Past
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Antigone Revisited
Hypha Studios HQ, London 24 Sep - 12 Oct 2024 Antigone Revisited is a group exhibition at Hypha Studios HQ in London curated by Marcelle Joseph and featuring the work of 17 artists who mine myths, folk tales and pagan practices from the past or build their own worlds as they process the intense drama played out on the world stage today. Participating artists include: Alexi Marshall, Alice Anderson, Alicia Radage, Alicia Reyes McNamara, Anna Perach, Ariane Heloise Hughes, Ayla Dmyterko, Becky Tucker, Bethany Stead, Camilla Hanney, Cecilia Charlton, Chantal Powell, Ingrid Berthon-Moine, KV Duong, Maria Konder, Richard Malone and Scarlett Pochet
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10 Years Anniversary
Lychee One, London 13 Jun - 13 Jul 2024 Lychee One 10th anniversary exhibition co-curated by Marcelle Joseph featuring the work of 20 artists who have shown at the gallery over the last decade, including Bea Bonafini, Gareth Cadwallader, Minyoung Choi, Emily Avery Crow, Grant Foster, Enam Gbewonyo, Jane Hayes-Greenwood, Mary Herbert, Neil Haas, Jessie Makinson, Emily Moore, Qian Qian, James Owens, Renee So, Tai Shani, Marlene Steyn, Lian Zhang, Vivien Zhang, Rose Wylie, and Gray Wielebinski. Read more -
Material Girls and their Muses
VITRINE Fitzrovia, London 21 Mar - 18 May 2024 VITRINE, Fitzrovia proudly presents Material Girls and their Muses, a group exhibition featuring the work of five female-identifying sculptors with material-led practices alongside their chosen muses. This exhibition, curated by Marcelle Joseph, is a restaging of an exhibition Joseph initially curated in 2014 in a disused space in the diamond district of London’s Hatton Garden. Appropriating Madonna’s 1984 theme song in the title, this exhibition interrogates both gender and the meaning of the muse. Artist/muse pairings include: Saelia Aparicio and Ovartaci; Ludovica Gioscia and Polly Apfelbaum; Sacha Ingber and
Heidi Bucher; Hannah Lim and Mariko Mori; and Cathie Pilkington and Marion Adnams. Read more
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The Queens of Aquitaine
Pi Artworks, London 9 - 25 Nov 2023 Pi Artworks is thrilled to present The Queens of Aquitaine, a group show curated by Marcelle Joseph featuring the recipients of the 2023 GIRLPOWER Residency, 9-25 November 2023.
Emily Mannion | Emily Moore | Emily Platzer | Becky Tucker
Bringing together the works of Emily Mannion, Emily Moore, Emily Platzer and Becky Tucker, The Queens of Aquitaine presents new work produced at the culmination of these four artists’ stay at the GIRLPOWER Residency in the Aquitaine region of southwestern France. Read more -
Contested Bodies
Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, Leeds 25 Oct 2023 - 6 Apr 2024 Contested Bodies is a group exhibition curated by Marcelle Joseph and Laura Claveria that interrogates and celebrates the performativity of gender as a social construct. It understands gender as a cultural fiction with no fixed, natural or innate characteristics, but as an act that is performed and reproduced at individual, societal and institutional levels. Runs from 25 October 2023 to 6 April 2024 at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
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Güler Ates | Transcendent
Ascot, Berkshire 22 - 23 Oct 2023 'Transcendent' is a solo exhibition of new video, sound, performance, textile and photographic work made by Turkish artist Güler Ates while an artist in residence in the forest behind the home of curator Marcelle Joseph in Ascot, Berkshire. Read more
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Body Poetics
GIANT, Bournemouth 18 Feb - 6 May 2023 GIANT presents Body Poetics, a group exhibition pairing nine feminist artists working at the advent of feminist theory in the 1970’s and 80’s with a contemporary artist from a younger generation. Curated by Marcelle Joseph and Becca Pelly-Fry, Body Poetics will run 18 February – 6 May 2023. The artist pairings include: Louise Bourgeois and Holly Stevenson; Helen Chadwick and Rosie Gibbens; Judy Chicago and Ad Minoliti; Guerrilla Girls and Evan Ifekoya; Senga Nengudi and Enam Gbewonyo; Niki de Saint Phalle and Rae-Yen Song; Carolee Schneemann and Florence Peake; Kiki Smith and Charlotte Edey; and Penny Slinger and Tai Shani.
