Autumn shows 23

The Whitechapel Gallery

Nicole Eisenman: What Happened

11 Oct 2023 - 14 Jan 2024

Close on Mondays

All other days, 11 am to 6 pm

Nicole Eisenman: What Happened brings together over 100 works from across the artist’s three-decade career – many of which have not previously been shown in the UK. Encompassing large-scale, monumental paintings alongside sculptures, monoprints, animation and drawings, the exhibition showcases the extraordinary range and formal inventiveness that characterises her practice.

Arranged chronologically across eight sections, the exhibition illuminates the critical, yet often highly humorous approach that Eisenman uses to explore some of the most prescient socio-political issues of the day. These encompass gender, identity and sexual politics, recent civic and governmental turmoil in the United States, protest and activism, and the impact of technology on personal relationships and romantic lives.

https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/nicole-eisenman-what-happened/

The Serpentine Gallery

Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015

Serpentine South Gallery

5 October 2023 - 7 January 2024

FREE

Please note, on Monday 9 October the exhibition will be open from 10am-6pm.

With a career spanning over six decades, Georg Baselitz (b. 1938, Saxony, Germany) first came to prominence in post-war Germany as a painter.

From 1969 onwards, he has been known for inverting – or turning upside down – human forms and other motifs within expressionistic paintings which attempt to move away from content and narrative.

Baselitz instead focussed on form, colour and texture, bringing new perspectives to the tradition of German Expressionism. He turned to sculpture from 1979, continuing to explore tensions between the figurative and the abstract through crude approximations of figures and body parts carved from wood.

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/georg-baselitz-sculptures-2011-2015/

Tate Britain

SARAH LUCAS: HAPPY GAS

UNTIL 14 JANUARY 2024

A British artist's brash and tender exploration of what makes us human

Sarah Lucas is internationally celebrated for her bold and provocative use of materials and imagery.

Using ordinary objects in unexpected ways, she has consistently challenged our understanding of sex, class and gender over the last four decades.

This exhibition presents her practice in all its diversity across sculpture, installation and photography, narrated in her voice, and looking well beyond the 1990s Young British Art world.

Breaking boundaries with humour and daring, Lucas shows us the whole spectrum of what it means to be human.

Women in Revolt! Art, Activism and the Women’s Movement in the UK 1970-90

Featuring more than 100 women artists, Women in Revolt! traces the evolution of art and collectivity during a period of turmoil and resistance. The Women’s Liberation Movement, Greenham Common, punk and Rock Against Racism, the Aids pandemic and Section 28 provide the backdrop.

This long overdue show includes everything from painting to performance, film and sculpture.
Tate Britain, London, 8 November to 7 April

Tate Modern

DIANE ARBUS

UNTIL 12 NOVEMBER 2023

Explore the bold, powerful, and inspiring images of one of the most iconic photographers of the 20th century at Shetland Museum and Archives

ARTIST ROOMS Diane Arbus is a touring exhibition that brings together a remarkable body of work by the influential American photographer. Diane Arbus (1923–1971) was a pioneer of the social documentary form that blurred the line between art and reportage. Her profoundly original works record the astonishing variety of attitudes, emotions, and appearances to be found among the people around us.

The exhibition spans the breadth of Arbus’s career, beginning with early works from the mid–1950s taken with a 35mm camera, to the distinctive square format she adopted from 1962. A highlight in the exhibition is A box of ten photographs 1969–71, a rare portfolio of original prints which Arbus selected to represent who she was as an artist and how she saw her work in the world.

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/shetland-museum-and-archives/diane-arbus

Philip Guston

The controversial postponement of this travelling retrospective in 2020 led to the departure from Tate of one of its best senior curators.

Guston was born in Montreal to a Jewish family that had fled Odesa, and his sour, caustic and melancholic paintings often featured hooded Ku Klux Klansmen and scenes of blunt stupidity and violence.

Presaging Trumpism and the rise of the “alt-right”, along with a bleak view of his own temperament, Guston was a great painter for terrible times. Tate Modern, London, 5 October to 25 February

El Anatsui

This promises to be the most beautiful Turbine Hall spectacle in years. Perhaps Africa’s greatest living artist, and the most resourceful user of found stuff anywhere, El Anatsui, who comes from Ghana and is based in Nigeria, creates shimmering, painterly cascades of light and texture from everyday rubbish.

