CYRIL DE COMMARQUE AND KATE DAUDY : ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
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De Commarque interrogates the impact of technological and scientific advancement on Earth’s geology and ecosystems, encouraging visitors to contemplate a new world where the notion of Homo Sapiens is superseded by a species of its own creation; Homo Artificialis, imagined through a series of sculptural mise-en-scenes.
 
In addition to de Commarque’s installation, British artist Kate Daudy utilises her vast knowledge of Egyptology and Ancient Egyptian faith and traditions to produce an installation that draws on her relationship with death and time. Starting with Daudy’s interactive study, visitors are taken through an immersive journey exploring themes that include mortality, faith and science, human presence, and history.
 
During the first months of the exhibition, ‘Artificialis’ and ‘It Wasn’t That At All’ will open the conversation further to the public through a dynamic programme of talks and events by collaborators and leading experts in their fields.

TUTANKHAMUN : TREASURES OF THE GOLDEN PHARAOH
opens 2/11
'TUTANKHAMUN: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh Celebrates the Centenary of Howard Carter's Discovery'.
 
Unprecedented Collection Coming to Saatchi Gallery in November.
Commemorating the centenary of the discovery that captivated the world, the largest collection of King Tutankhamun's treasures ever to travel out of Egypt will open at the Saatchi Gallery in London for a limited run beginning Saturday 2 November 2019, and until 3 May 2020.

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GUY BEN-NER
Nov 14 - Dec 20, 2019
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HILARY LLOYD : CAR PARK
Nov 21 - Dec 20, 2019
Comprising a new multi-disciplinary body of work – centred on a new large-scale video installation titled Car Park – the exhibition extends Lloyd’s long-term use of video and installation, and for the first time painting, in the form of large-scale murals on the gallery walls. With interests in architecture, fashion, textiles and colour, Lloyd’s work centres on film and video whilst also invoking sculpture, painting and installation. Engaging directly with their sites of production or of exhibition-making, her films resist conventional notions of ‘duration’, instead representing filmic tableaux’s to be encountered.
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ALBERT OEHLEN
Oct 2, 2019 - Feb 2, 2020
Albert Oehlen (b. 1954, Krefeld, Germany) is one of the most innovative and significant artists working today. He has been a key figure in contemporary art since the 1980s and the diversity of his painting is a testament to the intrinsic freedom that remains at the heart of the medium. Through expressionist brushwork, surrealist gestures and deliberate amateurism, he engages with the history of painting, pushing its essential components to bold new extremes.

PATRICK STAFF : ON VENUS
Nov 8, 2019 - Feb 9, 2020
On Venus is a site-specific installation exploring structural violence, registers of harm and the corrosive effects of acid, blood and hormones through architectural intervention, video and print.

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THE SHOWROOM MURAL COMMISSION : SIMNIKIWE BUHLUNGU
from 2 Oct
A year-long commission for artists to activate the building's facade and engage local communities.

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MERLIN CARPENTER
Nov 22, 2019 - Jan 18, 2020
An exhibition of new paintings by Merlin Carpenter. The show considers the hand-painted object’s capacity to engage with and complicate the language and history of the readymade.
 
Merlin Carpenter’s work grapples with the potential relationship between painting and the readymade; and the possibility of collapsing the ideas that distinguish these practices. Since the 1990s the readymade object has been an integral line of inquiry in Carpenter’s work; and in more recent years he has presented a number of readymade works that hang flat on the wall like a painting. Carpenter’s new hyperrealistic paintings push the boundaries of painting into the discourse of the readymade in another way: the five works are so highly finished that they appear like a product, delivered from elsewhere. In this stark new presentation, Carpenter encourages the audience to both critique the authenticity of the paintings and simultaneously accept the role of the artist's hand.

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GROUP SHOW
Dec 2019

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DUSTIN HODGES
Dec 19, 2019 - Feb 2, 2020

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GALLERY 31 : BONDS
Sep 6, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020
Gallery 31, Somerset House Studios’ permanent exhibition space opens September 2019. Featuring Laura Grace Ford, Anna Mikkola, Imran Perretta, Hannah Perry, Nick Ryan and Flora Yin-Wong.

