For Paul Carey-Kent, writing and curating begin in the same place: the gallery. Seeing art in person, returning to spaces, spending time with work — this is the foundation of everything that follows. Long before the writing comes the visit, and it’s an experience he...
Berlin-based Jorinde Voigt develops systems to depict how an individual’s inner world – such as their personal experience, emotions, and memories – intersect with external conditions. She summarises her methodology as ‘trying to be what I observe’. Voigt became...
Ahead of his solo show at Grimm’s London space (5 March – 18 April), you can see two recent paintings by the Dutch-born, London-based artist Michael Raedecker in ‘Connecting Threads’ at GPS Gallery in Soho. The show deals with the interface between textiles and other...
Lisson is presenting a solo exhibition of new sculptures by Tony Cragg. The exhibition brings together a selection of animated and gestural configurations which, as Cragg himself describes, “are like drawings in space”, communing with one another while still...
Over the past four decades, Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias has developed a sculptural vocabulary, creating immersive and experiential environments that engineer nature. Fusing the manmade with the organic, Hauser & Wirth’s exhibition ‘The Shore’ features three...
There are plenty of impressive shows timed to coincide with Frieze[i]. Still, I haven't seen Eric Butcher featured in highlights lists, even though 'Shadow Archive', his solo exhibition at the excellently appointed GPS Gallery, is arguably the most original currently...
Lugano, beautifully set alongside a mountain-ringed lake, has been part of Switzerland since 1513. However, the town is close to the Italian border and its people are among the 700,000 Swiss (from a population of 9 million) whose first language is Italian. Lugano is...
Seventeen is well worth a visit on its twentieth anniversary, as you can see both a celebratory group show with many of the gallery’s artists, and Bex Massey’s solo exhibition ‘The Ágalma’. Massey’s paintings pull off a seductive double take. They draw the viewer in...
For two decades, Emma Critchley’s subject has been the underwater world: she describes herself as ‘an artist who uses a combination of photography, film, sound and installation to continually explore the human relationship with the underwater environment as a...