GARDAR EIDE EINARSSON : PROJECT
Jan 21 - Feb 26, 2012
The Norwegian-born artist's first UK solo exhibition.

SASKIA OLDE WOLBERS
Jan 21 - Feb 26, 2012
Maureen Paley is pleased to present a new video work 'Pareidolia' by Saskia Olde Wolbers, in her third solo exhibition at the gallery. Recently shown in her solo exhibition A Shot in the Dark at the Secession, Vienna in 2011, this is the first London screening. The soundtrack is composed by Daniel Pemberton.

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CECILIA EDEFALK AND GUNNEL WÅHLSTRAND
Nov 23, 2011 - Feb 12, 2012
On 22 November 2011, Parasol unit will preview an exhibition dedicated to two contemporary Swedish artists, Cecilia Edefalk and Gunnel Wåhlstrand. Since the late 1980s, Cecilia Edefalk has been one of Sweden’s leading and most sought-after artists both at home in Sweden and abroad. Following Gunnel Wåhlstrand’s acclaimed graduation exhibition at the Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm, in 2003, her work has featured in numerous exhibitions in Europe and overseas.
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JAMES YAMADA
Nov 23, 2011 - Feb 12, 2012
On 22 November 2011, Parasol unit will unveil the first artwork in its Parasolstice – Winter Light series of outdoor projects to be realised by various international artists, each of whom creates sculptural works that address the phenomenon of light. The works will be exhibited throughout the winter months in the foundation’s outdoor space, which will be open to the public free of charge. When invited to collaborate on the first project, American artist James Yamada created a dramatic installation entitled The summer shelter retreats darkly among the trees.
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LINES OF THOUGHT
Feb 29 - May 13, 2012
The exhibition Lines of Thought explores the work of a group of modern and contemporary artists, whose practice has focused in particular on the use of line in the most creative, challenging and varied ways. Representing different generations, it is remarkable to observe how the meaning and use of line varies from one artist to another. The artists included in the exhibition are: Helene Appel, James Bishop, Hemali Bhuta, Raoul De Keyser, Adrian Esparza, Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Jorge Macchi, Nasreen Mohamedi, Fred Sandback, Conrad Shawcross, Anne Truitt and Richard Tuttle.

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SADIE HENNESSY : FREUD AT DREAMLAND
Jan 10 - Feb 7, 2012 FINAL WEEK
Private view Tue Jan 10 6pm - 8pm
Souvenirs of Things that Never Happened.
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SARAH BRIDGLAND, HENRIK EIBEN, PIUS FOX AND KARSTEN KONRAD
Jan 19 - Feb 18, 2012

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SOUTH LONDON BLACK MUSIC ARCHIVE BY BARBY ASANTE
Jan 17 - Mar 24, 2012
Peckham Space presents The South London Black Music Archive, an exhibition by artist Barby Asante that aims to celebrate, preserve and investigate South Londoners’ personal relationships with moments in black music history. The exhibition invites you to listen to music from contributors of the archive on a range of mediums including record players, tape players and iPods in the exhibition or online. Share your stories and memories of black music in South London by texting us your messages live in the gallery and geographically locate your memory on the wall map. Contribute to the archive by bringing us your memorabilia connected to black music from south London and get your membership to the archive.
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COSMIC RAY WEATHER STATION / SOLAR DO-NOTHING MACHINE
Jan 4 - Feb 18, 2012
Private view Wed Jan 11 6pm - 8pm
Paintings by Selma Makela and film programme including Anna Barriball, Charles & Ray Eames, Rachel Lowe and Christina Mackie.
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STUART BRISLEY NEXT DOOR (THE MISSING SUBJECT)
Feb 29 - Apr 21, 2012
Private view Tue Feb 28 6pm - 8pm
New film by seminal British performance artist Stuart Brisley resulting from a 10-day durational performance at PEER in May 2010.

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THE NEW PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY ON RAMILLIES STREET
reopens early 2012
Check website for details.

DEUTSCHE BÖRSE PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE 2012
through 2012
The four artists shortlisted for the Photography Prize 2012 are Pieter Hugo, Rinko Kawauchi, John Stezaker and Christopher Williams.
The winner will be announced in 2012, date TBC.

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DANIEL EATOCK: ONE + ONE
Feb 8 - Mar 31, 2012
Stanley Picker Design Fellow Daniel Eatock is working on-site throughout the exhibition to create an extensive series of new object-based pieces, originating from developmental research for a re-branding of BBC2, that establish formal, practical or conceptual conceits connecting two otherwise independent objects.

