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Sunday, June 16

Barbican Art Gallery
Barbican Centre, Silk Street / +442076388891 / barbican.org.uk/artgallery
Fri - Tue 11am to 8pm, Wed 11am to 6pm, Thu 11am to 10pm
From acclaimed architects, to Turner prize-winning artists, the Barbican presents major exhibitions by leading international figures.
Geoffrey Farmer The Surgeon and the Photographer
Mar 26 - Jul 28, 2013
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The British Museum
Great Russell Street / +442073238299 / britishmuseum.org
10am to 5:30pm daily
The museum houses 8 million objects spanning the history of the world's cultures: from the stone tools of early man to 20th century prints.
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Camden Arts Centre
Arkwright Road / +442074725500 / www.camdenartscentre.org
Tue - Sun 10am to 6pm, Wed 10am to 9pm
Camden Arts Centre specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Dieter Roth Diaries MUST SEE
May 17 - Jul 14, 2013
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The David Roberts Art Foundation
Symes Mews / +442073833004 / davidrobertsartfoundation.com
Thu - Sat 12pm to 6pm
The David Roberts Art Foundation is a platform dedicated to critical dialogues and experiments, curated by Vincent Honoré.
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Delfina Foundation
7-9 Tryon Street / +442072335344 / http://delfinafoundation.com/
Founded in 2007, the Delfina Foundation promotes cross-cultural dialogue and artistic experimentation.
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Design Museum
28 Shad Thames / +442074036933 / designmuseum.org
10am to 5:30pm daily
The Design Museum presents exhibitions and collections of modern and contemporary art & design. Please contact museum for more information.
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Gerald Moore Gallery at Eltham College
Mottingham Lane / +442088570448 / geraldmooregallery.org
Sat 12pm to 4pm
The Gerald Moore Gallery is a new centre for modern and contemporary art set within the grounds of Eltham College in South East London.
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Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road / +442079604200 / http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/hayward-gallery-visual-arts
Mon - Wed 10am to 6pm, Thu 10am to 8pm, Fri 10am to 6pm, Sat - Sun 10am to 6pm
Hayward Gallery presents exhibitions and collections of contemporary art. Please contact museum for more information.
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Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
The Mall / +442079303647 / ica.org.uk
Tue - Sun 11am to 9pm, Thu 11am to 9pm
Keep Your Timber Limber (Works on Paper)
Jun 19 - Sep 8, 2013
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Keep Your Timber Limber (Works on Paper) explores how artists since the 1940s to the present day have used drawing to address ideas critical and current to their time, ranging from the politics of gender and sexuality to feminist issues, war, censorship and race. Stretching from fashion to erotica, the works can all be viewed as being in some way transgressive, employing traditional and commercial drawing techniques to challenge specific social, political or stylistic conventions.

The exhibition brings together the work of eight artists: Judith Bernstein, Tom of Finland, George Grosz, Margaret Harrison, Mike Kuchar, Cary Kwok, Antonio Lopez and Marlene McCarty.

Curated by Sarah McCrory, the exhibition draws on the way artists turned to the commercial realms of comics, fashion and illustration to revitalise drawing within the visual arts - many of the works in Keep Your Timber Limber (Works on Paper) were originally produced for a commercial context. One common aspect of these varied practices is a high level of technical skill - these are artists who often confounded critics of their subject matter unable to condemn their technique. Choosing to step outside the boundaries of social acceptability, the works in Keep Your Timber Limber (Works on Paper) comprise modest proposals and trenchant political gestures.
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Points of Departure
Jun 26 - Jul 21, 2013
New commissions resulting from residencies in London and Ramallah by British and Palestinian artists, exploring the concept of liminality
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Points of Departure features new commissions resulting from six residencies in London and Ramallah by British and Palestinian artists: Jumana Emil Abboud, Bashar Alhroub, Bisan Abu Eisheh, Jeremy Hutchison, Olivia Plender, and Nathan Witt. Devised with two curators-in-residence, Mirna Bamieh and Rebecca Heald, the works in Points of Departure are a thoughtful exploration of the anthropological concept of liminality. From the Latin word līmen, meaning ‘a threshold’, liminality is a condition in which one’s sense of identity is diffused, leading not only to states of dislocation and disorientation, but also to the possibility of new perspectives. Residencies can also be understood as a ‘liminal’ state between time and place. But what happens when the liminality of the residency is entwined with a place like Palestine, which is defined by its own political ambiguity and contestation?

In the face of globalisation, but without succumbing to false universalism, all Points of Departure artists undertook varieties of research to reveal a range of partial truths. In this exhibition they are presented in different mediums including performance, video, installation, drawings, and intervention.

