The Art Diary August 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens
August’s diary highlights a range of shows which engage with art as a form of storytelling by revealing hidden histories and telling lost stories.
6 August 2024
Camden art centre
Lonnie Holley: All Rendered Truth
Camden Art Centre presents a major institutional solo show by American artist and musician Lonnie Holley (b.1950, Birmingham, Alabama).
Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm Thur, 11am-9pm
Matthew Krishanu: The Bough Breaks
This major solo exhibition will present a body of new work, including paintings and works on paper that form the expansive world of Krishanu’s artistic practice.
Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm Thur, 11am-9pm
Bloomberg New Contemporaries
New Contemporaries, a celebration of exciting new artistic talent in the UK, returns to Camden Art Centre.
Tuesday-Sunday: 11am-6pm
New Contemporaries Returns To Camden Art Centre After Two Decades
Bloomberg New Contemporaries is set to return to the Camden Art Centre after a hiatus of over two decades.
20 November 2023
Tamara Henderson: Green in the Grooves
Henderson’s project reveals humanity’s intervention in global patterns of decomposition,
Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm Thur, 11am-9pm
Freelands Award 2023: Shortlist For £110,000 Prize Announced
The Freelands Foundation has announced the five visual arts organisations and women artists under consideration for the eighth Freelands Award…. Read More
18 September 2023
Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief
Martin Wong is widely recognised for his extraordinary depictions of social, sexual and political scenographies from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s.
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Atiéna R. Kilfa: The Unhomely
Kilfa uses photography, sculpture, video and installation to explore personal and cultural memories that conflict and overlap.
Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm Thur, 11am-6pm
Mohammed Sami: The Point 0
Drawing on his own experiences living under Saddam Hussein’s regime in Baghdad, and subsequently as a refugee in Sweden, his large-scale paintings exquisitely render abandoned interiors
Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm Thur, 11am-6pm
Tenant of Culture, Soft Acid
Tenant of Culture, the anonym for Dutch artist Hendrickje Schimmel, will realise an ambitious new site-specific installation for Camden Art Centre, her largest work to date.
Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm Thur, 11am-9pm
Lily van der Stokker – Thank You Darling
Camden Art Centre presents the first institutional solo exhibition in London by Lily van der Stokker (b. ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, 1954), one of the Netherlands’ most celebrated contemporary artists.
Tuesday to Sunday: 11.00am – 6.00pm Thursdays: 11.00am – 9.00pm
Allison Katz: Interview of the Month February 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent
London-based Canadian Allison Katz relishes the second of those options at Camden Art Centre
1 February 2022
Julien Creuzet – ‘Too blue, too deep, too dark we sank…’
As the second recipient of Camden Art Centre’s Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze, French-Caribbean artist Julien Creuzet (b. 1986 France) will present a new installation commissioned especially for Gallery 3. This will be his first UK institutional exhibition in the UK.
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Allison Katz – Artery
Allison Katz’s (b. 1980, Montreal, Canada) exhibition at Camden Art Centre will be the London-based artist’s first institutional solo show in London.
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Is Daniel Richter In The Same League As Peter Doig?
Daniel Richter has shaped painting in Germany as few others have done, since the 1990s. He slots in well with important painters such as Peter Doig and Billy Childish but adds a twist of ‘Street’ savvy to the mix.
15 August 2017