BAGS: INSIDE OUT
Nov 21, 2020 - Sep 12, 2021
From rucksacks to despatch boxes, Birkin bags to Louis Vuitton luggage, Bags: Inside Out will explore the style, function, design and craftsmanship of the ultimate accessory.

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GEORG BASELITZ: I WAS BORN INTO A DESTROYED ORDER
Sep 11 - Nov 28, 2020 FINAL WEEK
In the gallery.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present an exhibition of major works by German painter Georg Baselitz, one of the most important painters of the second half of the twentieth century. I Was Born into a Destroyed Order begins in the 1960s and surveys the first three decades of the artist's career. A selection of seminal paintings, works on paper and sculpture will be on view.

ONLINE | GEORG BASELITZ : I WAS BORN INTO A DESTROYED ORDER
Through November
Michael Werner Gallery is pleased to present an online supplement to the exhibition Georg Baselitz: I Was Born into a Destroyed Order, featuring highlights from the exhibition paired with archival imagery, artist's statements, and scholarly writing. To access the online viewing room, please visit www.michaelwerner.com.

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WOOLWICH CONTEMPORARY PRINT FAIR | THE ONLINE EDITION
Nov 12 - Dec 13, 2020
The UK's largest contemporary print fair presents an interactive, digital event bringing the magic of printmaking into your home!
Developed with the fantastic community spirit of London's historic Royal Arsenal in mind, the new web-based platform features a dynamic associated programme of online tours, demonstrations and webinars from top creative, curators and collectors. Specialist galleries such as Jealous and Paupers Press, join world-renowned artists and over 500 of the most exciting fine art printmakers. WCPF | The Online Edition is the perfect opportunity to #FindArtThatFits.
Featuring live chat options and social media sharing alongside augmented reality (AR) ‘walk-through’ capabilities, our web-based exhibition has online payments plans, framing services & hanging tips available at the touch of the button. The rigorous selection process means you can’t buy bad and gives visitors more access than ever before to the best in international contemporary print.
We also have a fantastic month-long programme of virtual talks, panels, tours and demonstrations bringing a line-up of collectors, curators and creatives together in intimate and engaging conversations. Highlight include a Zoom demonstration with artist Jason Hicklin live from the City & Guilds Print Room, an all-female panel with Mollie Barnes of She Curates discussing printmaking as the rising underdog of the art world, an artist-led panel about printmaking process or top collecting tips with The Christie's Young Collectors Club. Register now at: bit.ly/wcpfprog
More exciting still, returning favourite Jealous Gallery have kindly donated the Artist’s Proof of the brand-new David Shrigley edition to be launched at this year’s fair. Worth £2,500, one lucky WCPF patron will be selected at random, from the sales made throughout the whole month of the fair, with each print purchased counting towards a new entry in the draw!

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MAGDA STAWARSKA-BEAVAN : SPACES AND MOMENTS
Sep 24 - Nov 28, 2020 FINAL WEEK
Through a process of listening to first-hand accounts of Polish Jewish women’s lives, days spent walking the streets of Lodz in her native Poland and hours of perusing through street plans, maps and architectural drawings in the archive, Magda Stawarska-Beavan has embarked upon a project which allows us to glimpse the traces of lives obliterated, songs unheard, clothes unmade and fabulous buildings replaced by busy parking lots and scruffy children’s parks. What have the natives leave to share about the city, and what can a stranger hear and see more clearly because of unfamiliarity?
 
In the main gallery on the ground floor are delicate panels of printed and hand-painted paper wafting and fluttering from the ceiling, which depict, in shades of sublime grey, copper, cream, ochre and terracotta, strange and unhappy rooms where the old slow rituals of parting and farewell have long since faded from their mysterious interiors. The image of old trees, wrought iron works and gravestones are accompanied by the background music of birdsong and the traffic noise of today, but a dynamic layer of cultural fabric has been ripped from the landscape and has never been replaced or mended.
 
Continuing to the downstairs galleries, a number of architectural plans and drawings hang expectantly, waiting to be turned into places to live or to worship. Layered on top of these the audience finds the same ornate and sacred buildings now reduced to empty spaces; the moving images of the city, including its courtyards, streets, shops and workplaces, are slowly smeared across the wilful destruction of a vibrant layer of life at the heart of an industrial city.
 
Her desire to help audiences remember what has been lost or forgotten has driven the artist to create the exhibition, quiet in appearance, but daring in concept. This desire is lined with tender affection: the artist painstakingly unfolds the city’s hidden narratives by tracing its history with much care, always with deeply felt connection with the subjects. This sense of connection, of roots, or belonging, is what makes this show feel unambiguously humane.
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TRULEE HALL
Oct 8, 2020 - Mar 14, 2021
This year’s Annual Commission is the first UK exhibition of American artist Trulee Hall, following her sold-out operatic performance at Zabludowicz Collection in March 2020. Debuting her newly commissioned project alongside works from the Collection and a number of videos, paintings and sculptures, the exhibition presents work made over the past two years.
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