Exhibitions

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

ART BASEL MIAMI 1 - 4 December 2016 Art Basel Miami Survey Sector, Stand S7 Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33139 Vigo presents historic works on paper by Ibrahim El-Salahi with a specific focus on a particularly fertile period of work from 1976–77 following his release from jail, an incredibly influential experience... Read more

ZAK OVÉ

A LAND SO FAR – Art Basel Miami 30 November - 3 December 2016 Art Basel Miami Film sector Miami Beach Convention Center,1900 Washington Drive Avenu, Miami Beach, FL 33139, USA Outdoor screenings will take place in SoundScape Park on the 7,000-square-foot outdoor projection wall of the New World Center, a three-minute walk from the Miami Beach Convention Center. Wednesday, November 30 through Saturday,... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

THE KHARTOUM SCHOOL. THE MAKING OF THE MODERN ART MOVEMENT IN SUDAN (1945 - PRESENT) – Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah 19 November 2016 - 14 January 2017 Sharjah Art Foundation Building GH & P, SAF Art Spaces Al Shuwaihean Area, opp Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE This exhibition is a major historical survey of the modernist art movement in Sudan, from the mid-20th century to the present.The exhibition will bring in genres and mediums such as photography,... Read more

DERRICK ADAMS

FLOAT – Vigo Gallery, London 18 November - 17 December 2016 Vigo Gallery Float is a series of large-scale works on paper exploring ideas of celebration, highlighting the Black figure in the context of contemporary culture and leisure. With a nod to cultural perseverance, the display gives perspective to the creative output and outlet of Black America as a reaction to... Read more

ZAK OVÉ

THE INVISIBLE MAN AND THE MASQUE OF BLACKNESS – 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair London 6 - 9 October 2016 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair London Courtyard Somerset House, The Strand, London WC2R 1LA In the year of the 50th anniversary of the Notting Hill Carnival and following on from his installation of Moko Jumbies in the Grand Court of the British Museum last year, Zak Ové has created a... Read more

HENRY KROKATSIS

KABIN – Frieze Sculpture Park, London 5 October 2016 - 8 January 2017 Frieze Sculpture Park S2 Regents Park, London NW1 4LL DOWNLOAD SCULPTURE PARK PLACEMENT Kabin appears as an ambiguous architectural structure that can be accessed internally and also rotated externally by hand. Its form draws on the grammar of the small feature rich buildings like bandstands and seated shelters typically found... Read more

MASAAKI YAMADA

WORK – Frieze Masters London 5 - 9 October 2016 Frieze Masters London Spotlight G20 Regents Park, London NW1 4LL DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE 'UNBIND YOUR MIND' AN ESSAY BY MATTHEW COLLINGS Masaaki Yamada (1930-2010) produced a series of ritualistic and meditative paintings he called ‘work’ completed between 1949 and 1989. Vigo is proud to show an exceptional group of these works... Read more

KADAR BROCK

GIFTS UNGIVEN – Vigo Gallery, London 5 October - 10 November 2016 Vigo Gallery “The gouges made by the razor’s scraping, the persistent brush strokes emerging with their topographies, the canvas sanded to its grain... A piece painted once again and stopped before being undone, paused before crashing, and likewise a piece scraped once again but not primed away - bones with... Read more

JAMES CAPPER

PORTA CARVE – Vigo Gallery, London 21 August - 22 September 2016 Vigo Gallery Vigo is pleased to announce PORTA CARVE, a solo exhibition and series of demonstrations by James Capper. The exploration of the nature of radical engineering, industrial production and hydraulic systems has yielded a collection of striking and unique hydraulic sculptures, including the title work PORTA CARVE which featured... Read more

MARCUS HARVEY

INSELAFFE – Jerwood Gallery, Hastings 16 July - 16 October 2016 Jerwood Gallery Rock-a-Nore Road, Hastings TN34 3DW LINK TO CATALOGUE LINK TO STATE MAGAZINE ARTICLE This is Marcus Harvey's largest UK public gallery exhibition to date. Inselaffe centre's around his most recent paintings, ceramics and bronze sculptures which forge motifs and emblems of Britishness, such as military memorabilia and joke... Read more

DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB – LEONARDO DREW – IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI – MARCUS HARVEY – HENRY KROKATSIS – JAMES CAPPER – KEITH COVENTRY

CONTINUUM. SUMMER SHOW – Vigo Gallery, London 28 June - 17 August 2016 Vigo Gallery Read more

HEYWOOD & CONDIE

ALTERED STATES – Royal British Society of Sculptors, London 9 June - 26 August 2016 Royal British Society of Sculptors DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE The Royal British Society of Sculptors is delighted to announce Altered States, an exhibition exploring perception and sensory interpretation through immersive installation, sculptural and sonic form and the profoundly different sculptural approaches of Tabatha Andrews and Heywood & Condie MRBS. Tabatha Andrews’... Read more

DUNCAN MACASKILL

DNA – Vigo Gallery, London 13 May - 11 June 2016 Vigo Gallery Conceived in the early nineties when RNA and DNA were topical issues, MacAskill's DNA paintings consist of abstract marks which echo the horizontal, slot-like patterning of discarded DNA gels. Fascinated conceptually, by how we are all an amalgamation of virtually identical constituent parts, yet at once all radically... Read more

BIGGS & COLLINGS

THEY SHALL BE MALE AND FEMALE – Vigo Gallery, London 24 March - 4 May 2016 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD In an art world permanently questing after novelty, the paintings of acclaimed collaborative artists Biggs & Collings remain resolutely the same: coloured triangles apparently devoid of contemporary content. But the immediate, real world is, in fact, their theme. Their new exhibition opens at Vigo Gallery on 24... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

The Armory Show NY, New York 3 - 6 March 2016 The Armory Show NY Focus: African Perspectives, Booth #631 Piers 92-94, 711 12th Avenue, New York, NY 10019, USA DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE HERE At the Armory Vigo presents a selection of Black and White works, one of his most important and accomplished series, a highlight of which is Reborn Sounds of... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

ALHAMBRA – Salon 94, New York 1 March - 30 April 2016 Salon 94 243 Bowery, New York, NY 10002, USA LINK TO PRESS RELEASE DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE HERE Alhambra, the inaugural exhibition of Ibrahim El-Salahi at Salon 94, will feature new works by the seminal Modernist master painter. Recognized as the father of African and Arab Modernism, the octogenarian El-Salahi’s paintings and... Read more

DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB

SHANGO – Vigo Gallery, London 11 - 25 February 2016 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE Vigo Gallery is pleased to host Shango Daniel Crews-Chubb’s first UK exhibition. Crews-Chubb makes bold and vibrant works that employ a traditional, expressionistic, painterly language whilst remaining utterly contemporary. He is one of a number of young painters whose work evades the distinctions between abstraction... Read more

NIKA NEELOVA

FAULTS FOLDS FALLS – Vigo Gallery, London 16 December 2015 - 23 January 2016 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD CV DOWNLOAD CREATIVE ESSAY BY NIKA NEELOVA “Life is not life but rock rearranging itself under the sun” Manuel DeLanda “There is a deeper reason why ‘humanity’ will never control technology. Technology is not something that humankind can control. It is an event that has befallen the... Read more