Exhibitions

• Part 2: Maternality

  10 Jan - 15 Feb 2020 The second exhibition exploring themes of maternal experience, ‘Maternality,’ reflects on the etymological root of the word mother and its close relationship with material matter, the very substance from which... Read more

• Part 1: Matrescence

  15 Nov - 21 Dec 2019 Catherine McCormack, academic and expert in the field of maternal themes in art, curates a two-part exhibition exploring maternal experience and subjectivity. Read more

• Feminism in Italian Contemporary Art

  Silvia GIAMBRONE and Marinella SENATORE 2 Oct - 9 Nov 2019 In a special collaboration with Marinella SENATORE and gallery artist Silvia GIAMBRONE, this exhibition brings together two leading artists to explore Feminism in Italian Contemporary Art. Curated by Paola Ugolini, the exhibition is a visual representation of struggle, resistance and growing awareness in the belief that art can trigger a constructive dialogue–overcoming differences in gender, class, race and religion. Read more

• Made Routes: Mapping and Making

  Vivienne Koorland and Berni Searle 30 Aug - 26 Sep 2019 ‘Made Routes: Mapping and Making,’ curated by acclaimed academic and art historian Tamar Garb, brings together the work of two South African artists, Vivienne KOORLAND and Berni SEARLE. The encounter between them speaks to their shared artistic concerns and their participation in the landmark exhibition ‘Trade Routes: History + Geography’ at the 1997 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, organised under the artistic directorship of the late Okwui Enwezor (1963–2019) to whom this exhibition is dedicated. Read more

• Penny SLINGER: Tantric Transformations

  29 Jun - 24 Aug 2019 A self-proclaimed “Feminist Surrealist”, the work of London-born, LA-based artist Penny SLINGER combines the mythical qualities of Surrealism with the radical feminism of the 1970s – all underpinned by her long-standing interest in erotica, pleasure and the reclamation of the female body. The exhibition at Richard Saltoun – her first with the gallery – celebrates the artist’s interest and development of Tantric art, featuring collages from the mid-1970s, Xerox body prints, vintage and new photographs created especially for the show. Read more

• Gina PANE: Action Psyché

  30 May - 22 Jun 2019 Gina Pane was instrumental to the development of the international Body Art movement, contributing a unique and corporeal language marked by ritual, symbolism and catharsis. Coming from the archives of the Galerie Rodolphe Stadler, the Parisian gallery of Pane who were themselves revolutionary in their presentation of avant-garde performance art, her exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery celebrates the artist’s pioneering career with a focus on the actions for which she is best known. Read more

• Lili DUJOURIE: Ballade

  Night Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality 18 Apr - 25 May 2019 The Belgian artist Lili DUJOURIE rose to prominence in the late 1960s, emerging as a key force in the Feminist avant-garde movement of the time. Dujourie’s exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery – her first show with the gallery and her first exhibition in London in over twenty years – focuses on her relationship with nature, specifically the poetry and art it evokes. The exhibition features sculptures made from clay, the essence of the earth, as well as a recent series of papier-mâché sculptures that explore the artist’s long-standing interest in plants and their healing qualities. Read more

• Rose ENGLISH: Form, Feminisms, Femininities

  1 Mar - 13 Apr 2019 'Form, Feminisms, Femininities' is Rose ENGLISH's first solo exhibition with Richard Saltoun Gallery. The exhibition shines light on two moments from the early stages of the artist's career, beginning with her experimentation with emergent processes and materials as a young artist in the early 1970s and culminating with a focus on her 1983 performance 'Plato's Chair'. Read more

• ULAY

  11 Jan - 23 Feb 2019 ULAY is an unclassifiable artist whose trajectory amounts to a radically and historically unique oeuvre operating at the intersection of photography and the conceptually-oriented approaches of Performance and Body art. His first exhibition with Richard Saltoun Gallery, and his first in London since 2013, focuses on the artist's remarkable photography and his long-standing commitment to exploring and expanding the medium. Read more

