8 more exhibitions for Frieze Week London- Earlier in the week the @londonartcritic suggested 5 exhibitions to visit during Frieze Week but as it’s so totally crazy busy here are 8 more for you to try and get to.
Avery Singer, Free Fall, – 22nd December 2023, Hauser & Wirth London
With ‘Free Fall’, her first solo exhibition in the UK, American artist Avery Singer reflects upon her personal experience of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and explores the wider societal impact of collective trauma and proliferating image culture and media dissemination. Based entirely upon Singer’s childhood memories, the works and architectural intervention in ‘Free Fall’ are a testament to the power of memory—and a memorial to a moment of terror and survival. MORE
Anna Uddenberg: HOME WRECKERS – 22nd December 2023, The Perimeter
Anna Uddenberg: HOME WRECKERS is the first UK solo exhibition by the Berlin-based Swedish artist. Working primarily in sculpture, installation and performance, Anna Uddenberg’s practice reflects on taste and class, appropriation and sexuality, and explores systemised relations of power and conventions of control in the context of a technology-bound consumer culture. MORE
Ryan Gander, PUNTO! – 28th October 2023 Lisson Gallery
Ryan Gander’s new exhibition for Lisson Gallery explores the relationship between our evolutionary past and the ways in which we live today in societies driven by capitalist growth, speed and progress. The exhibition raises pertinent questions; MORE
Simeon Barclay, At Home, Everywhere and Nowhere, – 11th November 2023
Workplace & Gathering
At Home, Everywhere and Nowhere, is an ambitious solo exhibition of large-scale sculpture, installation, and wall-based work by Simeon Barclay, collaboratively shown across both Gathering and Workplace galleries.
MELT, –22nd October 2023, Unit 3. Euston Tower. 286 Euston Road
MELT, pays homage to the legendary FREEZE exhibition curated by Damien Hirst in 1988- Hypha Studios (HS) and Creative Land Trust (CLT) join forces to present a new exhibition, as part of Frieze 2023, spotlighting the work of 32 artists & creatives helped by their partnership. MORE
Jack Evans, Fear of the Dark, – 28th October 2023, Soup
This is Jack Evans’ debut solo exhibition at Soup. Evans has long been interested in the sociological, political and cultural responses to subjects that suggest looming existential threat and global catastrophic risk. The uncompromising advances of capitalist and consumer society, the unavoidable consequences of the climate crisis or the inherent dangers of unstoppable technological progression all manifest in sculptures and installations questioning the proliferation of faux-retro leaf block screen-walling, the merchandising of crumbling monuments, the shuttering of Blockbuster video or even the impending extinction of the banana. MORE
Tenant of Culture, Ladder, – 21st October, Soft Opening
Tenant of Culture presents a new body of work that questions the perceived dichotomy between destruction and decoration, examining how the aesthetic of waste has, for centuries, been appropriated within the fashion industry. MORE
Ken Nwadiogbu – Fragments of Reality, – 25th November, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London
Ken Nwadiogbu – Fragments of Reality A series of figures – rendered in a blazing colour palette of red, orange and yellow – emerge from or descend into textured, abstract backgrounds. These are the personal memories of the London-based, Nigerian artist Ken Nwadiogbu – portraits of ephemeral moments that have burnt themselves into his mind and continue to shape his perspective of the world around him. Fragments of reality, Nwadiogbu’s first solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, reflects on the artist’s experiences of adjusting to life in London, of building a sense of community and longing for home. MORE
