Exhibition

Organ Zida 2016 launches in Zagreb

The eighth Organ Vida International Photography Festival, the largest festival of contemporary photography in southeastern Europe, opens today in the Croatian capital, Zagreb.

13 September 2016

Images of the Feminist avant-garde in the 1970s shine a light on an artistic movement too long overlooked

October sees the launch of Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s, a 12-week exhibition at The Photographer’s Gallery in Central London. BJP sat down with curators Gabriele Schor and Anna Dannemann to discuss a collection that celebrates seeks to challenge ‘accepted social conventions, including the mechanisms and male dominance of the art industry.’

12 September 2016

John Latham's ERTH, from 1971

First shown as part of Inn7o – Art and Economics at The Hayward Gallery in 1971, John Latham’s Erth utilised recently available images of our planet from space, pages from Encyclopaedia Britannica, recounting the age of the universe, positioning human existence in relation to what Latham called ‘the whole event’.

2 September 2016

Robert Filliou: The Secret of Permanent Creation

In the coming years, the Antwerp-based gallery M HKA will dedicate a series of exhibitions to important presences in the experimental art scene of Antwerp in the 1960s and ’70s, beginning with the first comprehensive survey of the visual oeuvre in Belgium of French poet, artist and photographer Robert Filliou.

1 September 2016

Spanish avant-garde artist Manolo Millares to show at Frieze 2016

Manolo Millares, considered one of the greatest figures of 20th century Spanish art, and a major influence for many Spanish and indeed global, avant-garde and conceptual photographers, is to receive his first solo presentation of his work in London, during Frieze Masters 2016.

30 August 2016