Steven Meisel at Photo London 2026
13 May 2026 • Meike Brunkhorst
As this year’s ‘Master of Photography’, Steven Meisel’s monumental black and white prints dominate the gallery floor overlooking the main fair below.
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
REVIEW: The Open: Odyssey at Hastings Contemporary
9 April 2026 • Meike Brunkhorst
Artists with connections to Sussex were invited to submit works that engage with ideas of marine ecology, climate change, migration, mythology and the fragile beauty of coastal life
What Makes Us British? Adam Docker’s Portrait of Liela for Portrait of Britain
12 January 2026 • Meike Brunkhorst
Docker took the portrait of ‘Liela’ as she gathered her thoughts during a break while filming a short documentary for the humanitarian charity Waging Peace.
Punk Pottery and Subversive Sculpture
12 December 2025 • Meike Brunkhorst
Ceramics are one of the oldest artforms, with evidence of pottery dating back to prehistoric times and archaeological examples found… Read More
Echo Soho 2025 – small is beautiful
18 October 2025 • Meike Brunkhorst
I didn’t expect to spend one and a half hours at a fair with only a dozen stands, proof that size isn’t everything and visual storytelling a gift.
No Place Art: Dreaming a new art world into being
28 September 2025 • Meike Brunkhorst
Hard to do it all, and No Place Art was easily missed.
Where are today’s protest songs?
21 September 2025 • Meike Brunkhorst
Photos of the Royal banquet popped up everywhere on the preview day for Through a Mirror, Darkly
Telling Stories Through Design
19 September 2025 • Meike Brunkhorst
V&A South Kensington is the perfect hub for promoting creativity in the capital during the annual London Design Festival.
Portobello Film Festival 2025 – 30 Free Years
22 August 2025 • Meike Brunkhorst
Portobello Film Festival celebrates 30 years of free films with a special screening of Charlie Paul’s 2021 documentary For No… Read More
Freudian Typo: sacrificial cats and soldier goats
19 August 2025 • Meike Brunkhorst
Artist collective Freudian Typo have created an eerily realistic replica of bureaucratic purgatory
You can’t beat a bit o’ cod, love
1 August 2025 • Meike Brunkhorst
This Summer Lucy Sparrow greets visitors from behind the counter of probably the only greasy spoon café in swanky Mayfair
Review: Martin A. Smith-Where the Roses Grow
19 July 2025 • Meike Brunkhorst
the Muse gallery in Portobello Road hosts an entire show dedicated to the music and art of Martin A. Smith.
The Top pavilions at London Design Biennale & one to enter with caution.
8 June 2025 • Meike Brunkhorst
Some of the most exciting exhibits at the London Design Biennale don’t just look good, they do good.
The best parts of SXSW London are free
6 June 2025 • Meike Brunkhorst
This may well be the busiest week in the London cultural calendar so far with SXSW taking over Shoreditch with… Read More
Collaboration of artists, musicians and performers at the heart of the new avant-garde
8 May 2025 • Meike Brunkhorst
The Cenote Ring is an immersive live performance devised by multimedia artist Paola Estrella.
Going Underground at Somerset House
14 April 2025 • Meike Brunkhorst
For the last three months fungi, worms and weeds took centre stage at Somerset House alongside microbes and bacteria.
The Face Magazine: Culture Shift #REVIEW
24 February 2025 • Meike Brunkhorst
Forever young faces grace the walls of the NPG in celebration of the role The Face played in capturing British youth culture through the decades.
50 years of cutting up bodies – Linder: Danger Came Smiling.
11 February 2025 • Meike Brunkhorst
Linder has been cutting up bodies for more than 50 years. More than a hundred are now on show at the Hayward Gallery.
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.
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