From the lyrics of OutKast’s pop anthem Hey Ya to clues laid out for the amnesiac protagonist in Christopher Nolan’s film Memento, the Polaroid has had a significant impact on contemporary culture. ‘Shake It: An instant History of the Polaroid’ brings to light some of the...
Pump House Gallery continues its commitment to providing emerging artists their first significant London solo show with the presentation of Robert Stone's curiously titled exhibition ‘Polka Fever’.
Stone’s paintings, executed with a distinctive and eccentric painterly...
This is the first major UK presentation of the works of Grupo de Artistas de Vangardia (Argentina) and Loompanics Unlimited by Bik Van der Pol (Netherlands). Although visually very different, the ideas, approach and debates explored through their works are remarkably similar, encouraging the...
Following a sell-out-off-Broadway run (in Liverpool) at the Ceri Hand Gallery, Mel Brimfield’s solo show arrives at the Pump House Gallery, London for a strictly limited season. This is the first major exhibition to examine the rich history of collaborative practice between comedians and...
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Pump House Gallery is pleased to announce a presentation of early graphic design work carried out by Ken Briggs for the National Theatre.
During the first half of the 20th Century, theatre programmes were often poorly typeset and put together by printers. Later on, theatres subsidised by...
Henry VIII's Wives (The Wives) are a collective of artists founded in 1997, and include Rachel Dagnall, Bob Grieve, Sirko Knupfer, Simon Polli, Per Sander and Lucy Skaer. For their first exhibition in a London gallery they will present two time-based installations; Mr Hysteria, 2005 and The...
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Smoke has plumed and swirled about us since history began. Not so long ago it reached a suffocating density when smoke gushed from mighty industrial plants like Battersea Power Station in a London that was dubbed ‘The Big Smoke’. But in our age of smokeless fuels and smoking bans,...
Coloured Threads in Door Knobs is the first exhibition in a UK public gallery by the artist Milena Dragicevic. Bringing together work dating back to 2000 and a series of new paintings, this exhibition presents the first opportunity to see the transition in Dragicevic’s practice.
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Aisha Khalid is one of Pakistan’s leading artists, with a prominent reputation both internationally and within her own country. Khalid’s exhibition at Pump House Gallery will be her first solo show in a UK public gallery and the most comprehensive survey of her work to date....
The Institute of Psychoplasmics is an exhibition about cultic and social groupings and how they challenge the integrity if the social body by producing another within. It takes its name from the eponymous fictional institute in David Cronenberg’s 1979 film ‘The Brood’, in which...
The exhibition brings together over forty original photomontages by Peter Kennard, described as “Britain’s master of photomontage”. Made over a 30-year period from the 1970s, the works address social andpolitical issues such as conflict, the environment, nuclear disarmament and...
Moving between the mediums of video, sculpture, drawing and photography Seitz investigates the processes of hunting and collecting as a form of colonization and obsession. Though the artist’s practice is largely conceptual, much of his work originates from the personal. Often...
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Anything You Want is a group show highlighting some of the most innovative approaches to contemporary photographic practice by three international artists: Walead Beshty from Los Angeles, Anne Collier from New York and Annette Kelm from Berlin. For both Beshty and Kelm this will be the first...
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Pump House Gallery is pleased to present Where is The Work? the first solo exhibition of Cornford & Cross in a London public gallery. Matthew Cornford and David Cross have worked together since meeting at St Martins School of Art in 1987. Where is the Work? is the culmination of the artists...
Known for his infamous street interventions, documentaries and performances, self-styled 'one-man subversive think-tank' Richard DeDomenici presents his first solo London gallery show after years of instinctively making work that sidesteps the gallery system. The show includes a rolling video...
Five artists, selected via an open submission, are taking over Pump House Gallery and using it as their studio for a five-week period. It will give the artists an opportunity to experiment with new ideas and directions in their practice, with each receiving bespoke peer critique from invited art...
Pump House Gallery is delighted to be a host location for Single Shot, the first product of a major new collaboration between the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund and Arts Council England. Single Shot consists of specially commissioned film and video pieces by well-known artists and works...