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Lian Zhang | Weathering with You
Lychee One, London 5 May - 18 Jun 2022 Weathering with You is a solo exhibition of a new body of paintings by London-based Chinese artist Lian Zhang. Read more -
Act I: Body en Thrall
Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Rugby, UK 12 Feb - 23 Apr 2022 Rugby Art Gallery and Museum presents the first major public display of the GIRLPOWER and Marcelle Joseph Collections in the UK. Shown alongside a selection of works from our own... Read more
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An Ode to Orlando
Pi Artworks, London 4 - 26 Feb 2022 An expansive group exhibition curated by Marcelle Joseph, featuring a cross-generational and international group of artists alongside the inaugural collection of furniture designs by Ada Interiors. The exhibition reimagines the gallery space as the private home of a fictional art collector set in London in the present day. Based on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, this particular aesthete – a passionate, brilliant and eccentric character who lives and breathes art - navigates fluidly through time and gender, au courant with the latest cultural trends and equally in tune with the past. Read more -
Hapticity: A Theory of Touch and Identity
Lychee One, London 16 Sep - 30 Oct 2021 'Hapticity: A Theory of Touch and Identity' is a group exhibition curated by Enam Gbewonyo and Marcelle Joseph that features the work of an inspiring roster of 11 international artists and designers, cross-generational in scope and working across a myriad of material-based practices that interweave the processes of tactile making with the complex intersectional frameworks of race, gender, sexuality and class today. How does touch express lived experience and humanity? The exhibition includes quilts by Gee's Bend Quiltmakers and Basil Kincaid, ceramics by Renee So, Cristina Tufiño and Michaela Yearwood-Dan, fibre-based tapestries by Enam Gbewonyo, Emily Moore and Anya Paintsil, and other textile-based works by Youngsook Choi, Eric N. Mack and the late Althea McNish. Read more -
Monster/Beauty: An Exploration of the Female/Femme Gaze
Lychee One, London 17 Sep - 31 Oct 2020 Lychee One proudly presents Monster/Beauty: An Exploration of the Female/Femme Gaze, a group exhibition curated by Marcelle Joseph featuring the artwork, ephemera and archival photographs of nineteen female-identifying or queer femme artists who portray the feminine body in its sexed or sexual state, empowering the womxn artist as both subject and object as well as image and image-maker. Read more
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Tides in the Body
Lychee One, London 21 May - 25 Jun 2020 Lychee One proudly presents Tides in the Body, an exhibition featuring new work by the artist duo Luisa Mè and Giovanni Vetere and curated by Marcelle Joseph, the gallery’s 2020 curatorial consultant. Read more -
Dancing at the Edge of the World
Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome 7 Feb - 13 Jul 2020 In this exhibition that appropriates the title of Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1989 non-fiction collection, Dancing at the Edge of the World, the works of ten female-identifying artists create a centre of subversive feminist activity where the body – fleshy, often leaky and sometimes desirous - is omnipresent but never separated from the mind. The artists in this exhibition invade their own privacy to explore embodiment and representation in an anarchic and self-realising strategy of empowerment. Artists include: Saelia Aparicio, Charlotte Colbert, Monika Grabuschnigg, Zsófia Keresztes, Alexi Marshall, Florence Peake, Proudick (Lindsey Mendick and Paloma Proudfoot), Megan Rooney and Eve Stainton.
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Young Monsters
Lychee One, London 12 Sep - 26 Oct 2019 Featuring the work of Neil Haas, Irvin Pascal, Glen Pudvine and Gray Wielebinski, Young Monsters explores the multifariousness of masculinity today. Read more
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PROUDICK
Hannah Barry Gallery, London 7 Nov 2018 - 12 Jan 2019 PROUDICK is the first collaborative exhibition of artists and friends Paloma Proudfoot and Lindsey Mendick. Drawing from the tradition of celebrity-couple portmanteaus, the artists have rebranded themselves as Proudick for the duration of the exhibition. Like the personal lives of Kimye, Brangelina and Bennifer, Proudick will offer up their private lives as tabloid fodder through still-life installation and performance, drawing from the world of Greek myth through to the work of Tracy Emin and Sarah Lucas.
