Tag: London art
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Paintings for a Blooming Consciousness
A review of The Greenhouse, Inka Essenhigh’s exhibition at Victoria Miro Gallery in London. The article examines her lush, imaginative paintings—rich in botanical forms, mythology, and symbolism—as meditations on perception, consciousness, and the enduring power of painting to envision alternative worlds.
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Visceral Sculptures in the Turbine Hall
A powerful review of Open Wound, Mire Lee’s Hyundai Commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. This article examines how Lee transforms the vast industrial space into a visceral, body-like environment where machinery, vulnerability, and human labour intersect, evoking themes of precarity, decay, and care.
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Narratives of oppression
A critical reflection on The House of Bernarda Alba at Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery, London, this review explores how Elena Njoabuzia Onwochei-Garcia and Sam Llewellyn-Jones reinterpret Federico García Lorca’s classic play through immersive painting and photography. Drawing connections between historical and contemporary forms of oppression, the exhibition evokes tension, isolation, and political unease within a…
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Paintings with a dreamlike quality
In Plain Sight at Halcyon Gallery in London presents dreamlike, semi-abstract paintings by Ernesto Cánovas that explore memory, perception, and disappearance. Drawing on cinema, history, and photography, Cánovas manipulates found imagery and materials such as wood and aluminium to create evocative works that oscillate between abstraction and representation.
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Organic sculpture that captures your imagination
When Forms Come Alive at the Hayward Gallery presents a compelling survey of contemporary sculpture from the last 60 years, featuring immersive works inspired by organic growth, movement, and transformation. Through large-scale installations and materially rich forms, the exhibition blurs the boundaries between art, nature, and science, inviting visitors into a continuously shifting sensory experience.
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Art for emotional and spiritual transformation
Marina Abramović’s long-awaited retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts traces five decades of radical performance, exploring endurance, vulnerability, spirituality, and the transformative power of art.
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Abstract art inspired by nature
A critical review of “Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life” at Tate Modern, examining nature, spirituality, and abstraction through two radically different artistic visions.
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A lost era
Soheila Sokhanvari’s ‘Rebel Rebel’ at the Barbican’s Curve Gallery presents twenty-seven portraits of pre-revolutionary Iranian feminist icons, blending Persian miniature painting with a powerful reflection on women’s history and cultural resistance.
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Experimenting with art under communism
Maria Bartuszová’s exhibition at Tate Modern has become a key reference for anyone interested in Eastern European avant-garde sculpture and the evolution of experimental art under communism.
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Shaping a better world
This exhibition highlights Theaster Gates’s innovative approach to contemporary ceramic art, community activism, and the cultural legacy of Black craftsmanship.