Exhibitions

Stephen Chambers

The Outliers - Vigo Gallery, London 9 December 2022 - 20 January 2023 Vigo is proud to announce our first selling solo exhibition of new paintings by Stephen Chambers, our second collaboration with Stephen the first being his presentation of The Court of Redonda[1] previously shown at the Venice Biennale in 2017 and exhibited last year at Hastings Contemporary. “The Outliers, are images... Read more

JOHNNY ABRAHAMS – STEPHEN CHAMBERS – LEONHARD HURZLMEIER – JORDY KERWICK – LAKWENA MACIVER – ERIN LAWLOR – HENRIK GODSK

UNTITLED | MIAMI 29 November - 3 December 2022 Ocean Drive and 12th Street, Miami Beach, Florida 29 November – 3 December 2022 LINK TO PREVIEW OF WORKS Read more

JORDY KERWICK

I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER THIS - The Arts Club, London 17 November 2022 - 6 February 2023 The Arts Club, London 40 Dover St, London W1S 4NP PRIVATE VIEW 16 November 2022 Read more

LAKWENA MACIVER

A GREEN AND PLEASANT LAND (HA-HA) - The Weston Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 12 November 2022 - 19 March 2023 Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) announces an immersive solo exhibition of new painting and textile works by Lakwena Maciver. Vibrant colour and bold text combine in Lakwena’s joyful and gently subversive work. Her paintings, murals and installations often reference everyday shared experiences and popular culture, such as songs, fashion and basketball.... Read more

MATTHEW BURROWS

IN AND THROUGH - Wellington Arch, London 2 November 2022 - 8 January 2023 Wellington Arch The paintings of Matthew Burrows explore a coalescence between stillness and movement. Work from the In and Through series has a preoccupation with watchfulness and the lines that delineate the landscape and our physiology. Burrows speaks of his work as an internal vigilance for place, creating images that... Read more

JORDY KERWICK

SO MANY SHEEP & SO FEW WOLVES - Vigo Gallery, London 19 October - 11 November 2022 Read more

JORDY KERWICK

LEARN TO FEEL AGAIN - Modern Forms, London 14 October - 3 December 2022 Modern Forms: Floreat House, 33 Grosvenor Street, London, W1K 4QU In advance of Jordy Kerwick’s presentation of a new suite of works especially conceived for Modern Forms and designed for the Ballroom & the Music Room at Floreat House in Mayfair, Modern Forms’ Director Nick Hackworth (NH) visited Jordy Kerwick... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI – SALAH ELMUR – LAKWENA MACIVER – ZAK OVÉ

1:54 CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART FAIR, London 13 - 16 October 2022 Somerset House Read more

HEYWOOD & CONDIE

THROUGH THE COSMIC ALLOTMENT - Temple Station Roof Terrace, London 13 October 2022 - 24 May 2023 Temple Station Roof Terrace, Temple Place, London WC2R 2PH The Artist’s Garden, curated by theCoLAB, unveils an expansive new work by horticultural installation artists Heywood & Condie. Artist-gardeners for over 60 years, Through the Cosmic Allotment expresses the immense unseen power of the world of plants. A vibrant living installation... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

BLACK ORPHEUS: JACOB LAWRENCE AND THE MBARI CLUB - Chrysler Museum of Art, USA 7 October 2022 - 8 January 2023 Chrysler Museum of Art : 1 Memorial Pl, Norfolk, VA 23510 The year 2022 marks the sixty-fifth anniversary of the creation of Nigerian-based culture and arts publication Black Orpheus and the sixtieth anniversary of Jacob Lawrence’s first exhibition in Nigeria. To celebrate these milestones, the Chrysler Museum of Art and... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

PAIN RELIEF DRAWINGS - The Drawing Centre, New York 7 October 2022 - 15 January 2023 The Drawing Centre 35 Wooster St, New York, NY 10013, United States Organized by Laura Hoptman, Executive Director Born in 1930 in Omdurman, Sudan, Ibrahim El-Salahi is one of the most significant artists in African and Arab modernism. Featuring a hundred drawings from El-Salahi’s latest series, titled Pain Relief ,... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

