Linder’s first London retrospective showcases 50 years of the pioneering feminist artist’s work, dissecting our fascination with the body and its representation. From the early photomontages made while she was part of the punk scene of 1970s Manchester, to new work in digital montage shown for the first time, the exhibition presents the breadth of […]
Mickalene Thomas’ (born 1971) vibrant, large-scale portraits of Black women at rest reclaim space and representation in art history, celebrating love and radical repose. This exhibition presents two decades of work by the internationally celebrated artist and pioneering portraitist. Featuring paintings, photographs, collages and installations, All About Love transforms the Hayward Gallery with bespoke wallpapers, textiles and […]
Bianca Raffaella's Faint Memories, features a collection of textural flower paintings that evoke the artist's experience of beauty in braille, which was how she first learned to read and write. Raffaella relies on touch in her painting process. Never losing contact with the canvas, she blends delicate hues and dusty colours until they become an ethereal […]
The Cave in the Mind, is a group show featuring the recipients of the 2024 Girl Power Residency, held in the Aquitaine region, Southwest France. The exhibition presents new work by Melania Toma, Paula Turmina and Atalanta Xanthe, which allude to cave paintings and their predetermined vocabulary of motifs; other artists created works that imbue the ambience […]
Holding Space, is an exhibition exploring points of connection in the work of artists Anina Major and Lavar Munroe. Drawing on their separate, formative years, Major and Munroe’s work is infused with ideas of home, migration, identity and heritage; exploring what it means to belong and how making can carry stories forward, honouring ancestral and […]
Francine Tint's exhibition, Radical Acts of Beholding, which embodies her spirit of abstract expressionism, is a showcase of her works and celebrates the painter’s remarkable career, while introducing her dynamic, gestural paintings to new audiences.
The paintings in Angela Maasalu’s exhibition Taking Courage seem to belong to the surrealist tradition. Here, the disturbing is presented for enjoyment and analysis
Rosie Gibbens’ Muta is a two-part sculptural presentation. Gibbens' work explores gender performativity and consumerist culture as it relates to the female form, combining an absurdist humour with abject aesthetics.
Tianyue Zhong’s exhibition Between Earth and Tide presents a series of paintings comprised of the unseen and foundational rhythms of landscape and gesture.
Harriet Pozanasky’s multi-disciplinary exhibition Pin Up explores themes of female subjectivity, desire and autonomy through painting, drawing and sound.
Ulrike Müller’s Beside Myself explores her fascination with the production and manufacturing of things through tales, images, patterns and materials produced in good quality by small 20th Century facilities.
Jaki Irvine works across video, installation, photography, music composition, and writing to explore the complex ways we imagine ourselves and the world around us. For Irvine, this process has both philosophical and political dimensions. She weaves real events into films and videos that reflect on the fragmented, mysterious and often absurd nature of the human […]
‘Crackers for Lorelei’ presents a series of colourful oil paintings. The exhibition is supported with a grant from Culture Ireland.
Alia Ahmad’s vibrant, expressionistic paintings draw inspiration from memories and observations of her native Riyadh; informed by local textiles, poetry, calligraphy, digital graphics and the rich diversity of the surrounding industrialised desert landscape and plant life.
Sue and Terry Atkinson's exhibition combines drawings and paintings with a prescient relationship to current geopolitical events. The work of both artists have focussed on overtly radical subject matter since the 1960s, with the potency of their work becoming stronger over time.
Ella Kruglyanskaya's show 'Shadows' will assemble a group of new paintings that explore the nature of artistic influence and the enduring conversation about the future of painting. Kruglyanskaya’s monograph, Too Much, has been published to coincide with this exhibtion.
Claudia Pagès Rabal’s practice intertwines words, bodies, music, and movement. Five Defence Towers, a new moving image commission, tells a tale of surveillance, control, settlement, and refuge across five acts.
Daria Blum works across video, music, text, photography, installation and performance. This show is based on her reflections on the role of the live performer, and her own attempts at deflecting and withdrawing from the audience’s gaze and attention.
Debjani Banerjee’s exhibition, Jalsaghar, is an intricate exploration of identity, culture, and heritage. The exhibition navigates themes of cultural migration and the evolving nature of identity.
In her exhibition, The Book of Flowers, Agnieszka Polska uses cinematic storytelling and affective technologies, to address the perpetually negotiated relationship between human and technology. She examines the processes that mutually influence and legitimate this relationship in language, history and consciousness.