Exhibitions

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 on... 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 one... 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 simple... 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 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 a... 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 with... 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 pride... Read more

Henry Krokatsis: Prost*

26 April - 2 June 2024 Wellington Arch *prost : common, everyday, mundane, but within which lies the divine 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... Read more

Tony Heywood

The Atkinson, Southport 30 March - 6 July 2024 In a collaborative exhibition at The Atkinson, Tony Heywood's spontaneous, collage-like paintings re-imagine and represent the landscape and nature of the Sefton Coast. Please click here for further information. 'I see my paintings as a visual exploration of an animistic philosophy that assigns a living soul to all natural phenomena,... 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 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 , 1968,... 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 Heritage... 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 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 Wellington Arch “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... 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

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

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

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 – SALAH ELMUR – LAKWENA MACIVER – ZAK OVÉ

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

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

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

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

NIKA NEELOVA

SILT – Brighton CCA 22 October - 22 December 2021 Brighton CCA Brighton, BN2 0JY 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... 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

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

SALAH ELMUR

THE INNOCENT PRISONER – 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London 13 - 17 October 2021 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair Booth W12 (West Wing) 13 October – 17 October 2021 Throughout history, there have always been those who were wrongfully accused. Since the sixties, many innocent Sudanese have been taken into custody, interrogated, tortured, and in some cases lost their lives. Having suffered himself, El-Mur... 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

FRIEZE SCULPTURE. MEDITATION TREE – Regents Park, London 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 – EDWARD ALLINGTON & NIKA NEELOVA – 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

SPILLER + CAMERON – SALAH ELMUR – IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI – JORDY KERWICK – LAKWENA MACIVER – JUSTIN WILLIAMS – ZAK OVÉ

The Armory Show New York 9 - 12 September 2021 The Armory Show New York Online Javits Center 429 11th Avenue New York, NY 10001 Read more

SPILLER + CAMERON – STEPHEN CHAMBERS – IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI – JUSTIN WILLIAMS – BRAM BOGART

EYE OF THE COLLECTOR – Two Temple Place, London 8 - 11 September 2021 Two Temple Place London WC2R 3BD 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 Apsley Way, London W1J 7JZ, United Kingdom 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... Read more

ZAK OVÉ

AUTONOMOUS MORRIS – The Design Museum, London 24 June - 30 September 2021 The Design Museum 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’... 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 Rock Channel Rye TN31 7DG UK 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... Read more

SAMUEL BASSETT

OI OI – Vigo Gallery, Virtual Reality 19 March - 21 May 2021 Vigo Gallery Virtual Reality 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... Read more

SAMUEL BASSETT

FISHY MEN, MACKERAL SKIES – The London Collective Vortic 17 March - 30 April 2021 The London Collective Vortic 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... 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 Hastings Contemporary Galleries 3 - 7 Rock-A-Nore Rd, Hastings TN34 3DW, United Kingdom 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... Read more

LAKWENA MACIVER

HOMEPLACE – Hastings Contemporary 10 December 2020 - 9 May 2021 Hastings Contemporary Galleries 1+2 Rock-a-Nore Rd, Hastings TN34 3DW 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.... Read more

JAMAAL PETERMAN

GRUNCH – James Fuentes, New York 10 December 2020 - 17 January 2021 James Fuentes New York, USA 55 Delancey St, New York, NY 10002, United States James Fuentes presents Jamaal Peterman, Grunch In Bed, the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York. Jamaal Peterman has developed a highly encoded language of abstraction that ricochets inside of, between, and beyond the frame of... Read more

DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB

45:45. FEATURING A WORK BY DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB – L.A. LOUVER, Venice 20 October 2020 - 30 January 2021 L.A. LOUVER 45 N. Venice Blvd. Venice, CA 90291 DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE Artists include : Carmen Argote Sarah Awad Rina Banerjee Wallace Berman Matthew Brandt Deborah Butterfield Rebecca Campbell Nick Cave Gisela Colon Daniel Crews-Chubb Richard Deacon Tacita Dean Marcel Duchamp Jimmie Durham Kohshin Finley Gajin Fujita Sherin Guirguis Frederick... Read more

HEYWOOD & CONDIE

THIS LAND – The Atkinson, Southport 10 October 2020 - 27 March 2021 The Atkinson Lord Street Southport PR8 1DB LINK TO VIRTUAL TOUR DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE This Land is an ambitious multi layered portrayal of Tony Heywood’s and Alison Condie’s experience and time spent within Sefton’s constantly evolving coastline. The exhibition splices personal memory with local fables and engages with the physical... Read more

LEONARDO DREW

LEONARDO DREW: CITY IN THE GRASS – Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson 26 September 2020 - 21 February 2021 Mississippi Museum of Art Located in The Art Garden 380 South Lamar Street, Jackson MS 39201, USA Leonardo Drew: City in the Grass , is a participatory, public art sculpture that invites viewers to engage directly with the work, the space it occupies, and one another while maintaining a social... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

UBUNTU. FIVE ROOMS FROM THE HARRY DAVID COLLECTION - FEATURING A WORK BY IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI – National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST) 19 September 2020 - 18 March 2021 National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST) EMST Temporary exhibitions space (Ground Floor) Kallirrois Avenue & Amvr. Frantzi Str, former Fix factory Athens, 117 43 Curators: Osei Bonsu, Rashid Johnson, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Emily Tsingou, Burkhard Varnholt Architectural design: Stephania Kallos, Abby Turin (Kallos Turin) 66 works by 34 artists... Read more

LEONARDO DREW

MAKING CHAOS LEGIBLE – North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh 9 September 2020 - 3 January 2021 North Carolina Museum of Art East Building, Level B, Meymandi Exhibition Gallery 2110 Blue Ridge Road Raleigh, NC 27607 This two-part project by contemporary artist Leonardo Drew features a monumental outdoor sculpture, City in the Grass , along with a gallery exhibition that provides a more in-depth look at his... Read more

HEYWOOD & CONDIE

SUMMER EXHIBITION. CURATED BY ROBERT AND NICKY WILSON, FOUNDERS OF JUPITER ARTLAND – Royal British Society of Sculptors, London 13 July - 18 September 2020 Royal British Society of Sculptors Royal Society of Sculptors, 108 Old Brompton Road, London SW7 3RA DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE This year’s Summer Exhibition has been guest curated by Robert and Nicky Wilson, the founders of Jupiter Artland, and is a fabulous showcase of the work of our members and fellows.... Read more

STEPHEN CHAMBERS – IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI – BRAM BOGART