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THE NEAR AND ELSEWHERE
Jan 25 - Mar 17, 2012
Photography, film and installation looking at the current global downturn, failed spaces, and the constant upheaval of developing cities and their inhabitants.
Includes Thomas Demand, Greg Girard, Edgar Martins, Peter Piller and Rachel Whiteread.

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OTHER SURFACES
Jan 13 - Feb 11, 2012 FINAL WEEK
Private view Wed Dec 12 6pm - 8pm
Curated by Rebecca Geldard
 
The artists participating in ‘Other Surfaces’, a single-projection show-reel of short films and videos, are essentially known for materially hands-on approaches to making. While there are some obvious points of connection, it’s unlikely they would ever be shown together as a group of object and mark makers. Yet, however diverse each individual line of enquiry, all appear to use video as a research tool as much as a recording device: a means of finding other ways around the issues of representing ideas with things. This exhibition, sat somewhere between the screening and the group show, offers a quiet space in which to consider what these artists do, both behind and life-side of the lens.

DANNY ROLPH : KISSING BALLOONS IN THE JUNGLE
Feb 17 - Mar 24, 2012
Private view Thu Feb 16 6pm - 8pm
New paintings and Sketchbooks.
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ART, PERFORMANCE & ACTIVISM IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
Jan 19 - Feb 26, 2012
Art, Performance & Activism features the work of artists/activists based in Japan who push the boundaries of where art, performance and activism intersect. Presenting visually powerful and pioneering works from the mid-1990s to the present the exhibition explores differing strategies of intervention that seek to engage in contemporary debates and to change how we think and act.

ART AND ACTIVISM
Feb 4 - 5, 2012 11:00am - 4:00pm talk/event
This weekend of film screenings presents a rare opportunity to see performance and experimental film work of key individuals and art collectives who explore the intersections of art and activism.
 
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CONJURING SELVES
Takahiko Iimura, Performance / Myself (Or Video Identity) (1972-1995), DumbType S/N (1995), Cho Yukio, Pandemic (2010) - First UK screening, Yutaka Tsuchiya, Identity? (1993), Mayumi Kimura, Amnesian (2004)
 
RADICAL ACTION REPLAYED
Motoharu Jonouchi Document 6.15 (1961), Shinjuku Station (1974) & Tatsumi Hijikata (1967); Tatsumi Hijikata Summer Storm (2010) - First UK screening, Takahiko Iimura, Fluxus Replayed (1991)
 
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CONTESTED HISTORIES
Soni Kum, Beast of Me (2005) & Foreign Sky (2005) - First UK screenings, Chikako Yamashiro: Okinawa Tourist (2004), Seaweed Woman (2008) & Your Voice Came Out Through My Throat (2009) - First UK screenings
 
ART, ACTION, ACTIVISM
“Louder than Bombs”: Art, Action & Activism, 7 Weeks, 7 Residencies, 7 Ways to Activate Change (2010) – Steven Levon Ounanian & Thomas Thwaites / Áine Phillips / Sean Burn / Ansuman Biswas / Stacy Makishi & Yoshiko Shimada / Prick Your Finger / the vacuum cleaner - a co-curated live art season by David Falkner, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University and Lois Keidan, Live Art Development Agency (LADA) (supported by Arts Council England and British Council)
 
The Lost Runway Kyoto (2010), collaboration between performance artist Áine Phillips and film-maker Rachel Davies - First UK screening (supported by Culture Ireland, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Japan Foundation)
 
This screening has been curated by Fran Lloyd and Eliza Tan, with special thanks to the participating artists, Stephen Barber and Julian Ross.
 
Daily screenings from 11am – 4pm in the Project Space throughout the weekend.
FREE, no booking necessary.

WORKSHOP WITH ARTIST SONI KUM
Feb 19, 2012 11:00am - 3:00pm talk/event
Soni Kum, a third generation Korean artist born in Japan, will present Sacrifice, Sacral Dance at the gallery on 19 February 2012. Join Kum for a hands-on origami making workshop from 11am-2pm, in preparation for her performance event that will explore notions of dance as a sacred ritual at 3pm. The day will conclude with a talk by the artist from 3pm.
‘…..dance was not only for spectacle but a sacred ritual, it was essential as a healing practice, which integrates our psychosomatic state of being. When our bodies are submerged in daily inertia, the only means to retrieve ourselves is to awaken this subdued dormant state of mind…….’ Soni Kum 2012
Soni Kum is an interdisciplinary artist who was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan as a third generation Korean. She grew up in the North Korean Community in Japan but only spent about 8 days in North Korea when she was a teenager. Kum obtained South Korean citizenship in 2006.
FREE, all welcome.

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KAOLI MASHIO
Feb 4 - Mar 6, 2012

EEVA KARHU
Feb 4 - Mar 6, 2012

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