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Güler Ates | Fragments
Drawing Schools, Eton College 3 Feb - 19 Mar 2018 Fragments is a solo exhibition of new photographic and video work made by London-based Turkish artist Güler Ates while an artist in residence at Eton College in 2015. Read more -
Liane Lang | Old School
Drawing Schools, Eton College 11 Nov - 9 Dec 2017 Old School is a solo exhibition of new photographic and sculptural work made by Liane Lang while an artist in residence at Eton College in 2014. Lang was the first female artist to be awarded the James McLaren residency at Eton College and follows in the footsteps of other luminaries such as Hughie O’Donoghue RA and Norman Ackroyd CBE RA. For this show curated by Marcelle Joseph, Lang, in typical fashion, engaged in comprehensive historical research to excavate the stories buried beneath the façade of this illustrious boys’ boarding school founded in 1440 by King Henry VI.
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You see me like a UFO
Ascot, Berkshire 9 Sep - 7 Oct 2017 Marcelle Joseph Projects proudly presents You see me like a UFO, a group exhibition featuring artworks by over 70 artists presented as a post-Trumpian riposte. Exhibition runs from 9 September... Read more -
Walled Gardens in an Insane Eden
Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome, Italy 9 Feb - 25 Mar 2017 Group Show curated by Marcelle Joseph and featuring artworks by Rebecca Ackroyd, Gabriella Boyd, Rhys Coren, Kira Freije, Marie Jacotey, Florence Peake and Zadie Xa. In line with the... Read more -
Evy Jokhova | Staccato
House of St Barnabas, London 9 Nov 2016 - 4 Jan 2017 Marcelle Joseph Projects proudly presents Staccato, a site-specific interactive audio-visual installation by London-based multi-disciplinary artist Evy Jokhova in a Gothic Revival chapel in the heart of Soho built by British architect Joseph Clarke between 1862 and 1864. Exploring the interconnection between music, movement and ceremonial architecture, Jokhova has created three new sculptural works accompanied by an original musical score made in collaboration with James Metcalfe. Her new work attempts to examine the relationship between sound, image and form, using the architecture of the chapel and its specific acoustics in conjunction with a series of sculptural objects made from sound insulation foam, mirror card, perspex and wood and an avant-garde musical score. Two pillar-like sculptures, mimicking the architectural details of the space but with a Modernist twist, will inhabit two of the four apses in the church and a third sculpture will hang from the ceiling. The musical score, made by first creating drawings that systematise the architectural model and plans of the chapel and then transcribing these drawings into music, will emanate from various speakers and intrigue the viewer with its abstract, experimental sounds. The title of this exhibition, Staccato, refers to the 2013 article by American architectural theorist and landscape architect Charles Jencks entitled “When Architecture Becomes Music” where Jencks considers the inter-columniation of buildings as a staccato composition, suggesting that structures composed of singular solid forms placed at regular intervals ‘induce the feeling of finality by the absolute contrast” between solid and void and light and darkness. Read more
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Selma Parlour | Parlour Games
House of St Barnabas, London 7 Oct 2016 - 23 Jun 2017 Marcelle Joseph Projects proudly presents Parlour Games, a site-specific, semi-permanent installation of new paintings by London-based artist Selma Parlour. These new abstract works, created with a luscious, glowing colour palette, are situated within the 1750’s rococo panelling of the Soho Room in the Grade I-listed House of St Barnabas, producing a visual cornucopia of colour, line and form. Parlour’s paintings are an exercise in minimalist abstract perfection, meticulously rendered through thin films of transparent oil on linen such that the brushstrokes are invisible and the resulting imagery looks printed. The flawless precision of her surfaces, the flatness of her imagery and the trompe l’oeil illusion created by her use of shading are