DISPATCHES
LONDON ART DISPATCH MID -JULY 2025
This summer, London’s galleries present three unmissable exhibitions. Alien Shores at White Cube reimagines landscape through surreal, speculative visions. As the earth trembles at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery showcases abstraction as a vessel of resilience. At Beaconsfield, Manifesto for Sustainable Experimentation celebrates 30 years of radical art-making. Together, these shows reveal a city alive with creative inquiry.
LONDON ART DISPATCH JULY 2025
This July, London’s galleries celebrate artists who transform material and memory into new visions. Anselm Kiefer’s layered landscapes revisit Van Gogh through myth and poetry. Michaela Yearwood-Dan creates vibrant spaces of queer joy and reflection. Megan Rooney’s abstractions reveal colour as both seduction and resistance, while Josef Albers’ complete print portfolios illuminate decades of radical experimentation. Discover four exhibitions where tradition, process, and transformation converge.
Expanded Notions of Landscape as Witness
Artists are redefining landscape as an active witness to human impact and ecological transformation. From the Wellcome Collection’s Thirst to Yiwen Li’s immersive works reveal that the environment is not a passive backdrop but a sentient archive. They ask us to consider whether we can learn to listen to places that remember everything.
Steel and Soil: Toward an Ecological Aesthetic
Artists like Sterling Ruby and Rick Owens are transforming industrial remnants into powerful symbols of renewal. Their recent exhibitions reveal how decay, corrosion, and entropy can become creative forces, inviting us to see material waste as fertile ground for new narratives. This rewilding of the post-industrial landscape offers a hopeful vision of transformation amid ecological crisis.
Rewriting the Rules: Art Without a Single Author
A new wave of artists, curators, and collectives is dismantling old hierarchies to embrace shared authorship and decentralised curation. From AWITA’s collaborative experiments to Cork Street’s united exhibition, these initiatives reveal how cultural ecosystems can thrive through mutualism and transparency. Discover why hybrid authorship is reshaping the creative landscape into something more inclusive and dynamic.
LONDON ART DISPATCH JUNE 2025
This June, London’s galleries present four remarkable exhibitions that reimagine how art interacts with history, environment, and perception itself. Tadashi Kawamata transforms Annely Juda Fine Art into a sculptural farewell built from reclaimed fragments. Richard Hunt’s retrospective at White Cube traces over six decades of form and transformation, celebrating one of America’s most influential sculptors. Hauser & Wirth’s Figure + Ground brings together pioneering video works that question what we see and what we overlook. Finally, Philippe Parreno’s El Almendral at Pilar Corrias merges a live landscape stream with cinematic narrative, inviting viewers into a space where reality and fiction are inseparable.