Victoria Miro

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Victoria Miro represents some 40 international artists and artist estates, with galleries in London and Venice. Victoria Miro first opened her gallery in Cork Street, Mayfair in 1985. The gallery quickly earned acclaim for showing the work of established and emerging artists from around the world. In 2000 Victoria Miro relocated to a sensitively converted, 8,000-square-foot former furniture factor

y situated between Hoxton and Islington in northeast London. In October 2006 the gallery expanded further by opening a second exhibition and viewing space in an adjoining building on Wharf Road. The new space, conceived by Claudio Silvestrin Architects and executed by the project architects Michael Drain Architects, comprises galleries and viewing rooms. It sits atop a refurbished Victorian building, its sculptural, minimalist form creating a dramatic approach to the building from the street. Illuminating the south façade through its six-metre-high windows is Ian Hamilton Finlay's elegiac neon installation, The Seas Leaves the Strawberries Waves (1990). The gallery is almost unique in London for having its own garden, a beautiful landscaped area overlooking a restored stretch of the Regent's Canal at Wenlock Basin which has been used to great effect for installations by gallery artists such as Yayoi Kusama and Alex Hartley. Victoria Miro Venice opened in May 2017 with an inaugural exhibition, Poolside Magic, by Chris Ofili. The intimate gallery space is housed in a seventeenth-century building, in the former Galleria Il Capricorno. This quintessentially Venetian canalside location is in the heart of the San Marco district. Victoria Miro Venice features a year-round programme of exhibitions and provides further opportunities for artists to stage exhibitions and special projects in an intimate environment in the heart of Venice, a city so beloved by artists. The gallery ethos remains consistent: to promote great and innovative artists and to nurture the best talent from the new generation of artists around the world.

05/04/2025

'I don't work from sketches. Because I'm not actually making a reality that looks like our reality...' In the studio with Inka Essenhigh, whose solo exhibition The Greenhouse is now on view at Victoria Miro. Watch the full film: https://www.victoria-miro.com/video/99/

miart is now open in Milan — responding to the theme of this year's fair, 'Among friends', pairings, companion pieces an...
04/04/2025

miart is now open in Milan — responding to the theme of this year's fair, 'Among friends', pairings, companion pieces and diptychs create conversations within and between the works on view in our presentation (Booth B70): https://www.victoria-miro.com/art-fairs/110/

Congratulations to Sarah Sze on being elected as an Honorary Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts. Sze uses a ...
04/04/2025

Congratulations to Sarah Sze on being elected as an Honorary Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts. Sze uses a complex palette of materials, both analogue and digital, to question how we mark time and space. Her work ranges from immersive installations that scale architectures to paintings, sculptures, videos, drawings, and prints that explore a constantly evolving visual world: https://roy.ac/3asyxn7v

Ali Banidsar: The Alchemist is now on view at the Katonah Museum of Art, New York. This Saturday, the artist will be in ...
03/04/2025

Ali Banidsar: The Alchemist is now on view at the Katonah Museum of Art, New York. This Saturday, the artist will be in conversation with Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Sarah Graff to discuss how images and texts from Ancient Mesopotamia inspire his exploration of 21st-century themes — Saturday 5 April, 5–6:30pm, book now: https://www.simpletix.com/e/artists-in-conversation-ali-banisadr-and-s-tickets-206503

Now previewing: celebrating close connections to Italy, our presentation at miart, Milan (Booth B70) highlights artists ...
03/04/2025

Now previewing: celebrating close connections to Italy, our presentation at miart, Milan (Booth B70) highlights artists who have spent extended time in the gallery's Venice studio, including Do Ho Suh, Alex Hartley, Chantal Joffe, Celia Paul, Flora Yukhnovich, Saskia Colwell and Richard Ayodeji Ikhide. Preview today; public days 4–6 April: https://www.victoria-miro.com/art-fairs/110/

Listen to Celia Paul on The Art Newspaper's podcast, A brush with...: 'I was thinking about what the paintings would loo...
02/04/2025

Listen to Celia Paul on The Art Newspaper's podcast, A brush with...: 'I was thinking about what the paintings would look like when there was nobody in the gallery to see them. I think there is a feeling of life. I have managed to do that.' Hear the full episode: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/02/a-brush-with-Celia%20Paul

