Manifesta 12 The Nomadic Biennial What You Need To Know
Manifesta 12, now in its twelfth edition is Europe’s nomadic biennial, taking place in Palermo from 16 June until 4 November 2018.
10 June 2018
Events
Frieze Sculpture 2018
FREE- Frieze Sculpture will return to The Regent’s Park for three months this summer, featuring works by 25 contemporary and modern artists presented by world-leading galleries.
Park opening times
The Great Spectacle: 250 Years of the Summer Exhibition
The Great Spectacle tells the story of 250 years of the Summer Exhibition, the world’s longest-running annual display of contemporary art.
Daily 10am – 6pm Fridays 10am – 10pm
Talisman in the Age of Difference
Curated by pioneering British artist Yinka Shonibare MBE, ‘Talisman in the Age of Difference’ is a journey of encounters that explores ideas of magic and subversive beauty in work by artists of African origin and across the diaspora and artists who empathise with the spirit of African resistance and representation.
Tuesday - Friday 10am - 6pm Saturday 11am - 5pm
André Hemer: The Cobra Effect
Here is a painting that is at once a finished work and an artist’s messy palette. It is a map, a vivid topography of colour. Petal-like daubs of paint explode in a maelstrom, and rich swathes of silk-like pigment have the shimmery sheen of smooth fabric.
Edward Bawden
Edward Bawden (1903-89) was a master printmaker, illustrator, watercolourist and designer and is today recognised as one of the most influential artists of his generation. This exhibition will bring together 160 works to re-introduce Bawden as a hugely versatile artist, who effortlessly pushed the boundaries between fine and commercial art.
10am - 5pm, Tuesday - Sunday (Closed Mondays except Bank Holidays)
Urs Fischer: Soft
Exhibition of new works by Urs Fischer created on a phone.
Tues-Sat 11-6
Sarah Sze
Sze explores our sense of time, place and distance, and the construction of memory, through the never-ending stream of images – personal, searched, researched and found – that we negotiate daily.
Tuesday–Saturday 10am–6pm
Carol Bove
An exhibition of new sculptures by Carol Bove, marking her third solo show with the gallery. Spanning two floors of the 24 Grafton Street location in London, the exhibition will feature new sculptures that expand on her investigations of materiality and form.
Tuesday – Saturday 10 am – 6 pm
Agustín Cárdenas
Sculpture by Cuban French artist Agustín Cárdenas. His sculpture offers a clear formal dialogue with generation of European sculptors that includes Constantin Brancusi, Jean Arp and Henry Moore and various American traditions.
Andrew Salgado: Natureboy
A Three day only exhibition of new work by Canadian artist Andrew Salgado.
6-9 pm Friday 1 June 11am -8pm on Saturday 2 June / noon - 6pm on Sunday 3 June
The London Open 2018
The London Open 2018 brings together the most dynamic and critical contemporary art being made in the capital today. The latest edition of this triennial summer exhibition offers a free, lively space to discover new work and reflect on a time of significant change in this global city.
Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm; Thursdays, 11am – 9pm
Richard Prince: Early Joke Paintings
An exhibition of early ‘joke paintings’ by American artist Richard Prince. Spanning the period 1988 – 1992, this will be the first opportunity to view a dedicated exhibition of this important body of work in the UK.
Tuesday - Friday 10.00am - 6:00pm Saturday 10:00am - 5:00pm
Richard Woods: The Ideal Home Exhibition
New work by Richard Woods (b. 1966) will be unveiled in The Ideal Home Exhibition at the Alan Cristea Gallery, London, from 21 June – 31 July 2018. New sculptures, paintings, and prints take as their subject notions of taste and the cult of home improvement.
Monday – Friday: 10am – 5.30 pm Saturday: 11am – 2pm
Tomma Abts
This summer, the Serpentine presents the work of Tomma Abts (b. 1967, Kiel, Germany) in the artist’s first solo exhibition in a UK public institution. One of the most significant artists of her generation and the winner of the 2006 Turner Prize, Abts is known for her acrylic and oil paintings whose extraordinary magnetism belies their modest scale.
10am - 6pm, Tuesday - Sunday, plus bank holidays.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Barrels and The Mastaba 1958–2018
FREE – This summer, in the heart of London, the Serpentine Galleries presents a major exhibition of the artists’ work, which draws upon their use of barrels to create artworks. Simultaneously, Christo will present The Mastaba (Project for London, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lake), a temporary floating sculpture on The Serpentine lake.
10am - 6pm, Tuesday - Sunday, plus bank holidays.
