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Jordy Kerwick: One to Give. One to Take Away
Yorkshire Sculpture Park | The Weston Gallery 26 September 2025 - 1 March 2026 Jordy Kerwick’s striking new solo exhibition One to Give. One to Take Away will be presented in Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s The Weston Gallery and outdoors this autumn, marking the first UK museum solo presentation of his work. One to Give. One to Take Away features dynamic sculptures and vibrant large-scale... Read more -
Ibrahim El-Salahi: Salahi's Forest
Desert X AlUla 2026 16 January - 28 February 2026 Arts AlUla and Desert X AlUla, the international, open-air biannual exhibition, is excited to announce the exceptional line-up of Saudi and international artists whose site-responsive earthworks, sculptures, and installations will create multisensory public engagement with the awe-inspiring landscapes and layered heritage of AlUla. Held in collaboration with Desert X, this... Read more -
Lakwena Maciver: HOW WE BUILD A HOME
15 October 2025 - 1 February 2026 Wellington Arch Vigo Gallery and English Heritage present LAKWENA – HOW WE BUILD A HOME , a vibrant new exhibition of cardboard and bead paintings by celebrated artist Lakwena Maciver at the iconic Wellington Arch. Lakwena’s practice has long blended art, design, fashion, and spirituality, reaching audiences far beyond traditional galleries. Her... Read more -
Johnny Abrahams: Chapterhouse
18 December 2025 - 13 February 2026 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard, is pleased to present Chapterhouse , a new solo exhibition by Johnny Abrahams (b. 1979, Tacoma, WA). After time spent in 17th-century Parisian churches, Abrahams developed this body of work in response to unexpected connections between his minimalist vocabulary and the architecture of sacred spaces- from... Read more -
Jordy Kerwick: Hydra vs Bear at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
1 August 2023 Hydra vs Bear depicts a battle between the gigantic water serpent from Greek mythology and a double-headed bear. Cast in bronze, the two beasts are poised mid-attack: Hydra rises from the ground ready to strike, while Bear lunges forward with claws and teeth bared. Sited on the Bothy Triangle at... Read more
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Ben Crase: SWEETFELLA
10 October - 21 November 2025 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery is pleased to present SWEETFELLA, a solo exhibition by American artist Ben Crase , coinciding with Frieze Week London. Framed among the visual syntax of the American West, Crase’s paintings create a revisionist vision of frontier masculinity- one softened by memory, colour, humour and kinship. At the heart... Read more -
Moira Cameron: Delacroix
20 June - 25 July 2025 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery presents Delacroix , the first solo exhibition in London by British artist Moira Cameron . A graduate of Chelsea College of Art, Cameron returns to her independent practice after decades of collaborative work - first with her late partner, artist David Spiller, and later with their son, Xavier... Read more -
Johnny Abrahams / Lucienne O'Mara: Push / Pull
16 May - 28 September 2025 Wellington Arch Vigo Gallery is pleased to announce Push / Pull , a joint exhibition of new paintings by Lucienne O’Mara and Johnny Abrahams . Push / Pull brings together two London-based artists whose practices negotiate the interplay between control and order. United by a shared understanding of the primacy of the... Read more -
Erin Lawlor: inscape
2 May - 13 June 2025 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery is pleased to present inscape , a new series of paintings by Erin Lawlor . Taking its title from a term coined by poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, inscape refers to the unique inner pattern or essence that gives each thing its identity. Hopkins developed this concept from philosopher... Read more -
Erin Lawlor: divining
A Highlanes National Tour 26 April 2025 - 24 January 2026 Erin Lawlor ’s recent works explore more than ever before a sense of place. She has long embraced painting as a space of both projection and psychological construct, yet in concrete terms, working as she does horizontally and alla prima , the canvas itself becomes a ground, an immersive space... Read more -
Leonhard Hurzlmeier: Women at the Well
