GRAYSON PERRY : THE MOST POPULAR ART EXHIBITION EVER!
Sep 27 - Dec 24, 2017
Private view Tue Sep 26 6pm - 9pm
'The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!' tackles one of Perry’s primary concerns: how contemporary art can best address a diverse cross section of society. On show for the first time outside of London, the exhibition is central to the autumn season at Arnolfini and a programme of events inspired by Perry’s irreverent take on contemporary culture.
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CUT LOOSE : ILSE BLACK
Oct 1, 2016 - Oct 1, 2017
Visual artist Ilse Black has been commissioned to produce a large-scale wall drawing for Aspex Guildhall.

SURFACE TENSION
Sep 6 - Oct 15, 2017

PLATFORM : GRADUATE SHOWCASE
Sep 15 - Nov 26, 2017

MAKING SPACE IS 10 : MAKING SPACE ASSOCIATE ARTISTS
Sep 20 - Dec 3, 2017

LOOK UP : JOURNEYS FESTIVAL INT. NATALIA MICHALSKA AND MAJID DHANA
Oct 19 - Nov 28, 2017

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ABACUS
Jul 21 - Oct 1, 2017
Featuring: Tom & Simon Bloor, Polly Brannan, Rhys Coren, Fran Disley, Kevin Hunt, Anssi Kasitonni, Yusuke Mashiba, Trine Lise Nedreaas, Emily Speed, Mark Simmonds, William Wegman, Huw Wahl, John Walmsley/Liverpool Free School. Join us for the opening of Abacus, our summer exhibition created especially for children and young people. Artists have contributed or designed artworks to inspire visitors to watch, draw, read and make.

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VISIONS OF THE ROYAL PAVILION ESTATE
Mar 14 - Dec 10, 2017
This display will showcase rarely-seen views of the Royal Pavilion Estate dating back to the 1760s

CONSTABLE AND BRIGHTON
Apr 8 - Oct 8, 2017
Exploring John Constable’s time in the emerging seaside resort, where he stayed with his family between 1824 and 1828.

JANE AUSTEN BY THE SEA
Jun 17, 2017 - Jan 8, 2018
This new display will explore Jane Austen’s relationship with coastal towns, and life in Brighton during her time, to mark the bicentenary of her death. It will look at the seaside context of Austen’s plots and paint a picture of the leading resort of Brighton in the early 1800s, when it was a fashionable ‘watering place’ featured in novels like Pride and Prejudice. Although there is no clear evidence that Austen visited Brighton she included it in several of her works, and the display will reassess her relationship with the town in the light of a long-term misunderstanding arising from a hand-written 1799 letter

MUSEUM OF TRANSOLOGY
Jul 20, 2017 - Jun 3, 2018
This bold, brave and profound collection of artefacts and photographic portraiture began with donations from Brighton’s vibrant trans community. It is now the largest collection representing trans people in the UK – if not the world.

A KING'S APPETITE : LAURA FORD
Sep 30 - Nov 5, 2017
British artist Laura Ford has been commissioned by HOUSE Biennial in partnership with Brighton Museum & Art Gallery.
A King’s Appetite is a new sculptural installation that takes inspiration from Royal Pavilion & Museum Collections including caricatures by James Gillray and George Cruikshank satirising aspects of the life of the Prince Regent, and imagery found in the Willett Collection of pottery and porcelain.
 
Ford’s work is consistently curious about the human condition and wider social and political issues, often mixing the bitter sweet with wit. This new work explores socio-political notions of excess, greed and indulgence and the Imperialist attitudes that they reflect. The resulting imagery looks at fundamental contemporary issues relating to Excess, the theme of this year’s HOUSE Biennial, and its subsequent inequalities, both of the Regency period and of society today.

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Sept + Oct

THE GARDEN CITY POSTCARD PROJECT
Sep 22 - Nov 5, 2017
An exhibition of souvenir postcards documenting over a century of visitors to Letchworth, alongside new postcards of the town by contemporary artists.

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ROY VOSS
Jul 1 - Oct 8, 2017
Comprising collages of reinserted images and text from found postcards.

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'IN QUOTES': COLLAGE AND ASSEMBLAGE IN CONTEMPORARY ART
Aug 30 - Oct 7, 2017
Including work by Susan Hiller, Linder, John Stezaker, Cornelia Parker.

