Exhibitions 2021
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19 November 2021 - 12 February 2022
Paula Rego: The Forgotten
Testament to a career spent exploring hidden narratives and their associated stigmas, The Forgotten encircles themes and subjects that are often masked or concealed – out of politeness or embarrassment – such as mental illness and old age.
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6 November - 11 December 2021
Inka Essenhigh
Essenhigh’s first exhibition at Victoria Miro Venice will present new paintings from her ongoing series of botanical works in enamel paint, a medium the artist first worked with two decades ago.
Victoria Miro Venice -
12 October - 6 November 2021
Sarah Sze
New wall-based works continue Sze’s decades-long exploration of the ways in which the proliferation of images fundamentally changes our relationship to physical objects, memories, and time.
Victoria Miro Gallery II -
15 September - 31 December 2021
Victoria Miro x OUT Collective
Victoria Miro is delighted to participate in OUT Collective on Vortic with an exhibition of works selected by Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Doron Langberg and Russell Tovey.
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3 September - 6 November 2021
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami: When You Need Letters for Your Skin
Powerful nudes are a point of departure and in this exhibition of new works, Hwami’s first with the gallery, the artist considers existence in a time and space – as much digital as physical – where people are investigating their sexual, spiritual and political identity.
Victoria Miro Gallery I -
3 September - 6 November 2021
Doron Langberg: Give Me Love
For his first exhibition with the gallery, Langberg will show near-abstract large-scale depictions that give material form to moments of desire, alongside paintings which are drawn from a group of works made while visiting his home in Yokneam, Israel, after many months of being away.
Victoria Miro Gallery I -
15 July - 30 October 2021
Doug Aitken: Microcosmos
Microcosmos features a new series of handmade fabric wall hangings that, engaging with the physical act of making, visually articulate a world that is driven by information and continuously in flux. The exhibition coincides with a major new site-specific installation, Green Lens, by the artist in Venice.
Victoria Miro Venice -
4 June - 31 July 2021
Yayoi Kusama: I Want Your Tears to Flow with the Words I Wrote
Victoria Miro is delighted to present Yayoi Kusama’s thirteenth solo exhibition with the gallery. This major presentation of new works features a dynamic installation of paintings from Kusama’s iconic My Eternal Soul series, bronze pumpkins and painted soft sculptures. Additionally, a newly realised sculpture, presented within a darkened interior and internally lit, offers viewers the opportunity to examine the central themes of Kusama’s art: infinite reflection, the bounded and the boundless.
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4 June - 31 July 2021
Chantal Joffe: Story
Victoria Miro is delighted to present new works by Chantal Joffe. Story features a number of paintings of the artist’s mother and considers issues of aging, motherhood and invisibility, focusing particularly on the complex relationship between mother and child over time.
Victoria Miro Gallery II -
19 May - 10 July 2021
Conrad Shawcross: The Measures of Change
Victoria Miro is delighted to present an exhibition in Venice by Conrad Shawcross. Coinciding with the opening of La Biennale di Venezia: The 17th International Architecture Exhibition, The Measures of Change features a number of the artist’s celebrated Fracture sculptures,... Victoria Miro Venice -
13 April - 15 May 2021
Idris Khan: The Seasons Turn
Victoria Miro is delighted to announce an exhibition of new works by Idris Khan. Conceived of as two distinct installations, each a reflection on aspects of the past year, The Seasons Turn includes a suite of 28 watercolour and oil collaged works on paper that incorporate fragments of the score of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, and an environment of enveloping blue paintings whose rich bands of colour are layered with the artist’s thoughts, feelings and responses to the past year.
Victoria Miro Gallery I -
10 April - 8 May 2021
Christian Holstad: Time wounds all heels
Victoria Miro is delighted to present an exhibition in Venice by Christian Holstad. The US artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Time wounds all heels features new two- and three-dimensional works in ceramic, crochet, fabric and pencil, and an... Victoria Miro Venice -
24 February - 30 April 2021
The Sky was Blue the Sea was Blue and the Boy was Blue
An exhibition of work by 19 artists celebrating the colour blue, available online and on Vortic as part of The London Collective.
Victoria Miro on Vortic -
10 December 2020 - 31 January 2021
Reprieve x Vortic
Victoria Miro is delighted to be a member of Reprieve Collective and participate in Reprieve x Vortic with an online exhibition of works by Hernan Bas, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Doron Langberg, Grayson Perry and Paula Rego.
Victoria Miro on Vortic