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Sheila Hicks inaugurates Alison Jacques

Sheila Hicks, Infinite Potential, 2023, pigmented acrylic fibre, 270 x 786 x 600 cm (106 1/4 x 309 1/2 x 236 1/4 in). Courtesy: © Sheila Hicks and Alison Jacques, London.

Sheila Hicks presents ‘Infinite Potential’, the first exhibition at Alison Jacques 22 Cork Street, continuing a long-running collaboration with the gallery that dates back to 2012. Following a significant renovation from concrete shell by architect Mike Rundell – who designed Jacques’ previous space on Berners Street – the 6000-sq-ft, three-floor gallery HQ comprises four exhibition… Read more »

Joy Labinjo inaugurates Tiwani Contemporary

Enjoyment, 2023, oil on canvas, 200 x 250 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary.

Joy Labinjo has the honour of being the first exhibition at Tiwani Contemporary Cork Street. The gallery, at number 24, expands on a presence in Lagos (since 2022), and represents a significant milestone for Tiwani, foregrounding the gallery’s plans for the next ten years and beyond. Designed by London-based architectural studio MATHESON WHITELEY, Lagos is… Read more »

Frieze 2023 at Cork Street

Naminapu Maymuru-White, Milŋiyawuy, installation view, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf. Photography: Aaron Anderson

Cork Street Galleries is thrilled once again to announce its annual Frieze week programme, highlighting exhibitions, extended opening hours, and special events that will take place on the art world’s most celebrated street during Frieze London and Frieze Masters, Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 October 2023. All of the galleries on Cork Street will open… Read more »

@houseofdgf Cork Street Banners Commission 2023

@houseofdgf Cork Street Banners Commission 2023

Cork Street Galleries, in partnership with Serpentine, is pleased to announce @houseofdgf as its Cork Street Galleries Banners Commission 2023. The @houseofdgf Cork Street Galleries Banners Commission 2023 presents work by Catherina Cramer & Giulietta Ockenfuss, Cristiana Cott Negoescu, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Fabian Friese, Fynn Ribbeck, Hedda Schattanik & Roman Szczesny, Jieun Lim, Klara Virnich, Lex… Read more »

Catalogue 6.0: house of dgf guest edited by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster is out now

CATALOGUE, the journal for contemporary art published by Cork Street Galleries, an initiative from the Pollen Estate, invites Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, an experimental artist based in Paris, as guest editor of edition 6.0. The publication platforms house of dgf, @houseofdgf on Instagram, an idea, community, place of learning and exchange relating to students and alumni of… Read more »

The Redfern Gallery Centenary Exhibition: Part 1

Think of the magnitude of the past 100 years. The Redfern Gallery, established 1923, has seen each one. On the significant achievement of its centenary, The Redfern Gallery is bringing together an exhibition of paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture spanning the period, while highlighting how the gallery has continued to set trends, launch the careers… Read more »

Waddington Custot presents Picture This: Photorealism 1966 – 1985

Following the success of the first part of Picture This: Photorealism 1966 – 1985, Waddington Custot returns with the bookending of the first London retrospective of Photorealist paintings in 50 years, following Photo-Realism: Paintings, sculpture and prints from the Ludwig collection and others at The Serpentine in 1973 and Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting… Read more »

Cork Street announces Alison Jacques, Stephen Friedman Gallery, and Tiwani Contemporary

Cork Street announces, with eager anticipation, three galleries to open permanently at its distinguished site in autumn 2023: Alison Jacques, Stephen Friedman Gallery, and Tiwani Contemporary. Alison Jacques is set to expand the business’s presence in London with a new 6000-sq-ft location at 22 Cork Street, Mayfair. The new space will open following a significant… Read more »

London Gallery Weekend 2023 at Cork Street

Cork Street Galleries takes great pleasure in announcing its forthcoming programme of exhibitions and events for London Gallery Weekend 2023, the annual event where over 150 of London’s leading contemporary galleries city-wide come together in showing and celebrating art. The street’s permanent roster of galleries – including No.9 Cork Street, Alon Zakaim Fine Art, Flowers… Read more »

CultureBlast: a Sonia Boyce OBE RA special

CultureBlast: a Sonia Boyce OBE RA special

Following the artist’s exhibition overhead and across Cork Street, the spiritual home of modern and contemporary art, marking a new public art destination in London, Sonia Boyce OBE RA guests on the CultureBlast podcast. Interviewed by host Farah Nayeri, Biennale-winning Boyce speaks openly and eloquently about the pros and cons of being the first black… Read more »