A.R. PENCK : I THINK IN PICTURES
Jun 28 - Nov 3, 2019
This is the first solo museum exhibition of A.R. Penck's in the UK in over 30 years.
 
A.R. Penck was an internationally acclaimed German artist,best known for his work in painting, drawing, print and sculpture. His interests in systems theory and cybernetics, as well as pre-historic cultures and science fiction, guided his art towards an investigation of the relationships between man and society. This is his first solo museum exhibition in the UK for 30 years. It features work from the '70s and '80s that represent the artist's energetic style, focusing on the motif of the stick figure.
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TOKYO : ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
Jul 16 - Nov 8, 2019
This exhibition celebrates one of the world’s most creative, dynamic and fascinating cities and spans the exquisite art of the Edo period to the contemporary photography of Moriyama Daido and Ninagawa Mika and the installation-art of Chim Pom.

CAI GUO-QIANG : GUNPOWDER ART AT THE ASHMOLEAN
Oct 24, 2019 - Apr 19, 2020
Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang is best known for his gunpowder explosion events staged in public spaces worldwide. This exhibition focuses on the artist's smaller scale works, exploring the presence of Chinese culture in his art through the medium of painting, drawing and gunpowder on canvas, paper and silk.
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KEEPING THE PIECE
Sep 25, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020
A showcase of pastel-hued contemporary jewellery from recent graduate Niamh Duddy.

PLATFORM GRADUATE AWARD
Oct 4 - Dec 22, 2019
A showcase of creative graduates from across the South Coast.

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NEW ART BLUECOAT
Jul 6 - Dec 31, 2019
Archive exhibition showcasing Bluecoat’s long history as an arts centre, the first in the UK.

ALEXIS TEPLIN
Oct 26, 2019 - Feb 23, 2020
Private view Fri Oct 25 6pm - 9pm
A new body of work by U.S. born artist Alexis Teplin premiering at Bluecoat in October, in her first major UK exhibition.
 
Teplin’s work crosses between painting, performance and film. The artist draws parallels between the process of these art forms.

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THE MUSEUM OF TRANSOLOGY
Jul 19, 2017 - Jan 5, 2020
This display challenges the idea that gender is fixed, binary and biologically determined by exploring how the objects reflect the participants’ self-determined gender journeys.

FLOATING WORLDS: JAPANESE WOODCUTS
Sep 29, 2019 - Jan 12, 2020
Come with us on a journey to explore the ‘floating worlds’ of Japan through woodblock prints from the Edo period (1615-1868).

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CORNELIA PARKER : ONE DAY THIS GLASS WILL BREAK
Sep 21 - Dec 1, 2019
Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery Touring presents One Day This Glass Will Break, an exhibition of twenty large-scale photogravures by Cornelia Parker from three experimental series: Fox Talbot’s Articles of Glass (2017); One Day This Glass Will Break (2015) and Thirty Pieces of Silver (exposed) (2015). These three series, which are brought together for the first time in this exhibition, explore the artist’s fascination with the physical properties of objects, materials and their histories.

PHOTO LETCHWORTH
Sep 21 - Dec 1, 2019
A new photography competition and exhibition, open to residents of Letchworth and the surrounding area.

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RENEE SO : ANCIENT AND MODERN
Sep 28, 2019 - Jan 12, 2020
An exhibition of new ceramic and textile works by Renee So, created during a residency at West Dean College.
 
Renee So’s exhibition is comprised of an entirely new body of work. It includes hand-woven textiles, furniture, and ceramic works that refer to representations of the female figure in prehistoric cultures. A tiled mural is based on the Egyptian goddess of the night, Nut, her body bent in a yoga-like pose in order to provide shelter to the earth; other ceramic sculptures are reminiscent of pre-Columbian figurines of Venus. These continue So’s on-going investigation into ceramic vessels that people across the world have made to drink and eat out of for thousands of years.