MASTERPIECE | ONLINE VIEWING ROOM 22 - 28 June 2020 LINK TO VIRTUAL REALITY BOOTH Read more

KEITH COVENTRY

Frieze Masters London | ONLINE 7 - 15 May 2020 Frieze | New York | Online viewing room 90's Paintings Keith Coventry’s paintings and sculptures look at high and low forms of British culture from the Monarchy to inner city crack dens, through the lens of modernist idealism, bringing the movements of twentieth-century art and their tendencies into dialogue with... Read more

JOHNNY ABRAHAMS – STEPHEN CHAMBERS – DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB – MARCUS HARVEY – IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI – JAMAAL PETERMAN – DUNCAN M

Vigo Virtual Reality Exhibition Gallery 1 1 May 2020 - 1 February 2021 Vigo Virtual Reality Exhibition Gallery 1 LINK TO VIRTUAL EXHIBITION Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

Home is a Foreign Place - The Metropolitan Museum, New York 9 April - 21 June 2020 The Met Breuer Floor 2 Home Is a Foreign Place highlights recent acquisitions of modern and contemporary art from Latin America, the Middle East, North Africa, and South and Southeast Asia, alongside works by iconic modern American artists from The Met collection. Taking its title from Zarina's 1999 suite of... Read more

THE ARMORY SHOW, NEW YORK

JOHNNY ABRAHAMS – IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI – JAMAAL PETERMAN – BRAM BOGART 5 - 8 March 2020 Armory New York Vigo is proud to present the work of Ibrahim El-Salahi, Bram Bogart, Johnny Abrahams and Jamal Peterman. Ibrahim El Salahi B. 1930, Omdurman, Sudan Born in Sudan in 1930, Ibrahim El-Salahi is one of the most important living African artists and a key figure in the development... Read more

DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB

CAVE CONTINUUM - Timothy Taylor Gallery, New York 7 February - 14 March 2020 Timothy Taylor 515 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011, USA Vigo is pleased to announce Cave Continuum, Daniel Crews-Chubb's first New York exhibition with Timothy Taylor. Crews-Chubb (b. 1984) is known for large-scale paintings that mine the legacies of Art Brut, Arte Povera, and Abstract-Expressionism, and interrogate symbols and... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

NEW IMAGES OF MAN. CURATED BY ALISON M. GINGERAS - Blum and Poe, Los Angeles 1 February - 14 March 2020 Blum and Poe 2727 S. La Cienega Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90034 Blum & Poe is pleased to present New Images of Man curated by Alison M. Gingeras. This exhibition revisits and expands upon the Museum of Modern Art’s eponymous 1959 group exhibition curated by Peter Selz that brought together... Read more

OLIVER MARSDEN – SPILLER + CAMERON

MARSDEN | SPILLER + CAMERON – Vigo Gallery, London 21 - 26 January 2020 Vigo Gallery Upper Street, London, England N1 0QH Read more

DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB

ART021 Art Shanghai 7 - 10 November 2019 ART021 Art Shanghai Shanghai Exhibition Centre, No.1000 Midle Yan An Road Founded in 2013, ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair is a constituent member of the Shanghai International Arts Festival. ART021 brings together the top galleries, institutions, artists and their works from around the world, aiming at building a platform for... Read more

ZAK OVÉ

AUTONOMOUS MORRIS – Smithson Plaza, London 5 October 2019 - 15 February 2020 Smithson Plaza, London In collaboration with Tishman Speyer, Vigo Gallery and Encounter Contemporary Smithson Plaza, 25, 26 & 27 St. James's Street, London SW1A 1HJ International real estate developer, Tishman Speyer, in collaboration with Vigo Gallery and Encounter Contemporary announces the debut exhibition of ‘Autonomous Morris’ by British-Trinidadian artist Zak... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

INTO THE NIGHT. CABARETS & CLUBS IN MODERN ART – The Barbican, London 4 October 2019 - 19 January 2020 The Barbican Barbican Centre Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS An exhilarating journey into the world’s most iconic cabarets, cafés and clubs in modern art through the lens of pioneering artists. This landmark exhibition explores the electrifying history of cabarets, cafés and clubs in modern art across the world, from London... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

SEED DRAWINGS – PAIN RELIEF – 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London 3 - 6 October 2019 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA Seed Drawings - Pain Relief @ 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA 03 October - 06 October 2019 Silkscreen Paintings – Pain Relief @ Saatchi Gallery, London Duke of York's HQ, King's Road, London,... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

SILKSCREEN PAINTINGS – PAIN RELIEF – Saatchi Gallery | Salon, London 3 - 6 October 2019 Saatchi Gallery | Salon Duke of York's HQ, King's Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4RY Seed Drawings - Pain Relief @ 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA 03 October - 06 October 2019 Silkscreen Paintings – Pain Relief @ Saatchi Gallery Duke of York's HQ, King's... Read more

BIGGS & COLLINGS

THE TERAPHIM IN THE CAMEL'S FURNITURE: SIX ICONS OF LIGHT – Vigo @ Liaigre, London 19 September 2019 - 20 January 2020 Vigo @ Liaigre 52 Conduit St, Mayfair, London W1S 2YX Biggs & Collings paintings are always about colour, but in this series, they focus on movement too. Everyone's social and political reality is dramatically exploding at the moment - it's movement in the extreme - and the ripples, spikes and... Read more

HASSAN HAJJAJ

MAISON MAROCAINE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE – Paris 11 September - 17 November 2019 Maison Européenne de la Photographie 5-7 Rue de Fourcy 75004 Paris , France The MEP is delighted to present Hassan Hajjaj’s first retrospective in France by giving him carte blanche to re-think all of our spaces. This major exhibition, reflecting a 30-year career, will feature all of Hajjaj’s most important... Read more

LEONARDO DREW

WHERE WERE YOU AT NIGHT – S|2 Gallery, London 11 July - 19 September 2019 S|2 Gallery, London 31, 33 St George St, Mayfair, London W1S 2FL From 11 July to 19 September, S│2 London presents Where Were You at Night, the second in a trilogy of group exhibitions at the gallery where a work of literature forms a conceptual framework for an exhibition and... Read more

JOHNNY ABRAHAMS – IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI – SEMIHA BERKSOY – BRAM BOGART – ZAK OVÉ – MASAAKI YAMADA

Masterpiece, London 27 June - 3 July 2019 Masterpiece Booth A25 South Grounds, The Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, SW3 4LW Read more

NIKA NEELOVA

EVER – The Tetley, Leeds 20 June - 8 September 2019 The Tetley The Tetley, Hunslet Road Leeds LS10 1JQ DOWNLOAD EXHIBITION CATALOGUE EVER is Nika Neelova's first solo exhibition in a public gallery in the UK, presenting new and existing work by the Russian-born artist. This ambitious sculptural exhibition responds to, and is in dialogue with, the building's unique art... Read more

