EMAN ALI - UTENDI
Sep 3 - 28, 2019 FINAL WEEK
Eman Ali (b: 1986) received her MA in Fine Art Photography from the Royal College of Arts in 2017 after a BA at Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design in 2008. Her photographic works have been interlacing religious, socio-political and consumerist ideologies under the umbrella of sexuality and gender with a focus on the Arabian Gulf.
"Utendi " is her first project in Africa. It is inspired by: In Praise of the Arab Woman (Utendi wa Mwana Manga ), a poem attributed to the mythic Swahili writer Fumo Liyongo. Wishing to gain insight into the representation of the feminine in Swahili culture, Ali travelled to Lamu, an island on the Northern coast of Kenya in which the Swahili tradition is uniquely alive. She was prompted into a contemplation of the history of some aspects of her own culture and a revelation of unexpected hauntingly familiar images that profoundly connects to her identity as an Arab woman.
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1-54 CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART FAIR, BOOTH: B21
Oct 3 - 5, 2019
Presenting:
Larry Amponsah (Ghana)
Ranti Bam (UK/Nigeria)
Willie Cole (USA)
Safaa Erruas (Morocco)
Wura-Natasha Ogunji (USA/ Nigeria)
At: Somerset House, Strand, WC2R 1LA London, United Kingdom
Preview: by invitation only, Thursday 2nd May

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THE GREATEST! GREATEST EXHIBITION!
Sep 5 - Nov 15, 2019
The Greatest! Greatest Exhibition! is a group exposition inspired by the ‘The Great Exhibition’ in Crystal Palace of 1851.
We have curated a show, a fair of art and design, to present inventions and art that envisage a brighter and better future for society.
These designs for ridiculous tasks, creations for impossible entertainment and introspections about the failure of our past and present suggest the diverging ways we can look towards innovation and progress.
Our show wants to question. Is society making the right kinds inventions? Are they working for everyone? Do they work in my community?

APT GROUP SHOW
Sep 19 - Oct 6, 2019

OPEN STUDIOS 2019
Sep 27 - 29, 2019
Friday 27 September from 6pm to 8pm
Saturday 28 September from 12noon to 5pm
Sunday 29 September from 12noon to 5pm

DEFIANCE OF DISSENT : CURATED BY LORNA CARVILL AND SIMON HODGKINSON
Oct 10 - 13, 2019

ART LICKS 2019
Oct 17 - 20, 2019

GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
Oct 24 - Nov 10, 2019

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LISTEN TO THE HUM
Sep 7 - Oct 18, 2019
El Anatsui, Miriam Austin, Ivan Black, Simon Callery, Jodie Carey, Rachael Louise Bailey, Tristan Pigott, Nina Royle, Victor Seaward and Nicholas William Johnson.
‘Listen to the Hum’ is an artistic response to the ultimate conflict of our era - that between mankind and nature. A conflict which has been raging, until now virtually unchecked, across all the worlds land mass, deep in our oceans and high in the sky.

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BETTY PARSONS
Oct 2 - Nov 9, 2019
Private view Tue Oct 1 6pm - 8pm
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CLAIRE TABOURET
Oct 2 - Nov 16, 2019
Private view Wed Oct 2 6pm - 8pm

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JULIA DUBSKY : THE MARSHLAND AKIMBO
Sep 10 - Oct 26, 2019
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UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA REVISITED : CURATED BY YUKO SHIRAISHI
Sep 19 - Nov 2, 2019

SUZANNE TREISTER:FROM SURVIVOR(F)TO THE ESCAPIST BHST(BLACK HOLE SPACE)
Sep 19 - Nov 2, 2019

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QUID EST VERITAS?
Jul 11 - Sep 21, 2019 FINAL WEEK
Annka Kultys Gallery is pleased to present Quid est veritas?, a multi-generational group exhibition exploring the concept of philosophical truth. Through works by AES+F, Morehshin Allahyari, Imre Bak, crocodilePOWER, Simon Denny, Eva and Franco Mattes, Joseph Kosuth, Olia Lialina, Signe Pierce, Timur Si-Qin and Theo Triantafyllidis, curator Anton Svyatsky scrutinizes the cognitive mechanisms by which humans operate the label of truth.

