Past
-
How I Became the Holy Algorithm's Prophet After Doomscrolling Through the Collapse of Society
Solo exhibition by Fish the Painting 10 - 29 Mar 2025 Opening: 8 March, 4 pm - late Unit 3, Iron Works, 58 Dace Road, E3 2NX DJ lineup : 19:00: olavodarksouls 21:00: GUAVA 23:00: Goia Amo We’re thrilled to announce the opening of our new space! Join us on Saturday, March 8th, for an evening of celebration as we inaugurate... Read more -
Groundwork - Acme Awards 24
15 - 30 Nov 2024 Groundwork showcases the outcome of a year-long residency as part of Acme’s Early Career Programme. It presents work by artists Sam Meredith (Adrian Carruthers Award), Anouk Verviers (Goldsmiths MFA Award), Joseph Ijoyemi and Anna Malicka (Helen Scott Lidgett Awards).
Read more -
Other Encounters
11 - 30 Nov 2024 Encompassing painting, moving image and sculpture, these artists present (dis)connected investigations on what connection brings to our lives — the ways we grow, share or create as a result of connections with others, and the ways we differently construct ourselves with, and through, the presence of others. Sculpture and installation... Read more -
Romancing The Ruin
Lucia Farrow 9 - 27 Oct 2024 Romancing the Ruin is an impressive endeavour of firsts; building upon notions of girlhood, innocence, and disgust, established in Farrow’s wider body of work, this exhibition constitutes both a solo London debut, and the largest-scale ceramic pieces the artist has ever created, collaborating with an external manufacturer in Stoke-on-Trent after... Read more
-
Aiming at the Apocalypse
Shireen McCormack & S.J. Conran - McCormack 1 - 2 Jun 2024 We're very excited to host the screening of 'Aiming at the Apocalypse' by Shireen McCormack & S.J. Conran - McCormack on 1 June 6 - 9 pm. 'Aiming at the Apocalypse' explores religious futurism in a triptych of three parts; before, during and after leaving religion, through the phobic mirage... Read more -
Butter Pyramid
Performance night 29 May 2024 Dani Marcel and Bodya Konakov present: ‘Butter Pyramid’, a one-night event centred around different modalities of performance The title comes from a joke: in Slavic languages Maslo means butter, offering a potentially new interpretation of the well-known Maslow pyramid of need-hierarchies as a pile of butter. This metaphor of parallel,... Read more -
Don’t Kiss by the Garden Gate, Love is Blind but the Neighbours Ain’t
Dominic Myatt 19 Apr - 3 May 2024 Public gardens should remain open at night, unlit. (In a few cases, a steady dim illumination might be justified on psycho-geographical grounds.) ¹ - Lettrist International, ‘Proposals for Rationally Improving the City of Paris’, 1955 Amidst trees, gates and sun-faded fences, Dominic Myatt invites us into a surrealist garden-like landscape.... Read more -
400 old
Dani Marcel 11 Apr 2024 Dani Marcel invites you to celebrate the 400th exhibition he'll have ever visited in his life, by joining him at Sprüth Magers on the 11th of April. After the performance, we're hosting a party. Open to all, everybody welcome! DJ sets by Bodya Konakov and David Varhegyi Read more
-
Beautiful Bride in the City
Leo Costelloe 14 - 17 Feb 2024 Kupfer and Leo Costelloe are delighted to present Beautiful Bride in the City (2023), Costelloe's debut moving image work, starring Chris Owen as 'The Bride”. This is the second iteration of the installation, screened as part of LGBTQIA+ History Month, kindly supported by Hackney Council. Beautiful Bride in the City... Read more -
Nectere
MARIA, Hannah Morgan, Ding Ruyi, Sabīne Šnē 26 Jan - 10 Feb 2024 Nectere , a Latin verb meaning ‘to attach, bind, connect’, is a group show exploring points of intersection present in the artists' practices. The works consider relationships and states of being within interconnected organic and non-organic systems. This presentation is the culmination of a year-long residency at Acme’s Warton House... Read more -
Turmoil
Douglas de Souza | Curated by Penelope Kupfer 12 Jan - 3 Feb 2024 ‘Turmoil’ is the first UK solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Douglas de Souza. The show is the culmination of de Souza’s residency, which Kupfer hosted for the past three months. The artist creates oil paintings by bringing a legion of references, ranging from the tradition of Western painting to pop... Read more -
Waiting room
Aimée Lyon, Leo Costelloe and Dominic Myatt 24 Nov - 9 Dec 2023 “One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door”. - Beryl Markham, West with the Night I observe the city as a speck on the lens, slowly coming into focus. Changing the... Read more
-
Niya B > 912
15 - 19 Nov 2023 ‘912’ is a VR 360 video that delves into the lives of trans and non-binary individuals as they navigate the daily challenge of waiting and carrying on. The title reflects the number of days Niya had to wait for her first appointment at the Gender Identity Clinic. The wait times... Read more -
Nose-Thumbing
Julie Béna, Hans Bryssinck & Christoph Hefti, Jacob Bullen, Cole Denyer, Beth Frey, Brian Griffiths, Amanda Kyritsopoulou, and Milly Peck 19 Oct - 10 Nov 2023 Curated by Antoine Schafroth Nose-Thumbing brings together works by nine artists – Julie Béna, Hans Bryssinck & Christoph Hefti, Jacob Bullen, Cole Denyer, Beth Frey, Brian Griffiths, Amanda Kyritsopoulou and Milly Peck – whose diverse practices explore the human condition through a lens of humour and theatricality. Drawing inspiration from... Read more -
