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
Tate Britain is working with Turner Prize winning artist Mark Leckey on a major exhibition of his work.

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TAKIS
Jul 3 - Oct 27, 2019
Over a 70-year career, Takis (Panayiotis Vassilakis, born 1925) has created some of the most innovative art of the 20th century.
Takis's work seeks out the essential poetry and beauty of the electromagnetic universe. He was one of the most original artistic voices in Europe from the 1960s and remains a pioneering figure today.

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 will transform 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.

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VIEWING ROOM: RADEK HUSAK
Sep 28 - Nov 3, 2019

CATAMARAN, CURATED BY GABRIELA GIROLETTI AND KAROLINA ALBRICHT
Oct 19 - Nov 3, 2019
Private view Mon Nov 18 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Accompanying text by Phil King. Exhibiting artists: Karolina Albricht, Phillip Allen, Matthew Burrows, Bertrand Fournier, Gabriela Giroletti, Lizzie Munn, Jinyong Park, Henry Tyrrell, Andrea V Wright

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LUIGI GHIRRI : COLAZIONE SULL’ERBA
Oct 2 - Nov 16, 2019
The 1969 Apollo 11 view of Earth had a lasting influence on Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992), who understood the photograph as ‘the picture which contained all the pictures of the world: graffiti, frescoes, prints, paintings, writings, photographs, books, films.’ On describing what really became the first image of the world, Ghirri continued: ‘The power of containing everything vanished in front of the impossibility of seeing everything at the same time.’ Seeing everything, or rather, seeing the things that others cannot — the poetry in the mundane, the beauty of the arcane — is the gift of some artists. It was one of Ghirri’s great talents, through his own inquisitiveness and a love for the ambiguous. One he mastered throughout his photographic oeuvre, and evident in his emblematic series ‘Colazione sull’Erba’ (1971-1974), on view at Thomas Dane Gallery. The work catalogues and reveals the manicured landscape and the nature of domestic suburbs in his adoptive town of Modena, signalling directions he would pursue in later work.

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SIMON HANTAÏ, PIERRE SOULAGES AND ANTONI TÀPIES
Sep 6 - Oct 19, 2019 FINAL WEEK

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

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MICHELLE WILLIAMS GAMAKER : DISTANT RELATIVE
Sep 12 - Oct 19, 2019 FINAL WEEK
Distant Relative is a reconstruction; somewhere between schoolroom, cinema, and court of law. It is a site of shared and elusive personal histories.
 
Since 2014, British moving image and performance artist Michelle Williams Gamaker has been developing ‘fictional activism’: the restoration of people of colour performing in 20th century British and Hollywood studio films from marginalised characters to central figures, who return in her works to challenge the fictional injustices to which they have been historically consigned. 
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MAREN HASSINGER : PASSING THROUGH
Oct 2 - Nov 15, 2019
For more than four decades, the pioneering New York-based artist has worked across sculpture, drawing, installation, film/video, performance, and public art. The exhibition will bring together a selection of six key sculptures including new work alongside unseen works on paper spanning Hassinger’s influential practice.
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BIRTH : CURATED BY CHARLOTTE JANSEN
Oct 4 - Nov 9, 2019
YING ANG, POULOMI BASU, JUNO CALYPSO, ELINOR CARUCCI, CYNTHIA CERVANTES & TRAVIS GUMBS, CHARLOTTE COLBERT, MAISIE COUSINS, SIÂN DAVEY, IRINGÓ DEMETER, MADELINE DONAHUE, TRACEY EMIN, HESTER FINCH, ANDI GÁLDI VINKÓ, FERGUS GREER, LOIE HOLLOWELL, RACHEL HOWARD, ANNA LUKASHEVSKY, PAULA REGO, BOO SAVILLE, BERBER THEUNISSEN, AGNÈS VARDA, HERMIONE WILTSHIRE, CARMEN WINANT, AVIYA WYSE.
We all experience birth - and yet, unlike sex and death (art's favourite subjects) encounters with birth in contemporary art are rare. Birth is the universal subject - so why is it so obviously absent in contemporary art?
This group show, curated with Charlotte Jansen, explores the representation of birth and surrounding topics, from pregnancy to egg freezing, and the taboo, trauma, joy, pain, and psychological and physical realms it inhabits.