AFRICAN MODERNISM IN AMERICA, 1947-1967 - Fisk University Galleries, Nashville 6 October 2022 - 12 February 2023 ORGANIZED BY THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS AND FISK UNIVERSITY GALLERIES CURATORS: PERRIN LATHROP, NIKOO PAYDAR, AND JAMAAL SHEATS Fisk University Galleries in Nashville, TN 1000 17th Ave N, Nashville, TN 37208, United States Fisk University Galleries in Nashville, TN is organizing African Modernism in America, 1947-1967 to open in... Read more

LAKWENA MACIVER

STAYING POWER : HIPHOPHUIS INVITES LAKWENA - Kunsthal Museum, Rotterdam 24 September 2022 - 15 January 2023 Kunsthal Museum, Rotterdam Museumpark, Westzeedijk 341, 3015 AA Rotterdam, Netherlands Read more

SALAH ELMUR

WATER AND ELECTRICITY - Vigo Gallery, London 16 September - 5 October 2022 Vigo Gallery Vigo Gallery is proud to present monumental new paintings by Cairo based Sudanese artist Salah Elmur from his emerging ‘Water and Electricity’ series. The exhibition will be the artists second solo show with Vigo following the ‘Innocent Prisoner’ series shown in October 2021 from which three works are... Read more

JORDY KERWICK

FRIEZE SCULPTURE, Regent's Park, London 13 September - 13 November 2022 Regent's Park, London, UK Read more

JOHNNY ABRAHAMS – STEPHEN CHAMBERS – IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI – SALAH ELMUR – JORDY KERWICK – LAKWENA MACIVER

THE ARMORY SHOW, NEW YORK BOOTH # 226 | GALLERIES SECTION 9 - 13 September 2022 Vigo GalleryJavits Center JOHNNY ABRAHAMS B. 1979, Portland, Oregon Living and working in London, UK Deceptively simple, Abrahams’s paintings present a unique vocabulary of satisfying meditative, yet rhythmic shapes rendered in rich texture playing against the negative space of the raw canvas. The relationships between the symbols in Abrahams’s personal... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI – JORDY KERWICK – LAKWENA MACIVER – ERIN LAWLOR – ZAK OVÉ – JUSTIN WILLIAMS – BRAM BOGART

Masterpiece | The Royal Hospital, London 30 June - 6 July 2022 Booth #214 South Grounds, The Royal Hospital, Chelsea Embankment, London SW3 4LW UK Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

BLACK AND WHITE – Vigo Gallery, London 23 June - 26 August 2022 Vigo Gallery 7-8 Masons Yard London SW1Y 6BU In Black and White Vigo presents 91-year-old Ibrahim El-Salahi’s pen and ink works on paper made from 2012 to 2013. These previously unseen works were completed in the lead up to his solo show at Tate Modern in 2013, where he became... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

PAIN RELIEF – Wellington Arch, London 23 June - 30 October 2022 Wellington Arch Apsley Way, London W1J 7JZ When 91-year-old Ibrahim El-Salahi is drawing he gets lost in work and has temporary respite from his sciatica and chronic back pain. The ‘Godfather of African Modernism’ says it’s the only time he really has relief from the pain. Between 2016-2018 Sudanese Oxford-based... Read more

LAKWENA MACIVER

JUMP PAINTINGS – Hastings Contemporary 18 June - 25 September 2022 Hastings Contemporary Hastings Contemporary is proud to present an exhibition of Lakwena Maciver’s Jump Paintings, abstract portraits of some of the most inspiring Basketball Players, both past and present. The origins of these ‘Jump paintings’ stem from two full-size courts painted in 2020 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to honour Senator... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

