WORKS WITHOUT WALLS WHATS ON: LONDON

Here at Works Without Walls, we like going to arts events. So do you guys. So, why don't you all check out some of this great stuff for July? It's the start of the summer, and there's a whole LOAD of exciting events to check out around London. Click on the title to be taken to main page. We'll see you there!

SEE

Frida Khalo: Making Herself Up
Until 4 November, The V&A
This exhibition presents an extraordinary collection of personal artefacts and clothing belonging to the iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Locked away for 50 years after her death, this collection has never before been exhibited outside Mexico. Highlights include the vividly painted artificial leg Frida wore after a leg amputation and many of her vibrant traditional dresses.

Lee Bul
Until 19 August, Southbank Centre
Lee Bul transforms Hayward Gallery into a spectacular dream-like landscape featuring monstrous bodies, futuristic cyborgs, glittering mirrored environments and an exquisitely surreal monumental foil Zeppelin. Bringing together more than 100 works from the late 1980s to the present day, this exhibition explores the full range of Lee Bul’s pioneering and thought-provoking practice, from provocative early performances to recent large-scale installations that attempt to get our body and our brain ‘working at the same time, together’..

🆓WHITECHAPEL GALLERY PRESENTS 01
5th July, Whitechapel Gallery
The first in a series of experimental sound nights featuring interdisciplinary artists, Hannah Dargavel-Leafe, Ziad Nagy and Tom White. Bringing together field recordings, found material, loops and repetition the artists present new sound from inside the Gallery's Foyer.


250th Summer Exhibition
Until 19th August, The Royal Academy
Grayson Perry RA coordinates the biggest, brightest and most colourful Summer Exhibition yet, in the 250th annual celebration of “art made now”. There’s a monumental sculpture by Anish Kapoor RA in the courtyard, and within the galleries you’ll find vast new works by David Hockney RA and Joana Vasconcelos. Artists Mona Hatoum and Tal R are shown alongside Royal Academicians including Wolfgang Tillmans, Mike Nelson, Tracey Emin and Rose Wylie, and Honorary Academicians Bruce Nauman and Ed Ruscha. The exhibition extends across the newly-expanded cultural campus, with prints on display in The Sackler Wing of Galleries and a “room of humour” in the new Ronald and Rita McAulay Gallery featuring David Shrigley and Martin Parr. The art extravaganza even spills out into the streets of London’s West End, with an installation of over 200 flags designed by Royal Academicians.


LEARN

🆓LondonCP8: Subverting portraits
7 July at 1 PM - 3 PM, Newington Library
As part of the Contemporary Portraiture Diploma grad show, artists Alessandra Bettolo and Caroline Wong will be hosting a colourful and sumptuous 2 hour portrait drawing session adding their own feminist twist to works by Gauguin, Manet, and Courbet.

Jenna Sutela

Curating Digital Art with Frieze
10 July at 7 PM - 9 PM, Town Hall Hotel
An evening of enquiry into the relationship between art and digital technology. Curator Ben Vickers and artist Jenna Sutela will discuss the way they work with digital technology, whilst Artistic Director of Serpentine Galleries Hans Ulrich Obrist will discuss the future of the gallery in the digital age. The discussion will be followed by a signing of his latest anthology of writings that survey the world of contemporary art: Somewhere Totally Else (Ringier).

Course: Curating Events and Public Programmes
13 July at 10 AM - 5 PM, Whitechapel Gallery
This course will look at how to best establish platforms for curatorial and artistic discussion through public engagement with various programmes, from producing and staging events, symposia, talks, performances and screenings. A must for any budding curators out there!

Queer Life Drawing: ALL TOO HUMAN
Every Friday until 20 July, Tate Britain
This four-week course led by Gaby Sahhar and Lilly Cheetah from Queerdirect offers a chance to explore the spectrum of gender and sexuality by looking at how one can ‘queer’ the viewing experience of art and think about them in relation to a queer subject. Participants will be able to use life drawing as a participatory performance practice, assisted by clothing and props to challenge various notions around gender and sexuality. This includes explorations of queer intimacy, examining how the queer gaze relates to subjects outside assumed roles of sexuality and re-thinking heteropatriarchal norms.