Exhibitions

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