Current exhibitions
We embrace in to stillness
Polish artist Agata Przyżycka's debut solo exhibition in the UK. The exhibition features vibrant, sensual, and surreal landscapes, predominantly showcasing female forms in pastel colours with meticulous detail. Inspired by the carnal verses of Polish poet Halina Poświatowska, the collection explores themes of nature, the human body, and intimacy through the concept of bodyscape, where landscapes and bodies merge into one.
PAST EXHIBITIONS
It was the touch,
that’s all it was
‘It was the touch, that’s all it was’, the first UK solo exhibition of Swedish painter Lisa Liljeström, curated by Elaine ML Tam. The exhibition explores touch and memory through Liljeström’s airbrush techniques. Her monochromatic paintings, derived from digital archives, evoke fleeting presence and narrative suspense, celebrating overlooked details and challenging idealised memories.
THE PAINT CANNON
This unique event included 3 nights of live performances and closing party showcasing an innovative painting technique using pressurized air and a paint cannon, developed in Paris.The artists utilize recycled materials to create vibrant, large-scale paintings that explore the concept of ‘trace’, reflecting marks or indicators of existence or events, emphasising the transient nature of the artwork and inviting subjective interpretations from viewers.
THE UNWRITTEN SCRIPT
‘The Unwritten Script’ is a group show of painting and sculpture by five emerging artists, exploring the moment before an image or sensation becomes conscious thought. Embracing the ‘unscripted,’ the works delve into phantasy, destabilisation, and visual slippage, often reflecting a yearning for organic, pre-formed states. The exhibition challenges fixed interpretations, celebrating gestation, transformation, and mutation.
GIRLCHILD
The 'girlchild' in Helen Stiasny's exhibition represents a complex symbol of feminism, victim of misogyny, cultural construct, and gender dysphoria, characterized by infinite forms and an elusive, impossible youth. She transcends fixed archetypes, embodying unfulfilled desires and innocence turned perverse. This concept reflects cultural standards, aesthetics, and idealizations, most notable in its absence or transgression, challenging perceptions of perfection.
FULLY DETATCHED
The exhibition "Fully Detached" highlights the current urban condition and the shared feeling of displacement. Sebastian Koseda employs graphic design and sculpture to critique corporate visual communication methods. The artworks scrutinize how these tools contribute to maintaining cities as unsettling environments.
Figre This i & II
The exhibition is a two-part project in close collaboration with UK-based patrons of the arts, the Kowitz Family, and the Noldor Art Residency in Ghana. The five awarded residency artists hailing from East Europe and West Africa are each informed and indebted to the tradition of figurative painting, but also visibly fraternise with its subversion.
Signals
For London Design Festival 2023 as part of Mayfair Design District, gallery Kravitz Contemporary collaborates with design platform Fels to showcase the conversations and blurred boundaries between art and design with a dual exhibition by Barcelona-based artist Dunja Jankovic and London-based Studio Studio Furthermore.
Under the jaguar sun
Citing a new, technological brilliance capable of changing the way in which we perceive reality, ‘Under the Jaguar Sun’ unites a group of contemporary painters whose work attends to mixed uses of natural and artificial light for their subject matters.
Window shopper
A two-person exhibition featuring works by Venezuelan-Korean photographer Suwon Lee and Polish painter Małgorzata Widomska, curated by Elaine ML Tam.
MILKY BLIND EYE
Julia Kowalska's "Milky Blind Eye" exhibition, held from April 21 to May 21, 2023, delves into introspection and abstracting the body in contemporary painting. Transitioning from figurative studies to spiritual inquiry, Kowalska uses pastel palettes and dreamlike scenes to explore psychoanalytical themes, touch, and interpersonal complexities, inviting viewers to interpret themes of affection, fear, and human connection ambiguity.
Harpy & Sphinx
The "Harpy & Sphinx" exhibition, curated by Elaine Tam and featuring the work of Kle Mens, is a profound exploration of mythological and hybrid creatures in contemporary art. Kle Mens' oil paintings, "Sphinx" and "Harpy," draw inspiration from Greek mythology, Polish national symbolism, and apocalyptic themes from St. John's book of the Apocalypse. These works signal both an end to known civilization and the possibility of renewal, merging historical references with personal symbolism.
APPROXIMATIONS BY BELGRADE RAW
Approximation, meaning 'to come near,' refers to the admission of imprecision and the challenge of fully describing something, as explored in Belgrade Raw's exhibition "Approximations" which highlights the imperfect, fragmentary nature of photographic representation and urban life.