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PARK LIFE
May 5, 2016 - Dec 31, 2017
Offsite public art project at Longford Park, Banbury
 
Nicolas Deshayes, Heather & Ivan Morison, Rosalie Schweiker, Richard Woods

POLICY SHOW
Sep 15 - Dec 16, 2017
This Autumn Eastside Projects will transform into a think-tank, focussing on three policies on three different scales.
 
Featuring: Teresa Cisneros, Christian Nyampeta, Ciara Phillips, Rehana Zaman
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THE NEW OBSERVATORY
Jun 22 - Oct 1, 2017
Transforming FACT into an observatory for the 21st century. In collaboration with the Open Data Institute.

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HILARY LLOYD
Sep 23 - Dec 23, 2017
Private view Sat Sep 23 6pm - 8pm
For this new film work, Lloyd has been working with local actors and the historic Palace Theatre, Southend-on-Sea.

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SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
Sep 4 - Nov 9, 2017
A selection of work from the 2017 graduating cohorts of the Arts University Bournemouth. Featuring the disciplines of art; design; media; and performance, AUB embraces the creative spirit of life at the university.

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NICK HORNBY : SCULPTURE (1504-2017)
May 20, 2017 - Mar 1, 2018
Monumental sculptures by artist Nick Hornby exhibited at in the grounds of Glyndebourne. Hornby’s pieces include fragments inspired by historic art, including works by Michelangelo, Rodin, Brancusi and Matisse. They aim to create meeting points between digital technologies and the legacies of sculpture and are created through complex processes, involving both high-tech production methods and traditional handcrafted techniques.
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SUSIE GREEN : PLEASURE IS A WEAPON
Sep 1 - Nov 18, 2017
The installation of sound, objects and painted works that make up Pleasure is a Weapon probes at feelings and recollections surrounding both immediate and remote sexual intimacy. Punctuated by a series of performances, screenings and events. More information: www.grand-union.org.uk
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MASLEN & MEHRA : CASH, CLASH & CLIMATE
Sep 1 - Nov 12, 2017
Meticulously created out of paper, the sculptures offer an astonishing collection of carefully considered subjects from the Standing Rock protest against the Dakota Access pipeline to climate debates regarding global coral bleaching events. Maslen & Mehra have created the framework Cash, Clash and Climate in order to ponder questions about the complexities of living today and they invite viewers to follow their train of thought. Faith in Fiat, a major new installation by Maslen & Mehra is on view at the Towner, Eastbourne until the 1st October.
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RITA ACKERMANN : TURNING AIR BLUE
Sep 30, 2017 - Jan 1, 2018
Private view Fri Sep 29 6pm - 8pm

JOSEPHSOHN & PETER MÄRKLI : A CONJUNCTION
Sep 30, 2017 - Jan 1, 2018
Private view Fri Sep 29 6pm - 8pm

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MASTERPIECES : HEPWORTH & MOORE
to Jan 01, 2018

APPROACHING THUNDER : 1940S BRITISH PRINTS AND DRAWINGS
Feb 25, 2017 - Jan 1, 2018
This exhibition draws from The Hepworth Wakefield’s collection of 1940s British works on paper, revisiting a decade of anxiety, austerity and idealism

GYÖRGY GORDON : FROM HUNGARY TO YORKSHIRE, 1924-2005
Feb 25, 2017 - Jan 1, 2018
Hungarian-born György Gordon became a refugee after fleeing the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. He resettled in Wakefield and worked for many years at Wakefield College of Art.

HOWARD HODGKIN : PAINTING INDIA
Jul 1 - Oct 8, 2017
Howard Hodgkin (1932 - 2017) is widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest painters and has been a central figure in contemporary art for over half a century. This is the first comprehensive exhibition to explore the enduring influence of India on Hodgkin’s work, a place he has returned to almost annually, since his first trip to the country in 1964, over 50 years ago.

ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW : HUMAN LANDSCAPES
Oct 20, 2017 - Jan 28, 2018
Private view Thu Oct 19 6pm - 9pm
This will be the first UK retrospective of the work of the much-overlooked Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow (1926 - 1973), whose elaborately constructed sculptures remain as powerfully resonant today as when they were first made.
Szapocznikow’s career was cut short by her premature death in 1973 at the age 47 but her work has been reappraised internationally in the last decade. A chronological display will highlight how the artist’s work developed from classically figurative sculptures to her later “awkward objects” which are politically charged and overlaid with Surrealist and Pop Art influences.