MARY SIBANDE : I CAME APART AT THE SEAMS
Oct 3, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020
An exhibition of new and celebrated works from one of South Africa’s most prominent contemporary artists, Mary Sibande. In her first solo exhibition in the UK, Mary Sibande presents a series of photographic and sculptural works exploring the power of imagination and constructive anger in shaping identities and personal narratives in a post-colonial world.

24/7 : A WAKE-UP CALL FOR OUR NON-STOP WORLD
Oct 31, 2019 - Feb 23, 2020
A major exhibition exploring the non-stop nature of modern lives. A host of international contemporary artists and designers will hold a mirror up to a world in which we are sleeping less, complex systems are exerting control, and the pull of the screen is disrupting our instincts to daydream and pay attention to the world around us, and each other. The exhibition is inspired by the book of the same title by art critic and essayist Jonathan Crary (Verso, 2013).
 
Contributors include Marcus Coates, Mat Collishaw, Harun Farocki, Pierre Huyghe, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Kelly Richardson, Pilvi Takala, Addie Wagenknecht, and ten artists and designers from Somerset House Studios, including Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard.

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GROUP EXHIBITION
Dec 4, 2019 - Jan 30, 2020
STANO FILKO, MARGUERITE HUMEAU, PETER HUJAR, TI-SHAN TSU, CHARLOTTE JOHANNESSON, CLEMENTINE KEITH-ROACH, PAUL THEK and NANDA VIGO, ANNA ZEMÁNKOVÁ.

THE BLAZING WORLD
Dec 4, 2019 - Jan 30, 2020
A diverse group exhibition of artworks which draw upon themes of science-fiction, utopia, ritual and the fragility of human hope and existence. 'The Blazing World' is the third in a trilogy of group exhibitions at the gallery where a work of literature forms a conceptual framework for an exhibition and is accompanied by a new edition and reprinting of a story. The last group show in this series, 'The Blazing World', takes its title from a forward-thinking seventeenth century fictional text of the same name, written by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. A part of the original text will be reprinted in S|2’s accompanying exhibition catalogue. The artists featured in the exhibition are Stano Filko, Peter Hujar, Marguerite Humeau, Charlotte Johannesson, Clementine Keith-Roach, Arik Levy, Charlotte Prodger, Paul Thek, Tishan Hsu, Nanda Vigo and Anna Zemánková.

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BLOOMBERG NEW CONTEMPORARIES 2019
Dec 6, 2019 - Feb 23, 2020

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PREM SAHIB : DESCENT II. CUL-DE-SAC
Dec 5 - 21, 2019

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LINDSEY MENDICK : REGRETS, I'VE HAD A FEW
Nov 21, 2019 - Feb 22, 2020
Commissioned solo exhibition exploring hindsight, nostalgia and storytelling through ceramics and textiles. This is the first exhibition to launch SPACE’s new gallery in Ilford.
Lindsey Mendick (b. 1987 lives and works in London) creates installations centred on her skilled work in ceramics and includes banner painting, sewing, metalwork, furniture making and sound. Her autobiographical works are often confessional, referencing the horrors and emotions of adolescence while narrating her experience as a female artist. Drawing from classical painting, mythical women and pop culture iconography, her gothic-like work tells a defiant story that is at once both vulnerable and resilient.

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KARA WALKER
Oct 4 - Dec 21, 2019
'From Black and White to Living Color: The Collected Motion Pictures and Accompanying Documents of Kara E. Walker, Artist.'

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WE ARE PUBLICATION : T H E H O L D
Sep 25 - Dec 14, 2019 FINAL WEEK
An exhibition by over 50 artists consisting of posters, a soundscape, a carpet and a series of live events set within an expansive display structure.
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THE CALENDAR SHOW + XMAS BIZARRE FROM JOSHUA AND EMMA RAFFELL
Dec 6 - 22, 2019
The works chosen by public vote for the calendar 2020 from studio1.1 With Xmas pieces made by brother and sister Joshua and Emma Raffell.

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HOUSE OF VOLTAIRE
Sep 26 - Dec 21, 2019
House of Voltaire is back! House of Voltaire is opening a temporary space at 31 Cork Street, Mayfair. Every purchase supports Studio Voltaire. houseofvoltaire.org

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CHIPS AND EGG : GROUP SHOW CURATED BY HELEN NISBET
Nov 15 - Dec 21, 2019

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WILLIAM BLAKE : THE ARTIST
Sep 11, 2019 - Feb 2, 2020
A new look at the visionary printmaker, poet and painter.

