ON HIATUS DUE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK.
Jan 1 - Feb 28, 2021 FINAL WEEK
Though our on-site seminars and other events are not possible for the time being we are hosting online webinars.

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PLEASE CONTACT THE GALLERY FOR MORE INFORMATION
Jan 1 - Feb 28, 2021 FINAL WEEK

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VANESSA BAIRD : IF EVER THERE WERE AN END TO A STORY...
Jan 8 - Feb 28, 2021 FINAL WEEK
Vanessa Baird: If ever there were an end to a story that had no beginning.
 
Raw, outlandish and utterly individual, Vanessa Baird’s charged works in pastel and watercolour range from room-size murals to intimate self-portraits and draw on a wide range of references from the artist's own lived experiences, as well as Scandinavian folklore. Her extraordinary drawings depict ‘her world’, centred on the house that she grew up in and still inhabits with her three teenage children and elderly mother, for whom she acts as carer. Baird captures the difficult everyday tasks of looking after a family in a kaleidoscope of startling imagery, permeated with exhaustion, boredom, frustration, bodily functions and the chaotic detritus of domestic life. Whilst rooted in the autobiographical, her work equally references wider concerns, from fairy tales and legends, to the international politics of the European refugee crisis and the Oslo bombings of 2011; these all feed into uncompromising images underpinned with a dark, often disturbing humour that is both confidential and confrontational.
 
Vanessa Baird (b. 1963) lives and works in Oslo. This will be the her first solo exhibition in the UK.
 
This exhibition is co-curated by Mary Doyle and Gillian Fox.

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ANIKÓ KUIKKA : SUN AIKAS KOITTAA / YOUR DAWN WILL COME
Feb 11 - Mar 27, 2021
A solo exhibition of work Royal Academy Graduate Anikó Kuikka

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INFORMATION TO COME
Sep+Oct

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STEPHEN FRIEDMAN GALLERY AT THE LONDON HOUSE OF MODERNITY
Jan 18 - Apr 2, 2021
Marina Adams | Mamma Andersson | Juan Araujo | Tonico Lemos Auad | Jonathan Baldock | Claire Barclay | Andreas Eriksson | Manuel Espinosa | Kendell Geers | Wayne Gonzales | Jim Hodges | Ilona Keserü | Rivane Neuenschwander | Ged Quinn | Yinka Shonibare CBE RA | Luiz Zerbini
Stephen Friedman Gallery and The London House of Modernity are pleased to present a collaboration at 14 Cavendish Square.
This unique project brings together a diverse curated selection of international contemporary art and the best of classic mid century Nordic design. Set in a Grade II listed Georgian mansion of Palladian design, visitors are invited to explore eight atmospheric rooms in which domestic environments are created to showcase art and design of the highest quality.
Online from Monday 18 January. IRL at first opportunity with public opening dates TBC. ⁠

ONLINE | LUIZ ZERBINI : FIRE
Jan 25 - Apr 1, 2021
Brazilian artist Luiz Zerbini presents his second exhibition at Stephen Friedman Gallery, following his acclaimed solo show at South London Gallery in 2018. Juxtaposing organic and geometric forms, Zerbini’s paintings explore the relationship between colour, light and movement. Inspired by the Amazon and Mata Atlântica rainforests, the exhibition reflects the artist’s ongoing interest in the relationship between nature and humanity in and around Rio de Janeiro.
 
Across his career, which spans over three decades, Zerbini has developed a complex visual vocabulary at the intersection of figuration and abstraction. He first emerged within the generational (and global) ‘return to painting’ of the 1980s, centred in Rio de Janeiro around the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts and subsequently defined by the landmark exhibition ‘Como vai você Geração 80?’ (How Are You Doing, 80s Generation?, 1984).
 
The exhibition at Stephen Friedman Gallery follows Zerbini's major presentation in the group show 'Trees' at Fondation Cartier pour l'artcontemporain, Paris, in 2019. There the artist transformed the main gallery into an urban jungle, combining a large-scale herbarium — complete with a living fig tree — with hyperreal paintings of the rainforest and symbols of Brazilian modernity.
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