HASSAN HAJJAJ – DERRICK ADAMS

GET UP STAND UP NOW – Somerset House, London 12 June - 15 September 2019 Somerset House West Wing Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA A major new exhibition celebrating the past 50 years of Black creativity in Britain and beyond. Beginning with the radical Black filmmaker Horace Ové and his dynamic circle of Windrush generation creative peers and extending to today’s brilliant young Black... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

PAIN RELIEF – Saatchi Gallery, London 7 June - 11 August 2019 Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York's HQ, King's Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4RY Lower Ground floor | Salon DOWNLOAD EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Please note the Saatchi gallery will be closed on the 19th July-23 July and 30-31st July, but otherwise open as usual Monday-Sunday 10am-6pm. When Ibrahim El-Salahi is drawing he becomes... Read more

LEONARDO DREW

CITY IN THE GRASS – Madison Square Gardens, New York 3 June - 15 December 2019 Madison Square Gardens New York, USA Madison Square Park Conservancy has commissioned Leonardo Drew to create a monumental new public art project for the Park opening this spring. Marking the Conservancy’s 38th commissioned exhibition and the artist’s most ambitious work to date, City in the Grass will present a topographical... Read more

HEYWOOD & CONDIE

CROSS POLLINATION – THE ATKINSON, Southport 25 May - 4 April 2019 The Atkinson THE ATKINSON Lord Street, Southport PR8 1DB A celebration of floral art and literature featuring still life and genre paintings by Duncan Grant and Ivon Hitchens, contemporary art by horticultural installation artists Heywood and Condie and a digital reworking of 17th century Dutch still life paintings by Gordon... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

KUBATANA: AN EXHIBITION WITH CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ARTISTS. CURATED BY KRISTIN HJELLEGJERDE – Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium 4 May - 22 September 2019 Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium Fabrikkgata 11C, 3320 Vestfossen, Norway “He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others.” Chinua Achebe For its spring 2019 season opening, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium in Oslo is delighted to host a major survey show of contemporary artistic practice across... Read more

DERRICK ADAMS

Frieze New York 1 - 5 May 2019 Frieze New York Randall Island's Park Beauty World is a continuation of Adams’ Deconstruction Worker series (his ongoing body of work comprised of minimal geometric constructions of angular human figures, which serve as a comparative investigation into the physical construction of the figure). The new works are large-scale acrylic works... Read more

DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB

ART BRUSSELS 25 - 28 April 2019 Vigo Gallery Avenue du Port 86c 1000 Brussels, Belgium Daniel Crews-Chubb’s paintings combine powerful visual archetypes, familiar throughout human history, Gods, mythical characters, nudes, beasts, trees and chariots. These characters are rendered in mixed media works that typically incorporate drawing, collage and painting. They embody a search for the authentic,... Read more

JOHNNY ABRAHAMS – DERRICK ADAMS – DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB

DALLAS ART FAIR 11 - 14 April 2019 Vigo Gallery 1807 Ross Avenue Dallas, Texas 75201 214.220.1278 Read more

NIKA NEELOVA

GLYPHS. CURATED BY DOMENICO DE CHERICO – Noir Gallery, Turin 11 April - 10 May 2019 Noir Gallery, Turin EXHIBITION PDF Read more

HASSAN HAJJAJ

THE PATH – New Art Exchange, Nottingham 6 April - 23 June 2019 New Art Exchange, Nottingham 39-41 Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham, NG7 6BE DOWNLOAD EXHIBITION GUIDE The Path by Hassan Hajjaj presents a unique and timely consideration of culture and identity in the modern, globalised world. Born in Morocco, Hajjaj moved to Britain aged 12. He works today between both countries. Hajjaj's artworks... Read more

DUNCAN MACASKILL – AMIR NIKRAVAN

Vigo @ Saatchi Gallery, London 1 - 19 April 2019 Vigo @ Saatchi Gallery Duke of York HQ, Kings Road, Chelsea, London AMIR NIKRAVAN Nikravan creates hybrid objects which fuse elements of painting, photography and sculpture, drawing from architectural lineages that range from the modernist Case Study houses, to the Orientalist public buildings of Edward Durell Stone, and the vernacular... Read more

JENNY WATSON

A HORSE'S TALE – Vigo @ Saatchi Gallery, London 28 March - 3 May 2019 Vigo @ Saatchi Gallery Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York's HQ, King's Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4RY Read more

DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB – IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI – BRAM BOGART

The Armory Show New York 7 - 10 March 2019 The Armory Show New York Galleries | Booth 823 Piers 92 & 94 711 12th Avenue New York City For the Armory Show 2019, Vigo presents the work of Bram Bogart, Daniel Crews-Chubb and Ibrahim El-Salahi. Two exquisite Bram Bogarts; Le Grand Blanc, 1962 and De Sombre Grijzen, 1964 are... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

1:54 Marrakech 20 - 24 February 2019 1:54 Marrakech Stand 2 La Mamounia Palace Avenue Bab Jdid Marrakech 40040 Morocco Read more

JOHNNY ABRAHAMS – AMIR NIKRAVAN

ALAC Art Fair, Los Angeles 14 - 17 February 2019 ALAC Art Fair The Barker Hangar 3021 Airport Avenue Santa Monica, CA 90405 Read more

DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB

Zona Maco, Mexico City 6 - 10 February 2019 Zona Maco NP32 Centro Citibanamex, Hall D, Mexico City Daniel Crews-Chubb’s paintings combine powerful visual archetypes, familiar throughout human history; Gods, mythical characters, nudes, beasts, trees and chariots. These characters are rendered in mixed media works that typically incorporate drawing, collage and painting. They embody a search for the authentic,... Read more

AMIR NIKRAVAN

NEUTRAL RAINBOW – Vigo Gallery, London 25 January - 28 February 2019 Vigo Gallery Vigo Gallery is pleased to present Neutral Rainbow, Amir Nikravan’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The works in Neutral Rainbow centre around an interest in the politics of form, interrogating how form becomes a facade for meaning, and how it shapes our understanding of surface, colour, shape,... Read more

HEYWOOD & CONDIE

NATURAL – Vigo Gallery, London 20 December 2018 - 16 January 2019 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE Consult the genius of the place in all; That tells the waters or to rise, or fall; Or helps th' ambitious hill the heav'ns to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the vale; Calls in the country, catches opening glades, Joins willing woods, and varies... Read more

