‘Here is a Gale Warning: Art, Crisis & Survival’, a major exhibition exploring the capacity of artworks to both warn us of political, social and ecological upheaval, and to serve as a source of replenishment will run from 22 March – 29 June 2025, at Kettle’s Yard. It will bring together eight contemporary artists working… Continue reading Here is a Gale Warning: Art, Crisis and Survival
The Haitian scholar Michel-Rolph Trouillot once observed, “Silences are inherent in history… something is always left out while something else is recorded.” The esea contemporary attempts to rewrite these silences and showcase the artwork and voices of the East and Southeast Asian community both in Manchester and globally. The esea contemporary (formerly known as… Continue reading Rewriting Erased Histories: esea contemporary’s Mission to Amplify East and Southeast Asian Voices
Thomas Dane Gallery – 28 February–3 May 2025 Thomas Dane Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by Ella Kruglyanskaya (b. 1978, Riga, Latvia), the first in a series of three exhibitions across the year, with the second opening in Basel at Contemporary Fine Arts in June and the third in the autumn in New… Continue reading Ella Kruglyanskaya – Shadows
The Warburg Institute – 31 January-30 April 2025 The Warburg Institute will devote the inaugural international exhibition in its new Kythera Gallery to TAROT—ORIGINS & AFTERLIVES. Tarot cards are everywhere in contemporary culture; but where do they come from, and what is at stake in the different forms they have taken? Few sets of symbols… Continue reading Tarot – Origins & Afterlives
A new initiative aimed at supporting art professionals from working-class backgrounds is launching in London. The Working Arts Club, founded by Meg Molloy, Head of Communications at Stephen Friedman Gallery, is an independent organisation designed to bring together those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds who work in the UK’s visual arts sector. The club’s focus is… Continue reading The Working Arts Club: breaking down barriers for working-class creatives in the Art world
Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples (17 September – 14 December 2024) In the eight years since Moulène last exhibited with the gallery, his ‘Objets’/‘Objects’ have been central to the current narratives and discourses on sculpture. Included in significant surveys, such as When Forms Come Alive: Sixty Years of Restless Sculpture (2023) at the Hayward Gallery and… Continue reading Jean-Luc Moulène – Enlightenments
One of the great paradoxes of human endeavour is why so much time and effort is spent on creating things and indulging in behaviour with no obvious survival value – behaviour otherwise known as art. Attempting to shed light on this issue is problematic because first we must define precisely what art is. We can… Continue reading What’s the point of art?
Presented by the LAS Art Foundation, THE SOUL STATION is Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s first solo presentation in Germany, shown by LAS at Halle am Berghain, Berlin, from 12 July to 13 October 2024. THE SOUL STATION features a survey of video games made by Brathwaite-Shirley over the past five years. Through game-based installations and fictional universes,… Continue reading Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley: THE SOUL STATION
Exhibition dates: 22 June – 6 October 2024Kettle’s Yard, Castle St, Cambridge CB3 0AQ “I imagine myself in flight when I am painting, hovering above the surface and searching for places to land, touching down and lifting off. I do this again and again until the surface starts to collect information… The painting becomes a… Continue reading Megan Rooney: Echoes and Hours at Kettle’s Yard
Exhibition dates: 7 June–3 August 2024Thomas Dane Gallery, 3 Duke Street, St James’s, London SW1Y (Landscape of Legend) – the second exhibition at Thomas Dane Gallery in London by the renowned Brazilian artist Patricia Leite. Born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 1955, Patricia Leite’s artistic journey has been deeply influenced by the myths and legends… Continue reading Patricia Leite: Paisagem de Lenda – A Celebration of Brazilian Myths and Landscapes
