CAROLINE MAY : MALE IMPERATIVES
Jan 17 - Mar 7, 2020
Caroline May’s work explores the performance of masculinity, the social and cultural construction of gender and the divergence of desire through a series of portraits, landscapes and collages.
 
In her ongoing series, The Hustler, the artist reverses the power dynamic between photographer and subject by directing her female gaze towards the male subject. The exhibition will also include a series of collages, which feature imagery appropriated from fashion editorials in which the artist intervenes by ‘erasing’ the features of the model, therefore stripping them of a fixed gender.
 
May’s work is a reflection on the duplicitous nature of photography, and how the medium is being used to impose and institutionalze definitions of gender, identity and social behaviour.
 
Curated by Vassilios Doupas.

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VIVIAN SUTER
Jan 17 - Apr 5, 2020
Vivian Suter’s (b. 1949, Buenos Aires) paintings are born from the terrain and habitat that surrounds their making. Working amid the wilderness of her lakeside studio in Guatemala, her large, unstretched canvases are hung outdoors to absorb the traces of falling leaves, rain, passing animals and mud. Presenting the finished works as an immersive cacophony—suspended, overlapping and environmental—Suter’s streaked and soaked canvases, swathed in colour, form a permeable membrane between nature and civilization.

ATHANASIOS ARGIANAS
Jan 17 - Apr 5, 2020
Athanasios Argianas’ (b. 1976, Athens) exhibition will present new film, sculpture and musical works that emerge from his interest in redundant technologies and the traces of modernism found in unthought of places. Drawing on the social and historical specificity of acoustic forms and visual aesthetics, Argianas developed several new works during his residency at Camden Arts Centre in 2018-19. These include modular ceramic sculptures that trace the nuanced shifts from the curves of art nouveau to 1930s modernism, as well as casts and replicas of acoustic technologies, including the Ondes Martenot Resonator – a prototypical instrument that tilts and bends sound, treating it as a tactile material.

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SKAWENNATI : AVATARS ALIENS ANCESTORS
through March 2020
'Avatars Aliens Ancestors' presents a selection of the characters that populate Skawennati’s artistic universe. Renowned for her machinimas (movies made in virtual environments), and her machinimagraphs (photographs taken in virtual environments), she also produces beadwork, clothing and sculptures. Active since the late 1990’s, she has used cyberspace as both a metaphor for the future and a tool to create representations of Indigenous people in a revised history, a contemporary present and an anticipated tomorrow.

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WINTER LIGHTS FESTIVAL
Jan 16 - 25, 2020 FINAL WEEK
4-10pm

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CONTAGIO
Jan 17 - Mar 6, 2020
Private view Fri Jan 17 6pm - 8pm
Cecilia Brunson Projects (CBP) is pleased to start 2020 with a group exhibition of nine Latin American artists curated by Jaime Gili.

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ALEX MARGO ARDEN & CASPAR HEINEMANN
Nov 28, 2019 - Jan 26, 2020
'THE FARMYARD IS NOT A VIOLENT PLACE AND I LOOK EXACTLY LIKE JUDY GARLAND' is an artist collaboration by Alex Margo Arden & Caspar Heinemann taking the form of theatre space and play acted out in varying intervals.
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X6 DANCE SPACE (1976-80 : LIBERATION NOTES
Feb 7 - Mar 22, 2020
The first presentation of work from experimental dance group the X6 Collective (1976-80).

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13 PAINTINGS INSPIRED BY NICK CAVE
Jan 17 - Feb 8, 2020
Collector and curator Angela Koulakoglou invites 13 painters to make work inspired by the lyrics of Nick Cave.
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HUGH MENDES : AUTORRETRATO : THE FEMALE GAZE
Feb 14 - Mar 14, 2020
Private view Thu Feb 13 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Obituary paintings based on historical women artist’s self-portraits.

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JOSEPH KOSUTH AND SEAMUS FARRELL
Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2020
Private view Tue Jan 21 6pm - 8.30pm
Artists Joseph Kosuth and Seamus Farrell have been invited to conceive two sites-specific works at Chelsea Space.