MÁRTON NEMES
Oct 2 - Nov 2, 2019
Private view Tue Oct 1 6pm - 8pm

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MARIA PINIńSKA-BEREś : LIVING PINK
Sep 10 - Oct 20, 2019
The Approach is excited to present 'Living Pink', a solo exhibition of works by Maria Pinińska-Bereś (1931-1999), whose practice spanned not only sculpture and drawing, but also - and very importantly for Pinińska - performance. She confronted the existential problem of bearing the burden of the 'standard' of femininity, and dealt with major themes related to all aspects of feminised labour (reproductive, emotional, domestic) in her work. To celebrate the exhibition, and to coincide with the Frieze East End Afternoon, Pinińska's daughter, Bettina, will be re-enacting one of her incredible performances at the gallery on Sunday 29 September at 2.30pm.
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MIKE SILVA : NEW PAINTINGS
Sep 10 - Oct 20, 2019
When we look to images of the past, there is a desire not to forget. As we move through life, people and places change or come and go, but a residue of those experiences and memories remain, shaping who we are. Painting from old photographs as his main point of reference, Mike Silva tenderly renders vignettes of old friends, past lovers, and former residences in oil paint. Silva momentarily allows the viewer an opportunity to share his memories as he tells stories through his images of familiar people and domestic interiors that were once, and perhaps still are, important to him.
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LEONOR SERRANO RIVAS : ABOVE THE EYE LEVEL
Sep 12 - Oct 19, 2019

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DAVID COTTERRELL : TRUTH.LIE.LIE
Sep 14 - Oct 12, 2019
'truth.lie.lie' is an exhibition investigating the methods for manipulation of perspective and truth. It explores the subjectivity of subtitles, the isolation of narratives and the coexistence of incompatible evidence. For Cotterrell’s sixth solo exhibition with Danielle Arnaud, the gallery is adopted as an environment to stage and collate experiments with media manipulation and partial narratives.
 
At a time of resurgent polarisation and increasing nationalism, the exhibition considers the differentiation of privilege and prejudice that can be facilitated through selective editing, errors of translation and unchallenged vantage points.
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MARK WALLINGER : LABYRINTH
Ongoing
Labyrinth: A major commission by Mark Wallinger with an artwork at all 270 Tube stations by summer 2013. The first in a series of special commissions marking the 150th anniversary of London Underground.

LANGLANDS AND BELL : BEAUTY < IMMORTALITY
ongoing
A new permanent memorial to Frank Pick.

LINDER : THE BOWER OF BLISS
A new commission
Southwark Underground station.

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JANIS HARDIMAN : PAINTINGS
Sep 6 - Oct 4, 2019
Paintings of Hampstead’s heath, gardens and allotments with sculptures by Alfred Hardiman RA (1891-1949) exhibited together for the first time.
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ARCHER, FARRELL, HAMLYN, MOLINARI FOUR DIFFERENT VIEWS
Oct 17 - Nov 15, 2019

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WAYNE BINITIE : ICE FLOOR
Oct 22, 2019 - Jan 18, 2020
Private view Mon Oct 21 6pm - 8pm
An exploration of the transformation of glacial water from the Antarctic through three states: solid, liquid and vapour. Ice Floor will be affected by the heat of visitors encouraging them to think about the effects of global warming.

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JULIAN PERRY : WHERE GREW THE TREE
Oct 11 - Nov 4, 2019
Austin Desmond Fine Art is delighted to present Julian Perry’s one person show Where Grew the Tree.Disintegration, loss and the tragedy of Climate breakdown provide the context and inspiration for the artist’s haunting new paintings.
 
The pernicious effects of rising sea levels and resulting coastal erosion on England’s Suffolk coast have provided the artist with powerful images. Perry has transformed found locations into paintings imbued with current anxieties about environmental catastrophe.

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NOTHING LESS! 100 YEARS OF WOMEN’S SUFFERAGE
Oct 10, 2019 - Jan 31, 2020
Private view Thu Oct 10 6.30pm - 8.30pm
As we were celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote in Austria and the UK, we were also witnessing an alarming setback in the rights of women and the LGBTQ community due to conservative turns in politics. The exhibition Nothing Less! 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage questions what constitutes women's rights today and galvanises feminist
legacies that are often taken for granted. We demand nothing less than what has already been fought for and accomplished. We look ahead and move forward. Nothing less!

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DAVID OATES
Sep 3 - 26, 2019 FINAL WEEK

FABIO MAURI & ANTONI TAPIES, PRINTS
Sep 27 - Oct 22, 2019

DAN LLEVEYN HALL
Oct 23 - Nov 23, 2019

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NATIONAL ORIGINAL PRINT EXHIBITION
Sep 18 - 29, 2019
Works selected for this open submission print exhibition

ART FOR CURE, SHE - LONDON
Oct 3 - 6, 2019
An exhibition of painting, photography and sculpture inspired by the female form. A percentage of the money raised through sales in the exhibition will go towards breast cancer research.

THE ART OF TRAVEL
Oct 11 - Nov 9, 2019
Work by Royal Watercolour Society artists

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TREVOR PAGLEN : FROM ‘APPLE’ TO ‘ANOMALY’
Sep 26, 2019 - Feb 16, 2020
(The Curve)
Discover how the advent of autonomous computer learning has developed, rife with hidden politics, biases and stereotypes in Paglen’s latest exhibition.
Paglen investigates ways in which AI networks are taught how to ‘see’ and ‘perceive’ the world by taking a closer look at publicly available datasets. Using approximately 30,000 individually printed photographs drawn from these datasets, Paglen explores what lies beneath the surface of our digital world, revealing the powerful, and often hidden forces at play in AI. Part of our annual season Life Rewired. Admission free.

INTO THE NIGHT : CABARETS & CLUBS IN MODERN ART
Oct 4, 2019 - Jan 19, 2020
A journey into the world’s most iconic cabarets, cafés and clubs in modern art through the lens of pioneering artists.
This landmark exhibition explores the electrifying history of cabarets, cafés and clubs in modern art across the world, from London to New York, Paris, Mexico City, Berlin, Vienna, and Ibadan. Discover over 200 works of art, many rarely seen in the UK, as well as life-size recreations of avant-garde spaces.
Spanning the 1880s to the 1960s, Into the Night celebrates the creativity of the spaces in which artists, performers, designers, musicians and writers congregated to push the boundaries of artistic expression. The exhibition offers insight into the immersive Cabaret Fledermaus in turn-of-the-century Vienna; the heady atmosphere of Berlin clubs in Weimar Germany; the pulsating energy of the jazz scene in Harlem, New York; the vibrant context of the Mbari clubs in 1960s Nigeria; and more.

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BEAT ZODERER
Sep 10 - 27, 2019 FINAL WEEK

HADI TABATABAI
Oct 1 - 18, 2019

FRANK GERRITZ
Oct 22 - Nov 15, 2019

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JOSEPH BEUYS : IMPORTANT SCULPTURES FROM THE 1950S
Sep 20 - Nov 16, 2019
BASTIAN is pleased to present Joseph Beuys: Important Sculptures from the 1950s, running from 20 September – 16 November 2019. Exhibited for the first time in the UK, five unique sculptures from the 1950s by Beuys are shown alongside documentary photographs, offering a rare opportunity to discover significant early works of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. The exhibition follows a solo show of German painter Ulrich Erben and affirms BASTIAN’s dedication to illustrating and promoting post-war German art in the UK.
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DUBMORPHOLOGY AND GUESTS
Sep 28, 2019 8:00pm - 11:59pm talk/event
Dubmorphology and Denise Western with Danielle Allen, Weyland McKenzie, Atomic Groove.
In a powerfully calibrated sound and light environment of post-soul noise and reconfigured history, meet emerging and established artists performing together with all the magical tools of dance spaces and club culture. Let the walls fall away and your mind take over...
As part of the London Lates festival Emerge: buy Emerge Festival wristbands here bit.ly/SpiritOff
Use Discount code EMERGEFRIENDS2019
Vegetarian Soul food provided by the Ragged Canteen at Beaconsfield.
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DUBMORPHOLOGY : SPIRIT _OFF
Oct 2 - Nov 3, 2019
An installation at Arch space Beaconsfield.
Working through the sonic and visual lenses of radical possibility, Trevor Mathison and Gary Stewart of Dubmorphology draw on experiences as children born in Britain of post-war migrants to create new and oblique relations to received meaning. The installation Dreaming Utopia emerges from the artists' direct response to the ephemeral context of Beaconsfield's Spirit_off series, exploring social and political issues through a combination of historical and contemporary material.

