Haegue Yang, The Randing Intermediates – Underbelly Alienage Duo, 2020. © Haegue Yang. Courtesy of the artist. Commission by Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila. Photo: At Maculangan/Pioneer Studios.


From the Hayward Gallery to Turner Contemporary and the ICA, discover some of the best exhibitions and events in the UK this autumn featuring Delfina’s artists and alumni.

 

Haegue Yang

Hayward Gallery, London

9 Oct 2024 – 5 Jan 2025

Haegue Yang presents Leap Year, a world of inventive, immersive and multisensory installations and sculptures that weave connections between disparate histories, cultures and traditions in an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London’s Southbank Centre. Leap Year is the first major survey of the internationally celebrated artist in the UK. It presents a comprehensive study of Yang’s work from the early 2000s to today, highlighting how her artworks resonate on a personal and sensory level while also speaking to social, political and spiritual ideas.

 

Sonia Boyce

Whitechapel Gallery, London

2 Oct 2024 – 12 Jan 2025

An Awkward Relation is a new exhibition from Sonia Boyce conceived to be in dialogue with the exhibition of Brazilian artist Lydia Clark, The I and the You, showing at the Whitechapel Gallery concurrently. The exhibition brings together pivotal and rarely seen works to explore themes of interaction, participation and improvisation – all of which have played a definitive role in Boyce’s practice since the 1990s and reflect a shared interest with many of the radical approaches that Lygia Clark pioneered in her own work.

 

Hew Locke

British Museum, London

17 Oct 2024 – 9 Feb 2025

Delfina alum Hew Locke turns his lens on the British Museum collection in a collaborative exhibition exploring histories of British imperial power, titled What have we here?

 

Anya Gallaccio

Turner Contemporary, London

28 Sep 2024 – 26 Jan 2025

Anya Gallaccio: preserve is the largest survey exhibition of the British artist to date. The exhibition will span three decades of Gallaccio’s radical practice, restaging several iconic sculptures in addition to a new site-specific commission. It will reveal her consistent rethinking of the relationship between art and the environment by presenting works that connect with the English county of Kent’s natural heritage.

 

Nasim Azazar

The Showroom Mural Commission, London

26 Jul 2024 – 7 Jul 2025

For The Showroom’s Annual Mural Commission 2024-25 French-born Moroccan artist and Delfina alum Nassim Azarzar offers a reflection into the nature of migration explored through the lens of transnational experience. Hayat al Noujoum / La vie des étoiles constellates visual and aural elements, combining the artist’s distinct painterly style with a sound installation of oral testimonies of personal migratory experiences from the Church Street Ward, at the heart of London’s Westminster borough, and the wider community.

 

Geumhyung Jeong

ICA, London

26 Sep 2024 – 15 Dec 2024

Under Construction, a solo exhibition by Geumhyung Jeong features a newly commissioned installation of sculpture and video, and series of live performances. Working from her background in choreography and a studied interest in the role of objects and technology in our lives, Jeong uses her body and animatronic figures built from DIY parts to parse the uncanny relationships between people and machines.

 

Rana Begum

Pallant House, Chichester

20 Jul 2024 – Jul 2026

On display until July 2026, Delfina alumni Rana Begum has transformed the historic staircase at Pallant House with her monumental site-specific installation, No.1367 Mesh, which features Begum’s iconic colourful mesh clusters (often referred to as ‘clouds’). Each unique configuration brings vibrant colour and organic forms to the 18th-century townhouse, blending history and contemporary art.

 

Lydia Ourahmane

Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation, London

6 Oct 2024 – 27 Oct 2024

The Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation opens MOTHER TONGUE by designer Bethan Laura Wood, a kaleidoscopic exhibition and programme of salons which draws inspiration from the 18th-century Bluestockings Society—one of Britain’s first feminist groups advocating for the arts, philanthropy, support and learning. The exhibition is enhanced by Sibu, a site-specific sound installation by Delfina alum Lydia Ourahmane.

 

Farah Al Qasimi

Art Exchange, Essex

1 Oct 2024 – 9 Nov 2024

Abort, Retry, Fail, which marked Qasimi’s first UK solo, was originally commissioned in 2023 by Delfina Foundation with the generous support of Abu Dhabi Festival and has now travelled to Art Exchange at the University of Essex.

The exhibition takes its title from the computer error message that flashes up on Delfina alum Farah Al Qasimi’s now defunct family computer. It connected her to the outside world and was a portal to escape from reality through gaming – as a pirate, a gun slinging biker, or a tiny ball bouncing off the edges of the screen. The exhibition brings together photography and film in an index of attempts to transcend the natural world through entering fictional realities.

 

Lydia Ourahmane

Spike Island, Bristol

28 Sep 2024 – 19 Jan 2025

Spike Island presents Grey Unpleasant Land, a collaborative exhibition by Delfina alum Lydia Ourahmane and Sophia Al-Maria.

The exhibition examines the myth of England as a nation. Combining a range of media—including historical artefacts, speculative narratives, petitions to patrons and a deed of gift—Ourahmane and Al-Maria provide a unique lens through which to investigate the complex and often troubling nature of England’s cultural and historical landscape.

 

Aziza Kadyri

Pushkin House, London

11 October to 19 Jan 2025

Commissioned by Pushkin House, this exhibition, Spinning Tales, by Uzbek artist and Delfina alum Aziza Kadyri unfolds like an epic poem in three thematic chapters, exploring collective memory, women’s histories, and trans-local diasporic connections.