On view in London – Celia Paul: Colony of Ghosts
The artist’s eighth solo exhibition with the gallery coincides with the launch of a major new monograph, published by MACK.
On view in London – Inka Essenhigh: The Greenhouse
New paintings by the New York-based artist. A special publication accompanies the exhibition, with an essay by George Saunders.
On view in Venice – Barbara Walker: Any Time, Any Place, Any Where
The exhibition features works completed during a recent residency with the gallery in Venice.
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The latest from Victoria Miro artists around the world
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Exhibition
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March 6 2025
Adriana Varejão at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, New York
On view 27 March–22 June 2025, the exhibition features new paintings from Varejão’s acclaimed Plate series and a site-specific outdoor sculptural intervention. Hispanic Society Museum & Library, New York -
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Review
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March 26 2025
Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur reviewed in The Times
★★★★ '“We look at art through the fractured and tinted lens of our own experience.” With this playful but thoughtful show, he liberates us to do just that.' Nancy Durrant, The Times -
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Review
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March 23 2025
The Observer reviews Ian Hamilton Finlay at the National Galleries of Scotland
★★★★ 'His is an art of distillation, juxtaposition, thrift and contemplation... Finlay understood as few other artists the emotional power of letters cutting into form, shape and colour.' Laura Cumming, The Observer -
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Feature
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March 25 2025
George Saunders’ essay for Inka Essenhigh: The Greenhouse features in The Paris Review
'The value of a master like Inka Essenhigh is, it seems to me, that she can assist us in the virtuous slowing-down of visual perception.' George Saunders, The Paris Review -
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Interview
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March 10 2025
Celia Paul talks to Charlotte Higgins for The Guardian ahead of her new exhibition, Colony of Ghosts
'Lucian died in 2011. I hadn’t felt inhibited by him. But I think I must have been, because it was at that point I thought, "I really need to change my life."' Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian -
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Exhibition
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March 26 2025
Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur at The Wallace Collection
The largest contemporary exhibition ever held at the museum, Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur (28 March–26 October 2025) will include ceramics, tapestries and works on paper amongst others, displayed alongside some of the Wallace Collection’s masterpieces which helped inspire and shape Perry’s vision for this landmark exhibition. The Wallace Collection, London -
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Exhibition
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March 16 2025
Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist, the artist’s first major US museum survey, at Katonah Museum of Art
On view 16 March–29 June 2025, the exhibition encompasses nearly twenty years of the artist’s singular practice, from 2006 to the present, across the mediums of painting, drawing, and printmaking. Sculpture, a new direction for the artist, will be presented for the first time. Katonah, New York -
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Exhibition
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April 1 2025
Paula Rego and Adriana Varejão: Between Your Teeth, opening soon at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
On view 11 April–22 September 2025, this major exhibition brings together some 100 works to highlight the connecting threads between the two artists, with particular focus on the history of women in different geographies, opening up a vast thematic spectrum through which to reflect on the present. Lisbon, Portugal -
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News
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March 19 2025
Sarah Sze is named the first recipient of ICA Boston’s Meraki Artist Award
This major award celebrates the artistic achievements of women artists and their impact on the field of contemporary visual art. -
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News
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March 13 2025
Celia Paul’s essay Painting Myself features in The New York Review of Books
'My recent self-portraits... owe their success to the power of my defiance. "I am a survivor," they are clearly saying. I am self-enclosed, as if the paint were my armour.' Celia Paul, The New York Review of Books -
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Exhibition
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February 24 2025
A centenary display of works by Ian Hamilton Finlay at National Galleries of Scotland
On view at Modern Two from 8 March–26 May 2025, the display includes sculptures, prints and a room-size installation as well as extensive archival material. Modern Two, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh -
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Exhibition
Posted
February 19 2025
Secundino Hernández at Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid
On view 19 February–20 April 2025, the artist's first institutional exhibition in his hometown draws from his 30-year career. Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid -
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Profile
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January 27 2025
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s essay on Celia Paul features in The New Yorker
'...it is the paintings that I remember, and the feelings they left in me. Of course this is so, because they depicted presence — of the past, of the painter, of the tree — and what you have once been close to stays with you.' Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Yorker -
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Exhibition
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February 3 2025
When We See Us – A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, featuring Kudzanai-Violet Hwami and Chris Ofili, at Bozar, Brussels
On view 7 February–10 August 2025, this exhibition of Black figurative painting from the 1920s to the present day features approximately 150 works by some 120 artists. Centre for Fine Arts, Bozar, Brussels -
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Exhibition
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March 27 2025
Stan Douglas: Metronome at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
The exhibition (27 March–11 October 2025) showcases three major video works, each focused on the theme of music. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri -
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Exhibition
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February 13 2025
Announcing An Te Liu and Jemima Murphy: Tracing, presented by Victoria Miro Projects and Anat Ebgi
The exhibition (19 February–29 March) features sculptures by Taiwanese-born, Canadian artist An Te Liu and paintings by London-based artist Jemima Murphy. Rooted in a lineage of modernist sculpture and abstract painting, Liu and Murphy explore themes of belonging, nostalgia, and memory. Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles -
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Publication
Posted
January 14 2025
María Berrío – special edition publication now available
Produced in close dialogue with the artist, this volume features María Berrío, Jenny, 2024, a signed and numbered line etching and aquatint by the artist. Limited to fifty copies. -
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Preview
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January 6 2025
Art Review selects At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World as one of its exhibitions to see in January
’For Alice Neel, her practice of painting people from many walks of life, from neighbours to writers, performers, artists, politicians and activists – friends and strangers – led her to share this intimate space with a dizzyingly diverse range of subjects.’ – Louise Benson. The exhibition opens in London on 30 January. Louise Benson, Art Review -
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Exhibition
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March 25 2025
Opening soon – Isaac Julien: I Dream a World at the de Young, San Francisco
On view 12 April–13 July 2025, the first comprehensive survey of Julien’s work in a museum setting in the US features ten major video installations made between 1999 and 2022, alongside select early single-channel films including his iconic Looking for Langston (1989). The de Young, San Francisco -
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Review
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January 30 2025
At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World reviewed in The Times
★★★★ 'And this is Neel's skill, quite apart from her ingenious use of colour (her skins are superb, flaws and all) and keen observation. She draws out the person, gives them life on the canvas.' Nancy Durrant, The Times -
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Exhibition
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January 25 2025
Conrad Shawcross features in Cosmic Titans: Art, Science and the Quantum Universe, on view at Lakeside Arts’ Djanogly Gallery
The exhibition (25 January–27 April 2025) features two large kinetic sculptures by Shawcross that investigate the early universe, black holes, false vacuum decay, and gravitational waves created by the merger of black holes in the distant universe, alongside new commissions by eight other artists. University of Nottingham -
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Film
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February 12 2025
Now available to watch – Alice Neel: Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde
Made by Alice Neel's grandson Andrew Neel, the documentary reveals a complex and captivating woman, weaving home movie footage and candid interviews with family and friends. Originally broadcast on BBC One's imagine... in March 2017 and now available on BBC iPlayer. -
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Exhibition
Posted
January 6 2025
Opening at Tate Modern in May – The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk the House
