
Isaac Julien Receives Prestigious Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon Award
London’s Whitechapel Gallery has announced that visionary filmmaker and artist Isaac Julien KBE RA will be honoured with the prestigious… Read More
1 February 2024
London’s Whitechapel Gallery has announced that visionary filmmaker and artist Isaac Julien KBE RA will be honoured with the prestigious… Read More
1 February 2024
A visual and literary meditation juxtaposing Isaac Julien’s artworks with archival images of Frederick Douglass and essays that consider his enduring legacy.
20 July 2023
I first came across the work of Isaac Julien when I was doing my MA in Creative Writing at UEA and did a module on black British film.
30 April 2023
Victoria Miro presents an exhibition of newly conceived photographic works by Isaac Julien, focusing on his latest work, Once Again… (Statues Never Die).
Tuesday-Saturday: 10am-6pm
The first major UK exhibition by one of today’s most compelling artists and filmmakers
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00
Celebrated for his compelling lyrical films and video art installations, Isaac Julien….
13 April 2023
New and historical works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Sonia Boyce, Karon Davis, Zanele Muholi, Wangechi Mutu, Frida Orupabo, Howardena Pindell, Betye Saar, Khadija Saye, Tschabalala Self, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Curated by Isaac Julien.
‘Rock My Soul borrows its title from the eminent black feminist scholar and writer bell hooks’ 2003 book, in which she investigates the role of black self-esteem in empowering a body politic both culturally and politically. She writes: “without self-esteem, everyone loses his or her sense of meaning, purpose, and power”.
The exhibition aims to meditate on how artists respond to conversations around figuration, abstraction and self-representation in contemporary art, and affirm, with a certain urgency and eloquence, their sense of esteem against established art canons. Their works traverse aesthetic and geographic borders and histories, as well as concepts such as domesticity, political resistance, symbolic repertoires of intimacy and trans-cultural entanglement.
Some theorists have rightly advocated that the postmodern status of art has created a common philosophical ground on which race, nationality and other particularities of the artist’s circumstances are not determining of the reading and valuing of works. On the other hand, since conceptual art, the discursive dimension of artworks has become an inescapable territory to address social, political and cultural issues. This exhibition proposes that questions of gender and race are as pertinent and more relevant than ever today.
By bringing together black artists with particular interests in both figuration and abstraction, Rock My Soul explores the aesthetics of reparation and, at the same time, positions these works unapologetically by artists who may face or witness first-hand the alterity of difference. Their particular contribution conveys a radical re-imagining, one in which the canons and established parameters of culture, politics and history are questioned.’ – Isaac Julien.
Tuesday–Saturday: 10am–6pm
Isaac Julien’s nine-screen installation, premiering at Victoria Miro, traverses a collection of Lina Bo Bardi’s most iconic buildings.
Tuesday–Saturday: 10am–6pm
The Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2017 has shown flair and diversity in its choice of visual art related honours.
17 June 2017
Isaac Julien’s seminal work Looking for Langston (1989/2017) is the focus of two presentations. “I dream a world” Looking for Langston, an exhibition of newly-conceived, large-scale and silver gelatin photographic works and archival material at Victoria Miro, Wharf Road and during Photo London.
Tuesday - Saturday: 10.00am - 6.00pm
Isaac Julien will present his Venice Biennale video installation at Art Basel this month. It will be shown on a larger scale than… Read More
9 June 2015