MIKHAIL KARIKIS : I HEAR YOU
Sep 28, 2019 - Jan 19, 2020
This autumn sees the launch of a major new commission by Mikhail Karikis that explores the relationship between listening and care. Karikis’ new moving image installation has developed with Project Art Works, an artist-led organisation in Hastings that collaborates with people with complex support needs. Focusing on interactions between carers and non-verbal people who use Project Art Works’ studio spaces, Karikis invites us to pay attention to the sensitive tuning-in of support workers, artists and family members to those they support – a precarious role that is often invisible, misunderstood and undervalued by society.

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MARY HEARNE, JAKUB ROKITA, SEW N SEW — BUS LANE ARCHAEOLOGY
Oct 5 - Nov 9, 2019
Three Luton artists are collaborating in an evolving exhibition which focuses on the constraints, and also the opportunities, that are part of the day-to-day lives of disabled people navigating the urban landscape. Bus Lane Archaoelogy, which opens at Departure Lounge on Saturday 5 October, is organised in collaboration with independent curator Caroline Wallace.

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REVEALING MUNNINGS
Sep 3 - Oct 26, 2019
Celebrating the recent conservation of 14 drawings by Sir Alfred Munnings (1878-1959) owned by Norwich University of the Arts.

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LADY SKOLLIE : "LADY SKOLLIE"
Sep 28 - Dec 14, 2019
Reimagining the history of people of “so-called coloured descent”, one in which they’re led to a promised land free of ignorance and self-hatred, Lady Skollie treads joy, ritual, sex and pain into a new body of Papsak Propaganda wallpaintings, performance, and drawn, printed and painted works on paper.

SOFIA NIAZI : UNREAL ESTATE
Sep 28 - Dec 14, 2019
Located in Digbeth, Birmingham, the UK’s “second city”. A handsome work of art built circa 2019. Move into an Unreal Estate apartment and you’ll be at the epicentre of one of the most progressive cities in the UK. Unreal Estate is nestled* in the heart of Digbeth, dubbed the city’s creative quarter and a prime spot for development.

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ENFANT TERRIBLE : TRACEY EMIN AND HER CONTEMPORARIES
Nov 7 - Dec 7, 2019
Private view Thu Nov 7 6pm - 9pm
Join us for our inaugural exhibition at Edgar St in Worcester. Presenting early works (from 1993-2011) by Tracey Emin on loan from private collections. curated by Wayne Warren.
The new exhibition space in Worcester plays host to three sister spaces; Electric Cellar, Pitt Studio and Division of Labour.

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DAVID BLANDY : THE WORLD AFTER
Oct 26, 2019 - Jan 26, 2020
Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present ‘The World After’, a newly commissioned work and exhibition by artist David Blandy. Comprised of a film, installation and game, ‘The World After’ is a fictional tale which imagines a world after the Anthropocene era, a time in which humanity’s activities had detrimental effect on earth’s climate and environment. In this future world, human influence on the planet has faded following a catastrophic man-made ecological crisis, with those who remain having to find new ways to survive and form kin.

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SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER 2019
Sep 28 - Nov 30, 2019
Across AUB Campus Galleries, Library, South House, University House, CRAB Drawing Studio Courtyard.
"A series of Immersive Art Installations and Experiences"
Lead Curator - Violet M. McClean
Curator - William Hernandez Abreu
Assistant Curator - Millie Lake
Exhibition Designed by Rasa Vaineikyte and Thaires Vicentini
Suddenly Last Summer 2019 is a curated selection of work from AUB’s 2019 graduating cohort.
This year Suddenly Last Summer focuses on the ideas and concepts behind the work creating aesthetic experiences within an installation context.

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COOKING SECTIONS: THE EMPIRE REMAINS SHOP FRANCHISE AGREEMENT
Jun 14, 2019 - Jun 1, 2022
A rotating programme of small-scale visual and sound installations in the future home of Grand Union.
The Empire Remains Shop Franchise Agreement is an invitation for institutions, collectives, or individuals to construct their own counterpart: to reflect on imperial legacies and the commodification of their own structures and infrastructures.