In her new exhibition Any Time, Any Place, Any Where, issues central to Barbara Walker's practice of belonging, power, v...
01/04/2025

In her new exhibition Any Time, Any Place, Any Where, issues central to Barbara Walker's practice of belonging, power, visibility, and representation are turned inwards as the artist spent extended time in Venice during a residency with the gallery. Now on view at Victoria Miro Venice: https://online.victoria-miro.com/barbara-walker-venice-2025/

Join an artist talk with Ali Banisadr tomorrow evening at the New York Academy of Art. From 6:30pm: https://nyaa.edu/ali...
31/03/2025

Join an artist talk with Ali Banisadr tomorrow evening at the New York Academy of Art. From 6:30pm: https://nyaa.edu/ali-banisadr-artist-talk-2025/

Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist is on view at the the Katonah Museum of Art until 29 June 2025.

Announcing our first participation in miart, Milan — celebrating close connections to Italy, our presentation highlights...
31/03/2025

Announcing our first participation in miart, Milan — celebrating close connections to Italy, our presentation highlights artists who have spent extended time in the gallery's Venice studio, including Chantal Joffe, Saskia Colwell, Alex Hartley, Richard Ayodeji Ikhide, Celia Paul, Do Ho Suh, and Flora Yukhnovich. 3–6 April, Booth B70: https://www.victoria-miro.com/art-fairs/110/

It's the final day of this year's edition of Art Basel Hong Kong — visit us at Booth 1C27 for a presentation of new and ...
30/03/2025

It's the final day of this year's edition of Art Basel Hong Kong — visit us at Booth 1C27 for a presentation of new and historical works by Jules de Balincourt, Ali Banisadr, Hernan Bas, María Berrío, Inka Essenhigh, Eric Fischl, NS Harsha, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Chantal Joffe, Yayoi Kusama, Doron Langberg, Celia Paul, Paula Rego, Conrad Shawcross, Do Ho Suh and Sarah Sze: https://www.victoria-miro.com/art-fairs/109/
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29/03/2025

'I don't know what these paintings "mean" exactly, and I don't want to: the little celebratory ripple they make in my consciousness is enough. That alteration is their meaning: I experience a brief liberation from the domination of the habitual.'

See Inka Essenhigh: The Greenhouse, now on view at Victoria Miro. The exhibition is accompanied by a special publication with a new essay by George Saunders: https://online.victoria-miro.com/inka-essenhigh-london-2025/

Paula Rego's Jenufa II, 1983, is one of the 'Eight Exceptional Works at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025' selected by Ocula Advi...
28/03/2025

Paula Rego's Jenufa II, 1983, is one of the 'Eight Exceptional Works at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025' selected by Ocula Advisor Rory Mitchell. 'Her works are magical... I love her earlier work from the 1980s. The style is looser and more colourful, with works such as Jenufa II (1983) playfully riffing off nursery rhymes, children's stories, and operas': https://ocula.com/advisory/perspectives/eight-exceptional-works-art-basel-hong-kong-2025/

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Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm

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Book now for the next performances as part of Doug Aitken: Lightscape at the Marciano Art Foundation Los Angeles. Taking place within Aitken's multiscreen film installation, forthcoming activations include music and dance performances by the LA Dance Project, Julianna Barwick & Julia Holter, Beck with La Lom, and Konkrete and friends: https://marcianoartfoundation.org/event/doug-aitken-workshop-kcrws-live-activation-beck-and-la-lom/

'I don't work from sketches. Because I'm not actually making a reality that looks like our reality...' In the studio with Inka Essenhigh, whose solo exhibition The Greenhouse is now on view at Victoria Miro. Watch the full film: https://www.victoria-miro.com/video/99/

It's the final day to see An Te Liu and Jemima Murphy: Tracing, an exhibition presented by Victoria Miro Projects and Anat Ebgi. On view on Vortic Art and at Anat Ebgi Gallery's Fountain Ave space in Los Angeles: https://programme.vortic.art/exhibitions/an-te-liu-and-jemima-murphy-tracing/

'I don't know what these paintings "mean" exactly, and I don't want to: the little celebratory ripple they make in my consciousness is enough. That alteration is their meaning: I experience a brief liberation from the domination of the habitual.' See Inka Essenhigh: The Greenhouse, now on view at Victoria Miro. The exhibition is accompanied by a special publication with a new essay by George Saunders: https://online.victoria-miro.com/inka-essenhigh-london-2025/

