LONDON.- Now in its eighth year, Mayfair Art Weekend is a three-day visual arts festival with special exhibitions, gallery tours and late openings, a sculpture trail, screenings, talks, artist open-studios and pop-up events all in the heart of global art world – London’s West End. Everything is free to attend.
A whole range artists, from Old to Modern Masters to the giants of the contemporary art world plus emerging artists, are represented in the 40 galleries involved in this annual celebration of art.
The Art of the Lockdown
One of the few events not to have skipped a year due to the lockdown, MAW has a unique offer in 2021 – 12 exhibitions of art made during and about the Covid-19 pandemic that we have all experienced. These shows include a pop-up exhibition 'There Are No Calories in Kisses' by Illuminate Productions in the shop window at 48 Brook Street, HYPNOS, a site-specific installation by seven artists at Grosvenor Chapel based on Freud’s theory of ‘derealisation’, a museum-scale exhibition of work about space by Italian artist Marco Tirelli, at Cardi Gallery, and an exhibition of the latest works by Shirazeh Houshairy entitled ‘Pneuma’ which reflect on our renewed interest in the natural world, at Lisson Gallery.
Modern Masters
The 20th century exhibitions are particularly strong this year. Highlights range from a rare selling exhibition of works on paper by Joan Miró at E&R Cyzer Gallery to Prunella Cough and Alan Reynolds at Annely Juda Fine Art, Sonia Delaunay at BASTIAN, the pop art of Peter Blake at Waddington Custot, ‘From Pop to Present’ a group show of leading pop artists and their contemporary counterparts at Clarendon Fine Art, modern masters at Luxembourg & Co in the group show ‘Lost in Italy’, the stars of conceptual artist James Lee Byars in ‘The Milky Way’ at Michael Werner Gallery, the anniversary exhibition ‘FIVE YEARS’ at Olivier Malingue, and tactile works by a range of modern and contemporary artists in a group show entitled ‘In Real Life’ at The Mayor Gallery.
Mayfair Art Weekend Programme highlights
MAW has a greatly expanded events programme this year to include: the second Mayfair Sculpture Trail, a Mayfair Art Weekend collaboration with Art in Mayfair with installations in the iconic public places and squares of Mayfair, the May Fair Showreel of moving image art at The May Fair hotel on Sunday 27 June; Access All Areas, a series of special events for 17 to 26 year olds interested in creative careers, developed in partnership with Cat Manson from Art Market Mentors and Leo Young from Good Nugget. The Woolwich Print Fair has a pop-up fair in South Molton Street throughout MAW2021.
The celebrated Gallery HOP! takes place on Friday 25 June where galleries stay open until 8pm. The full programme of talks and tours and gallery events can be seen
here
‘Mayfair Art Weekend is a celebration of the diversity and resilience of the exceptional galleries in the district. After this recent period of mostly experiencing art online, Mayfair Art Weekend presents an opportunity to encounter art in real life through free events, exhibitions and talks.’ - Ewan Venters, Chief Executive Officer, Hauser & Wirth
Full list of Exhibitions:
1. Annely Juda Fine Art: Prunella Clough and Alan Reynolds until 31 July
2. BASTIAN Sonia Delaunay: Rhythm and Colour until 27 June
3. Browse & Darby: Gwen John until 16 July 2021
4. Cardi Gallery: Marco Tirelli 25 June — 4 September
5. Carpenters Workshop Gallery: Aki and Arnaud Cooren: Tiss-Tiss until 27 August
6. Clarendon Fine Art: From Pop To Present 25 June — 2 July
7. D Contemporary: Corporate Sculptures [Michael Pybus] 21 June — 2 July
8. E & R Cyzer: MIRÓ until 27 June
9. Future Icons: Future Icons Presents until 30 June
10. Galerie Boulakia: MODERN PIONEERS until 12 July
11. Galerie Max Hetzler: Tursic & Mille: Strange Days 22 June — 7 August
12. Grosvenor Chapel: HYPNOS 25 — 27 June
13. Handel & Hendrix: Hendrix in London Spring/Summer 2021
14. Hauser & Wirth: Frank Bowling - London / New York until 31 July 2021
and Ellen Gallagher - Ecstatic Draught of Fishes until 31 July 2021
15. Holtermann Fine Art
16. 48 Brook Street: Open Artist Studios 25 — 27 June
16A. Illuminate Productions: There Are No Calories in Kisses 25-27 June
17. JC Gallery: Group Show: Beatrice Spadea, Richard Roberts, Fujiko Rose and Paul Villinski. until September 2021
18. JD Malat Gallery: Kojo Marfo Dreaming of Identity until 17 July
19. John Martin Gallery: An Uncouth Song [Martin Finnin] until 28 June
20. LAMB: To Situations New Artists: Wassily Kandinsky, František Kupka, Nathalie du Pasquier, Judith Lauand, Ben Nicholson, Alberto Casari, Etel Adnan, Alberto Casari, Alek O., Mattea Perrotta, Katy Moran. 24 June — 31 July
21. Lisson Gallery: Shirazeh Houshairy: Pneuma 22 June — 31 July
22. Luxembourg & Co: Lost in Italy. Curated by Francesco Bonami. Artists: Cy Twombly, Alberto Burri, Alexander Calder, Pino Pascali, Yves Klein, Christo, Pierro Manzoni, Richard Serra, and Robert Rauschenberg. until 3 July 2021
23. Marlborough Gallery: ALCHERA: Air, Earth, Fire, Water, Ecology. Works by Joe Tilson from the 1970s 17 June — 31 July
24. The Mayor Gallery: In Real Life until 30 July
25. Mazzoleni: Melissa McGill: In Venice 23 June — 18 September
26. Michael Werner Gallery: James Lee Byars: The Milky Way and The Star Man
27. Olivier Malingue: FIVE YEARS until 23 July
28. Opera Gallery: ANDY DENZLER | Anatomy of the Mind until 27 July
29. Pippy Houldsworth Gallery: Stories of the Imaginary (self-portrait of two lemons) [Stefanie Heinze] and Just Follow Your Eyes (The Box) [Tommaso Corvi-Mora] until 27 June
30. Richard Saltoun Gallery: On Hannah Arendt: What is Freedom? Bracha L. ETTINGER. 15 June — 24 July
31. Robilant + Voena: Envisioning an Empire: Napoleon and Josephine’s First Portraits Reunited [Andrea Appiani] until 27 June
32. Saatchi Yates: Tesfaye Urgessa until 25 August
33. Simon Lee Gallery: Claudio Parmiggiani until 6 August
34. Timothy Taylor: Hilary Pecis until 27 June
35. Unit London: You Gave Me Paradise [Will Martyr] until 3 July
36. Waddington Custot: Peter Blake: Time Traveller 18 June — 13 August 2021
37. Waterhouse & Dodd: Dennis Creffield: Stone & Steel until 9 July
38. Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair Artist Projects: Floating Islands (Tanaka Mazivanhanga); Other Echoes Inhabit The Garden (Eleanor May Watson); Signs (Carol Wyss) 25 — 27 June
39. Royal Academy of Arts: RA Schools Show until 4 July
40. JC Gallery - Group Show until September 2021
41 L-13 Light Industrial Workshop: COLLIDER part 3 (An Installation) until 27 June
