What’s On: Exhibition and Events - Feb - Mar 2024
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Pope.L: Hospital
21 Nov 2023 - 11 Feb 2024, South London Gallery Pope.L’s wide ranging practice spans writing, painting, performance, installation, sculpture and video, which will be explored across both the SLG’s Main Gallery and Fire Station. Hospital is the artist’s first solo exhibition in a London institution.
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Julianknxx: Chorus in Rememory of Flight
14 Sep 2023 - 11 Feb 2024, Barbican
Poet, artist and filmmaker Julianknxx explores themes of inheritance, loss and belonging as he crosses the boundaries between written word, music and visual art.
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Frank Walter: Artist, Gardener, Radical
4 Oct 2023 – 25 Feb 2024, The Garden Museum
One of the most significant Caribbean visual artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Artist, Gardener, Radical will delve into Walter’s prolific body of work exploring Antiguan plants and landscapes, environmentalism, Caribbean and Black identity, social justice and the complexity of nature.
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BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
13 – 24 March, BFI Southbank
Discover the world's best new queer cinema at the BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival. Experience the world's best new queer cinema and free events including DJ nights.
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DIVA
24 Jun 2023 – 7 Apr 2024, V&A South Kensington
About: DIVA will celebrate the power and creativity of iconic performers, exploring and redefining the role of 'diva' and how this has been subverted or embraced over time across opera, stage, popular music, and film.
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Camden Art Centre
Bloomberg New Contemporaries
19 January – 7 April 2024, Camden Art Centre
Camden Art Centre is showcasing New Contemporaries after a 20-year hiatus, featuring 55 emerging artists.
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The Future is Female
8 March – 6 April 2025, The Garrison Chapel
The Future is Female exhibition by The Art Link aims to showcase the exceptional of female sculptors, both established and emerging, while addressing the long standing gender disparity in the art world.
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WOMEN IN REVOLT!: ART AND ACTIVISM IN THE UK 1970-1990
until 7 April 2024, Tate Britain
The first of its kind, this exhibition is a wide-ranging exploration of feminist art by over 100 women artists working in the UK. It shines a spotlight on how networks of women used radical ideas and rebellious methods to make an invaluable contribution to British culture. Their art helped fuel the women’s liberation movement during a period of significant social, economic and political change.
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Hyundai Commission: El Anatsui
until 14 April 2024, Tate Modern
El Anatsui’s Behind the Red Moon is a monumental sculptural installation made of thousands of metal bottle tops and fragments. The commission builds on Anatsui’s interest in histories of encounter and the migration of goods and people during the transatlantic slave trade. Sourced in Nigeria, the liquor bottle tops used in this commission form part of a present-day industry built on colonial trade routes.
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Some May Work as Symbols: Art Made in Brazil, 1950s–70s
7 March - 5 May 2024, Raven Row
A rich diversity of artistic approaches existed in Brazil in the decades around the mid-twentieth century, after the first modernist wave had settled. This exhibition finds conversations between various forms of abstraction, symbolism and figuration that were circulating and interacting in the visual culture of that time.
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When Forms Come Alive
7 February - 6 May 2024, Hayward Gallery
Spanning over 60 years of contemporary sculpture, this exhibition highlights ways in which artists draw on familiar experiences of movement, flux and organic growth.
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The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure
22 February – 19 May 2024, National Portrait Gallery
A major study of the Black figure – and its representation in contemporary art. It highlights the use of figures to illuminate the richness and complexity of Black life. As well as surveying the presence of the Black figure in Western art history, we examine its absence – and the story of representation told through these works, as well as the social, psychological and cultural contexts in which they were produced.
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Bright Lights, Big City
7 March – 25 May 2024, Iconic Images Gallery Piccadilly
The cities of the 20th century thrummed like magnets, drawing in their populations from rural hinterlands and across borders and seas, their lights glowing with the promise of prosperity, fortune and fame.
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Thomas J Price at the V&A Museum
22 Jul 2023 – 27 May 2024, V&A South Kensington
British artist Thomas J Price is celebrated for his arresting yet contemplative sculptures depicting everyday people. This display sets his work in dialogue with the V&A's historic collections.
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Wilfred Ukpong: Niger-Delta / Future-Cosmos
16 Feb – 1 Jun 2024, Autograph London
Visual meditations on the environmental crisis in the Niger Delta
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Mónica Alcázar-Duarte: Digital Clouds Don't Carry Rain Curated by Bindi Vora
16 Feb – 1 Jun 2024, Autograph London
Interweaving indigenous knowledge, colonial legacy and ecological urgency
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Coumba Samba: Capital
28 March – 2 June 2024, Cell Project Space
Capital, the first major UK solo exhibition by Senegalese-American artist Coumba Samba, features a room-sized mud enclosure, photographic prints, and a commissioned performance titled 'FIFA' produced in collaboration with École Des Sables (Dakar, Senegal), and artist Gretchen Lawrence (UK/Estonia) to produce a permanent soundscape for the exhibition.
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Soulscapes
14 February – 2 June 2024, Dulwich Picture Gallery
Soulscapes will explore our connection with the world around us, highlighting the power of landscape art and reflecting on themes of belonging, memory, joy and transformation.
This exhibition is curated by Lisa Anderson, Managing Director of Black Cultural Archives.
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Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest
8 March – 9 June 2024, South London Gallery
Photography has long been associated with acts of resistance. It is used to document action, share ideas, inspire change, tell stories, gather evidence and fight against injustice.
This group exhibition at the SLG, organised in collaboration with the V&A, spans the Main Gallery and the Fire Station, and brings together works by international artists and collectives who are using the camera to challenge and move beyond traditional protest photography.
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Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce
Until 31 Aug 2024, The London Transport Museum.
Celebrate the contribution Caribbean people have made to transport in London and British culture more widely at our new exhibition Legacies: London Transport’s Caribbean Workforce, now open at the Museum. Explore the struggles and triumphs many of these individuals and their families experienced as they moved halfway across the world from the Caribbean to the UK.
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Yinka Shonibare CBE RA: Suspended States
12 April - 1 September 2024., Serpentine South Gallery
Suspended States is the Shonibare's first London solo exhibition in over 20 years. It showcases new works, interrogating how systems of power affect sites of refuge, debates on public statues, the ecological impact of colonialisation and the legacy of imperialism on conflict and consequential attempts at peace.
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Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence
2 March – 22 September 2024, V&A South Kensington
Tropical Modernism was an architectural style developed in the hot, humid conditions of West Africa in the 1940s. After independence, India and Ghana adopted the style as a symbol of modernity and progressiveness, distinct from colonial culture.
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