“Who is talking about Living?” will bring for the first time to the United Kingdom the video fiction with the same title, directed and produced by El Instante, with the original and edited work created around the performance that took place in the Prado [...]
Statuesque horses appear half hidden in thick swathes of colourful fabric while canvases of painted hands reach through backgrounds of vibrant flora. Bringing together the sculptural work of London-based artist Richard Stone and Spanish artist Lorena García Mateu’s paintings, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery presents A [...]
SCAN is pleased to present 'Being pulled all over the place', a group show curated by Cristina Ramos and with works by Katharina Siegel, Carlos Monleón, Marc Vives, Ingela Ihrman and Elena Aitzkoa 'Every story begins in water. So it does this exhibition, articulated while [...]
Unflappable is a rare body of work – completed in the months of the COVID-19 global crisis. To describe the artist duo is to allow for disruption and continuity to exist together, to perceive the static vagabond. Diego Omil & Dea Gómez are partners in [...]
The artist offers a complicit scenario, a witness to a run away, to a knowledge in motion, to care and to resistance – a shared space that seeks to bear witness to a radical sociability. To put ourselves in risk, to allow access, to [...]
This project originates from a fragment by translator Kate Briggs in her book 'This Little Art', in which she reflects on her experience translating Roland Barthes’ last talks and notes, compiled in his posthumous book 'How to Live Together' (2013). Briggs’ text raises questions about translation as [...]
This exhibition initiates an exciting collaboration between SCAN + INTERSTICIO at a new facility on 469 Bethnal Green Rd. This new space offers larger and more flexible exhibition rooms close to transport – Bethnal Green tube - and conveniently situated between the Herald Street and Vyner [...]
Affection as Subversive Architecture is a project by the Spanish architecture collective Recetas Urbanas exploring how to create alternative architectural and educational spaces through participatory self-construction and active citizenry. By destabilising mainstream assumptions about public structures and their legislative frameworks, this project features new architectural strategies for [...]
A forest creeper invades the gallery with its sinuous tendrils. This hanging sculpture by Concha García (b. 1960, Spain) is made of bright red wool, alerting us to the danger that all is not right in the world. Nearby, an enlarged eye looks out at the [...]
A giant peanut with a blue face and red lips resides as deity over a vibrant world of cartoon-like creatures. This is Maní, the fictional civilisation created by Spanish artist Ana Barriga (Jerez 1984)in which society centres around the peanut. For her solo show [...]
Picasso didn’t just draw on paper – he tore it, burnt it, and made it three-dimensional. From studies for ‘Guernica’ to a 4.8-metre-wide collage, this exhibition brings together more than 300 works on paper spanning the artist’s 80-year career. For Picasso, paper was both [...]
The intense responses which the artworks of both Enrique Brinkmann and Verónica Vázquez conjure up in us relate to one of the principle dilemmas which govern our lives: the need for order, whilst contemporaneously nurturing a primal desire for freedom. The evident sense of [...]
‘Empty Sea and Cavern’ is the first solo show of Alan Sastre in London, he shows a selection of his two latest series of works. On one hand a series of monochrome canvases that offer the shade of one of the possible ways of [...]
Ana Pallares painted her own burial at the age of nineteen. In this dramatic scene, she included her family: her mother, her father, her sister…all of them screaming in a terrifying choir of deep sorrow, the priest in the background rolling his eyes up to [...]
This October, Opera Gallery London is proud and excited to present the first solo exhibition dedicated to Manolo Valdés in the Mayfair district of the city. Internationally acclaimed both as a painter and as a sculptor, Manolo Valdés, born in 1942 in Valencia, Spain, [...]
Engaging with non-hierarchical systems and non-academic methods of (un)learning, Leonor Serrano Rivas begins with historical fonts that relate to the theory of theatre, allowing herself to be seduced by interpretation and free association. Thoughts concatenate one from the other opposing framing and categorisation as [...]
This exhibition explores how innovative individuals, communities and organisations are radically re-inventing how we grow, distribute and experience food. Taking visitors on a sensory journey through the food cycle, from compost to table, it poses questions about how the collective choices we make can [...]
When objects are removed from their original context, they can be arranged, collected, misunderstood and exotisized. Blue Curry and Fernando Martín Godoy, two artists from abroad living in London, bring their divergent practices together to consider the role that context plays. Curry's work is playful and [...]
Spanish photographer Alberto Feijoo has been selected among the 8 UK based artist to take part in The Photographers’ Gallery New Talent Annual Exhibition and Programme. American artist Jim Goldberg and the curatorial team at The Photographers’ Gallery selected the work of Feijoo from [...]
