Forrest Bess: Out of the Blue
Forrest Bess (b.1911-1977, Bay City, Texas) was a visionary American painter who produced an extraordinary body of work between the 1940s and 1970s.
Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm Thur, 11am-9pm
Camden Arts Centre
Adam Farah – WHAT I’VE LEARNED FROM YOU AND MYSELF (PEAK MOMENTATIONS / INSIDE MY VELVET ROPE MIX)
Tuesdays-Sundays from 10am-6pm
Phoebe Collings-James – A Scratch! A Scratch!
Phoebe Collings-James’ (b. 1987, London, UK) wide-ranging practice encompasses sculpture, video, sound and performance.
Tuesdays-Sundays from 10am-6pm
The Botanical Mind
Now extended to 28 February 2021
Camden Arts Centre reopens with this exhibition bringing together an extraordinary presentation of trans-cultural art and artefacts, revealing an encoded intelligence inherent in plant forms – patterns that can be thought of as blueprints for the natural world.
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Botanical Mind Online: Art, Mysticism and the Cosmic Tree – Revd Jonathan Evens
Spring 2020 was to have been an appropriate season for the launch of one of the Camden Arts Centre’s most ambitious exhibitions to date. The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and the Cosmic Tree is a major thematic group exhibition investigating the significance of the plant kingdom to human life
11 May 2020
Athanasios Argianas: Hollowed Water
Hollowed Water is an exhibition of new work in music, sculpture and video by Athanasios Argianas (b. 1976, Athens).
Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00am – 6.00pm Wednesdays: 10.00am – 9.00pm
Christodoulos Panayiotou: Act II: The Island
Addressing themes of politics, nationhood, religion, imperialism and oppression, Panayiotou’s work speaks through the most personal and private of gestures and interventions
Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00am – 6.00pm Wednesdays: 10.00am – 9.00pm
Elizabeth Murray: Flying Bye
This is the first UK exhibition of celebrated American painter Elizabeth Murray (1940-2007).
Tuesday to Sunday 10.00am – 6.00pm Wednesday 10.00am – 9.00pm
Jonathan Baldock: Facecrime
In his new installation, devised especially for Camden Arts Centre, Jonathan Baldock (b. Pembury, UK) explores contemporary ‘primitivism’ to create a darkly humorous world in which his works are cast as characters in an alternate reality.
Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00am – 6.00pm Wednesdays: 10.00am – 9.00pm Closed Mondays
Beatrice Gibson: Crone Music
Working at the intersection of art, feminism, expanded cinema, experimental literature and film, Crone Music explores friendship, feeling, empathy and solidarity as tools for individual and collective agency in an ever more unsettled world.
Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00am – 6.00pm Wednesdays: 10.00am – 9.00pm
Camden Arts Centre Partners With Frieze For New Emerging Art Prize
Camden Arts Centre has announced a new partnership with Frieze London for 2018.
26 September 2018
Amy Sillman: Landline
Working in New York, Amy Sillman’s wayward form of abstraction has pushed defiantly at the process-oriented approaches typically associated with the traditions of post-war painting, infusing her work with a modern sensibility, critical self-reflexivity and humour.
Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00am – 6.00pm Wednesdays: 10.00am – 9.00pm Closed Mondays
Yuko Mohri: Voluta
Previous artist-in-residence Yuko Mohri returns to Camden Arts Centre this summer with a new installation developed especially for the gallery. Mohri orchestrates relations between electromagnetic force-fields, patterns of light moving through water and a reconfigured Yamaha reed organ from 1934 as part of a complex audio-spatial composition in which non-human agents and chance factors determine the score.
Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00am – 6.00pm Wednesdays: 10.00am – 9.00pm
Peter Fraser: Mathematics
Photographer Peter Fraser presents his most recent body of work Mathematics. Reflecting on the idea that time, space, and everything within it, can be described mathematically, Fraser brings together a series of photographs of seemingly disparate and unrelated objects and encounters – including still lives, landscapes and portraiture.
Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00am – 6.00pm Wednesdays: 10.00am – 9.00pm
Sadie Benning: Sleep Rock
For this exhibition, New-York based artist Sadie Benning has created over 20 new wall-based works that occupy a hybrid space between painting, photography and sculptural relief.
Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00am – 6.00pm Wednesdays: 10.00am – 9.00pm
Giorgio Griffa: The Golden Ratio And Inexplicable knowledge – Revd Jonathan Evens
Camden Arts Centre is currently presenting the first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom of Giorgio Griffa, an Italian abstract painter who has been closely linked to the Arte Povera movement.
4 March 2018
Giorgio Griffa: A Continuous Becoming
Abstract painter Giorgio Griffa, closely linked to the Arte Povera movement, first became known in the 1960s as part of an Italian generation of artists who sought to radically redefine painting.
Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00am – 6.00pm Wednesdays: 10.00am – 9.00pm
Nathalie Du Pasquier Interviewed Ahead Of Her Camden Arts Centre Exhibition
Interview conducted by Neil Zakiewicz with Milan-based artist, Nathalie Du Pasquier
21 September 2017
Christian Nyampeta: Words After the World
Rwandan-born Dutch artist Christian Nyampeta (b. 1981) works across art, design and theory in an ongoing enquiry into ways of living together.
Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00am – 6.00pm Wednesdays: 10.00am – 9.00pm Closed Mondays
Nathalie Du Pasquier: Other Rooms
In Other Rooms, Milan-based artist Nathalie Du Pasquier expands beyond the canvas to inhabit the entirety of the gallery spaces as a field of composition.
Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00am – 6.00pm Wednesdays: 10.00am – 9.00pm Closed Mondays
Jennifer Tee: Let It Come Down
Jennifer Tee works across sculpture, installation, performance and collage in an ongoing negotiation between esoteric ideas and the materiality of objects.
Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00am – 6.00pm Wednesdays: 10.00am – 9.00pm
Daniel Richter: Lonely Old Slogans
The question of how painting can react to the political, social and media realities of today serves as a starting point for Richter’s artistic work.
Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00am – 6.00pm Wednesdays: 10.00am – 9.00pm
Geta Brătescu: The Studio: A Tireless, Ongoing Space
The first major retrospective of 91-year-old Romanian artist Geta Brătescu in London.
Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00am – 6.00pm Wednesdays: 10.00am – 9.00pm Closed Mondays
Florian Rothmayr: Largest Solo London Exhibition To Date At Camden Arts Centre
Florian Roithmayr presents a new body of sculptural works in Gallery 3 which observe material transformation and transference in the… Read More
30 December 2015
Ben Rivers: Major Solo Show Announced For Camden Arts Centre
A new solo show by British artist Ben Rivers (b.1972), brings together two of his seminal 16mm film works and two new… Read More
20 July 2015
Jo Baer: Towards The Land Of The Giants – Camden Arts Centre – Cultural Signifiers Of Time Passing
Centring around Baer’s most recent series, In the Land of Giants, developed since 2009, Camden Art Centre’s exhibition of Jo… Read More
15 April 2015
American Artist Jo Baer Opens New Exhibition At Camden Arts Centre
Camden Arts Centre presents an exhibition of Jo Baer’s most recent series of paintings, ‘In the Land of the Giants’…. Read More
10 April 2015
Camden Arts Centre Presents New Exhibitions By Phillip Lai And Moyra Davey
The Camden Arts Centre is presenting two new exhibitions to kick off the Spring season. The first is by Phillip… Read More
13 April 2014
Nina Canell: New Exhibition Explores Connections That Make Up Our Environment
Nina Canell’s current show, ‘Near Here’, at the Camden Arts Centre explores the connections that make up our environment. Canell’s… Read More
29 January 2014
Silke Otto-Knapp Explores Performance And Interaction With Dark Landscapes
At the Camden Arts Centre’s latest exhibition, Silke Otto-Knapp explores performance and landscape in her watercolour and gouache paintings. Several… Read More
24 January 2014
Silke Otto-Knapp To Exhibit At Camden Arts Centre in Early 2014
In January the Camden Arts Centre presents an exhibition of new works by the German artist Silke Otto-Knapp (b.1970). Otto-Knapp… Read More
22 October 2013
African American Artist Kara Walker New Camden Arts Centre Exhibition
The Camden Arts Centre are to present an Exhibition of ‘Capable Artworks’ by the Notable Hand of the Celebrated American… Read More
30 July 2013