the artist’s signature touches. Central to her work is also the repetition of shapes that reference architectural geometries or a two-dimensional stage space that curtails fictive distance as much as it represents it. As for the artist’s use of colour, Parlour extracts the oil binder from her paint so that the texture of the colour is parched like chalk pastel. This method of application produces a veil of colour that glows as if lit from behind, reminding the viewer of painting’s social function as a window to another world. This exhibition is the first solo presentation by Parlour after being named one of the five prizewinners of the John Moores Painting Prize 2016. Read more -
At Home Salon | Double Acts
Ascot, Berkshire 14 May - 9 Jul 2016 Marcelle Joseph Projects is delighted to present At Home Salon: Double Acts, an exhibition in the private residence of the curator in Ascot and showcasing artworks by 14 artists. For... Read more -
Güler Ates | Unseen Memories
House of St Barnabas, London 27 May - 30 Sep 2015 Marcelle Joseph Projects proudly presents Unseen Memories, a solo exhibition of new work created by London-based Turkish artist Güler Ates at the House of St Barnabas before it was converted... Read more
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Architecture of Enjoyment
Horatio Junior, London 10 May - 5 Jun 2015 Horatio Junior and Marcelle Joseph Projects are pleased to present Architecture of Enjoyment, an exhibition of contemporary art and design made by an international selection of artists, architects and designers,... Read more -
Jennifer Caroline Campbell | Power Puff Princess
Knightsbridge Photography Studio, London 11 - 12 Mar 2015 Marcelle Joseph Projects is pleased to present Power Puff Princess, a solo exhibition of new artworks made by British artist Jennifer Caroline Campbell. This is Campbell's first solo exhibition in... Read more -
Figuratively Speaking
heike moras art, London 16 Jan - 11 Feb 2015 Marcelle Joseph Projects and heike moras art are pleased to present Figuratively Speaking, an exhibition of artworks made by a group of largely London-based artists who use the human body... Read more
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Güler Ates | Dwelling: Rio de Janeiro
84 Hatton Garden, London 28 Nov - 20 Dec 2014 Marcelle Joseph Projects proudly presents Dwelling: Rio de Janeiro, a solo exhibition of new work created by London-based Turkish artist Güler Ates during a month-long residency in Rio de Janeiro... Read more -
Laurence Owen | Version
Great Fosters Hotel, Egham 4 Nov 2014 - 11 Jan 2015 Marcelle Joseph Projects is pleased to present V E R S I O N, a solo exhibition of Laurence Owen's new paintings and ceramic works inspired by the Tudor history... Read more -
Material Girls and their Muses
84 Hatton Garden, London 31 Oct - 22 Nov 2014 Marcelle Joseph Projects is pleased to present Material Girls and their Muses, an exhibition featuring the work of four female artists and their chosen muses. 'Curious, I thought. This discussion... Read more
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Architecture of Enjoyment (Athens)
Fokidos 21, Athens 10 Oct - 1 Nov 2014 Fokidos 21 is pleased to present Architecture of Enjoyment, an exhibition of contemporary art and design made by an international selection of artists, architects and designers, curated by Marcelle Joseph.... Read more -
Cassius Clay
84 Hatton Garden, London 3 - 25 Oct 2014 Marcelle Joseph Projects is pleased to present Cassius Clay, an exhibition of ceramic work made by an international selection of artists who bring a criticality to the history and materiality... Read more -
Vanessa Jackson | Rough Cut and Faceted
84 Hatton Garden, London 5 - 27 Sep 2014 Marcelle Joseph Projects proudly presents Rough Cut and Faceted, a solo exhibition of new work by British artist Vanessa Jackson. Jackson's work employs geometry, determined by the experience of architecture,... Read more
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At Home Salon 2014
Ascot, Berkshire 3 Jun - 15 Jul 2014 Marcelle Joseph Projects is delighted to present At Home Salon 2014, an exhibition in the private residence of the curator in Ascot and showcasing artworks by 28 contemporary artists. The... Read more -
