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Doing Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics

The Wick Culture - Carolee Schneemann, Personae J.T. and Three Kitch

Above Carolee Schneemann, Personae J.T. and Three Kitch

The Wick Culture - Carolee Schneemann, Eye Body 36 Transformative Actions for Camera

Above Carolee Schneemann, Eye Body 36 Transformative Actions for Camera

The Wick Culture - Carolee Schneemann, Meat Joy

Above Carolee Schneemann, Meat Joy

The Wick Culture - Carolee Schneemann, Up to and Including Her Limits

Above Carolee Schneemann, Up to and Including Her Limits

Above Carolee Schneemann, Personae J.T. and Three Kitch

Above Carolee Schneemann, Eye Body 36 Transformative Actions for Camera

Above Carolee Schneemann, Meat Joy

Above Carolee Schneemann, Up to and Including Her Limits

Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics
Barbican Art Gallery, London

8 September 2022 — 8 January 2023
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2022/event/carolee-schneemann-body-politics

Experimental artist Carolee Schneemann is best known for her boundary-pushing work exploring the body politic. The first major exhibition in London dedicated to the radical feminist artist explores her diverse, transgressive and interdisciplinary work that addresses urgent issues such as sexual expression, gender, bodily taboos and women’s role in art and society.

Spanning six decades, it brings together over 300 paintings, sculptural assemblages, performance photographs, films and large-scale multimedia installations, as well as rarely seen archival material including scores, sketches, scrapbooks, programmes and costumes.

Highlights include the artist’s rarely seen early gestural paintings and her innovative works made using her own body, among them Up to and Including Her Limits (1976), for which she hung naked from a harness suspended in the corner of a paper-lined stage set.
Shown together, they reveal Schneemann to be one of the most trailblazing feminist artists of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Add to your September to-do list now.

Viewing The Story of Art as it’s Still Being Written

The Wick Culture - Jadé Fadojutimi
Clumsy, 2017
Oil on canvas
180 x 170 cm, 70.9 x 66.9 in
Credit: Collection of the artist, courtesy Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
© Jadé Fadojutimi, 2021

Above Jadé Fadojutimi Clumsy, 2017 Oil on canvas 180 x 170 cm, 70.9 x 66.9 in Credit: Collection of the artist, courtesy Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London © Jadé Fadojutimi, 2021

The Wick Culture - Sarah Sze
Model for a Weather Vane, 2012
Mixed media, stainless steel, wood, stone, acrylic paint, archival prints, lamps, clamps
345.4 x 381 x 142.2 cm
136 x 150 x 56 in
© Sarah Sze
Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro

Above Sarah Sze Model for a Weather Vane, 2012 Mixed media, stainless steel, wood, stone, acrylic paint, archival prints, lamps, clamps 345.4 x 381 x 142.2 cm 136 x 150 x 56 in © Sarah Sze Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro

The Wick Culture - Celia Paul
Overshadowed, 2020 Oil on canvas
142.2 x 106.7 cm
56 x 42 in
© Celia Paul
Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro

Above Celia Paul Overshadowed, 2020 Oil on canvas 142.2 x 106.7 cm 56 x 42 in © Celia Paul Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro

The Wick Culture - Zanele Muholi
Loba V, Paris, 2019
Silver gelatin print
Image and paper size: 50 x 37.7cm
Edition 2 of 8 + 2AP
© Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of Stevenson, Amsterdam/Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York

Above Zanele Muholi Loba V, Paris, 2019 Silver gelatin print Image and paper size: 50 x 37.7cm Edition 2 of 8 + 2AP © Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of Stevenson, Amsterdam/Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York

Above Jadé Fadojutimi Clumsy, 2017 Oil on canvas 180 x 170 cm, 70.9 x 66.9 in Credit: Collection of the artist, courtesy Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London © Jadé Fadojutimi, 2021

Above Celia Paul Overshadowed, 2020 Oil on canvas 142.2 x 106.7 cm 56 x 42 in © Celia Paul Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro

The Story of Art as it’s Still Being Written
Victoria Miro, Wharf Road, London

8 September — 1 October 2022
https://www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/605/

If you haven’t ordered Katy Hessel’s new book, The Story of Art without Men, do so now. Published by Hutchinson Heinemann, it champions pioneering women artists from the past 500 years who have so often been excluded from history books.
To celebrate its landmark publication, Victoria Miro presents a major exhibition based on the book’s final chapter, Still Writing the Story of Art. Curated by Hessel, it brings together a selection of artists who define the contemporary moment through their innovative visual language and embrace of urgent themes such as rewriting lost pasts, exploring historical truths and decolonialising art history.