• Gustavo PÉREZ MONZÓN: Rosa de Cancio

  23 Nov 2018 - 5 Jan 2019 The Cuban artist Gustavo PÉREZ MONZÓN returns from a a near 40-year hiatus from making art with an exhibition of new work at Richard Saltoun Gallery. The exhibition marks the artist’s UK debut and features a new installation of materials suspended in space, created specifically for the gallery’s location on Dover Street. The installation will be presented alongside a selection of works on board all created within the last year. Read more

• Eliseo MATTIACCI: Roma

  3 Oct - 17 Nov 2018 Richard Saltoun Gallery's first solo exhibition of work by Italian sculptor Eliseo MATTIACCI presents one of the artist’s most important and dramatic sculptures of his career: 'Roma'. Conceived in 1980-81, this momentous installation comprises 58 moulded aluminium volutes, occupying the three rooms of the gallery in dialogue with its Georgian architecture. Read more

• Victor BURGIN: Voyage to Italy

  31 Aug - 29 Sep 2018 Victor BURGIN's exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery features his series 'Voyage to Italy', marking the first time this significant work has been exhibited in the UK in its entirety. Inspired by the photograph 'Basilica', created in 1864 by the Neapolitan photographer Carlo Fratacci, the exhibition features a suite of three works: a single-screen video with voice-over and two photo-text works. Read more

• AKTION: Conceptual Art and Photography (1960 - 1980)

  13 Jul - 17 Aug 2018 This exhibitions explores the global Conceptual art movement over two decades of photography, through the work of 26 artists from 13 countries. The presentation investigates different conceptual uses of photography within practices dealing with Feminism, political activism, performance and social critique. Read more

• Tomaso BINGA & Greta SCHÖDL: VOCALIZING

  31 May - 7 Jul 2018 The joint exhibition 'Vocalizing' focuses on the written word used, with very different outcomes, by artists Tomaso BINGA and Greta SCHÖDL. The exhibition has been curated by Paola Ugolini and features work from the beginning of their careers dating from the 1970s. Read more

• Paulo BRUSCKY: The Gallery will be fumigated of art

  6 Apr - 26 May 2018 Paulo Bruscky's first solo exhibition in London offers a unique opportunity to explore the Brazilian artist's unique and radical artistic language through a display of over 200 works, crossing all media, created between the late 1960s until today. The exhibition follows a recent survey of his work at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and his inclusion in Viva Arte Viva at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Read more

• WOMEN LOOK AT WOMEN

  15 Feb - 29 Mar 2018 WOMEN LOOK AT WOMEN, curated by Paolo Ugolini, inaugurates Richard Saltoun Gallery's new space on 41 Dover Street. The group exhibition explores feminine identity through the work of thirteen internationally renowned female artists, with each work on show reflecting a different aspect of the relationship women have with their own bodies and how they judge and respond to the physicality of other women. Read more

• Eleanor ANTIN: Romans & Kings

  22 Sep - 26 Oct 2017 Richard Saltoun Gallery proudly presents 'Eleanor ANTIN: Romans & Kings', the first exhibition in London of the pioneering American Feminist filmmaker, performance and conceptual artist. Her debut exhibition at at the gallery consists of recent and historical works from two of Antin’s most iconic bodies of work, including 'Helen’s Odyssey' (2007) and 'The Last Days of Pompeii' (2002). Read more

• Franciszka THEMERSON

  21 Jul - 15 Sep 2017 Franciszka THEMERSON's first exhibition with the gallery explores her artistic obsession with the play 'Ubu Roi' by Aldred Jarry, which was immediately banned after its first performance in Paris in 1896. The work set the stage for the dawn of Modernism and paved the work for Dadaism, Surrealism and the ‘Theatre of the Absurd’ – not forgetting the extraordinary work of this incredible Polish artist. Read more

• Dom Sylvester HOUÉDARD: Typestracts

  26 May - 14 Jul 2017 Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a rare solo exhibition of the British monk Dom Sylvester HOUÉDARD, a seminal counter-culture figure of 1960s London. The exhibition, curated by Andy Hunt, is the first in London in almost 50 years. Read more

• Edgardo Antonio VIGO: Un arte a realizar [An art in becoming]