Following the presentation of the first outcomes of Points of Departure in Ramallah in January and February 2013, the exhibition travels in an expanded form to the ICA, as one of the highlights of the 2013 Shubbak Festival in London.
Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva)
Rivington Place / +442077299616 / www.iniva.org
Tue - Wed 11am to 6pm, Thu 11am to 9pm, Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 12pm to 6pm
Iniva presents exhibitions and collections of contemporary art. Please contact museum for more information.
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Kings Place Gallery
Kings Place, 90 York Way / +442075201485 / kingsplace.co.uk/galleries/kings-place-gallery
10am to 6pm daily
Kings Place Gallery specializes in modern and contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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National Portrait Gallery
St. Martin's Place / +442073060055 / npg.org.uk
Mon - Wed 10am to 6pm, Thu - Fri 10am to 9pm, Sat - Sun 10am to 6pm
The National Portrait Gallery presents exhibitions and collections of ancient to modern art. Please contact museum for more information.
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Parasol unit
14 Wharf Road / +442074907373 / parasol-unit.org
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm, Sun 12pm to 5pm
Merlin James MERLIN JAMES
Jun 6 - Aug 10, 2013
An exhibition revealing James’s exploration of the process + meaning of painting. It surveys his work from early 1980s to present.
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The Photographers' Gallery
16 – 18 Ramillies Street / +442070879300 / http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/
Mon - Sat 10am to 6pm, Sun 11:30am to 6pm
Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age
Apr 18 - Jun 17, 2013
Lialina and Espenschied’s exhibition offers insights into early online visual culture as represented through the Geocities community.
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Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied: One Terabyte of Digital Age

18 April - 17 June 2013

The cultural foundation for today‘s web was not created by Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Zuckerberg or Tom Anderson, but by its users, inside the tiny spaces they were assigned by Internet Giants.
The exhibition One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age showcases thousands and thousands of amateur home pages from the free web hosting service Geocities, from the second half of the 1990s. Established in 1995 and purchased by Yahoo in 1999, Geocities was suddenly shut down by Yahoo in 2009. Realising its cultural significance, the Internet Archive team managed to rescue an incomplete portion of Geocities which now lives on as a massive downloadable Torrent file.

Over the period of the show, Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied will present a stream of snapshots of this lost city and its archival ruins, documenting the visual culture of the web and the creativity of its users. The project provides a glimpse into web publishing when users were in charge of design and narration in contrast to the automated templates of Facebook, YouTube and Flickr.

About the artists:

Moscow-born artist Olia Lialina has, for the past decade, produced many influential works of network-based art: My Boyfriend Came Back from the War (1996), Agatha Appears (1997), First Real Net Art Gallery (1998), and Last Real Net Art Museum (2000). Currently she is a professor at Merz Akademie in Germany. Lialina writes on digital culture, net art and web vernacular.

Dragan Espenschied, born in Germany. His music and online art has received international acclaim. He co-founded the home computer band Bodenständig 2000 that toured and released records throughout Europe and the USA. He has also won the Webby Awards People’s Voice NET ART (2004), and the ZKM International Media Art Award (2001).

Since 2002 Olia and Dragan have worked together. Among their collaborations are Zombie and Mummy (2002-2003), Midnight (2006), and Online Newspapers (2004, 2008, 2013), Digital Folklore Reader (2009). Individually and as collaborative partners, the work of both artists has been exhibited extensively online and at venues including Ars Electronica, Linz; the New Museum, New York; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Transmediale, Berlin; Havana Biennial, Cuba; ACAF, Alexandria; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; ABC Gallery, Moscow; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Madison Square Park, New York.
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Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013
Apr 19 - Jun 30, 2013
The annual award to a photographer for a specific body of work which has significantly contributed to photography in Europe.
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Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013
19 April - 30 June 2013

The four artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013 are Mishka Henner (b. 1976, Belgium) Chris Killip (b. 1946, UK), Cristina De Middel (b. 1975, Spain) and the artist duo Adam Broomberg (b. 1970, South Africa) & Oliver Chanarin (b. 1970, UK). The winner will be announced at a special ceremony at The Photographers’ Gallery in May 2013. The annual award of £30,000 rewards a living photographer, of any nationality, for a specific body of work in an exhibition or publication format, which has significantly contributed to photography in Europe between 1 October 2010 and 30 September 2011.

