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Anna Perach
A Leap of Sympathy 15 May - 24 Jun 2025 London Peformance : Friday, 6 June | 5pm | j oin waitlist A part of London Gallery Weekend Laima Leyton- Composer and artist Jody Deschutter- Sound assistant Luigi Ambrosio- Choreographer Maria Sole Montacci- Performer in-conversation with Ann coxon: Saturday, 21 June | 3pm | rsvp essential Richard Saltoun Gallery is pleased... Read more -
Wall Hangings
6 May - 20 Jun 2025 New York Part I TEFAF New York | Room 205 8 – 13 May 2025 Part II Richard Saltoun Gallery New York This group exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery New York brings together works by pioneering female textile artists featured in MoMA’s landmark 1969 survey Wall Hangings — Magdalena ABAKANOWICZ (1930–2017), Olga... Read more -
Gaia Fugazza: Making Kin
Curated by Paola Ugolini 15 Apr - 30 May 2025 Rome Opening: Tuesday, 15 April | 6pm EN : American feminist philosopher Donna Haraway, in her essay Chthulucene . Surviving on an Infected Planet , reiterates the importance of generating kinship, ‘ making kin’ . Although it lacks an equivalent in the Italian language, kin stands for ‘consanguineous’, ‘relative’, ‘lineage’ and... Read more -
Jacqueline Poncelet
this, that and the other 11 Mar - 3 May 2025 London Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Belgian-born, London-based artist Jacqueline PONCELET (b. 1947), whose pioneering approach to colour, material, surface, and space has redefined the boundaries between fine art and craft. Spanning fifty years of work, this, that and the other brings together Poncelet’s early sculptural ceramics, large-scale... Read more -
Embryonic Journey
Claudia Di Francesco, Cleo Fariselli, Armida Gandini, Flaminia Veronesi 19 Feb - 28 Mar 2025 Rome Opening: Wednesday, 19 February | 6pm EN: Richard Saltoun Gallery is pleased to present Embryonic Journey , a group exhibition featuring works by Claudia Di Francesco, Cleo Fariselli, Armida Gandini, and Flaminia Veronesi. The exhibition unfolds as a voyage into the intimate reflections of four artists, where themes of mythology,... Read more -
Samira Abbassy
Psychic Intrusion 5 Feb - 14 Mar 2025 New York Curated by Taymour Grahne Richard Saltoun Gallery New York is pleased to announce Psychic Intrusion , the inaugural solo exhibition by Iranian-born, New York-based artist Samira ABBASSY (b. 1965) with the gallery. Spanning over a decade of paintings and works on paper, the exhibition traces Abbassy’s ongoing exploration of the... Read more -
Jennifer Binnie
Forest Visions 15 Jan - 1 Mar 2025 London Opening: Tuesday, 14 January | 6–8pm In-converation with Jennifer Binnie and Jennifer Higgie: Saturday, 1 March | 3–5pm | FULLY BOOKED 'The co-existence of animals, humans, and nature is the thread that connects Binnie’s work. ' — Jennifer Higgie 'We require each other in unexpected collaborations and combinations, in hot... Read more -
Simryn Gill
Caresses 6 - 31 Jan 2025 New York “ Working with ephemeral materials in a domestic environment, Simryn Gill contemplates a lived social reality within the present. Through collections that seem casually thrown together, her art brings into play our day-to-day experiences. (...) This “being in the present”, or the “everyday” is elusive to objectification, which is what... Read more -
Erica Rutherford
The Human Comedy 12 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 London 'The performance of gender, how it is enacted, is an ongoing act of improvisation within a scene of constraint .' — Judith Butler, Undoing Gender , 2004 Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a comprehensive exhibition dedicated to British-Canadian artist Erica RUTHERFORD (1923–2008), one of the first openly transgender British artists. The... Read more -
Greta Schödl