BIRTH : CURATED BY CHARLOTTE JANSEN PLUS ARTISTS
Oct 30, 2019 6:30pm - 8:00pm talk/event
Artist and Curator talk.
FREE, no booking required.

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ALIGHIERO BOETTI
Oct 1, 2019 - Jan 8, 2020
This autumn Tornabuoni Art London is delighted to present the solo exhibition "Alighiero Boetti: Decoding His Universe. Works on Paper (1968-91).

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ANNIE MORRIS
Sep 28 - Nov 2, 2019
Featuring work in a variety of mediums, including a large 10 meter work on paper referencing her tapestries, curated by William Gustafsson.

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MARY QUANT
Apr 6, 2019 - Feb 16, 2020
From miniskirts and hot pants to vibrant tights and makeup, discover how Mary Quant launched a fashion revolution on the British high street, with over 200 garments and accessories, including unseen pieces from the designer's personal archive.

FOOD : BIGGER THAN THE PLATE
May 18 - Oct 20, 2019 FINAL WEEK
From gastronomic experiments to urban farming, this exhibition brings together the politics and pleasure of food to ask how the collective choices we make can lead to a more sustainable, just and delicious food future.

TIM WALKER : WONDERFUL THINGS
Sep 21, 2019 - Mar 8, 2020
An immersive journey into the fantastical worlds created by photographer Tim Walker.
 
Experience the extraordinary creative process of one of the world's most inventive photographers through his pictures, films, photographic sets, and special installations – including ten new series of photographs influenced by the V&A's collections.
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ROCK MY SOUL : CURATED BY ISAAC JULIEN
Oct 2 - Nov 2, 2019
New and historical works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Sonia Boyce, Karon Davis, Zanele Muholi, Wangechi Mutu, Frida Orupabo, Howardena Pindell, Betye Saar, Khadija Saye, Tschabalala Self, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Curated by Isaac Julien.
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DOUG AITKEN : RETURN TO THE REAL
Oct 2 - Dec 20, 2019
Victoria Miro presents Return to the Real, an exhibition of new works by Doug Aitken. Conceived as a unified composition of sound, light, form and movement, the exhibition explores our rapidly changing relationships to one another and the world around us in an age dominated by technology.

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GRAYSON PERRY : SUPER RICH INTERIOR DECORATION
Sep 25 - Nov 2, 2019
New work including pots, sculpture, large-scale prints, a tapestry and a carpet.

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PATRICK CAULFIELD : MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT
Sep 10 - Nov 15, 2019
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PETER DOIG, PAINTINGS
Sep 6 - Nov 16, 2019

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MONA HATOUM : REMAINS TO BE SEEN
Sep 12 - Nov 3, 2019
White Cube is pleased to present an exhibition by Mona Hatoum. The first presentation of her work in London since Tate Modern in 2016, it includes new and recent installation, sculpture and works on paper.
Hatoum’s work reflects on subjects that arise from our current global condition, including systems of confinement, the architecture of surveillance and themes of mobility and conflict. Channelling the poetic charge and metaphoric resonance of a wide range of materials from steel, brick and concrete, to rubble, glass and human hair, in this exhibition she explores the elemental forms of the grid and the sphere, drawing on both the geometric rigour of Minimalist sculpture and the possibilities for its formal collapse.

HARMONY HAMMOND
Sep 12 - Nov 3, 2019
White Cube is pleased to present the first European solo exhibition by Harmony Hammond (b.1944, Chicago). The American artist, curator, author and activist was a pivotal figure of the feminist art movement in New York, co-founding in 1972, A.I.R., the first women’s cooperative art gallery in the city, and the journal Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics in 1977.
Hammond’s earliest feminist work combined gender politics with Post-Minimalist concerns for material and process, frequently occupying a space between painting and sculpture – a focus that continues to this day.

