Lucian Freud Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery is one of the most anticipated blockbuster exhibitions of 2012. Curated in close conversation with Lucian Freud, one of Britain’s most celebrated post-war artists, the show opens six months after his death.
Jarek Piotrowski uses a variety of modern and traditional materials and technologies to create an engaging dualistic world that connotes the future and the past, the natural and the man-made, war and peace, East and West. Taking his title from William Burroughs, who used “Soft Machine” as an idiom for the human body, his first solo show in the UK is a thought provoking experience installed at Galerie8 in Hackney.
Following a period in residence in the Outset Artists’ Flat, New York-based Independent Curators International (ICI) presents two exhibitions, FAX and Project 35, alongside a reading room in the SLG’s New Galleries.
Auto Italia Live takes on television in a series of provocative broadcasts live from Old Kent Road.
An exhibition of photographs by Thomas Struth at Whitechapel Gallery both documents and deepens the ever-growing fascination that museumgoers across the world have with art through the curious lens of documentary photography.
In a controversial endeavour to reclaim the past, Contested Terrains challenges the problem of the present through an artistic revision of African history, serving as a reality check; sorting truths from assumptions.