70 Anni di Lavoro (70 Years of Work) 7 Nov 2024 - 7 Feb 2025 Rome Opening: Thursday, 7 November | 6-8pm EN: Richard Saltoun Gallery presents Greta Schödl: 70 Years of Work , dedicated to the pioneering Austria-born, Bologna-based artist, in anticipation of her solo exhibition at Phileas - The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art in Vienna, opening January 2025, and following her inclusion in... Read more -
Butterfly Time III
25 Oct - 20 Dec 2024 New York Richard Saltoun Gallery is pleased to present Butterfly Time: Part III , the final instalment of its three-part series marking the centenary of Surrealism. Named after a seminal work by the Czech artist Toyen, this series brings together key figures from the Surrealist movement, celebrating its far-reaching legacy through an... Read more -
Simryn Gill: Shelter
Curated by Catherine de Zegher 20 Sep - 2 Nov 2024 London Opening: Friday, 20 September | 6-8pm In-conversation with Simryn Gill, Catherine de zegher & Mark Rappolt : Saturday, 21 September | 2-4pm RSVP Catherine de Zegher: Simryn Gill shell shelter sphere From the silverfish lodging in a book with worm holes to the protective birdhouse in Vegetation (2016), from the... Read more -
Reena Saini Kallat
What the Sky Won't Say, the Ground Will 12 Sep - 25 Oct 2024 Rome EN: Richard Saltoun Gallery presents the solo exhibition What the Sky Won't Say, the Ground Will by Reena Saini KALLAT (b. 1973, Delhi), showcasing the work of one of India’s foremost contemporary artists. Known for her critical exploration of national and geographical boundaries, geopolitical conflicts, and their enduring impacts on... Read more -
Butterfly Time: Part II
A group exhibition of women in Surrealism 3 Sep - 18 Oct 2024 New York Richard Saltoun Gallery is pleased to announce Butterfly Time: Part II as a part of a sequence of three group exhibitions underscoring the contributions by a total of 11 pioneering female artists from 4 different continents to the global Surrealist movement. Titled after a work by the renowned Czech artist... Read more -
image-ridden impulse
12 Jul - 23 Aug 2024 New York Opening: Thursday, 11 July | 6pm Richard Saltoun Gallery and Franklin Parrasch Gallery are pleased to present image-ridden impulse , a collaborative group exhibition of works by ten cross-generational artists working in the field of abstraction: Magdalena ABAKANOWICZ (1930 - 2017), Latifa ALAJLAN (1998-), Yvonne Pacanovsky BOBROWICZ (1928 - 2022),... Read more -
Penny Slinger
Exorcism: Inside Out 3 Jul - 7 Sep 2024 London Private View: Tuesday, 2 July | 6pm “We have many works that follow The Hero's Journey, but how many that track that of the Heroine? This journey of the embodied soul is not sexist; we all, male and female alike, need to discover who we are. It is like a... Read more -
Erin Manning
100 Acres 31 May - 22 Jun 2024 London As a part of London Gallery Weekend How big is the forest? It is the forest of the world. It is infinite. It twists around as a snake swallows its own tail and has no end and no beginning. No one has seen its farthest dimension.' - Annie Proulx, Barkskins... Read more -
Romany Eveleigh: One Liners
Curated by Flavia Frigeri 8 May - 20 Jul 2024 Rome 'By expressing her constant longing for what she describes as the ‘sought-for beginning’ Eveleigh makes it clear that her work is about the making, rather than the end point. The difficulty, or as she says ‘the magnitude of a beginning’ is challenging for the artist, who each time needs to... Read more -
Jan Wade
COLORED ENTRANCE 2 May - 22 Jun 2024 New York Richard Saltoun Gallery New York presents its inaugural solo exhibition COLORED ENTRANCE , by African-Canadian artist Jan WADE (b. 1952), on view between 2 May - 22 June 2024 to coincide with New York Frieze Week. COLORED ENTRANCE is Wade's first solo exhibition in the United States, on the occasion... Read more -
Fathi Hassan