HEYWOOD & CONDIE

SACRÉ BLUR – 25 Porchester Place, Hyde Park Estate, London 22 November 2018 - 22 June 2019 25 Porchester Place, Hyde Park Estate, London, W2 2PE 3pm - 11pm every day Porchester Place The picturesque destination, Connaught Village located near Hyde Park , welcomes a new outdoor art installation The Greenhouse by Heywood and Condie, first seen as part of the Barbican exhibition, to sit amongst the... Read more

JOHNNY ABRAHAMS

I AM THE TORTOISE, BUT ALSO THE CAT AND THE DOG – Vigo Gallery, London 16 November - 13 December 2018 Vigo Gallery PRESS RELEASE JOHNNY ABRAHAMS CV Vigo is excited to announce its second solo exhibition with New York based artist, Johnny Abrahams. Known for his mastery of intricate optical geometries, the exhibition is comprised of Abraham’s most recent series of paintings, which illustrate his progress towards quietude. The exhibition... Read more

SEMIHA BERKSOY

FRIEZE MASTERS LONDON. A JOINT PRESENTATION WITH GALERIST, ISTANBUL 3 October 2018 - 8 October 2019 Stand G15 Regents Park, London, NW1 4HA DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE LINK TO SEMIHA BERKSOY CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ Vigo Gallery, London and Galerist, Istanbul is proud to present, a solo presentation of historically significant paintings by Semiha Berksoy (1910 – 2004) at Frieze Masters 2018. One of the most notable figures in... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

MEDITATION TREE – 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London 3 - 7 October 2018 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair Courtyard, Somerset House Strand, London WC2R 1LA “It has been some time now, since I think the year 2000, that the idea came to me about this tree called Haraz…it’s a huge tree with a very, very soft pulp – and there is a legend... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

FORESTS AND SPIRITS: FIGURATIVE ART FROM THE KHARTOUM SCHOOL – Salon | Saatchi Gallery, London 28 September - 25 November 2018 Salon | Saatchi Gallery Duke of York's HQ, King's Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4RY DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE SALON, in collaboration with Roubi L’Roubi, is delighted to present Forests and Spirits: F igurative art from the Khartoum S ch ool, an exhibition of recent works by Sudanese artists Salah Elmur, Kamala... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

BY HIS WILL WE TEACH BIRDS HOW TO FLY IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI IN BLACK AND WHITE. CURATED BY SALAHI HASSAN AND TOBY CLARKE – Vigo Gallery, London 19 September - 10 November 2018 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE It is that moment in prayer In silence we feel We were there Where things begin in His name To make real sense No more no less Ibrahim El-Salahi, 2017 This exhibition is a celebration of important black and white works spanning the... Read more

ZAK OVÉ

THE INVISIBLE MAN AND THE MASQUE OF BLACKNESS – New Art Centre, Salisbury 15 September 2018 - 15 March 2019 New Art Centre Salisbury SP5 1BG Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

AFRICAN-ATLANTIC HISTORIES – MASP, São Paulo 30 June - 21 October 2018 MASP AVENIDA PAULISTA, 1578 01310-200 SÃO PAULO-BRASIL More than 400 works, over five centuries of production, from around 210 artists from Brazil and abroad, from various contexts and times, occupy both institutions. At Instituto Tomie Ohtake, two exhibition rooms will be occupied, while at MASP all the temporary exhibition spaces... Read more

ZAK OVÉ

THE INVISIBLE MAN AND THE MASQUE OF BLACKNESS – San Francisco Civic Centre 28 June - 7 November 2018 San Francisco Civic Centre Read more

DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB – IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI – MARCUS HARVEY – BRAM BOGART

MASTERPIECE LONDON – Stand B22, South Grounds, The Royal Hospital Chelsea, London 27 June - 4 July 2018 Stand B22 South Grounds, The Royal Hospital Chelsea, Chelsea, London SW3 4LW DOWNLOAD Read more

DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB – LEONARDO DREW – IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI – MARCUS HARVEY – DUNCAN MACASKILL

TREE – Vigo Gallery, London 20 June - 23 August 2018 Vigo Gallery This exhibition brings together five artists who have made works relating to the Tree. Throughout history Trees have held a particular fascination for artists not least because of the associated ideas of growth, nature resonating with human development and legacy. On 18th April 2018, The Ashmolean Museum, the... Read more

DERRICK ADAMS

TRANSMISSION – MCA, Denver 8 June - 26 August 2018 MCA Denver 1485 Delgany St, Denver, CO 80202 The sculptures, installations, and works on paper included in this exhibition illustrate American artist Derrick Adams’ ongoing study of racial identity as it is both filtered through popular culture and also reimagined for the future. Each body of work featured in this... Read more

LEONARDO DREW – HASSAN HAJJAJ – ZAK OVÉ

TALISMAN IN THE AGE OF DIFFERENCE – Stephen Friedman, London 5 June - 21 July 2018 Stephen Friedman 25-28 Old Burlington St, Mayfair, London W1S 3AN DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE Larry Achiampong (British / Ghanaian) Derrick Adams (American) Ghada Amer (Egyptian) Benny Andrews (American) Michael Armitage (British / Kenyan) Romare Bearden American) Armand Boua (Ivorian) Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (Ivorian) Sonia Boyce (British) Jake & Dinos Chapman (British)... Read more

DUNCAN MACASKILL

DFM RECORDINGS – Vigo Gallery, London 27 April - 25 May 2018 Vigo Gallery For Duncan MacAskill’s third show at Vigo he revisits his DNA paintings of the 90s with three brand new works presented alongside three classic nineties paintings. In addition, the exhibition features several highlights from his ten-year show at Toynbee Studios. He was artist in residence between 2004 and... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

A SUDANESE ARTIST IN OXFORD – The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 18 April - 2 September 2018 The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Beaumont Street, Oxford DOWNLOAD EXHIBITION CATALOGUE The exhibition will provide an important opportunity for local audiences to engage with Ibrahim El-Salahi’s art for the first time, whilst also presenting a new understanding to those familiar with it. It will be free of charge and aims to... Read more

ZAK OVÉ

ECO-VISIONARIES: ART AND ARCHITECTURE AFTER THE ANTHROPOCENE – Vigo Gallery, London 11 April - 8 October 2018 Vigo Gallery In MAAT’s first collaboration with several European museums, the Eco-Visionaries: Art and Architecture after the Anthropocene project is centred on current practices that propose critical and creative visions vis-à-vis the environmental transformations that are disturbing our planet. At a moment when climate changes are even more widely felt,... Read more

