The London Open 2022

What makes London’s art scene so vibrant? What are the concerns of the next generation of artists and their insights in challenging times? This triennial exhibition showcases the most dynamic talent from across the capital. Discover new work reflecting on topics ranging from the personal to the collective, the cathartic to the poetic, the political to the environmental. Running since 1932, this much-celebrated open submission show features 46 London-based artists working across painting, sculpture, moving image, installation and performance.

The Bang Straws (2021) makes its gallery premiere as part of The London Open 2022.

www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/the-london-open-2022-2/

Michelle Williams Gamaker leads a reading group working through articles and objects from the archive of the late Jean Fisher (1942–2016).

Together with guest speakers, the sessions will bring materials from the archive into conversation with artworks, videos, sounds and objects taking questions written by hand in the margins of Fisher’s notes as starting points.

Fisher was a critic and writer whose work often explored colonial legacies and sites of conflict including Ireland, Native America, the Black Atlantic and Palestine. She championed artists including Francis Alÿs, Sonia Boyce, Willie Doherty, Jimmie Durham, Edgar Heap of Birds, Susan Hiller, Tina Keane, Gabriel Orozco, Anne Tallentire and Steve McQueen. She taught widely including at Middlesex University, Byam Shaw and the Royal College of Art. Fisher had a long-standing and productive working relationship with Matt’s Gallery and our director Robin Klassnik, often writing on artists that were shown here and sometimes penning press releases for the gallery.

www.mattsgallery.org/events/the-jean-fisher-archive-reading-group-session-1