I can see you smiling Fatma 9 Apr - 25 May 2024 London Private View: 9 April | 6pm Richard Saltoun Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition with Edinburgh-based, Egyptian born artist, Fathi HASSAN (b. 1957, Egypt), marking the gallery's representation of the artist. Showcasing a new body of paintings and a site-specific wall painting, this will be Hassan's first exhibition... Read more -
Il Cinema per Fabio Mauri
Curated by Laura Cherubini 19 Mar - 27 Apr 2024 Rome Private view: March 19 | 6PM 'From the very beginning, the world has always seemed to me like a great, but partially decoded, projection. The object-symbol of the current state of things, of us standing in front of reality, is a screen.... We do not capture all the conceivable reality... Read more -
Alexis Hunter: 10 Seconds
Curated by Natasha Hoare 6 Feb - 28 Mar 2024 London Private View: 6 February | 6pm ‘…I set up the narrative sequences to work as advertising does, within a minimum of ten seconds.’ - Alexis Hunter Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a solo exhibition of works by Alexis HUNTER (1948-2014), a pivotal figure in the British Feminist Movement of the 1970s,... Read more -
Atelier dell’Errore: Die Werkstatt
Curated by Eva Brioschi 18 Jan - 9 Mar 2024 Rome PRIVATE VIEW: january 18 | 6PM “A little light, like a rushlight, to lead back to splendour. ” – E. Pound, Canto CXVI “Every time a new work is started, there is no way of knowing when and how it will be finished. The drawing evolves, hand in hand, day... Read more -
Women's Work is Never Done
Curated by Catherine de Zegher 14 Nov 2023 - 27 Jan 2024 London Private View: November 14 | 6pm “Catherine de Zegher’s writing and curatorial practice (…) is a monumental achievement. Yet it does not seek monumentality. It shows us how to value everything that disdains monumentality and reveals to us the immense importance of tracing other threads of (…) vital creativity by... Read more -
Daiara Tukano
Kihtimori: creation memories 8 Nov - 22 Dec 2023 Rome Private View: November 8 | 6pm EN: “The most we can hope for with our art is to have an impact. The more people we reach, the more politically evolved people there will be to vote for those who defend our rights.” - Daiara Tukano Richard Saltoun Gallery is pleased... Read more -
The Resistance of Pen and Paper
26 Sep - 4 Nov 2023 London “Thanks to the resistance of pen and paper, it does make one slow down and think. ' - Umberto Eco “For all this time, however much I begged for pen and paper, they wouldn’t give it to me. I had thought of all the things I would write whenever they... Read more -
Giulia Napoleone
Il Blu 12 Sep - 28 Oct 2023 Rome Richard Saltoun Gallery is delighted to present the first exhibition in Rome dedicated to Italian artist Giulia Napoleone (b. 1936) following her retrospective Realtà in Equilibrio held at Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome in 2018. The exhibition includes works on paper and paintings made by the artist over... Read more -
Peter Cook
Cities 18 Jul - 16 Sep 2023 London Richard Saltoun Gallery is honoured to present the visionary work of British architect Sir Peter Cook . Drawing on his work over the past 60 years, the exhibition features a site-specific architectural environment produced especially for the gallery, together with a selection of drawings and paintings that trace the radical... Read more -
Ann-Marie James
L'Origine du Monde 22 Jun - 28 Jul 2023 Rome Richard Saltoun Gallery is delighted to present a new body of work by the former British School at Rome residence artist Ann-Marie James , inspired by L'Origine du monde (1866), the infamous scandalous painting by Gustave Courbet, together with works from three series of paintings: Museé Imaginaire, Rome and Forum... Read more -
Florence Peake
Enactment 30 May - 8 Jul 2023 London Richard Saltoun is delighted to present Enactment , a solo exhibition of multi-disciplinary visual artist Florence Peake . The exhibition presents new installations, sculptures, canvases, and works on paper that continue the artist's research into the possibilities of painting and complements her major solo exhibition at Southwark Park Galleries, running... Read more -
