Past
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Chun Kwang Young
Inherent Memory 4 October - 1 November 2024 We are delighted to announce our first exhibition of the Autumn, a solo presentation of Korean artist Chun Kwang Young. Chun (b.1944) is best known for his acclaimed Aggregation series: freestanding and wall-hung amalgamations of small, triangular forms wrapped in antique mulberry paper, often tinted with teas or pigment. Having... Read more -
Too Close to Me
Sydney Albertini 4 - 31 July 2024 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Too Close to Me, Sydney Albertini’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Too Close to Me presents a new body of work created by Albertini over the past two years, following a series of recent surgeries and exploring the healing process that followed. Albertini's... Read more -
Marie Hazard & Masaomi Yasunaga
Joint Exhibition 30 May - 28 June 2024 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present a dual exhibition of works by French weaver Marie Hazard and ceramics by Japanese artist Masaomi Yasunaga, curated by Sonya Tamaddon. Both threading and ceramics embody notions of being enmeshed, finding connections, coming apart, thus disclosing multiple incarnations, formats, densities, and textures. In the... Read more -
Assemblages
Nicolas Lefebvre 26 April - 3 May 2024 Christie's Paris welcomes sculptor Nicolas Lefebvre for a unique exhibition, presented by Tristan Hoare in collaboration with Galerie Chenel! Assemblages presents new creations by Lefebvre, resulting from a collaboration with Galerie Chenel, specialising in antiques. This exhibition echoes his recent publication, Assemblages, published by Editions Ofr. Inspired by art, cultures... Read more
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The Language of Vessels
Peter Schlesinger 12 April - 10 May 2024 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present a solo exhibition of works by New York-based sculptor, painter and photographer Peter Schlesinger (b. 1948). Apart from a small exhibition interrupted by Covid in 2021, this will be Schlesinger’s first major exhibition in London since 1976, presenting works on paper, ceramic sculptures and... Read more -
Maria Callas
Antoine Wagner 8 March - 5 April 2024 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present a solo exhibition of works by multidisciplinary artist Antoine Wagner, in which he showcases a series of photographs capturing the curtains that adorned opera houses graced by Maria Callas throughout her 36-year career, along with a new video, Where It Starts, It Ends (2024).... Read more -
Apocalypse Now
Group Exhibition 25 January - 1 March 2024 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present our first exhibition of 2024, Apocalypse Now. Europe is in deep winter with short days and darkness around, so it seems the right time! Connecting with this, there is a growing global malaise as we face unprecedented challenges in an atmosphere of disharmony. Where... Read more -
Still Life
Kaori Tatebayashi 10 November - 15 December 2023 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Still Life, a solo exhibition of Kaori Tatebayashi’s ceramics and our second collaboration in Fitzroy Square. In Still Life, Tatebayashi steps away from the floral 'cultivated' garden, presented to audiences in The Walled Garden in April 2020, into a botanical vision focusing on wild... Read more
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Poets
Tristano di Robilant 28 September - 27 October 2023 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Poets, an exhibiton of glass and ceramic sculptures by Tristano di Robilant. This will be our second solo exhibition with di Robilant, running from 28th September until 27th October 2023. Di Robilant's new body of work is an ode to great poets, their way... Read more -
Paper
Group Exhibition 8 June - 7 July 2023 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Paper, an exhibition curated with Flora Hesketh and Omar Mazhar. Exhibitions focusing on paper often look through the lens of ‘works on paper,’ but here the material comes to the forefront, bringing together artists who use paper to make the work itself. The existence... Read more -
Kyoto Sun
Sussy Cazalet & Taizo Kuroda 23 May - 2 June 2023 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Kyoto Sun , a dialogue exhibition of vibrant tapestries by Sussy Cazalet alongside the pure white ceramics of great Japanese ceramicist Taizo Kuroda (1946-2021). The gallery is excited to bring into conversation the art of Cazalet and Kuroda whose practices express the contemporary language... Read more -
Sexing the Cherry
Christabel MacGreevy + Rafaela de Ascanio 24 March - 28 April 2023 Tristan Hoare is delighted to announce a dialogue exhibition of ceramics and tapestries by London-based artists Christabel MacGreevy and Rafaela de Ascanio, first presented to our audiences in September 2021 as part of our ceramics group show Cracked. Sexing the Cherry takes its point of departure from Jeanette Winterson’s 1989... Read more
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A Kind of Longing
Alison Watt 3 February - 10 March 2023 In a unique collaboration, Tristan Hoare and Parafin are delighted to announce an exhibition of new work by Alison Watt. The exhibition continues Watt’s ongoing engagement with the practice of the celebrated eighteenth-century Scottish portrait painter Allan Ramsay (1713-84), first showcased in her acclaimed exhibition, A Portrait Without Likeness, at... Read more -
Impressions
