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class="content__text" ‘I knew I wanted to make an intervention; I wanted to somehow activate the gallery’: artist @alex._hartley talks about his new exhibition, Closer Than Before, which features the first site-specific installation at Victoria Miro Venice and coincides with the #BiennaleArchitettura2023. Join us this week in Venice for two special events: ✴ Exhibition reception: Friday 19 May, 5–7pm ✴ A reception with the artist, including an exhibition walk-through led by Hartley and writer Thea Hawlin @theahavlin at 5:30pm. Space is limited; RSVP: [email protected] ✴ Artist’s action: Saturday 20 May, 12–2pm ✴ Fondamenta dei Giardini Reali & Riva degli Schiavoni ✴ Alex Hartley takes over a painting-seller’s stall on the waterfront near Piazza San Marco to present peeled and overpainted postcards created by the artist on site and during his recent residency with the gallery in Venice. Visitors can choose a free postcard which will be posted to them.  All welcome. #alexhartley #victoriamirovenice #victoriamiro #vmvenice

May 16, 2023

class="content__text" Frieze New York spotlight: Alice Neel ⋙ This significant work from the 1930s is part of our presentation marking major institutional exhibitions by gallery artists this spring — including Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle at the @barbicancentre until 21 May. #FriezeNewYork, 17–21 May Booth A07, The Shed On view alongside works by: Jules de Balincourt, María Berrío, Alex Hartley, Secundino Hernández, Chantal Joffe, Isaac Julien, John Kørner, Yayoi Kusama, Doron Langberg, Wangechi Mutu, Maria Nepomuceno, Chris Ofili, Celia Paul, Howardena Pindell, Conrad Shawcross, and Sarah Sze #AliceNeel #FriezeNY #victoriamiro #frieze @friezeofficial - Image: Alice Neel, José with Guitar, 1936. Oil on canvas. 56.5 x 51 cm, 22 1/4 x 20 1/8 in © The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy the Estate of Alice Neel and Victoria Miro

May 15, 2023

class="content__text" Artist Sarah Sze has donated this work to a benefit auction to support the Nina Simone Childhood Home Preservation Project. Co-curated by artist @pendleton.adam and tennis champion, entrepreneur, and arts patron @venuswilliams , the sale will raise funds to restore Simone's North Carolina birthplace. The auction will be conducted online by @sothebys leading up to and following an in-person gala on 20 May at @pacegallery in New York. An exhibition of the donated works — which honour and recogise the musical icon's monumental contributions to the arts and social activism — is now on view at Pace's 508 West 25th Street location. - Image: Sarah Sze, Spell, 2023. Oil paint, acrylic paint, inkjet prints, acrylic polymers, string, and ink on diabond, aluminum, wood and paper. 193 × 281 9/10 × 7 3/5 cm, 76 × 111 × 3 in #sarahsze @sarahszestudio #ninasimone #ninasimonehouse #adampendleton #venuswilliams #pacegallery

May 14, 2023

class="content__text" Coming soon: over the summer months, three important bronze sculptures by Copenhagen-based artist Tal R will be on view in the canalside garden of Palazzo Experimental, Dorsoduro, Venice. Sculpture has long been an integral part of Tal R's practice. For the artist, its presence — material and metaphorical — has led to an extended consideration of things we might label as 'objects' exerting themselves in the shared physical realm of an exhibition space as 'beings'. The figurative sculptures on view in the tranquil canalside garden of Palazzo Experimental are among the most complete expression of this career-long impulse. On view 18 May–27 August - Image: Tal R, Bow and Arrow, 2019. Installation view, Victoria Miro garden, London, 2022. Patinated bronze. 177 x 96 x 46 cm, 69 3/4 x 37 3/4 x 18 1/8 in © Tal R. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro #TalR #victoriamiro #victoriamirovenice #palazzoexperimental @ilpalazzoexperimental