An elderly woman grimaces, grits her teeth, throws her head back, drops her jaw, frowns – and becomes impassive before continuing her roll call of facial expressions. We hear the clack clack clack of typewriter keys striking paper; the sounds are made not by [...]
Join Spanish artist Rosana Antolí as she transforms Tate Exchange into an immersive and participatory space exploring ideas around ecology and biology in relation to art and choreography. The Kick Inside, The Loop Outside is based on the figure of Turritopsis dohrnii, the immortal [...]
Greta Alfaro’s Solo show ‘I Will Not Hesitate To React Spiritually’ in the former Lambeth County Courts. An imaginative fusion of fact and fiction in this site specific installation. Roaming Room presents this new work in our programme ‘The Theatre of Buildings’. Spanish artist [...]
In this collection that builds my first solo exhibition in London and second in Madrid, I perform a manipulation that demands greater body movement, and an inevitable work-spectator relationship. Contrary to the immediate and massive consumption of images, these braided photographs challenge patience when [...]
An exhibition exploring the inequalities in the global food system. Delfina Foundation is proud to present the first UK solo exhibition of Asunción Molinos Gordo, Accumulation by Dispossession, curated by Dani Burrows. The exhibition takes its title from the work of the eminent Marxist Professor [...]
The first UK exhibition of Spain's Impressionist, Sorolla, in over a century. Known as the 'master of light' for his iridescent canvases, this is a rare opportunity to see the most complete exhibition of Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida's (1863–1923) paintings outside Spain. From the [...]
Londoners‘ is a project of portraits carried out over three years on the streets of the British capital. After some time observing people, so diverse and lacking communication amongst them in this city, Alex Amorós decided he was going to stop people and take portraits [...]
Opera Gallery London is proud to hereby present the latest series of works by Spanish artist Lita Cabellut. A selection of tweny two of her artworks invites us to step into the artist’s imagination, offering a meditative glimpse into the constant flow of mankind’s [...]
Featuring works on paper, installations and a video piece, Map of the Mould is the first solo show of the Spanish artist in the UK. The exhibition is part of the ongoing collaboration established between Galeria Carles Taché and No 20 Arts based on [...]
Ira Lombardía's projects focus on the drifts of language and digital semiotics. Her practice explores and challenges topics such as the emancipation and codification of visual language, strategies of appropriation of symbolic capital within the framework of the consumer society and the mediation of [...]
In this series Pedro Paricio (Spain, b. 1982) explores the fundamentals of Picasso, one of the founding fathers of modernism and how his work has been a great inspiration. This exhibition will include both artworks by Pedro Paricio and Pablo Picasso, showcasing Paricio’s act [...]
I Turn Chilli Red is an expression taken from a poem written in the early 16th century by an anonymous Aztec dyer and recorded by the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún in his General History of the Things of New Spain, better known as [...]
"Jet Lag" is a research-based art project by Ira Lombardia that looks to shorten the gap between Post-Modern art and theory and the practice of post-internet photography on social networks. The research juxtaposes internet memes to 1970’s Conceptual performance art that seem to anticipate the specific meme(s) [...]
Copy / Error presents a set of works developed by Pablo Barreiro (Pontevedra 1982) in two different moments (2015 – 2018) in Bassano del Grappa, Italy (artistic residency NUOVE) In this body of work, Pablo focuses on the mechanisms of reproduction, particularly on the [...]
Internationally acclaimed authors explore Spain’s leading collection of contemporary art in this series of four displays taking place over the course of a year. A haunting portrait by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932, Germany), I.G (1993), features a nude with her back to us, facing [...]
SCAN is pleased to announce the opening of ATAVIC MEMORY, a project curated by Sara Torres and Regina Pérez for the SCAN Project Room with works by Álvaro Albaladejo, Cristina Ramírez, Moreno & Grau, Alegría & Piñero and Fran Pérez Rus. To look back [...]
Luna13 Galeria will present the exhibition “The world of illustration” at the Techhub office in London. Showcasing a selection of works by eight different artist, with the strong presence of female creators, it will be opened until the end of February 2019. The exhibiting [...]
“Present Imperfect, Future Tense” reflects on the importance of water for all animals. We as humans are comprised of around 60% water, the planet is 3/4th water, and in the quest for a habitable planet, water is essential " The images recreate hypothetical scenarios [...]
Spain joined the ranks of the nations that embraced the new medium of photography very shortly after its invention in the XIX century. Over time it has contributed to the development of this important element of European cultural heritage with many names of note [...]