  3 Apr - 19 May 2017 Richard Saltoun Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in the UK dedicated to Argentinian artist Edgardo Antonio VIGO, a pivotal figure of the '60s and '70s South American avant-garde and subject of a solo exhibition at MoMA, New York in 2014. Read more

• INTEGRATION ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH

  3 Feb - 24 Mar 2017 This exhibition celebrates British Concrete Poetry from 1960 until 1980, with many works never before seen in the UK. Featured artists include Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, Kenelm Cox, Tom Edmonds, John Furnival, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Peter Mayer, Charles Verey and Edward Wright. The exhibition has been curated by Andrew Hunt. Read more

• Renate BERTLMANN: Höhepunkte [Two Climaxes]

  2 Dec 2016 - 27 Jan 2017 Censored throughout her career, Renate BERTLMANN's first solo exhibition in the UK displays three of the artist's most controversial works, exhibited alongside vintage photographs and drawings from the 1970s, illustrating her unique sensitivity to material and female tropes. Read more

• Spotlight on: LI Yuan-chia

  4 Oct - 25 Nov 2016 Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a solo stand at Frieze Masters Spotlight with pioneer Chinese abstract artist Li Yuan-chia. On this occasion the Gallery will simultaneously hold a retrospective exhibition dedicated to Li Yuan-chia at their gallery in Great Titchfield Street, London W1. Read more

• Some Dimensions of my Lunch: Conceptual Art in Britain

  Part 4: Ed HERRING & Roger PALMER 1 - 28 Sep 2016 Part four of the gallery's series of exhibitions devoted to Conceptual art made in Britain between the 1960s and 1970s. The final exhibition brings together two artists: Ed HERRING, a land artist who first gained attention in the 1960s for his 'environmental statements'; and Roger PALMER, who combines photograph and text to subvert the traditional view of landscape. Read more

• Some Dimensions of my Lunch: Conceptual Art in Britain

  Part 3: Tony MORGAN & John BLAKE 29 Jul - 26 Aug 2016 This exhibition with Tony MORGAN and John BLAKE forms the third in the gallery's four-part series of 'Some Dimensions of my Lunch: Conceptual Art in Britain.' The show focuses on the two innovative and experimental filmmakers, known also for their early photo-conceptual works. Read more

• Some Dimensions of my Lunch: Conceptual Art in Britain

  Part 2: Marie YATES 24 Jun - 22 Jul 2016 Richard Saltoun Gallery announces an exhibition by the conceptual and feminist artist, Marie YATES. One of a handful of women artists making conceptual works during the 1970s, this is Marie Yates' first exhibition in a commercial gallery. Read more

• Some Dimensions of my Lunch: Conceptual Art in Britain

  Part 1: Roelof LOUW 19 May - 17 Jun 2016 Richard Saltoun Gallery's first exhibition in its four-part series examining the history of Conceptual art in Britain between the 1960s and 1970s begins with a solo show devoted to the Conceptual artist Roelof LOUW. The exhibition brings together two of the artist's most important works. Read more

• Shelagh WAKELY: spaces between things

  1 Apr - 13 May 2016 'Shelagh Wakely: spaces between things' celebrates the work of experimental and influential British artist Shelagh WAKELY, an artist whose international artistic connections defined her practice, yet who remains undeservedly neglected in her home country. Read more

• JO SPENCE: The Final Project

  11 Feb - 24 Mar 2016 'Jo Spence: The Final Project' is an exhibition of the work of British photographer Jo SPENCE produced in the last two years of her life before her death from leukaemia in 1992. Curated by David Campany, the show coincides with the BP Spotlight display of Spence's work at Tate. Read more

• Victor BURGIN: UK76

  4 Dec 2015 - 5 Feb 2016 The year 2016 is the 40th anniversary of Victor BURGIN's seminal photo-text series 'UK76'. To mark the occasion, the gallery will present the work in its entirety and the form in which Burgin's works of the 1960s and 1970s were originally shown: pasted directly to the wall and scraped off at the end of the exhibition. Read more

