IRVING PENN PORTRAITS
Feb 18 - Jun 6, 2010
Devoted to one of the greatest photographers of his generation who died in 2009, the exhibition will include over 120 prints from Penn's seven-decade career ranging from his early portraits for Vogue in 1944 to some of his last work.
The exhibition is a survey of Penn's portraits of major cultural figures brought together from many international collections. Portraits include Truman Capote, Salvador Dalì, Marlene Dietrich, Christian Dior, T.S. Eliot, Duke Ellington, Alfred Hitchcock, Nicole Kidman, Willem de Kooning, Jessye Norman, Rudolph Nureyev, Edith Piaf, Pablo Picasso, Harold Pinter, Igor Stravinsky, and Tennessee Williams.

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SENSESCAPE
Feb 26 - Mar 28, 2010
Group exhibition with Ian Burns, Sinta Werner, Laura Buckley and Benoit Broisat.

MARKO MAETAMM
Apr 1 - May 2, 2010
Solo exhibition by Estonian artist Marko Maetamm.

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JOAN KEY, YVONNE LAMMERICH : INCIDENTALLY
9th April - 9th May, 2010

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ANDY WARHOL PORTRAITS
Mar 17 - May 8, 2010
Paintings, unique prints and films by Andy Warhol.

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STEPHEN J SHANABROOK : IN PILLS WE TRUST
Jan 21 - Mar 13, 2010 FINAL WEEK
An American artist based out of New York and Moscow, Stephen j Shanabrook will present new works at Orel Art UK which examine the disturbing space between painful and sweet, death and beauty. The primary theme will be the exploration of addiction, the way its soft seductive whisper turns into the heaviness of an everyday fight. In a poetical and tangible way, Shanabrook will explore the side effects of urgent social phenomena - addiction to prescription drugs, to religion and even to one’s own heavy memories. Working with a discomforting yet visually stunning combination of materials, Shanabrook forces the viewer into the dialog with their own unconsciousness.
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IRINA NAKHOVA PAVEL PEPPERSTEIN
Mar 25 - May 22, 2010
'Moscow Partisan Conceptualism' curated by Margarita and Victor Tupitsyn
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KAYE DONACHIE
Feb 27 - Apr 11, 2010
New paintings.

DONALD URQUHART
Apr 17 - May 23, 2010
New work.

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EIJA-LIISA AHTILA
Feb 26 - Apr 25, 2010
Parasol unit is delighted to present a major solo exhibition by the renowned Finnish film and video artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila. It will include three important video installations never before seen in the UK.
Ahtila’s work concentrates on narratives in human life together with the relationships and primal emotions that underlie them. She describes her films as ‘human dramas’ because they play on the central themes of our existence, such as love, death, sexuality, the difficulty of communication, and individual identity – both its formation and disintegration.
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CRAIG BURSTON & JOE EVANS : SYSTEMS OUT OF CHANCE
Mar 23 - 31, 2010
Audio/visual collaboration
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MICHAEL BRICK : THE SIZE OF WHAT I SEE
Apr 20 - May 25, 2010
Paintings and prints around the writings of Fernando Pessoa

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INA GEISSLER : STILLS LIFE
Feb 13 - Mar 27, 2010

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ARTWORK BY GAYLE CHONG KWAN
through April 2010
'THE EYES SEE MORE THAN THE HEART KNOWS'. A large-scale photographic hoarding project by artist Gayle Chong Kwan, made in response to the landscape of Peckham and referencing local memory and history. A fantastical image clothes the hoardings surrounding Peckham Space during its construction and when the building is complete in summer 2010 it will emerge from this exotic chrysalis. Its title, The eyes see more than the heart knows, is taken from a line in William Blake’s 1793 poem ‘Daughters of Albion’ and recalls the history of Peckham, an important market garden growing produce for the rest of London in Blake's time, exploring notions of sensory understanding and empirical perception. Depicting the skyline of London, as seen from Peckham, a spectacular forest grows in the foreground whose trees and foliage are created from the dried pith, stones and peel of fruit and vegetables gathered from the market on Rye Lane. The new Peckham Space venue launches in Summer 2010. Please check the website for details of the exciting inaugural exhibition and launch events.

