
Mike Nelson returns to Modern Art Oxford this Autumn.
4 June 2026 • Mark Westall
Mike Nelson returns to Modern Art Oxford for the first time since 2004 with a major new exhibition exploring memory, displacement and politics

4 June 2026 • Mark Westall
Mike Nelson returns to Modern Art Oxford for the first time since 2004 with a major new exhibition exploring memory, displacement and politics

14 August 2025 • Beth Primrose
In a “reverse DIY” 3 feat, Nelson has
created a hauntingly familiar work, Humpty Dumpty, a transient history of Mardin earthworks, low rise, at Fruitmarket gallery in Edinburgh.

24 May 2025 • Mark Westall
New York, Berlin, London, Edinburgh, Paris & Zurich the exhibitions to see during the Summer including one that could go off with a bang this September.

5 May 2025 • Mark Westall
The work in the exhibition asks questions about photography and its validity or currency at present.

29 April 2023 • Tabish Khan
Apocalyptic installations, abstract art, slavery, portraits and a church.

6 March 2023 • daniel barnes
Taking cues from science fiction, esoteric clubs, film, literature and the deepest recesses of human invention, Nelson chips away at our sense of what it is to inhabit space.

26 February 2023 • Mark Westall
Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons, how to explain? You gotta go and see, have a look, make it up stories – it’s your chance to star in a film, an old school commodore 64 computer adventure game (kids look it up).
This is interactive art but not with your hands in your head.

20 January 2023 • Mark Westall
Coinciding with his Hayward gallery exhibition Matts Gallery re-open Mike Nelson’s exhibition The Book of Spells (a speculative fiction)

22 December 2022 • Mark Westall
Here are eight museum exhibitions we are looking forward to in 2023

29 September 2019 • Tabish Khan
Microscopes, heavy machinery, salt tasting, big sculpture, a tiger hat and lots of slate.

13 June 2018 • Paul Carey-Kent
I’m not sure one could claim that the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (12 June – 19 Aug) is now cool. But in its 250th anniversary year it is no longer so uncool that it is simply ignored. Instead, it is ripe for being subverted.

12 November 2016 • Mark Westall
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead has launched a major new international artist award. The BALTIC Artists’ Award

14 July 2013 • VC Maurer
In partnership with the Barry Flanagan Foundation, Flat Time House is accepting applications for an artist’s residency to begin in November 2013.The deadline is 8th of September and will last for a duration of four months.

10 July 2013 • VC Maurer
GalleristNY top art critics reveal top 11 things to do in the big apple before the art world passes you by!

2 September 2011 • Mark Westall
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4 June 2011 • Mark Westall
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3 January 2011 • Mark Westall
The Save the Arts campaign is organised by the London branch of the Turning Point Network, a national consortium of over 2,000 arts organisations and artists dedicated to working together and finding new ways to support the arts in the UK.