On view 1 May–26 October 2025, this major survey exhibition explores the breadth and depth of Suh’s inventive and unique practice over the last three decades, including new and site-specific works on display for the first time. Tate Modern, London -
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Publication
Posted
November 21 2024
María Berrío – new publication now available
Produced in close dialogue with the artist, this special volume expands on the themes of Berrío’s new exhibition at the gallery. Available for the special exhibition price of £65. -
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Exhibition
Posted
December 15 2024
Yayoi Kusama at the National Gallery of Victoria
Comprising more than 180 works, the presentation (15 Dec 2024–21 Apr 2025) is the largest ever presentation of the artist’s work in Australia and one of the most comprehensive retrospectives of the artist ever presented globally. Featuring painting, sculpture, collage, fashion, video and installation, the exhibition reveals the astonishing breadth of Kusama’s multidisciplinary practice. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne -
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Review
Posted
December 10 2024
María Berrío: The End of Ritual reviewed in Frieze
‘These works are metaphors for survival, piecing together fragments to make sense of a broken world.’ – Sofia Hallström Sofia Hallström, Frieze -
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Exhibition
Posted
November 25 2024
Opening in June – a major survey of Stan Douglas at CCS Bard’s Hessel Museum of Art
The presentation (21 June–30 November 2025) will feature the North American premiere of an immersive and multi-channel video installation by the artist, and a selection of nearly 40 works from the 1990s to the present. Hessel Museum of Art, New York -
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Exhibition
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November 19 2024
María Berrío features in Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes at The Hepworth Wakefield
On view 23 November 2024–21 April 2025, the exhibition takes the viewer on a journey through the fantastical terrains of Surrealism over 100 years, looking at how Surreal ideas can turn landscape into a metaphor for the unconscious, fuse the bodily with the botanical, and provide means to express political anxieties, gender constraints and freedoms. The Hepworth Wakefield -
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Publication
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November 12 2024
Chris Ofili: Joyful Sorrow – new publication now available
A stunning presentation of the acclaimed British painter Chris Ofili’s newest body of work that continues his exploration of Shakespeare’s Othello. -
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Interview
Posted
November 21 2024
María Berrío talks to Artnet about her new exhibition, The End of Ritual
‘It has felt like constructing a world over the last couple of years, as different characters have come into my work.’ Emily Steer, Artnet -
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Exhibition
Posted
October 22 2024
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, featuring Chantal Joffe, Wangechi Mutu, Celia Paul and Paula Rego, travels to Millennium Gallery, Sheffield
On view 24 October 2024–19 January 2025, Hayward Gallery Touring’s major group exhibition explores lived experience of motherhood through over 100 artworks. -
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Exhibition
Posted
October 19 2024
Now on view: Alex Hartley’s new commission for the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
The work is on view as part of Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape, a major group exhibition (19 October 2024–23 February 2025) exploring the region's evocative landscape through photography, film, and Land Art. Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter -
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Exhibition
Posted
September 27 2024
On view at The Holburne Museum, Bath – Uncanny Visions: Paula Rego and Francisco de Goya
On view 27 September 2024–5 January 2025, this major exhibition explores the notion of the uncanny in the work of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) and Paula Rego (1935–2022). The Holburne Museum, Bath -
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Exhibition
Posted
September 27 2024
On view at MCA Australia – Isaac Julien: Once Again… (Statues Never Die)
On view 27 September 2024–16 February 2025, Isaac Julien’s mesmerising and immersive five-screen black-and-white installation film explores the relationship and correspondence between art collector Albert C. Barnes (1872–1951) and prominent philosopher, educator and cultural leader Alain Locke (1885–1954). Museum of Contemporary Art Australia -
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Review
Posted
September 23 2024
The Telegraph reviews Yayoi Kusama: EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE
★★★★★ ‘This show is pop-making brilliance; the radiance of Kusama’s consciousness reaches out to tickle the mind of the viewer with levity and humour.’ – Evgenia Siokos -
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Exhibition
Posted
September 3 2024
Elmgreen & Dragset: Spaces at Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul
Featuring over 60 works within five immersive installations — a full-scale family house, a public pool, a restaurant with an adjacent kitchen, and an artist's studio—this exhibition (3 September 2024–23 February 2025) marks the duo's most extensive presentation in Asia to date. Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul -
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Exhibition
Posted
September 11 2024
Doug Aitken: Naked City at Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul
This monographic exhibition (14 September 2024-17 August 2025) invites visitors to the world of Aitken’s mastery in utilising various mediums to create immersive artworks that mirror the rhythm of the environment around them. Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul -
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Exhibition
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August 7 2024
Yayoi Kusama’s largest permanent public sculpture is unveiled in London
Yayoi Kusama's first permanent public artwork in the UK and her largest public sculpture in the world has been unveiled. Infinite Accumulation is a new, site-specific work at London's Liverpool Street station in which Kusama develops one of the most recognisable motifs of her visual language: the polka dot. Here, the dot is expanded into linked forms that interact with and define the public spaces outside the station. Liverpool Street station, London -
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Interview
Posted
July 2 2024
Sarah Sze talks to The New York Times
The artists speaks with Marisa Mazria-Katz about her creative processes and her recent exhibition at Victoria Miro Venice. Marisa Mazria-Katz, The New York Times -
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Exhibition
Posted
July 30 2024
Extended until June 2025 – Conrad Shawcross: Cascading Principles: Expansions within Geometry, Philosophy, and Interference at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
This exhibition brings together more than 35 sculptures realised by the artist over the last 17 years. These pieces, placed across three floors, will co-exist with the Institute’s unique architecture and the intellectual concerns of its occupants as explorers at the boundaries of knowledge. Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford -
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Exhibition
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June 4 2024
Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo at The Wallace Collection
Flora Yukhnovich has given the Rococo new life in new paintings now on view at The Wallace Collection, London. Responding to two masterpieces by 18th-century French painter François Boucher, Yukhnovich's paintings hang in their place, immersed in the 18th century and conversing with the surrounding historical works. The Wallace Collection, London -
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Exhibition
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May 16 2024
On view at MoMA – Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour
On view 19 May–28 September 2024 (member previews 17, 18 May), Isaac Julien’s immersive portrait of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who obtained freedom from chattel slavery in 1838 and became one of the most important orators, writers, and statespersons of the nineteenth century. MoMA, New York -
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Exhibition
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May 28 2024
Stan Douglas: ISDN at Serralves
On view 29 May 2024–12 Jan 2025. Centred on the film ISDN (initially conceived for the 59th Venice Biennale), the exhibition presents a vibrant dialogue between different cultures and social movements, portrayed via a fictional musical performance between rappers from London and Cairo, whose verses address key issues such as race, class, love, identity, and justice. Serralves, Porto -
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Interview
Posted
May 22 2024
Featured in Elephant: Ali Banisadr in conversation with Huma Bhabha
Despite the apparent differences between their work – one is primarily a painter and the other a sculptor – artists Ali Banisadr and Huma Bhabha have recently formed a profound friendship. In this feature in Elephant, they discuss shared passions and uncanny similarities between their practices. Bella Bonner-Evens, Elephant -
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Art fair
Posted
April 1 2025
Victoria Miro at miart, Milan
Works by Jules de Balincourt, Hernan Bas, Saskia Colwell, Alex Hartley, Christian Holstad, Richard Ayodeji Ikhide, Chantal Joffe, Isaac Julien, Jemima Murphy, Chris Ofili, Celia Paul, Grayson Perry, Do Ho Suh and Flora Yukhnovich. Booth B70 -
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Review
Posted
March 31 2025
Celia Paul: Colony of Ghosts is reviewed by Observer
'She is deeply focused, delving inward as if mining the soul. This cannot be easy, finding such an elusive essence; yet somehow, in all her paintings, even the chair and the bed, there is this ephemeral, hovering essence.' Dian Parker, Observer -
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Exhibition
Posted
March 28 2025
On view at the São Paulo Museum of Art – Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement
On view until 3 August 2025, the Brazilian premiere of this multiscreen film installation, which traverses a collection of Bo Bardi's most iconic buildings — including MASP — offering a meditation on the iconic work and legacy of the visionary modernist architect and designer (1914–1992). MASP, São Paulo, Brazil -
Channel
March 26 2025
Celia Paul: Colony of Ghosts
It is a highly personal consideration of time, and painting’s unique relationship to it, that underpins Celia Paul's latest body of work. Figures from the artist’s past appear, while the exhibition also features several new self-portraits alongside other cornerstones of Paul’s art – seascapes, paintings of her Bloomsbury studio and family members including a new painting of her four sisters. -
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Art fair
Posted
March 24 2025
Victoria Miro at Art Basel Hong Kong
New and historical works by Jules de Balincourt, Ali Banisadr, Hernan Bas, María Berrío, Inka Essenhigh, Eric Fischl, NS Harsha, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Chantal Joffe, Yayoi Kusama, Doron Langberg, Celia Paul, Paula Rego, Conrad Shawcross, Do Ho Suh and Sarah Sze. Booth 1C27 -
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Interview
Posted
March 22 2025
Grayson Perry talks to Geordie Greig at The Independent
‘My job is to trust my intuition and often it’s in your gut and in your body and in your emotions.’ Geordie Greig, The Independent -
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News story
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March 20 2025
Announcing representation of Saskia Colwell
We are delighted to welcome Saskia Colwell to the gallery. The London-based artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Skin on Skin, was recently on view at Victoria Miro Venice. A new work by the artist will feature in the gallery’s presentation at miart, Milan, 4–6 April. -
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Channel
March 18 2025
Inka Essenhigh: The Greenhouse
Inka Essenhigh: The Greenhouse presents new paintings featuring botanical, landscape, and figurative motifs poised between an exuberant exterior world and an energetic interior consciousness. -
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Interview
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March 18 2025
Inka Essenhigh is interviewed by Plus Magazine
'For me, painting needs to feel good—just like nature feels good. I see art as a way to transform how we experience the world.' Plus Magazine -
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Preview
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March 13 2025
Ali Banisadr talks to critic John Vincler for Cultured ahead of Katonah Museum of Art exhibition
'[Banisadr] looks, he reads, and has a seemingly infinite curiosity that informs and compels him in his own work. His show at Katonah welcomes everybody into the conversation.' John Vincler, Cultured Magazine -
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Publications
March 13 2025
Inka Essenhigh: The Greenhouse
A special portfolio featuring nine image plates of paintings exhibited in Inka Essenhigh: The Greenhouse, and an essay by George Saunders. Victoria Miro, 2025Inka Essenhigh: The Greenhouse£ 35.00 -
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Preview
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March 1 2025
Exhibitions celebrating the centenary of Ian Hamilton Finlay feature in The Times Scotland
'...Finlay saw himself as a disruptor, someone who challenged the establishment and picked quarrels with it, whenever he felt its power was being misused.' The Times – Scotland -
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Publications
February 26 2025
Celia Paul: Works 1975–2025
This expansive monograph weaves a chronological sequence of work across fifty years and includes new writings on Celia Paul by Hilton Als, Clare Carlisle, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Edmund de Waal and Rowan Williams, as well as a new text by Paul herself. MACK, 2025Celia Paul: Works 1975–2025£ 150.00 -
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Feature
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February 24 2025
Saskia Colwell: Skin on Skin reviewed in Wallpaper*
‘Colwell seems to draw our attention to skin itself – a continuous surface that wraps around and contains the body; a barrier as well as an erogenous zone.’ – Millie Walton Millie Walton, Wallpaper* -
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Exhibition
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February 21 2025
David Harrison features in Common Ground at The Wilson, Cheltenham
Curated by painter and folklorist Ben Edge, the exhibition (on view until 31 August 2025) invites visitors to explore stories of change, loss, rebellion, and reclamation in relation to common land and the natural environment, from Cheltenham and the Cotswolds. Cheltenham, Gloucestershire -
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Art fair
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February 20 2025
‘Galleries Together’ for LA Arts Community Relief Fund
Victoria Miro will open up our stand at Frieze Los Angeles this year, creating a space for galleries participating in the fair to come together and raise funds for fire relief efforts by donating works to be sold in aid of the LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund. Los Angeles, California
In Focus – Celia Paul: Colony of Ghosts
A film by Gautier Deblonde on the occasion of an exhibition of new paintings by Celia Paul.
March 24, 2025
