We Recommend: Visual Arts
FOOD: Bigger than the Plate
Sat 18 May - Sun 20 Oct
V&A
From gastronomic experiments to urban farming, this exhibition brings together the politics and pleasure of food to ask how the collective choices we make can lead to a more sustainable, just and delicious food future.
Visual Arts
NOW 5
Sat 1 Jun - Sun 22 Sept
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
The 5th instalment of this series creates temporary works that change over time as they are subjected to natural processes of transformation and decay, thus exploring themes of change and growth.
Visual Arts
Félix Vallotton
Sun 30 Jun - Sun 29 Sept
Royal Academy of Arts
Magnetic, provocative, daring: meet Félix Vallotton (1865–1925). The Royal Academy reveals the vision of a masterful painter and printmaker who captured the emotional undercurrents of Paris at the turn of the last century.
Visual Arts
Cézanne at the Whitworth
Sat 24 Aug - Sun 1 Mar
The Witworth
This exhibition celebrates an extraordinary collection of drawings and prints by Paul Cézanne that has been gifted and placed on long-term loan to the Whitworth by gallerist, collector, author and publisher Karsten Schubert.
Visual Arts
Please Do Not Sit – Marlène Huissoud
Sat 14 - Sun 22 Sept
London Design Festival
Award-winning experimental designer Marlène Huissoud is the first of 2–3 designers who will create habitats for the animal populations of Brompton – birds, bees and all life in between. Discover her work at the 2019 London Design Festival.
Visual Arts
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2019
Sat 14 Sept - Sun 23 Feb
Various Venues
Since 1949, BNC has consistently supported contemporary visual artists to successfully transition from education into professional practice, by means of an annual touring exhibition, featuring French artist Camille Yvert. Supported by Fluxus Art Projects.
Visual Arts
London Design Festival 2019
Sat 14 - Sun 22 Sept
Various venues
Promoting London's creativity, this annual event draws on the UK's greatest thinkers and practitioners to deliver an unmissable celebration of design, with an inspirational line up of talks and workshops and commissions by leading international designers.
Visual Arts
Walala Lounge by Camille Walala
Sat 14 - Sun 22 Sept
South Molton Street
Camille Walala returns to the London Design Festival in a characteristically colourful manner. The French-born designer has been commissioned to enliven the heart of London’s West End with a bold and beautiful family of street furniture.
Visual Arts
Adorno: Crossovers
Thu 19 - Sun 22 Sept
Old Truman Brewery
A cross-cultural collectible design journey, the exhibition presents dynamic works by independent designers working in the intersection between design, art, and crafts, selected from 12 countries, including a French collection curated by François Leblanc.
Visual Arts
PAD London
Mon 30 Sept - Sun 6 Oct
Berkeley Square
Inspiring a unique spirit of collecting, PAD epitomises how modern art, photography, design, decorative and tribal arts interact to reveal astonishing combinations and create the most individual and staggering interiors.
Visual Arts
Frieze Masters
Thu 3 - Sun 6 Oct
Regent's Park
Frieze Masters gives a unique view on the relationship between old and new art, showing works made before the year 2000. The fair offers a unique contemporary perspective on historical art, from collectible objects to significant masterpieces.
Visual Arts
Frieze London Art Fair
Thu 3 - Sun 6 Oct
Regent's Park
Frieze London’s exhibiting galleries represent some of the most exciting artists working today, from the emerging to the iconic, with over 60,000 visitors each year, including curators, artists, collectors, gallerists, critics and the general public.
Visual Arts
Into the Night – Cabarets & Clubs in Modern Art
Fri 4 Oct - Sun 19 Jan
Barbican
Spanning the 1880s to the 1960s, this landmark exhibition explores the electrifying history of cabarets, cafés and clubs in modern art across the world, from London to Paris, New York, Berlin, Mexico City or Vienna, through the lens of pioneering artists.
Visual Arts
The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Gauguin Portraits
Mon 7 Oct - Sun 26 Jan
The National Gallery
The first ever exhibition devoted to the portraits of Paul Gauguin. Spanning the later years of his life and focusing solely on his portraits, this exhibition follows Gauguin’s move away from Impressionism towards Symbolism.
Visual Arts
Except the Clouds – Bérangère Fromont
Thu 17 - Thu 31 Oct
Ofshoot Gallery
In the series Except The Clouds, the future seems to have collapsed into an indeterminate present. This vibrant disorder, contrasting with the vestiges of the old acropolis of Athens - cradle of democracy - offers a fecund space of reflection for the artist.
Visual Arts
Sonica Glasgow
Thu 31 Oct - Sun 10 Nov
Glasgow (city-wide)
Sonica Glasgow is an 11-day biennial festival, dedicated to world-class visual sonic arts, presenting exceptional international artists alongside emerging UK talent in diverse venues, city-wide.
Contemporary Music, Performing Arts, Talks, Visual Arts
Dora Maar
Wed 20 Nov - Sun 15 Mar
Tate Modern
The largest retrospective of Dora Maar ever held in the UK. During the 1930s, Maar’s provocative photomontages became celebrated icons of surrealism. This exhibition will explore the breadth of Maar's long career in the context of work by her contemporaries.
Visual Arts