Art Tour
Frieze Week 2018
03 Oct 2018 – 07 Oct 2018
Frieze Week
London, United Kingdom
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Lily van der Stokker, We also sell socks, 2012
Exhibition
KNOCK KNOCK: Humour in Contemporary Art
22 Sep 2018 – 18 Nov 2018
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 21:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 65 Peckham Road
- London
- SE5 8UH
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 36, 436
- Oval, Vauxhall Underground Stations
- Peckham Rye, Denmark Hill Overground Stations
Event map
KNOCK KNOCK explores the enduring use of humour as a device in contemporary art. Featuring works by more than thirty artists, the show spans the SLG’s main space and three floors of its new annexe in the former Peckham Road Fire Station.
About
Curated by SLG Director, Margot Heller, with artist Ryan Gander, KNOCK KNOCK brings works by internationally established figures such as Maurizio Cattelan, Sarah Lucas and Ugo Rondinone into dialogue with newly-commissioned and existing works by younger practitioners such as Danielle Dean, Hardeep Pandhal and Simeon Barclay. The show provides a surprising encounter with a broad range of humorous strategies, from slap-stick, parody and caricature through to the in-joke, one-liner and visual pun.
At a time of much upheaval and unease in the world, KNOCK KNOCK aims to raise a smile at a particularly joyous moment in the history of the SLG, but also to explore what makes us laugh in art and why.
