April 29, 2022–April 2, 2023
London NW3 6DG
United Kingdom
This spring, Camden Art Centre opens a major survey by Lily van der Stokker, her first institutional exhibition in London, alongside Berlin based Jesse Darling, the fourth recipient of the Freelands Lomax Ceramics Fellowship and, later in the summer, Tenant of Culture, the 2020 recipient of the Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze. In the autumn we present Forrest Bess (1911–1977), the first survey of the American painter’s work in the UK, alongside a new installation by Dani and Sheilah ReStack. In 2023 we open with an exhibition of new and recent paintings by Mohammed Sami, alongside a new commission by Atiéna R. Kilfa, produced in collaboration with the KW Institute for Contemporary Art.
Lily van der Stokker: Thank You Darling
April 29–September 18, 2022
Lily van der Stokker (b.1954, Hertogenbosh) is one of the Netherlands most celebrated contemporary artists. This ambitious exhibition brings together wall paintings, original works on paper and works on canvas produced over the last 35 years, addressing ideas of society, home, friendship, work, finances, illness and care. Her monumental wall paintings—with their distinctive colour palette and highly decorative motifs—play on apparently cliched stereotypes of femininity, but her work has a depth and toughness that belies its saccharine aesthetic.
Jesse Darling: Enclosures
May 13–June 26, 2022
Jesse Darling (b. Oxford, UK) is a Berlin based artist who works across installation, film, text, sound, and performance. This major new commission is a culmination of research developed by Darling through their Freelands Lomax Ceramics Fellowship, and continues their ongoing reflection on the fallibility, adaptability and vulnerability of living beings, society, and technologies.
Tenant of Culture
July 8–September 18, 2022
Tenant of Culture, the anonym for Dutch artist Hendrickje Schimmel (b.1990, Arnhem, Netherlands), will realise an ambitious new site-specific installation for Camden Art Centre, her largest work-to-date. The exhibition will draw on and extend the artist’s long-standing exploration of consumer culture and the vast and problematic waste accumulated via the fashion industry.
Forrest Bess
September 30–December 23, 2022
Forrest Bess (b.1911–1977, Bay City, Texas) was a visionary American painter who produced an extraordinary body of work between the 1940s and 1970s. Working on a small scale and with modest materials, his paintings developed a highly personal and often cryptic symbolist language, which also drew on his extensive research into various mythological, spiritual and alchemical traditions. The exhibition will bring together more than 40 of these visionary works, alongside letters, working drawings and previously unseen archival material.
Dani and Sheilah ReStack
September 30–December 23, 2022
Dani and Sheilah ReStack (b. 1972, Columbus, Ohio; b.1975, Caribou River, Nova Scotia) will build a site-specific installation that expands on their exploration of queer desire, family, collaboration and conflict. Using video, drawing and photography they individually, and collectively, push on the constraints of the domestic to yield transformation.The exhibition will also include a presentation of their video trilogy: Strangely Ordinary This Devotion, Future From Inside and Come Coyote.
Mohammed Sami
January 26–May 28, 2023
Mohammed Sami’s (b.1984, Baghdad, Iraq) first institutional solo show in the UK will continue his long-standing exploration of belated memories in relation to time and conflict. His large-scale paintings exquisitely render abandoned interiors, barricaded windows and uncanny depictions of apparently everyday objects including clothing, furniture, mattresses and rugs, charged with the weight of uneasy histories.
Atiéna R. Kilfa
January 26–April 2, 2023
Atiéna R. Kilfa (b.1990, Paris, France) will present a new moving-image commission presented within a site-specific architectural structure for her first UK institutional solo exhibition. A central focus of this multi-disciplinary work will be a measured analysis of the physical and social relationships illustrated by the placement of figures or “models” in historical painting and the legacy of these compositions.
