Upcoming events
Sean Scully and Omar Kholeif in-conversation
Sean Scully RA Rabat Blue 2024 Oil on aluminium 152.4 x 134.6 cm (Image courtesy of the artist)
Join pioneering artist, Sean Scully RA, proponent of emotional abstraction and one of the most distinguished artists of our time, and Omar Kholeif, co-curator of the current exhibition, Peter Sedgley: 5 Decades, for a live in-situ talk at The Redfern Gallery, London.The duo will consider the sensory illusion of looking; the possibilities of fiction; poetry and the voice, taking us on a freeflowing journey up and down lanes of memory, which brim with both energy and feeling.
RSVP: info@redfern-gallery.com 020 7734 1732
RSVP is essential as numbers will be limited. Seating will be on a first come, first served basis.
Peter Sedgley: 5 Decades
“the only British artist to have been associated with all of the movements dealing with illusion in the 1960s…Op art, kinetic art and light art:”
The Redfern Gallery presents Peter Sedgley: Five Decades
Enter the immersive world of Op Art pioneer Peter Sedgley in the most extensive retrospective survey of his work to be mounted in London. Presenting five decades of his art, the exhibition is anchored by trails of colour and light that usher the visitor into a central vista where Sedgley’s sense of the ethereal and the enigmatic; the sensual and the spectral are explored in paintings on paper, canvas, panel, light and kinetic form. Conceived and curated in dialogue with Dr Omar Kholeif, director of collections and senior curator, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE and longtime trustee of SPACE, an organisation co-founded by Sedgley and Bridget Riley with Peter Townsend, the exhibition is also accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with an illuminating essay by that situates Sedgley has one of the most significant masters of art and illusion.
Magda Stawarska and Lubaina Himid Talk and Book Launch
Join the launch of Magda Stawarska's first monograph, in a talk featuring the artist, Dr. Omar Kholeif, and Lubaina Himid CBE RA.
Nil Yalter: Circular Tension Book Launch / Venice
Don’t miss the launch of “Nil Yalter: Circular Tension,” a compelling narrative by Omar Kholeif (@dromarkholeif) through the life and work of one of the pioneering artists of our time.
Book Launch: Helen Khal - Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s
MAISON RABIH KAYROUZ invites you into the heart of their London Store to pay homage to the late POLYMATH HELEN KHAL and The Enduring Legacy of GALLERY ONE, the first contemporary art gallery in Lebanon.
This special event marks the UK launch of HELEN KHAL: GALLERY ONE AND BEIRUT IN THE 1960s, published by STERNBERG PRESS.
Join the Book’s authors CARLA CHAMMAS, RACHEL DEDMAN and DR OMAR KHOLEIF over drinks and refreshments to convene around the transformative creativity of the Lebanese Diaspora.
Please RSVP to presse@maisonrabihkayrouz.com by October 6th
‘WHEN WE SEE US’ WEBINAR: COMPLEXITIES, CONTRADICTIONS & CONTESTATIONS OF RACE IN AFRICA
What are the social and territorial markers of African identity? Who is a person of African descent? And how might we reconstitute African identity outside of settler colonial imaginations?
In this session, scholars and artists think through constructions of identity, interrogating the socio-historical precedents of what it means to be African and the plurality of experiences and contestations that produce polyvocal understandings of identity among African people.
Drawing from Achille Mbembe’s Critique of Black Reason (2013) and a conceptualisation of blackness as “a collection of voices, pronouncements, discourses, forms of knowledge, commentary, and nonsense, whose object is things or people “of African origin,” we question the positioning of African identity amidst entanglements with western imperialism and colonialism. This session complicates both continental and trans-diasporic perceptions of blackness as a racial construct and probes the implications of rigid social identifiers such as citizenship and ethnicity in the establishment of a so-called “African-ness.”
Conceived by Zeitz MOCAA in collaboration with the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) at the University of Cape Town (UCT), the When We See Us webinar series is part of a larger project that comprises a major exhibition of the same name as well as an extensive publication. When We See Us will attempt to unveil the deeper historic contexts and networks of a complex and underrepresented genealogy that stems from African and Black modernities and spans several generations from the early 20th century to the present. To watch previous episodes, please click here. For the full schedule of webinars, visit our website.
Zeitz MOCAA’s curatorial and exhibition programming is generously supported by Gucci.
Date & Time:
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
6.30 PM SAST
Cost: The series is free and takes place via Zoom. No registration is required.
Webinar Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88378717647 or click here.
Lisson Gallery Talk event: Cory Arcangel and Dr. Omar Kholeif on Internet_Art, and other things
The ultimate event in their global book tour—Dr. Omar Kholeif has circled the world and back home to London where they are in dialogue with one of their biggest creative influences, artist Cory Arcangel. In this intimate dialogue, Kholeif discusses the impact of Arcangel’s practice on their own work over the last two decades. They will also discuss some of Arcangel’s recent artistic endeavours and consider the influence of the internet on shaping artistic practices today.
Internet Art: A Conversation and Book Signing with Trevor Paglen and Dr. Omar Kholeif
Pace Live is pleased to present a conversation between Trevor Paglen and Dr. Omar Kholeif, a leading figure in the world of networked culture and author of Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs (Phaidon). The live discussion will take place amid Paglen’s exhibition You’ve Just Been Fucked by PSYOPS with a book signing for Internet_Art to follow.
Jeffrey Deitch Gallery presents Internet_Art by Dr. Omar Kholeif
In the exclusive Los Angeles launch of Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs, Jeffrey Deitch appears in conversation with Dr. Omar Kholeif, a leading figure in the world of networked culture whose new book explores the artists and events that defined the mass medium of our time.