• THE BODY AS LANGUAGE: Women and Performance

  9 Oct - 27 Nov 2015 'The Body As Language: Women And Performance' examines the birth and development of performance art in relation to gender, the body, language and the expression of the self. Focusing on women artists working in Italy during the '70s, the exhibition features work by Gina PANE, Ketty La ROCCA, Susan SANTORO and Renate BERTLMANN, together with the archival photographs of the dance performances of Trisha BROWN, Simone FORTI and Yvonne RAINER. Read more

• THE TEMPTATIONS OF Pierre MOLINIER

  20 Aug - 2 Oct 2015 A solo exhibition celebrating the career and unorthodox life of the French Surrealist artist Pierre MOLINIER. through the presentation of more than 50 groundbreaking photographs, paintings and drawings from the 1950s onwards. Read more

• David HALL: SITUATIONS ENVISAGED

  17 Jul - 14 Aug 2015 David HALL's legacy as one of the founders of video art in the UK will be recognised in this upcoming exhibition featuring his pioneering work in sculpture, film and video. Curated by Stephen Partridge, the exhibition features major works from his estate. Read more

• Malcolm LE GRICE: No Idea

  29 May - 10 Jul 2015 An expanded cinema experience by film pioneer Malcolm LE GRICE, considered one of the most influential British experimental filmmakers, comes to London. The exhibition encompasses over fifty years' of work and marks the artist's first show in a commercial gallery. Read more

• Helena ALMEIDA: Inhabited drawings / Desenhos habitados

  27 Mar - 22 May 2015 The first London show dedicated to the work of Helena ALMEIDA. The exhibition presents a selection of works from some of her most iconic series from the 1970s and 1980s, including Read more

• THE LAST ART-OF-PEACE BIENNALE

  13 Feb - 20 Mar 2015 Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of THE LAST ART-OF-PEACE BIENNALE, which took place in Hamburg, Germany in 1985, this exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery gathers artists together to represent its spirit and understand its context, featuring work by Read more

• Robert FILLIOU: Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense

  5 Dec 2014 - 6 Feb 2015 The first solo exhibition in London by the French Fluxus artist Robert FILLOU, under the artistic direction of François Curlet. Read more

• Helen CHADWICK: Bad Blooms

  14 Oct - 28 Nov 2014 For the first time since 2005, Helen CHADWICK's seminal series of thirteen photographs, Wreaths to Pleasure (1992–93), will be exhibited in their entirety. Taking as its exhibition title Chadwick's own reference to the series as 'Bad Blooms', the exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery will visually stimulate the public's senses through this presentation of her unique use of colour and matter. Read more

• John HILLIARD: Not Black and White

  5 Sep - 9 Oct 2014 This is the first solo exhibition of John Hilliard in the UK since 2000, and the first in any context to draw out a long recurring motif: the puncturing and interruptive monochrome at the centre of many of his works. The exhibition, curated by Duncan Wooldridge, will present key artworks spanning forty years of his practice. Read more

• THE VISUAL REVOLUTION: Russian Avant-Garde Photography

  Alexander Rodchenko & VKhUTEMAS Workshop 9 Jul - 29 Aug 2014 THE VISUAL REVOLUTION: Russian Avant-Garde Photography, featuring work by Alexander RODCHENKO and VKhUTEMAS Workshop, coincides with the 2014 UK-Russia year of culture. The exhibition presents a special selection of work by these leading practitioners of Russian avant-garde photography. Read more

• Nicholas POPE

  30 May - 4 Jul 2014 Nicholas Pope's exhibition, his first in London since 2003, features sculpture in all the materials the artist has used: chalk, marble, wood, fabric and porcelain. Amongst the highlights will be Seven Odd Chalks (1978), a major sculpture of the 1970s; Piss Urinals of the 1990s; and a new cloth sculpture, Mr and Mrs Pope knitted, shrunk and hung (2012), a portrait of the artist and his wife Janet made of knitted felt mohair. Read more

• VIENNESE SEASON: Feminism

  VALIE EXPORT & Friedl Kubelka 10 Apr - 23 May 2014 The second in the gallery's two-part series of Viennese art titled 'Feminisim', this exhibition presents the work of VALIE EXPORT and Friedl KUBELKA, two artists whose work operated at the centre of debates surrounding the subjects of gender, the body and politics. Read more

