2021 Archives
When the COVID-19 lockdowns finally lifted, London’s artists and galleries had a massive backlog of things they had been busy creating and just couldn’t wait to share with the world. London Art Roundup tried to see it all.
Here are links to the original reviews for over three dozen of the shows that I thought were worth writing about. (NB: Links open in Instagram.)
Alvaro Barrington - Spider the pig, pig the spider (South London Gallery)
Anthony Whishaw - Through the eyes of Anthony Whishaw (Fine Art Society)
Chantal Joffe - Story (Victoria Miro)
Cracked (Tristan Hoare)
Damien Hirst - Relics and Fly Paintings (Gagosian)
Emin / Munch - The Loneliness of the Soul (The Royal Academy)
Florenz Stosskopf - Eternal Flowers (Beers London)
Frieze Sculpture Trail (2021) (Regent’s Park)
Hapticity: A Theory of Touch and Identity (Lychee One)
Heather Phillipson - Rupture No 1: Blowtorching the Bitten Peach (Tate Britain)
Helen Marten - Sparrows On The Stone (Sadie Coles)
ING Discerning Eye (Mall Galleries)
Joy and Tranquility (Wellcome Collection)
Julian Opie at Pitzhanger Manor (Pitzhanger Manor)
Kaori Tatebayashi - The Walled Garden (Tristan Hoare)
Kate Dunn - The Tabernacle - Welcome to Pharmakon (TJ Boulting)
Life Between Islands (Tate Britain)
London Grads Now. 21 (Saatchi Gallery)
London Mithraeum (Bloomberg)
Lubaina Himid (Tate Modern)
Lubna Chowdhary - Erratics (Peer Gallery)
Lucy Sparrow - Bourdon Street Chemist (Lyndsey Ingram)
LUX (180 The Strand)
Magnus Plessen - Hope Love Helium (White Cube)
Manjit Thapp - My Head is a Jungle (NOW Gallery)
Michael Armitage - Paradise Edict (The Royal Academy)
Paula Rego - retrospective (Tate Britain)
Paula Rego - The Forgotten (Victoria Miro)
Rachel Maclean - That’s Not Mi! (Josh Lilley)
Rachel Whiteread - Internal Objects (Gagosian)
Rebecca Manson - Dry Agonies of a Baffled Lust (Josh Lilley)
Richard Estes - Voyages (Newport Street Gallery)
Ryoji Ikeda (180 The Strand)
Sneakers Unboxed (Design Museum)
Sophie Taeuber-Arp (Tate Modern)
Van Gogh Alive (Hyde Park)
Wangari Mathenge - You Are Here (Pippy Houldsworth)
Yayoi Kusama - I Want Your Tears to Flow with the Words I Wrote (Victoria Miro)
Yayoi Kusama - Infinity Rooms (Tate Modern)
Yoshitomo Nara - Pinacoteca (Pace)
Weekly London Art Roundup posts began in late 2021 when I started seeing way more art than I could properly write up each week. The original 11 “issues” can still be found on Instagram via the links below: