Artwin Gallery returns to No.9 Cork Street with Floaters, a solo show of works by Dima Rebus. The exhibition’s title refers to the anonymous swimmers that are the subject of Rebus’ expansive watercolours whilst also considering the ophthalmological meaning of the word: barely perceptible spots, threads or cobwebs which can bob before our eyes. These floaters are caused by tiny proteins and cell structures within the eye, the shadows of which are cast onto the retina.
Frieze Studios and Apsara StudiopresentClay, seeds and other ancestors, an exhibition of work by Lucia Pizzani. Curated by Jenn Ellis, the exhibition looks to highlight the artist’sexpressive practice that exploresmigration,language and materiality through the voices of plants and ancient practices.Through her use of clay andseeds, across sculpture, works on paper,performance and video, Pizzani weaves together narratives andcontemplations from different temporalities around human and botanical legacies.
Lehmann Maupinpresents Beyond Material, a groupshow curated by the gallery’s London-based Partner Isabella Icoz.Beyond Material brings together work from nine artists within thegallery’s program, including Kader Attia, McArthur Binion, ToddGray, Nicholas Hlobo,ShirazehHoushiary, Liza Lou, Kim YunShin, Do Ho Suh, and Billie Zangewa. The exhibition is centredaround the unique approach each of these artists takes to materialwithin their practices—from Houshiary’s use of water andaquacryl to create fluid, ethereal forms, to Lou’s decades-longengagement with glass beads as a primary sculptural medium, toZangewa’s hand-stitched silk collages, which she imbues with asense of warm domesticity.
Lehmann Maupin presents a two-part solo exhibition of work by pioneering Korean artist Kim Yun Shin, which will span both No.9 Cork Street and the gallery’s New York location. Growing up amidst the backdrop of Korea’s tumultuous history in the 20th century, Kim Yun Shin has established herself as a formative figure in the post-war South Korean art scene, overcoming societal norms to carve out a space for herself as a first-generation woman sculptor.The London component – which marks the artist’s debut exhibition in the United Kingdom – will present a survey of the artist’s oeuvre, including both paintings and sculptures from the 1990s to the present.
Vadehra Art Gallery presents the first London solo exhibition of Indian contemporary artist Astha Butail. A Transcendent Force, curated by Linsey Young (Women in Revolt! Art, Activism and the Women’s Movement in the UK 1970-1990 at Tate Britain, London), features a collection of 7 recent installations and sculptures, with works on paper, textile and wood, rendered in a predominantly monochromatic palette using mixed media.
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents Walking Between Two Worlds, a series of paintings by First Nations Australian artist Johnathon World Peace Bush. Painted in natural pigments in the three colours of Tiwi land (white, yellow, red), Bush’s works reimagine anthropological images of Tiwi people and Colonial figureheads, often immortalised in statues, each covered in ceremonial ornaments and body paint design. Applying Western imagery alongside a Tiwi visual language that predates the Renaissance, Bush’s work reflects on the complexities of history and heritage.
Lehmann Maupin presents like a god i love all things, an exhibition of new paintings by British painter Billy Childish. Based in Kent, Childish’s artistic practice is wide-ranging and prolific. In addition to painting, the artist moves seamlessly between poetry and prose, punk rock, blues and folk music, photography, and printmaking. His paintings are often characterized by their vivid immediacy, painted directly on warm linen canvas using a rich, earthy palette of oil paint. The artist’s subjects are drawn from both his immediate environment—the North Kent landscape and members of his family—as well as further afield, including scenes of northern California and historical photographs, often appearing other-worldly or what Childish has described as dreamscapes.
Newchild Gallery, another returning Cork Street gallery, presents Penumbra, a group show of artists who each explore the liminal space between light and shadow, clarity and obscurity. Drawing on the tradition of chiaroscuro, the exhibition nods to the Old Masters’ understanding of light’s ability to define and transform. Chris Oh reinterprets this legacy through found objects, while James Owens and Viktor Mattsson engage with light as a vehicle for introspection and expression. Madeleine Bialke and Andrew Sendor’s works echo cinematic approaches, using illumination to heighten narrative and atmosphere. Kristian Touborg bridges analog and digital methods, reflecting on light’s dual role in tradition and innovation.
Jason Haam returns to No.9 Cork Street with Karma II, an exhibition of work by Jihyoung Han, Jungwook Kim, Mike Lee and Moka Lee, which runs concurrently with a group exhibition at Carlos/Ishikawa Unit 7 as part of Condo London. Jihyoung Han and Moka Lee are formidable young voices in contemporary Korean art, representing a generation with distinct perspectives and original expressions, while Jungwook Kim explores a complex interplay between physical, conceptual, and transcendental realities, and Mike Lee, a second-generation Korean American artist, creates works that deeply reflect his cultural heritage.
A collaborative journey into the world of Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE and DUNE: PART TWO.
Curated by Oscar-winning cinematographer Greig Fraser and Oscar-nominated actor Josh Brolin from their exploratory artistic memoir DUNE: EXPOSURES. Their remarkable ode to the art of filmmaking combines evocative photography and vivid prose to provide unique behind-the-scenes insights into the creation of director/storyteller Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE and DUNE: PART TWO.
TIN MAN ART presents Logical Absurdity, an exhibition of work by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood. Following the work that Donwood and Yorke made collaboratively for The Smile’s first three albums, Logical Absurdity will feature over 20 works, including screen prints, linocuts, lithographs, paintings by Donwood, a painting by Yorke, and paintings and tapestries made by the pair working together.
The pair have worked in tandem for 30 years, creating a vast archive of visual material for Radiohead’s album covers, books and internet projects. The exhibitionwill also chart the magical nature of repetition and how a decades-long collaboration changes and responds to outside influences.
HdM GALLERY presents Island of the Fay, a duo exhibition of works by painter Marcel·la Barceló and sculptor Apollinaria Broche. The show is curated by Nick Hackworth.
The exhibition brings together Marcel·la Barceló’s dreamlike, chromatic paintings that depict often solitary figures in otherworldly landscapes, with a collection of bronze and ceramic sculptures by Apollinaria Broche of lush, surreal, human-sized, flowering plants and diminutive, sylvan creatures in various states of metamorphosis. The meeting of the works by these two artists with their sympathetic thought-worlds casts the show as a portal to a fairytale-like place where human and more-than-human life and the mythic intermingle as part of a dynamic, abundant and numinous whole.
Lehmann Maupin is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by pioneering Japanese artist Mr., marking the artist’s debut solo presentation in the United Kingdom. Across a new body of work, including painting, sculpture, and works on paper, the exhibition harnesses the Japanese aesthetics of anime (presented with motion and sound) and manga (presented in a print medium) as a means of examining Japanese culture, fusing high and low forms of contemporary expression. The works on view continue Mr.’s longstanding interest in the circulation of popular imagery and its role in fantastical or escapist world-building that stems from postwar Japanese youth subculture.