Marinella Pirelli
Meteore 4 May - 10 Jun 2023 Rome Preview: 4 May | 6-8pm 'Painting amused me, but it did not satisfy me [...]. Rather than crystallising an image or a gesture or a thought in a moment, even if happy and positive, I was interested in giving a sense of the making of an image, a gesture, a... Read more -
Outside, looking in
31 Mar - 20 May 2023 London Richard Saltoun Gallery is pleased to present Outside, looking in , a group exhibition celebrating the fundamental role women have played in the evolution of abstract art. The title is lifted from the writings of British artist Shelagh Wakely, inspired by the notion of questioning set divisions and hierarchies and... Read more -
decentering in Ceramics
Curated by Giulia Pollicita 28 Feb - 22 Apr 2023 Rome Richard Saltoun Gallery presents decentering in Ceramics , a group show that celebrates the artistic value of ceramics – historically considered a minor, decorative art – and highlights its expressive possibilities through the work of eight women artists. From the proto-conceptual experiments of Nedda Guidi and Franca Maranò , two... Read more -
Antigone
Women in Fibre art 31 Jan - 24 Mar 2023 London Richard Saltoun Gallery is delighted to inaugurate the 2023 exhibition programme with Antigone: Women in Fibre Art , a group show celebrating the rich Eastern European textile art tradition. Focusing on gallery artists Jagoda Buić – who recently passed away - and Barbara Levittoux-Świderska , the exhibition will situate their... Read more -
Roman Allegories & Greek Mythologies
Eleanor Antin & Giorgio de Chirico 10 Jan - 18 Feb 2023 Rome Richard Saltoun Gallery is delighted to present Roman Allegories & Greek Mythologies, a landmark exhibition presenting two seminal series of works: Roman Allegories , by the pioneering American feminist artist Eleanor Antin; and Mythologies , by the father of the Italian Metafisica Giorgio de Chirico. Albeit different in form, the... Read more -
On Sexuality
Helen Chadwick & Penny Slinger 6 Dec 2022 - 21 Jan 2023 London On Sexuality presents the early, iconic works of Helen Chadwick and Penny Slinger . Widely considered among the most influential artists in British contemporary art, in the 1970s Chadwick and Slinger broke all taboos and conventions with their bold, visceral works that explored female subjectivity, especially in relation to sexual... Read more -
Organised Killing
100 years of war and genocide 10 Oct - 26 Nov 2022 London Richard Saltoun Gallery presents Organised Killing , a landmark exhibition retracing the history of modern conflict from 1914 to the present-day war in Ukraine through the personal accounts of 13 international artists. Drawing its inspiration from the celebrated exhibition Face a L'Histoire at the Centre Pompidou in 1996, the exhibition... Read more -
Haptic Vision
Rosa LEE and Jo BRUTON 20 Aug - 1 Oct 2022 London Private View: 14 September 6:30 pm Richard Saltoun Gallery presents Haptic Vision , a major exhibition dedicated to trailblazing feminist artists Rosa Lee and Jo Bruton , which puts into focus their massive influence on the UK’s abstract and feminist art of the 1980s & 90s. It is the first... Read more -
Born from Earth
Women in Ceramics 5 Jul - 13 Aug 2022 London Richard Saltoun Gallery presents an all-women group show bringing together ceramics by 11 contemporary artists, from pioneers of the medium to young artists who keep pushing it forward. The exhibition features a bespoke display designed by Lisa Chan, founder of London-based creative studio It’s a Local Collective , which will... Read more -
Romina De Novellis
