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Viewing Barbara Kruger’s verbal vim at the Serpentine Galleries

The Wick Culture - Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.,(Installation view, 1 February – 17 March 2024, Serpentine South)

Above Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.,(Installation view, 1 February – 17 March 2024, Serpentine South)

The Wick Culture - Untitled (Taxis), 2024. Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You., 1 February – 17 March 2024, Serpentine South). Photo: George Darrell.

Above Untitled (Taxis), 2024. Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You., 1 February – 17 March 2024, Serpentine South). Photo: George Darrell.

The Wick Culture - Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Remember me), 1988/2020 (stills), Single-channel video on LED panel, sound, 23 sec. 350.1 × 250.1 cm 137 7/8 × 98 1/2 inches, Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers

Above Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Remember me), 1988/2020 (stills), Single-channel video on LED panel, sound, 23 sec. 350.1 × 250.1 cm 137 7/8 × 98 1/2 inches, Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers

The Wick Culture - Barbara Kruger, Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You., Installation view, Los Angeles County Museum of Art – LACMA, Los Angeles, March 20-July 17, 2022, Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers, Photo: Museum Associates/LACMA

Above Barbara Kruger, Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You., Installation view, Los Angeles County Museum of Art – LACMA, Los Angeles, March 20-July 17, 2022, Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers, Photo: Museum Associates/LACMA

The Wick Culture - Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Our Leader), 1987/2020, Single-channel video on LED panel, sound, 24 sec. 350.1 × 200.1 cm 137 7/8 × 78 3/4 inches, Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers

Above Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Our Leader), 1987/2020, Single-channel video on LED panel, sound, 24 sec. 350.1 × 200.1 cm 137 7/8 × 78 3/4 inches, Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers

The Wick Culture - Barbara Kruger Untitled (No Comment), 2020 Three-channel video installation, colour, sound, 9 min. 25 sec. Installation view, BARBARA KRUGER: THINKING OF YOU. I MEAN ME. I MEAN YOU. The Art Institute of Chicago – AIC, Chicago, September 19, 2021-January 24, 2022, Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers, Photo: The Art Institute of Chicago

Above Barbara Kruger Untitled (No Comment), 2020 Three-channel video installation, colour, sound, 9 min. 25 sec. Installation view, BARBARA KRUGER: THINKING OF YOU. I MEAN ME. I MEAN YOU. The Art Institute of Chicago – AIC, Chicago, September 19, 2021-January 24, 2022, Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers, Photo: The Art Institute of Chicago

Above Barbara Kruger Untitled (No Comment), 2020, Three-channel video installation, colour, sound, 9 min. 25 sec. Installation view, BARBARA KRUGER: THINKING OF YOU. I MEAN ME. I MEAN YOU. The Art Institute of Chicago – AIC, Chicago, September 19, 2021-January 24, 2022, Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers, Photo: The Art Institute of Chicago

The Wick Culture - Barbara Kruger Untitled (The work is about...), 1979/2020 Single-channel video, silent, 5 min. 38 sec. Installation view, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, June 30-August 12, 2022, Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers and David Zwirner Gallery, Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Above Barbara Kruger Untitled (The work is about…), 1979/2020 Single-channel video, silent, 5 min. 38 sec. Installation view, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, June 30-August 12, 2022, Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers and David Zwirner Gallery, Photo: Maris Hutchinson

The Wick Culture - Barbara Kruger Untitled (Artforum), 2016/2020 Two-channel video installation, silent, 4 min. 42 sec. Installation view, BARBARA KRUGER: THINKING OF YOU. I MEAN ME. I MEAN YOU. The Art Institute of Chicago – AIC, Chicago, September 19, 2021-January 24, 2022, Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers, Photo: The Art Institute of Chicago

Above Barbara Kruger Untitled (Artforum), 2016/2020 Two-channel video installation, silent, 4 min. 42 sec. Installation view, BARBARA KRUGER: THINKING OF YOU. I MEAN ME. I MEAN YOU. The Art Institute of Chicago – AIC, Chicago, September 19, 2021-January 24, 2022, Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers, Photo: The Art Institute of Chicago

Above Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.,(Installation view, 1 February – 17 March 2024, Serpentine South)

Above Untitled (Taxis), 2024. Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You., 1 February – 17 March 2024, Serpentine South). Photo: George Darrell.