• VIENNESE SEASON: Actionism

  Günter BRUS, Otto MÜHL, Hermann NITSCH, Rudolf SCHWARZKOGLER 6 Mar - 4 Apr 2014 In collaboration with Austin / Desmond Fine Art, this is the first of the gallery's two-part series of Viennese art, featuring work by Günter BRUS, Otto MÜHL, Hermann NITSCH, Rudolf SCHWARZKOGLER. Read more

• TRANSFORMER: Aspects of Travesty

  13 Dec 2013 - 28 Feb 2014 On the 40th anniversary of 'Transformer: Aspects of Travesty' – a groundbreaking show curated by Jean-Christophe Ammann in 1974 – Richard Saltoun Gallery organises a re-proposition of the original exhibition that will reunite all the artists in London. This is the first such reunion to commemorate the exhibition that dealt with the aesthetics of desire and sexuality through travesty and drag performance. Read more

• Roelof LOUW: Rolled Lead Piece 1970

  27 Nov - 13 Dec 2013 Richard Saltoun Gallery, in association with Karsten Schubert, announces an exhibition of Roelof Louw's Rolled Lead Piece of 1970. This important work of British Conceptual art was last exhibited at the international survey exhibition Between Man and Matter: Tokyo Biennale 1970. Read more

• VICTOR BURGIN: On Paper

  1 Nov - 6 Dec 2013 Victor BURGIN's exhibition encompasses a selection of his paper-based works from the late 1960s until today, focusing on his radical intervention into mainstream media through the interplay of text and image. Read more

• HANS-PETER FELDMANN: Colouring - works from the 1970s

  2 - 25 Oct 2013 'Colouring - works from the 1970s' showcases Hans-Peter FELDMANN, a pioneering conceptual artist of the 1970s. The exhibition focuses on a key aspect of his artistic practice – his hand-coloured Xeroxes – and offers a unique opportunity to engage with the artist's work from this period, which he often destroyed due to his decision to retire as an artist in 1979. Read more

• RENATE BERTLMANN: Verwandlungen [Transformations]

  2 - 25 Oct 2013 On the occasion of Frieze 2013, Richard Saltoun Gallery announces a presentation of works by the Viennese feminist artist Renate BERTLMANN. Read more

• ALEXIS HUNTER & JO SPENCE

  22 Aug - 27 Sep 2013 Richard Saltoun Gallery announces a two person exhibition of works by Alexis HUNTER and Jo SPENCE, bringing together important and rarely seen feminist work from the 1970s and 1980s. The exhibition is an opportunity to view two artists work that have been hugely influential to the development of feminist art in the UK. Read more

• POETRY & PERFORMANCE

  18 Jul - 16 Aug 2013 Celebrating poetry and performance through the work of Ida APPLEBROOG, Henri CHOPIN and Gina PANE, each of whom has held a unique position within the development of performance art over the past 40 years. Read more

• HELEN CHADWICK

  20 May - 12 Jul 2013 To mark the 60th anniversary of the birth of British artist Helen CHADWICK (18 May 1953), Richard Saltoun Gallery proudly presents the artist's first solo exhibition for almost ten years. The exhibition presents a selection of photographs and sculptures from 1982 until 1994, the year of her death, with over 20 works on display. Read more

• DOUBLE DUTCH

  14 Mar - 10 May 2013 'Double Dutch' brings together the work of Bas Jan ADER, Stanley BROUWN and Ger VAN ELK: three of the most important Dutch artists of the 1960s and 1970s. Exhibited together for the first time, each of these three artists have been significant contributions to the development of Conceptual art. Read more

• TAKING MATTERS INTO OUR OWN HANDS

  22 Jan - 8 Mar 2013 TAKING MATTERS INTO OUR OWN HANDS features work by Rose ENGLISH, Rose FINN-KELCEY, Alexis HUNTER and Carloee SCHNEEMANN. Taking as its title and starting point a statement by the pioneering British feminist artist Jo SPENCE, the exhibition focuses on major performance art made by women artists in the UK during the 1970s. Read more

