Our top picks of exhibitions together with cultural spaces and places, both online and in the real world.

All, Art, Auctions, Exhibitions, Travel & Hospitality, Initiatives

Viewing Girls Girls Girls at Lismore Castle

The Wick Culture - Luo Yang
Jian San
Photograph, 53 x 80 cms, framed
Courtesy Luo Yang / Migrant Bird Space

Above Luo Yang Jian San Photograph, 53 x 80 cms, framed Courtesy Luo Yang / Migrant Bird Space

The Wick Culture - Viewing Girls Girls Girls at Lismore Castle

Above

The Wick Culture - 'girl girls girls' at Lismore Castle Arts - Lismore, Ireland - 2022 / Photograph: Jed Niezgoda/www.jedniezgoda.com

Above ‘girl girls girls’ at Lismore Castle Arts – Lismore, Ireland – 2022 / Photograph: Jed Niezgoda/www.jedniezgoda.com

The Wick Culture - Elene Chantladze
Untitled
Mixed media on stone, 7 x 5.6 x 2.5cms
Image courtesy the artist and LC QUEISSER

Above Elene Chantladze Untitled Mixed media on stone, 7 x 5.6 x 2.5cms Image courtesy the artist and LC QUEISSER

Above ‘girl girls girls’ at Lismore Castle Arts – Lismore, Ireland – 2022 / Photograph: Jed Niezgoda/www.jedniezgoda.com

Above

Above Luo Yang Jian San Photograph, 53 x 80 cms, framed Courtesy Luo Yang / Migrant Bird Space

Above ‘girl girls girls’ at Lismore Castle Arts – Lismore, Ireland – 2022 / Photograph: Jed Niezgoda/www.jedniezgoda.com

Above Elene Chantladze Untitled Mixed media on stone, 7 x 5.6 x 2.5cms Image courtesy the artist and LC QUEISSER

Above ‘girl girls girls’ at Lismore Castle Arts – Lismore, Ireland – 2022 / Photograph: Jed Niezgoda/www.jedniezgoda.com

Girls Girls Girls
2 April – 30 October 2022
Lismore Castle, Ireland
https://lismorecastlearts.ie/whats-on/girls-girls-girls

Curated by the Irish fashion designer Simone Rocha, Lismore Castle’s summer show of works by female artists looks at the female gaze from multiple viewpoints, while also exploring femininity and its subversive characteristics across forms and media, including art, sculpture and photography. ‘I respond to work that documents but also transports the viewer to another place,’ says Rocha. ‘The female spirit and experience has been a strong focus of my work from the beginning.’

Works by Louise Bourgeois, Genieve Figgis and Cindy Sherman are shown alongside gorgeous pieces by Harley Weir, Francesca Woodman and Luo Yang. Not to be missed are the three whimsical paintings titled Wishful Self-Portrait by the brilliantly talented Sian Costello.

What strikes is the jaunty dialogue between the works on display. ‘I am interested in exploring how the works engage with each other,’ Rocha says, ‘as a thread of the natural world, uncanny self-portraiture or the sense of a haunting reality lingering just below the surface.’ We promise it merits the trip to County Waterford.

Viewing ‘Bad Manners’ by Jake & Dinos Chapman

The Wick Culture - Jake and Dinos Chapman, Glitter Los Caprichos, 2019. ©Jake and Dinos Chapman. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2022. Photo by Damian Griffiths.

The Wick Culture - Jake and Dinos Chapman, Glitter Los Caprichos, 2019 (detail) ©Jake and Dinos Chapman. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2022. Photo by Damian Griffiths.

The Wick Culture - Installation view of Bad Manners at Luxembourg + Co., London, 1 March – 15 May 2022. Photo by Damian Griffiths.

Above Installation view of Bad Manners at Luxembourg + Co., London, 1 March – 15 May 2022. Photo by Damian Griffiths.

Bad Manners
1 March – 15 May 2022
Luxembourg + Co., London
https://luxembourgco.com

Conceived in collaboration with the artist Jake Chapman, this bijou exhibition explores the role of non-consensual collaborations between artists from the mid 19th century to the present day. From overpainting and over layering to modifying signatures and colours, it questions notions of originality and authorship to dazzling effect.

Central to the exhibition is Jake and Dinos Chapman’s Glitter Los Caprichos (2019), a large-scale installation comprising 80 etchings by Goya that have been reworked and ‘improved’ with glitter. Other notable highlights include a drawing by Edouard Manet from 1863 depicting his famous nude Olympia gazing directly at the viewer and a 2021 watercolour by Jake Chapman, executed on top of an etching Manet prepared using this Olympia drawing.

Elsewhere, you’ll encounter a table sculpture (1987) by Martin Kippenberger made using a Gerhard Richter Grey painting and a collage by Jean (Hans) Arp, which incorporates parts of Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s work. This is a clever and intriguing show that will put a smile on your face. Just as the artists intended!

Viewing Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster at The Serpentine

The Wick Culture - Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Alienarium, 2022. Produced by VIVE Arts and developed by Lucid Realities. Installation view, Alienarium 5 (Serpentine South, 14 April - 4 September 2022). Photo: Hugo Glendinning. © The artist and Serpentine, 2022.

Above Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Alienarium, 2022. Produced by VIVE Arts and developed by Lucid Realities. Installation view, Alienarium 5 (Serpentine South, 14 April – 4 September 2022). Photo: Hugo Glendinning. © The artist and Serpentine, 2022.

The Wick Culture - Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Martial Galfione and Mike Gaughan, Metapanorama, 2022. Installation view, Alienarium 5 (Serpentine South, 14 April - 4 September 2022). Photo: Hugo Glendinning. © The artist and Serpentine, 2022.

Above Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Martial Galfione and Mike Gaughan, Metapanorama, 2022. Installation view, Alienarium 5 (Serpentine South, 14 April – 4 September 2022). Photo: Hugo Glendinning. © The artist and Serpentine, 2022.

The Wick Culture - Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster with John Morgan studio, Alienarium 5 (Neon), 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Corvi-Mora, London. Installation view, Alienarium 5 (Serpentine South, 14 April - 4 September 2022). Photo: Hugo Glendinning. © The artist and Serpentine, 2022

Above Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster with John Morgan studio, Alienarium 5 (Neon), 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Corvi-Mora, London. Installation view, Alienarium 5 (Serpentine South, 14 April – 4 September 2022). Photo: Hugo Glendinning. © The artist and Serpentine, 2022

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Alienarium 5
14 April – 4 September 2022
Serpentine South Gallery, London

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has been exploring the artistic possibilities of science-fiction, outer space and alien life for more than 20 years. The resulting projects, which include Cosmodrome at Le Consortium in 2001 and Martian Dreams Ensemble at GFZK in 2018, have brought her both critical and commercial success.

Opening this week at Serpentine South is Alienarium 5, the artist’s first major institutional solo show in the UK since TH.2058 at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2008. Conceived specifically for Serpentine, and installed across the gallery’s internal and external spaces, it brings together mostly new works that engage the senses and ask us to imagine what alien encounters might be like.

As you meander around Serpentine’s gardens, you’ll see an alien sculpture made by Gonzalez-Foerster in collaboration with the writer and philosopher Paul B. Preciado and a new soundscape created in collaboration with the musician Julien Perez.

The space inside the galleries has been transformed into an immersive, multi-sensory environment, featuring a 360-degree panorama, a scent collaboration with Barnabé Fillion of Arpa Studios and a new multi-user VR piece that contemplates alternative forms of connection through extra-terrestrial embodiment. Expect other worldly experiences left, right and centre.