Tales from the South 7 - 26 Jun 2022 London PERFORMANCE TIMES: Mon–Fri, 2–6 pm Sat, all day Sunday 26 June, all day Please book your place for the performance 24 hours in advance by emailing the date and time you intend to visit to rsvp@richardsaltoun.com . Richard Saltoun Gallery is delighted to present the first solo show in the... Read more -
Bice Lazzari
Modernist Pioneer 17 May - 22 Jul 2022 Rome Guided Tour with Renato Miracco , Tuesday 28 June. RSVP to rome@richardsaltoun.com to attend. Richard Saltoun Gallery is delighted to present a museum-scale exhibition of the pioneering abstractionist Bice LAZZARI , a new major retrospective in Rome following MACRO’s in 2011. Organised in collaboration with Archivio Bice Lazzari, Rome, the... Read more -
Everlyn NICODEMUS
12 Apr - 28 May 2022 London Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a major solo exhibition of African diaspora artist Everlyn Nicodemus (b. 1954), her first with the gallery. The exhibition marks Nicodemus' first solo show in London in over 15 years and brings together a selection of works spanning 40 years, including unseen paintings from The Wedding... Read more -
Bertina LOPES
9 Mar - 7 May 2022 Rome Richard Saltoun Gallery inaugurates its programming in Rome with a special solo exhibition of works from the estate of Mozambican-Italian painter Bertina LOPES (1924–2012). Considered the mother of contemporary African painting, Lopes was one of the earliest pioneers to bridge the gap between African and European art. Her work has... Read more -
The Conquest of Space
On Hannah Arendt 15 Feb - 2 Apr 2022 London The last exhibition in Richard Saltoun Gallery's 14-month series inspired by the political philosopher Hannah Arendt will feature works by Sylvia PLIMACK MANGOLD (b. 1938), Elaine REICHEK (b. 1943), Carey YOUNG (b. 1970). Read more -
Truth and Politics
On Hannah Arendt 1 Dec 2021 - 5 Feb 2022 London The seventh exhibition in Richard Saltoun Gallery's year-long series inspired by the political philosopher Hannah Arendt will display two historically significant artworks by ULAY (Frank Uwe Laysiepen, 1943-2020) and Allan SEKULA (1951-2013), together with three specially commissioned new sculptures by Aleksandra DOMANOVIĆ (b. 1981). The essay “Truth and Politics” is... Read more -
Wilma Woolf
Domestic 25 - 27 Nov 2021 London In honour of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women we present Domestic, an installation by Wilma WOOLF documenting all the women that have been killed in the UK at the hands of male violence since 2013. This incredibly important work by Wilma WOOLF consists of eight... Read more -
Florence Peake
Sequel 17 - 20 Nov 2021 In honour and in support of Florence PEAKE’s performance at The National Gallery, on 10 December 2021, Richard Saltoun presents 'Sequel', a temporary exhibition & happening at 41 Dover Street. Opening November 17th , this show presents a series of interrelated works by Peake dating from 2014 to 2020. These... Read more -
The Crisis in Culture
On Hannah Arendt 28 Sep - 13 Nov 2021 London Looking at the social and political implications of what Arendt understands as a Crisis in Culture, the sixth exhibition in our 'On Hannah Arendt' program features a selection of drawings by Renate BERTLMANN, Annette MESSAGER's soft sculptures and an installation by Pamela ROSENKRANZ. Read more -
The Crisis in Education
On Hannah Arendt 10 Aug - 18 Sep 2021 London 'On Hannah Arendt: The Crisis in Education' is the fifth exhibition in Richard Saltoun Gallery's year-long series dedicated to the political thinker. The show will feature a joint presentation between two female artists known for their embrace of photography, including Eleanor ANTIN and Siân DAVEY. Read more -
What is Freedom?
On Hannah Arendt 15 Jun - 31 Jul 2021 London The fourth exhibition in Richard Saltoun Gallery's year-long series inspired by the political philosopher Hannah Arendt is a solo presentation by the Israeli artist, feminist theorist, psychanalyst and philosopher BRACHA. Read more -
What is Authority?