Jonathan Trayte | Pazar
Istanbul, Turkey 21 Mar - 31 May 2014 Marcelle Joseph Projects is thrilled to present and curate PAZAR, British sculptor Jonathan Trayte's first exhibition in Turkey. This exhibition will feature a seductive array of sculptures, paintings, and images... Read more -
Liane Lang | An Idle Brain Is Satan’s Shoppe
House of St Barnabas, London 17 Mar - 17 Jun 2014 Marcelle Joseph Projects proudly presents a new series of photographs by London-based artist Liane Lang created at Casa Guidi in Florence, the erstwhile home of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert... Read more
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2Q13 | Women Artists, Women Collectors
Lloyds Club, London 18 Sep - 5 Dec 2013 Marcelle Joseph Projects is delighted to present: 2Q13 - Women Artists, Women Collectors, an exhibition co-curated by Marcelle Joseph and Lydia Cowpertwait, and sponsored by Hampden. The exhibition's title 2Q13... Read more -
Sculpture Al Fresco III
Great Fosters Hotel, Surrey 5 Jun - 26 Sep 2013 Marcelle Joseph Projects is delighted to present Sculpture al Fresco III, the third annual summer sculpture exhibition in the house and grounds of Great Fosters in Surrey, the former royal... Read more -
Güler Ates | Books of Dust
Royal Academy of Arts, London 13 Feb - 24 Apr 2013 London-based Turkish artist Güler Ates presents Books of Dust, a new series of photographs created in the Royal Academy of Arts ('RA') Research Library, the oldest institutional fine arts library... Read more
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Charlie Billingham | Hunting Dogs, Hunting Cats
Great Fosters Hotel, Surrey 15 Nov 2012 - 13 Jan 2013 Marcelle Joseph Projects proudly presents Hunting Dogs, Hunting Cats, the first solo exhibition of paintings by English artist Charlie Billingham. With a touch of humour, Billingham’s paintings parody caricatures of... Read more -
From New Perspectives
EB&Flow Gallery, London 5 - 15 Sep 2012 24 year old Chelsea School of Art graduate Ralph Hunter-Menzies brings together seven abstract contemporary artists (all but two under 30) and curates a two floor exhibition of paintings in... Read more -
Rick Kirby | At The Oakley Court 2012
The Oakley Court Hotel, Windsor 1 Jun - 31 Aug 2012 Marcelle Joseph Projects proudly presents At The Oakley Court 2012, a solo exhibition featuring four welded steel sculptures by British artist Rick Kirby sited in the grounds of this country... Read more
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Sculpture Al Fresco II
Great Fosters Hotel, Surrey 31 May - 31 Aug 2012 Marcelle Joseph Projects is delighted to present Sculpture Al Fresco II, the second annual outdoor sculpture exhibition in the grounds of the renowned Great Fosters Hotel in Surrey, the former... Read more -
At Home Salon
Ascot, Berkshire 9 - 31 Mar 2012 Marcelle Joseph Projects is delighted to present At Home Salon, the first exhibition in the private residence of the curator in Ascot and showcasing artworks by 20 contemporary artists. The... Read more -
Güler Ates | Present and Absent
Great Fosters Hotel, Surrey 17 Nov - 17 Dec 2011 Marcelle Joseph Projects proudly presents Present and Absent, a solo exhibition featuring a new series of photographs by Turkish artist Güler Ates taken in the historic rooms of Great Fosters,... Read more
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Nothing Fixed
The Gallery in Redchurch Street, London 6 - 17 Sep 2011 Marcelle Joseph Projects is delighted to present Nothing Fixed, an exhibition of abstract painting curated by artist Shaun McDowell and featuring work from eight artists, Alice Browne, Varda Caivano, Raoul... Read more -
Sculpture Al Fresco I
Great Fosters Hotel, Surrey 7 Jun - 29 Aug 2011 Marcelle Joseph Projects is delighted to present Sculpture Al Fresco, its third exhibition of contemporary art this year and its first outdoor sculpture exhibition. This exhibition is a first of... Read more -
Photography’s New “It” Girls: 2011
Pop-Up Gallery, London 10 - 21 May 2011 Following the success of its inaugural exhibition in March, Fast & Steady, Marcelle Joseph Projects is delighted to introduce its next exciting exhibition of contemporary art, Photography’s New “It” Girls:... Read more
