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 »
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 »
Peter Blake’s opus Under Milk Wood, a play by Dylan Thomas, arrives at Cork Street in a dedicated space. The series of over 170 watercolours, collages and drawings illustrates the Welsh poet’s landmark 1953 play for voices. Unveiled at the National Museum of Wales in 2013 to mark the centenary of Thomas’ birth, this special… Read more »
Following Cork Street Attack, the Grey Organisation’s exhibition the invited side of the glass, The Mayor Gallery restages an important 1960s show credited with being one of the first to treat electric light as a new sculptural medium. The occasion? The second solo showing of Billy Apple at Bianchini Gallery in New York City, 1965,… Read more »
On 21st May 1985, the Grey Organisation staged an attack on the galleries at Cork Street. Now, almost 37 years later, the action is fêted in an exhibition at the The Mayor Gallery – one of the galleries they attacked. The artistic anti-establishment protest, actioned during night-time, saw cans of grey paint hurled over the… Read more »
David Shrigley’s exhibition at Stephen Friedman is balls, and though the title teases, anything but tennis. The emphasis in Mayfair Tennis Ball Exchange falls hardest on the last word. Through creator / viewer there is always dialogue when encountering art. Here Shrigley tantalisingly celebrates, in the most literal way, the joy of trade. Installing several… Read more »
In an historic moment, Gina Fischli becomes the first-ever artist to exhibit banners across Cork Street, the centre of the highest concentration of galleries in London and the spiritual and cultural home of the global art world. The first participant of the Cork Street Banners commission, Fischli’s site-specific installation Ravenous and Predatory (2021) begins 7… Read more »
Frieze, the art tour de force is set to arrive at Cork Street with an enduring project and a dedicated address. Launching in October 2021, Frieze will present No.9 Cork Street, a hub for international gallery residencies in the heart of Mayfair, at the centre of London’s gallery district. (Cork Street, just north of the… Read more »
“It’s impossible to quantify how art has enriched my life,” declares Louise Hayward, Senior Director at Lisson Gallery. “I’ve worked closely with Ryan Gander for almost 20 years and he is someone who sees the world in such a lateral way. Spending time with him or John Akomfrah or Marina Abramović has opened up a… Read more »
While this year’s edition of Frieze transforms from sprawling Regent’s Park structure to an online viewing room, with all its comfort and intimacy, Cork Street Galleries are pleased to announce an exciting physical programme in Mayfair. Studio Voltaire, Sadie Coles HQ, Lisson Gallery, Frieze Live and Stephen Friedman Gallery join the permanent roster of galleries… Read more »
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