Out and about: Exhibitions not to miss in 2022
As the year draws to an end, it’s time to get excited for some of the many fantastic exhibitions that will be on show in 2022. Here’s a few top exhibitions we’ll be visiting next year.
Willard Boepple, Green Ganesh
The Language of Abstraction
15th January - 27th February 2022
Fen Ditton Gallery, Cambridge
A major new print show, celebrating some of the most significant artistic collaborations of Cambridge master printmaker Kip Gresham. ‘The Language of Abstraction’ brings together works by important modern and contemporary painters and sculptors, selected in conversation with Gresham, as a way of highlighting the rich conceptual and visual language of abstract art – a language of colour, form and light - and the potential of the print medium (above all the medium of screenprint) to deepen understanding of this language.
Open Fridays - Sundays, 10am - 5pm
Wednesdays by appointment only
Find out more at fendittongallery.com
Ai Weiwei, Han Dynasty Urn With Coca-Cola Logo, 2014.
Ai Weiwei: The Liberty of the Doubt
12th February - 19th June 2022
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
A new solo exhibition by internationally renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (b. 1957, Beijing) will open in February 2022 at Kettle’s Yard. The exhibition will explore notions of truth, authenticity and value, as well as globalisation, the coronavirus pandemic and the current geopolitical crisis. Ai Weiwei will reflect upon the liberty in the West, in contrast to China and other authoritarian regimes, to question truth and authority, express doubt and seek transparency in political matters. However, in relation to art appreciation, the Chinese have a long tradition of a more fluid and less fixed view in relation to authenticity than is the case in the West, often valuing the act of copying.
Free entry, booking recommended
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Watercolour, 'The Mice at Work: Threading the Needle', The Tailor of Gloucester artwork, by Beatrix Potter, 1902. © Tate
Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature
Opens 12th February 2022
The Porter Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Celebrating the life and work of one of the best loved children's authors of the 20th century.
This family friendly exhibition will take visitors on a journey to discover Potter’s life as a scientist and conservationist, exploring the places and animals that inspired her most beloved characters. In collaboration with the National Trust.
Tickets £14, booking recommended
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Leonora Carrington, Self Portrait
Surrealism Beyond Borders
24th February - 29th August 2022
Tate Modern, London
“This landmark exhibition will rewrite the history of the revolutionary art movement”
Surrealism is not a style – but a state of mind. It aims to subvert reality. To find the uncanny in the everyday. To tap into our unconscious desires and bring dreams to life. And for many artists around the world, it has been a way to challenge authority and imagine a new world.
Previous stories of surrealism have focused on Paris in the 1920s. Based on extensive research, this exhibition will reach across the world and over 50 years. It will show how artists around the world have been inspired and united by surrealism – from centres as diverse as Buenos Aires, Cairo, Lisbon, Mexico City, Prague, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Booking details to be announced
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