Even the Odds
Rafael D'Aló 14 Oct - 10 Nov 2023 All that was yours and mine of the city and its clarity, wrapped itself up in love, secretly, and let itself fall into forgetfulness Pablo Neruda¹ Even the Odds is a solo exhibition by Brazilian-born London-based artist Rafael D'Aló. The show brings together recent works spanning the different facets of... Read more -
Shallow Haunts
Tom Bull and Lewis Davidson 8 - 30 Sep 2023 Shallow Haunts is a coming together of Tom Bull and Lewis Davidson, both of whose works deploy elements of the unbelievable and fictitious. The exhibition is a dialogue between the artists, who have been in conversation since the beginning of the year, thoughtfully planning how their works communicate with each... Read more
-
Nothing Exists Anymore
Luis Romero's first UK solo exhibition 12 Aug - 15 Sep 2023 Nothing Exists Anymore by Luis Romero is a solo exhibition questioning if an image can exist beyond the thing it’s representing. Interrogation and observation of the tension between the objective and subjective has preoccupied humankind for centuries; and perhaps the matter of objects’ relations to their representative images has commanded... Read more -
Allow Cookies
Curated by Laurie Barron, Isabel Davies and Isabel Walter 14 - 29 Jul 2023 Opening: Thursday 13 July, 6–9pm Artists: Woodsy Bransfield Ana Viktoria Dzinic Anya Gorkova Sofia Hallström Waj Hussain firpal Hongxi Li Lowena Dani Marcel Geo Stuart Louis Blue Newby & Laila Majid Allow Cookies is a group exhibition exploring the tension between manipulation and desire. Proudly inaugurating Kupfer’s new exhibition space... Read more -
Beautiful Bride in the City
Screening and Artist Talk 4 Jul 2023 Preview and screening: 11 am - 7 pm Artist talk: 7 pm - 9 pm Kupfer and Leo Costelloe are delighted to present Beautiful Bride in the City, Costelloe’s debut moving image work, starring Chris Owen as “The Bride”. Beautiful Bride in the City follows the titular subject’s slow progress... Read more -
still there are seeds to be gathered and room in the bag of stars
Goia Mujalli, Laima Leyton, Maria Konder, Penelope Kupfer and Stephan Doitschinoff | Curated by Penelope Kupfer 20 May - 10 Jun 2023 calling from the land of seeds I collect stars dreams and alter-egos I eat symbols both practical and magic I stare at leaves until they speak I am the soil, a constant sedimentation of notes and quotes roots nourished by incantation and accumulation a bag of infinite space made of... Read more
-
Dani Marcel and Fish the Painting
10 - 17 May 2023 This untitled duo-show brings together two artists whose work is similar in their themes, humor and experimental means of achieving it. Working extensively on and through the dynamics of the gallery system, abandoning it in multifold ways, their practices question the finality of artworks and how presentation and representation is... Read more -
The Improbable Truth
Anaïs Comer, Celeste McEvoy, Maddy Plimmer | Curated by Sophie Agocs 15 Apr - 5 May 2023 It is impossible to move through the streets of London without being made aware of the violent history that cohabitates with us. It can be difficult to ignore, especially when the city’s association with crime history is a central selling point for curious tourists. Stories of famous killers, criminals, and... Read more -
Interlude
Hannah Archambault, Jack Evans, Simon Job, Lucy Neish, Max Petts and Fa Razavi | Curated by Kollektiv Collective 31 Mar - 7 Apr 2023 Interlude is an exploration of the playful un/finished, in/complete and in/between. Landing at the edge of formal integrity and normative completeness, the exhibition ponders the possibilities and implications of escaping from the fatality of an endpoint. What are the markers rendering an artwork, an exhibition, or any other form of... Read more -
'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, curtains, lampshade, mirror, flower... Read more
-
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... Read more -
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 our... Read more -
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 -
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
-
"...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 poem... Read more -
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 -
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 -
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
-
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 -
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 -
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... Read more -
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 that... Read more
-
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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more
-
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
-
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
-
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
-
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 -
#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 -
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 -
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
-
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... Read more -
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 -
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
