Exhibition
Unearthing: Memory, Land, Materiality
15 Jun 2023 – 3 Sep 2023
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- Somerset House, Strand
- London
- WC2R 0RN
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Charing Cross/Temple/Holborn
- Waterloo/Charing Cross
An exhibition of works drawn from the Arts Council Collection and The Courtauld’s collection, curated by MA Curating the Art Museum students at The Courtauld, will go on display this summer at The Courtauld Gallery.
About
In this exhibition, ten modern and contemporary artists engage in processes of unearthing to explore complex histories, geographies, and memories. To unearth is to reveal what has been buried. It evokes the tangible and the organic; the forgotten and the remembered. Unearthing surfaces the past to shed new light on the present.
Featuring eleven works in diverse media ranging from photography to ceramics, the exhibition is an opportunity to see exceptional works in The Courtauld’s post-1945 collection in dialogue with works by some of the most innovative contemporary practitioners in the country. The artists exhibited are Prunella Clough, Phoebe Collings-James, Katie Cuddon, Jasleen Kaur, Richard Long, Liv Preston, Abigail Reynolds, Richard Serra, Libita Sibungu, and Theo Simpson.
The artists on display open a conversation with The Courtauld’s celebrated landscapes by the Impressionists in the LVMH Great Room. They form part of a longer tradition of using new media and innovative techniques to delve into our complex relationship with the environment.
The exhibition will take place in the Denise Coates Exhibition Galleries (Gallery 1) from 15 June – 3 September 2023. There will be a scheduled programme of events including weekly tours by the exhibition curators and speaker panels.
