With the art world about to gather in London for Frieze Week, we look ahead to some of the other exhibitions and special events taking place across the Capital next week.
Frieze Week at Bonhams
Two major sales take place at Bonhams New Bond Street on 13 October. Highlights of the Post War & Contemporary sale include important 20th century works by Alighiero Boetti and Lucio Fontana, plus contemporary paintings by artists including Caroline Walker and Salman Toor. The Modern & Contemporary African Art sale features a strong selection of works by contemporary female artists, including Lisa Brice and Jane Alexander, and collectors can also visit Hemyeong: Constellations Links, the first London exhibition for Korean artist, Hemyeong.
Women in Art Fair
A brand new fair at Mall Galleries which, organisers say, sets out to readdress the gender imbalance in the art industry. The Women in Art Fair will celebrate women’s contribution to art and will present work by both leading and emerging women artists including Paula Rego, Jean Cooke, Marcelle Hanselaar and Alice Kettle.
Living Memory
Work by Louise Bourgeois and Gideon Rubin is brought together with a sound intervention by Nicolas Godin in this exhibition at All Saint’s Chapel in Fitzrovia.
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA: Free the Wind, The Spirit and The Sun
Stephen Friedman Gallery presents a new exhibition by British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE RA – and the first to take place at its new London location on Cork Street, Mayfair. The exhibition includes a group presentation of African artists, and artists from the African diaspora, curated by Shonibare, some who participated in Shonibare’s residency programme at Guest Artists Space Foundation in Lagos, Nigeria.
Marina Abramović at the RA
The first major solo survey in the UK of the work of internationally acclaimed Serbian performance artist and Honorary Royal Academician, Marina Abramović. Arranged in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition provides an overview of her extraordinary practice with photographs, videos, objects and installations. It features four of Abramović’s iconic performance pieces, which are reperformed by performance artists live in the galleries. Three of these performances are being reperformed in the UK for the first time.
Frans Hals at the National Gallery
The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Frans Hals at the National Gallery is the first large-scale monographic exhibition devoted to the 17th-century Dutch portrait painter for a generation. Organised with the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and the Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the exhibition contains fifty of the artist’s greatest works from museums and private collections around the world – including The Laughing Cavalier.
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Image: ALIGHIERO BOETTI (1940-1994), Tutto, 1988-1989. Estimate: £700,000 – 1,000,000 Image courtesy of Bonhams.