He will make a cathedral of this space.
Tate Modern, London, 10 October to 14 April

The Royal Academy

Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec

25 November 2023 - 10 March 2024

Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm
Fri: 10am–9pm

Tickets £19–21

Degas, Cézanne, Morisot, Van Gogh. You might recognise their paintings, but it’s their radical works on paper we put the spotlight on in this ground-breaking exhibition.

In the whirl of modernity that was late 19th-century France, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists radically transformed the future direction of art. But it wasn’t just through their paintings. In a subtle but seismic shift, they lifted the status of works on paper – drawings, pastels, watercolours, temperas, gouaches – from something preparatory that you left in a studio, to artworks in their own right.

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/impressionists-on-paper

Marina Abramović

23 September 2023 - 1 January 2024

An art world icon and a performance art pioneer – Marina Abramović has captivated audiences by pushing the limits of her body and mind, for the past 50 years.

Marina Abramović Hon RA has earned worldwide acclaim as a performance artist. She has consistently tested the limits of her own physical and mental endurance in her work, subjecting herself to exhaustion, pain and even the possibility of death.

In her early work Rhythm 0, Abramović invited audiences to freely interact with her however they chose – famously resulting in a loaded gun being held to her head. Her later work The House with the Ocean View saw the artist live in a house constructed in a gallery for 12 days. Held in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, the performance invited audiences to witness and share in the simple act of living.

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/marina-abramovic

The National Gallery

Franz Hals

The bumptious humanity of Hals’s people fills what should be an unforgettable show. This Dutchgolden age artist worked his entire life in the small city of Haarlem, portraying its people, from poor house supervisors to the poor. Is Hals in his honesty the peer of Rembrandt? This may prove it.
National Gallery, London, 30 September to 21 January

The Courtauld Institute

Claudette Johnson: Presence

29 Sept 2023 – 14 Jan 2024
Denise Coates Exhibition Galleries

A major exhibition of work by British artist Claudette Johnson (born 1959) is now open at The Courtauld Gallery.

A founding member of the Black British Arts Movement, Claudette Johnson is considered one of the most significant figurative artists of her generation. For over 30 years she has created large-scale drawings of Black women and men that are at once intimate and powerful.

Tickets from £13. Friends go free. Other concessions available

https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/claudette-johnson/

La Serenissima: Drawing in 18th century Venice 

14 Oct 2023 – 11 Feb 2024
Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery

This display will present an outstanding group of around twenty Venetian drawings from The Courtauld’s collection. They evoke the energy and creativity of Venice at a time when the city flourished as one of the great cultural capitals of Europe.

https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/la-serenissima-drawing-in-18th-century-venice/

Included with Gallery Entry.

Dulwich Picture Gallery

Dates

27 September 2023 - 28 January 2024

Gallery Opening Hours

Tuesday–Sunday, 10am–5pm. Open bank holidays.

Price

Adults £16.50 with donation. Concessions available.

Rubens and Women

This baroque genius changed the way Western art portrayed women, and was in huge demand from patrons such as French regent Marie de Medici. Rubens rejoices in bodies of all shapes and ages, in an art that liberates the flesh. Here we’ll see how his relationships with women inspired that abundance.

Rubens & Women, a major exhibition of the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), will unite over 40 paintings and drawings from the artist's career. The exhibition will be the first to challenge the popular assumption that Rubens painted only one type of woman, providing instead a more nuanced view of the artist who painted more portraits of his wives and children than almost any other, even Rembrandt. The exhibition reveals the varied and important place occupied by women, both real and imagined, in his world.

Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 27 September to 28 January

White Cube

Bermondsey

Julie Mehretu

They departed for their own country another way (a 9x9x9 hauntology)

15 September – 5 November 2023

Bermondsey, London

Returning to White Cube’s Bermondsey site for the first time since ‘Liminal Squared’ in 2013, the exhibition will encompass all of the gallery’s spaces and debut three new series of paintings.

Mason's Yard

Marina Rheingantz

Maré

10 October – 11 November 2023

Mason's Yard, London

Dense in paint and often expansive in scale, Marina Rheingantz’s landscapes impart the experience of seeing distant, vanishing horizons and wide, panoramic views.

V and A

Japan: Myths to Manga

Armies of Tamagotchi, Pokémon and Transformers are set to descend on the Young V&A in October in the form of an exhibition charting the influence of folklore and myth on Japanese pop culture. The show will take visitors on an atmospheric journey from the country’s soaring mountains to its enchanted forests, bustling cities and churning seas via Hokusai, Studio Ghibli and a bunch of playable taiko drums.
Young V&A, London, opens 14 October

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