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Viewing Sarah Sze’s suite of new paintings at Victoria Miro

American artist Sarah Sze’s new works are taking over Victoria Miro’s Venice gallery until the summer – a video installation and a suite of new paintings that contemplate ways of looking and constructing images. As well as presenting works at the gallery, Sze has also taken over a Venetian apartment opposite – a group of new paintings presented within a simulation of the space in which they were painted. It’s a heady presentation that challenges the idea of a single way of seeing. It may leave you just a little disoriented as you head back out to navigate the Biennale and its offerings. ‘The paintings, the video, the sculptures – all of the work” Sze says “is about being captured in a continual state of transition.” Venice, with its history of movement and as a site of cultural convergence, seems the perfect environment to explore this state.

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Dates
16 April 2024 — 16 June 2024

Viewing Yinka Shonibare’s dazzling “Suspended States” take over Serpentine South

It’s hard to believe Yinka Shonibare hasn’t had a solo exhibition at a British institution for more than twenty years – but his hotly anticipated takeover of the Serpentine South will be well worth the wait. In recent years, Shonibare has been celebrated as a curator (including a touring exhibition with the Arts Council Collection, and a survey of contemporary African art held at Stephen Friedman Gallery in 2022). The Nigerian-born artist is also the founder of Guest Projects, an experimental arts space in Hackney active since 2006, and the Guest Artist Space (G.A.S.) Foundation residency spaces he launched in two locations in Nigeria in 2019.

Ahead of his inclusion in the Nigerian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale (opening next week) this exhibition recentres Shonibare’s highly influential, innovative and original artistic practice. Intertwining Shonibare’s signature visual style (such as his use of Dutch wax print) with the urgency of his social, humanitarian enterprise, the exhibition moves from his recognisable sculptural and textile works, and promises two new large-scale installations: Sanctuary City, a series of miniature models of buildings that are or have been used as places of refuge for the persecuted, each painted black and illuminated from within; and War Library, featuring 5,000 books bound in Dutch wax print with gold lettering, referring to conflicts and peace treaties with imperialist connections. Shonibare’s welcome return proves he’s just as bold and ambitious as ever.

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Viewing Georg Baselitz confronts his past at White Cube

At 86, Georg Baselitz has learned a thing or two about life – and has lost none of his passion for painting. The artist’s latest exhibition reveals a vast cache of works created in his studio over the last year: paintings and works on paper that reflect on six and a half decades of his practice, revisiting sketches made in his youth and lauding favoured references.

“I exclusively deal with my own past, always,” Baselitz says, but “it was a different painter who did those earlier works. It was me, to be sure, but in a different spirit with a different intention.”

Cheekily titled “A Confession of My Sins”, this is a fascinating appraisal of a remarkable artist through his own eyes, with the contemplative and often humorous perspective of age.

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Dates
10 April 2024 — 16 June 2024
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