The Art Diary July 2023 – Rev Jonathan Evens
The July Art Diary includes exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery, Hayward Gallery, Firstsite Colchester, Newport Street Gallery and Salisbury Cathedral.
13 July 2023
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Alchemy
Bringing together major works by some of the most influential European and American artists of the post-war and contemporary periods
Tuesday—Saturday, 10am—6pm
Lee Bul
Thaddaeus Ropac London presents paintings from Lee Bul’s Perdu series for the first time in the UK, including new works created especially for the exhibition.
Tuesday—Saturday, 10am—6pm
Joseph Beuys: 40 Years of Drawing
Presenting almost 100 works on paper from the Joseph Beuys family for the first time in the UK, Joseph Beuys: 40 Years of Drawing is the first major exhibition dedicated solely to the artist’s drawings to take place in London for 30 years.
Tuesday—Saturday, 10am—6pm
Wolfgang Laib: City of Silence
The first solo exhibition in the UK in over two decades of internationally acclaimed artist Wolfgang Laib will present a new group of installations reprising recurring motifs from the German artist’s poetic and highly symbolic oeuvre.
Tuesday—Saturday, 10am—6pm
Megan Rooney: Bones Roots Fruits
An enigmatic storyteller, Rooney works across a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, installation, performance and language to develop intense narratives in her striking signature style.
Tuesday—Saturday, 10am—6pm
FIAC Unveils First Rate Galleries For Online Edition
The first edition of FIAC Online Viewing Rooms has secured widespread participation from French and international galleries
29 January 2021
Female Minimal: Abstraction In The Expanded Field
Female Minimal: Abstraction in the Expanded Field, brings together pioneering female artists from Europe and the Americas.
TUESDAY - SATURDAY 10AM - 6PM
A Focus On Painting: Group Exhibition
The exhibition will feature four artists from different generations and at different points in their careers: Alvaro Barrington, Mandy El-Sayegh, Rachel Jones and Dona Nelson.
TUESDAY - SATURDAY 10AM - 6PM
Hito Steyerl: The Tower
Steyerl’s immersive installation The Tower (2015) focuses on the making of the video game Skyscraper: Stairway to Chaos by the Ukrainian company Ace3D, based on Saddam Hussein’s unrealised plans to reconstruct the Tower of Babel in Babylon, the ancient capital that he began rebuilding in the 1980s.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
Marc Brandenburg: Snowflake
Marc Brandenburg’s first UK exhibition, Snowflake will present a series of new drawings that explore the conditions of life at the fringes of society.
Tuesday–Saturday: 10am–6pm
Harun Farocki, Hito Steyerl: Life Captured Still
The first major posthumous exhibition of Harun Farocki’s work in the UK will show his seminal video and new media art installations alongside the work of Hito Steyerl.
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James Rosenquist: Visualising the Sixties
The first UK exhibition in over thirty years with an in-depth focus on this pivotal decade, James Rosenquist: Visualising the Sixties will not only illuminate why the early years of the artist’s career were so groundbreaking, but will also demonstrate the innovative and experimental techniques Rosenquist employed throughout the decade
TUESDAY - SATURDAY 10AM - 6PM
Sylvie Fleury: Hypnotic Poison
Presented in the gallery’s historic Ely Room, new works by Sylvie Fleury will be shown alongside pieces from three of the artist’s most significant series
Tuesday–Saturday 10–6
Gerwald Rockenschaub: ROMANTIC / ECLECTIC (REMODELLED CAROUSEL EDIT)
Berlin-based Gerwald Rockenschaub explores our innate desire for order.
TUESDAY - SATURDAY 10AM - 6PM
Lydia Okumura: Volume ’84
A Solo Installation by Minimalist Sculptor Lydia Okumura. Recreated by the Artist in Situ, Lydia Okumura’s Works from the Seminal Exhibition of 1984 at the Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo
John Cage: Ryoanji
An Exhibition Uniting Musical Compositions and Drawings from John Cage’s Exquisite Ryoanji Series
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
Robert Rauschenberg: Spreads 1975-83
The first UK exhibition dedicated to Robert Rauschenberg’s iconic Spreads series (1975-1983).