ZAK OVÉ

STAR LINER – Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai 19 March - 17 May 2018 Lawrie Shabibi Unit 21, Alserkal Avenue Al-Quoz 1, Dubai, UAE DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE Lawrie Shabibi is delighted to announce Star Liner , a major new show by British-Trinidadian artist Zak Ové, his first solo exhibition at the gallery and in the Middle East region, opening on 19 March to coincide... Read more

HEYWOOD & CONDIE

BREATHE: A GREEN LUNG – Barbican Centre, London 13 March - 7 May 2018 Barbican Centre Main Foyer Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS An installation reflecting upon the interactions between people and plants, that are essential for creating healthier cities. A lack of clean air is a recognised problem in urban areas. One way of addressing this is by increasing the amount of plants... Read more

DERRICK ADAMS

FUTURE PEOPLE – The Armory Show New York 8 - 11 March 2018 The Armory Show New York #P1 Piers 92 & 94, 711 12th Avenue at 55th Street, New York, NY, USA Future People, a solo exhibition by Derrick Adams, was first conceived for Theaster Gates’ Stoney Island Arts Bank as is a multifaceted experience combining large scale two-dimensional works on paper... Read more

HENRY KROKATSIS

SAUNAKABIN – Jerwood Gallery, Hastings 27 January - 16 September 2018 Jerwood Gallery Rock-A-Nore Rd, Hastings TN34 3DW Kabin takes the form of a handcrafted wooden architectural structure drawing on the grammar of the small, feature-rich buildings typically found in British parks and on promenades such as bandstands, seated shelters, and ornate sheds like the timber-framed tool hut in Soho Square... Read more

DERRICK ADAMS

SANCTUARY – Museum of Art and Design, New York 25 January - 12 August 2018 Museum of Art and Design, New York THE MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN JEROME AND SIMONA CHAZEN BUILDING / 2 COLUMBUS CIRCLE / NEW YORK, NY 10019 'There will be a time sometime in the future when this guide will not have to be published. That's when we as a... Read more

HENRY KROKATSIS

HOUSEHOLD FAITH – Vigo Gallery, London 12 January - 10 February 2018 Vigo Gallery There should be a short paragraph or two summarising the exhibition quickly. People don't want to read masses and masses of text immediately. If they do want to read more, then they can click on the link. The Mirror's place in science, magic and myth is well documented.... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

BY HIS WILL WE TEACH BIRDS HOW TO FLY. IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI IN BLACK AND WHITE – Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam 23 November 2017 - 1 March 2018 Prince Claus Fund Gallery Three Crossings: El-Salahi, Hammons, Brouwn Herengracht 603, 1017 CE Amsterdam DOWNLOAD EXHIBITION CATALOGUE DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE The Prince Claus Fund, together with the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK) present three visionary artists whose works have enriched global discourses of contemporary art. On view at three... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

LIFE DIARY – Sothebys, London 6 October - 17 November 2017 Sothebys S|2 Gallery, London 31 St. George Street, London W1S 2FJ Ibrahim El-Salahi's autobiographical 82-part Life Diary, alongside a monumental abstract painting from 2015. Born in 1930 in Omdurman, Sudan, Ibrahim El-Salahi’s life is one of art and social conscience intertwined. No one artist has been more instrumental in the... Read more

BRAM BOGART

LOUSY JANE – Frieze Masters, London 5 - 8 October 2017 Frieze Masters Stand H11 Regents Park, London, NW1 4HA DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE Bram Bogart, 1921–2012,was dedicated to exploring the materiality of paint. Like Burri and Fontana, he challenged and blurred traditional notions of painting and sculpture, building three dimensional paintings comprised of mostly natural ingredients including various oils, glue, pigment, powdered... Read more

BRAM BOGART

ZONZUCHT – Vigo Gallery, London 4 October - 22 November 2017 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE Bram Bogart, 1921–2012,was dedicated to exploring the materiality of paint. Like Burri and Fontana, he challenged and blurred traditional notions of painting and sculpture, building three dimensional paintings comprised of mostly natural ingredients including various oils, glue, pigment, powdered chalk, and water. This investigation into the... Read more

DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB

ICONOCLASTS – Saatchi Gallery, London 27 September 2017 - 7 January 2018 Saatchi Gallery Duke of York's HQ, King's Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4RY DOWNLOAD EXHIBITION CATALOGUE London, UK – Saatchi Gallery presents ICONOCLASTS: ART OUT OF THE MAINSTREAM, a major new exhibition featuring the work of thirteen contemporary artists. Iconoclasts explores the experimental and often transformational practices of a small group... Read more

HASSAN HAJJAJ

LA CARAVANE – Somerset House, London 4 September 2017 - 7 January 2018 Somerset House Terrace Rooms, South Wing Strand, London WC2R 1LA DOWNLOAD From 5 October, Somerset House and 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, in association with Vigo Gallery presents Hassan Hajjaj: La Caravane, the British Moroccan artist’s first show in London for seven years. The exhibition will continue throughout Somerset's House... Read more

BRAM BOGART

WITTE DE WIT – Salon 002, Saatchi Gallery, London 11 July - 10 September 2017 Salon 002, Saatchi Gallery Duke of York's HQ, King's Road, London SW3 4SQ DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE ESSAY BY SAM CORNISH SALON is delighted to announce its second exhibition, a presentation of works by the acclaimed Belgian painter Bram Bogart, staged in collaboration with Vigo Gallery, London. While Bogart is an artist... Read more

DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB – ZAK OVÉ – CAROLINE ACHAINTRE – BEN ENWONWU – CHE LOVELACE

PLAYING MAS – Vigo Gallery, London 21 June - 21 July 2017 Vigo Gallery Playing Mas brings together the work of four contemporary artists who have a shared interest in the potency and power of carnival and masquerade to engender creativity and emancipation of the self. Their work will be shown alongside a small early Masquerade painting from 1940 by the Nigerian... Read more

DERRICK ADAMS

FUTURE PEOPLE – Stoney Island Arts Bank, Chicago 6 June - 18 September 2017 Stoney Island Arts Bank 6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649, USA Future People, a solo exhibition by Derrick Adams, is a multifaceted experience combining large scale two dimensional works on paper mimicking spaceship windows with galactic scenes, a video projection animating the objects included in the collages, sculpture... Read more

STEPHEN CHAMBERS

THE COURT OF REDONDA. LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA – 57th International Art Exhibition, Venice 13 May - 26 November 2017 57th International Art Exhibition Collateral Events Ca' Dandolo, San Polo, 2879 (Calle del Traghetto San Tomà) DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE The British artist Stephen Chambers presents an installation of paintings conceived for the historic setting of Ca’ Dandolo, Venice. The Court of Redonda explores the creation of myths, articulating the role... Read more

