Food for thought at Condo 2025
20 January 2025 • Meike Brunkhorst
Condo 2025 an exciting snapshot of what is happening in contemporary art globally and an annual reminder of the interplay of art and urban regeneration back home.
Author: Meike Brunkhorst
Meike Brunkhorst runs factor-m, a marketing consultancy with artists at heart. She is also a freelance writer and translator, event manager and curator. www.factor-m.co.uk
The exhibitions rewriting art history in 2024
31 December 2024 • Meike Brunkhorst
There was a flurry of major London exhibitions in the first half of this year that embraced aspects of previously… Read More
The Party’s Over – political hangovers and the art of new possibilities
15 November 2024 • Meike Brunkhorst
Doireann Gillan responds to a heightened sense of socio-political precarity by placing balloons stretched to their limit dangerously close to… Read More
Picasso: Printmaker – a practical guide to life and art.
7 November 2024 • Meike Brunkhorst
Picasso: Printmaker – reached via a golden lift in the Living and Dying section – a fitting route to an exhibition chronicling the modern master’s life in works on paper.
Moving forward through the past: Hew Locke’s intervention at the British Museum
22 October 2024 • Meike Brunkhorst
There are close to a hundred rooms at the British Museum, grouped by region and period and filled with objects… Read More
Art supermarket in Richmond – everyone should go!
14 September 2024 • Meike Brunkhorst
Paved Court is a cobbled alley lined by Georgian shops and townhouses off Richmond Green. The oldest of the buildings… Read More
Notting Hill is claiming back its cool with a colourful Zak Ové mosaic installation
9 July 2024 • Meike Brunkhorst
A public art installation by British-Trinidadian artist Zak Ové has been unveiled in Notting Hill. Eight colourful mosaic panels resembling… Read More
Artist duo Alec & Franz explore the impact of architecture on wellbeing
31 May 2024 • Meike Brunkhorst
Alec & Franz are artist duo Alec Boreham and Francesco Vitali. Floating Architectural Spaces is their collaborative exploration into the… Read More
The Barbican unravelling serious undertones of textile art
16 May 2024 • Meike Brunkhorst
Barely recovered from the might of Entangled Pasts, 1768-now at the Royal Academy, a major show tackling the academy’s connection… Read More
Royal Academy exploring imperial history with Entangled Pasts 1768-now
3 April 2024 • Meike Brunkhorst
It feels as if there’s another major exhibition announced every day this month, including three shows tackling aspects of postcolonial… Read More
Keith Piper commission responds to Tate Britain’s controversial Whistler mural
11 March 2024 • Meike Brunkhorst
This week Tate Britain unveils Viva Voce, a new film installation by renowned British artist Keith Piper. It is the first… Read More
Art Friend ‘House Warming’ at an abandoned house in North London
3 February 2024 • Meike Brunkhorst
Visiting House Warming at 69 Evering Road in Stoke Newington felt like crashing an 80s house party.
Art to see & make you smile at CONDO London
22 January 2024 • Meike Brunkhorst
Condo is back with 50 galleries showing across 23 spaces in London. An art marathon taking in all exhibitions is… Read More
Major museums navigating the changing tides of postcolonialism
18 January 2024 • Meike Brunkhorst
Meike Brunkhorst – writer, publicist and art marketing consultant – introduces a new series on museums rewriting cultural history – first up some highlights of exhibitions embracing postcolonial perspectives.
Timescapes: artists reflecting on concepts of time capture the zeitgeist
9 October 2023 • Meike Brunkhorst
Independent curator and writer Maria Hinel (Borshchevska) is interested in perceptions of time in contemporary art. For Timescapes she has… Read More
Can Design Solve the World’s Problems? The London Design Biennale starts the conversation.
15 June 2023 • Meike Brunkhorst
Biennales are designed for countries to showcase the best they have to offer in terms of art, design or architecture…. Read More
Solo exhibition of abstract photographs by renowned Croatian street photographer
14 June 2023 • Meike Brunkhorst
With Reflections, Olga Karlovac presents a visual journal of her inner worlds as a series of experimental self-portraits alongside timeless and nameless landscapes.
A townhouse at 195 Mare Street in Hackney is a bit of a local celebrity, it’s now even got its own Instagram.
30 April 2023 • Meike Brunkhorst
A townhouse at 195 Mare Street in Hackney is a bit of a local celebrity, it’s now even got its own Instagram as it enters a new era in the building’s centuries-spanning history.
OHSH – cultural nomads making a mark on the London art map
23 March 2023 • Meike Brunkhorst
Conceived as a nomadic project space in the immediate aftermath of closures and lockdowns, OHSH Projects have organised a dozen exhibitions at a former restaurant in London’s West End, guest-hosted pop-ups on- and off-site and have just taken up residence of additional premises in Peckham.
ABSURD \\ What does it all really mean?
4 October 2022 • Meike Brunkhorst
Post-truth news read a bit like a Kafka novel: the Queen is now a man, mini-budgets topple macro-economics, you can’t have an oven-ready cake and heat it, even fools no longer know the price of everything. According to the holy grail of fact [Wikipedia], the absurd is that which lacks a sense, often because it involves some form of contradiction.
Body Politics: The Radical Realities of Carolee Schneemann
12 September 2022 • Meike Brunkhorst
Body Politics is much more than an overdue retrospective and is a must-see not just for existing fans of Carolee Schneemann.
I’m Gonna Delete You: Rebecca Molloy’s site-specific installation lives on as NFT
26 July 2022 • Meike Brunkhorst
More than four years in the making, ‘I’m gonna delete you’ was open by appointment for a three-week run from… Read More
Yusuke Akamatsu at Photo London
11 October 2021 • Meike Brunkhorst
At first sight, Yusuke Akamatsu’s colourful and glossy prints evoke an urban, even playful aesthetic while titles like ‘The End… Read More
Lucy Sparrow presents the Bourdon Street Chemist
21 April 2021 • Meike Brunkhorst
Lucy Sparrow has taken over Lyndsey Ingram’s Mayfair gallery and turned it into a rather convincing looking local pharmacy. Apparently, passing… Read More