In her first major solo presentation in a London public space, Pump House Gallery has commissioned artist Helen Maurer to make new site-specific multi media works which explore created landscapes. Maurer’s unique installations employ glass, light and objects often using overhead projectors...
Pump House Gallery is delighted to be collaborating with German artist Thomas Kilpper to develop an ambitious site-specific project in and outside of the gallery. This will be the artist's first significant commission in London since 2001. Kilpper's projects often respond to the socio-political...
Small Mischiefs is a group show of artists with a propensity to misbehave and disrupt the established order of things, whether this is through playful, light-hearted questioning or more darkly intended subversions. One floor of the gallery will be dedicated to hosting an anarchic programme of...
Pump House Gallery is delighted to present Hanneline Visnes’ first solo exhibition in London. For this exhibition Visnes will exhibit newly commissioned site-specific work alongside work that she made during her recent year-long residency in Amsterdam, as well as some key earlier pieces....
This will be the first major solo presentation of work in London by Dutch photographer Hellen van Meene since 1999. Known for her intimate fictional portraiture of adolescent girls and androgynous boys, which blur the line between fact and fiction, Pump House Gallery has commissioned van Meene...
Food has long provided painters with a wealth of subject matter. The 17th Century Dutch masters depicted lavish spreads of game and fish for allegorical and symbolic purposes whilst for Chardin and Cezanne arrangements of fruit proved the ideal model for their investigations into perspective and...
Pump House Gallery is pleased to present The Return of the Native by artist Suky Best, a series of short digital animations and prints that ‘reintroduce’ formerly indigenous wildlife to the contemporary landscape of the East Anglian Fenland, London and the South East. Exhibited for...
Rites of passage appear in every known culture whereby unique handcrafted objects play an intrinsic role in the way we perform various rites – the wedding ring, christening shawl, funeral wreath. Fusing craft with live art Ceremony brings together an eclectic range of works, performances...
Pump House Gallery is pleased to present Trish Morrissey’s first solo show in a London public gallery. The exhibition includes photographs and video work created over a two-year period inspired by family photo albums and family relationships.
Seven Years consists of...
Curated by the students from Goldsmiths MA Curating course, Human Nature is a group exhibition exploring the relationships between animal instincts and contemporary social conditioning. Using film, photography, sculpture, painting, and sound these internationally renowned artists...
Pump House Gallery has commissioned new work by Scottish artist Katy Dove for her first solo show in England. Dove’s recent work has already received international critical acclaim and has been shown in a number of group shows nationally and internationally, including Venice Biennale, Tate...
Snow provokes responses reaching back to childhood. Historically many painted and photographic works have documented the epic beauty and wilderness of the land under snow; Sisley, Turner, and Ansel Adams to name a few. The White Station brings together works in which artists have experimented...
Now in its fifth year, the Pump House Gallery has established an annual showcase of work by recent art graduates from London’s top art schools. The exhibition aims to give a wider audience the opportunity to view and buy new work by some of today’s freshest and promising talent, as...
Anna Bjerger uses found images to create her strangely familiar work. The exhibition ‘Angels In Your Beer’ is representative of Bjerger’s practice over the past two years, which includes her themed paintings such as the series of works inspired by the Guinness Book of Records,...
Vanishing Point brings together a collection of works by artist Simon Faithfull that each in their own way create a personal map of a place or journey. Faithfull’s newly commissioned video installation 30Km was created by attaching a camera to a weather balloon and releasing it into the...
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Trading Places is an exhibition developed by curatorial team B+B on art and migration. With the expansion of the European Union in May, issues of asylum and immigration are gaining widespread media attention. Trading Places will offer a critical platform to discuss Britain’s relationship...
Jo Roberts favoured media is "people". For 'Boundaries' Roberts and her project participants from Age Concern will map a number of different real and perceived boundaries - such as the grounds immediately around the gallery building, the boundary of Battersea Park, the river and...
