Ahead of the 60th Venice Biennale — open to the public from 20 April 2024 — Something Curated continues its new series, Behind the Biennale. Comprising a collection of short essays from the curators of select national pavilions, the series offers first-hand perspectives on some of this year’s most anticipated presentations. Following Danish curator Louise…
Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta’s latest exhibition takes place at Centro Botín, a Renzo Piano-designed art centre situated on the Cantabrian Coast of northern Spain. Seeking to amplify stifled voices, the show takes its title from the artist’s ongoing work, I live under your sky too. Gupta has long been concerned with the idea of silence,…
Overseen by Brazilian curator Adriano Pedrosa, the 60th Venice Biennale, titled Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, endeavours to give space and visibility to historically marginalised voices through an ambitious and multidisciplinary programme. Ahead of the International Art Exhibition’s launch — open to the public from 20 April 2024 — Something Curated introduces a new series,…
Housed within a former shop unit opposite Smithfield Meat Market in Clerkenwell, east London gallery Ginny on Frederick’s latest exhibition — a group show titled Sympathetic Magic 2 — gathers new paintings by friends Ed Compson, Francesca Mollett and Kiki Xuebing Wang. The sequel to a self-organised presentation at Zona Mista in 2019, the exhibition…
Stephanie Comilang’s solo exhibition, Search for Life, at TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art in Madrid, Spain, offers a visual representation of migration through film and textile installations. The exhibition’s title was inspired by Dirty Projectors’ song of the same name, which sparked Comilang’s thought of how a butterfly might put together a song. This butterfly perspective…
I was interviewing my friend Rav Gill for my first documentary, Zimmers of Southall. At the end of the interview, I mentioned that I wanted to come back and take some more photos as the project would eventually become a photobook. Rav responded by saying, “We’re gonna be busy as my brother’s getting married in a few…
Calum Jacobs is best known for his seminal work on the importance of Black footballers and Black culture in the evolution of modern football: through his magazine, Caricom, and debut book A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped the Modern Game, Jacobs has upended stereotypes, spoken for a generation, and written into history the significance…
Offering a glimpse into the process of curating an exhibition, curators Katherine Finerty, Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson and Nuna Adisenu-Doe, take us on a meandering journey that explores the dialogue between London and Accra’s creative ecosystems. Constellations is a sister-city research and exhibition project taking its point of departure from the exchange between Gallery 1957’s…