PAIN RELIEF – Tegnerforbundet, Oslo 17 June - 31 July 2022 Tegnerforbundet Rå dhusgata 17 0158 Oslo Norway Between June 18th and July 31st, The Norwegian Drawing Association presents Ibrahim El-Salahi's first solo exhibition in Norway. El-Salahi (b. 1930, Omdurman, Sudan) is a key figure in African modernism. This exhibition is produced in collaboration with The Drawing Center in New York,... Read more

HEYWOOD & CONDIE

SHIMMER 3 – The Water Gardens, Burwood Place, London 11 June - 11 July 2022 The Water Gardens, Burwood Place, London A new series of 12 Jewel encrusted floating sculptures based around fresh water aquatic micro organisms and unicellular algae. Read more

Ibrahim El-Salahi and Heywood & Condie

THE POETRY OF TREES - The Atkinson, Southport 4 June 2022 - 11 March 2023 The Atkinson This exhibition features a wide range of artists who are fascinated by trees, some for their aesthetic appeal, others exploring their potential for symbolic meaning. Artists around the world have developed deeply personal relationships with trees which have become central to their art. Thomas Pitfield’s series of linocuts... Read more

ERIN LAWLOR – OLIVER MARSDEN

OLIVER MARSDEN | ERIN LAWLOR – Liaigre, London 1 June - 30 October 2022 Liaigre 66-70 Fulham Rd., South Kensington, London SW3 6HH Read more

JOHNNY ABRAHAMS

YOU & I ARE EARTH, 1661 – Vigo Gallery, London 4 - 27 May 2022 Vigo Gallery VIGO is pleased to announce our fifth solo show with Johnny Abrahams to be held at our gallery in Masons Yard from 04-27 May 2022. Deceptively simple, these paintings present a unique vocabulary of satisfying meditative yet rhythmic shapes rendered with a rich texture which plays strongly with... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

THE MILK OF DREAMS @ THE 59TH VENICE BIENNALE 23 April - 27 November 2022 Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia 59th International Art Exhibition Arsenale Vigo is proud to announce Ibrahim El-Salahi’s participation in the 2022 59th Venice Biennale, ‘The Milk of Dreams’ curated by Cecilia Alemani. El-Salahi’s ‘Behind the Mask’ series, created between May 2020 and September 2021, is a distinct group of 99... Read more

JORDY KERWICK

VERTICAL PLANES – Wellington Arch, London 6 April - 29 May 2022 Wellington Arch Apsley Way, London W1J 7JZ Vigo Gallery in partnership with English Heritage presents Vertical Planes by Jordy Kerwick. The exhibition comprises a new group of Kerwick’s distinctly bold, graphic and colourful paintings. Executed in oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, the works are playful in style, redolent... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

PAIN RELIEF – Hastings Contemporary 1 April - 5 June 2022 Hastings Contemporary When 91-year-old Ibrahim El-Salahi is drawing he gets lost in work and has temporary respite from his sciatica and chronic back pain. The ‘Godfather of African Modernism’ says it’s the only time he really has relief from the pain. Between 2016-2018 Sudanese Oxford-based artist created an extraordinary body... Read more

BRAM BOGART

60'S PAINTINGS – Vigo Gallery, London 22 March - 14 April 2022 Vigo Gallery On his Centenary Vigo is proud to present a group of Bram Bogart’s early sixties paintings. Bram Bogart, 1921–2012, dedicated his career to exploring the materiality of paint, building three dimensional paintings made with his own concoctions of oil, glue, pigment, powdered chalk, and water. His investigation into... Read more

LAKWENA MACIVER

WILD FLOWERS WILL GROW – The Arts Club, Dubai 10 March - 31 July 2022 The Arts Club, Dubai Lakwena Maciver is known for her large-scale public art projects which meld elements of pop culture and colors drawn from her African heritage. Her basketball painting series expands upon a motif she has been exploring since a 2020 commission to paint two life-size basketball courts in... Read more