DERRICK ADAMS

PATRICK KELLY, THE JOURNEY – The Studio Museum, New York 3 May 2017 - 23 February 2018 The Studio Museum, Harlem 144 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027, USA DOWNLOAD EXHIBITION BROCHURE Derrick Adams: Patrick Kelly, The Journey is an inHarlemproject presented by The Studio Museum in Harlem in partnership with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the New York Public Library’s Countee... Read more

DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB

YASIGI – The Vault, Denver 27 April - 5 June 2017 The Vault 3758 Osage Street, Denver Read more

OLIVER MARSDEN

EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING – Vigo Gallery, London 26 April - 27 May 2017 Vigo Gallery A DAILY PRACTICE BY COLIN GLEN ISOMETRIC PAINTINGS BY COLIN GLEN For Oliver Marsden’s third show with the gallery, Vigo is proud to present Everything is Everything including some his most accomplished works to date across several bodies of work, including the Liquiform, Dub, Fade and Ohm series.... Read more

ZAK OVÉ

THE INVISIBLE MAN AND THE MASQUE OF BLACKNESS – Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 8 April 2017 - 4 June 2018 Yorkshire Sculpture Park Lower Park West Bretton, Wakefield WF4 4JX This spring, Yorkshire Sculpture Park welcome an extraordinary assembly of 80 sculptures by British-Trinidadian artist Zak Ové. Black and Blue: The Invisible Man and the Masque of Blackness, a mass of identical two-metre-tall figures, is a striking statement within the... Read more

ZAK OVÉ

MOKO JUMBIES – The British Museum, London 28 March 2017 - 28 March 2018 British Museum Africa Galleries, Room 25 Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3DG The Moko Jumbies were installed on the 30th March in the Africa Galleries, to view Zak Ové interviewed by John Snow for Channel 4 news please click here: 30/03/2017: https://www.channel4.com/news/zak-ove-tackling-slavery-through-caribbean-sculpture The Art Newspaper: British Museum permanently installs... Read more

BRAM BOGART – KADAR BROCK – DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB – LEONARDO DREW – IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

The Armory Show New York 2 - 6 March 2017 The Armory Show New York Stand 621, Pier 94, Galleries section Pier 92 and 94, 711 12th Ave, New York, NY 10019, USA Read more

DERRICK ADAMS

NETWORK – California African American Museum, Los Angeles 1 March - 1 July 2017 California African American Museum, Los Angeles 600 State Drive, Exposition Park Los Angeles, California 90037 New York–based multidisciplinary artist Derrick Adams works creatively across many mediums to examine how television and mass media shape contemporary culture. Derrick Adams: Network , the artist’s first major museum exhibition in Southern California, features... Read more

MATTHEW BURROWS

BEYOND THE GARDEN WALL – Vigo Gallery, London 24 February - 8 April 2017 Vigo Gallery For his second show with Vigo, Burrows presents all new work completed over the last two years. ‘I’ve explored beyond the garden wall in every direction, on foot and nearly always on my own, mostly running, although I do walk when it feels appropriate. It*s not a race... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

'PROTEST' AT MOMA. MOMA COLLECTION – MoMA, New York 3 February - 3 August 2017 The Museum of Modern Art Gallery Iabel 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019 Read more

MARCUS HARVEY

GIMME SHELTER – Vigo Gallery, London 27 January - 18 February 2017 Vigo Gallery Gimme Shelter Marcus Harvey’s second show at Vigo Gallery brings to London selected works from his most significant museum exhibition to date, Inselaffe at the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings late last year. The exhibition includes some of Harvey’s most recent paintings, ceramics and bronze sculptures which employ a... 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

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

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

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

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... 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

HEYWOOD & CONDIE

LIMELIGHT. THE GARDENER – Jerwood Gallery, Hastings 24 November 2015 - 22 May 2016 Jerwood Gallery Rock-A-Nore Rd, Hastings, East Sussex TN34 3DW Jerwood Gallery's courtyard is now hosting a beautiful installation which brings a warm light to these dark days. The artists Heywood & Condie have created a piece of sculptural architecture consisting of a greenhouse constructed from 18th and 19th Century stained... Read more

LEONARDO DREW

Vigo Gallery, London 9 October - 24 November 2015 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD Drew is known for wall based abstract sculptural installations most often based on the exploration and testing of the grid structure. These works incorporate created, manipulated and found materials constructed from fabricated wood, sheet metal, tree branches, roots, paper, raw cotton, rust, found objects and mud. These... Read more

ISABEL YELLIN

DO A DOUBLE TAKE AND ALL WILL BE CLEAR – Vigo Gallery, London 10 September - 1 October 2015 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD For her second solo show at the gallery, Isabel Yellin investigates our relationship with the synthetic. The genesis of this body of work began with the notion of “skin and bone”, with the artist creating her own play on this theme using PVC leatherette and corset boning.... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

THE ARAB SPRING NOTEBOOK – Galerist, Istanbul 1 September - 3 October 2015 Galerist Meşrutiy et Cd. No:1, 34430, Istanbul, Turkey DOWNLOAD ‘The Arab Spring Notebook’ is a series of 46 black, ink drawings originally made in a single sketchbook, that comprise El Salahi’s artistic response to the Arab Spring. The work will be exhibited for the very first time at Galerist Studio... Read more

ZAK OVÉ

MOKO JUMBIES. CELEBRATING AFRICA – The British Museum, London 28 July - 13 September 2015 The British Museum, London Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG As part of Celebrating Africa at the British Museum the UK-Trinidadian artist Zak Ové has created two Moko Jumbie sculptures . These spectacular seven metre high carnival figures on stilts will be displayed in the Great Court. The male and... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

FLAMENCO – Vigo Gallery, London 29 May - 31 July 2015 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE HERE DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE Following on from Frieze, Vigo gallery presents Flamenco, a group of paintings first exhibited at Tate Modern in El-Salahi’s 2013 retrospective. In the summer of 2009 El-Salahi was one of three artists invited by the art collector AbdulMagid Breish to spend time... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

HARAZA – Jerwood Gallery, Hastings 28 April - 31 May 2015 Jerwood Gallery Rock-A-Nore Road, Hastings, East Sussex TN34 3DW DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE HERE ‘I keep working on one particular theme inspired by a tree, an acacia locally called the Haraza that grows on the banks of the Nile. During the rainy season the tree is leafless, it blossoms with freshly budding... Read more

TOBY CHRISTIAN

SOME SKY – Vigo Gallery, London 17 April - 5 May 2015 Vigo Gallery ‘Some Sky’ is Toby Christian’s first show at Vigo. Christian’s expansive practice centres around his written responses to objects, which range from rare museological artefacts to more familiar domestic items. Appropriating the descriptive style of the film treatment, written in the present tense, his texts describe the minutiae... Read more