May 14, 2023

class="content__text" Frieze New York spotlight: Yayoi Kusama ⋙ This important Infinity Net painting by the artist features in our presentation, which marks major institutional exhibitions by gallery artists this spring. These include One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection — on view at the @hirshhorn in Washington, DC until 16 July; and Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now — closing at the M+ @mplusmuseum in Hong Kong this Sunday, 14 May. #FriezeNewYork, 17-21 May Booth A07, The Shed On view alongside works by: Jules de Balincourt, María Berrío, Alex Hartley, Secundino Hernández, Chantal Joffe, Isaac Julien, John Kørner, Doron Langberg, Wangechi Mutu, Alice Neel, Maria Nepomuceno, Chris Ofili, Celia Paul, Howardena Pindell, Conrad Shawcross, and Sarah Sze #YayoiKusama #Kusama #FriezeNY #victoriamiro #frieze @friezeofficial - Image: Yayoi Kusama, INFINITY-NETS [BFK], 2015. Acrylic on canvas. 130.3 x 130.3 cm, 51 1/4 x 51 1/4 in. Courtesy the artist, Ota Fine Arts and Victoria Miro. © YAYOI KUSAMA

May 13, 2023

class="content__text" Now extended: Kudzanai-Violet Hwami's solo exhibition at Victoria Miro will be on view until Saturday 20 May.⠀ ⠀ Comprising paintings in dialogue with large-scale wall-based and suspended photographic images, A Making of Ghosts reflects on aspects of grief and the action of memory, unfolding as the viewer moves through the gallery space.⠀ ⠀ The artist invited Ruvimbo Gumbochuma to write two poems reflecting on aspects of the exhibition and its themes. These are presented as stacks of posters in the gallery; visitors are invited to take a poster away with them, subject to availability. Those unable to visit the gallery in person may read the poems via our website.⠀ ⠀ -⠀ Images: Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Many faces on Jupiter, 2023. UV print, oil, charcoal, pastel, and acrylic on canvas. 223 x 192 cm, 87 3/4 x 75 5/8 in Installation views, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami: A Making of Ghosts, 14 April–20 May 2023. Victoria Miro, Gallery I, 16 Wharf Road, N1 7RW⠀ © Kudzanai-Violet Hwami. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro⠀ ⠀ #kudzanaiviolethwami #amakingofghosts #victoriamiro @hwamistudio

May 12, 2023

class="content__text" Now on view at Victoria Miro → Isaac Julien: Once Again… (Statues Never Die) – Photographs. The new photographic works on view include Orisa's Return, inspired by the writings of the novelist, playwright and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. Orisa is an African spirit who has a key role in the Yoruba religion. In his book Beyond Aesthetics, Soyinka looks at the politics and aesthetics of collecting African art. The figure in Orisa's Return symbolises a curator, a keeper, someone with a relationship to the spiritual objects. The work is also about the alienation effect, the clinical gaze, as all of the objects that have been taken are labelled and either displayed in glass vitrines or kept in storage. - Image: Isaac Julien, Orisa's Return (Once Again... Statues Never Die), 2022. Inkjet print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag. 150 x 200 cm, 59 x 78 3/4 in © Isaac Julien. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro @isaacjulien #isaacjulien #stateusneverdie #photography #victoriamiro

May 11, 2023

class="content__text" We are pleased to announce that Victoria Miro has qualified as a 2022 Active Member with @galleryclimatecoalition . ⠀ ⠀ To achieve Active status we had to demonstrate that our organisation had implemented environmental sustainability best practice in line with GCC guidance. We encourage all of our peers and colleagues to visit the @galleryclimatecoalition page or website to learn more about the initiative and how to get involved.⠀ - Photo: Victoria Miro waterside garden, Wharf Road, London ⠀ #GCCActiveMember2022 #TogetherForOurPlanet #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #GCC #GalleryClimateCoalition