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
Georg Baselitz And Afro Gesture vs Figuration – Edward Lucie-Smith
It’s depressing how rapidly once-big art stars manage to fade nowadays. You blink your eyes, and suddenly they’re gone.
22 October 2018
Georg Baselitz: A Focus on the 1980s
The first exhibition to focus on Baselitz’s breakthrough 1980s seminal paintings and previously unseen works, drawings and earliest sculptures brought together for this show.
TUESDAY - SATURDAY: 10AM - 6PM
Daniel Richter: Why German Painting Still Dominates Europe – Edward Lucie-Smith
A new exhibition of paintings by Daniel Richter at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac exemplifies the way in which German painting has become dominant in Europe.
11 September 2018
Daniel Richter: I Should Have Known Better
An exhibition of new work by the German artist Daniel Richter, who has shaped painting in Germany since the fall of the Berlin wall.
MONDAY - FRIDAY: 10AM - 6PM
Land of Lads, Land of Lashes
Land of Lads, Land of Lashes presents, for the first time in the UK, seminal sculptures and paintings of three female artists of 1960s and 1970s Minimal and Post-Minimal art who broke the artistic boundaries of the period: Rosemarie Castoro, Lydia Okumura and Wanda Czelkowska.
TUESDAY - SATURDAY 10AM - 6PM
Joseph Beuys: Utopia at the Stag Monuments
The most important UK exhibition of Beuys’ work in over a decade. Reuniting most of the original elements of Beuys’ seminal Stag Monuments for the first time since its creation.
Tuesday – Saturday 10 am – 6 pm
Sturtevant: Vice Versa
A solo show of iconic paintings, photographs, installation, videos and wallpaper by the American artist Sturtevant.
Arnulf Rainer: Early Work
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac London presents the most comprehensive and extensive show to date of Arnulf Rainer’s early work.
Tues-Sat 10-6
Lee Bul: After Bruno Taut
One of the foremost contemporary artists in Korea today, Lee Bul creates works that reflect her philosophical exploration of the 20th-century cultural history.
Tues-Sat 10am-6pm
Medardo Rosso: Sight Unseen and his Encounters with London
An exhibition of the works of Medardo Rosso (1858–1928), one of the founders of modern sculpture. Medardo Rosso: Sight Unseen and his Encounters with London is the first exhibition to focus on Rosso’s relationship with London.
TUESDAY - SATURDAY 10AM - 6PM
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov: Concert For A Fly (Chamber Music)
Installation Concert for a Fly (Chamber Music), 1986, by pioneering conceptual artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. Russian-born and American-based, today they are recognised as among the most significant international artists to have emerged in the late 20th century.
TUESDAY - SATURDAY 10AM - 6PM
Robert Longo: Let The Frame Of Things Disjoint
First solo exhibition in London by the American artist Robert Longo.
The exhibition will feature over twenty new charcoal works exploring the volatility of today’s contemporary climate through the lens of Macbeth’s famed line: ‘let the frame of things disjoint’.
Tues-Sat 10-6
Dame Julia Peyton-Jones Appointed Senior Global Director of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Dame Julia Peyton-Jones the former co-director of the Serpentine Gallery in London, for over 25 years, has been appointed Senior Global Director of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. Peyton-Jones will take on her ambassadorial and curatorial role on 1 September 2017, and will be based in London, where the gallery opened a new space in Mayfair earlier this year.
25 June 2017
Minimal Art From the Marzona Collection
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac’s new space in London opens with an exhibition of Conceptual and Minimal Art from the Marzona Collection. Works by the major representatives of these movements – Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Lee Lozano, Sol LeWitt, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra and Richard Tuttle will take centre stage in the Library Gallery of Ely House.
Monday to Saturday: 10am - 6pm