British artist and Royal Academician Phyllida Barlow has become a household name over the past decade. Her body of work is largely comprised of immense sculptural installations made from inexpensive, low-grade materials like cardboard, fabric and cement. The artist’s constructions often make use of vibrant colours, with the seams of construction left visible at times…
The Barbican’s upcoming exhibition AI: More than Human runs from 16 May – 26 August 2019 as part of Life Rewired, the institution’s 2019 cross disciplinary programme. This major exhibition is a survey of creative and scientific developments in artificial intelligence. The variety of works will explore the evolution of the complex relationship between humans and…
London’s first Re-Textured Festival, dubbed “a multi-venue, multi-sensory festival concept,” will bring some of the city’s most iconic Brutalist buildings to life for four days, with musical performances and ambitious light installations, commencing Thursday 28 March. According to the festival’s organisers, brothers Danny and Kieran Clancy, “London has a thriving electronic music scene but we…
The third annual BMW Tate Live Exhibition, led by Senior Curator Catherine Wood and running from 22–31 March 2019, is dedicated to artist Anne Imhof. The celebrated German artist follows her 2017 work, Faust, which was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, with an impressive new project in the Tate Tanks, entitled Sex….
On 27 March, artist Juno Calypso will be speaking at the Sarabande Foundation as part of the organisation’s on-going events programme, the Inspiration Series. Calypso’s work spans photography, film and installation and touches upon themes of solitude, desire and femininity. The majority of her works are self-portraits with an unmistakable dark and comedic angle. The…
In his latest exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ, entitled Pre-Fall ’17 and open until 6 April 2019 at 62 Kingly Street, Jonathan Horowitz presents a series of new works, spanning video, installation and digital printing, and addressing some of the defining issues of contemporary politics. Extending the threads of political critique, understated humour and allusion…
Martin Parr has established himself as a household name in the field of documentary photography, and is currently exhibiting an extensive overview of his work at London’s National Portrait Gallery. The major show, entitled Only Human and open until 27 May 2019, examines national identity today, both in the UK and abroad with a special…
Open until 24 March 2019, Ghislaine Leung’s solo exhibition, Constitution, at Chisenhale Gallery brings together sound, light, scale and temperature, building on the artist’s ongoing enquiry into withdrawal and dependency. Originally from Stockholm, the London-based artist and writer’s practice is situated within the discourses of moving image and institutional critique, foregrounded by questions of agency,…