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Viewing David Bowie: You’re Not Alone

The Wick Culture - David Bowie, Bob Child, Outside 1995. Courtesy of Lightroom

Above David Bowie, Bob Child, Outside 1995. Courtesy of Lightroom

The Wick Culture - David Bowie, Debbie Doss, Hammersmith 1973. Courtesy of Lightroom

Above David Bowie, Debbie Doss, Hammersmith 1973. Courtesy of Lightroom

The Wick Culture - Credit: Justin Sutcliffe

Above Credit: Justin Sutcliffe

The Wick Culture - Courtesy of Lightroom

Above Courtesy of Lightroom

Above David Bowie, Bob Child, Outside 1995. Courtesy of Lightroom

Above David Bowie, Debbie Doss, Hammersmith 1973. Courtesy of Lightroom

Above Credit: Justin Sutcliffe

Above Courtesy of Lightroom

Lightroom
12 Lewis Cubitt Square
London
N1C 4DY
22 April – 10 October

Lightroom‘s latest show draws on thousands of hours of material from the David Bowie Archive to create a 360-degree journey through the artist’s performances, ideas and imagination. David Bowie: You’re Not Alone brings together landmark footage, photography, drawings, lyrics, personal notes and audio recordings, from Space Oddity to Blackstar.

Rather than centring the familiar mythology of Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane or the Thin White Duke, the show keeps its focus on Bowie himself. It is less concerned with the costumes than with the thinking behind them, tracing the artist’s relationship to performance and creativity. With Bowie as the sole voice throughout, the exhibition is intimate as well as spectacular, offering a rare sense of proximity to the artist on his own terms.

Viewing Katharina Grosse: I Set Out, I Walked Fast

The Wick Culture - Photo: Jens Ziehe © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

Above Photo: Jens Ziehe © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

The Wick Culture - © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026. Photo © White Cube (Theo Christelis)

Above © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026. Photo © White Cube (Theo Christelis)

The Wick Culture - Photo: Diana Pfammatter

Above Photo: Diana Pfammatter

Above Photo: Jens Ziehe © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

Above © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026. Photo © White Cube (Theo Christelis)

Above Photo: Diana Pfammatter

White Cube Bermondsey
144 – 152 Bermondsey Street
London
SE1 3TQ
22 April – 31 May

Katharina Grosse returns to London with a major exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey that brings together a new in-situ painting, fresh canvases, a painted bronze work and rarely seen pieces from her personal archive. Titled I Set Out, I Walked Fast, the show borrows its name from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and signals the forward momentum that runs through Grosse’s practice.

Grosse has long treated painting as something that exceeds the canvas, pushing colour across walls and architecture with startling force. This exhibition gives this instinct room to operate at full scale, while also tracing connections between newer works and earlier ones. Nearly a decade on from her presentation at South London Gallery, this is an important London return, and one that makes a strong case for painting as a physical, unstable encounter.

Viewing 9,983 Rows: Annie Shead

The Wick Culture - Courtesy of Annie Shead and FreddieFoulkes Gallery

Above Courtesy of Annie Shead and FreddieFoulkes Gallery

FreddieFoulkes Gallery
Arch 165 Shepherd’s Bush Market, Uxbridge Road
London
W12 8DF
8 April – 2 May

At the recently opened FreddieFoulkes Gallery, Annie Shead’s 9,983 Rows takes knitting and turns it towards painting. Made using a late-1970s knitting machine, the works are built from rows of lambswool and melange wool stretched across wooden frames, forming striped abstract compositions that sit between textile and image. Shead calls them ‘Machine Paintings’, and the title points to the repeated labour behind them.

Shead exposes the absurdity of art-making: while knitting has long been understood in a domestic realm, with connotations of practicality and sentimentality, it has rarely shifted into a gallery context.Seams, knots and slight irregularities stay visible, so process becomes part of the picture rather than something concealed. With their restrained colour and graphic clarity, these works test where painting begins and ends. A confident first solo presentation.