Exhibitions 2016
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19 November - 16 December 2016
Alex Hartley: After You Left
An exhibition of new work by the British artist, including a major architectural intervention in the gallery’s waterside garden. Thoughts of modernism and its legacy, as well as Romantic ideas of the ruin and the picturesque are conjured in these... Victoria Miro Gallery I -
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11 November 2016 - 14 January 2017
Maria Nepomuceno: Sim
Vibrant and seductive floor- and wall-based sculptural works feature in this exhibition, the artist’s first at Victoria Miro Mayfair. Displaying a characteristically dynamic approach to form, these new works expand upon the Rio de Janeiro-based artist’s methods of rope weaving... Victoria Miro Mayfair -
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4 October - 5 November 2016
Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Portals
Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s first solo exhibition in Europe features a new body of work made especially for Victoria Miro. The Los Angeles-based artist, who relocated from Nigeria to the United States at the age of 16, draws on art historical,... Victoria Miro Gallery II -
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23 September - 5 November 2016
Protest
Doug Aitken, Jules de Balincourt, Vlassis Caniaris, Elmgreen & Dragset, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Christian Holstad, Isaac Julien, Yayoi Kusama, Wangechi Mutu, Alice Neel, Chris Ofili, Richard Prince, Sarah Sze, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Kara Walker Historical and contemporary works... Victoria Miro Gallery I -
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16 September - 29 October 2016
Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia
New and recent works by Celia Paul draw on the artist’s delicate and moving explorations of intimacy with people and landscape. Since her first solo exhibition at Victoria Miro in 2014, there has been an increased focus on self-portraiture and... Victoria Miro Mayfair -
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25 May - 30 July 2016
Yayoi Kusama
My Eternal Soul paintings Spanning the gallery’s three locations and waterside garden, this major exhibition features new paintings – including her important, ongoing My Eternal Soul series and signature Infinity Nets – iconic pumpkin sculptures, and immersive mirror rooms, all conceived specially for this... Victoria Miro Mayfair -
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25 May - 30 July 2016
Yayoi Kusama
Sculptures, Paintings & Mirror Rooms Spanning the gallery’s three locations and waterside garden, this major exhibition features new paintings – including her important, ongoing My Eternal Soul series and signature Infinity Nets – iconic pumpkin sculptures, and immersive mirror rooms, all conceived specially for this... Victoria Miro Gallery I -
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14 April - 14 May 2016
Jules de Balincourt
Stumbling Pioneers Perched on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, Los Angeles has, since the pioneering age, been the limitless repository of America’s dreams of the frontier, of desires that saturate the sunsets, freeways, canyons and swimming pools that de Balincourt paints.... Victoria Miro Gallery I -
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8 April - 14 May 2016
John Kørner
Apple Bombs An exhibition of new paintings by the Copenhagen-based artist. Painting, for Kørner, serves the unambiguous, if impalpable, function of exercising the imagination much in the same way as a bicycle stretches out the legs. The artist’s previous work has variously... Victoria Miro Mayfair -
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2 February - 24 March 2016
Stan Douglas
The Secret Agent A solo exhibition by the celebrated Canadian artist Stan Douglas, featuring the UK premiere of a new multi-screen film installation along with a series of large-scale photographs. Saturated with information, and yet rejecting easily consumable messages, these works place the... Victoria Miro Gallery I -
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22 January - 24 March 2016
Chantal Joffe
An exhibition of new work by Chantal Joffe, in which celebrated writers keep company with the artist's friends and family members. Practising painting and drawing as the loving collection of subjects, people met in the flesh and on the page,... Victoria Miro Mayfair -
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13 November 2015 - 16 January 2016
Kara Walker
Norma The second of two exhibitions at the gallery in autumn 2015 by the celebrated American artist Kara Walker. Often provocative and humorous, Kara Walker's work explores the tensions and power plays of racial and gender relations. Walker's work engages with... Victoria Miro Mayfair