See Celia Paul at work in her Bloomsbury studio in a new short film by Gautier Deblonde, made on the occasion of Celia Paul: Colony of Ghosts, the artist's current exhibition at Victoria Miro — watch the full film: https://www.victoria-miro.com/video/

Now available — produced for the exhibition Inka Essenhigh: The Greenhouse at Victoria Miro, this special portfolio features nine loose-leaf UV gloss image plates of the exhibited paintings and an essay by George Saunders, which features in The Paris Review. Special exhibition price: £35 — order now: https://www.victoria-miro.com/store/publications/358/

New publication now available — Celia Paul: Works 1975–2025. Published by MACK, this expansive and long-overdue monograph includes new writings on the artist by Hilton Als, Clare Carlisle, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Edmund de Waal, and Rowan Williams, as well as a new text by Paul herself: https://www.victoria-miro.com/store/publications/357/

'I like the magic of being able to walk into a whole atmosphere with a painting.' Now on view at Victoria Miro, Inka Essenhigh: The Greenhouse presents new paintings featuring botanical, landscape, and figurative motifs. See more and plan your visit: https://online.victoria-miro.com/inka-essenhigh-london-2025/

'We're all connected in some weird way with signs and symbols': from her Los Angeles studio, Tidawhitney Lek talks more about the work in her exhibition Marooned on Foreign Feelings, presented by Victoria Miro Projects and on view on Vortic Art. Explore now: https://programme.vortic.art/exhibitions/tidawhitney-lek-marooned-on-foreign-feelings/

It's the final day to see Saskia Colwell: Skin on Skin at Victoria Miro Venice and on Vortic Art. ⁣Exploring themes of voyeurism, intimacy, and representation, the exhibition features new charcoal-on-vellum works begun by the artist during a recent residency with the gallery in Venice: https://programme.vortic.art/exhibitions/saskia-colwell-skin-on-skin/

In the studio with Celia Paul, reading from her new monograph: 'The paint lives in the present tense, always.' The exhibition Celia Paul: Colony of Ghosts, now open at Victoria Miro, coincides with the launch of Celia Paul: Works 1975–2025, published by MACK: https://online.victoria-miro.com/celia-paul-london-2025/

Last chance to see Chiaroscuro: A Century of Charcoal, a group exhibition in a specially designed gallery on Vortic Art, with selected works at Victoria Miro, London and Venice. Titled for the medium's characteristic interplay between light and dark, known as chiaroscuro, the exhibition features drawings spanning 100 years: https://programme.vortic.art/exhibitions/chiaroscuro-a-century-of-charcoal/

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Victoria Miro represents some 40 international artists and artist estates. The gallery occupies 20,000 square feet across its locations in Mayfair and Wharf Road, London, and Venice.

Victoria Miro first opened her gallery in Cork Street, Mayfair in 1985. The gallery quickly earned acclaim for showing the work of established and emerging artists from around the world. In 2000 Victoria Miro relocated to a sensitively converted, 8,000-square-foot former furniture factory situated between Hoxton and Islington in north east London. In October 2006 the gallery expanded further by opening a second exhibition and viewing space in an adjoining building on Wharf Road The gallery is almost unique in London for having its own garden, a beautiful landscaped area overlooking a restored stretch of the Regent's Canal at Wenlock Basin which has been used to great effect for installations by gallery artists such as Yayoi Kusama and Alex Hartley. In October 2013, Victoria Miro returned to Mayfair. The gallery occupies the ground floor of a prominent corner site intersected by St George and Maddox Streets, directly behind Sotheby's in Bond Street. Victoria Miro Venice opened in May 2017. Victoria Miro’s new gallery opened to the public on 10 May 2017 with an inaugural exhibition, Poolside Magic, by Chris Ofili. The intimate gallery space is housed in a seventeenth-century building, in the former Galleria Il Capricorno. This quintessentially Venetian canalside location is in the heart of the San Marco district. Victoria Miro Venice features a year-round programme of exhibitions and provides opportunities for artists to stage exhibitions and special projects in an intimate environment in the heart of Venice, a city so beloved by artists. The gallery ethos remains consistent: to promote great and innovative artists and to nurture the best talent from the new generation of artists around the world.