Waterloo Festival 2018
The London Group is presenting three exhibitions as part of the Waterloo Festival: Altered States, Beyond Image and Nothing Endures but Change
see website for details
Royal Academy of Arts 250th Summer Exhibition
This summer, Grayson Perry RA coordinates the biggest, brightest and most colourful Summer Exhibition yet, in the 250th annual celebration of “art made now”.
Daily 10am – 6pm Fridays 10am – 10pm
Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman’s thirty-five-year career in photography has established her as one of the most influential figures in contemporary art, creating photographic portraits that are predicated on themes of identity, gender and role-play.
Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm
Oscar Tuazon: Fire
Oscar Tuazon identifies primarily as a sculptor, though his practice occupies a position between sculptural concerns, architecture and activism. His large-scale installations consist of structures that foreground their own means of construction, most notably through his use of industrial materials.
Wednesday – Sunday 11.00 am – 6.00 pm and by appointment.
FOCUS: Yves Klein | James Turrell
FOCUS: Yves Klein | James Turrell is a two-room presentation that brings into dialogue seminal immersive works by each artist: Klein’s installation Pigment pur bleu (1957/2018) and Turrell’s projection Orca, Blue-Red (1968). Together, these monumental projects initiate a negotiation of space and perception.
Tuesday–Saturday 10AM–6PM
Spiegelgasse (Mirror Alley)
Referring to the address of Cabaret Voltaire – the birthplace of Dada in Zurich, Switzerland – ‘Spiegelgasse (Mirror Alley)’ presents the works of Swiss artists from the 1930s to the present day
Tuesday – Saturday 10 am – 6 pm
Bernard Frize: Blackout in the Grid
An exhibition of paintings by Bernard Frize that brings together paintings from Frize’s most recent series with works made in the decade from 1999 to 2008.
Monday - Saturday, 10 - 6pm
Greta Schodl & Tomaso Binga: Vocalizing
Vocalizing is the title of a double solo exhibition that focuses on the written word used, with very different outcomes, by Tomaso Binga (born Salerno, Italy, 1931) and Greta Schödl (born Hollabrunn, Austria, 1929) from the beginning of their long careers.
Tuesday - Friday 10am - 6pm Saturday 11am - 5pm
True Colours – Helen Beard / Sadie Laska / Boo Saville
FREE – ‘True Colours’, brings together three emerging artists – Helen Beard (b.1971, Birmingham), Sadie Laska (b.1974, West Virginia) and Boo Saville (b.1980, Norwich) – that, despite using paint in very different ways, all share an interest in exploring the possibilities of colour.
Tuesday–Sunday 10am–6pm
Lee Bul
Lee Bul transforms Hayward Gallery into a spectacular dream-like landscape featuring monstrous bodies, futuristic cyborgs, glittering mirrored environments and an exquisitely surreal monumental foil Zeppelin.
11am – 7pm every day except Tuesdays when the gallery is closed. Late night opening on Thursdays until 9pm.
Art Night 2018
Art Night is a free contemporary arts festival that puts art into extraordinary locations around London for one night a year.
The main festival is curated by the Hayward Gallery* and Art Night Open* will feature curated events at local institutions in the area.
6pm-6am
Faces Places and Spaces
Faces Places and Spaces: New Painting made in the UK selected with and including new works by Hedley Roberts.
Tues- Fri 11-6, Saturday 12-5
Show One: Art Degree Show 2018
First of Central Saint Martins summer degree shows featuring work by graduating students from BA Fine Art, MA Fine Art, MA Photography, MA Art and Science.
For the 8th consecutive year, global communications network MullenLowe Group is sponsoring the Central Saint Martins Degree Shows, supporting the next generation of creative stars.
Smartphone e-brand, Honor, is the proud technology sponsor of the 2018 Central Saint Martins Degree Shows.
Wednesday to Friday: 12-8pm Saturday to Sunday: 12-5pm.
Orla Kiely: A Life in Pattern
Featuring over 150 patterns and products, as well as collaborations with photographers, film directors and architects, Orla Kiely: A Life in Pattern emphasises the role of ornament and colour in our everyday lives.
Open Tuesdays to Saturdays, 11am–6pm Thursdays until 8pm Sundays, 11am–5pm
Howard Hodgkin: Last Paintings
An exhibition of Howard Hodgkin’s final works.
Tues-Sat 10-6
Edward Kienholz: America My Hometown
America My Hometown traces Edward Kienholz’s formative years (1954-1967), showing an artist coming to terms with both his unique vision and the social climate of the US throughout this tumultuous era.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm