Exhibitions

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  'I'll Be Your Mirror': a solo exhibition by Abi Ola

  Curated by Penelope Kupfer 25 Feb - 18 Mar 2023 if mama could see she would see lucy sprawling limbs of lucy decorating the backs of chairs lucy hair holding the mirrors up that reflect odd aspects of lucy. Lucille Clifton¹ For its next solo show, Kupfer is turning into a living room. Complete with chairs,... Read more

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  Between Handrails

  Mirela Cabral 21 Jan - 11 Feb 2023 This winter, Kupfer has the absolute pleasure to host Between Handrails, Mirela Cabral’s (b. 1992, Salvador, Brazil) first solo show in the UK, which brings together a large group of new paintings and embroideries. The exhibition is the culmination of a three-month residency period in which the artist produced a... Read more

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  Plumule

  Solo exhibition by Henrique Oliveira 19 Nov - 17 Dec 2022 “An eternal beginning permanently interrupted by my awareness of beginning” Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life Plumule – the sinuous, lulling title of Henrique Oliveira’s first UK solo show – is a botanical term referring to the tiny rudimentary shoot of a plant embryo: its first true leaves. To... Read more

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  Work in Process

  Hackney Central Impact & Ideas Fund
  Residency Exhibition
  
  Damilola Lemomu
  Dominic Myatt
  Abi Ola
  Mengxi Zhang 8 Oct - 5 Nov 2022 Supported by the Hackney Impact & Ideas Fund, Kupfer has welcomed the artists Damilola Lemomu , Dominic Myatt , Abi Ola and Mengxi Zhang over a three-month period which has enabled them to test out new ideas, develop their practice and establish meaningful connections with mentors and visiting artists, as... Read more

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  Who are you wearing?

  Daria Blum, Tommy Camerno, Racheal Crowther, Enver Hadzijaj, Ariel Helyes, Michael Ho, Jack O’Brien, Garrett Pruter, Francisco Zhan 29 - 30 Sep 2022 Regency-era dandies fancied a wasp-waisted broad-shouldered look. Were they anything more than ghosts, when one knows that their cravats were so rigid that even if they vanished – as one commentator jokes –- their shape would remain in place? Isn’t the cravat itself the real dandy and the body just... Read more

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  "...and kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart made of salt and mud"

  Duo show between Lucia Farrow and Elsa Rouy 20 Aug - 3 Sep 2022 Private View: Saturday 20th August, 6-9pm Closing event: Satrday 3rd September, 6-9pm Access the viewing room here. …and kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud (salt and mud, for short- taken from an Anne Carson... Read more

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  Mothering

  Curated by Penelope Kupfer 2 Jul - 6 Aug 2022 Please access the viewing room of the exhibition here and of the public programme here . It is when motherhood becomes a ready-made mantle that mothers are turned into their own ghosts. Yet, when open to its full range of possibilities, mothering is a fertile ground, a plentiful soil from... Read more

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  If I Were You

  Curated by Rafael D'Alo 28 May - 18 Jun 2022 The bridge descends as [though] from the cosmos under the revelry-sound of trains that run from the hillsides to the ocean of the Central Station; I know not why the shadows below are shadows of what I feel Hélio Oiticica, 1969[1] Rio de Janeiro, a city machine running on sweat.... Read more

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  I Suppose in a Dream: Carole Gibbons and Luke Samuel

  23 Apr - 21 May 2022 I Suppose in a Dream is a visual dialogue between artists Carole Gibbons (b.1935, Glasgow) and Luke Samuel (b.1992, Cardiff), who are born nearly sixty years apart, yet united by their mutual choice of painting as a medium and an investigation into pictorial space. You can read the exhibition text... Read more

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  Saxifrage

  Azeri Aghayeva, Camilla Bliss, Max Boyla, Sophie Goodchild and Penelope Kupfer | Curated by Natalya Falconer and Victoria Gyuleva 12 Mar - 2 Apr 2022 Kupfer is pleased to present Saxifrage, a group exhibition featuring UK-based artists Azeri Aghayeva , Camilla Bliss , Max Boyla , Sophie Goodchild and Penelope Kupfer . The show, which brings together painting, print, ceramics and sculpture, is named after a plant of poor soils, which typically grows at the... Read more

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  Whilst out walking

  Ross Downes and Mike Cooter 15 Jan - 12 Feb 2022 Kupfer is proud to present an exhibition by UK-based artists Mike Cooter and Ross Downes that investigates the forms, shapes and surfaces that condition our experience of public space. By scrutinising the utilitarian, Cooter and Downes’ practices reveal both the aesthetic and coercive potential and ideologically utopian underpinnings of the... Read more

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  Headless

  Maya Weishof, curated by Kiki Mazzucchelli 13 Nov - 18 Dec 2021 Kupfer is pleased to present Brazilian painter Maya Weishof’s first UK exhibition in partnership with Galeria Millan in São Paulo. Titled Headless, the show is the result of a two-month residency at Kupfer studios, and it brings together a new series of works that explore the architecture of the gallery... Read more

