New Curators Announces Eleven Fellows For First Programme
New Curators announces the 11 fellows who will take part in the first year of its curatorial training programme. Selected… Read More
14 September 2023
South London Gallery
Peckham 24: Marvel Harris / Fion Hung Ching-Yan
Peckham 24, the south east London festival of photography, returns to the South London Gallery’s Fire Station for a second year.
Tuesday-Sunday 11am-6pm Wednesday until 9pm
New Contemporaries Returns To South London Gallery For Fifth Consecutive Year
New Contemporaries 2022 returns to the South London Gallery with a rich diversity of approaches to making. The exhibition features 47 artists.
7 December 2022
Rene Matić: Upon This Rock
upon this rock is a solo exhibition by British artist Rene Matić. It will continue their long-term interrogation of ‘Britishness’, exploring how the nation’s past manifests in its present.
Tue–Sun 11am–6pm Wed 11am–9pm Open until 9pm on last Friday of the month
Simeon Barclay: In The Name Of The Father
Known for his multimedia practice which incorporates sculpture, collage, neon, and moving image, Simeon Barclay explores the ways we navigate and perform identity based on cultural memory.
Tue–Sun 11am–6pm Wed 11am–9pm Open until 9pm on last Friday of the month
The Show Is Over
This June, the South London Gallery will bring together over fourteen international artists whose work grapples with the language of remapping the architecture of an ever-unfolding afterlife of historical violence
Tuesday - Sunday 11am-6pm Wednesday until 9pm
We Are A Group Of Excellent Women
We Are A Group Of Excellent Women is an exhibition and programme of public events in collaboration with South London Refugee Association (SLRA) and The Feminist Library.
Tuesday-Sunday 11am-6pm Thursday until 9pm
Céline Condorelli, With Ben Rivers And Jay Bernard: After Work
Céline Condorelli’s work addresses the boundaries between public and private, art and function, work and leisure, in order to reimagine what culture and society can be, and the role of artists within them.
Tues - Sat 11am - 6pm Wednesday until 9pm
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021
New Contemporaries exhibition of emerging and early career artists returns to the SLG for the fourth consecutive year.
Tuesday-Sunday 11am-6pm Wednesday until 9pm
Alvaro Barrington: Spider the Pig, Pig the Spider
For his first solo exhibition in a UK institution, Alvaro Barrington presents a new body of works, in a bespoke installation responding to the architecture of the SLG’s main exhibition space.
Tuesday-Sunday 11am-6pm Thursday until 9pm
Rita Keegan: Somewhere Between There And Here
Rita Keegan’s first solo exhibition in more than fifteen years features artworks that reflect the intersection of new media experimentation, feminist practice and the Black Arts Movement of the 1980s.
Tues-Sun 11am-6pm (Wed until 9pm)
Christina Quarles: In Likeness
American artist Christina Quarles creates surreal and deliberately ambiguous images of bodies.
Tuesday-Sunday 11-6 Wednesday until 9pm
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020
The annual open submission exhibition returns to the South London Gallery for the third consecutive edition, offering a preview of some of the most exciting practices of the next generation.
Wednesday – Sunday, 11am–6pm
Ann Veronica Janssens: Hot Pink Turquoise
Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens (b. 1956) has created an extensive body of work over four decades spanning installations, projections, immersive environments and sculptures.
Wed – Sun, 11am – 6pm
South London Gallery First To Announce Lengthy Closure
The South London Gallery, a popular, public, cultural oasis has decided to close until further notice. This is the first,… Read More
15 March 2020
Danh Vo: Untitled
This exhibition continues Danh Vo’s largely conceptual practice, weaving together archival fragments and personal references.
Tue – Sun 11am-6pm, except Wed and last Fri of the month until 9pm.
Susan Cianciolo: God Life: Modern House On Land Outside Game Table
American artist Susan Cianciolo’s first UK solo exhibition across two floors of the Fire Station invites viewers into her unique creative world. Her works draw together elements inspired by craft, fashion and daily domestic life.