AND WHAT IT BECAME IS NOT WHAT IT IS NOW, CURATED BY LOUISE HOBSON
Sep 6 - Nov 9, 2019
And what it became is not what it is now, is a reflection of wandering dialogues between people, practices and languages, beginning in studio visits with 3 Latin American artists – Joaquín Aras, María Agustina Fernández Raggio and Paola Monzillo – and particular bodies of research by each. And what it became is not what it is now, is an exhibition, publication and public programme with contributions from Kim McAleese, Federica Bueti, Jen Calleja, Paul Eastwood, Helen Nisbet, Lorraine Ryan and Sophie Williamson.
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A TRICK OF THE LIGHT
Sep 28 - Dec 14, 2019
Brings together a group of contemporary artists whose works cast shadows, conjure illusions and bring the inanimate to life.

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VICTOR WILLING : VISIONS
Oct 19, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020
Hastings Contemporary will hold the first retrospective of work by British artist Victor Willing (1928-1988), representing each period of his career. The display will include work from all aspects of Willing’s artistic practice, including painting, drawing and sculpture. This gallery wide exhibition will be the first major display of Willing’s work in the UK in over a decade, featuring paintings from his days at the Slade, the development of his artistic vision while living in Portugal with his wife, the artist Paula Rego (b.1935), and his years working in London until his untimely death in 1988.

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BHARTI KHER : A WONDERFUL ANARCHY
Sep 28, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020
‘Bharti Kher. A Wonderful Anarchy’ is an exhibition of new work by Bharti Kher, following her three-month residency with the gallery in 2017. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Somerset and marks a return to the most elemental themes within her practice. Kher, who works across a multitude of forms, will present a body of sculpture, installation, paintings and a new outdoor work. In the process of transforming found objects, and continually experimenting with materials, she layers references: to the mythological and scientific, secular and ritualistic, physical and psychological.

DAVID SMITH : FIELD WORK
Sep 28, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020
‘David Smith. Field Work’ is the debut solo exhibition by the eminent American artist at Hauser & Wirth Somerset. The exhibition has been conceived as four chapters of work spanning over three decades (from 1933 to 1964) to demonstrate Smith’s diverse visual language and multifaceted creative process. Curated by the artist’s daughters Rebecca and Candida Smith, co-presidents of the David Smith Estate, the exhibition situates itself between the drawn image and sculpted form to investigate the relationship between the two parallel practices.
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ALAN DAVIE & DAVID HOCKNEY : EARLY WORKS
Oct 19, 2019 - Jan 19, 2020
Brings together around 45 paintings and works on paper by Alan Davie and David Hockney.

CHRISTINA QUARLES
Oct 19, 2019 - Jan 19, 2020

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NEW GEOGRAPHIES
Mar 1 - Dec 1, 2019
An Arts Council England funded project creating a new map of the East of England based on personal thoughts, reflections and stories.
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AIR : UCA ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE 2019
Oct 1 - Nov 2, 2019
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JENNIE JEWITT-HARRIS : ANYTHING BUT THE EYES
Oct 18 - Dec 11, 2019
Private view Fri Oct 25 5.30pm - 8pm
Investigating the relationship we have with our eyes and the common reluctance to donate corneas after death.
The exhibition presents the practice-based research of Jennie Jewitt-Harris, who investigates this unique phenomenon through a variety of media. She draws on her professional experience in medicine and psychology to inform her practice. Through her drawings, collages, sound-art, assemblages and stereo photography she explores the findings from interviews with people who feel unable to donate their corneas after death but are willing to donate all other organs.
Jennie Jewitt-Harris has been a PhD student at UCA since 2014 and the exhibition is the culmination of her PhD investigation.

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HAROON MIRZA : WAVES AND FORMS
Oct 19, 2019 - Jan 11, 2020
Private view Fri Oct 18 6pm - 8pm
John Hansard Gallery is delighted to present Waves and Forms, a major solo exhibition by Haroon Mirza. The show highlights Mirza's ongoing exploration of waveforms: how they are perceived, the emotional and physical responses they create and the various ways in which we relate to them.
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