2007 Exhibitions Programme Highlights
December 2006
Until 28 January
Daniel Buren: Intervention II, works in situ
Since he emerged onto the European art scene in the mid-1960s, Daniel Buren has created dramatic and thought-provoking interventions in museums and public spaces across the world. Buren revisits Modern Art Oxford’s gallery spaces, where he first exhibited in 1973, with a new and compelling installation. The exhibition is part of Paris Calling, a season of contemporary art from France.
10 January to 25 February
Arrivals>Hungary: Beatá Veszely
Beatá Veszely evokes the relationship between physical activity and transcendental phenomena in a new video, drawings and painting.
13 February to 15 April
Callum Innes: From Memory
Major exhibition of paintings by one of Scotland’s most prominent contemporary artists. Conceived in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition brings together the themes and preoccupations of his practice over the past fifteen years. Organised by The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.
28 February to 15 April
Arrivals>Malta: Raphael Vella
For his exhibition Reading Cabinets, Vella presents a series of intricate and meticulously executed drawings that explore links between religion, fundamentalism and terrorism.
28 April to 1 July
Seth Price / Kelley Walker / Continuous Project
This is the first major presentation in the UK of work by New York based artists Price and Walker and the publishing collective Continuous Project exploring packaging, piracy and the space of reproducibility within present day culture.
17 July to 23 September
Stella Vine: Paintings
Stella Vine's exuberant and controversial portraits depict both her personal idols and the celebrated and notorious, including Princess Diana and Kate Moss. This is Stella Vine's first major exhibition in the UK. The artist lives and works in London.
6 October to 16 December
Trisha Donnelly
Trisha Donnelly combines drawing, sound, film and text to create atmospheric interventions in which threshold states and objects, either seen, thought or imagined, are conjured and come into being. While Donnelly has attracted an avid following among artists and curators of her generation, her work remains little known to a larger public. Organised in association with the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin. Trisha Donnelly lives and works in San Francisco.
Encounters
New series of exhibitions in Modern Art Oxford’s Lower Gallery introducing UK audiences to the work of artists from around the world.
17 July to 23 September
Encounters: Moshekwa Langa - Homeland
In his first solo exhibition in the UK, Moshekwa Langa will be exhibiting colour photographs and a recent film made during visits to where he grew up in Africa. Langa's works have an evocative, spectral quality, which is both sophisticated and moving in its exploration of identity, time and place. His work was recently included in the major group exhibition 'Snap Judgments' curated by Okwui Enwezor for the International Center of Photography, New York in 2006. The artist lives and works in Amsterdam.
6 October to 16 December
Encounters: Imran Qureshi
Qureshi creates exquisitely rendered paintings that range from the miniature format to intricate tracings painted directly onto walls, ceilings and floors. The abuse of power is a central theme in his work as is the influence of eclectic cultural traditions on traditional forms of representation. This is the first solo presentation of the artist’s work in the UK. Qureshi lives and works in Lahore.
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