27 January - 28 February 2025 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery is delighted to present Leonhard Hurzlmeier 's masterpiece, Women at the Well, painted from 2015 - 2018 and shown in the UK for the first time. Concurrently, we will present the artist's second solo exhibition with the gallery, Edenism at Wellington Arch. The image Frauen am Brunnen draws... Read more -
Leonhard Hurzlmeier: Edenism
24 January - 16 April 2025 Wellington Arch Vigo Gallery is delighted to present Edenism at Wellington Arch, Leonhard Hurzlmeier 's second exhibition with the gallery. Concurrently we will show his masterpiece Women at the Well at Mason's Yard painted from 2015 - 2018 and shown in the UK for the first time. In Edenism , Hurzlmeier investigates... Read more -
Lucienne O'Mara: Alone Together
13 December 2024 - 23 January 2025 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery is delighted to announce Alone Together , Lucienne O'Mara 's debut show with the gallery. In 2017, a car accident left O'Mara with a brain injury that fundamentally altered her relationship with vision. She lost all spatial awareness and the ability to process visual information - even the... Read more -
Duncan MacAskill @ 80 : CRISPR
7 November 2024 - 19 January 2025 Wellington Arch Vigo Gallery is proud to present CRISPR - Duncan MacAskill ’s fourth solo show with the gallery, in celebration of his eightieth birthday. The exhibition presents works predominantly from 2019 to the present day taken from his ongoing DNA Paintings series that lies at the core of his practice. CRISPR... Read more -
Ibrahim El-Salahi: Behind the Mask | Milk of Dreams
Works from the 2022 Venice Biennale 11 October - 27 November 2024 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery is proud to present Ibrahim El-Salahi ’s Behind the Mask, a group of 99 small works on the back of medicine packets, previously exhibited at Cecilia Alemani’s The Milk of Dreams at The 59th Venice Biennale. 'The mask, apart from being a protective shield, to me feels like... Read more -
Tadesse Mesfin: Where We Coalesce
20 September - 3 October 2024 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery and Addis Fine Art are pleased to present a solo exhibition of paintings by Tadesse Mesfin (b. 1953). Featuring works on canvas from the last four years, the presentation takes place across Addis Fine Art, Addis Ababa and Vigo Gallery, London. This series of Tadesse’s work celebrates the... Read more -
Johnny Abrahams: Sympatheia
21 June - 12 July 2024 Vigo Gallery is proud to announce our seventh solo exhibition and tenth anniversary of working with Johnny Abrahams (b. 1979, Tacoma, WA). Abrahams is constantly investigating the ever-present elements, albeit subtly rendered, of tension and drama in his paintings. ‘Throughout the course of my practice I noticed that the drama... Read more -
Ibrahim El-Salahi: Haraz
7 June - 27 October 2024 Wellington Arch As a ten-year celebration of our inaugural exhibition with Ibrahim El-Salahi , Vigo Gallery presents Haraz. Comprised of works from both El-Salahi's celebrated Tree series, many of which featured in his 2013 Tate Modern retrospective, and more recent Pain Relief works on paper and canvas, the exhibition reflects El-Salahi’s fascination... Read more -
Henrik Godsk: Traveller's Journal
15 May - 11 June 2024 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo is proud to announce Traveller's Journal , our second solo show with Henrik Godsk , the first at Mason’s Yard following on from his exhibition last year at the Quadriga galleries at Wellington Arch in association with English Heritage. Godsk is of seventh-generation Traveller heritage, his practice reflecting his... Read more -
Henry Krokatsis: Prost*
26 April - 2 June 2024 Wellington Arch Vigo Gallery is delighted to present Prost*, a solo exhibition by British artist Henry Krokatsis . This year-long installation transforms the interior space of Wellington Arch, creating a functional yet subversive replacement for the existing floor. Although based on the Waterloo Gallery’s intricate border parquet pattern in Wellington’s former residence... Read more -
Ibrahim El-Salahi: No Shade but His Shade
8 March - 8 May 2024 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard No Shade but His Shade comprises paintings from 1957 - 1968, a seminal period in Ibrahim El-Salahi 's practice. Paintings presented include iconic works such as Alphabet 1 , 1960 (Alphabet 2 is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); and No Shade but His Shade... Read more -
