Tag: Studio Voltaire

  • Aki Sasamoto: Grilled Diagrams

    In her first institutional solo show in the UK, Sasamoto creates a freewheeling, haphazard narrative using cooking utensils and ingredients, manoeuvring the audience as she darts about the room

  • Caspar Heinemann: Sod All

    The artist takes us on a deep, dark emotional dive with his nihilistic installation that references obscure religious books, occultism, folk revivalism and sexual politics through a typical mixture of found and repurposed materials

  • Gabriel Chaile and Laura Ojeda Bär – interview: ‘We’re really into the power of art to transform and transmute places and objects and people’

    Gabriel Chaile’s first institutional solo show in the UK sees him covering an old chapel in adobe mud and inviting his friend, Laura Ojeda-Bar, to contribute her own characterful paintings, creating a multisensory environment of intimacy and welcome

  • Scott Covert – interview: ‘For me, each brushstroke is a lifetime’

    In a long overdue first European exhibition, at Studio Voltaire, London, the American artist recounts his theatrical beginnings, a singular plein-air practice and why we should view his canvases as aquariums

  • Every Ocean Hughes: One Big Bag

    A young death doula sets out the tools of her ‘mobile corpse kit’, as she explains how she looks after those at the end of life, dealing tenderly with the body and the bereaved relatives

  • Amelie von Wulffen: The Misjudged Bimpfi

    For her first solo exhibition in the UK, Amelie von Wulffen deals with themes of guilt, marginalisation, sexual fantasy and emotional trauma through an aesthetic influenced by historical genre painters – and a talking mushroom

  • Jamian Juliano-Villani: The World’s Greatest Planet on Earth

    For her first solo public exhibition outside the US, the artist shows a sculptural installation and six new large-scale paintings, which are like painted diaries of her visual influences

  • The Neo Naturists

    Disaffected by the politics of Thatcherism and an art world overtaken by masculine neo-expressionism, the Neo Naturists covered their nude bodies in paint and burst on to the 1980s’ London club scene in an attempt to explore body image and…