The Best from Condo London 2025
By Something CuratedCondo, the brainchild of London art dealer Vanessa Carlos—co-founder of Carlos/Ishikawa—involves local galleries lending their spaces for a month to foreign dealers to stage collaborative exhibitions. The model offers visitors and collectors alike a chance to discover talents they may not have otherwise come across in their city, as well as providing galleries with an opportunity to share networks and resources. Open now and running until 15 February 2025, the latest London iteration platforms 49 galleries from as far afield as Hong Kong, Beirut, São Paulo, Los Angeles, and Cape Town. With so much to see, Something Curated highlights six standout presentations not to miss.
Erin M. Riley
Presented by P.P.O.W, New York at mother’s tankstation, London
Erin M. Riley’s Look Back at It is made up of a series of new tapestries that explore contemporary womanhood. Using hand-dyed wool and traditional weaving techniques, Riley transforms digital-era images—selfies, documents, and clippings—into textured reflections on identity, social media, and domesticity. Her works evoke a sense of resilience and vulnerability, while investigating the complexities of female existence in the digital age.
Lewis Hammond and Dominique White
Presented by Veda, Florence at Arcadia Missa, London
Lewis Hammond’s paintings are both intimate and unsettling, presenting figures that exist in a liminal space between the personal and the archetypal. The artist captures moments of stillness and longing, often tinged with a sense of melancholy. In dialogue with Hammond’s pieces, Dominique White’s stark sculptures combine ideas of Black Subjectivity, Afro-pessimism, and hydrarchy with nautical folklore. The artist, fascinated with the potency and regenerative power of the sea, builds on her interest in forging new worlds for Blackness.
Zayn Qahtani, Velma Rosai-Makhandia, Dineo Seshee Bopape, and Nada Elkalaawy
Presented by blank projects, Cape Town and Gypsum Gallery, Cairo at Union Pacific, London
Memory is a common interest among Zayn Qahtani, Velma Rosai-Makhandia, Dineo Seshee Bopape, and Nada Elkalaawy. Through the lens of recollection—real, hazy, and sometimes entirely imagined—they respectively explore themes of loss, place, and femininity, oscillating between the ordinary and mystical, life and the afterlife. The show examines memory as both a personal and collective construct, using diverse media to smudge and reimagine histories we oftentimes take for granted.
Kyriaki Goni
Presented by The Breeder, Athens at Public Gallery, London
Kyriaki Goni’s project, Not Allowed for Algorithmic Audiences, reflects her decade-long exploration of big tech’s political, emotional, and environmental effects. Through various media, Goni delves into themes such as extractivism, surveillance, and care-focused alternative networks. Her installations—ranging from websites and textiles to ceramics, drawings, videos, sound, and text—form intricate ecosystems that intertwine the local with the global and merge scientific realities with fictional narratives.
Raque Ford and Kiki Xuebing Wang
Presented by Good Weather, Chicago at Ginny on Frederick, London
In Photocopy Dream II Raque Ford has installed the latest iteration of her ongoing dance floor series alongside two new paintings by Kiki Xuebing Wang. The lyrical motion in Wang’s paintings stitches together a visual narrative of personal experience and private moments: a quilted storytelling that is reflected in the chequered environment of Ford’s sculpture. Ford’s piece incorporates layers of printed vellum and painted Mylar beneath acrylic tiles, merging fragments of her poetry and diary-like writings into a richly textured composition.
Abbas Zahedi and TJ Shin
Presented by Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles at Phillida Reid, London
Ehrlich Steinberg’s “Y/N” brings together LA’s TJ Shin and London’s Abbas Zahedi in an exploration of intertextuality, authorship, and the fluidity of language. The duo exhibition takes its title from the fanfiction practice of replacing a protagonist’s name with “Y/N,” an acronym for “your name,” which allows a reader to insert themselves into the narrative.
Feature image: Erin M. Riley, Look Back at It, 2024. Detail. Courtesy the Artist, P.P.O.W, New York and mother’s tankstation, Dublin | London. Photography by Ian Edquist