James Drinkwater: Somewhere Between The Sea and The Table
9 February - 21 April 2024 Wellington Arch Wellington Arch Private View: Thursday 8 February, 6-8pm 9 February – 21 April 2024 Somewhere Between The Sea and The Table is James Drinkwater ’s first solo exhibition with Vigo Gallery. It will be presented in the Quadriga Galleries of Wellington Arch Museum in partnership with Apsley House and English... Read more -
A Dream About a Horse: James Drinkwater, Jordy Kerwick, Jenny Watson
26 January - 23 February 2024 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery is delighted to present A Dream About a Horse, a group exhibition of new paintings by James Drinkwater, Jordy Kerwick, and Jenny Watson. A Dream About a Horse brings together three established Australian artists all of whom have delved into their subconscious to mine equine imagery in a... Read more -
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... 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,... 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... Read more -
Xavier Baxter: Angel Halloween
22 September - 12 November 2023 Wellington Arch Vigo is proud to announce our first show with Xavier Baxter in the Quadriga Galleries at Wellington Arch from 22nd September to 12th November 2023. Xavier Baxter aka Bob Baxter was born into a multigenerational family of artists, with his maternal grandparents and parents marking their time on earth in... Read more -
Matthew Collings: Alternative Art History
21 June - 17 September 2023 Wellington Arch Matthew Collings ’ first solo exhibition with Vigo showcases the paintings and drawings he has been doing over the last three years, selling, to a public already conditioned to respect art, an idea of it as radical subjectivity. Beauty exists. Realistic picturing exists. Colour exists. Narrative exists. They’re all real.... 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
28 April - 26 May 2023 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard 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... Read more -
Henrik Godsk: Humans and Creatures
24 March - 11 June 2023 Wellington Arch 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 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery and Gallery 1957 are proud to collaborate on a joint exhibition and publication of monumental new paintings, set across both London galleries, by Cairo-based Sudanese artist Salah Elmur . Central Electricity and Water Administration will be the artist’s third solo show with Vigo following Water and Electricity, a... 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
1 February - 1 March 2023 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard '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 -
Erin Lawlor: Invincible Summer
11 January - 19 March 2023 Wellington Arch 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
9 December 2022 - 20 January 2023 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard 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... 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... Read more -
MATTHEW BURROWS: IN AND THROUGH
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 meditate on... Read more -
JORDY KERWICK: SO MANY SHEEP & SO FEW WOLVES
19 October - 11 November 2022 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard 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 -
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: 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: 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: 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
16 September - 5 October 2022 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard 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 now in... Read more -
JORDY KERWICK
FRIEZE SCULPTURE, Regent's Park, London 13 September - 13 November 2022 Regent's Park, London, UK Read more -
IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI: PAIN RELIEF
23 June - 30 October 2022 Wellington Arch 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 of work... Read more -
IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI: BLACK AND WHITE
23 June - 26 August 2022 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard 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 the first artist of African birth to... Read more -