Claire Aho Studio Works
Apr 19 - Jul 21, 2013
The first exhibition outside of Finland for Claire Aho, the pioneering Finnish colour photographer.
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Claire Aho (b. 1925, Finland) is a pioneer of Finnish colour photography. This will be the first exhibition of Aho’s work outside of Finland. Grandchild of the author Juhani Aho and the painter Venny Soldan-Brofeldt, Aho established her own commercial studio in the early 1950s working across a broad range of industries including editorial, advertising, magazine covers and fashion. The exhibition will include a large selection of original Finnish lifestyle magazines with Aho’s cover photographs and up to seventy images from her archive. Saturated with colour and full of humor her images, although distinct to Finland and to the period, still remain relevant to young practitioners today.

Daniel Naude Animal Farm
May 30 - Jul 28, 2013
Daniel Naudé’s Animal Farm follows his photographic pursuit of the Africanis dog in the desert plains of the Karoo in South Africa.
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Group Show FreshFaced+WildEyed 2013
Jul 7 - 21, 2013
FreshFaced+WildEyed is the annual exhibition showcasing graduates’ practices from photographic courses across the UK.
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FreshFaced+WildEyed is the annual exhibition showcasing the quality and breadth of graduates’ practices from photographic courses across the UK. The show aims to draw attention to innovative new talents from a range of photographic fields. Now in its sixth year, FreshFaced+WildEyed 2013 will continue with its mentorship scheme initiative, offering selected finalists professional development and guidance in the twelve months following the exhibition.

Group show Mass Observation: This is Your Photo
Aug 2 - Sep 29, 2013
Founded in 1937, Mass Observation is one of the most intriguing social survey projects of the 20th century.
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Founded in 1937, Mass Observation is one of the most intriguing social survey projects of the 20th century. Formed by a group of British writers, artists, poets and anthropologists, the organisation in its original guise aspired to gain insight into the lives, opinions and daily thoughts and habits of the British people. Using a combination of recording methods drawn from science and arts, they hoped this new information would lead to a deeper understanding of everyday life and create a more democratic and unified society. Mass Observation: This is Your Photo will be the first extensive display of the archive’s visual legacy, locating photography at its centre. The exhibition is curated by Russell Roberts, Reader in Photography, European Centre for Photographic Research, University of Wales, Newport.

Mark Neville Deeds Not Words
Aug 2 - Sep 29, 2013
An exhibition focusing on the publication Deeds Not Words, a multi-layered documentary project by Mark Neville.
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An exhibition focusing on the publication Deeds Not Words, a multi-layered documentary project by Mark Neville about the people of Corby, Northamptonshire and the environmental issues provoked by the court case concerning ‘ The Corby 16’.

Between 1985 and 1998 eighteen children were born in Corby with birth defects, said to have been the result of harmful substances generated during the council reclamation of the local steelworks. Neville’s photographs document daily life in Corby and the individual claimants involved in the subsequent court case.

First published in 2010, Deeds Not Words was available only to the respective environmental, local, legal and scientific bodies to whom its content was addressed. This exhibition will be the first public showcasing of these photographs and will document the book’s journey as it reaches these various constituencies and is implemented as an advocacy tool to promote policy change. The exhibition is curated by David Campany.

Group Show Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood and Identity
Oct 11, 2013 - Jan 5, 2014
This exhibition will explore representations of motherhood as seen through the works of seven contemporary artists.
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This exhibition will explore representations of motherhood as seen through the works of seven contemporary artists. Pieces on display will aim to challenge long-held stereotypes while addressing issues such as gender roles, domesticity, the body and the identity of individuals within the family unit. Photographers and artists taking part include Janine Antoni (b. 1964, Bahamas), Elina Brotherus (b. 1972, Finland), Elinor Carucci (b. 1971, Israel), Ana Casas Broda (b. 1965, Spain), Fred Hüning (b. 1966 Germany), Leigh Ledare (b. 1976, USA), Hanna Putz (b. 1987, Austria). The exhibition is curated by Susan Bright in collaboration with the Foundling Museum, London.
PM Gallery & House
Mattock Lane, Walpole Park / +442085671227 / www.ealing.gov.uk/pmgalleryandhouse
Tue - Fri 1pm to 5pm, Sat 11am to 5pm, Sun 1pm to 5pm
PM Gallery & House specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House
Burlington House, Piccadilly / +442073008000 / royalacademy.org.uk
Sat - Thu 10am to 6pm, Fri 10am to 10pm
Royal Academy of Arts promotes the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts through exhibitions, education and debate.
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Royal Academy Schools Gallery
Hornsey, New River Avenue / royalacademy.org.uk
Fri 6pm to 9pm, Sat - Sun 2pm to 6pm
Royal Academy Schools Gallery presents exhibitions and collections of contemporary art. Please contact museum for more information.
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South London Gallery
65 - 67 Peckham Road / +442077036120 / southlondongallery.org
Tue 11am to 6pm, Wed 11am to 9pm, Thu - Sun 11am to 6pm
Eoghan Ryan Oh Wicked Flesh!
Mar 5 - Jun 16, 2013
After six months as the Nina Stewart Artist-in-Residence, Ryan presents a multi-faceted installation of new work in the first floor gallery.
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EOGHAN RYAN: OH WICKED FLESH!
5 MARCH – 12 MAY 2013, ADMISSION FREE, FIRST FLOOR GALLERIES