Above Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Remember me), 1988/2020 (stills), Single-channel video on LED panel, sound, 23 sec. 350.1 × 250.1 cm 137 7/8 × 98 1/2 inches, Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers

Above Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Our Leader), 1987/2020, Single-channel video on LED panel, sound, 24 sec. 350.1 × 200.1 cm 137 7/8 × 78 3/4 inches, Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers

Barbara Kruger: Thinking of ~~You.~~ I Mean ~~Me.~~ I Mean You
Serpentine South, Kensington Gardens

1 February – 17 March 2024

The godmother of pop art arrives at the Serpentine Galleries this week in all her loud-mouthed glory. Barbara Kruger’s pithy text statements and images spew out of the Serpentine South and into Kensington Gardens in a riotous stream of consciousness in Thinking of ~~You.~~ I Mean Me. I Mean ~~You,~~ the American artist’s first institutional show in London in over 20 years. It features installations, film, soundscapes and banners, as well as public screens courtesy of Outernet Arts.

As you step inside, the decibels immediately rise, courtesy of an audio chorus of greetings, emotions and sentiments that accompany you on your journey. Kruger often borrows language and images from advertising, graphic design and the media to probe the mechanisms of power, gender and capitalism. In Untitled (No Comment), 2020 – making its UK premiere – she splices together snippets of footage found on social media, with questions and quotes from French philosopher Voltaire and American rapper Kendrick Lamar in a three-channel video work. Steel yourself for a verbal and visual onslaught. Trust us, it’s worth it.

Viewing A fresh cohort of art talent at New Contemporaries

The Wick Culture - Ahaad Alamoudi, The Green Light, 2021. Moving image. 5 min, 40 sec. Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Camden Art Centre, 2024. Photo by Rob Harris

Above Ahaad Alamoudi, The Green Light, 2021. Moving image. 5 min, 40 sec. Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Camden Art Centre, 2024. Photo by Rob Harris

The Wick Culture - Zayd Menk, 4.3.2?_ – ?? , 2022. Mixed media. Dimensions variable. Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Camden Art Centre, 2024. Photo by Rob Harris.

Above Zayd Menk, 4.3.2?_ – ?? , 2022. Mixed media. Dimensions variable. Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Camden Art Centre, 2024. Photo by Rob Harris.

The Wick Culture - Samuel Thompson-Plant Tig, 2021
Moving image
5 min, 39 sec.

Above Samuel Thompson-Plant Tig, 2021 Moving image 5 min, 39 sec.

The Wick Culture - Installation view of Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Camden Art Centre, 2024. Photo: Rob Harris.

Above Installation view of Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Camden Art Centre, 2024. Photo: Rob Harris.

The Wick Culture - Daniel Rey
Collective Cuddles, 2023 Performance and Installation 4 min, 26 sec

Installation view, Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Camden Art Centre, 2024. Photo: Rob Harris.

Above Daniel Rey Collective Cuddles, 2023 Performance and Installation 4 min, 26 sec Installation view, Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Camden Art Centre, 2024. Photo: Rob Harris.

The Wick Culture - Emily Kraus
Stochastic 12 (diptych), 2023 Oil on canvas.

Installation view of Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Camden Art Centre, 2024. Photo: Rob Harris.

Above Emily Kraus Stochastic 12 (diptych), 2023 Oil on canvas. Installation view of Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Camden Art Centre, 2024. Photo: Rob Harris.

Above Ahaad Alamoudi, The Green Light, 2021. Moving image. 5 min, 40 sec. Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Camden Art Centre, 2024. Photo by Rob Harris

Above Zayd Menk, 4.3.2?_ – ?? , 2022. Mixed media. Dimensions variable. Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Camden Art Centre, 2024. Photo by Rob Harris.

