Top 5 exhibitions in London
Posted on June 9, 2016
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Time for our top 5 exhibitions this week! As we are heading off to Affordable Art Fair Hampstead next week I have added on a few extras to keep you going. Don’t say that I don’t treat you.
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Contemporary art galleries Modern ArtBuyer and Liberty Gallery will be collaborating to showcase a selection of their leading artists in a pop-up gallery in London’s thriving Barbican area.
The two galleries have curated a collection of exceptional artworks, cool prints and inspiring digital pieces to hang in the popular Curious Duke gallery space, 173 Whitecross Street EC1. Artists on show include established names such as Maria Rivans, Bonnie & Clyde, Chuck Elliott, Dan Hillier, Delphine Lebourgeois, Rebecca King, Paul Minott, Alexander Korzer-Robinson, Magnus Gjoen and Emma Cowlam. There will be a broad range of pieces for sale, from unframed prints through to framed unique collages.
Now- 11 June
Curious Duke Gallery
173 Whitecross Street
London EC1Y 8JT
Open Monday – Friday 11:30-6:30, Saturday 12-4
Nearest station: Old Street Underground and Barbican
Free
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Curious Duke Gallery is proud to present Animalarium by Otto D’Ambra. The Italian born artist will be showcasing his refracted world of hybrids and etched prints to Hoxton Hotel, Shoreditch. Otto D’Ambra concocts delightful and sometimes magnificently sinister drawings and prints: it won’t be unheard of to see a stag with its antlers becoming lobster claws, birds feet attached to a suited fox sporting an antique umbrella or even a swimming fish adorned with butterfly wings, and all executed in minute detail.
Now- 6 September
Hoxton Hotel
81 Great Eastern Street
London EC2A 3HU
Open 24/7
Nearest station: Old Street Underground and Shoredtich High Street Overground
Free
Sybarite Nights
Known for their whirlwind evenings of eclectic entertainment, Sybarite Nights will feature the new music genre of progressive acoustic soul from pioneer Cloudy Galvez. If I haven’t already twisted your arm, Donald Trump is not welcome.
10 June 7:30-11pm
Leyden Gallery
9/9a Leyden Street, London E1 7LE
Nearest stations: Liverpool Street and Aldgate and Aldgate East Underground.
Free!
I LIKE WHAT I SEE AND HOW IT MAKES ME FEEL
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Taking the following quote as a starting point, four artists explore its implications, “An imaginative experience,” is “what happens when varied materials of sense quality, emotion, and meaning come together in a union that marks a new birth in the world”. John Dewey, Art as Experience. Knut Henrik Henriksen, Alejandra Herná, Luaina Himid and Reto Pulfer disseminate this by overtaking computer generated plastics, painting of dreams meeting reality and found objects that take on a life in art as narrative surfaces; Electic and inspiring.
Now- 9 July
Hollybush Gardens
1-2 Warner Yard, London EC1R 5EY
Open Tuesday- Friday 11-6, Saturday 12-5
Nearest station: Farringdon Underground and rail.
Free
A few extras:
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Other Altars presents a tentative response, with work made from a world-view that sees the divine in everyday objects and situations. Can breathing life into functional objects, honoring the water that falls in our gardens, and recognizing the active power of the symbols around us, help us stop objectifying our environment, and enter a collaborative relationship with it instead? This show presents three artists understanding of the beauty in the everyday experience and their attempt to reclaim the Other- the sacred that we have pushed to the side.
14- 18 June
Curious Duke Gallery
173 Whitecross Street
London, EC1Y 8JT
Open Tuesday – Friday 11:30-6:30, Saturday 12-4
Nearest station: Old Street and Barbican
Free
In Search of the Sublime
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Artist Peter Matthews abandons himself in the wilderness to throw himself into his art making process, on this occasion 2015-2016 on the coast of Taiwan. Once there, he drew and filmed footage for his video works of his ever-increasing difficulties and survival to test the boundary of painter and painting.
Now- 9 July
Beers London
1 Baldwin Street
London, EC1V 9NU
Open Tuesday- Friday 10-6, Saturday 11-5.
Nearest station: Old Street
Free
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
This exhibition is of particular interest as not only is there on exhibition with Hauser and Wirth, but also with Massimo De Carlo and Andrea Rosen Gallery in a three part exhibition. Also, it is curated by non other than Roni Horn and Julie Ault. Each of the exhibitions will present one thread of the artists’ work.
Now- 30 July
Hauser and Wirth
23 Saville Row
London W1S 2ET
Open Tuesday – Saturday 10-6
Nearest stations: Piccadilly Circus and Oxford Circus
Free
Found
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Foundling Fellow Cornelia Parker has invited over sixty outstanding artists from a range of creative disciplines to respond to the theme of ‘found’, reflecting on the Foundling Museum’s heritage, with responsive artworks throughout the building.
Now – 4 September
Foundling Museum
40 Brunswick Square
London WC1N 1AZ
Open Tuesday – Saturday 105, Saturday 11-5
Nearest station: Russell Square
Tickets £10.25, concessions apply.
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Written by Curious Duke Gallery blogger Sinéad Loftus.
Lover of all art and fluffy cats.