Tag: South London Gallery

Christina Kimeze – interview: ‘Making art has been the only consistent thing in my life’

As she holds her first institutional UK solo show, at the South London Gallery, Kimeze explains why, after gaining a degree in biology, she enrolled at the Royal Drawing School, and how literature and roller-skating colour her work
William Pope.L: ‘There should be a porosity to the work when you’re building it, envisioning it’

At the opening of Hospital at the South London Gallery, his first major institutional UK show since 2011, the US artist talked about the themes of care and precarity in his work. With his sudden death just weeks later, in…
Lagos, Peckham, Repeat: Pilgrimage to the Lakes

An absorbing group show explores the familial, economic and spiritual connections between the Nigerian megacity and a south London suburb
Ann Veronica Janssens — interview: ‘I try to make visible the invisible, to work with the limits’

The Belgian artist discusses her perception-bending work, currently on display at the South London Gallery
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2019

From Ryan Orme’s inventive form of urban landscape painting to Eleonora Agostini’s weird depictions of family life and Ben Yau’s deep-dive into the history of the 1973 military coup in Chile, here are some of the best from this year’s…
Danh Vo: Untitled

Gathering together constellations of objects and artworks, the Danish artist’s largest UK exhibition thrives on real and imaginary connections
Liz Johnson Artur: If You Know the Beginning, the End Is No Trouble

The photographer celebrates 28 years living among south London’s black British community with this thoughtful and affectionate portrait
Knock, Knock: Humour in Contemporary Art

From slapstick to sarcasm, parody to political activism, this group show at the South London Gallery, curated by Ryan Gander and gallery director Margot Heller, interrogates contemporary artists’ diverse manipulations of humour as a compelling facet of human connection
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…
Michael Dean: Sic Glyphs

Despite the urban construction materials, the steel bars and concrete slabs, there is a strong sense that the viewer must ‘read’ Michael Dean’s sculptures in order to make sense of them