Exhibitions

Samuel Bassett: The Birds

24 November 2023 - 4 February 2024 Wellington Arch Vigo Gallery is delighted to present The Birds, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Samuel Bassett (b. 1982, St Ives). Living in a small, rural community in Penwith, near Penzance in Cornwall, Bassett’s work is intensely personal. The paintings reflect and document his multi-layered, psychological, and physical experiences within... Read more

Johnny Abrahams: Therapy Apple

20 November 2023 - 19 January 2024 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery presents Therapy Apple, an exhibition of new paintings by London-based artist Johnny Abrahams (b. 1979, Tacoma, WA), comprised of large-scale canvas and smaller diptych works, set out in bold new colours. The symbols within Abrahams’ practice exist under a certain formalism, the different planes conveying near-musical patterns, oscillating... Read more

Leonhard Hurzlmeier: Kissing Shores

Curated by Eli Zagury and Tamar Arnon 29 September - 27 October 2023 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery is delighted to present Kissing Shores, the first UK solo exhibition from German artist Leonhard Hurzlmeier (b. 1983, Starnberg, Germany). Hurzlmeier’s geometric paintings posit archetypes of modern life playfully reduced to simple forms and shapes. His is an investigation into the boundaries of recognition; the extent to which... Read more

Xavier Baxter: Angel Halloween

22 September - 12 November 2023 Wellington Arch “Curves, explosions, colours, wild space, timelessness, this time, the first times, the unknown catastrophic times, the storms — all the knifed paint there’s ever been, all the scrawled paint, the liquified paint and the thick and thin paint — all the materials and mediums — the scribbles and arcs and... Read more

Matthew Collings: Alternative Art History

21 June - 17 September 2023 “Collings’ art history is truly artist-centric, not at all chronological, and borderline metaphysical. The drawings are a mash-up of fact, gossip, and invention. They include artists, musicians, writers, mystics, biblical figures, political figures, the British royals, and occasionally Collings himself. They address art as a tradition, as a cult, and... Read more

Bram Bogart: Ohain

12 June - 15 September 2023 Vigo is proud to present a selection of Bram Bogart’s Ohain paintings, amongst his most outstanding contributions to the history of art and a golden moment in his development as an artist. At this time, he lived in a beautiful Chateau in Ohain, Belgium, which he famously used as an... Read more

Samuel Bassett: The Village

Vigo Gallery, London 28 April - 26 May 2023 Vigo Gallery is delighted to present The Village: a solo exhibition of new paintings by Samuel Bassett (b. 1982, St Ives). Living in a small, rural community in Penwith, near Penzance in Cornwall, Bassett’s work is intensely personal. The paintings reflect and document his multi-layered, psychological, and physical experiences within... Read more

Henrik Godsk: Humans and Creatures

Wellington Arch, London 24 March - 11 June 2023 Henrik Godsk (b. 1975, Hjørring) is of seventh generation travelling heritage, having grown up among the world of his family’s funfair in Denmark and Norway. His practice reflects pride in his upbringing and cultural identity, fusing folkloric and high art, using portraits and ‘creatures’ as vessels for his exploration of... Read more

Salah Elmur: Central Electricity and Water Administration

Vigo Gallery & Gallery 1957 16 March - 8 April 2023 “I still remember the bill collector knocking on the door. And I see the water tanks. Towers made of cement; high rises loaded with water that break the sky... These beautiful buildings touch my heart and soul.” – Salah Elmur, 2022, Cairo Vigo Gallery and Gallery 1957 are proud to... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

PAIN RELIEF DRAWINGS @ Kunsthalle, Zürich 4 February - 14 May 2023 Kunsthalle Zurich Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland Ibrahim El-Salahi is renowned as one of the key figures of African Modernism. This is true, but only half the story. It is true that El-Salahi founded his own ‘school’, the so-called Karthum School, and travelled throughout the USA, Mexico and Brazil in... Read more

Erin Lawlor

Earthly Delights - Vigo Gallery, London 1 February - 1 March 2023 'Linking Keats, Camus, and Lawlor, rapture within resists death withal. Beauty - art by another name - completes the equation... We are in the realms of poetry, myth and magic, a garden of sorts holding earthly and unearthly delights.” – David Anfam, 2023 Vigo is delighted to present a solo... Read more

Johnny Abrahams, Bram Bogart, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Henrik Godsk, Erin Lawlor and Lakwena Maciver.

ART SINGAPORE 12 - 15 January 2023 Deceptively simple, the paintings of New York-based artist, Johnny Abrahams (b.1979), present a unique vocabulary of satisfying meditative yet rhythmic shapes rendered with a rich texture which plays strongly with the negative space of the raw canvas. The relationships between the symbols that are Abraham's alphabet are dependent on nothing... Read more

ERIN LAWLOR

INVINCIBLE SUMMER - Wellington Arch, London 11 January - 19 March 2023 Wellington Arch This January, Vigo gallery will present an exhibition of new paintings by Erin Lawlor (b. 1969) at the Wellington Arch Museum. Lawlor will be the first woman to exhibit at this historic location steeped in male-dominated, wartime legacy. 'There is something very fitting to me in the very... Read more

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

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

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

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