May 10, 2023

class="content__text" Only a few days left to see Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now at M+ @mplusmuseum Hong Kong — on view until 14 May. This is Kusama's largest retrospective in Asia outside Japan, and has already welcomed over 200k visitors. Organised chronologically and thematically, the exhibition spans Kusama's entire career, with more than 200 works divided into major themes: Infinity, Accumulation, Radical Connectivity, Biocosmic, Death, and Force of Life. - Image: repost @mplusmusuem — installation view of 'Dots Obsession—Aspiring to Heaven's Love' (2022) at 'Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now', 2022. Photo: Dan Leung. M+, Hong Kong #yayoikusama #kusama #kusamayayoi #mplusmuseum #mplus #yayoikusamahk

May 10, 2023

class="content__text" A first look at our presentation for Frieze New York — featuring works by Isaac Julien, Yayoi Kusama, Wangechi Mutu, Alice Neel, Sarah Sze, Jules de Balincourt, María Berrío, Alex Hartley, Secundino Hernández, Chantal Joffe, John Kørner, Doron Langberg, Maria Nepomuceno, Chris Ofili, Celia Paul, Howardena Pindell, and Conrad Shawcross. The presentation marks major institutional exhibitions by gallery artists this spring, including: In New York: ‣ Wangechi Mutu (@wangechistudio ) at the @newmuseum ‣ Sarah Sze at the @guggenheim In London: ‣ @isaacjulien at @tate Britain ‣ Alice Neel at the @barbicancentre ‣ A new project by Sarah Sze with @artangel_ldn Other museum highlights include: ‣ @mariaberriostudio at @icaboston ‣ Yayoi Kusama at the @hirshhorn ‣ @doronlangberg at the @rubellmuseum Miami ‣ Howardena Pindell at @spikeisland 17-21 May, Booth A07, The Shed #FriezeNewYork #FriezeNY #victoriamiro #frieze @friezeofficial - Images: Isaac Julien, Black Madonna / New Negro Aesthetic (Once Again... Statues Never Die) (detail), 2022 © Isaac Julien. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro Yayoi Kusama, INFINITY-NETS [BFK], 2015. Courtesy the artist, Ota Fine Arts and Victoria Miro. © YAYOI KUSAMA Wangechi Mutu, Grow the Tea, then Break the Cups, 2021 © Wangechi Mutu. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro Alice Neel, José with Guitar, 1936 © The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy the Estate of Alice Neel and Victoria Miro Sarah Sze, Counting to Four, 2023 © Sarah Sze. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro

May 10, 2023

class="content__text" In the context of her latest exhibition, A Making of Ghosts, the digital and physical processes that Kudzanai-Violet Hwami employs — splice, repetition, overlay, changes of scale and medium, in addition to the free play of imagination — are intrinsically linked to ideas of proximity in time and space, and how images and their accompanying narratives are endlessly constructed and reconstructed, living within us and beyond us.⠀ ⠀ Final week — on view at Victoria Miro until Saturday 13 May.⠀ ⠀ -⠀ Images: Installation views, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami: A Making of Ghosts, 14 April–13 May 2023. Victoria Miro, Gallery I, 16 Wharf Road, N1 7RW © Kudzanai-Violet Hwami. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro⠀ ⠀ #kudzanaiviolethwami #amakingofghosts #victoriamiro @hwamistudio

May 10, 2023

class="content__text" Painted on silk, Emma Talbot's works in our new online presentation are united by the theme of 'Magical Thinking' — an idea which the artist describes as 'encapsulating the ways in which humans have used the imaginary to understand and to describe their place in the world... It has been present in human culture since the earliest times, for example as the foundation of myths, symbols and culture.' Presented by Victoria Miro Projects on @vortic.art — explore online via link in bio. - Image: Emma Talbot, Signs, 2023. Acrylic on silk. 212 x 138 cm, 83 1/2 x 54 3/8 in © Emma Talbot. Courtesy the artist #emmatalbot @talbot.emma #victoriamiroprojects #victoriamiro #vortic

May 10, 2023