Summer is almost in full swing. The weather is getting warmer, our outfits are changing, and London’s art exhibitions are shining brightly, making it the perfect time to gallery hop and explore the city’s artistic palette in Five Exhibitions To See In London In June 2024.
Our selection features a great variety of expressions, from provocative pieces by iconic rebels to poignant photographs capturing the essence of human emotions and culture. Whether you’re a seasoned art lover or a curious newcomer, these exhibitions offer something for everyone.
First stop on our list of Exhibitions To See In London is D’Stassi Art, hosting the debut UK solo exhibition of the iconic French painter Didier Chamizo. Chamizo embodies an artist whose life and art are inseparable, each informing the other in a passionate dance of creativity and experience. His art is not merely a reflection of his life; it is an emblem of his turbulent journey. Charged with the raw energy of his life’s story, his paintings showcase a rebel soul who defies conventions and expectations. Chamizo himself would tell you that his work is his voice, and through it, he speaks volumes about the highs and lows of his extraordinary existence.
Next up on our Five Exhibitions To See In London In June 2024 is “Through The Lens of Esther Anderson: Bob Marley: The Early Years“ in Muswell Hill. This exhibition brings together 20 rare and iconic photographs of Bob Marley taken by the pioneering Jamaican filmmaker, photographer, and activist Esther Anderson at the start of Marley’s journey into musical stardom in the early 1970s. This rare and intimate archive tells the story of the legendary artist, Bob Marley.
Then, we go “Back in the Dazed: RANKIN 1991-2001” at 180 Studios, which highlights one photographer and one magazine across one memorable decade, featuring the iconic photographer Rankin. As the co-founder and Dazed & Confused’s first Photographic Editor, Rankin’s visual style helped launch the magazine and defined the aesthetics of multiple generations of British youth. Over ten years, Rankin photographed over 200 iconic editorial shoots for the magazine. His work from this period forms a manifesto about how to view the world, a political statement communicated not with words but with a camera lens.
Next on our Five Exhibitions To See In London In June 2024, we hop over to Amar Gallery in Fitzrovia, an activist art gallery championing overlooked female, minority, and LGBT+ artists. The exhibition “Dora Maar: Behind the Lens” will showcase exclusive photographs and photograms from the Dora Maar Estate, hosted by British Indian LGBT+ ally and women’s rights activist Amar Singh and renowned British author Louisa Treger.
Our last stop on Five Exhibitions To See In London In June is Thomas Dane Gallery for Patricia Leite‘s “Paisagem de Lenda (Landscape of Legend).” The exhibition presents a group of new paintings and a floor-based tapestry that invoke indigenous stories deeply linked to the landscape and ecology of Brazil. As these natural environments are being eroded by climate change, industry, extraction, and the destructive policies of neglectful governments, Leite creates work that reflects on what will be lost and melancholically celebrates what still remains.
There you have it, our Five Exhibitions To See In London In June 2024. Enjoy!
Didier Chamzio: Rebel Soul
D’Stassi Art is thrilled to announce the first ever UK solo exhibition of iconic French painter Didier Chamizo, titled Rebel Soul. Didier Chamizo’s UK Debut show will be revealed with an opening night on 7th June, with a rare appearance by Chamizo.
Opening on 7th June 2024 at D’Stassi Art in London’s Shoreditch, the exhibition showcases 19 vivid figurative portraits and a custom Harley Davidson hand-painted by Chamizo. Inspired by lettrism, a unique alternative to graffiti and tag art, Chamizo is renowned for creating lettric abstraction-figuration, a style marked by raw, untamed expression and deep emotional truths.
To be an artist with expression is one thing, but to be an artist with a story is another. Chamizo is an artist in the most authentic sense, his art informing his life and life informing his art. His life is a life lived to the fullest.
However, Chamizo is more than a living example of the trope of a suffering artist: his art was born out of experiences that most people wouldn’t live through in a lifetime, but he channelled these experiences into visceral narratives that jump out of the canvas. As the saying goes, ‘You never know what you know until you do what you’ve never been told.’ This sentiment sets an artist on a path to iconism. Chamizo epitomizes the blend of art and lived experience. His work is an emblem of his turbulent journey, filled with political activism, personal tragedy, and relentless creativity.
Didier Chamzio: Rebel Soul
Opens 7th June, 2024
D’STASSI ART
12 – 18 Hoxton Street
(Entrance on Drysdale St)
London, N1 6NG
Image by © Esther Anderson/Corbis
Through The Lens of Esther Anderson: Bob Marley: The Early Years
Through The Lens of Esther Anderson: Bob Marley: The Early Years brings together 20 rare and iconic photographs of Bob Marley taken by the pioneering Jamaican filmmaker, photographer and activist, Esther Anderson at the start of Bob Marley’s journey into the music stratosphere in the early 1970’s. Her contribution as a photographer places her amongst some of the greats with this rare and intimate archive that tells the story of the legendary artist, Bob Marley.
As co-founder of Island Records, Esther Anderson first heard Bob Marley sing at Compass Studios in Nassau, Bahamas, in 1972, which was unlike anything she had heard before. A visionary artist, Esther immediately knew that she had found a kindred spirit: someone who shared her love of Rastafarianism and she sought to shine a light on Bob Marley and the rise of reggae music.
Through The Lens of Esther Anderson: Bob Marley: The Early Years
30th May, 2024 – 19th June, 2024
Muswell Hill Gallery
21 High Street
Hornsey
London
N8 7QB
Dazed Confused Issue 15, 1995 c Rankin
Back in the Dazed: RANKIN 1991-2001
A new exhibition from photographer Rankin, Back in the Dazed: RANKIN 1991-2001 highlights one photographer and one magazine, across one memorable decade. From cult celebrities, to musical icons and the world’s top Supermodels, Rankin was at the forefront of Cool Britannia and the 90’s style which is still popular today. Co-founder and Dazed & Confused’s first Photographic Editor, Rankin’s visual style helped launch the magazine and defined the aesthetics of multiple generations of British youth.
Across 10 years Rankin photographed over 200 iconic editorial shoots for the magazine, and his work from this period forms a manifesto about how to view the world, a political statement communicated not with words but with a camera lens.
Back in the Dazed: RANKIN 1991-2001
29th May, 2024 – 23rd June, 2024
180 Studios
180 Strand
London
WC2R 1EA
Dora MAAR 1907 – 1997 La Sagrada Familia – Barcelone, c. 1933.jpg
Dora Maar: Behind the Lens
Amar Gallery Fitzrovia will launch as an activist art gallery championing overlooked female, minority, and LGBT+ artists. The opening launch exhibition Dora Maar: Behind the Lens will showcase exclusive photographs and photograms from the Dora Maar Estate which will be open to the public 16th June – 18th August 2024. The private preview opening on the 15th of June 2024 is being hosted by British Indian LGBT+ ally and women’s rights activist Amar Singh and renowned British author Louisa Treger.
The exhibition is a celebration of Maar’s life and is in conjunction with the upcoming 4th July release of bestselling author Louisa Treger’s book, The Paris Muse, based on Maar’s affair with Picasso, and the theatrical production Maar, Dora which is performing at Camden Fringe in August and is produced by Amar Gallery, Nadia Jackson & Spiky Saul.
Dora Maar: Behind the Lens
6th June, 2024– 18th August, 2024
Amar Gallery
12-14 Kirkman House
Lower Ground
Whitfield Street
London
W1T 2RF
Patricia Leite: Paisagem de Lenda
Like many Brazilian children, Patricia Leite (b.1955, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) was raised on the legends of the Tupi-Guarani indigenous people. These stories are embedded in the landscapes of Brazil, where the gods reside in the sun, the moon, the forest, the sea, the stars and the mountains, transforming these features of the landscape into lead characters to which a young Leite would look to shape her own world and imagination.
For Paisagem de Lenda (Landscape of Legend), her second exhibition at Thomas Dane Gallery in London, Leite presents a group of new paintings and a floor-based tapestry that invoke these indigenous stories, deeply linked to the landscape and ecology of Brazil. As these natural environments are being eroded by climate change, industry, extraction and the destructive policies of neglectful governments, Leite creates work that reflects on what will be lost, and in melancholic celebration of what still remains. Leite’s work is imbued with stories and memories from her life: her recollections of travel and of friendships.
Patricia Leite: Paisagem de Lenda
7 June–3 August 2024
Thomas Dane Gallery
3 Duke Street
St James’s
London SW1Y
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