LAKWENA MACIVER: JUMP PAINTINGS
Hastings Contemporary 18 June - 25 September 2022 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 Flowers,... 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... 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
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
4 - 27 May 2022 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard 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... Read more -
JORDY KERWICK: VERTICAL PLANES
6 April - 29 May 2022 Wellington Arch 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 of the exuberance and carefree qualities... Read more -
IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI: PAIN RELIEF
Hastings Contemporary 1 April - 5 June 2022 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 of work... Read more -
BRAM BOGART: 60'S PAINTINGS
22 March - 14 April 2022 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 the... Read more -
LAKWENA MACIVER: WILD FLOWERS WILL GROW
The Arts Club, Dubai 10 March - 31 July 2022 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 Pine Bluff, Arkansas. This... Read more -
LAKWENA MACIVER: TATE LATES
Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London 25 February 2022 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 line-up of DJ sets... Read more -
LAKWENA MACIVER: JUMP PAINTINGS; PART 2
8 - 28 February 2022 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard 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 at... Read more -
LAKWENA MACIVER: JUMP PAINTINGS; PART 1
19 January - 5 February 2022 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard 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
15 December 2021 - 8 January 2022 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard 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. Tigers, Unicorns,... Read more -
ZAK OVÉ: LIFE BETWEEN ISLANDS: CARIBBEAN-BRITISH ART 1950S-NOW
Tate Britain, London 1 December 2021 - 3 April 2022 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 ideas expressed... Read more -
NIKA NEELOVA: SILT
Brighton CCA 22 October - 22 December 2021 Silt is an exhibition of new work by Russian born artist Nika Neelova examining our cultural and physical relationship to water. The exhibition centres on a large scale sculptural installation accompanied by a series of studio works and additional contributions from artists Carolina Caycedo and Rachael Champion. Beginning with Neelova’s... Read more -
IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI: GROUP DYNAMICS | COLLECTIVES OF THE MODERNIST PERIOD
Lenbachhaus, Munich 19 October 2021 - 12 June 2022 Beijing, Buenos Aires, Bombay (today’s Mumbai), Casablanca, Khartoum, Kyoto, Lahore, Åódź, 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 universal; yet the concerns pursued by these groups,... Read more -
LAKWENA MACIVER: AERIAL BASKET BALL PAINTINGS
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London 14 - 17 October 2021 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair The courtyard of Somerset House Strand, London WC2R 1LA Vigo presents Lakwena Maciver’s Aerial BB Paintings from the 14-17th October in the courtyard of Somerset House as the 2021 Courtyard commission for the 1-54 African Art Fair. The first of this series of paintings were... 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 -
IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI – LAKWENA MACIVER – ZAK OVÉ
BLACK BOLD BRITISH. CURATED BY AINDREA EMELIFE – Christie's, London 1 - 22 October 2021 Christies LINK TO VIRTUAL TOUR Vigo is delighted to participate in Bold Black British in partnership with the curator Aindrea Emelife and Christies. Taking place from 1 to 21 October, Bold Black British is a meeting point of artists working across disciplines and generations, exemplifying the significance of Black Britons... 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 -
IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI: MEDITATION TREE
FRIEZE SCULPTURE 14 September - 31 October 2021 Regents Park, London Vigo presents Ibrahim El-Salahi’s, “Meditation Tree”. The sculpture relates to his celebrated Tree series, inspired by the characteristics of a peculiar type of Acacia tree that grows by the banks of the Nile. The Haraz tree, indige-nous to Sudan, has unique and inspirational characteristics. This series is... Read more -
