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  • Bellmer Nauman Pondick: Material Desire

    Focusing on the work of Rona Pondick, Hans Bellmer and Bruce Nauman, this exhibition considers how bodies are seen and controlled, linking the artists through recurring motifs to explore the overlaps between desire, violence and dehumanisation

  • Angela de la Cruz: Upright

    The Spanish artist’s twisted canvases and collapsed objects are a reflection of the adaptability of the human body in the face of frailty and vulnerability, echoing her own resilience after a brain injury

  • Senga Nengudi: Performance Works 1972-1982

    Featuring photographic works, archival materials and films of key performance pieces, this exhibition focuses on pivotal time in the pioneering artist’s career

  • Cecily Brown: Picture Making

    A painter’s painter, whose dynamic landscapes take viewers on a walk, Cecily Brown returns to London for a fabulous showcase at Serpentine South

  • Frank Bowling: Seeking the Sublime

    Though containing just 10 works, this exhibition demonstrates the breadth of the British-Guyanese artist’s oeuvre, from the figurative works of the 1960s to the colourful abstract paintings of today

  • The Coming of Age

    This exhibition explores ageing from the 1500s on, but it was the contemporary works here that resonated most with me, capturing the particular inequality confronting older women

  • Tide of Returns

    This show focuses on honouring ancient relationships between people, land and water, with new work from Repatriates Collective, a group of artists from Australia’s Pacific North, South and West Africa, Europe and Latin America, asking profound questions about how we…

  • Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture

    Despite once saying he was sick of portraits, he was one of the most sought-after portraitists of his day and looking at the irresistible paintings in this delightful show it is easy to see why

  • The Dead Don’t Go Until We Do

    Histories of erasure, displacement, annihilation and colonisation are told with power, subtlety, clarity and – overwhelmingly – grace by four artists in this timely exhibition

  • Hurvin Anderson

    Anderson’s paintings, which here stretch across his career, blend his British and Caribbean influences as he explores themes of identity, memory and diaspora