ERIKA WINSTONE : THE DURATION
Oct 30 - Dec 1, 2019
(Upper Space Beaconsfield)
Erika Winstone combines drawn-paintings and gestural video in a solo exhibition of work spanning a decade. Using moving image to filter how individuals relate from different periods in time, she mixes both personal and fictional experience in a practice that includes performance, moving image and the medieval practice of drawing with metal point.

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FOUR GIANTS OF BRITISH MODERNISM : FROST, HERON, LANYON, SCOTT
Sep 19 - Oct 19, 2019
Major works by Terry Frost, Patrick Heron, Peter Lanyon and William Scott.
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NAOMI FREARS
Oct 23 - Nov 30, 2019

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ROBERT FRY : LOST MEN
Sep 7 - Oct 12, 2019
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
After showing with the gallery various times since its inception in 2012, Robert Fry returns with his first proper solo at the gallery, simply entitled, The Lost Men after his series of paintings with the same title.

ADAM LEE : MY THOUSAND SOUNDS
Oct 19 - Nov 23, 2019
Private view Fri Oct 18 6pm - 8pm

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Sep 11 - 30, 2019
Boat
Buzz
Bread
Bundle
Behind
Buoyant
Bookshelves

CAMILLA LØW : ALFABET
Oct 3 - Dec 6, 2019

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ENOC PEREZ: THE CINEMATIC SELF
Oct 2 - Nov 22, 2019
Private view Tue Oct 1 6pm - 8pm
Ben Brown Fine Arts is delighted to present Enoc Perez: The Cinematic Self, the gallery’s first exhibition with Puerto Rican-American artist Enoc Perez. This will be Perez’s first exhibition in the UK in over ten years and will feature new and recent artworks from his evocative series of interiors paintings.
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NIGEL COATES : DAVID IN VOXTACITY
Sep 27 - Oct 31, 2019
Private view Thu Sep 26 6pm - 8pm

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HENNING STRASSBURGER : KARMA MANSION
Oct 2 - Nov 16, 2019
Private view Thu Oct 3 6pm - 8pm
Blain|Southern is delighted to announce KARMA MANSION, Henning Strassburger’s first solo exhibition in the UK. Appropriated imagery provides the backdrop for new abstract paintings which play with twenty-first century visual culture and image construction.
Strassburger (b.1983 Meissen, Germany) is an artist whose spontaneous aesthetic belies a meticulous and pre-planned practice. His visual language of expressive marks, strokes and recurring motifs appear gestural, but are on closer inspection predetermined. Seemingly unconstrained lines and splashes that don’t overlap but sit neatly in gaps on the canvas, thin, precisely placed brushstrokes: the shape and position of each form is carefully calculated construction. It is this disparity between image and perception, surface and reality that fascinates Strassburger.

MICHAEL SIMPSON : NEW PAINTINGS
Oct 2 - Nov 16, 2019
Private view Sun Nov 3 6pm - 8pm
Blain|Southern is delighted to announce Michael Simpson, New Paintings, the artist’s first solo exhibition at the London gallery. Simpson presents a significant body of new work including a group of large-scale Squint paintings.
Michael Simpson (b.1940 Dorset, UK) is an artist whose practice is characterised by a reduced palette and distinctive, artistic vocabulary in which Benches, Confessionals and Squints are recurring motifs explored in ongoing series of works. Whilst Simpson’s apparent subject is the infamy of religious history and the politics of belief, these subjective references provide only a subtext for his principal subject: the mechanics of painting.
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THE FLESH OF THOUGHT
Sep 25 - Nov 1, 2019
Private view Sat Nov 9 6pm - 8.30pm
Zoe Dorelli, Mary Griffiths, Mindy Lee, Robin Mason, Stephen Palmer, Cat Roissetter, Anita Taylor, Marianne Walker, Sarah Woodfine.

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GRUPPO DEL CENOBIO : FONTANA, MANZONI AND THE AVANT-GARDE
Oct 2 - Nov 22, 2019
Private view Tue Oct 1 6pm - 8pm
Curated by Alberto Mazzacchera.
With this exhibition, Brun Fine Art is exploring the avant-garde of the Cenobio group, which emerged in 1960s Milan in a fertile, international cultural climate following the crisis of Art Informel. The group’s emergence was rooted in the teachings of Lucio Fontana (1899 – 1968) and the relationships, in some cases also collaborations, between its members and Piero Manzoni (1933 – 1963). The exhibition was developed in collaboration with the studios of the living artists and the archives where their art is preserved.

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