Above Samuel Thompson-Plant Tig, 2021 Moving image 5 min, 39 sec.

Above Installation view of Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Camden Art Centre, 2024. Photo: Rob Harris.

Above Daniel Rey Collective Cuddles, 2023 Performance and Installation 4 min, 26 sec Installation view, Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Camden Art Centre, 2024. Photo: Rob Harris.

Above Emily Kraus Stochastic 12 (diptych), 2023 Oil on canvas. Installation view of Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Camden Art Centre, 2024. Photo: Rob Harris.

Bloomberg New Contemporaries
Camden Art Centre, Arkwright Road, NW3

19 January – 14 April 2024

New Contemporaries has returned to Camden Art Centre for the first time in 20 years, bringing with it a riveting cohort of artists emerging from UK art schools and other peer-to-peer learning programmes. This annual barometer of fresh talent has always been a way to gauge how the new generation is taking on some of the day’s big challenges, with this year’s themes including climate justice, identity politics and kinship, as you might expect.

Among The Wick’s standouts from the 55 artists are Emerson Pullman, a figurative painter whose portraits flex the boundaries between realism and abstraction; Osman Yousefzada, who reimagines immigrant spaces; Emily Kraus, known for her rhythmic mark-making, made with a unique collaboration between her body and a mechanical apparatus; and James Dearlove, who presents a trippy world haunted by the human figure. See tomorrow’s superstars for yourself at Camden Art Centre.

Viewing The Glass Heart gives the medium a new pulse

The Wick Culture - Burne Jones / Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co, Musician Angel (playing aulos), 1865, stained glass panel. Courtesy of The Stained Glass Museum

Above Burne Jones / Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co, Musician Angel (playing aulos), 1865, stained glass panel. Courtesy of The Stained Glass Museum

The Wick Culture - Chris Day, Judge & Jury © The Artist. Courtesy of Vessel Gallery. Image Agata Pec.

Above Chris Day, Judge & Jury © The Artist. Courtesy of Vessel Gallery. Image Agata Pec.

The Wick Culture - Wilhemena Geddes, Faith, 1956, stained glass panel. © The Stained Glass Museum.

Above Wilhemena Geddes, Faith, 1956, stained glass panel. © The Stained Glass Museum.

The Wick Culture - Philip Webb / Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co, Grisaille foliage vine scroll, 1865, stained glass panel. Courtesy of The Stained Glass Museum

Above Philip Webb / Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co, Grisaille foliage vine scroll, 1865, stained glass panel. Courtesy of The Stained Glass Museum

The Wick Culture - Louis Thompson & Sophie Thomas, Broken Ocean, 2022, glass & ocean debris. © The Artists. Courtesy of Vessel Gallery. Image by Ester Segarra.

Above Louis Thompson & Sophie Thomas, Broken Ocean, 2022, glass & ocean debris. © The Artists. Courtesy of Vessel Gallery. Image by Ester Segarra.

Above Burne Jones / Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co, Musician Angel (playing aulos), 1865, stained glass panel. Courtesy of The Stained Glass Museum

Above Philip Webb / Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co, Grisaille foliage vine scroll, 1865, stained glass panel. Courtesy of The Stained Glass Museum

Above Louis Thompson & Sophie Thomas, Broken Ocean, 2022, glass & ocean debris. © The Artists. Courtesy of Vessel Gallery. Image by Ester Segarra.

The Glass Heart
Two Temple Place, WC2

27 January – 21 April 2024

A new exhibition at Two Temple Place spotlights the artists who have given fresh energy to glass at key moments in time. From Arts and Crafts pioneers to the founders of the Studio Glass Movement and leading artists working today, The Glass Heart champions those who have pushed the possibilities of the medium to the max.

Inside the Neo Gothic mansion – which has a stained glass window at its heart – you’ll find works by William Morris, Christopher Whall and John Piper alongside contemporary stars, such as Ryan Gander, Monster Chetwynd and Brian Clarke. The show charts the complex intertwining of art, industry and social history in the UK, taking you on a dazzling journey.