Friday, 17 January 2025, 7:00 pm

Reference Point
2 Arundel Street
London WC2R 3DA

Olivia Plender and Craig Burnett will be in conversation with Dr. Roger Quallen to mark the launch of their collaboration: The Lost Works of Johan Riding. This publication explores how time, place, and identity can form a fiction that reveals the challenges of interpretation and the gaps between images, ideas, history, and imagination. Johan Riding, a fictional filmmaker, is the subject of a life that Dr. Quallen has researched and archived.

Limited Edition of 300
Published by Mörel Books
ISBN 978-1-917282-03-1

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It is with huge respect and sadness that we announce the passing, after a long illness, of Alastair Mackinven artist, painter, musician, writer, teacher and wonderful person who will be greatly missed by all who knew and appreciated him and his work.

May he rest in peace and deepest condolences to those closest to him, friends, colleagues and family.

1971–2025

Frieze, British Artist Alastair Mackinven Has Died Aged 53, 9 January 2025

ArtReview, Alastair Mackinven, British artist, 1971–2025, 8 January 2025

ARTNews, Alastair Mackinven, Venturesome Artist with a Taste for All Things Cryptic, Dies at 53, Alex Greenberger, 8 January 2025

image: Alastair Mackinven, Untitled, 2022, oil and iron powder on canvas, 220 x 160 cm - 86 5/8 x 63 in

30 June – 13 July 2025

Waterloo Underground Station
York Road
London SE1 7ND

As part of Art on the Underground’s programme for 2025, Rory Pilgrim, will create a new audio commission in collaboration with the Mayor of London’s Culture and Community Spaces at Risk (CCSaR) programme. This annual sound commission is developed through engagement with the CCSaR initiative and the communities around Underground stations to spotlight organisations facing structural barriers to sustaining space in the capital.

Pilgrim’s work will be heard through station speakers along the moving walkway connecting the Northern and Jubilee lines at Waterloo station for a two-week period. Known for their collaborative and socially conscious practice, Pilgrim’s new piece will offer a thoughtful and resonant engagement with the transient, communal experiences of one of London’s busiest transport hubs, creating and sharing resonances from across the city.

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image: Rory Pilgrim, Helicopter, 2023, pencil, crayon and nail polish on paper, 31 x 41 cm - 12 1/4 x 15 3/4 in. Photo: Stephen James

Read The Guardian's latest feature by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, where the artist expands on his groundbreaking work mapping Syria's Sednaya Prison through the testimonies of survivors. The article highlights Abu Hamdan's innovative use of sound and memory to document the harrowing conditions faced by detainees.

Read the full article below:

The Guardian, ‘To cough was to risk death’: the artist who mapped Syria’s Sednaya prison with testimonies from its survivors, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, 11 December 2024

image: ‘Sednaya must now be used to serve the thousands of lives which were imprinted by it’ ... people gather outside the prison on 9 December 2024. Photo: Omar Haj Kadour/AFP/Getty Images

21 November 2024 – 5 May 2025

Tate Britain
Millbank
London SW1P 4RG

Wolfgang Tillmans is featured in the group exhibition The 80s: Photographing Britain at Tate Britain, London, which includes a new version of his Buchholz & Buchholz Installation. Originally created in 1993, this installation is a detailed reconstruction of Tillmans's first solo exhibition at the gallery Buchholz & Buchholz, where he first experimented with a non-hierarchical presentation style, displaying photographs, photocopies, and magazine page reproductions spread across the entire exhibition space.

The work offers a vivid portrait of its era, capturing the cultural zeitgeist following the fall of the Berlin Wall. It features images of the artist’s friends, techno DJs, musicians, and ravers in sweat-drenched T-shirts, their pupils dilated from ecstasy – a snapshot of the first Love Parades and early Gay Pride events in Germany and England. These photographs reflect the collective yearning to dismantle entrenched social and political structures, celebrating freedom and connection.

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image: Wolfgang Tillmans, Buchholz + Buchholz Installation 1988 - 1992, 1993 / 2024

15 November 2024 – 6 January 2025

Lenbachhaus
Munich, Germany

Curated by Elisabeth Giers and Matthias Mühling

Currently on display at the Lenbachhaus in Munich, the installation Build from Here (Video Room), (2024) creates a dialogue between video images and music, and illustrates Tillmans's interest in the relationship between sound and movement. The video combines tracks from the album Build From Here (released April, 2024) with footage shot in Fire Island, Tokyo, Berlin, New York and Stuttgart.

The work focuses on ideas of fluidity, connectivity, movement and the permeable nature of human relationships. Material existence and transience are placed in a tense dynamic. The presence of the body in space is juxtaposed with the immensity of the cosmos. Related feelings are expressed in the song lyrics. The film attaches utmost importance to the intricacies of our existence, its material and political realities as well as its immaterial and unfathomable mysteries.

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image: Wolfgang Tillmans, Build from Here (Video Room), 2024 (video still)

14 November 2024, 7.00 pm

Lenbachhaus
Luisenstraße 33, 80333 Munich, Germany

The launch of Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin’s new edition, Edition 46: Wolfgang Tillmans, will take place at Lenbachhaus Munich on 14 November 2024, at 7 pm.

An introduction will be given by Matthias Mühling, Director of Lenbachhaus Munich, and Michael Ebert, Editor-in-Chief of Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin.

This will be followed by a conversation between Wolfgang Tillmans and Mareike Nieberding, Editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin.

A reception with music by DJ Benjamin Röder will follow.

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image: Portrait of Wolfgang Tillmans. Photo: Julia Sellmann

Saturday, 9 November 2024 4 – 5 pm

at Studio M
Rochelle School
7 Playground Gardens
London E2 7FA

This event marks the final day of his exhibition
In the Sharp Gust of Love

Free tickets available here

Seb Patane (b. 1970, Catania, Italy) lives and works in London. Solo exhibitions include Glee, Ridley Road Project Space, London, UK (2021); Vauxhall Ever Green, Hudson Yards, New York, USA (2020); Vorrei Regnare, Palazzo Vigo, Riposto, Italy (2017); As Unreal as Everything Else, Museo Civico, Castelbuono, Palermo, Italy (2015); La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse, France (2011); Maureen Paley, London, UK (2009); So this song kills fascists, Art Now, Tate Britain, London, UK (2008); Maureen Paley, London, UK (2006).

James Cahill (b. London, UK) lives and works in London. He received a degree in Classics and English at Magdalen College, Oxford, a master’s degree in Contemporary Art from the Courtauld Institute, and a PhD in Classics from Cambridge University in 2017. Cahill is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College London. Selected writings include contributions to Apollo, The Burlington Magazine, The London Review of Books, and The Times Literary Supplement. Selected publications include: Flying Too Close to the Sun, Phaidon Press (2018); The Classical Now, Elephant Publishing (2018), with Michael Squire and Ruth Allen; Tiepolo Blue, Sceptre (2022).