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Participating artists: Yan Wang Preston, Gerhard Stromberg, Catherine Hyland, Uta Kogelsberger, Wassily Kandinsky, William Cowen, Anthony Fry, Prunella Clough.

Exhibition dates: 28 March – Wednesday 7 May 2025
Gallery: Hatton Gallery, gallery 4

Theme: Human-nonhuman relations: humans’ relations to the materiality of urban and rural environments in process of transformation and economic development.

Newcastle University's Hatton Gallery has been at the heart of cultural life in the North East since the early 20th century.

Founded in 1925 and named in honour of Professor Richard George Hatton, professor of what was then the King Edward VII School of Art, Armstrong College, Durham University. He subsequently became Head of the Department of Fine Art at Newcastle University. 

The Hatton’s diverse collection includes over 3,000 works from the 14th – 20th centuries. Key pieces in our paintings collection include works by Francis Bacon, Prunella Clough, Richard Hamilton, Palma Giovane, Patrick Heron and William Roberts. Works on paper by artists including Thomas Bewick, Thomas Hair, Wyndham Lewis, Linder and Paula Rego are also held.

The gallery also has extensive archive material including paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings and textiles, and material connected to the history of the Gallery, such as exhibition posters designed and printed in the art school.

The Hatton stages a programme of modern and contemporary art exhibitions, and events including artist and curator talks and family activities. Working closely with students from Newcastle University and exhibiting their work on an annual basis.

Duration: 12 September 2025 -19 October 2025

‘Beautiful Giants? Architecture and Energy in the Mirror of Photography’ due to open in Bern in September 2025, will explore energy-generating architecture as an artistic subject. Energy keeps our society running. Nuclear power plants, wind turbines, pipelines, coal-fired power plants, dams, offshore platforms: Although energy is invisible, its production has a spatial footprint. This architecture, which is not focussed on aesthetics but on technical and commercial success, is very imposing and integrates poorly into the landscape. We cannot do without it, but it arouses contradictory feelings in us. Can we still find a certain beauty in it? This photo exhibition at the Kornhausforum Bern opens up a debate about these familiar yet strange buildings, about our relationship with them and about their future.

Kornhausforum Bern, Switzerland.

Opening: October 15, 2025

Duration: 16 October 2025 – 8 March 2026 

The rise of the smart city and the exponential increase in data production is leading to the construction of large digital infrastructures like data centers and undersea cable networks. In turn, data is the new gold. This puts pressure on the extraction of more critical resources like lithium and copper and expands the demand for electricity and clean water, placing enormous strain on the natural environment and consequently displacing humans and non-humans. The exhibition critically examines the impact of smart cities and digital infrastructures through the lens of materiality, citizenship, and heritage. Discussing the potential role of the smart city in creating democratic and eco-technological collective futures.

Architekturmuseum der TUM, Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.

​Private View: Francis Alÿs

The Belgian artist brings his Children’s Games to London’s Barbican for an immersive celebration of the universal ingenuity of play

Since 1999, Belgian artist Francis Alÿs has engaged with the universality of play while travelling the world, documenting the ingenuity of children’s games across different global contexts. Illuminating the limitlessness of children’s imaginations – transcending war and challenging circumstances – the games become intimate portraits of childhood against varied socio-political landscapes, with play as an invisible thread.

From ‘musical chairs’ in Mexico, to ‘leapfrog’ in Iraq, ‘jump rope’ in Hong Kong, and ‘wolf and lamb’ in Afghanistan, Alÿs’ decades spanning Children’s Games project becomes the center of Francis Alÿs: Ricochets – an immersive exhibition that turns London’s Barbican into a cinematic playground. In the first presentation of the video works in the UK, multi-screen installations construct a dialogue between distinct and distant regions, alongside a new body of animated films, depicting the simple gestures of hand games.

For a film by Catherine Hyland, created with the Barbican, Alÿs explores how games and creativity enable children to interact with their environments – while creating distance from nuances beyond their understanding. By triggering memories and establishing a commonality among viewers, Alÿs expands on the power of play as an invitation to enter a new dimension, and a means of escape from the conflicts that permeate the adult world. 

Francis Alÿs: Ricochets is on display at the Barbican Art Gallery until 1 September 2024.

Autour du Monde

La traversée des images, d’Albert Kahn à Curiosity

Boulogne-Billancourt, France, March 12 to November 13, 2022.

Thursday October 7th 2021

We will be bringing some of the stories in the issue to life on the night, with a photography exhibition of Catherine Hyland’s landscapes exploring identity and place in the UK, a showcase of quilts made by Arrange Whatever Pieces Come Your Way, and scents from Cremate London. Plus, Max Rocha's Café Cecilia will be serving canapés, and our bar menu has been specially put together by our friends at Top Cuvée.

The Modern House
St. Alphege Hall, King's Bench St
London SE1 0QX

Glasgow

Many Studios

5th–6th June 2021

Part of the Architecture Fringe Programme

London

Bermondsey Project Space

22nd–26th June 2021

Part of The London Festival of Architecture

Curated by Francisco Ibáñez Hantke and Luke O’Donovan

‘Power Structures’ focuses on the ways in which socioeconomic and political structures shape the built environment. Featuring both emerging and established artists from around the world, whose work draws upon the changing power dynamics within global society, and the challenges faced as humans strike a balance between care for, and control over, the natural environment. Together the works provide an international perspective on some of the defining issues of our time, and the role that architecture can play in forming the power structures of the future.

Les Mesnographies du 11 au 26 septembre 2021, dans le parc des Mesnuls 78490.

Focal Point Gallery (FPG) is celebrating its 30th anniversary year. Since 1990, the gallery has presented a critically acclaimed programme of local, national and international artists. In a light-hearted acknowledegment to each individual, FPG invited every artist who has worked with them to contribute a self-portrait for a commemorative tea towel. Many responded and the gallery is delighted to be launching Edition #100 of FPG’s celebrated Printed Matter collection.

https://www.fpg.org.uk/