On Hannah Arendt 26 Apr - 6 Jun 2021 London The third exhibition in Richard Saltoun Gallery's year-long series of exhibitions inspired by Hannah Arendt explores the political philosopher's essay 'What is Authority?' The group presentation features work by Lili DUJOURIE, Everlyn NICODEMUS and Lerato SHADI. Read more -
The Concept of History
On Hannah Arendt 8 Mar - 16 Apr 2021 London The second exhibition in the gallery's 12-month programme dedicated to Hannah Arendt, 'The Concept of History' features a solo presentation by the British photomontage artist Peter KENNARD. Read more -
The Modern Age
On Hannah Arendt 11 Jan - 26 Feb 2021 London 'The Modern Age' is the first in a 12-month programme of exhibitions 'On Hannah Arendt' dedicated to the writings of the German-born, American political philosopher. The inaugural exhibition links together Arendt's understanding of knowledge and thinking with remembrance and storytelling – the kind of thinking present in the work of participating artists Siah ARMAJANI, Thomas BAYRLE, Véronique FILOZOF, Vivienne KOORLAND and Jo SPENCE, who collectively combine imagination, courage and independence. New sound pieces by Laima Leyton also accompany the show online. Read more -
On Hannah Arendt
Eight proposals for exhibition 1 Jan 2021 - 26 Mar 2022 London 'On Hannah Arendt: Eight Proposals for Exhibition' looks to one of the most important thinkers of the post-war generation to confront some of the most pressing socio-political issues of our time.
From January until December 2021, 'On Hannah Arendt' will feature eight exhibitions that seek to explore the questions put forth in the eight chapters of Arendt’s book 'Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought.' The entire programme features over 20 international artists, including Siah ARMAJANI, Lili DUJOURIE, Peter KENNARD, Vivienne KOORLAND, Everlyn NICODEMUS, Lerato SHADI, ULAY and more. Read more -
Our inheritance was left to us by no testament
12 Nov - 19 Dec 2020 London A prelude to the gallery’s 12-month programme 'On Hannah Arendt', launching in January 2021, this exhibition looks to the preface of the political philosopher’s 1968 publication Between Past and Future, which opens with an aphorism by the French poet René Char: “Notre héritage n'est précédé d'aucun testament,” or as Arendt translates, "our inheritance was left to us by no testament."
Taking this quote as a point of departure, the group exhibition speaks to possibilities in art without testament, without tradition, situated and grown out of particular moments in history and the individual narrative of each exhibited artist. Featuring work by Alina SZAPOCZNIKOW, Barbara LEVITTOUX-ŚWIDERSKA, Renate BERTLMANN, Bela KOLAROVA, Jagoda BUIĆ, Jolanta OWIDZKA and Erna ROSENSTEIN, the exhibition includes a mixture of paintings, works on paper, tapestry, sculpture and mixed media assemblages from the 1960s to the 1980s. Read more -
Bob LAW
Ideas, Energies, Transmutations 3 Sep - 31 Oct 2020 London Richard Saltoun Gallery opens to the public for the first time in six months with an exhibition of work by the British conceptual artist Bob LAW (b. 1934 – d. 2004). Read more -
Annegret Soltau
Spider 21 Feb - 1 Aug 2020 London Since the beginning of her career in the 1970s, Annegret SOLTAU has championed an experimental approach to art, challenging the conventional notions of representation through performance, photography and collage. While the focus of Soltau’s work never ventures far from the female body and its bodily processes, often incorporating images of... Read more -
Maternality
Part 2 10 Jan - 15 Feb 2020 London 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 the universe is created (in Latin mater/materia ). The maternal body itself has been a productive medium for artists to... Read more -
Matrescence
Part 1 15 Nov - 21 Dec 2019 London 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
2 Oct - 9 Nov 2019 London 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 30 Aug - 26 Sep 2019 London ‘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 London 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 London 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 18 Apr - 25 May 2019 London 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 London '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 -
100% Women
1 Mar 2019 - 1 Mar 2020 London From March 2019 to March 2020, Richard Saltoun Gallery dedicated 100% of its exhibition and art fair programme to women artists. Titled 100% Women, the initiative was implemented to address the gender inequality that persists in the art world and encourage wider industry action through debate, dialogue and collaboration. It is now a leader in its representation of female artists, from avant-garde pioneers of the 1960s and ‘70s to a younger generation of female artists working today. It continues to support female artists through extensive research, partnerships and solo presentations at the gallery and online. Read more -
ULAY
11 Jan - 23 Feb 2019 London 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 London 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 London 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 London 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 & Photography (1960 - 1980) 13 Jul - 17 Aug 2018 London 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.
