HAYWARD GALLERY
SOUTHBANK CENTRE
BLEVEDERE ROAD
SE1 8XX
DRAG: Self-portraits and Body Politics
To 14 October
This free exhibition features the work of more than 30 artists who have used drag to explore or question identity, gender, class and politics, from the 1960s to the present day. Alongside key figures such as Pierre Molinier, VALIE EXPORT, Robert Mapplethorpe and Cindy Sherman, the exhibition also includes self-portraits by a younger generation of contemporary artists who have recently embraced drag as an art form, including Adam Christensen and Victoria Sin.
Rather than offering a linear or chronological narrative, this exhibition aims to present a multitude of voices that explore cultural shifts of the past 50 years and touch on topics that include the 1980s AIDS crisis and post-colonial theory.
Space Shifters
26 September to 6 January 2019
Space Shifters brings together artwork by over 20 international artists on the theme of space disruption and alteration. This major thematic exhibition features works that alter or disrupt our sense of space and reorient our understanding of our surroundings in ways that are by turns subtle and dramatic.
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TATE BRITAIN
MILLBANK
SW1P 4RG
Aftermath
Art in the Wake of World War One
To 23 Sept
Marking the 100 years since the end of World War One, Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One looks at how artists responded to the physical and psychological scars left on Europe.
Anthea Hamilton
The Squash
To 8 October
A solo performer in a squash-like costume inhabits the Duveen Galleries every day for more than six months for the Tate Britain Commission 2018. Each element of The Squash has evolved from Hamilton’s interest in a photograph she found in a book several years ago when looking at improvisational theatre and participatory art practices in the 1960s and 1970s.
Turner Prize 2018
26 September to 6 Jan 2019
The Turner Prize returns to Tate Britain for its 34th edition. The prize is awarded to a British artist for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the preceding year as determined by a jury.
Tackling pressing issues in society today, the four shortlisted artists for this year are:
Forensic Architecture, Naeem Mohaiemen, Charlotte Prodger, Luke Willis Thompson
Edward Burne-Jones
24 October to 24 February 2019
Born in 1833, Burne-Jones rejected the industrial world of the Victorians, looking instead for inspiration from medieval art, religion, myths and legends. He made spectacular works depicting Arthurian knights, classical heroes and Biblical angels – working across painting, stained glass, embroidery, jewellery and more.
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TATE MODERN
BANKSIDE
SE1 9TG
020 7887 8888
Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art
To 14 October
Shape of Light is the first major exhibition to explore the relationship between the two, spanning the century from the 1910s to the present day. It brings to life the innovation and originality of photographers over this period, and shows how they responded and contributed to the development of abstraction.
Christian Marclay: The Clock
14 September to 20 January 2019
Christian Marclay’s acclaimed installation The Clock 2010 has captivated audiences across the world from New York to Moscow. 24-hours long, the installation is a montage of thousands of film and television images of clocks, edited together so they show the actual time. It is a thrilling journey through cinematic history as well as a functioning timepiece.
Following several years of rigorous and painstaking research and production, Marclay collected together excerpts from well-known and lesser-known films including thrillers, westerns and science fiction.
Anni Albers
11 October to 27 January 2019
As a female student at the radical Bauhaus art school, Albers was discouraged from taking up certain classes. She enrolled in the weaving workshop and made textiles her key form of expression. She inspired and was inspired by her artist contemporaries, among them her teacher, Paul Klee, and her husband, Josef Albers.
Magic Realism: Art in Weimar Germany 1919-33
30 July 2018 to 14 July 2019
Tate Modern will explore German art from between the wars in a year-long, free exhibition. This presentation explores the diverse practices of a number of different artists, including Otto Dix, George Grosz, Albert Birkle and Jeanne Mammen. Although the term ‘magic realism’ is today commonly associated with the literature of Latin America, it was inherited from the artist and critic Franz Roh who invented it in 1925 to describe a shift from the art of the expressionist era, towards cold veracity and unsettling imagery.
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LONDON GLASSBLOWING
62 – 66 BERMONDSEY STREET
SE1 3UD
020 7403 2800
Breaking the Mould
28 September to 20 October
In 2011 London Glassblowing hosted Melt, an important exhibition of cast glass by a dazzling array of artists, for the launch of of the book ‘Mould Making for Glass’ by the internationally renowned artist Angela Thwaites.
The captivating quality of kiln cast glass has meant that it has become an important material for contemporary artists, some of whom who normally work in other media.
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