14 October 2023 • daniel barnes
Dripping, posing, pleading, vacantly staring into and through the viewer, the figures in Charlie Stein’s paintings are at once grotesque and hyperreal reflections of our fragile selves, splintered and strewn across the airwaves of social media, and yet all neatly packaged up.
3 October 2023 • Mark Westall
Ken Nwadiogbu – Fragments of Reality opens for Frieze Week at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London Bridge on Saturday 7th October… Read More
21 July 2023 • Mark Westall
In Joachim Lambrechts’s latest series of paintings, faces, bare muscular torsos and shapely limbs appear heavily embellished with popular tattoo slogans and motifs against brightly coloured backgrounds.
23 March 2023 • Mark Westall
Women in golden headscarves gaze into the distance while mothers pass by with babies strapped to their backs and sacks of provisions slung over their shoulders. For the past two years, the Ethiopian artist Tewodros Hagos has dedicated his practice to the many displaced people in Africa and around the globe.
7 March 2023 • Mark Westall
Audun Alvestad’s latest series of paintings which continue his explorations into the concept of leisure.
28 December 2022 • Mark Westall
12 contemporary art exhibitions you have to see in early 2023 all are in London except where stated.
26 June 2022 • Tabish Khan
An indoor beach, nature indoors and whole load of birds.
15 May 2022 • Tabish Khan
Paper rains down, sculpture, landscapes, auras, nature and marble.
29 July 2021 • Mark Westall
Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery has announced the opening of its fifth gallery space at Schloss Görne, Germany with a large-scale summer… Read More
3 June 2021 • Mark Westall
The inaugural London Gallery Weekend kicks off tomorrow lots of galleries are involved split into three areas over three days… Read More
8 April 2021 • Mark Westall
Through a frenzy of colours and symbols that are chiselled, burnt and painted onto panels of wood, Nigerian artist Gerald Chukwuma creates a striking visual language that weaves together ancient symbols, contemporary and historic references.
7 March 2021 • Tabish Khan
Ice, water and a playground in this week’s top 5.
14 January 2021 • Mark Westall
Surreal, fairytale-esque landscapes and characters are rendered in exquisite detail in Norweigan artist Sverre Malling’s latest collection of drawings.
20 November 2020 • Mark Westall
The camera holds focus on a monstrous-looking, thorned flower as a looped soundtrack evokes the mood of an old-fashioned Hollywood… Read More
19 June 2020 • Mark Westall
Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery are opening of their fourth gallery space at The Shrimp Factory in Nevlunghavn, Norway with a solo exhibition by Ethiopian artist Wendimagegn Belete.
20 May 2020 • Mark Westall
Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery are opening their fourth gallery space at The Shrimp Factory in Nevlunghavn, Norway with a solo exhibition by Ethiopian artist Wendimagegn Belete.
23 April 2020 • Mark Westall
For his first solo exhibition with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery London at Melior Place Zimbabwe-based Wycliffe Mundopa presents a powerful new series of work entitled 1001 Afternoons, continuing his explorations of the complexities of female existence in relation to his role as an artist and narrator.
6 January 2020 • Mark Westall
For her solo show at Kristin Hjellegjerde’s gallery in London Bridge, Ana Barriga presents a new series of imaginative paintings that visualise everyday life in the peanut community.
22 February 2018 • Mark Westall
Kristin Hjellegjerde is opening a new new gallery space in Berlin, located on Linienstraße 130 in Mitte. The gallery will open with a two-artist exhibition on the 26th of April 2018 and will also mark the Gallery’s 6th year anniversary.
16 November 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
Perhaps things will change post-Brexit, but there’s a healthy internationalism in the London art scene at present. Franco-Italian Juliette Mahieux Bartoli says her paintings (‘Pax Romana’, shown by Norwegian gallerist Kristin Hjellegjerde in Wandsworth to 21 Dec) reflect the impossibility of cultural singularity in our hybridised world
22 September 2015 • Staff
Ambitious angles, bright colours and stretched linen achieve a surprising sense of balance in the fantastic/chromatic world of Sinta Tantra.
11 September 2015 • daniel barnes
Art fairs have become ubiquitous in the landscape of the art market. Once you’ve seen one fair, you’ve seen them all: row upon makeshift row of booths desperate to stand out, populated by art that stirs a faint sense of déjà vu and expectant gallerists wielding bottles of champagne. And there’s always a throng of revellers who are there to be seen and those of us waving our press passes as if we matter to the whole circus. But START is different.
4 August 2015 • Mark Westall
After finding herself unable to tune out the chilling visuals of global atrocities in the news, Celina Teague was moved to interpret the colourful narratives of world events that would become her forthcoming exhibition, I think therefore I #.
3 June 2015 • Mark Westall
Both teeter along a fine line dividing digital interpretation and modern reality, pushing traditional art forms into a contemporary context
