Manchester International Festival, taking place 4–21 July 2019, has brought together a lineup of artists from 20 countries for UK and world premiers including Yoko Ono, David Lynch, a collaboration between Idris Elba and Kwame Kwei-Armah, and a rave history tour by grime superstar Skepta among many others.
Highlights of the full lineup include:
Acclaimed Norwegian artist Bjørnar Aaslund will be exhibiting for the first time in the UK as part of The Other Art Fair which takes place at London's Old truman Brewery from 14 to 17 March 2019.
Aaslund is an abstract painter who likes to define his work as memories of non-existent landscapes. Through the destruction of the subject where composition and perspective are broken down into rhythms, surfaces and brush strokes, he focuses on the intuitive reading of nature and his own surroundings.
The Serpentine presents the first UK solo exhibition by the late Swiss visionary artist, healer and researcher Emma Kunz (1892–1963) that will feature over 60 of her rarely seen drawings. The exhibition is conceived with artist Christodoulos Panayiotou.
“Everything happens according to a certain regularity which I sense inside me and which never lets me rest.” Emma Kunz
Hito Steyerl is an artist and filmmaker whose work explores the complexities of the digital world, art, capitalism, and the implications of Artificial Intelligence for society. Her recent artworks cover subjects as diverse as video games, surveillance and art production.
Innovative Sheffield Project will give free event tickets to thousands
Japanese architect Junya Ishigami has been commissioned to craft the 2019 Serpentine Pavilion, described by the designer as "a hill made out of rocks".
The design will be made of slate, a roof that will seem as if it has risen from the ground. Like all Serpentine Pavilion commissions, this will be Ishigami's first work in the UK.
There's a story almost every every month about the creation and preservation of creative spaces, inspiring design and new homes for arts and culture across sectors.
In March 2019, the English National Ballet will move to a new home on London City Island in Canning Town. We'll have more on this forward-thinking and innovative space next month, but it is just one example of creative and cultural organisations requiring, finding and securing new space.
British Council is looking to build connections between the UK creative sector and young artists in Sub-Saharan Africa.
British Council is actively seeking expressions of interest for Art Connects Us from UK-based organisations, curators and programmers in these fields:
Expressions of interest will be accepted until 10 March 2019.
The Creative Land Trust has been launched, supported by the Mayor of London, Arts Council England, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Outset Contemporary Art Fund. It aims to secure long-term and affordable space for artists and creative people in London.
This innovative new organisation seeks to secure land and building space while keepong affordable rent rates by:
1. Purchase of freehold properties or long leases
2. Receipt of properties gifted or transferred by public or private partners
3. Purchase of buildings with a studio provider
Thousands of publicly-owned artworks will be digitised and catalogued online by Art UK in a two-year project, announced officially on 21 February 2019.
The charity has already documented Britain’s 200,000+ publicly-owned oil paintings. Art UK's aim is to make sure that access to the nation’s public art collection is as wide as possible. As a lot of public art is not on display, this is a way of getting it to the biggest possible audience.