Tue–Sun 11am–6pm Wed 11am–9pm
Liz Johnson Artur: If You Know The Beginning, The End Is No Trouble
Russian-Ghanaian artist Liz Johnson Artur presents new sculptural works incorporating photographs selected from her substantial archive of images documenting the lives of people from the African diaspora.
Tue–Sun 11am–6pm Wed 11am–9pm
Haegue Yang: Tracing Movement
The acclaimed South Korean artist Haegue Yang brings together recent works with new pieces conceived especially for her exhibition in the South London Gallery’s main space.
Tuesday 11am-6pm Wednesday 11am-9pm Thursday 11am-6pm Friday 11am-6pm* Saturday 10am-6pm Sunday 10am-6pm *Open until 9pm on the last Friday of each month.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018 returns to the SLG for the first time in nearly 20 years.
Tue – Fri 11am-6pm, Sat and Sun 10am-6pm. Late opening: Wed and last Fri of the month until 9pm
Knock Knock: Humour in Contemporary Art
KNOCK KNOCK explores the enduring use of humour as a device in contemporary art.
Magali Reus: As Mist, Description
London-based Dutch artist Magali Reus’s first major institutional solo exhibition in London comprises an entirely new body of work, framed by architectural interventions designed specifically for the South London Gallery’s main space.
Tue – Sun 11am-6pm, except Wed and last Fri of the month until 9pm
Adam Linder: Service No.5: Dare to Keep Kids Off Naturalism
A new commission by the LA and Berlin-based choreographer, dancer and visual artist Adam Linder has its UK premiere at the SLG.
Opening Wed 28 Feb, 4-9pm Thur 1 – Sun 4 Mar, 12-5pm Wed 7 Mar, 4-9pm Thur 8 – Sun 11 Mar, 12-5pm
Katharina Grosse Presents New Site-Specific Work At South London Gallery
Katharina Grosse has for many years been popular in her native Germany, but it wasn’t until Gagosian became interested in her work, giving her a solo show in January 2017 in New York that her work has become internationally recognised.
1 October 2017
Katharina Grosse: This Drove my Mother up the Wall
First institutional solo show in London for Katharina Grosse featuring an in situ painting and two films.
Tuesday – Sunday 11am-6pm, except Wednesday and the last Friday of the month until 9pm Closed Monday
The Place is Here
The Place is Here presents work by over twenty black artists and collectives working in 1980s Britain.
Tuesday – Sunday 11am-6pm Except Wednesdays 11am-9pm Last Friday of the month 11am-9pm
Erik van Lieshout: Three Social Works
Erik van Lieshout’s work explores themes often rooted in his experience of living and working in the Netherlands but nevertheless relevant to contemporary experience across Europe and beyond.
Tuesday – Sunday 11am-6pm Except Wednesdays 11am-9pm Last Friday of the month 11am-9pm
Peckham: South London’s Art Capital keeps Pumping Out Surprises
Peckham is filled with art, so what else is new! Whether it be street level, graffiti or spontaneous performance art, the… Read More
15 May 2016
Heman Chong: An Arm, A Leg, And Other Stories At South London Gallery
A million blacked out business cards covering the floor set the scene for this exhibition which explores ideas of exchange,… Read More
24 December 2015
South London Gallery Gifted Grade II Listed Peckham Road Fire Station
One of Artlyst’s favourite exhibition spaces, The South London Gallery, has been gifted the Grade II listed former Peckham Road… Read More
15 November 2015
Isabelle Cornaro, Paysage Avec Poussin At South London Gallery – Landscape Vs Nature
French artist Isabelle Cornaro uses the language of art to explore and make visible the power and politics that shape… Read More
28 January 2015
Tracey Emin’s Pivotal Installation Exorcism Under The Hammer For £600,000
Christie’s has announced it is selling a particularly pivotal, not to mention large installation by one-time YBA tracey Emin called… Read More
23 January 2015