A Blast of Lyricism: Contemporary Taiwanese Art in London marks an exciting collaboration between Tina Keng Gallery, one of Taiwan’s leading international galleries, and curator Professor Chia-Ling Yang of the University of Edinburgh, with support from Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture and its Taiwan Content Plan. Presented at Frieze No.9 Cork Street, at the heart of London’s contemporary art scene, the exhibition unites several generations of Taiwanese artists to articulate a shared aesthetic that traverses local traditions and global dialogues.
Hafez Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition of renowned Egyptian painter Ibrahim El Dessouki. The exhibition, curated by Dr Sara Raza, explores the complex relationship between the land, power, and labour through a series of new and recent allegorical paintings inspired by Egypt’s socio-political history, cinema, and literature.
Curated by Slavs & Tatars and Asya Yaghmurian, Artwin Gallery presents an exhibition of works by eight artists, exploring notions of disdain and contempt. Invoking the Pete Seeger song made famous by The Byrds in 1965, ‘Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)’, these newly commissioned paintings, watercolours and sculptures ask what it means to kick back, whether against a lover or an epoch. The artists – Javkhlan Ariunbold, Akhmat Bikanov, Bakhyt Bubikanova, Saule Dyussenbina, Nuriia Nurgalieva, Yuma Radne, Shamil Shaaev, Slavs & Tatars, and Alexander Volkov – all hail from Central Asia and the Caucasus – a region currently in the cultural spotlight.
Vadehra Art Galleryis pleased to present a solo exhibition by Houston-based contemporary artist Zaam Arif. Curated by London-based curator Ben Broome, the exhibition titled Deewaar (translated from the Hindi as “the wall”), features 18 oil paintings across various scales, including portraiture, still life and surrealist interior scenes.
ADZ is pleased to present If not Dread Delight, a solo exhibition by Düsseldorf-based artist Justin de Verteuil, whose figurative oil paintings reveal the intricacies of the human experience as an individual existing in a complex interpersonal society. The atmosphere and dimensions of de Verteuil’s spaces are an extension of the inner realities of their inhabitants, acting as planes of projection for the viewer: a play of ambiguity and details, grounded in settings referencing the familiar and the mundane.
Lehmann Maupin presents This Time Before Tomorrow, the first London solo exhibition of internationally recognised painter Calida Rawles, which presents a new body of work that explores cycles of time and human experience. In her signature, hyperrealist paintings, serenely composed figures wade and float in water. For Rawles, the liquid element is a charged substance which reflects and refracts issues of race, power and access. This exhibition comes on the heels of Rawles’ first solo museum exhibition at the Pérez Art Museum in Miami in 2024, as well as her inclusion in the 12th Berlin Biennale in 2022.
Trois Crayons presents Tracing Time, their second annual exhibition aimed at increasing the awareness, visibility and accessibility of drawings in all their forms. The exhibition will present the finest drawings and masterpieces on paper from renowned galleries and dealers, spanning the 15th century until the present day. Over 250 works from more than 35 international galleries will be thoughtfully curated, with highlights from artists such as Hans Rottenhammer, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, J.M.W. Turner, Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Jean Cocteau, and Françoise Gilot.
Rashid Rana presents a solo exhibition encompassing a bold collection of new works in diverse formats. The exhibition mobilizes the power of an image as both witness and architect, visually encapsulating Rana’s prolonged enquiry into time, space, and the relationship between wholeness and fragmentation. The works are monumental counterparts, engaging with formalism, documentation and abstraction as vessels for contemporary storytelling – from the grainy flux of warzone surveillance to the overlapping inventories inside warehouses.
Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to present a two-person exhibition by Mumbai-based artist Biraaj Dodiya and the late contemporary artist Gieve Patel (1940-2023) – curated by London-basedLinsey Young, curator of the recent acclaimed exhibition Women in Revolt! Art, Activism and the Women’sMovement in the UK 1970-1990 at Tate Britain, London. In this exhibition, Dodiya presents a collection of paintings and vessel-like sculptures that enlistthe body in its encounters, while Patel’s paintings explore the psycho-social vagaries and complexities of the individual tied to thecontemporary theatre of self and community.
Jhaveri Contemporary return to No.9 Cork Street with Horizons, a group exhibition in which Muhanned Cader, Lubna Chowdhary, and Seher Shah explore, both formally and thematically, variations of line, landscape and the built environment. With distinct individual practices, the three artists share a commitment to making, relying on the intimacy of hand and an engagement with materials and process. They approach the idea of horizons metaphorically, as boundary and threshold, probing the limits of knowledge as well as notions of interconnection and interdependence.
Two new exhibitions – from Bo Lee and Workman, and Artwin Gallery – open on 25 April, while Lehmann Maupin’s curated study of artists’ materials continues
Returning to No.9 Cork Street, Artwin Gallery brings GATHER!S, an exhibition of works by Mika Plutitskaya and Olesia Lavrinenko, dedicated to painting and women. Curated by Anya Zhurba, these new bodies of work remind us of the long history of struggle experienced by female artists, especially that which is still present in many corners of the world. Plutitskaya and Lavrinenko have their own non-linear personal story and relationship with painting. Their practice is more about effort than expressive gesture, about attempts and sometimes failures rather than envisioning a pre-formulated goal.
Bo Lee and Workman, based in Bruton, Somerset, present Beneath the Swamp Cypress, a solo exhibition of work by Kathryn Maple. As if submerged by nature, Maple’s landscapes, fresh with a sense of discovery and vibrancy, bring us closer to the forms at the essence of the natural world. Captivated by the lumps and clusters found in nature, this group of paintings takes these obscure forms and their environment as its starting point, experimenting with the depiction of their individual and collective potential. Abstract and surreal yet distinctively intimate, the striking ‘knee’ like structures interact and develop relationships as Maple’s verdant forms erupt in a chorus of conversation.