DUNCAN MACASKILL

STEER IN TIN SIDECAR – Vigo Gallery, London 25 March - 10 April 2015 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE Steer in Tin Sidecar is Duncan MacAskill’s first solo show at Vigo gallery. The exhibition comprises two bodies of work; large paintings made of ash and glue and a small selection of MacAskill’s ongoing, epic series of postcard works. Superficially different in scale, media and apparent... Read more

ANTOINE PUISAIS

BETWEEN THE MANIFEST AND THE HIDDEN – Vigo Gallery, London 25 February - 17 March 2015 Vigo Gallery ANTOINE PUISAIS VISUAL ESSAY Between the Manifest and the Hidden is Antoine Puisais’s first London solo show. “I have only fractured and vague memories of my often dark and fraught childhood. It took till my early twenties for the realization to dawn that something inside me was deeply... Read more

KADAR BROCK

UNBURIAL RITES – Vigo Gallery, London 14 January - 11 February 2015 Vigo Gallery ART NEWSPAPER: ARTIST TO WATCH IN 2015 Un burial rites is Kadar Brock’s second solo show at Vigo Gallery, London. Comprised of several distinct series of paintings and sculptures generated by interrelated processes, unburial rites presents a microcosm of Brock’s practice. Ideas, energy and matter generate an ecosystem... Read more

KONSTANTINO DREGOS

LAPSUS – Vigo Gallery, London 19 November - 19 December 2014 Vigo Gallery A lapsus (lapse, slip, error) is an involuntary mistake made while writing or speaking. Vigo gallery presents Lapsus the first London solo show by Greek artist Konsantino Dregos Dregos is primarily a painter but a painter for whom painting is a profoundly philosophical activity. For him the artwork... Read more

KADAR BROCK – HEYWOOD & CONDIE – LEONARDO DREW – HENRY KROKATSIS – PENNY LAMB – DUNCAN MACASKILL – NIKA NEELOVA – GABRIE

BRAND NEW SECOND HAND – Vigo Gallery, London 14 October - 10 November 2014 Vigo Gallery Vigo Gallery presents Brand New Second Hand , an exhibition that brings together 14 international artists in whose practice destruction and creation are intertwined, who create new forms from old, who refashion the discarded and the overlooked into art and who challenge notions of originality and the idea... Read more

ISABEL YELLIN

UNDULATE – Vigo Gallery, London 12 September - 3 October 2014 Vigo Gallery Vigo gallery presents Undulate , the first London solo show by Isabel Yellin. Yellin makes fizzy, contemporary, painterly, abstract works. Attractive, sharp and playful, they look like catchy 1980’s pop songs trying to burst out of a clutch of heavy 1950’s action paintings. “I sometime use a crinkled... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

THE TREE – Vigo Gallery, London 4 July - 4 September 2014 Vigo Gallery IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI FEATURED IN THE TELEGRAPH 2014 Following on from his major solo show at TATE Modern last year, Vigo is excited to present an exhibition of Ibrahim El Salahi’s Tree works from the 4 July through to the 4 September 2014. These works, featured in his solo... Read more

KEITH COVENTRY

ONTOLOGICAL PICTURES – Vigo Gallery, London 29 May - 19 June 2014 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD ‘Ontology: Branch of metaphysics concerned with identifying, in the most general terms, the kinds of things that actually exist.’ (www.philosophypages.com) Keith Coventry’s series of Ontological Pictures (1996 – 2004), like his celebrated Estate Paintings (1992-2000), comprise of visual elements lifted from the stylized aerial view plan... Read more

OLIVER MARSDEN

FADE – Vigo Gallery, London 9 April - 14 May 2014 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD Vigo is proud to present Marsden’s latest series Fade , a logical extension of the Harmonic series in which he attempted to capture the movement of water and sound waves in circle paintings comprised of dozens of layers of glaze and thinned paint. The Harmonics played on... Read more

MATTHEW BURROWS

PARA-DICE – Vigo Gallery, London 26 February - 28 March 2014 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD Vigo is proud to announce Para-dice, Matthew Burrows’ first solo show with Vigo. The paintings explore the relationship between certainty and doubt, a condition Burrows sees as akin to that of faith, - a place he believes painting is well equipped to occupy. Highly structured and spatially... Read more

BIGGS & COLLINGS

LIVING CREATURE – Vigo Gallery, London 22 January - 19 February 2014 Vigo Gallery EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Collaborative artists Biggs and Collings work reveals a deep understanding of modern and pre-modern art. They believe colour and form in painting can produce a structural space that is like observable reality. Instead of depicting recognizable objects they use color, pattern and repetition to create complex... Read more

ZAK OVÉ

SPEAKER – Vigo Gallery, London 27 November - 10 January 2013 Vigo Gallery Vigo presents Zak Ové’s first solo show with the gallery following on from his recent participation in Glasstress at the Venice Biennale. Ové works between sculpture, film, painting and photography, often collaging the various elements using found, cast and recovered materials. He is interested in reinterpreting lost culture... Read more

HASSAN HAJJAJ – ZAK OVÉ

CHAOS INTO CLARITY: RE-POSSESSING A FUNKTIONING UTOPIA. CURATED BY SHANNON AYERS HOLDEN – Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah 26 October 2013 - 26 January 2014 Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah Building F, SAF Art Spaces, Al Mureijah, Sharjah Heritage Area DOWNLOAD Chaos into Clarity: Re-Possessing a Funktioning Utopia is an investigation of the Aesthetic of Funk. Curated by Shannon Ayers Holden, this exhibition is an exploration of the radical power of transformation, the theme of transcendence... Read more

BOYLE FAMILY

CONTEMPORARY ARCHAEOLOGY. THE WORLD SERIES LAZIO SITE, 1968-2013 – Vigo Gallery, London 16 October - 16 November 2013 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD Vigo Gallery is proud to announce The Lazio Site, the first exhibition of a major Boyle Family World Series project since the exhibition of their Barra site at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2010. Boyle Family began their World Series in 1968 and it... Read more

JOHNNY ABRAHAMS

INTERFERENCE STUDY – Vigo Gallery, London 12 September - 4 October 2013 This exhibition involves works from Abrahams first two Series. Series 1 is an ongoing exploration of the fundamentals of design, testing and pushing the possibilities of the most basic element of design: line. Within the panel, the collections of black and white lines create a strained and dissonant juxtaposition. The... Read more

