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Viewing Together We Thrive: a fundraising show supporting the next generation

Win an artwork by a leading artist while supporting the next generation of cultural leaders by entering a prize draw in the exhibition Together We Thrive, presented at Cromwell Place. Artists including Adelaide Damoah, Anthony Daley, Boo Saville and Hurvin Anderson have donated new works inspired by the show’s title for the fundraising event, presented by Culture& and Sotheby’s Institute of Art, in collaboration with Gallery OCA.

Visitors and supporters are invited to enter the prize draw by donating a minimum of £25 to the Cultural Leaders Programme, with all contributions going toward the London Living Wage Bursary for its 2024/25 cohort of scholars, designed to alleviate the cost of living in London. The bursary aims to make the programme accessible to the widest possible range of individuals from historically underrepresented backgrounds, enabling them to take full advantage of the opportunities that the MA and programme provide. Donate to support the future of culture in the capital.

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Dates
20 February 2024 — 25 February 2024

Viewing Erwin Wurm’s disembodied clothing and hybrid creatures at Thaddaeus Ropac

Surrogates is the title of Erwin Wurm’s beguiling show at Thaddaeus Ropac, with the artist showing new work featuring painted aluminium sculptures of bodiless clothes that appear like 2D silhouettes. Are they harbingers of the post-human planet? “I am interested in everyday life,” says Wurm. “All the materials surrounding me can be useful, and the objects and topics can be involved in contemporary society. My work speaks about the whole entity of a human being: the physical, the spiritual, the psychological, and the political.”

Along the way, the Austrian artist toys with the boundaries between subject and object, and the human and the non-human, swelling the proportions of everyday items such as a high-heeled shoe and hybridising a figure and a pillow. Surrogates is playful, full of surprises and not to be missed.

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Dates
15 February 2024 — 14 April 2024

Viewing  A long overdue retrospective of conceptual art trailblazer Yoko Ono

John Lennon once quipped that his wife Yoko Ono was “the world’s most famous unknown artist”. Tate Modern’s long overdue retrospective of her work rights this wrong. Born in Tokyo nearly 91 years ago, Ono was a pioneer of early conceptual and participatory art, film and performance, as well as being a musician and a campaigner for world peace. She invited gallery goers to cut her clothes off for “Cut Piece” in 1964 a decade before Marina Abramovic asked visitors to use scissors, wire and a gun “on me as desired” in “Rhythm O”.

That work and other seminal pieces, such as the once banned “Film No.4 (Bottoms)” from 1966-7 – starring a parade of bare buttocks – are explored in the show, which charts the development of her practice over the decades. Her “Refugee Boat”, which visitors are encouraged to cover with messages, from 1960 couldn’t feel more current. Tate Modern’s retrospective reveals that Ono has always been an artist ahead of her time.

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Dates
15 February 2024 — 01 September 2024
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