MARK LECKEY : O' MAGIC POWER OF BLEAKNESS
Sep 24, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020
A major exhibition on the work of the Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey.

STEVE MCQUEEN : YEAR 3
Nov 11, 2019 - May 1, 2020

ANNE HARDY : THE DEPTH OF DARKNESS, THE RETURN OF THE LIGHT
Nov 30, 2019 - Jan 26, 2020
The Tate Britain Winter Commission.
Tate Britain presents its annual Winter Commission to transform and illuminate the gallery's façade. In anticipation of the winter solstice, Anne Hardy has taken inspiration from the rhythms of the earth and the tides of the River Thames. From 30 November 2019 to 26 January 2020, the building's grand entrance is turned into a marooned temple, appearing with tattered banners and tangled lights, while sculptural objects cascade down the steps from the shuttered central door, surrounded by an atmospheric soundscape of rain, thunder, birds and insects.

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OLAFUR ELIASSON : IN REAL LIFE
Jul 11, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020
Experience the remarkable world of this endlessly inquisitive artist.

DÓRA MAURER
Aug 5, 2019 - Jul 5, 2020
The first UK exhibition of Hungarian artist Dóra Maurer (born 1937), the influential artist, teacher, networker and curator.

HYUNDAI COMMISSION : KARA WALKER
Oct 2, 2019 - Apr 5, 2020
Kara Walker transforms the Turbine Hall with an ambitious new artwork for London.

NAM JUNE PAIK : THE FUTURE IS NOW
Oct 17, 2019 - Feb 9, 2020
A major retrospective of this pioneer of video.

DORA MAAR
Nov 20, 2019 - Mar 15, 2020
Tate Modern presents the first UK retrospective of the work of Dora Maar (1907–97) whose provocative photographs and photomontages became celebrated icons of surrealism. Featuring over 200 works from a career spanning more than six decades, this exhibition shows how Maar’s eye for the unusual also translated to her commercial commissions, social documentary photographs, and paintings – key aspects of her practice which have, until now, remained little known.

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SIX DAYS IN DECEMBER, CURATED BY MARTIN GAYFORD
Dec 7 - 15, 2019 FINAL WEEK
Anna Jung Seo, David Oates, Dominic Kennedy, Henry Ward, Holly Hendry, Howard Dyke, Iain Paxon, Martin Gayford, Nicky Hodge, Phil Ashcroft, Sacha Meaden, Sarah Woodburn

ROBERT BLOOMFIELD
Dec 7, 2019 - Jan 19, 2020
Thames-Side Studios Viewing Room.

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BRUCE CONNER : BREAKAWAY
Nov 26, 2019 - Feb 22, 2020
Late viewing: 26 November, until 8pm

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RICHARD FORSTER : NOTES ON ARCHITECTURE
Oct 25 - Dec 20, 2019

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MORE GRAVY! CHRISTMAS GROUP SHOW : GALLLERY ARTISTS & FRIENDS
Dec 10 - 31, 2019
Private view Tue Dec 10 6pm - 8pm
Tintype's Christmas show of works on paper, editions, small-sized paintings and ceramics – gallery artists and friends
Jo Addison, Edwina Ashton, Alice Browne, An Gee Chan, Suki Chan, David Cheeseman, David Micheaud, George Eksts, Adam Gillam, Grant Foster, Oona Grimes, Vanessa Jackson, Jost Münster, Kit Poulson, Neal Rock, Neal Tait, Alison Turnbull, Virginia Verran, Alice Walton, Laura White, Joby Williamson, Michelle Williams Gamaker and Madalina Zaharia.

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MICHAELA YEARWOOD-DAN
Nov 21, 2019 - Jan 11, 2020

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CONTACT THE GALLERY FOR INFORMATION
Dec + Jan 2019–20

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ALIGHIERO BOETTI
Oct 1, 2019 - Jan 8, 2020
'Alighiero Boetti: Decoding His Universe. Works on Paper (1968-91)'.

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