Works by such celebrated names as Lisa Brice, Chantal Joffe and Tracey Emin will hang alongside paintings by risings stars including Flora Yukhnovich and Jadé Fadojutimi.

From London to New York via Nigeria and Japan, this is the history of art as it’s never been told before. Go and then flood your feed with these much-deserving works.

Viewing Zoë Buckman: Bloodwork

The Wick Culture - Zoë Buckman, her hungry ribs, 2022 embroidery on vintage textiles 31.8 x 31.8 cm, 12 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. Photographer: Adam Reich

Above Zoë Buckman, her hungry ribs, 2022 embroidery on vintage textiles 31.8 x 31.8 cm, 12 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. Photographer: Adam Reich

The Wick Culture - Zoë Buckman, i spluttered & splintered into infinite pieces to avoid what was, 2022 embroidery on vintage textiles 94 x 45.7 cm, 37 x 18 in. Photographer: Adam Reich

Above Zoë Buckman, i spluttered & splintered into infinite pieces to avoid what was, 2022 embroidery on vintage textiles 94 x 45.7 cm, 37 x 18 in. Photographer: Adam Reich

The Wick Culture - Zoë Buckman in the studio 2022

Above Zoë Buckman in the studio 2022

The Wick Culture - Zoë Buckman, laced with red, 2022 embroidery on vintage textiles 39.4 x 68.6 cm, 15 1/2 x 27 in. Photographer: Adam Reich

Above Zoë Buckman, laced with red, 2022 embroidery on vintage textiles 39.4 x 68.6 cm, 15 1/2 x 27 in. Photographer: Adam Reich

The Wick Culture - Zoë Buckman, lately i see your ribbons & your bows, 2022 hand embroidery on vintage textile 104.1 x 43.2 cm, 41 x 17 in. Photographer: Adam Reich

Above Zoë Buckman, lately i see your ribbons & your bows, 2022 hand embroidery on vintage textile 104.1 x 43.2 cm, 41 x 17 in. Photographer: Adam Reich

The Wick Culture - Zoë Buckman, why don’t you just tell me how you want to be, baby & i’ll live like water around you, 2022 embroidery on vintage textiles 55 x 55 cm, 21 5/8 x 21 5/8 in. Photographer: Todd White Art Photography

Above Zoë Buckman, why don’t you just tell me how you want to be, baby & i’ll live like water around you, 2022 embroidery on vintage textiles 55 x 55 cm, 21 5/8 x 21 5/8 in. Photographer: Todd White Art Photography

Above Zoë Buckman, her hungry ribs, 2022 embroidery on vintage textiles 31.8 x 31.8 cm, 12 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. Photographer: Adam Reich

Above Zoë Buckman, i spluttered & splintered into infinite pieces to avoid what was, 2022 embroidery on vintage textiles 94 x 45.7 cm, 37 x 18 in. Photographer: Adam Reich

Above Zoë Buckman in the studio 2022

Above Zoë Buckman, laced with red, 2022 embroidery on vintage textiles 39.4 x 68.6 cm, 15 1/2 x 27 in. Photographer: Adam Reich

Above Zoë Buckman, lately i see your ribbons & your bows, 2022 hand embroidery on vintage textile 104.1 x 43.2 cm, 41 x 17 in. Photographer: Adam Reich

Zoë Buckman: Bloodwork
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London

2 September — 1 October
https://www.houldsworth.co.uk/exhibitions/123-zoe-buckman-bloodwork/press_release_text/

For a dose of arresting art, see Zoë Buckman at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, the first solo show of the feminist artist in the UK. Working predominantly with embroidery and vintage textiles, she explores experiences of gendered violence and trauma from a personal and societal perspective.

Central to her new body of work are portraits of survivors embracing moments of joy in the face of adversity. Inspired by photographs Buckman has taken of people she knows, they brim with raw, untrammelled emotion. Standout works include she was hungry & it was your work (2022) and a portrait of a cancer survivor, her hands thrown up in a moment of ecstatic exaltation.

This is a hard-hitting show that demands slow, considered looking. Add to your autumn agenda now.