Frieze London week is around the corner and the whole city is getting ready for an inrush of collectors, artists, dealers, and art lovers. The biggest and smallest galleries are ready to open their doors to show the most important exhibitions of the year. There is so much to see, therefore I have listed the most exciting exhibitions for this upcoming Frieze Week for you to see!
01) Ai WeiWei: Roots
Lisson Gallery in London, 27 Bell Street
02 Oct - 02 Nov 2019
Ai Weiwwi was born in 1957 in Beijing and now lives and works in Berlin. ‘Roots’ presents a series of monumental scuptural works in Iron, cast from giant tree roots sourced in Brazil during research and production for last year’s survey exhibitions, ‘Raiz’, the Oca Pavilion in Ibirapuera Oark, São Paulo.
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02) Sterling Ruby
Gagosian London
6–24 Britannia Street
28 Sept - 07 Oct 2019
Gagosian’s latest foray into the digital marketplace is an expanded online viewing room premiering during frieze London 2019. The upcoming presentation, developed in collaboration with sterling ruby, will feature seven primary-market artworks from the personal archive of ruby, including one new painting and one new sculpture made for this occasion. Ruby has selected seven pertinent secondary-market works by historical artists to be shown each in dialogue with one of his own.
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03) Watch This Space
Lazinc, 29 Sackville Street
24 Sep - 21 Dec 2019
Opening this month, Lazinc is delighted to be exhibiting a special project curated by guest curator Magda Danysz. Watch this space will transform the gallery into an open studio where over 25 artists will share their processes and create site-specific works over the course of three months. This ephemeral project will play out over both floors of the gallery.
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04) Damien Hirst: Mandalas
White Cube Mason’s Yard
20 Sept - 02 Nov 2019
White Cube mason’s yard presents Damien Hirst’s first major solo exhibition in London in seven years, comprised of new paintings from his ‘Mandalas’ series. Continuing themes from his ‘kaleidoscope’ series, Hirst’s new works take inspiration from the mandala, a symbolic representation of the universe.
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05) Reginald Sylvester Ii | Nemesis
Maximillian William
47 Mortimer Street
27 Sep 2019 – 7 Nov 2019
For its inaugural exhibition, Maximillian William is thrilled to present NEMESIS, a new series of paintings by American artist Reginald Sylvester II. In conjunction with the opening of the gallery’s first permanent space, this exhibition marks the artist’s debut solo presentation in London.
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06) Kara Walker: 2019 Hyundai Commission For Turbine Hall
Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
02 Oct 2019 - 05 Apr 2020
Tate Modern And Hyundai Motor Today Announced That Kara Walker Will Create The Next Annual Hyundai Commission. Walker Is Renowned For Her Candid Explorations Of Race, Gender, Sexuality And Violence, From Drawings, Prints, Murals, Shadow Puppets And Projections To Large-Scale Sculptural Installations. Her New Site-Specific Work For The Turbine Hall Will Be Open To The Public From 2 October 2019 To 5 April 2020.
07) ‘Other Spaces’ With United Visual Artists
The Store X 180 The Strand
1 Oct – 9 Dec 2019
A Multi-Sensory Exploration Of Light And Sound.
The Store X The Vinyl Factory Presents A New Exhibition By Uva Called Other Spaces At 180 The Strand In Collaboration With The Fondation Cartier Pour L’art Contemporain, Paris.
Other Spaces Features Three Large-Scale Installations By The Multi-Disciplinary Collective Uva – Our Time, The Great Animal Orchestra And Vanishing Point.
08) Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraits
Royal Academy Of Arts
27 October 2019 – 26 January 2020
One Of The Most Celebrated Portraitists Of Our Time, Lucian Freud Is Also One Of Very Few 20Th Century Artists Who Portrayed Themselves With Such Consistency.
Spanning Nearly Seven Decades, His Self-Portraits Give A Fascinating Insight Into Both His Psyche And His Development As A Painter – From His Earliest Portrait, Painted In 1939, To His Final One Executed 64 Years Later. They Trace The Fascinating Evolution From The Linear Graphic Works Of His Early Career To The Fleshier, Painterly Style He Became Synonymous With.
08) Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraits
Royal Academy Of Arts
27 October 2019 – 26 January 2020
One Of The Most Celebrated Portraitists Of Our Time, Lucian Freud Is Also One Of Very Few 20Th Century Artists Who Portrayed Themselves With Such Consistency.
Spanning Nearly Seven Decades, His Self-Portraits Give A Fascinating Insight Into Both His Psyche And His Development As A Painter – From His Earliest Portrait, Painted In 1939, To His Final One Executed 64 Years Later. They Trace The Fascinating Evolution From The Linear Graphic Works Of His Early Career To The Fleshier, Painterly Style He Became Synonymous With.