König Archives

Interview with Bosco Sodi ahead of his solo show at König London

28 September 2021 • Irene Machetti

TOTALITY, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Bosco Sodi, will open at KÖNIG LONDON on 13 October. The… Read More

INTERVIEWS

Ben Elliot: The Artist Is Online, My Little Friend, $BENELLIOT, NFTs, Perfect Paintings & more…

6 April 2021 • Moogz

We caught up with the artist Ben Elliot during The Artist Is Online: Painting & Sculpture In The Post Digital Age
A group show presented by König Gallery in Decentraland, to talk about the show his art practice and the future.

INTERVIEWS

Tenant of Culture is the recipient of the 2020 Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Prize with Frieze

9 October 2020 • Mark Westall

Today, Camden Art Centre and Frieze announce Tenant of Culture as the recipient of the 2020 Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Prize with Frieze. Tenant of Culture, who is represented by Soft Opening, London, will realise a major exhibition at Camden Art Centre in 2022.

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Cork Street to become epicentre of cultural activity during London’s busiest art month.

21 September 2020 • Mark Westall

Cork Street Galleries has announced that Sadie Coles HQ, Lisson Gallery, Frieze Live and Stephen Friedman will take over gallery spaces on Cork Street and Old Burlington Street launching during Frieze week 2020. They will join Cork Street’s permanent roster of galleries to become the epicentre of cultural activity during London’s busiest art market month

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New exhibition from Maggi Hambling to coincide with her 75th Birthday

27 August 2020 • Mark Westall

Maggi Hambling: 2020 will be an exhibition of recent paintings coinciding with Hambling’s 75th Birthday, marking both a moment of looking in – a self-reckoning – as much as a commentary on the world, responding to the seismic events of the present.

UNTITLED, ART Online, in partnership with Artspace & Phaidon, announces the UNTITLED, ART Charitable Artist Edition featuring Genesis Tramaine

28 July 2020 • Mark Westall

UNTITLED, ART has partnered with Artspace & Phaidon to launch the UNTITLED, ART Charitable Artist Edition, featuring an editioned work on paper by artist Genesis Tramaine entitled Black Woman University.

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Art in the Age of Anxiety – A Conversation with Omar Kholeif (Part II)

9 June 2020 • Rachel Bennett

Part II of our conversation with curator Omar Kholeif explores how the exhibition’s currents of bombardment, misinformation, emotion, secrecy and surveillance have flowed into the strange space of “hiatus” shaped by the Covid-19 pandemic.

INTERVIEWS

American artist Titus Kaphar’s painting is the cover of TIME magazine

4 June 2020 • Mark Westall

For the first time, the red border of TIME includes the names of people: 35 black men and women whose deaths, in many cases by police, were the result of systemic racism and helped fuel the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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great exhibitions with 360° virtual visits – selected by GalleriesNow

21 May 2020 • Staff

GalleriesNow is the world’s leading gallery guide, with everything you need to know about great art wherever you are Our selection of great exhibitions recorded in VR for you to make a virtual visit online.

EXHIBITIONS

Perrotin invites 26 Paris galleries to show artwork in their Saint-Claude space.

11 May 2020 • Mark Westall

From May 23rd to August 14th, Perrotin have invited 26 Paris-based galleries to present a selection of work from their artists. Debuting in their Saint-Claude space, the exhibition will be comprised of four consecutive two-week-long presentations, with each one inclusive of six to seven independent galleries.

Picks From Art Rotterdam 2019

9 February 2019 • Paul Carey-Kent

Art Rotterdam (7-10 Feb) and the associated shows and events in a dynamic and architecturally stimulating city are always interesting –

Sadler’s Wells announces 20 landmark commissions to mark 20th anniversary

1 February 2018 • Mark Westall

Sadler’s Wells today announced 20 landmark commissions to mark the 20th anniversary of its iconic London theatre.

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Jeremy Shaw: Dancing, coffee, meditation and spirit ..

24 October 2017 • Mark Westall

Jeremy Shaw’s 2017 work Liminals is being exhibited at The Store on The Strand in an exhibition with König Galerie in partnership with The Vinyl Factory.

Review: Emotion + the Tech(no)body Exhibition (Video)

5 October 2017 • Staff

Hosted by the Austrian Cultural Forum in Knightsbridge Emotion + the Techn(no)body features nine international artists. Its purpose is to explore cultural relationships with data and the human body’s engagement with technology.

How art is being used to explore America’s shameful legacy of lynching

2 August 2017 • Syndicate

A new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum examines the history of racial persecution in the US while steering clear of explicit violence

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Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so’

24 March 2017 • Mark Westall

The visionary historian, author of two dazzling bestsellers on the state of mankind, takes questions from Lucy Prebble, Arianna Huffington, Esther Rantzen and a selection of our readers

INTERVIEWS

Who are we?

22 February 2017 • Mark Westall

Who are we? is a free 6-day cross-platform event, spanning the visual arts, film, photography, design, architecture, the spoken and written word and live art asking: Who are we?

EXHIBITIONS

Sanya Kantarovsky Feral Neighbours opening Monday 3rd October

2 October 2016 • Mark Westall

‘Feral Neighbours’ is Sanya Kantarovky’s first solo exhibition with Modern Art,

REVIEW: Dennis Loesch – Merge Visible

15 October 2015 • Eric Thorp

The ever growing influence of digitised imagery in painting is beckoning in a new era of abstraction.

REVIEW: Z Behl Plays Her Cards Right with ‘Joker’s Solitaire’ at Kai Matsumiya

17 March 2015 • VC Maurer

Inspired by a set of female nudist playing cards, which she found in her father’s drawer as a child, her most recent solo exhibition, ‘Joker of Solitaire’ while provocative, seemingly humorous, and often seductive, is inherently seeking to stimulate a dialogue around the history of the mythological and historical ‘trickster’.