Sydney Albertini 17 November - 16 December 2022 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Impressions, Sydney Albertini’s first solo exhibition in London, showcasing large scale oil paintings on Kraft and Fabriano paper from two of Albertini’s recent series — Movements and Botanicals. Colourful and abstract, Albertini’s Movement paintings are full of energy and dynamism. The series was born... Read more -
Confluence
Ritsue Mishima & Alessandro Twombly 29 September - 28 October 2022 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Confluence, a dialogue exhibition of glass sculptures by Japanese artist Ritsue Mishima and acrylic paintings by Italian artist Alessandro Twombly. Like the confluence of a river, the exhibition brings together two artists whose differing modes of expression nonetheless have a common point of departure... Read more -
The Conference of the Birds
Group Exhibition 9 June - 8 July 2022 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present The Conference of the Birds, a multidisciplinary group exhibition curated with Flora Hesketh and Omar Mazhar. The title is taken from Attar of Nishapur’s 12th century poem which tells the story of the wise Hoopoe leading the birds of the world on a journey... Read more
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Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye
New Works 6 May - 1 June 2022 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present New Works by Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye, curated with Leonie Mir. First presented to our audiences in September 2021 as part of our Autumn group show, Cracked, this is Siesbye's first solo exhibition in London since 2003. Siesbye is known for her minimalist ceramic vessels... Read more -
CHEERIO: 48 Hours with Francis Bacon
In Collaboration with the Estate of Francis Bacon 27 - 28 April 2022 This April, Tristan Hoare invites Londoners to immerse themselves in the world of CHEERIO. The free, 48-hour long exhibition includes work by Francis Bacon and that of writers, artists and filmmakers including Jeremy Deller, Bella Freud, DBC Pierre and James Birch. CHEERIO – a publisher and production company launched in... Read more -
Objets Montés
Nicolas Lefebvre 18 March - 22 April 2022 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Objets Montés by French artist Nicolas Lefebvre. Inspired by the Arte Povera movement, Lefebvre uses materials beyond traditional oil paint on canvas, bronze or carved marble. The artist’s work consists of gathering objects made from different materials, from a variety of cultures and time... Read more -
Movie Theaters
Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre 10 February - 11 March 2022 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Movie Theaters by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, the result of a 15-year collaboration between the two French photographers which captures the former “cathedrals of cinema” of America. Shooting with a large format 4x5 camera using long exposures in dimly-lit auditoriums, the images are... Read more
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Ora et Labora
Flavie Audi 18 November - 18 December 2021 Tristan Hoare is delighted to announce Flavie Audi’s second solo exhibition at the gallery! Ora et Labora continues Audi’s artistic explorations by combining traditional glass techniques with digital fabrication to create futuristic forms which investigate the points at which the natural and artificial worlds meet. Ora et Labora shows Audi’s... Read more -
Cracked
Group Show 23 September - 29 October 2021 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Cracked, an exhibition curated by Leonie Mir and dedicated to hand-moulded ceramics made without the use of a wheel. By removing the structure provided by a wheel, the exhibition focuses on contemporary artists who construct, sculpt and mould clay, demonstrating what can be achieved... Read more -
Folds
Group Exhibition 19 May - 2 July 2021 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present FOLDS , an exhibition curated with Flora Hesketh and Omar Mazhar and dedicated to the depiction of folds and drapery. FOLDS aims to bring into focus a subject which has challenged and interested artists throughout history, but often goes unnoticed. Charting its metamorphosis from... Read more -
The Walled Garden
Kaori Tatebayashi 12 April - 7 May 2021 Tristan Hoare is delighted to announce Kaori Tatebayashi's first solo exhibition at the gallery in Fitzroy Square. Ceramics and the natural world are Kaori's passion. Working in hand formed white stoneware she produces portraits of flowers and plants with amazing precision, not only describing how they look, but also how... Read more
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Equinox
Alessandro Twombly 24 September - 23 October 2020 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present ‘Equinox’, an exhibition that introduces the new paintings and sculptures by Italian artist Alessandro Twombly. Read more -
Frieze Masters Exhibition
8 - 18 September 2020 Lyndsey Ingram and Tristan Hoare are delighted to collaborate on their first Frieze Masters Exhibition! We originally planned a booth presenting early work by the American artist Ellsworth Kelly alongside Moon Jars by Korean artist Kim Yikyung, known as the ‘mother of Korean ceramics’. Kelly greatly admired Korean ceramics, particularly... Read more -
Synergy
Group Exhibition 19 June - 17 July 2020 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present a Summer exhibition focussing on material, texture and form. Ceramics, textiles and watercolours are woven together to produce a grounding exhibition for turbulent times! It is an honour to place three great ceramicists in the same gallery space, all of whom come from Japan... Read more -
Of Birds and Monkeys
