Frieze is opening v soon and there’s lots of exhibition openings – What to see? Where to go?
We’ve picked 6 exhibitions 3 opening before 3 after* to get you on your way – we’ve not included any museum openings as there’s way too many –
1 Calling things that don’t have names Copperfield
Courtesy of the artist & Copperfield
Copperfield is to host a joint exhibition project in London with: Andreea Anghel from Suprainfinit, Bones Tan Jones from Harlesden High Street, Edith Karlson from Temnikova & Kasela, Mónica Mays from Blue Velvet Projects, Zoe Williams from Ciaccia Levi, Zhang Yibei from BANK, Hannah Perry from Copperfield.
Calling things that don’t have names 6th Oct 2024 – 23rd Nov 2024 Copperfield. MORE: HERE
Opening: Saturday 5th Oct 5PM – 8PM
2&3 Jack & George at Hauser & Wirth Saville Row
Hauser & Wirth open two exhibitions just ahead of Frieze London George Rouy The Bleed Part I and Jack Whitten Speed Chaser.
Throughout a six-decade career, Jack Whitten’s work has bridged rhythms of gestural abstraction
and process art, arriving at a nuanced language of painting that hovers between mechanical automation and intensely personal expression. Focusing on Whitten’s paintings works on paper and sculptures from the 1970s, this exhibition at Hauser showcases a juncture in the artist’s career, which saw him reject the gestural brushstrokes of abstract expressionism in favour of experimental processes and materials. The exhibition displays Whitten’s long-standing interest in craft and woodwork and includes carved and assembled sculptures made by the artist during the 1970s.
In contrast, this will be George Rouy’s first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth ‘The Bleed, Part I’ will present a new body of work continuing his inquiry into collective mass, multiplicity and movement and the second chapter, ‘The Bleed, Part II,’ will follow at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles in February 2025.
George Rouy. The Bleed Part I & Jack Whitten. Speedchaser, both 7th October – 21st December Hauser & Wirth London MORE: HERE
Art Opening: 10th October 6PM- 8PM
4 Izaak Brandt, No Place Like Home, 96 Robert St, NW1 3QP.
Izaak Brandt presents No Place Like Home, a new solo exhibition investigating ideas of memory, home, and physical embodiment. This is Brandt’s second solo show of the year, and first at this space. A bold next step following from Brandt’s recent exhibition Sporting Goods, No Place Like Home features a new body of work focusing on ghostly, drawn PLA sculptures while being accompanied by new large-format sculpture, performance, film, and sound work.
Izaak Brandt, No Place Like Home, 17th October – 7th November 2024, 96 Robert St, NW1 3QP
MORE: INFO
Art opening: 17th October 6PM-9PM Performance by Brandt scheduled for 7PM
5 Victor Boullet, Dundee Marmalade, The Artist Room
The Artist Room will present two consecutive solo exhibitions of work by Victor Boullet (b.1969, Oslo), the artist’s first solo presentation in London. The first will be Dundee Marmalade will present oil paintings on canvas made in the UK between 2013–24.
Rooted in painting, Victor Boullet’s expansive and obsessive practice extends into drawing, sculpture, photography, publishing and writing. Bridging lived experience and acute social observation, often distilling some form of violent interaction witnessed in the world, Boullet’s paintings are an attempt to surface out of these experiences, barricade against swarms of information that seek to suffocate, and reject a numbness present in our contemporary condition.
Victor Boullet: Dundee Marmalade 4th Oct 2024 – 1st Nov 2024 The Artist Room MORE: INFO
Art Opening: 3rd Oct 2024, 6PM – 8:30PM
6 Enchanted Alchemies: Magic, Mysticism, and the Occult in Art, Lévy Gorvy Dayan
On October 1st, 2024, Lévy Gorvy Dayan will open Enchanted Alchemies, an exhibition exploring
themes of magic, mysticism, and the occult in art. The exhibition places historical figures such as Gertrude Abercrombie, Eileen Agar, Leonora Carrington, Elda Cerrato, Ithell Colquhoun, Leonor Fini, and
Monica Sjöö in dialogue with contemporary practitioners, including Francesco Clemente, Chitra Ganesh,
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Bharti Kher, Linder, and Goshka Macuga.
Featuring over 50 works by 27 artists spanning painting, sculpture, ceramic, watercolor, and collage—some newly created—Enchanted Alchemies brings together a range of expressive approaches to magic and mystical thinking. The exhibition display will evolve through two phases to reflect the transformative and alchemical themes of the artists’ works.
Enchanted Alchemies: Magic, Mysticism, and the Occult in Art October 1st – December 21st, 2024
Lévy Gorvy Dayan. MORE: INFO
Art Opening: Tuesday 1st October 2024, 6PM – 8PM
*The two Hauser & With exhibitions open before Frieze but the Art openings are after
