GROUP EXHIBITION CURATED BY BEACONSFIELD IN COLLABORATION WITH THE FEMINIST LIBRARY
11 June – 10 September 2022
Paintings by artist-activist Monica Sjöö (1938-2005) animated by performances, reading groups, films and symposia led by contemporary artists and writers including Katy Deepwell, Minna Haukka, Harriet Hill, Sam Hodge, Islaja, Christine Luke, Linda Persson, Rachel Fallons, Raju Rage, Anne Robinson, Tears|Ov.
SINK _VESSEL
16 February – 7 May 2022
Two audio tracks sit side by side simultaneously playing – physically in Beaconsfield’s Arch space and Upper space, providing simple spaces of aural contemplation. SINK composed and recorded in Iran by Shahin Entezami aka TEGH. VESSEL composed and recorded in England by A.David Crawforth & Naomi Siderfin aka BAW.
BEACONSFIELD COMMISSIONS: OPEN CALL BELOW ZERO FINNISH ART PRIZE 2023
The unique UK based contemporary art prize for Finnish artists emerging on the international scene, returns to Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall in association with the Finnish Institute in London.
Beaconsfield Commissions: Below Zero Finnish Art Prize 2023
Please click here for the BELOW ZERO Application Portal – deadline 11 April 2022
RACHEL GARFIELD
10 November – 29 January 2022
The Struggle is a trilogy of three video works commissioned by Beaconsfield and developed with a range of partners. The three films, The Straggle (2012), Opening Up (2015) and A Glimpse (2019) are exhibited together for the first time, exploring the impact of familial interactions on the formation of subjectivity.
MONIKA OECHSLER
online from 27 October
Sometimes Everything is Forever is an animated short film that follows on from Sometimes I Dream. Inspired by Franz Kafka’s The Burrow, both films explore bunker mentality, in particular the desire for safety and protection from invasion.
THE COLLECTIVE
10-13 November 2021
The Collective performs the final act of sharing its collection. Artists include Michael Armitage, Fiona Banner, Jemima Brown, Peter Doig, Bobby Dowler, Tracy Emin, David Goldblatt, Joy Gregory, Paul McCarthy, Frances Richardson.
17 July – 6 November 2021
B_T6 throws painting into the metaverse of immersive technologies in a collaboration between Jin Han Lee, artsXR and Beaconsfield to test and demystify aspects of extended realities.
IOANA MARINESCU
Beacon_Transitions Online
Ioana Marinescu collaborates with Hanna Gillgren and Elena Andreea Teleaga, to develop a site specific series of movements and images connected to the spaces of memory and archive.
SHAHIN ENTEZAMI AKA TEGH
Beacon_Transitions Online
One of the most exciting electronic sound artists in Iran, Shahin Entezami aka Tegh, offers a personal narrative of the global pandemic. Translating the stress and dark thoughts associated with his own experience of contracting Covid19, this sound work takes its pace from events happening without preface, particularly as experienced in his home city of Tehran.
ANDREW PIERRE HART
Beacon_Transitions Online
Utilising the decolonising techniques he has been developing as teaching methodology, Andrew Hart’s workshop programme will discuss institutional structures through improvisatory ideas of cross-modality.
MONIKA OECHSLER
Beacon_Transitions Online
Monika Oechsler’s exploration of bunker mentality provides an uncanny reference point for the second in the series of Beacon_Transitions: a lockdown experiment and virtual portal opened by Beaconsfield for artists to explore.
IN JUNE 2020 RT HON ROBERT JENRICK MP, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT CALLED FOR A PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO DEVELOPMENT IN NORTH LAMBETH.
Our historic corner of North Lambeth is currently threatened by inappropriate overdevelopment (8 Albert Embankment scheme). Beaconsfield has joined the Garden Museum and Lambeth Village to defend existing heritage assets and loss of daylight. The three parties have jointly taken ‘Rule 6 status’ in the government’s Public Inquiry.
AN ALL-ACCESS ONLINE EXHIBITION CELEBRATING THE WORKS OF YOUNG ARTISTS SHAPING THE FUTURE OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
Online from 19 November 2020 – 21 April 2021
SIMON TYSZKO IN COLLABORATION WITH A.D. CRAWFORTH
Beacon_Transitions Online
B_T1 is a lockdown experiment wherein a virtual portal is developed for Beaconsfield through a collaboration between Simon Tyszko and A.D. Crawforth in response to Covid19. Onsite CCTV surveillance of the shuttered gallery provides a poignant visual basis for the first in the series of Beacon_Transitions.
IOANA MARINESCU \ SHAHIN ENTEZAMI \ ANDREW PIERE HART \ MONIKA OECHSLER \ SIMON TYSZKO & A.D. CRAWFORTH
An online series in response to the uncertain future of exhibition culture.
Online from 9 July 2020
TUULA NÄRHINEN
Below Zero Finnish Art Prize 2020
Re-opening from lockdown Fridays and Saturdays
10 July–1 August 2020
11am–4pm
10 July – 1 August 2020
AIN BAILEY \ ANNA DEAN \ KASSIA FLUX \ ELOISE FORNIELES \ NAYOUNG JEONG
Performance at Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall
22 November 2019
7 – 11pm
SPITIT_OFF: DREAMING UTOPIA
2 October – 3 November 2019
3 November closing performance from 4.15pm
