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Viewing Les Rencontres de la Photographie at Arles

The Wick Culture - Tony Albert (Kuku Yalanji), David Charles Collins and Kirian Lawson. Warakurna Superheroes #1, Warakurna Superheroes series, 2017. Courtesy of the artists / Sullivan+Strumpf

Above Tony Albert (Kuku Yalanji), David Charles Collins and Kirian Lawson. Warakurna Superheroes #1, Warakurna Superheroes series, 2017. Courtesy of the artists / Sullivan+Strumpf

The Wick Culture - Nan Goldin. Death of Orpheus, 2024. Courtesy of the artist / Gagosian

Above Nan Goldin. Death of Orpheus, 2024. Courtesy of the artist / Gagosian

The Wick Culture - Heba Khalifa. Wild. Courtesy of the artist

Above Heba Khalifa. Wild. Courtesy of the artist

The Wick Culture - Mayara Ferrão. The Wedding, from The Album of Oblivion, 2024. Courtesy of the artist

Above Mayara Ferrão. The Wedding, from The Album of Oblivion, 2024. Courtesy of the artist

The Wick Culture - Louis Stettner Nancy Playing with a Glass, Nancy, the Beat Generation series, New York, 1958. Courtesy of the Louis Stettner Estate

Above Louis Stettner Nancy Playing with a Glass, Nancy, the Beat Generation series, New York, 1958. Courtesy of the Louis Stettner Estate

Above Tony Albert (Kuku Yalanji), David Charles Collins and Kirian Lawson. Warakurna Superheroes #1, Warakurna Superheroes series, 2017. Courtesy of the artists / Sullivan+Strumpf

Above Nan Goldin. Death of Orpheus, 2024. Courtesy of the artist / Gagosian

Above Heba Khalifa. Wild. Courtesy of the artist

Above Mayara Ferrão. The Wedding, from The Album of Oblivion, 2024. Courtesy of the artist

Above Louis Stettner Nancy Playing with a Glass, Nancy, the Beat Generation series, New York, 1958. Courtesy of the Louis Stettner Estate

Les Rencontres de la Photographie

Arles
7 July – 5 October 2025

It’s opening week at Rencontres d’Arles, the four month long celebration of international photography, with a rich array exhibitions happening across the provençal city. This year’s theme is ‘disobedient images’ offering a counterpoint to the dominant media narratives on global crisis, with many projects looking back to the past for knowledge or imagining a different future reality.

Of note is a strong presence of Latin American artists and projects from the region, spurred on by the Brazil France Cultural Year: discover artists working in Brazil in the modernist era in a group show and move right into the future with a group exhibition of emerging contemporary artists using different techniques, such as Ventura Profana, known for their dazzling photo-montages.

Also unmissable is Nan Goldin’s Stendhal Syndrome, a thirty minute slideshow in Eglise Saint-Blaise, mixing images of classical art with her photos of lovers and friends. Another highlight is a major solo show of work by street photographer Louis Stettner at Espace Van Gogh, who worked between New York and Paris. 150 works, many vintage prints by Stettner himself, explore his humanist and socialist themes.

Viewing Lubaina Himid with Magda Stawarska: Another Chance Encounter at Kettle’s Yard

The Wick Culture - Lubaina Himid, Favours For Years To Come (2025). Acrylic and charcoal on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

Above Lubaina Himid, Favours For Years To Come (2025). Acrylic and charcoal on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

The Wick Culture - Lubaina Himid, Flying Carpet (2025). Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

Above Lubaina Himid, Flying Carpet (2025). Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

The Wick Culture - Lubaina Himid, Try Out a Few of Them (2025).
Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

Above Lubaina Himid, Try Out a Few of Them (2025). Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

The Wick Culture - Lubaina Himid, Your Charm Offensive (2025). Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

Above Lubaina Himid, Your Charm Offensive (2025). Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

The Wick Culture - Magda Stawarska and Lubaina Himid, Slightly Bi8er (detail) (2025). Mixed media installation. Courtesy Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York

Above Magda Stawarska and Lubaina Himid, Slightly Bi8er (detail) (2025). Mixed media installation. Courtesy Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York

Above Lubaina Himid, Favours For Years To Come (2025). Acrylic and charcoal on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

Above Lubaina Himid, Flying Carpet (2025). Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

Above Lubaina Himid, Try Out a Few of Them (2025). Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

Above Lubaina Himid, Your Charm Offensive (2025). Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

Above Magda Stawarska and Lubaina Himid, Slightly Bi8er (detail) (2025). Mixed media installation. Courtesy Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York

Lubaina Himid with Magda Stawarska: Another Chance Encounter

Kettle’s Yard
12 July – 2 November 2025

2026 British Pavilion artist Lubaina Himid has opened a new exhibition at Kettle’s Yard Cambridge presenting new paintings, and a special installation made with Himid’s long term collaborator Magda Stawarska, alongside a series of staged ‘interventions’ in the Kettle’s Yard house.

Himid is one of the UK’s best known artists, having emerging from the 1980s Black Arts movement and going on to win the prestigious Turner Prize. Tate Modern held a solo exhibition of Himid in 2022. Her figurative paintings, multimedia installations and sculptures explore the lost, forgotten and invisible human stories of history, stemming from Himid’s own heritage and journey to the UK as a young child from Zanzibar.

At Kettle’s Yard, the new work will centre on what is missing from the telling of life stories, and how the gaps might be filled through material culture, personal objects and ephemera. Meanwhile the installation builds on Himid and Stawarska’s Blue Grid Test (2020), drawing on correspondence between writer and artist Sophie Brzeska and artist Nina Hamnett. The exhibition is free and runs to November.

Viewing Maggi Hambling and Ro Robertson: Sea State at Wolterton Hall

The Wick Culture - Maggi Hambling, Summer Wave breaking II, 2025. Image courtesy of Wolterton Hall and the artist

Above Maggi Hambling, Summer Wave breaking II, 2025. Image courtesy of Wolterton Hall and the artist

The Wick Culture - Wolterton Hall, Sea State. Image courtesy of Wolterton Hall

Above Wolterton Hall, Sea State. Image courtesy of Wolterton Hall

Above Maggi Hambling, Summer Wave breaking II, 2025. Image courtesy of Wolterton Hall and the artist

Above Wolterton Hall, Sea State. Image courtesy of Wolterton Hall

Maggi Hambling and Ro Robertson: Sea State

Wolterton Hall
11 June – 7 December 2025

For the first time in a generation, Wolteron Hall, located in the Norfolk countryside, is opening its doors and inviting the public to explore its immense and astonishing history by way of its exciting new ‘Arts & Culture’ programme. Bringing the house’s history together with new commissions by leading, world-class creatives, as well as a residency initiative, Wolteron Hall is the latest institution to engage with contemporary arts to enrich and diversify its past for today’s audiences.

Under the directorship of Simon Oldfield (the curator and arts advisor who oversaw the cultural rejuvenation of heritage buildings on Mount Street and Carlos Place) the programme at Wolteron Hall will include major exhibitions, commissioned artworks and workshops and projects with the local community. The inaugural exhibition sets the tone for this: Sea State, features new work by Maggi Hambling and Ro Robertson and is co-curated by Oldfield and with Gemma Rolls-Bentley.

Sea State responds to Wolteron’s location near the North Sea coastline, and is a timely, contemplative and compelling response to our ever-more-fraught relationship globally with the ocean. Hambling and Robertson – who have never exhibited together before – both share an abiding connection to the coast and across Wolterton’s impressive Marble Hall and Portrait Room present site-specific works inspired by the sea’s unpredictable and mighty nature.