Tag: Michael Armitage

  • Undersea

    Spanning four centuries and diverse cultures, this show of more than 7o works, including paintings, prints, drawings and objects, explores the mysteries and myths of the world beneath our oceans

  • Soulscapes

    Hurvin Anderson, Michael Armitage, Alberta Whittle and other artists from the African diaspora consider how identity and collective history impact individuals’ relationships with the environment

  • Behrang Karimi: Dinge Weltweit

    The longer you look at Karimi’s work, the less you understand it, as his dreamy, fragmentary paintings draw the viewer into his enigmatic world

  • Gérard Garouste

    The Centre Pompidou provides a primer to one of France’s strangest living artists, whose sometimes inscrutable, often bawdy work brings mannerism into the modern day

  • Flesh Arranges Itself Differently

    Drawing from two remarkable collections of contemporary art and medical and scientific discovery, this exhibition at The Hunterian shows how representations of anatomy, technology, spirituality and mortality have shifted through the ages

  • Michael Armitage – interview: ‘Not having a cultural hierarchy is liberating’

    As his show, Paradise Edict, opens at the Royal Academy in London, Michael Armitage talks about the pandemic, painting, politics and his dual Kenyan-UK heritage

  • Michael Armitage: Paradise Edict

    The British Kenyan painter’s first institutional show demonstrates his remarkable development, while allowing space for his neglected East African influences

  • Kudzanai-Violet Hwami – interview: ‘How I identify isn’t what pushes me to create. I create because I cannot do anything else’

    The Zimbabwe-born, London-based artist talks about her new work for her solo show at Gasworks in London and why her paintings for this year’s Venice Biennale almost reduced her to tears

  • Michael Armitage: ‘Can an art space function in the same way as a chapel?’

    The artist weaves multiple narratives to evoke the complexity of East African society. Here, he talks about his exhibition The Chapel, at the South London Gallery, and how it gave him the chance to think about religion, spirituality and politics…