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Posts Tagged ‘Exhibitions’

Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum, Barbican, exhibition review: ‘Escape the headlines you will not’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 3 September 2025 at 10:20

The latest pairing of modern art with the Italian sculptor’s work explores ‘the various ways the human form can come to harm’

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Local artist who ‘celebrates Hackney life’ set for Springfield House show

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 13 June 2025 at 12:48

Cath Pater-Lancucki’s paintings will be on display from next week until September

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V&A East Storehouse to open this weekend – with a ‘huge trove’ of treasures to comb through

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 29 May 2025 at 14:38

The Citizen was given a peek inside the museum’s huge depository, which members of the public can peruse from 31 May

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Intersectional Grammar: Trees, Hackney Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Stop by this virtual forest’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 27 November 2024 at 11:58

The Lower Clapton venue has put on a display of arboreal photography to mark National Tree Week

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Colin O’Brien: Photographer, Chats Palace, exhibition review: ‘At once realist and lyrical’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 24 September 2024 at 11:21

The display in Homerton ‘reminds us how much of the public realm has been lost to contemporary lifestyles’

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Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent, Whitechapel Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Fury made sublime’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 2 August 2024 at 07:54

This retrospective of Kennard’s work is ‘bound to stir thoughts of your own role in the political’

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Artist Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum reimagines a colonial outpost in first major solo UK exhibition

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 19 June 2024 at 11:50

The Netherlands-based artist’s work will fill the Barbican’s Curve gallery from mid-September

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‘Intimate and poignant’: Upcoming photography exhibition celebrates lives of Bengalis in London’s East End

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 17 June 2024 at 15:13

Bethnal Green’s Four Corners Gallery hosts a selection of photographs documenting the community over the past 50 years

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Parasouls: Young V&A exhibition sees lost umbrellas transformed into Japanese spirits

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 4 June 2024 at 18:11

Colourful brollies-turned-yōkai now welcome visitors at the children’s museum

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Cedric Christie: Oblivious to Your Own Career, Rocket Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Subtle reflections on form and colour’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 22 May 2024 at 10:35

Christie, a trained welder, ‘draws tremendous grace from everyday materials’

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Jock McFadyen: Made in Hackney 2, The Grey Gallery, exhibition review: ‘The outside world as a sensory force’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 14 May 2024 at 10:58

The painter’s new show in London Fields offers paintings you can get lost in

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DJ-turned-painter Andrew Pierre Hart mixes music and art for upcoming Whitechapel exhibition

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 16 January 2024 at 13:41

London-based Hart takes inspiration from the East End for an eclectic showcase of paintings, sculpture, film and sound

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Japan: Myths to Manga, Young V&A, exhibition review: ‘A rich experience that will get both children and adults talking’

By Michael Maiga | Thursday 26 October 2023 at 13:59

‘The same playfulness that fuels Japan’s creativity sits at the heart of Young V&A,’ says curator Katy Canales

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‘Colour and energy’: Local artist launches exhibition at Springfield Park to ‘celebrate life in Hackney’

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 22 September 2023 at 14:00

Cath Pater-Lancucki hopes viewers will ‘recognise the borough’s beauty and what it has to offer’

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Street Cries and Traders, Homerton Hospital, exhibition review: ‘Picturesque images of local life’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 4 August 2023 at 10:23

This selection of 13 images from the London Picture Archive are ‘well worth a peek’

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‘Home is a human right’: Ukrainian artists behind recent Hackney exhibition on the beauty of Brutalist housing

By Marion Weaver | Thursday 6 July 2023 at 18:15

Elena Orap and Dasha Podoltseva highlight similarities between social housing in Ukraine and the UK

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we are a group of people composed of who we are, Peer Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Sure to capture the imagination’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 23 June 2023 at 11:24

This new show in Hoxton explores the grassroots culture of collective work in Hackney in the 70s and 80s

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Osvaldo Licini: Rebellious Angel, Estorick Collection, exhibition review: ‘Playful, whimsical and very moving’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 14 June 2023 at 13:35

The first UK show dedicated to the 20th-century painter offers visitors a ‘flight of fancy’

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Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle, Barbican, exhibition review: ‘The collector of souls will capture yours too’

By Marion Weaver | Thursday 27 April 2023 at 13:52

Major display of the American artist’s work shows off her ‘awe-striking will and skill’

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‘It was a revelation in a selfish, personal way’: Artist Jock McFadyen on how his own retrospective gave him a ‘hankering to mix and match’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 22 March 2023 at 13:17

The Royal Academician is showing his latest exhibition at his studio gallery in London Fields

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