Exhibitions

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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