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VOCALIZING
Tomaso Binga & Greta Schödl 31 May - 7 Jul 2018 London 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 London 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 London 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.
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Eleanor ANTIN
Romans & Kings 22 Sep - 26 Oct 2017 London 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 London 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 London 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 London 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 London 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 London 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 -
LI Yuan-chia
Spotlight 4 Oct - 25 Nov 2016 London 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: Part 4
1 - 28 Sep 2016 London 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: Part 3
29 Jul - 26 Aug 2016 London 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.
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Some Dimensions of my Lunch: Part 2
24 Jun - 22 Jul 2016 London 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: Part 1
19 May - 17 Jun 2016 London 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 London '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 London '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 London 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 London '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 -
Pierre MOLINIER
THE TEMPTATIONS OF Pierre MOLINIER 20 Aug - 2 Oct 2015 London 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 London 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 London 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 London 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 London 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 London 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 London 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 London 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 9 Jul - 29 Aug 2014 London 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 London 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 London 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 London 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 London 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 London 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 London 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 London '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 London 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 London 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 London 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 London 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.
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DOUBLE DUTCH
14 Mar - 10 May 2013 London '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 London 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.
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Inaugural exhibition: Post-war Contemporary Artists
10 Dec 2012 - 18 Jan 2013 London 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 London 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 London 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 London 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 London 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 London 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 Indica Gallery, Mason's Yard in 1966. Morgan left England on foot for Rome at the age of 22, an act... Read more -
BARRY FLANAGAN: Built like a tree, flows like a river
5 Dec 2011 - 3 Feb 2012 London In collaboration with Karsten Schubert. Read more -
HANS HAACKE: Blue Sail
5 Dec 2011 - 3 Feb 2012 London In collaboration with Karsten Schubert. Read more -
FOR CHARLES HARRISON: When Attitudes Became Form
13 Jan - 4 Mar 2011 London 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 Harrison's seminal exhibition When Attitudes Become Form (ICA, London, 1969) this dynamic show unites avant-garde British artists with groundbreaking artists... Read more -
JOHN LATHAM: Works 1961-1995
5 May - 11 Jun 2010 London 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 Saltoun are pleased to show John Latham: Works 1961-65 from 5th May to 11th June 2010. Following on from Latham's... Read more -
BOB LAW
A Retrospective 19 Nov 2009 - 16 Jan 2010 London 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 artist of the 1970s, yet somehow he has become almost forgotten - written out of the narratives of postwar art.... Read more -
KEITH ARNATT: Works 1968-1990
11 Sep - 13 Nov 2009 London In collaboration with Karsten Schubert Read more -
ROBYN DENNY: Early Work 1955-1977
26 Sep - 25 Oct 2008 London Read more -
COLIN SELF: Works from the 60s
20 Jun - 2 Aug 2008 London 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 sculpture exhibited at this first solo show and at the celebreated Robert Fraser Gallery in its '60s heyday. Works by... Read more -
BOYLE FAMILY: The 1960s and 70s
24 Apr - 7 Jun 2008 London 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 the first in a commercial London gallery since the death of Mark Boyle in 2005. It follows a major retrospective... Read more -
JOHN LATHAM: The Spray Gun and the Cosmos
29 Feb - 12 Apr 2008 London 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 recognised as one of the most radical and influential British artists of the second half of the 20th century. Belonging... Read more
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