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IMRAN PERRETTA
Jan 17 - Mar 15, 2020
Chisenhale Gallery presents 'the destructors', a film commission and solo exhibition by London-based artist Imran Perretta.
 
'the destructors' is shot on location in Tower Hamlets, east London. Reflecting on Perretta’s experience as a young man of Bangladeshi heritage, the work reconsiders the figure of alienated male youth to explore the complexities of ‘coming of age’ for young Muslim men living in the UK.

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COLLYER BRISTOW GRADUATE ART AWARD
Nov 7, 2019 - Feb 19, 2020
Jackie Berridge, Daisy Billowes, Kim Booker, Lena Brazin, Julie Caves, Fergus Cooper, Theo Ellison, Tom Faber, Nathaniel Faulkner, Emilie Fitzgerald, Aaron Ford, Max Gimson, Camilla Hanney, Willa Hilditch, Charlotte Johnston, Seungwon Jung, Sandra Lane, Robyn Litchfield, Karen Loader, James Low, Aphra O’Connor, Philippa Paterson, Juliette Pearce, Dorian Radu, Joe Richardson, Beth Rodway, Fernando Romero, Rose Schmits and Ben Walker.
 
The selected artists are Graduates from London Art Schools.
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ME. MYSELF AND I.
Feb 27 - Jun 10, 2020
Group exhibition about identity. Includes Ken Kiff, Laura Hudson, Eleanor Moreton, Wendy Saunders, Charmaine Watkiss and others.

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CONDO 2020: SOFIA MITSOLA AND SEDRICK CHISOM
Jan 11 - Feb 8, 2020
Condo 2020: Sofia Mitsola: Darladiladada
Sofia Mitsola is working primarily with paintings in which she investigates the female form. Her invented characters are informed by ancient Greek and Egyptian sculptures, usually depictions of goddesses or mythical creatures.
 
Hosting Sedrick Chisom (Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles), 'Westward Shrinking Hours'. Westward Shrinking Hours presents a new series of large-scale mixed media canvases which hang unstretched in the style of tapestries, and two large scale charcoal drawings.
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SHARA HUGHES
Feb 21 - Mar 21, 2020
Private view Thu Feb 20 6pm - 8pm
A new solo exhibition by the artist.

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CONDO 2020 :
Jan 11 - Feb 1, 2020
Adam Buick, Gretchen Faust, Ellen Gronemeyer, Juha Pekka Matias Laakkonen, Maria Toumazou and Pae White.

MYRA GREENE : COMPLEMENTARY
Feb 6 - Mar 14, 2020
Private view Thu Feb 6 6.30pm - 8.30pm

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IAN DAVENPORT : CHROMATIC
Jan 9 - Feb 8, 2020

NAUM GABO : SPATIAL IMPRESSIONS
Jan 9 - Feb 8, 2020
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VICKEN PARSONS : BREATH
Feb 13 - Mar 14, 2020
Private view Wed Feb 12 6pm - 7.30pm

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PROGRAMME RESUMES IN SPRING 2020
Jan 1 - Feb 1, 2020

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LONDON ART FAIR 2020
Jan 22 - 26, 2020
Stand 5. Business Design Centre
52 Upper Street, The Angel, London N1 0QH

COLLECT 2020
Feb 27 - Mar 1, 2020
International Art Fair for Modern Craft and Design

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AI SCIENCE CAFÉ SERIES 2020
Jan 29 - May 20, 2020
Artificial Intelligence is the new phenomenon of the 21st century and has evolved out of the realm of science fiction and at best, a few technologically advanced minds and IT professionals, to everyday topics of discussion and one of the key drivers of the future progress of humankind. The objective of the AI Science Café series, which will consist of five presentations by high profile, world acclaimed experts, is to introduce, present and publicly discuss various topics that impact our professional as well as our personal lives. As AI topics clearly generate more questions than answers, the series will strive to unveil trends and expectations from the inevitable social and technological changes which the future will bring.

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