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KATHY PRENDERGAST : THE BLACK MAP SERIES
Feb 18 - Apr 10, 2010
New works from Kathy Prendergast's densely reworked road maps, which develop an appearance akin to star charts.
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DEUTSCHE BÖRSE PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE 2010
Feb 12 - Apr 18, 2010
The annual award of £30,000 rewards a living photographer, of any nationality, who has made the most significant contribution, in exhibition or publication format, to the medium of photography in Europe over the previous year. This year's nominees are Anna Fox; Zoe Leonard; Sophie Ristelhueber and Donovan Wylie.
The four shortlisted artists are Anna Fox, Zoe Leonard, Sophie Ristelhueber, and Donovan Wylie.
This year’s Jury is: Olivia Maria Rubio (Director of Exhibitions, La Fàbrica, Spain); Gilane Tawadros (Chief Executive, Design Artists Copyright Society, curator and writer); James Welling (artist, USA); and Anne-Marie Beckmann (Curator, Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Germany). Brett Rogers, Director of The Photographers’ Gallery, is the non-voting Chair.

INDRE SERPYTYTE
Feb 12 - Apr 18, 2010
Up and coming photographer, Indre Serpytyte is one to watch. Her work is the result of a thoughtful investigation into the political history of the Cold War and its catastrophic consequences.

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"...LOUDER THAN BOMBS" ART, ACTION & ACTIVISM
Feb 10 - Mar 27, 2010
7 week-long residencies focusing on challenging social, political and global issues.

JULIA LOHMANN : LAMINARIUM
Apr 21 - Jun 19, 2010
Julia Lohmann has established a strong reputation for her highly imaginative approach to sustainable product design that provokes us to consider the processes that normally go unmentioned between the life of an animal, plant or mineral and the point at which it is made into a design object. For her Stanley Picker Fellowship, Lohmann has been exploring the luminosity, colour and structural strength of kelp as a natural alternative to both man-made plastics and endangered woods.

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HÉLÈNE UFFREN: PORTALS
Mar 24 - May 1, 2010
Site specific glass & multi-media exhibition in the manor-house.

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GEORGIE HOPTON
Apr 24 - May 29, 2010
Georgie Hopton lives in Upstate New York, in America’s Catskill mountains. In 2005 she started a vegetable garden which has since become a passion and a preoccupation. In 2007 Hopton made the first images of herself and her garden’s wild output beginning a series called ‘Harvest’. 2009 was her third 'season' of making the ‘Harvest’ series, shown in this exhibition for the first time.

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B.SEBASTIAN AT THE POSK
Mar 28 - Apr 2, 2010
Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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FOUR FATRASIES
Jan 20 - Mar 14, 2010 FINAL WEEK
Alex Pollard and Clare Stephenson present a hyper theatrical, sculptural installation over the floors of Pump House Gallery.
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CHRISTIAN JANKOWSKI THE PERFECT GALLERY
Apr 21 - Jun 6, 2010
The gallery will undergo a dramatic transformation which will be documented in the format of an episode of an interior-design makeover programme.

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CLAIRE KERR : NEW PAINTINGS
Feb 25 - Mar 20, 2010
The second solo exhibition of paintings by Irish artist Claire Kerr.

ANNI LEPPALA AND SUSANNA MAJURI
Apr 28 - May 22, 2010

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ADAM CHRISTENSEN :
3rd March - 10th April
My heart forgot to leap when you looked at me

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A HISTORY OF IRRITATED MATERIAL
Feb 25 - May 2, 2010
An exhibition that samples art's relation to politics, alienation and the archive.

DEUX FOIS (1969) BY JACKIE RAYNAL
Wednesday 17 March, 7pm talk/event
Screening and discussion with Marina Vishmidt and Nina Power.
 
Part of 'Visions, Divisions and Revisions: Political Film and Film Theory
in the 1970s and 80s', a programme of screenings and discussions organised
by Petra Bauer and Dan Kidner, taking place during the exhibition 'A
History of Irritated Material' at Raven Row, 25 February to 2 May 2010.
 
'Visions, Divisions and Revisions' revisits the idea of ‘film as a
political practice’, as it was practiced and theorised in the 1970s and
80s in the UK. Over the course of six events we will look at some of the
key debates that enlivened these years: issues around authorship; the role
of the audience; the relation of theory to practice; the use of
psychoanalysis in film; and different ideas of collectivity.
Events are free but booking is essential as space is limited. Please emailinfo@ravenrow.org to reserve a place.

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PAUL FEILER : ELUSIVE SPACE 1950 - 2010
Mar 2 - Apr 8, 2010

PATRICK PROCKTOR : ART AND LIFE
Apr 13 - May 13, 2010
A major exhibition to launch the new book Patrick Procktor Art and Life by Ian
Massey.

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ALICE ANDERSON : TIME REVERSAL
Feb 28 - Apr 30, 2010
Three floor installation of hair, dolls, film and objects by the French-Algerian artist based on the tale of Rapunzel

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PROGRESS REPORTS : ART IN AN ERA OF DIVERSITY
Jan 28 - Mar 13, 2010 FINAL WEEK
Multi-voiced exhibition including artists Oreet Ashery, Larissa Sansour, Sanford Biggers, and Kara Walker.

JIA AILI
Mar 31 - May 15, 2010
A solo exhibition of recent work by emerging Chinese artist Jia Aili is presented by Iniva at Rivington Place. Curated by David Thorp, it includes a series of paintings from Beijing as well as new work that Aili will create in situ. A programme of recent Chinese film shows alongside in Project Space 2.
 
Jia Aili was born in 1979, he graduated in 2006 from Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art in Shenyang in North East China. His works are usually monumental in scale and he narrates private moods rather than public events or modern day China.
 
'His art... is about the human condition, which is why the images or scenes depicted are not specific to China, nor especially to the era... and individual experience in this rapidly modernising society acts as a backdrop to Jia Aili's awareness of human frailty, vulnerability, and the need to be mindful of one's surroundings.' Karen Smith, curator and writer of contemporary Chinese art

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TRIO KRENCHEL | GEERTSEN | WEGNER
Mar 5 - Apr 24, 2010
An exhibition of art and design from three legends of mid-century Danish modernism :1950s Krenit Bowls by Herbert Krenchel, the Getama Daybeds by Hans Wegner; and Danish Konkrete paintings by Ib Geersten
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BAS VAN DEN HURK
Mar 20 - Apr 24, 2010
Organizing the non-obvious II
 
Bas van den Hurk makes paintings and collages. He achieves his unique style by manipulating the most contemporary approaches to painting: a monochrome palette, the use of ephemera and found objects, abstract mark making, and collage techniques. At times Van den Hurk repeatedly layers the paint at others he scrapes it to form fine veils across fabric, linen and paper.

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AISHAN YU
to Apr 30, 2010

CAROLYN BUNT
Feb 19 - Mar 14, 2010 FINAL WEEK
Photography.

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THE REAL VAN GOGH : THE ARTIST AND HIS LETTERS
Jan 23 - Apr 18, 2010
A landmark exhibition of the work of Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890). The focus of the exhibition will be the artist's remarkable correspondence. Over 35 original letters, rarely exhibited to the public due to their fragility, will be on display, together with around 65 paintings and 30 drawings that express the principal themes to be found within the correspondence. The first major Van Gogh exhibition in London for over 40 years, this will be a unique opportunity to gain an insight into the complex mind of Vincent Van Gogh.
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JOHN SMITH : SOLO SHOW
Mar 19 - Apr 13, 2010
The largest UK solo exhibition of work by artist and filmmaker John Smith. Curated by final year students of the RCA MA Curating Contemporary Art. www.johnsmithsoloshow.com

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KATE DAVIS & ROY VOSS
Apr 1 - May 8, 2010

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