Ocula Conversation Artist Taloi Havini and Ruth McDougall, curator of Pacific art at Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, discuss Havini's first Australian solo exhibition, Reclamation .
Latest Ocula Report Sydney Biennale Connects Here with Everywhere By Soo-Min Shim, Sydney 'This year's Biennale of Sydney seems like a corrective,' writes Soo-Min Shim, 'prioritising autonomy in an international exhibition format that has all too often omitted or sidelined First Nations artists.'
Ocula Insight Hell is a Place on Earth: P·P·O·W Looks to History in Context of Covid-19 By Stephanie Bailey, London In the United States, parallels have been drawn between the HIV/AIDS crisis and what is unfolding with Covid-19. These connections feed into P·P·O·W's online exhibition, Hell is a Place on Earth. Heaven is a Place in Your Head .
Since Victoria Miro founded her eponymous gallery in Cork Street, Mayfair, in 1985, the gallery has grown to represent over 40 artists and estates. With a reputation for presenting ground-breaking artworks from around the world, Victoria Miro has exhibition spaces in Mayfair and Wharf Road in London, and a further gallery space in Venice.
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Victoria Miro represents a range of contemporary international artists, a number of whom engage with a broader definition of an art experience. Sarah Sze amasses everyday objects to construct her intricate, immersive installations and sculptures, often conducting quasi-scientific experiments about time, space, and light; Doug Aitken offers a stimulating encounter with art through his installations that incorporate video, sculpture, photography, sound, and performance; and Yayoi Kusama, active since her debut in the late 1950s in New York, creates paintings, sculptures, installations and outdoor projects which, featuring motifs such as the polka dot and the pumpkin, allude to microscopic and macroscopic universes. In 2018, some 92,000 visitors attended her solo exhibition at the gallery’s Wharf Road location. Critiques of contemporary society can be glimpsed in the works of gallery artists such as Elmgreen & Dragset, the artist duo known for witty sculptures and installations that examine the structures of social spaces and power relations, and Grayson Perry, whose ceramics, tapestries, prints, and cast iron and bronze sculptures chronicle the complexities that make up the human experience, including gender, religion, and class.
A number of artists on the Victoria Miro roster work primarily with the medium of painting, expanding its boundaries and collapsing the hierarchy between high art and popular culture. Secundino Hernández borrows from art-historical traditions such as Action Painting and popular art forms such as cartoons, using energetic brush strokes, while NS Harsha, with inspiration from Indian painting traditions and comic books, creates not only paintings but also sculptures and site-specific installations that consider the idea of borders in flux.
Exhibitions & Fairs
Victoria Miro offers an international programme of solo and group presentations alongside artist projects. Notable group shows include Protest, a 2016 exhibition that brought together a range of politically charged artwork from selected gallery artists and other prominent international artists, such as Richard Prince, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Kara Walker. In 2019, installation artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien, who is represented by the gallery, curated the group show Rock My Soul at its Wharf Road location. The exhibition surveyed artistic responses to figuration, abstraction, and self-representation through new and historical works by gallery artists Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Wangechi Mutu and Howardena Pindell, alongside works by Frida Orupabo, Tschabalala Self, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, among others.
As one of the leading contemporary art galleries in the world, Victoria Miro is a conspicuous presence at international art fairs such as Art Basel, Basel, Hong Kong and Miami Beach; Frieze, London, Los Angeles and New York; The Armory Show, New York; FIAC, Paris.
Ocula Photolog The Armory Show 2020 The Armory Show (5–8 March) features presentations by leading international galleries, innovative artist commissions, and dynamic public programs. The 2020 edition of The Armory Show, welcomes 183 exhibitors from 32 countries, convening Midtown Manhattan at Piers 90 and 94.
Ocula Photolog Art Basel Miami Beach 2019 'In Art Basel's American show, leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia show significant work from the masters of Modern and contemporary art, as well as the new generation of emerging stars. Paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, films, and editioned works of the highest quality are on display in the main...
Ocula Photolog FIAC, Paris 2019 'FIAC brings together 197 galleries from 29 countries. Coming together from all over the world, the diversity of FIAC's exhibitors and their loyalty year after year reflects the magnetic attraction of Paris in theinternational creative community.' – FIAC Paris, Press Release.
Ocula Photolog Frieze London 2019 'Frieze London brings together more than 160 galleries from 36 countries, representing the fair's most international edition since its launch. Introducing new curators and sections showcasing performance, emerging artists and the contemporary significance of complex art genealogies and colonial legacies, Frieze London creates an exceptional moment...
Related Press Idris Khan’s first UK public sculpture addresses our photo-obsessed culture 13 November 2019, Wallpaper* Rather than scrolling through a million images at a dizzying rate, the sculpture itself asks us to pause for a moment in quiet contemplation. Its textured surface, which appears almost frayed, echoes the delicate edges of each photographic print. Together, these lines create a dynamic rhythm that relates to much the artist's other works, in which...
Related Press Paper work – the British Museum shows off its collection of contemporary drawings 4 November 2019, Apollo Magazine Anish Kapoor, Louise Bourgeois, Rachel Whiteread, Gerhard Richter. These may not be names that spring to mind when you think of the British Museum, but they all have work filed away in its extensive archive of prints and drawings. 'Pushing Paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to Now' lifts a lid on a lesser-known collection at a museum renowned...
Related Press The Fleshy and the Figurative: a Conversation with Secundino Hernández 14 October 2019, My Art Guides After his 2months residency at Victoria Miro Venice, Spanish artist Secundino Hernández is exhibiting the results of his Venetian studio experience which includes small-scale figurative paintings. Mara Sartore: Is this your first residency in Italy? Secundino Hernández: No, my first residency dates back to 1999 in Milan. I finished my...
Related Press Sarah Sze’s Gleaming, Ephemeral Universe 5 October 2019, Hyperallergic The internet's utopian promise in the 1990s may have been to make the world more interconnected, but its current state has exposed the fraying that accompanies every connection. The same might be said about production and consumption, which, far from creating an efficient feedback loop, have spewed their hazardous byproducts far into the air and...
Related Video & Audio How we experience time and memory through art 30 April 2019, TED2019 Artist Sarah Sze takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey through her work: immersive installations as tall as buildings, splashed across walls, orbiting through galleries — blurring the lines between time, memory and space. Explore how we give meaning to objects in this beautiful tour of Sze's experiential, multimedia art.
Related Video & Audio Sarah Sze – ‘You Mark Time Through Objects’ | TateShots 11 January 2019, Tate Sarah Sze discusses her installation Seamless as it is installed at Tate Modern, London, 2018.
Related Video & Audio Alice Neel in New Jersey and Vermont — Jeremy Lewison in conversation with Angela Lampe 13 December 2018, Xavier Hufkens Jeremy Lewison, adviser to the Estate of Alice Neel, talks with Angela Lampe, curator of Modern Art at Centre Pompidou, on the occasion of the exhibition 'Alice Neel in New Jersey and Vermont' (26 October—15 December 2018).
Related Video & Audio Sarah Sze: ‘Afterimage’ 11 June 2018, Victoria Miro 'You're having this filmic way of reading images as they move, and you move, through space.' In this film, the artist discusses the process of creating the new site-specific works in her exhibition at Victoria Miro: Images in Debris, an installation of images, light, sound, film, and objects, that seeks to transform the visitor's perception and...