LAKWENA MACIVER

TATE LATES – Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London 25 February 2022 Tate Modern Turbine Hall Join us after hours for a mix of art, music, film, conversation and food as we celebrate women artists in Tate’s collection Music: DJ Sets Programmed by Foundation FM Location: Turbine Hall, Level 0 18.00–19.00 Chloe English 19.00–20.00 Lagoon Femshayma 20.00–21.30 Matty Chiabi Catch a special... Read more

LAKWENA MACIVER

JUMP PAINTINGS; PART 2 – Vigo Gallery, London 8 - 28 February 2022 Vigo Gallery VISIT VIRTUAL GALLERY Vigo is proud to present Lakwena Maciver’s Jump Paintings, abstract portraits of some of the most inspiring Basketball Players past and present. Lakwena is internationally renowned for her joy- inducing palette, dynamic designs and profound, succinct messages. Her public art commissions and installations include those... Read more

LAKWENA MACIVER

JUMP PAINTINGS; PART 1 – Vigo Gallery, London 19 January - 5 February 2022 Vigo Gallery VISIT VIRTUAL GALLERY Vigo is proud to present Lakwena Maciver’s Jump Paintings, abstract portraits of some of the most inspiring Basketball Players past and present. Lakwena is internationally renowned for her joy- inducing palette, dynamic designs and profound, succinct messages. Her public art commissions and installations include those... Read more

JORDY KERWICK

BETWEEN CONSCIOUSNESS AND SLEEP – Vigo Gallery, London 15 December 2021 - 8 January 2022 Vigo Gallery Vigo is proud to present ‘Between Consciousness and Sleep’ at our new gallery in Mason’s Yard. Jordy Kerwick (b.1982) investigates the materiality of painting through fantastical folkloric narratives populated by a cast of characters and motifs that inhabit a surreal world of Hansel and Grettalish Technicolor childhood dreams.... Read more

ZAK OVÉ

LIFE BETWEEN ISLANDS: CARIBBEAN-BRITISH ART 1950S-NOW – Tate Britain, London 1 December 2021 - 3 April 2022 Tate Britain Opening at Tate Britain in December, Life Between Islands will be a landmark exhibition exploring the extraordinary breadth of Caribbean-British art over four generations. It will be the first time a major national museum has told this story in such depth, showcasing 70 years of culture, experiences and... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

GROUP DYNAMICS | COLLECTIVES OF THE MODERNIST PERIOD – Lenbachhaus, Munich 19 October 2021 - 12 June 2022 Lenbachhaus Luisenstraß e 33, 80333 Mü nchen, Germany Beijing, Buenos Aires, Bombay (today’s Mumbai), Casablanca, Khartoum, Kyoto, Lahore, Łódź, Nsukka, São Paulo, Tokyo: in the twentieth century, artists all over the world banded together in collectives. The tendency of like-minded individuals to work in groups and support each other is... Read more

LAKWENA MACIVER

BACK IN THE AIR: A MEDITATION ON HIGHER GROUND – Temple Station's Roof Terrace, London 7 October 2021 - 1 September 2022 Temple Station's Roof Terrace theCoLAB Temple presents The Artist’s Garden with a co-commission by 180 Studios and in partnership with Westminster City Council For the first time since it was built in 1870 by Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the vast undiscovered half-acre roof terrace on top of Temple Underground Station between... Read more

SALAH ELMUR – ZAK OVÉ

THE ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION 2021 22 September 2021 - 2 January 2022 The Royal Academy Curated by Yinka Shonibare RA Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD Read more

LAKWENA MACIVER

MAP OF BIG LOVE – Sugar Mountain, Munich 17 September 2021 - 31 December 2022 Lakwena x MINI Sugar Mountain, Munich London-born artist Lakwena Maciver has made a name for herself with artworks that combine bold colours, kaleidoscopic patterns and ideas, messages and meditations distilled in a single evocative phrase. She’s passionate about making art accessible to all, which is why she’s best known for... Read more