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
Mowalola: Silent Madness
This immersive installation marries Mowalola’s unique Nigerian punk-inspired aesthetic with her passion for musical expression; a surrealist stage setting accompanied by a multi-channel soundtrack curated by the visitor.
NOW Gallery, London, 6 December 2019 – 19 January 2020
HOUSEWARMING
Housewarming explores the dichotomy between the utopian origins of Modernist architecture – inherently moralistic ideals of purity, transparency, light, and function – and its failed and rebellious legacies.
Maison Touchard, London, 23 November – 15 December 2019
Part 1: Matrescence
Catherine McCormack, academic and expert in the field of maternal themes in art, curates a two-part exhibition exploring maternal experience and subjectivity
Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, 15 November – 21 December 2019
William Greaves: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Aemi presents a screening of this fiml that records William Greaves as he loosely leads an increasingly perplexed film crew in New York’s Central Park as they try to ascertain what kind of film they’re making.
Irish Film Institute, Dublin, 4 December 2019, 18:30
Natasha Caruana: Timely Tale
Artist Natasha Caruana invites viewers to step inside her mother’s bedroom via a 360 degree VR work set against a backdrop of love, desire, health and our current age of excess.
ASC Gallery, London, 7-20 December 2019
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2019
Bloomberg New Contemporaries returns to the South London Gallery with an exhibition of works by 45 emerging artists presented across both the Main Gallery and Fire Station.
South London Gallery, 6 December 2019 – 23 February 2020
Ruth Maclennan: Icebreaker Dreaming
FVU alumna Ruth Maclennan explores the Russian Arctic, as a place to live in, to travel through, to project onto, to control and exploit for its natural resources, in the context of the climate emergency.
Pushkin House, London, 21 November 2019 – 8 February 2020
Guy Ben-Ner
This exhibition bears witness to Ben-Ner’s singular style of filmmaking – a wry, absurdist and homespun mode of storytelling whereby epic narratives are collapsed into domestic follies.
Sadie Coles, London, 14 November - 20 December 2019
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Deborah Findlater: Sacred Space
New work by Deborah Findlater exploring the healing power of touch and restorative rituals is presented across a multi-channel video installation, floor work and written text panels.
Cubitt, London, 15 November – 15 December 2019
Lawrence Lek | Mira Benjamin, John Lely & Heather Roche
Participating in the ASSEMBLY season curated by Christian Marclay, FVU alumni Lawrence Lek invites collaborators Seth Scott and Robin Simpson to present a site-specific simulation that reflects the atmosphere during the Extinction Rebellion protests.
Somerset House Studios, London, 9 November 2019, 7.30 – 10pm
Ben Rivers: Urthworks
This exhibition brings together a trilogy of films developed by FVU alumnus Ben Rivers in collaboration with the American science fiction writer Mark Von Schlegell.
Hestercombe Gallery, Taunton, 9 November 2019 – 9 February 2020
Basma alSharif: A Philistine
A Philistine is a new exhibition centring around Basma alSharif’s novella of the same name and consists of a new series of monochrome negative prints, photographs and banners and a screening room of existing film works.
CCA Glasgow, 1 November — 15 December 2019