Our pick of current exhibitions, throughout the UK and beyond, that we're not involved in but would highly recommend. Follow our recommendations on Twitter using #FVUrecommends
Lucy Beech, Reproductive Exile
Lucy Beech’s film Reproductive Exile (2018) treats themes of breeding, bioclinical labour, “host” procreation, the erasure of the female in fertility research, and hormonal multispecies pharmaceutical relationships.
Vdrome (online), 2-16 September 2019
6x6 Project > London Screening
The inagural 6x6 screening event features th work of FVU alumna Karen Kramer. 6x6 project is an artist-run online platform dedicated to the distribution and promotion of artists’ moving image works.
SET Dalston Lane, London, 25 September 2019, 6-11pm
ON EDGE: Living in an Age of Anxiety
This group exhibition considers different personal experiences of anxiety, and features paintings inspired by the colours and language of football by FVU alumna Alice May Williams.
Science Gallery London, 19 September 2019 – 19 January 2020
MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image
An international contemporary art biennale devoted to the image, this year's programme features FVU alumna Maeve Brennan.
Montréal, Canada, 5 September – 13 October 2019
Shezad Dawood, Leviathan
Shezad Dawood’s epic film series Leviathan follows the migratory patterns of people between Europe and Africa, who are often making the crossing as refugees.
The Bluecoat, Liverpool, 6 July – 13 October 2019
Tony Cokes, If UR Reading This It's 2 Late: Vol. 1
Tony Cokes’ video works are eviscerating critiques and affective art works, bringing together colour theory, sound, music, and texts quoting a polyphony of voices such as Mark Fisher, Aretha Franklin, Public Enemy and Donald Trump.
Goldsmiths CCA, London, 29 September 2019 – 12 January 2020
George Barber, SCRATCH!
Though George Barber’s work is as varied and fluid as it is non conformist and irreverent, this exhibition focuses exclusively on a specific approach in his production oeuvre – that of Barber’s use of appropriation.
Taco, London, 3 August – 21 September 2019
John Akomfrah, Ballasts of Memory
Since the early 1980s, Akomfrah’s moving image works have offered some of the most rigorous and expansive reflections on the culture of the black diaspora, both in the UK and around the world.
Baltic Gateshead, 6 July – 27 October 2019
Expect the Unexpected
An eclectic and provocative exhibition of work by visual artists who incorporate elements of chance in their work, inspired by John Cage’s hugely influential performance piece 4’ 33”.
The Lowry, Salford, 29 June – 28 September 2019
Europe After The Rain
The international group exhibition, curated by Simon Faithfull, borrows its title from Max Ernst’s painting Europe After The Rain II. Taking its lead from this work, the exhibition presents visions of dystopian terrains and possible landscapes to come.
Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall, 22 June – 5 October 2019
Fiction
A group show in Peckham, London that creates a wealth of speculative visions that haunt and excite our imagination, and where the confluence of appearance, fiction and reality is all to play for.
Bold Tendencies, London, 30 May – 21 September 2019
Sven Anderson & Gerard Byrne, A Visibility Matrix
A Visibility Matrix is an artwork that explores the politics and conditions of visibility; assembling contributions from a distributed panel of artists, film-makers and others within a synchronised, multi-channel video installation.
Void Derry, 16 April – 8 June