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Group exhibition, ‘A Site of Struggle’ explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a period of 100 years.

‘Sound as Sculpture’ brings together foundational works from the 1960s and 1970s with important recent works that examine the body’s ability to transmit, emit and absorb sound and explore the psychological and poetic effects of sound in space.

Join Yinka Shonibare CBE and curator Victor Wang (Artistic Director and Chief Curator of the M WOODS museum in Beijing) for a discussion of Shonibare’s filmmaking practice. This online event is hosted by SOUTH SOUTH and coincides with the platform's first FILM Programme for the year featuring films by Yinka Shonibare CBE. 

‘Testament’ is a large-scale group exhibition that responds to the seismic shifts in UK society triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, environmental crises and Brexit. 

'30 Americans' is a touring group exhibition that showcases important contemporary artists from across the United States to explore how American art has shed light on issues of racial, sexual and historical identity. The works on display are aesthetically and thematically diverse, spanning painting, installation, sculpture and videos and created from 1970 to the present day. 

‘Commonplace’, 1999 is remade according to Neuenschwander’s instructions every time it is exhibited. Resembling delicate white paintings and composed entirely of talcum powder brushed into rectangular shapes, it is extremely fragile and will be destroyed at the end of this display.

Kehinde Wiley will discuss his new exhibition at the National Gallery as part of the 'Friday Lates' series.

Group exhibition ‘Alvim Corrêa and 10 Contemporary Artists’ showcases the works of Alvim Corréa, a Brazilian illustrator of military and science fiction books in dialogue with contemporary works that explore the complex relationship between humanity, new technologies, and nature. 

Celebrating its 75th anniversary year, the Arts Council Collection presents ‘Right About Now’ an exhibition featuring highlights from its recent contemporary art acquisitions, including a number of works presented publicly for the first time.

Presenting a broad showcase of the most recent acquisitions at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 'New Arrivals' includes 'Head nods and handshakes', 2019 by Deborah Roberts.

Stephen Friedman Gallery is delighted to announce representation of Japanese artist Izumi Kato.

Kato lives and works between Tokyo and Hong Kong. He was born in 1969 in the Shimane prefecture of Japan, a sparsely populated province bordered by mountain and sea which houses Izumo Ōyashiro, one of the oldest and most significant shrines in Shintoism.

'Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental Cinema' is the first exhibition dedicated to the work of French filmmaker, Sarah Maldoror (1929-2020). The exhibition focusses on the artist's cinematographic work and her involvement with theatre, poetry and politics.

Kehinde Wiley is the recipient of Apollo’s Artist of the Year Award 2021 in advance of his exhibition ‘The Prelude' at The National Gallery opening 10 December 2021.

Christie’s presents 'Unquestioning Love: An Auction to Benefit the New York City AIDS Memorial'. Across two live sales at Christie's New York, the sales of 19 artworks by a select group of leading contemporary artists occurs as the New York City AIDS Memorial celebrates its 10th anniversary. 

Solo exhibition ‘Voëlvry’ takes its name from the Afrikaans Anti-Apartheid music movement that Kendell Geers was part of in the late 1980s. Geers played keyboards and tape loops for the underground band KOOS that was featured on the original Voëlvry album, credited with launching a movement described as “Significant in every social, political, cultural and musical sense of the word”. With characteristically dark humour ‘Voëlvry’ challenges definitions of art in the 'post-truth' era, bringing together prints, neon sculptures and works on paper that invite the viewer to meditate on the question, what does freedom mean in 2021?

Coinciding with the contemporary art festival ‘ARTDATE’, The Blank presents ‘Statements’, an exhibition of new works created in response to the shared experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Jeffrey Deitch and Black Rock Senegal present Self-Addressed, an exhibition of self-portraits by contemporary African artists curated by Kehinde Wiley. 

In a curated selection of the Stone Foundation's twenty-five-years of cultural scholars, group exhibition ‘Towards another world. 25 years of Swedish contemporary art - Sten A Olsson's Cultural Scholarship’ showcases a dynamic and multifaceted period of Swedish art history. This retrospective features both older and newly produced works, including paintings, sculptures, textiles, film, photography and site-specific installations.