LEONARDO DREW

Vigo Gallery, London 18 June - 26 July 2013 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD VIGO is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition of wall-based sculptures by Brooklyn based artist Leonardo Drew. Drew is known for reflective abstract sculptural installations most often based on exploration of a grid or framework, which incorporate created, manipulated and found materials constructed from fabricated wood,... Read more

ZAK OVÉ

GLASSTRESS. WHITE LIGHT / WHITE HEAT – Berengo Centre for Contemporary Art and Glass, Venice 1 June - 24 November 2013 Berengo Centre for Contemporary Art and Glass Campiello della Pescheria, Murano-Venezia DOWNLOAD Curated by James Putnam and Adirano Berengo. Produced in collaboration between Berengo Studio (Venice), Venice Projects (Venice), London College of Fashion (London) and The Wallace Collection (London) Participating artists include: AES+F, ALICE ANDERSON, POLLY APFELBAUM, RON ARAD, AYMAN... Read more

MARCUS HARVEY

TATTOO – Vigo Gallery, London 15 May - 7 June 2013 Vigo Gallery For this, Marcus Harvey’s first solo show at Vigo Gallery, the artist is embroiled in a battle between the romance of painting and the surety of photography, accentuating and deconstructing their relationship. Harvey’s highly worked figurative paintings and sculptures seek out iconic forms of Britishness that have an... Read more

NIKA NEELOVA

FRAGMENTS SHORED AGAINST THE RUINS – Vigo Gallery, London 12 April - 3 May 2013 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD Nika Neelova creates current sculptures that derive from selected past and hypothetical future naratives. Exploring the notion of the ruin, the work is addressing segments of existence that have or must collapse, referencing the disillusionement and the disintegration of utopias that ensues from their confrontation with reality.... Read more

BIGGS & COLLINGS

SUSPICIOUS UTOPIAS – Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth 23 March - 12 May 2013 Fort Worth Contemporary Arts 2900 West Berry Street,Fort Worth, TX 7610 DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE The show, which is called Suspicious Utopias features two magnificent large oil paintings featuring Biggs & Collings' triangular motif; a wall to ceiling collage, with the same motif, comprising both digital prints and hand-made works on paper,... Read more

GARY KOMARIN

IN WHICH THE BARON FALLOW – Vigo Gallery, London 14 March - 3 April 2013 Vigo Gallery Born in New York City, the son of a Czech architect and Viennese writer, Gary Komarin is a risk taker in contemporary painterly abstraction. Komarin’s stalwart images have an epic quality that grip the viewer with the idea that he or she is looking at a contemporary description... Read more

AYAN FARAH

Vigo Gallery, London 21 November - 3 December 2012 Vigo Gallery Vigo gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of paintings by Ayan Farah. This is the Swedish-Somali artist's first solo show in London, and her first with Vigo Gallery. Ayan Farahs output is defined by her interest in the provisional and the ephemeral. Though the work she... Read more

ULULATION

BOYLE FAMILY – KADAR BROCK – BIGGS & COLLINGS – LEONARDO DREW – MARCUS HARVEY – HENRY KROKATSIS – AYAN FARAH – JASON MARTIN – Vigo Gallery, London 8 October - 9 November 2012 Vigo Gallery Read more

KADAR BROCK

DISENCHANT MAGIC ITEM – Vigo Gallery, London 12 September - 16 October 2012 Vigo Gallery Vigo gallery is pleased to present Kadar Brock's first show in the UK. This will be the last show at the gallery's Bond St location before moving to its new premises on Dering St in October. Kadar Brock makes iconic work that manifests universal processes. Every artist is... Read more

LONDON TWELVE

MATTHEW BURROWS – BIGGS & COLLINGS – HEYWOOD & CONDIE – HASSAN HAJJAJ – MARCUS HARVEY – HENRY KROKATSIS – OLIVER MARSDE – City Gallery of Prague 29 June - 23 September 2012 City Gallery of Prague The Stone Bell, Old Town Square, Prague EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Curated by Toby Clarke Participating artists: Jonathan Baldock, Matthew Burrows, Biggs & Collings, James Capper, Cedric Christie, Dan Coombs, Keith Coventry, Howard Dyke, Tom Gallant, Neil Gall, Steve Goddard, Stephane Graff, Hassan Hajjaj, Marcus Harvey, Heywood &... Read more

GRID

Vigo Gallery, London 23 May 2012 - 15 June 2013 Vigo Gallery Artists Include: Leonardo Drew - Keith Coventry - Dadamaino - Michael Samuels - Chris Succo - Penny Lamb - Mark Francis - Nicky Hirst - Henry Krokatsis - Biggs & Collings - Wycliffe Stutchbury. The selected works in Grid are a result of personal experiences and exploration by... Read more

BRITISH. AN EXPLORATION OF BRITAIN'S CULTURAL IDENTITY

HEYWOOD & CONDIE – MARCUS HARVEY – HENRY KROKATSIS – PENNY LAMB – ZAK OVÉ – KEITH COVENTRY – HEW LOCKE – NEAL TAIT – Vigo Gallery, London 17 April - 11 May 2012 Vigo Gallery The exhibition explores cultural identity in the context of contemporary Britain. What does it mean in the 21st century to be British? Who can and can't consider themselves to be British? The artists in this exhibition have each in their own way responded to the issue of identity.... Read more

NEAL TAIT

Volta NY, New York 8 - 11 March 2012 Volta NY 7 W 34th Street, New York, USA DOWNLOAD In Neal Tait’s paintings, images of everyday objects such as a piece of furniture or a birdhouse, are combined with ambiguous, embryonic forms that join together the uneasy space between physical reality and the subconscious mind. The result is an... Read more

BIGGS & COLLINGS

THE WHOLE EARTH – Vigo Gallery, London 13 January - 10 February 2012 Vigo Gallery EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Highly acclaimed collaborative artists Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings are internationally renowned for their works on canvas and in mosaic. Opening on 13 January 2012 at Vigo Gallery, the artists will show a selection of innovative large-scale paintings. Deliberately choosing to promote abstract values, their work... Read more

OLIVER MARSDEN

CULT – Vigo Gallery, London 23 November - 16 December 2011 Vigo Gallery Read more

HENRY KROKATSIS

Peggy Guggenheim Gallery, Venice 15 October - 1 January 2011 Peggy Guggenheim Gallery Dorsoduro, 701-704, 30123 Venezia VE, Italy Read more

LEONARDO DREW

Vigo Gallery, London 12 October - 11 November 2011 VIGO is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of wall-based tree sculptures by American artist Leonardo Drew, on view from 12th October - 11th November 2011. Drew is known for sculptural installations most often based on exploration of a grid or framework, which incorporate created, manipulated and found materials constructed... Read more