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JANETTE PARRIS : HATFIELD CONVERSATIONS
Oct 7 - Nov 8, 2017
Janette Parris launches a new animated film Hatfield Conversations this Autumn on campus and at Hatfield library. Following intense research in situ over the summer, Janette will create a new visual portrait of the town’s communities, places and activities, accompanied by a soundtrack composed by the artist. This snapshot of Hatfield will celebrate everyday life, seeking to make visible what is usually hidden and overlooked.
 
Taking up residence in the town for a number of weeks, Janette will embed herself by sitting in cafes, shopping in Asda, visiting the library, attending community group meetings and participating in events like ‘Clean up Hatfield’ walks. With affection and poignancy, Janette’s animated portrait will capture local stories and protagonists, fictionalising them to make relevant comments and observations about the state of this Hertfordshire town, and perhaps our entire nation in 2017.

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GROUP EXHIBITION : THE RETURN OF MEMORY
Oct 21, 2017 - Jan 7, 2018
Private view Fri Oct 20 6pm - 9pm
Group show to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution. With new commissions by Declan Clarke & Sarah Perks, Callum Cooper, Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho, Irina Korina, Victoria Lomasko and Ruslan Vashkevich
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PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST: KÄTHE KOLLWITZ
Sep 13 - Nov 26, 2017
Käthe Kollwitz (née Schmidt, 1867–1945) was one of the leading artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, notable for the emotional power of her drawing, printmaking and later sculpture. This exhibition focuses on around forty works from the British Museum’s remarkable print collection, alongside material drawn from other UK public collections. The exhibition highlights the importance of Kollwitz’s work and celebrates the enduring impact of her powerful and affecting images.
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SOFIA HULTÉN : HERE’S THE ANSWER, WHAT’S THE QUESTION
Sep 13 - Nov 26, 2017
Private view Mon Nov 13 6pm - 8pm
The most comprehensive exhibition to date by Berlin-based artist Sofia Hultén (b. 1972 Stockholm): Here’s the Answer, What’s the Question. A judicious selection of sculptures, installations and films, the exhibition conveys an ongoing preoccupation with the nature of the material world and the way we navigate it through time.
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ANNA MOLKSA : HE WEAVERS
Sep 13 - Nov 26, 2017
Polish artist, Anna Molska (b. 1983, Prudnik), explores modernist and socialist utopias through her work, and uses them as a pretext for the analysis of contemporary reality.
 
Molska’s 12 minute film The Weavers/Die Weber (2009) is based on Gerhart Hauptmann’s 1894 play inspired by the 1844 rebellion of Silesian weavers against the poverty of their lives and harsh working conditions. The play is also the subject of a series of prints currently being shown at Ikon that established Käthe Kollwitz’s reputation as a major artistic figure in Germany before the First World War.

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DIGITAL FILM AND SCREEN ARTS
Sep 1 - 22, 2017 FINAL WEEK
James Hockey Gallery

REVOLVER
Sep 1 - Oct 7, 2017
Foyer Gallery

PLAYBACK
Sep 26 - Oct 13, 2017
This interactive exhibition gives you the chance to watch from over 200 short films made by young artist filmmakers from across the country.
 
These remarkable and award-winning short films span a range of art forms and topics – from underground zine cultures, to urban communities and digital lives. The exhibition is made up of individual touchscreens – choose what to watch from dance, artist film, animation, and spoken word to discover the filmmakers of tomorrow. 
 
A selection of the films were made and produced at UCA Farnham, where young people based in the South East were given the support and funding to create a short film. Now, Playback gives you the chance to see the ground-breaking art and film produced by your local region on the big screen.

DAVID BLACKMORE
Oct 14 - Dec 2, 2017
Foyer Gallery

TRANSCRIPTION : ILLUSTRATION AND DOCUMENTARY MATERIALISM
Oct 14, 2017 - Jan 10, 2018
James Hockey Gallery

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QUENTIN BLAKE : THE ONLY WAY TO TRAVEL
Jun 14 - Oct 15, 2017

STEPHEN TURNER : EVERYTHING COMES FROM THE EGG
Sep 16 - Oct 15, 2017
This exhibition celebrates Stephen Turner's tour of the Exbury Egg around towns and cities in the UK, and is the last chance to view this extraordinary artwork.

PAULA REGO : THE BOY WHO LOVED THE SEA
Oct 21, 2017 - Jan 7, 2018
The Boy Who Loved the Sea and Other Stories will bring together works inspired by the sea and stories that we know and love, all with Rego's signature dark twist

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