NIKA NEELOVA: ONE OF MANY FRAGMENTS
New Art Centre, Salisbury 11 September - 20 November 2021 New Art Centre Roche Court, East Winterslow, Salisbury SP5 1BG DOWNLOAD EXHIBITION CATALOGUE The show presents a dialogue between the work of the late Edward Allington, who came to prominence in the 1980s as part of the ‘New British Sculpture’ movement, and one of his students from the Slade, the... Read more -
LAKWENA MACIVER: NOTHING CAN SEPARATE US
Covent Garden, London 8 July - 30 September 2021 Covent Garden Floral Street CAPCO COVENT GARDEN PRESS RELEASE Covent Garden unveils an art installation by London-born artist Lakwena, transforming its streets with acid-bright colours and bold typographic messages. Floral Street’s bollards have been hand painted with designs by Lakwena in a striking colourful scheme, and King Street and Henrietta... Read more -
DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB: THE CONSEQUENCES OF PLAY
Wellington Arch, London 30 June 2021 - 13 May 2022 Wellington Arch ESSAY BY MATTHEW COLLINGS DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE HERE Vigo, in partnership with English Heritage, is proud to present The Consequences of Play , a series of six epic paintings by British artist Daniel Crews-Chubb relating to Wellington Arch, Apsley House and its environs and inspired by Peter Paul Rubens’ painting The... Read more -
ZAK OVÉ: AUTONOMOUS MORRIS
The Design Museum, London 24 June - 30 September 2021 Standing at approximately 3-metres high, Autonomous Morris is a monumental sculpture made from deconstructed and collaged vintage car parts, welded together to produce a futuristic yet retro, cross-cultural totemic mask. Originally commissioned for the Smithson Plaza in Mayfair London in 2018, Autonomous Morris is a motorised ‘Macco’ – a person... Read more -
JOHNNY ABRAHAMS: AFTER HYACINTH, AFTER ANEMONE
Pavillion Gallery, London 17 - 23 May 2021 Pavillion Gallery 4 Cromwell Place, London, SW7 2JE, United Kingdom VIGO is pleased to announce our fourth solo show with Johnny Abrahams to be held at the Pavilion at Cromwell Place from 17-23 May 2021. The artist has developed a new body of work over the last year, holding back... Read more -
SAMUEL BASSETT: OI OI.
BRIDGE POINT ART CENTRE, RYE 5 - 21 May 2021 LINK TO BRIDGE POINT ART CENTRE WEBSITE CLICK HERE FOR AN INTERVIEW WITH SAMUEL BASSETT AND MATTHEW COLLINGS Oi! Oi! -We are very excited to present Samuel Bassett’s first show with Vigo. Born in 1982 Samuel Bassett comes from Cornwall, more specifically the town of St Ives steeped in fishing... Read more -
SAMUEL BASSETT: OI OI
Vigo Gallery, Virtual Reality 19 March - 21 May 2021 VISIT VIRTUAL GALLERY CLICK HERE FOR AN INTERVIEW WITH SAMUEL BASSETT AND MATTHEW COLLINGS Oi! Oi! -We are very excited to present Samuel Bassett’s first show with Vigo. Born in 1982 Samuel Bassett comes from Cornwall, more specifically the town of St Ives steeped in fishing and artistic heritage. His... Read more -
SAMUEL BASSETT: FISHY MEN, MACKERAL SKIES
The London Collective Vortic 17 March - 30 April 2021 VISIT VIRTUAL GALLERY DOWNLOAD ESSAY BY MATT RETALLICK (MARCH 2021) In advance of his inaugural show with Vigo to be held at Bridge Point Art Centre and concurrently in the Vigo Virtual space we are offering a selection of fantastic drawings by Cornish Artist Samuel Bassett completed during lockdown. Complex... Read more -
JUSTIN WILLIAMS: VILLAGE
Vigo Gallery, Virtual Reality 2 February - 30 April 2021 Vigo Gallery Virtual Reality LINK TO VIRTUAL EXHIBITION Read more -
STEPHEN CHAMBERS: THE COURT OF REDONDA
Hastings Contemporary 10 December 2020 - 9 May 2021 Stephen Chambers’ The Court of Redonda will mark the re-opening of Hastings Contemporary after the UK’s latest national lockdown. First shown at The Venice Biennale in 2017, Stephen Chambers’ The Court of Redonda depicts a cast of 101 imaginary courtiers inspired by a literary legend that developed around the tiny... Read more -
LAKWENA MACIVER: HOMEPLACE
Hastings Contemporary 10 December 2020 - 9 May 2021 Lakwena Maciver ’s 'Homeplace' will mark the re-opening of Hastings Contemporary after the UK’s latest national lockdown. Lakwena Maciver, one of the UK’s most exciting contemporary black artists creates painted prayers and meditations, which respond to and re-appropriate elements of popular culture. Central to her practice are words, used as... Read more