Kiki Smith & Paolo Colombo 14 February - 20 March 2020 Paolo Colombo’s deeply lyrical watercolours and Kiki Smith’s mythically charged metal sculptures draw inspiration from the natural world. These works also arise from a fascination with process, fusing a clarity of form with the particularities of texture, gesture, and tone. Both artists display a commitment to the potential of work... Read more
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Moon Jars: Contemporary Korean Masters
Group Exhibition 7 November - 4 December 2019 “In modern art, as everyone knows, the beauty of deformity is very often emphasised, insisted upon. But how different is Korean deformity. The former is produced deliberately, the latter naturally. Korean work is merely the natural result of the artisan’s state of mind, which is free from dualistic man-made rules…... Read more -
Emotional Fields
Carolina Mazzolari 20 September - 25 October 2019 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Emotional Fields, an exhibition of large scale contemporary tapestries by Carolina Mazzolari. In her first UK solo exhibition Mazzolari presents striking hand-embroidered textiles inspired by Kurt Lewin's space diagrams and Carl Gustav Jung's theories on the collective unconscious. These ideas are manifested as woven... Read more -
Botanica
Group Exhibition 17 May - 5 July 2019 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Botanica, an exhibition curated with Flora Goodwin and Omar Mazhar, which focuses on the work of a diverse group of artists who have sought their inspiration from the natural world. From ancient times through to today, artists have interpreted nature in different ways and... Read more -
Youth
Tristano Di Robilant 15 March - 13 April 2019 Tristan Hoare is pleased to announce Youth, the gallery’s first exhibition of works by Italo-American artist Tristano di Robilant. Di Robilant (b.1964) lives and works in Rome and London. Best known for his sculptures in ceramic and glass, he works in a variety of media, including drawing, photography and writing.... Read more
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Imagining Tina: A Dialogue With Edward Weston
Maryam Eisler 7 February - 2 March 2019 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Maryam Eisler’s second solo exhibition, Imagining Tina: A Dialogue with Edward Weston. For this series, Eisler reimagines the passionate love affair between the great American photographer Edward Weston and fellow photographer, muse, lover, and activist Tina Modotti. Eisler attempts to relive Edward and Tina’s... Read more -
Japanese Ceramics
Takatori 6 - 19 December 2018 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present, Takatori-Yaki an exhibition of Japanese ceramics from Kyushu: the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands. In the late 17th century, the great warrior-general Toyotomi Hideyoshi launched several military campaigns against neighbouring Korea. During this time, entire families of skilled Korean potters were forcefully brought... Read more -
Simple Forms | Taizo Kuroda
La Frontiera, Paris 15 November - 15 December 2018 For Taizo Kuroda, Simple Forms represents a return to the point where it all began. Kuroda travelled from Japan to Paris in 1966 as a young man looking for inspiration, and the time he spent there set in motion his path to becoming an artist. Since his return to Japan... Read more -
The Collection of Monsieur X
Pierre Le-Tan 28 September - 17 November 2018 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present The Collection of Monsieur X, an exhibition of artworks by Pierre Le-Tan, curated by Umberto Pasti. The exhibition features a diverse grouping of artworks, chosen and arranged by Pasti, which will be illustrated in Le-Tan’s distinctive style and exhibited around the gallery. The artworks... Read more
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Stillness
John Stewart 7 June - 7 July 2018 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Stillness, an exhibition of flowers and nudes by John Stewart. John Stewart (1919 – 2017) lived a fascinating life – born in London and raised in Paris, he was drafted into the British Army for six years, of which three-and-a-half were spent in POW... Read more -
Geometrica
Group Exhibition 22 February - 28 March 2018 The Oxford English Dictionary defines Geometry as ‘the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties and relations of points, lines, surfaces, solids, and higher dimensional analogues.’ If we remove the word ‘mathematics,’ anyone guessing what was being described might be forgiven for thinking it was art. Elements in the description... Read more -
Studio Africa! : African Studio Photography
Group Exhibition 16 November - 20 December 2017 The photography scene in Africa begun with the arrival of the colonial powers in the late 19th century. Studios were set up and run by Europeans as successful businesses, mainly focusing on images of ‘exotic’ Africa to sell to the outside world. Over time as the Europeans left, their African... Read more -
Industry
Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre 14 September - 27 October 2017 Curated by Robert Sheffield Architecture, history, economics, religion, social anthropology, photography, art; perfectionism, dedication, captivating, curiosity, beauty, daring, skill, talent, exceptional, original, bold and brave. These are just some of the words that come to mind when I look at the starkly beautiful works of Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre.... Read more
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Frosorina
Paolo Colombo 19 May - 30 June 2017 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Frosorina, Paolo Colombo’s first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom. The title of the exhibition is a homage to a traditional folk song from Epirus, an ancient region of north-west Greece. In Frosorina, Colombo’s paintings and photographs illustrate a lyrical series of moments. Created... Read more -
Lead
Alejandro Guijarro 9 March - 28 April 2017 'Although he has made it with deep scholarship, Guijarro's is not a dry enquiry nor a research project. It is a way of making photographic objects whose twin beauties perfectly complement each other. These lovely swirling or choppy marks of painterly activity are a beautiful reflection on what it means... Read more -
Cell-(estial)
Flavie Audi 7 November 2016 - 10 January 2017 Flavie Audi is best known for her glass creations. For her first London solo exhibition, she has used photography, film and her signature glass-works to investigate the points at which the natural and artificial worlds meet. Often perceived as a natural material, glass is in fact a man-made element, a... Read more -
Searching For Eve in the American West
Maryam Eisler 3 - 12 November 2016 A fascination with the American West has exercised a profound attraction for artists and photographers for over two centuries. Ansel Adams’ work in particular is regarded as part of a tradition of Western American photography that began in the late nineteenth century and included the works of Carleton Watkins, Eadweard... Read more
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ENSŌ
URSULA SCHULZ-DORNBURG AND TAIZO KURODA 16 September - 21 October 2016 Ensō: A circle that is hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited brushstrokes to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create. The Buddhist minimal concept of Ensō, where focused repetition leads to perfection, brings two artists together. The first, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, is a Dusseldorf based... Read more -
Wild Surfaces
Edith Marie Pasquier 19 - 26 June 2013 “These photographs are images of birds such as we have rarely seen.” Martin Barnes, Senior Curator of Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum Wild Surfaces is a body of work in which Edith Marie Pasquier has sought out contact with wild animals and attempted to replicate her experience using a variety... Read more -
Hairstyles
J.D. Ojeikere 1 March - 13 May 2013 The exhibition focuses on a group of J.D Ojeikere’s iconic hairstyles. Born in Western Nigeria in 1930, Ojeikere’s formative years were spent as a photographer for the Ministry of Education in Lagos and later in the West African Publicity Agency. He opened his own studio ‘Foto Ojeikere’ in 1975, around... Read more -
Art in Progress
Leonora Hamill 15 - 28 February 2013 Art in Progress is inspired by art schools across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. The series, which started in 2009, consists of images of studios where the students work. Shot with a large format camera and printed analogically, the images are intentionally detailed, frontal and neutral. “I have a... Read more
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Momentum
Alejandro Guijarro 5 October - 9 November 2012 “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.” Niels Bohr (Father of Quantum Mechanics, 1885-1962) Momentum is a three-year project in which Alejandro Guijarro traveled to the great Quantum Mechanics institutions of the world. Using a large-format camera, he photographed the blackboards as he... Read more -
Rise and Fall
Rose Klabin 31 May - 12 July 2012 For her first solo exhibition in the UK, Brazilian artist Rose Klabin will show two innovative series, both of which integrate the subject matter into the production of the artwork. The first series, Corporate Identity, saw Klabin spending two weeks at a paper factory in the south of Brazil. First,... Read more -
The Ruins of Detroit
Yves Marchand & Raomain Meffre 27 February - 27 April 2012 “Ruins are the visible symbols and landmarks of our societies and their changes, small pieces of history in suspension.” The Ruins of Detroit is a five-year collaboration between French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre. Together they have documented Detroit’s abandoned buildings, thus bringing to light the current state of... Read more -
Stornoway
Charlotte Colbert 19 May - 22 July 2011 Named after the small town on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Stornoway is a series by London-based screenwriter and photographer Charlotte Colbert, and chronicles a journey through Scotland. Each image is a triptych of photographs of a similar subject captured moments apart. The sequencing introduces movement and... Read more
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Symblances Lyriques
MARIE PASSA DE SAFAR 28 April - 28 May 2010 Marie Passa de Safar graduated in architecture and design and worked as an architect for many years. In 2007, she turned her attention to photography. She currently lives and works in Paris. Semblances Lyriques refers to the artist’s interpretation of the world around her, a ‘lyrical‘ rather than ‘objective’ viewpoint.... Read more -
Studio Sidibé
Malick Sidibé 11 March - 16 April 2010 When Mali became independent from France in 1960, a great sense of freedom and confidence coincided with economic expansion. Luxury shops appeared for the first time and young Malians, inspired by magazines and record covers from Europe and America, started wearing Western clothes.They formed clubs which became meeting places, where... Read more -
SONNENSTAND
URSULA SCHULZ-DORNBURG 18 November - 19 December 2009 Lining the medieval pilgrimage route from Barcelona to Santiago de Compostella are nine hermitages dating from the 10th century. It was along this ancient road that the Islamic and Christian cultures collided between the 8th and 10th centuries and each chapel reflects this unique blend. Meaning ‘Position of the Sun’... Read more