The artists Fernando Gonzalez, Lucia Berra , Maria Elisa Quiaro y Evangelina Esparza they all work the analogue collage technique. Fashion and cinema magazines, books, encyclopaedias from the last century, old photographs or museum leaflets are the materials they use to give a new [...]
An exhibition exploring the connection between Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis and key figure of the ideas of the 20th century, and Salvador Dali, the Spanish artist whose imagery and understanding of art have shaped the world of culture ever since. As a passionate [...]
SCAN is pleased to announce, Several Times Twice, a solo project by Fermín Jiménez Landa as part of Frieze week. Fermín Jiménez Landa's work shifts unpredictably between artist's actions, interventions in the public realm, videos, installations or drawings. His work involves a minimum intervention of reality, [...]
This exhibition revolves around our trips and the ways in which make us grow and learn. To travel is to cultivate, to absorb unfamiliar landscapes, to encounter strangers, to learn beyond books and screens. From the encounter between who we are, the expectation of [...]
Little by little, aspects of culture slip out of daily life, almost without us noticing. In this thought-provoking new exhibition, international photographers were tasked with capturing these slices of life –with an emphasis on traditional skills and musical heritage -before they are lost forever. [...]
Ira Lombardía (Asturias 1977) is an artist and researcher and works in different media such as photography, video, graphic design or sculpture. With her work she questions discourses, dynamics and rhetorics that have been assumed in the realm of contemporary art, image and philosophy. [...]
“I have been thinking about this concept of ‘Bare’ for some time, considering what is open to view, what is exposed, what the future holds.... I feel like we are walking into an unknown. The works in this show are all united through their [...]
A tender and slightly surreal portrait of an artist’s mother appearing to drink tea has won one of the UK’s most prestigious art prizes. Miriam Escofet, a London-based artist, was named winner of the 2018 BP portrait award for a painting praised by judges for its [...]
José Carlos Naranjo describes his way of working as a tension between the pursuit of an image/idea and a simultaneous desire to deny, block or subvert the emerging image. He thinks of this process as like a rizoma (rhizome) – an underground stem system of lateral [...]
‘A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes’. Mark Twain, 1919 The exhibition draws on the phenomenon of fake news which is now seen as one of the greatest threats to democracy, free debate and progress. [...]
For this project the artist has recruited the help of a neural network – a type of machine learning algorithm – to explore the legacy of El Laboratorio de Formas; a proto-think tank established in the early sixties by a pioneering group of Galician [...]
The exhibiting photographers: Felipe Scheffel, Nuria Espuis, Jose Luis Barcia, Julia Eme, David Izkierdo, Nacho Rivera e Irene Herrero offer us their particular vision of different cities. Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Granada or London are all represented in this show. The photographs represent buildings, significant [...]
Uslé’s practice reflects on the possibilities of painting. His works possess an intriguing intensity borne from plays of colour and the nuances of pattern and gesture. The canvases in this exhibition, which range from the intimate to the very large, have evolved slowly over [...]
Two painters, two complimentary styles, yet two very different lenses onto the world around us. In Specially Normal, Kristin Hjellegjerde will present new works by Norwegian Audun Alvestad and Spanish Cristina BanBan. While their painterly portraits of people may at first glance appear similar in their depiction of [...]
González shows in his works ‘surrealistic’ architecture in a natural landscape. His visionary constructions are close to Le Corbusier, projects of buildings made out of béton brut and futuristic visions of cities inspired by Japanese metabolism architecture especially Kenzo Tange and Kisho Kurokawa. But [...]
The exhibition will be one of the most significant shows the gallery has ever staged. It will take visitors on a month-by-month journey through 1932, a time so pivotal in Picasso’s life and work that it has been called his ‘year of wonders’. More [...]
Luna13 Galeria in collaboration with Spanish House London will present the exhibition “A Collage of drawings” that shows a fantastic collection of Uriel Segui’s drawings. Uriel Segui is a Doctor in Architecture, University Professor, artist, tireless creator and above all a person with a [...]
Mauro Vallejo and Monica Restrepo. Locating Outside the Sign. SCAN Project Room. 3 – 14 april, 2018. This exhibition project curated by Rafael Barber, with the participation of the artists Mauro Vallejo and Mónica Restrepo, is the result of a research project carried out [...]
Quintina Valero. Life after Chernobyl. GX Gallery 22 february – 6 march, 2018 Quintina Valero (b. 1970, Germany) is an award-winning documentary and press photographer. Her documentary work focuses on human rights and humanitarian crisis with an emphasis on migration, working often with local NGOs [...]
