Maren Karlson, Staub (Störung)
11 June 2024 • Mark Westall
Last year, Maren Karlson began working with four photographs taken inside Kombinat VEB Chemische Werke Buna in the 1970s and 80s
Tag: Soft Opening
Soft Opening is a contemporary art gallery in London. Founded in 2018 by Antonia Marsh, Soft Opening presents UK-based and international emerging contemporary artists, often their first solo presentations in London. Focusing on work pushing conventional limits of medium or material, the gallery presents a wide range of media and practices.
Love Love Love – Gina Fischli
9 February 2024 • Mark Westall
In Love Love Love, the second solo exhibition of Zurich-based artist Gina Fischli (b. 1989, Zurich) at Soft Opening, the artist presents a runway show of urban animals.
Soft Opening to produce five exhibitions in Los Angeles.
3 November 2023 • Mark Westall
Soft Opening has announced a new collaboration with Paul Soto, commencing this month.
Tenant of Culture, Ladder
4 October 2023 • Mark Westall
At Soft Opening, Tenant of Culture presents a new body of work that questions the perceived dichotomy between destruction and decoration, examining how the aesthetic of waste has, for centuries, been appropriated within the fashion industry.
Tenant of Culture presents a new body of work that questions the perceived dichotomy between destruction and decoration, examining how the aesthetic of waste has, for centuries, been appropriated within the fashion industry
19 July 2023 • Mark Westall
For her solo show at Soft Opening, Tenant of Culture presents a new body of work that questions the perceived dichotomy between destruction and decoration, examining how the aesthetic of waste has, for centuries, been appropriated within the fashion industry.
Sin Wai Kin awarded the 24th Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel – Statements
13 June 2023 • Mark Westall
Soft Opening has announced that Sin Wai Kin (b.1991 Toronto, Canada) has been awarded The Baloise Art Prize for their presentation Portraits, at Art Basel – Statements.
5 London Galleries to see in Basel. Oh, and one from Athens as well.
10 June 2023 • Mark Westall
FAD has chosen 5 London Galleries to see during Art Basel Week all are super interesting – have FUN navigating – * Oh and one from Athens as well.
Hector Campbell’s Top 5 For London Gallery Weekend
12 May 2022 • Hector Campbell
London Gallery Weekend kicks off this Friday, May 13th, with hundreds of special events and exhibitions taking place across London. To help you navigate we asked Hector Campbell, writer, curator and author of the weekly emerging art newsletter ‘The Shock of the Now’, to select his top choices from London’s selection of small to mid-size galleries.
Beyond the Uncanny
16 June 2021 • Paul Carey-Kent
Plenty of shows bring together paintings of figures and objects in unusual contexts or brought into unexpected conjunctions: the words ‘uncanny’ and ‘enigmatic’, ‘disturbing’ and ‘surreal’ are likely to be invoked. But, even if the paintings are good, you need more to turn such a display into a compelling whole. Two current exhibitions demonstrate how: