The Shock of the Now - Issue #156
Afternoon All - Welcome to Issue 156 of The Shock of the Now! I hope you’re having an enjoyable week.
Thanks to all those who have signed-up for the paid subscription following last week’s launch, your support and encouragement is greatly appreciated! This is the first paid issue, with free subscribers limited to five Recommended Exhibitions listings, so if you haven’t yet converted for £3.50 per month (or £40.00 per year), you can do so via the link below. Thanks in advance!
This week, the full issue includes fifteen Recommended Exhibitions, as well as eleven fresh Artist Opportunities.
Additionally, on Friday I’ll be publishing The Shock of the Now’s Guide to Condo 2025 for paid subscribers. That in-depth issue will provide a comprehensive break-down of this year’s Condo gallery collaboration, covering the forty-nine galleries exhibiting over twenty-two London spaces; the artists and exhibitions included; associated events; openings and satellite presentations. If you’re planning on doing the Condo rounds over the next few weeks, you won’t want to miss it!
I hope you enjoy Issue 156, and if so do forward it along! As always, questions and comments are welcome, so feel free to get in touch, H x
Recommended Exhibitions Opening This Week :
Nahem Shoa - ‘The London Look: Portraits 1997-2003’ Solo Exhibition - William Hine, Camberwell (16th January - 22nd February, opening Wednesday 15th January, 6:30-8:30pm)
William Hine presents Nahem Shoa’s solo exhibition ‘The London Look: Portraits 1997-2003’.
“The exhibition brings together a significant selection of the artist’s portraits spanning the late 1990s and early 2000s, many of which have not been shown in London for nearly 25 years. Following on from his recent institutional display Nahem Shoa: Into the Light at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2023-2024), this presentation at the gallery highlights a pivotal body of work from Shoa’s early career. The seven works on view, all painted from life, document a time in which the artist was achieving a technical mastery of colour and composition in his figurative paintings, whilst subtly engaging the poignant social and political environment in which his life and work belongs.” - William Hine
‘Alone In The Moonlight’ Group Exhibition - Soup, Elephant & Castle (16th January - 22nd February, opening Wednesday 15th January, 6-9pm)
Soup presents ‘Alone In The Moonlight’, a group exhibition featuring Mark Burch, I. Mills and Albie Romero.
“The exhibition spotlights three emerging artists at an important point in their artistic development, all of whom foreground an emotive and emphatic exploration of memory at the centre of their painting practices. Additionally, all three have an enduring interest in photography as a visual reference for their image-making.” - Soup
Gabriel Kidd & Matilda Sutton - ‘Cloister Stone’ Two-Person Exhibition - Pipeline, Fitzrovia (17th January - 22nd February, opening Thursday 16th January, 6-8pm)
Pipeline presents ‘Cloister Stone’, a two-person exhibition of work by Gabriel Kidd and Matilda Sutton.
Matthias Groebel - ‘Skull Fuck’ Solo Exhibition - Modern Art, Helmet Row, Shoreditch (17th January - 22nd February, opening Thursday 16th January, 6-8pm)
Modern Art presents Matthias Groebel’s solo exhibition ‘Skull Fuck’ at their Helmet Row location.
“Groebel is known for using television imagery, as well as his own photography and films to produce machine assisted paintings and film. This exhibition features rarely seen paintings, as well as new paintings and a film work.” - Modern Art
Albano Hernández - ‘Trash/Value’ Solo Exhibition - Palmer Gallery, Edgware Road (17th January - 22nd February, opening Thursday 16th January, 6-9pm)
Palmer presents Albano Hernández’s solo exhibition ‘Trash/Value’.
“Trash/Value is an exhibition that delves into the intricate relationship between consumerism and sustainability, questioning how objects are attributed worth in a world shaped by disposability. With an aesthetic influenced by the meat industry, Albano’s practice is rooted in his upbringing in Ávila, Spain - a region strongly connected to agriculture and meat production. This cultural and economic backdrop influences his distinctive hybrid works that are produced using a meat slicer to cut fragments of clay and repurposed materials.” - Palmer Gallery