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Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Air Conditioning

29 March – 9 June 2024

opening: Thursday, 28 March 2024, 6.15 - 10 pm

Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
3 Park Drai Eechelen
1499 Clausen
Luxembourg

Curator: Vanessa Lecomte

This is the first presentation of Lawrence Abu Hamdan's major work Air Conditioning, 2022, in a museum since it was acquired in 2023 by Mudam.

The installation was previously presented as part of the 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (11 June – 18 September 2022).

To coincide with the opening of this presentation Lawrence Abu Hamdan will be in conversation with Vanessa Lecomte on on Thursday, 28 March 2024 at 6.30 pm.

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image: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Air Conditioning, 2022, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, 2022. Photo: Laura Fiorio

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Hannah Starkey

After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989 – 2024

29 March – 16 June 2024

Curated by Johny Pitts

(Hayward Gallery Touring)
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
Jordan Well
Coventry CV1 5QP

Hannah Starkey is participating in Hayward Gallery Touring’s major group exhibition After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989 – 2024, launching this month at Herbert Art Gallery & Museum. The exhibition brings together contemporary working class artists who use photography to explore the nuances of working class life in all its diversity.

The exhibition, emphasises the perspectives of practitioners who turn their gaze towards both their communities and outwards to the wider world. The year 2024 marks 35 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, signifying the end of Communism and the rise of Western Liberal Democracy. The exhibition questions the fate of working class culture post the 'End of History’, exploring identity, creativity and the imagery produced by the working class over the past three decades.

The exhibition will tour to Focal Point Gallery, Southend (3 July – 14 September 2024) and Bonington Gallery, Nottingham (27 September – 15 December 2024).

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image: Hannah Starkey, Untitled, May 2022, 2022

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Behrang Karimi

Pocket Call

16 March – 9 June 2024

opening: Friday 15 March 2024, 6 – 10 pm

Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf
Grabbepl. 4, 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany

The exhibition Pocket Call, marks Behrang Karimi's first major solo institutional exhibition.

A series of events will be held during the exhibition, including a walk-through with the artist and Kathrin Bentele, Director of the Kunstverein.

The exhibition is generously supported by the Kunststiftung NRW and Maureen Paley. The art association is supported by a permanent partnership between Stadtwerke Düsseldorf and the state capital of Düsseldorf.

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image: Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf

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Olivia Plender

Chronos: health, access and intimacy

14 March – 1 September 2024

Tensta Konsthall
Taxingegränd 10
163 04 Spånga
Sweden

Curated by Olivia Plender in collaboration with Cecilia Widenheim, Tensta Konsthall.

Participating artists: Jessie Bullivant, Cecilia Germain, Melanie Gilligan, Goldin+Senneby, Jakob Jakobsen, Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative, Park McArthur, Olivia Plender, Ihra Lill Scharning, Vård och värde, and Constantina Zavitsanos.

What body standards have shaped the society in which we live? And what can we learn from the functional rights struggle that requires access to the city and the built environment? The exhibition is themed around the topics of health, access and intimacy. Many of the artworks explore the structural conditions within society that block access to public spaces and institutions for those bodies that do not fit into a recognised ‘norm’ – for instance, on the grounds of gender, disability, race, or sexuality.

The exhibition is produced with support from the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation.

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image: Matrix founding member Anne Thorne carries a pram up the steps of a subway in Aldgate, East London, in Making Space: Women and the Man-Made Environment (Pluto Press, 1984). 

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Hannah Starkey

Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood

9 March – 26 May 2024

Curated by Hettie Judah

(Hayward Gallery Touring)
Arnolfini Gallery
16 Narrow Quay
Bristol BS1 4QA

Hannah Starkey is participating in Hayward Gallery Touring’s major group exhibition Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, launching this wwek at Arnolfini Gallery.

This major group exhibition Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, will launch this week at Arnolfini Gallery. Featuring the work of more than sixty modern and contemporary artists, Acts of Creation will explore lived experience of motherhood, offering a complex account that engages with contemporary concerns about gender, caregiving and reproductive rights. The exhibition will address diverse experiences of motherhood across three themes: Creation, Maintenance and Loss. The heart of the exhibition is a series of revelatory self-portraits – a celebration of the artist as mother.

The exhibition will tour to the Midlands Arts Centre (MAC), Birmingham (22 June – 29 September 2024); Millennium Gallery, Sheffield (24 October 2024 – 21 January 2025); and Dundee Contemporary Arts (Spring 2025).

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image: Hannah Starkey, Untitled, February 2013, 2013

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Hannah Starkey

Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest

8 March – 11 June 2024

South London Gallery
65 Peckham Road
London SE5 8UH

Curated by Sarah Allen and Fiona Rogers, with Lily Tonge and Lola Olufemi

This exhibition features three works by Hannah Starkey: Anne Carr, Margaretta Ruth D’Arcy, and Bronagh Hinds, that were first exhibited in Principled and Revolutionary: Northern Ireland’s Peace Women, at the Ulster Museum, Belfast (7 April – 10 September 2023). Commissioned by Belfast Photo Festival, the project consists of a series of portraits of prominent women who helped bring peace to Northern Ireland.

Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest is a collaborative exhibition between the South London Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, as part of the V&A Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project.

Acts of Resistance
brings together works by international artists who are using the camera to challenge and move beyond traditional protest photography. This urgent and political exhibition explores feminism and activism from an international and contemporary perspective. Looking at different approaches to feminism from the past 10 years, the show highlights shared concerns including intersectionality, transnational solidarity, and the use of social media and digital technology as a tool for change.

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Recent Press
The Guardian, ‘After four hours, I was tired, thirsty and shaking’: the women taking photography to extremes, Charlotte Jansen, 4 March 2024

image: Hannah Starkey, Principled & Revolutionary: Northern Ireland’s Peace Women, exhibition view, Ulster Museum, Belfast, 2023

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Sarah Jones, Hannah Starkey and Jane and Louise Wilson

Included in: In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe, Selections from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection

8 March – 7 July 2024

Curated by Drew Sawyer, Britt Savelsen, and Eve Schillo and organised by Carmen Hermo with Imani Williford

Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238

Sarah Jones, Hannah Starkey and Jane and Louise Wilson are included in the exhibition In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe, at the Brooklyn Museum.

The exhibition unites nearly fifty women artists who are resisting traditional ideas of gender and nationality, as well as of photography itself. The first museum survey of photography-based works by women artists born or based in Europe, this exhibition interrogates the continent’s legacies of nationalism and patriarchal power structures—which continue to shape everyday life, particularly for women. Made entirely after 2000, the exhibition’s more than seventy artworks offer a window into the first decades of the twenty-first century.

Organised by the Brooklyn Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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Catalogue

image: Sarah Jones, The Rose Gardens (display: III / white) (I), 2007

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Frieze Los Angeles 2024

29 February – 3 March 2024

Stand B16

Santa Monica Airport
3027 Airport Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90305
USA

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Frieze Viewing Room, online
22 February – 3 March 2024

Selected Press
Jay Ezra Nayssan’s Top 5 Picks from Frieze Viewing Room Los Angeles 2024, Frieze, 27 February 2024

Max Hooper Schneider on the Museum that Exhibits Its Messes, Frieze Week Magazine, 26 February 2024