DÓRA MAURER
Sep 12 - Nov 3, 2019
Dóra Maurer (b.1937, Budapest) is at the forefront of Hungarian neo-avant garde. One of the most experimental artists to emerge from Eastern Europe during the past half a century, her rigorous, conceptual practice is based on mathematical and complex system processes. Encompassing painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and film making, the artist’s diverse career has spanned over 50 years.
This exhibition features works made between 1999 and the present day with a focus on her 'Overlappings' series – sculptural paintings which explore the potential of colour to influence human perception. Elegant and seemingly lightweight, they create the illusion of layering and three-dimensional folds.

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DAMIEN HIRST : MANDALAS
Sep 20 - Nov 2, 2019
White Cube presents ‘Mandalas’, an exhibition of new work by Damien Hirst at Mason's Yard. His first major show in London for seven years, it features large-scale works from the recent concentric paintings. Returning to one of his most well-known motifs – the butterfly – Hirst’s new paintings take their inspiration from the mandala: highly patterned religious images that represent the cosmos or universe in Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Shinto traditions.

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GHOST CHANGING ROOM
Sep 30 - Nov 13, 2019
Lindsey Bull, Tamara Dubnyckyj, Rebecca Jagoe, Mindy Lee, Cathy Lomax and Susan Sluglett.
 
Curated by Mindy Lee
 
The changing room is a place to transition, a place to come and go, to pass through. Bodies changing reveal a shedding of a layer, outfit, costume, persona, memory, skin or life.
 
This painting and sculpture exhibition looks at intimate traces of the body through a chasm between public, private, projected and theatrical personas; between the external and internal self. Physical, cast-off garments leave a trace of the body's activity behind, whilst the paintings capture ghostly figures in a state of dress/undress. These forms and gestures hold memories of our ghost bodies and evidence our continual search to reinvent or re-find ourselves/others. Here ghosts remain as a constant reminder of the body’s shifting states.

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ERIKA KOBAYASHI : HIS LAST BOW
Sep 5 - Nov 28, 2019
The First showing of the Japanese artist Erika Kobayashi in the UK. The exhibition explores her family history strangely intertwined with discovery of uranium and radioactivation, invention of atomic bomb, and Sherlock Holmes.

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360: REBECCA ALLEN
Sep 12 - Oct 20, 2019 FINAL WEEK
Virtual reality addressing issues of gender, identity and what it means to be human as technology redefines our sense of reality
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ZABLUDOWICZ COLLECTION INVITES : PUCK VERKADE
Sep 12 - Oct 20, 2019 FINAL WEEK
Working across moving image and installation Puck Verkade’s new project ‘Plague’ imagines eerie parallels between ecological and mental breakdown.
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SHANA MOULTON
Sep 12 - Dec 15, 2019
In her first institutional UK solo show Shana Moulton presents new work commissioned by Zabludowicz Collection, alongside key projects from across her highly influential oeuvre. Moulton uses video, sculptural installation, costume and performance to create a distinctive psychic and aesthetic realm anchored around her alter-ego Cynthia.

ZABLUDOWICZ COLLECTION INVITES: FAY NICOLSON
Oct 31 - Dec 15, 2019
Private view Thu Oct 31 6pm - 9pm

360: FLORIAN MEISENBERG
Oct 31 - Dec 15, 2019
Private view Thu Oct 31 6pm - 9pm
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NATE LOWMAN : OCTOBER 1, 2017
Oct 3 - Nov 9, 2019
Artist led walkthrough: 2 Oct, 5-6pm, followed by PV.
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Nate Lowman’s debut presentation at the gallery will feature a new series of works based on perfunctory crime scene photos of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, in which a gunman attacked civilians attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival, resulting in fifty-nine deaths. By focusing on these images and rendering their details, his new works re-present disquietingly mundane scenes that simultaneously reveal and mask the violent context of his source imagery. They raise questions about the communicability of certain images and insist on their visibility, while probing the tensions between the everyday and the extreme, presence and absence, and, more broadly, violence and representation.

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