5* Art Openings in London this week.
12 January 2026 • Mark Westall
Mid-January lands with real weight.
Tag: Art Opening London
New Patrick Caulfield exhibition to look deeper into the artists practice across a variety of media.
12 August 2019 • Mark Westall
In a solo exhibition of the celebrated Patrick Caulfield (b. 1936 – d. 2005), Waddington Custot will look deeper at the artist’s practice across a variety of media, from oil painting to prints and his lesser-known and rarely exhibited drawings, with particular attention to Caulfield’s preoccupation with light and shade across various times of day.
Mia Wilkinson’s solo show at PUBLIC Gallery- the unabashed deconstruction of the female nude
9 July 2018 • Irene Machetti
The PUBLIC Gallery has just announced Mia Wilkinson’s second solo show at the gallery: ‘THIS IS NOT PORN’. It will exhibit a selection of Mia’s recent works (2016-18) exploring the depiction of the female nude in our media-obsessed age.
Urs Fischer soft
6 June 2018 • Mark Westall
Urs Fischer, Untitled, 2018 © Urs Fischer. Courtesy of the artist This is the first time I have seen the… Read More
ART OPENING: Gabriel Orozco at Marian Goodman London Friday 12th June 2014
12 June 2015 • Staff
This is Gabriel Orozco first exhibition since his 2011 retrospective at Tate Modern. He will present new paintings, scrolls, sculptures, drawings and photographs made over the last year in Japan and Mexico.
Hannah Know: BUFF @CeriHandGallery Art Opening Thursday 19th September 2013
19 September 2013 • Mark Westall
BUFF is Hannah Knox’s first solo exhibition with Ceri Hand Gallery, featuring a series of new works that utilise fabric as a ground. Reducing painting to its primary components of colour, cloth and support- they range from pink linen and black PVC to day-glo orange raw silk. The works are folded, stitched, sprayed and draped, these are paintings barely and painted barely – this is painting in the buff.
Idris Khan ‘Beyond the Black’ @VictoriaMiro Art Opening Thursday 19th September 6–8pm
19 September 2013 • Mark Westall
Victoria Miro is to present a new body of work by Idris Khan in his third solo presentation with the gallery. Beyond the Black marks an important departure from Khan’s photographic based works and comprises a suite of large black paintings, a monumental site specific wall drawing and a series of works on paper, all of which consider the metaphysics of creativity.
2Q13 Women Artists | Women Collectors @The Lloyds Club Private View: Wednesday 18th September
18 September 2013 • Mark Westall
The exhibition will feature over 100 contemporary artworks made by women artists and will represent the art collections of seven prominent female art collectors from London, Europe and North America.
Siah Armajani: An Ingenious World @ParasolUnit Art Opening Tuesday 17th September 2013
17 September 2013 • Mark Westall
Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art presents the first major UK survey of Iran-born, American artist, Siah Armajani, who is internationally renowned for his extensive public art commissions, which include bridges, reading rooms and poetry gardens.
Chris Succo Total Recall @RodBarton Art Opening Friday 13th September
13 September 2013 • Mark Westall
True to its title, Total Recall serves as a kind of comprehensive recap, offering selections from Chris Succo’s three most recent bodies of work.
FLORIAN MEISENBERG Delays During Transit (Early Prematurity) @KateMacGarry Art Opening Thursday 12th September
12 September 2013 • Mark Westall
The show comprises of a series of paintings, videos and generic furniture, forming an installation that evokes a transport terminal. For Meisenberg it is the experience of transition, of “being and becoming” that interests him. A space with no history and no future: blank, utopian, universal, desolate, similar to a white cube.
NaoKo TakaHashi | Stubbornly Persistent Illusion Chapter 1: Red Planet @IMTGallery Art Opening: Thursday 12th September
11 September 2013 • Mark Westall
Japanese contemporary artist reconstructs the Martian landscape to look at the contemporary cultural fascination with science through the hunger for doomsday scenarios and conspiracy theories.
Group Show : ENDOGENOUS II @ Maria Stenfors Art Opening Tuesday 10th September 2013
10 September 2013 • Mark Westall
Group Show : ENDOGENOUS II @MariaStenfors Art Opening
FAD’s Top SIX Art Openings to view for First Thursday September 5th 2013
5 September 2013 • Mark Westall
Where to go and what to see this #FIRSTThursday
Library of Obscure Wonders present : Blithe Nook Exhibition & Performances at St John Bethnal Green Art Opening September 5th 2013
5 September 2013 • Mark Westall
Site Specific Installation about the origins of Bethnal Green in the Belfry. Performances in the church by Rude Mechanicals, Jude Cowan Montague, Calum F. Kerr and Jill Rock on the opening night
Anna-Bella Papp solo exhibition @StuartShave/Modern Art Art Opening Thursday 5th September 2013
4 September 2013 • Mark Westall
Anna-Bella Papp solo exhibition @StuartShave/Modern Art
“The Masks We Wear” Group show @Kristin Hjellegjerde/ArtEco
4 September 2013 • Mark Westall
To celebrate the start of the art season this autumn and in the lead up to Frieze, Kristin Hjellegjerde/ARTECO Gallery,London, presents a group show of 12 Contemporary artists
Tom Philips @FlowersGallery Art Opening Tuesday 3rd September 2013
3 September 2013 • Mark Westall
??This exhibition by leading British artist Tom Phillips consists of an entirely new body of work. With extraordinary delicacy Phillips has dissected his previously used, discarded plastic palettes and converted fragments of them into intricate oil collages mounted on panels.
Stephan Balkenhol at Stephen Friedman Gallery Private View Tuesday 3rd September 2013
1 September 2013 • Mark Westall
This is the artist’s eighth exhibition at Stephen Friedman gallery and follows his recently unveiled monument to Richard Wagner in Leipzig and an installation at St Elizabeth Church, Kassel, to coincide with Documenta 13.
TONIGHT: Alex Noble ‘Creatures from the Kaleidoscope’ @LondonNewcastle Private View Friday 30th August 2013
30 August 2013 • Mark Westall
From visionary artist Alex Noble comes his first solo exhibition; Creatures from the Kaleidoscope. The highly anticipated art and fashion-fused exhibition will display Noble’s visceral aesthetic as he unveils an immersive mixed media landscape taking the spectator deeper into the visual forms of his world.
Rosalind Davis, Solo Show: To The Light
13 August 2013 • Mark Westall
There’s a note of the elegiac here – a contemplative sadness for a past and absent moment of violence – but also hope, beauty and a sensitivity
Anthony Gerace ‘There Must Be More To Life Than This’ @ConingsbyG Art Opening Thursday 15th August 2013
13 August 2013 • Mark Westall
The collages in There Must Be More to Life Than This are built from single sources, usually from advertising from the 1940s-1970s, and speak at once to a longing for coherence and completion and the inability to ever truly achieve it.
Isa Genzken at Hauser & Wirth Savile Row Art Opening Opening: Wednesday 14th November 2012
13 November 2012 • Mark Westall
‘I have always said that with any sculpture you have to be able to say, although this is not a ready-made, it could be one. That’s what a sculpture has to look like. It must have a certain relation to reality’
THE ART OF CHESS at SAATCHI GALLERY
5 September 2012 • Mark Westall
The Art of Chess brings together 16 chess sets designed by some of the world’s leading contemporary artists in celebration of the ‘game of kings’ .