by As the seasons change, many galleries and museums in London are also repositioning. From a fascinating Chanel retrospective to a gorgeous portrait survey by Holbein, there’s plenty of art to sink your teeth into this winter.
A Common World: Contemporary African Photography
Bringing together a group of artists from different generations, this exhibition looks at how photography, film, sound and more have been used to re-imagine different African cultures and historical stories, exploring the many ways images cross histories and geographies through themes of spirituality, identity. , urbanization and climate emergency.
Tate Modernuntil the 14th of January
Seizing the Moment
A unique opportunity to explore how some of the greatest modern painters and photographers of our time have worked together using two distinct mediums, this show presents significant works from the Tate’s collection and The Yageo Foundation’s collection of the last 100 years together, and works by 39 artists, from Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Alice Neel, to Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jeff Wall, Louise Lawler and Candida Höfer.
Tate Modernuntil the 28th of January
diva
From Victorian opera goddesses to today’s global mega-stars, this show will celebrate the power and creativity of iconic performers, exploring and redefining what it means to be a diva and how it was made. be contradicted or embodied over time throughout opera, stage, popular music, and film. Encompassing fashion, photography, design, costumes, music and live performance, it looks at how the performer has intersected with society and how they have inspired change through their voice and their art.
V&A, until the 7th of April
The first UK exhibition dedicated to the work of French couturiere Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel will trace the evolution of her iconic design style, from the opening of her first millinery shop in Paris in 1910 to the display of her final collection in 1971. Featuring over 180 looks, appearing together for the first time, alongside jewellery, accessories, cosmetics and fragrances, the exhibition will explore Chanel’s pioneering approach to fashion design, which paved the way for a new feminine elegance and continues to influence the way women dress today.
V&Auntil 25 February
Marina Abramović
The Serbian performance artist’s first major survey in the UK brings together over 50 works across her entire career, including works performed within galleries. It explores how Abramović reflected on the temporal nature of performance art by extending its influence through his tracks: photographs, videos, objects, installations and re-presentations of his work with young performers. It’s bonkers, and you shouldn’t miss it.
Royal Academyuntil the 1st of January
Sarah Lucas
One of the most enduring artists of the YBA era, Sarah Lucas is internationally renowned for her bold, fast and exciting use of material and imagery. Using ordinary objects in unexpected ways, she has continuously challenged our understanding of sex, class and gender over the past four decades.
Tate Britainuntil the 14th of January
Deception has always been used during war to gain an advantage over the enemy and to protect our secrets. But in the gray area between war and peace, is cheating acceptable? And should we spy on our friends as well as our enemies? This major exhibition at IWM London looks at the tricks, deceptions and espionage in the secret world of deception.
Imperial War Museum, until 14 April
Philip Guston
The long-awaited survey show of the famous American abstractist finally arrives, exploring how his paintings, which moved from the abstract (and sometimes nightmarish) social and political turmoil of the late 1960s, became both personal and the political, the abstract and the figurative, the comic and the tragic.
Tate Modernuntil 25 February
RE/Sisters
This group exhibition, which you hope for God, examines the relationship between gender and ecology, highlighting the systemic links between the oppression of women and the degradation of the planet.
Barbicanuntil the 14th of January
This comprehensive survey of the work of the internationally renowned artist and photographer will include works produced over the past five decades and selections from each of Sugimoto’s major photographic series, as well as lesser-known works that illustrate his approach innovative concepts based on making. pictures.
Hayward Galleryuntil the 7th of January
Women in the Uprising!
The first of its kind, this major survey will focus on the work of over 100 female artists working in the UK from 1970 to 1990 across a diverse range of artists and mediums to explore and reflect on issues and events such as the Women’s Lib movement , the fight for legal change, maternal and domestic experiences, Rock Against Racism, Greenham Common and the peace movement, the visibility of black and South Asian women artists, Section 28 and the AIDS pandemic.
Tate Britainuntil 7 April
Imperial War Museum Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries
The new Blavatnik Galleries of Art, Film and Photography will explore how artists, photographers and filmmakers can witness, document and tell the story of conflict, and show how artistic interpretation can uniquely shape our understanding of war. New acquisitions will be shown alongside famous works from IWM’s current collection, including John Singer Sargent’s Gassed, Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old and Steve McQueen’s Queen and Country.
Imperial War Museumnow open
Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec
In the realm of modernism in late 19th century France, impressionist and post-impressionist artists changed what we think of as art – and in the process, elevated the status of works on paper from something preparatory that you left in a studio or isolated, to works of art in their own right. In this show there are around 70 works on paper by famous artists whose innovation would change art forever.
Royal Academyuntil 10 March
Holbein at the Tudor Court
This is sure to be a superb exhibition of one of the most important extant collections of Hans Holbein’s work, including drawings, paintings, miniatures and book illustrations, to explore the artist’s career and the lives of those who commissioned portraits from him. inquiry , from Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn to Thomas More and the young Elizabeth I. The Queen’s GalleryBuckingham Palace, until 14 April