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  The Centre

  Patrick Cole and Dominic Watson 2 - 23 Oct 2021 Performances: Kiosk by Patrick Cole 2 October at 5pm 16 October at 4pm (No booking necessary. Walk-ins are welcome.) SoftClog® was a revolutionary commercial cushioned flooring system patented in 1972 in the town of Boston in Lincolnshire. It was rolled out nationwide as part of a retail regeneration scheme... Read more

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  Muscle Beach

  Ana Kazaroff and Hannah Bays | Curated by Victoria Gyuleva 4 - 25 Sep 2021 Kupfer is pleased to present the exhibition Muscle Beach, featuring London-based artists Ana Kazaroff and Hannah Bays. The show, which brings together a series of sculptures and furniture by Kazaroff and paintings by Bays, explores how inanimate objects tell stories of human desire. The multiplicity of this feeling runs through... Read more

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  Being Here

  Saelia Aparicio, Evangelia Dimitrakopoulou, Jack Jubb, Davinia-Ann Robinson and Roxman Gatt, Curated by Jeanette Gunnarsson 24 Jul - 14 Aug 2021 Being Here is an exhibition of works by Saelia Aparicio, Evangelia Dimitrakopoulou, Roxman Gatt, Jack Jubb, and Davinia-Ann Robinson, curated by Jeanette Gunnarsson. There is a palpable air of change around us as our living and embodied experiences move towards unknown futures. Right now, we are experiencing a collective corporeal... Read more

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  Let X=X: Alair Gomes and Hudinilson Jr.

  19 Jun - 17 Jul 2021 Kupfer is pleased to announce the exhibition Let X=X, featuring works by Brazilian artists Alair Gomes (1921-1992) and Hudinilson Jr. (1957-2013). Belonging to different generations, both artists produced groundbreaking and experimental works focusing on the male body during the repressive years of military dictatorship in Brazil. Gomes and Hudinilson’s pioneering... Read more

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  Sofía Clausse: Along the Lines

  Curated by Inês Geraldes Cardoso 15 May - 5 Jun 2021 Kupfer is pleased to present Along the lines, the first solo show of Argentina-born artist Sofía Clausse curated by Inês Geraldes Cardoso. The exhibition brings together a series of existing paintings and ceramic works alongside an especially commissioned tapestry and new three-dimensional pieces that take as their starting point Clausse’s... Read more

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  Anderson Borba and Alexandre Canonico

  Curated by Kiki Mazzucchelli 12 Apr - 8 May 2021 Kupfer is pleased to present a duo exhibition featuring London-based artists Anderson Borba and Alexandre Canonico. Bringing together a series of wall reliefs by Canonico and freestanding sculptures by Borba, the show has been conceived as a conversation between two artistic practices that make use of similar raw materials and... Read more

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  Air and water

  Philip Seibel and Leo Arnold - Curated by Ted Targett 28 Nov - 19 Dec 2020 In line with the government guidelines, 'Air and water' is viewable from behind the glass front of Kupfer. If you’re out walking, or on a cycle, we gladly invite you to come see the exhibition of new works by Philip Seibel and Leo Arnold. Life is unimaginable without them –... Read more

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  Onlooking

  Elinor Stanley, Gal Schindler, Penelope Kupfer - Curated by Ted Targett 24 Oct - 14 Nov 2020 Research reveals that the average gallery-goer spends eight seconds looking at an artwork. Even that might seem on the generous side, as we’re all guilty of, at times, barely glancing up while nonetheless impulsively peering at our phones to check the real McCoy of gazing: our Instagram feeds. Unadulterated looking.... Read more

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  The Gaze is a Singular Act

  Abi Ola and Anika Roach 30 Aug - 19 Sep 2020 Abi Ola (b. 1996 lives and works in London) Abi Ola works with painting, collage, screen printing and performance. She takes inspiration from old family clothes, nature, and tribal art to design her own patterns for her paintings. Abi has won the Bloomsbury Festival Prize, and will have a solo... Read more

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  Like A Sieve

  Madeleine Pledge, Nathaniel Faulkner, Alexei Alexander Izmaylov, James Jessiman, Evie Ward, Jude Crilly | Curated by Ted Targett 25 Jul - 15 Aug 2020 We are, these days, extremely proficient in expressing our preferences. Do you like it? Social media is fixated on keeping count of our approvals, and, such is the ubiquity of the thumbs-up, it is hard to not seek the same level of endorsement in non-digital life. But 'Do I like... Read more

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  Evil Genus

  Joey Bryniarska 15 Mar - 4 Apr 2020 There is a plant in the Kalanchoe genus that reproduces in a very specific way: along the length of each leaf generates miniature versions of itself, plantlets capable of independently photosynthesising complete with little dangling roots, which will detach from their mother when disturbed. Common names for the Kalanchoe Daigremontianum... Read more

