:30am-6:30 and Saturday 12-4
Nearest Station: Old Street Exit 6, Barbican
Price: Free
Dor Guez: The Sick Man of Europe
In collaboration with The Mosaic Rooms, the ICA is presenting the first UK institutional solo exhibition of artist Dor Guez. As an artist of Christian Palestinian and Jewish Tunisian descent, living in Jaffa, he is considered a leading and critical voice from the Middle East whose practice questions contemporary art’s role in narrating unwritten histories.
3rd February – 12th April 2015
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
Open: Tues/Wed 11am-6pm
Thursday 11am-9pm
Fri/Sat 11am-6pm
Nearest Station: Charing Cross/Piccadilly Circus
Free
Viriginia Overton
White Cube Mason’s Yard is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by American artist Virginia Overton, her first in the UK. Marked by a minimal and elegant economy, Overton’s large-scale sculptures and installations are intuitive and adaptable, focusing on volume and space and the inherent physicality of their component parts.
16th January-14th March 2015
White Cube Mason's Yard
25 – 26 Mason's Yard, London SW1Y 6BU
Open: Tuesday-Saturday 10am – 6pm
Nearest Station: Green Park
Free
A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense
Pace London is honoured to present A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense, a momentous exhibition that will take as inspiration the character and career of celebrated art dealer and pioneer, Robert Fraser. Curated by his friend Brian Clarke, this exhibition will showcase many of the luminaries of the American and European contemporary art scenes that passed through his gallery. The Robert Fraser Gallery was one of the preeminent galleries showing both emerging European and American artists in the 1960’s and 80’s in London.
6th February-28th March 2015
Pace London
6 Burlington Gardens, London W1S 3ET
Open: Tuesday -Saturday 10-6
Nearest Station: Piccadilly Circus
Free
Marlene Dumas / Juan Munoz: Drawings
Frith Street Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of rarely seen works on paper by Marlene Dumas and Juan Muñoz. Though quite different in approach, Dumas’ and Muñoz’s practice shows deep concerns for the human body, our relationship to it and its status as a recurring motif across the entire history of art.
16th January – 17th April 2015
Frith Street Gallery
60 Frith Street, London W1D 3JJ
Open: Wednesday - Friday 10am-6pm
Sat 11am-5pm or by appointment
Nearest Station: Tottenham Court Road
Free
Veiled Realms
Inspired and informed by Buddhist thought and motifs, Palden Weinreb’sthree-dimensional works explore the idea of existence, focusing especially on one of the core teachings of Buddhism: the conscious detachment from the illusions of the earthly realm and the escape from samsara (the repeating cycle of life and death).
6th February-19th March 2015
Rossi and Rossi
27 Dover Street, London W1S 4LZ
Open: Monday-Friday 10-6pm
Saturday 11am-4pm
Nearest Station: Green Park
Free
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Happy weekend! - Christine