• Inaugural exhibition: Post-war Contemporary Artists

  10 Dec 2012 - 18 Jan 2013 Richard Saltoun Gallery's inaugural exhibition on Great Titchfield Street features work by nine post-war contemporary artists, including Hans-Peter FELDMANN, Joseph BEUYS, William WGMAN, Guiseppe PENONE, Marcel BROODTHAERS, Ger van ELK, Nigel HENDERSON, Bob LAW and Franz-Erhard WALTHER. Read more

• FRANZ ERHARD WALTHER: Drawings from the 1960s

  3 - 28 Sep 2012 An exhibition of drawings from the 1960s by Franz Erhard WALTHER, a contemporary of artists like Blinky Palermo and Gerhard Richter, whose groundbreaking experiments with form, medium and process have left a lasting legacy on artists working today Read more

• JO SPENCE: Work (Part II)

  12 Jun - 11 Aug 2012 SPACE and Studio Voltaire present a major two-venue exhibition of the work of the celebrated British photographer Jo Spence. Part 2 is staged at Studio Voltaire in London. Read more

• JO SPENCE: Work (Part I)

  1 Jun - 15 Jul 2012 SPACE and Studio Voltaire present a major two-venue exhibition of the work of the celebrated British photographer Jo Spence. Part 1 is staged at SPACE in London. Read more

• BOB LAW: Colour

  17 Feb - 16 Mar 2012 In collaboration with Karsten Schubert and Thomas Dane Gallery. Read more

• TONY MORGAN: Some Films (and Videos) 1969-1973

  9 Dec 2011 - 29 Jan 2012 In collaboration with Thomas Dane. Richard Saltoun and Thomas Dane Gallery are pleased to present the first exhibition of British artist Tony Morgan (1938-2004) since his inaugural show at the... Read more

• BARRY FLANAGAN: Built like a tree, flows like a river

  5 Dec 2011 - 3 Feb 2012 In collaboration with Karsten Schubert. Read more

• HANS HAACKE: Blue Sail

  5 Dec 2011 - 3 Feb 2012 In collaboration with Karsten Schubert. Read more

• FOR CHARLES HARRISON: When Attitudes Became Form

  13 Jan - 4 Mar 2011 Karsten Schubert and Richard Saltoun are pleased to announce this survey exhibition of conceptual art to commemorate the publication of Charles Harrison Looking Back (Ridinghouse, 2011). Adapting the premise of... Read more

• JOHN LATHAM: Works 1961-1995

  5 May - 11 Jun 2010 Coinciding with three other John Latham exhibitions in London this spring, including the Whitechapel Art Gallery and Flat Time House (the late artist's home and studio), Karsten Schubert and Richard... Read more

• BOB LAW: A Retrospective

  19 Nov 2009 - 16 Jan 2010 Karsten Schubert, Richard Saltoun, and Thomas Dane are pleased to host the first exhibition of Bob Law since the artist's death in 2004. Law was arguably the foremost British minimalist... Read more

• KEITH ARNATT: Works 1968-1990

  11 Sep - 13 Nov 2009 In collaboration with Karsten Schubert Read more

• ROBYN DENNY: Early Work 1955-1977

  26 Sep - 25 Oct 2008 Read more

• COLIN SELF: Works from the 60s

  20 Jun - 2 Aug 2008 Extraordinarily, this will be the first London exhibition of Colin Self's '60s work since his first solo show at the Piccadilly Gallery in 1965. The exhibition will include drawing and... Read more

• BOYLE FAMILY: The 1960s and 70s

  24 Apr - 7 Jun 2008 A series of works by Boyle Family completed in the seminal period of the 1960s and '70s. This will be the first exhibition to focus on this period and is... Read more

• JOHN LATHAM: The Spray Gun and the Cosmos

  29 Feb - 12 Apr 2008 A lost collection of 15 spray-gun paintings by John Latham (1921 - 2006) is to be exhibited publicly for the first time in fifty years. John Latham has become increasingly... Read more