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  I take of places

  Yorgos Petrou 9 - 29 Feb 2020 over there my body is foreign it’s in the land flowers, soil, seeds, and clay made of it it’s in construction in the destruction the derelict the abandoned abundance my body is there in the primal stuff the raw queer in soil in the photos potatoes I take of places... Read more

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  Question Centre presents Clementine Keith-Roach | Steve Jobs

  Curated by Maria do Carmo M.P. de Pontes 17 - 30 Nov 2019 The Manual On its sixth edition, Question Centre is thrilled to present a new work by Clementine Keith-Roach alongside a Macintosh 512K, the second generation of Macintoshes to ever be produced. There’s an intrinsically perverse timeline on show. The newest object alludes in fact to a pre-historical form1 whereas the... Read more

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  These are the days my friends

  Lydia Brockless - Andrew Gillespie - Clementine Keith-Roach - Jack Lavender - Hannah Lees - Kristofer Lock - Flora Parrott - Phil Root - Oliver Sutherland - Billie M. Vigne | Curated by Hannah Lees 18 Oct - 9 Nov 2019 ‘will it get some wind for the sailboat and it could get for it is it could get the railroad for these workers and it could be where it is it could franky, it could be franky it could be very fresh and clean it could be a balloon all... Read more

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  Islands

  Josephine Baker 22 Sep - 14 Oct 2019 In Josephine Baker’s installation at Kupfer, a series of interconnected islands, cut off from their mainland supply chains, are quickly running out of resources. In their attempt to create a new microclimate through sympoiesis, its occupants have stopped killing each other, and other forms of dependency have begun to emerge.... Read more

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  ITEOTW, Apparently

  Kobby Adi and Mimi Hope 15 Jul - 4 Aug 2019 It’s the end of the world, apparently. Let me just finish this wing. I’m burnt to a crisp and starved of water, greased up and sweating from the amber heat. What happens when the end of the world hits as you’re mid-mouthful in fried chicken? Wings float in to the... Read more

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  Venezuelan Pavillion

  Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe and Luis Romero 26 May - 8 Jun 2019 This year, the Venezuelan pavilion failed to open its doors to the public during the preview days of Venice Biennale amongst the political turmoil that has taken over the country since the beginning of 2019. Unintentionally, the closed pavilion became a powerful metaphor for the devastating effect of twenty years... Read more

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  Tiago Mestre

  Smoke gets in your eyes 24 Mar - 1 Apr 2019 Tiago Mestre’s solo exhibition Smoke Gets In Your Eyes presents a group of ceramic sculptures that seem to occupy a fluid position between binary ideas of nature versus artifice and fleetingness versus permanence. Smoke as a diaphanous and mysterious substance, water as an ever-flowing element, and the mashrabiya – a... Read more

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  #Plastic

  Wing or Thigh? Work in progress + screening with performative snacks 28 Nov 2018 In a one night only performance Penelope Kupfer and Michel Scherer used the studio at Kupfer Project as an informal space to show work in progress. Paintings, sculpture and installation accompanied by the screening of Louis de Funes: L’Aile ou la cuisse (1976) and performative snacks. You can find a... Read more

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  Ana Prata and Hamish Pearch

  6 - 27 Oct 2018 Kupfer is pleased to present an exhibition bringing together works by Ana Prata and Hamish Pearch. Over the past decade, Prata has created a varied pictorial vocabulary that playfully encompasses the tropes of abstraction and figuration. Without settling into a single style, her works form a kind of personal inventory... Read more

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  Thiago Barbalho

  7 - 28 Jul 2018 Download “The Man Without Limits” (pdf in our Press Release link), a short story translated from Portuguese into English by Kiki Mazzuchelli on the occasion of Thiago Barbalho’s exhibition at Kupfer. Originally published as part of the book Um Homem Bom (Editora Iluminuras, São Paulo, 2017). Kupfer is pleased to... Read more

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  Why did I hate Fernanda Laguna so much?

  Fernanda Laguna with Básica TV and Debora Delmar | Curated by Santiago Villanueva 24 - 30 Jun 2018 When I was 19, I wrote a piece against Fernanda Laguna. I wasn't aware of Marcel Proust's teenage masterpiece, Against Sainte Beuve, but my intentions then were similar. It is, basically, a long lecture, four pages long, in which I rejected in detail every single project Fernanda had been involved... Read more

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  Amaranthine

  Curated by Dan Coopey 13 May - 2 Jun 2018 The phrase 'lost to history' never quite rings true: it imagines the past as a black hole into which time, with the world on its back, is being sucked. Rather, the opposite seems true, that the present is the great devourer of history, nothing ever disappearing but digested as memories... Read more

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  Sérgio Sister

  24 Nov - 17 Dec 2017 Sergio Sister was born in 1948 in São Paulo, where he lives and works. His work hovers between painting and sculpture. His series of paintings are often formed by three-dimensional structures derived from everyday objects such as fruit crates, slats, and posts, appropriating their names as the work titles. Sergio... Read more