Following six months as the Nina Stewart Artist in Residence in the South London Gallery’s Outset Artists’ Flat, Eoghan Ryan presents a multi-faceted installation of new work in the first floor galleries. Drawing on his everyday encounters with people, places, animals and objects in the course of his stay, Ryan translates his experiences of them into an assemblage of disparate and often obscure references. Offering glimpses of the thought processes binding these elements together, a short film exposes the practice by which they were selected and lures us into its bizarre logic.

The Nina Stewart Artist's Residency with the South London Gallery and SPACE is funded by The Nina and Roger Stewart Charitable Trust, with additional support from Bloomberg.
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Group Show At the moment of being heard
Jun 28 - Sep 28, 2013
As show which brings together works and performances by a group of international artists, composers and musicians engaging with sound.
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dalla Rosa Gallery
121 Clerkenwell Road / +447865452226 / http://dallarosagallery.com
Wed - Fri 12pm to 6pm, Sat 12pm to 5pm
dalla Rosa Gallery presents contemporary works on paper, painting and photography by established and young artists.
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Tate Britain
Millbank / +442078878888 / tate.org.uk/britain
Mon - Thu 10am to 6pm, Fri 10am to 10pm, Sat - Sun 10am to 6pm
Tate Britain presents exhibitions and collections of British art from 1500 to the present day. Please contact museum for more information.
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Tate Modern
Bankside / +442078878888 / tate.org.uk/modern
Mon - Thu 10am to 6pm, Fri - Sat 10am to 10pm, Sun 10am to 6pm
Tate Modern presents exhibitions and collections of modern and contemporary art. Please contact museum for more information.
Ibrahim El-Salahi A VISIONARY MODERNIST
Jul 3 - Sep 22, 2013
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The Courtauld Gallery
Somerset House, Strand / +442078482526 / courtauld.ac.uk/gallery
10am to 6pm daily
The Courtauld Gallery presents exhibitions and collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.
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The Museum of Everything
Multiple locations / museumofeverything.com
The Museum of Everything is London's first ever space for artist and creators living outside our modern society.
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The National Gallery | London
Trafalgar Square / +442077472885 / nationalgallery.org.uk
Mon - Thu 10am to 6pm, Fri 10am to 9pm, Sat - Sun 10am to 6pm
The National Gallery presents exhibitions and collections of ancient to modern art. Please contact museum for more information.
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The Royal College of Art | Dyson Building
1 Hester Road, Battersea / +442075904444 / rca.ac.uk
The Royal College of Art | Dyson Building specializes in contemporary art. Please contact the Museum for further information.
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Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road / +442079422000 / www.vam.ac.uk
Mon - Thu 10am to 5:30pm, Fri 10am to 10pm
Michael Lloyd Twelve Vessels
Oct 7, 2012 - Jun 30, 2013
A collection of 12 vessels by Michael Lloyd that each represent a time of the year.
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David Bowie Is
Mar 23 - Jul 28, 2013
Curated by Victoria Broackes adn Geoffrey Marsh
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Wellcome Collection
183 Euston Road / +442076112222 / wellcomecollection.org
Tue - Wed 10am to 6pm, Thu 10am to 10pm, Fri - Sun 10am to 6pm
Wellcome Collection specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Whitechapel Gallery
77 - 82 Whitechapel High Street / +442075227888 / whitechapelgallery.org
Tue - Wed 11am to 6pm, Thu 11am to 9pm, Fri - Sun 11am to 6pm
Guiseppe Penone The Bloomberg Commission: Giuseppe Penone: Spazio di Luce
Sep 4, 2012 - Sep 1, 2013
The Bloomberg Comission
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Black Eyes & Lemonade
Mar 9 - Sep 1, 2013
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Artists' Film International Neha Choksi, Kaia Hugin, Alix Pearlstein
Apr 16 - Jun 23, 2013
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2013: The Spirit of Utopia
Jul 4 - Sep 5, 2013
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Sarah Lucas
Oct 2 - Dec 15, 2013
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Zabludowicz Collection | London
176 Prince of Wales Road / +442074288940 / zabludowiczcollection.com/london
Thu - Sun 12pm to 6pm
The Zabludowicz Collection presents exhibitions and collections of modern and contemporary art. Please contact museum for more information.
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