Exhibitions

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