Exhibitions & Art Fairs

Leopoldo Pomés

Vintage Prints 9 Dec 2010 - 31 Jan 2011 Born in Barcelona in 1931, Pomés, a self-taught photographer, had a highly successful and celebrated late career in advertising in his native Spain. However, it is his evocative early photographs of Barcelona that formed the basis of the exhibition. Taken between 1947 and 1969 these vintage photographs of Barcelona show... Read more

Mary McCartney

From where I stand 22 Oct - 20 Nov 2010 From Where I Stand reveals the very best work selected from Mary McCartney’s complete archive from the 1990s to date. This first solo exhibition of work at the gallery will coincide with the book launch of From Where I Stand produced by Thames & Hudson. From portraits to photographs of... Read more

Robert Bergman

14 Oct - 12 Dec 2010 Michael Hoppen Contemporary is pleased to present the very first European show of American photographer Robert Bergman’s color portraits, opening 14 October 2010. In the tradition of spontaneous street photography, Bergman finds fleeting moments with strangers, capturing the truth of personal emotion, lived experience and spiritual states, allowing a microscopically... Read more

Shomei Tomatsu & Daido Moriyama

10 Sep - 10 Oct 2010 Two of the great Japanese photographers hung side by side. Read more

Group Show

Russia! 30 Jun - 21 Aug 2010 Michael Hoppen Gallery is pleased to present a unique selection of rarely viewed Russian photographs: Boris Savelev was born in the Ukraine in 1948 and moved to Moscow in 1966. He is a graduate of the Institute of Aeronautics and joined the Moscow photography club Novator in 1970. He became... Read more

Alex Prager

Week End 10 Jun - 7 Jul 2010 Michael Hoppen Contemporary will present the most recent work by rising American photographer Alex Prager. Following the success of her 2008 critically acclaimed exhibit, The Big Valley , the exhibition will stage the continuation of Prager’s Los Angeles narrative, as she contrives the next generation of retro-modern damsels. Women adorned... Read more

Daniele Tamagni and Araminta de Clermont

7 May - 5 Jun 2010 Michael Hoppen Contemporary is pleased to bring together two contemporary photographers who have documented the sartorial expressions of particular communities in the Congo and South Africa.Daniele Tamagni and Araminta de Clermont befriend their respective subjects and utilize the camera to create unique records of their chosen circles. Tamagni’s images brilliantly... Read more

Miroslav Tichý

28 Apr - 29 May 2010 The recently unknown photographic work of Czech artist Miroslav Tichy has become a noteworthy presence in the worlds of photography and contemporary art over the last few years. Timeless and uncategorizable, Tichy's work captures the women of Kijov, from the artist's native city in Moravia. On 28 April 2010, the... Read more

Yoshihiko Ueda

QUINAULT 24 Mar - 1 May 2010 The images Yoshihiko Ueda created are potent with the seductive otherworldliness and glowing dampness of the wet terrain. Deep, dark greens and blues reflect the intensity of Ueda’s time in the forest and the spiritual connection he had with Quinault. “The brushwood wheezed, the moss shown an impossibly phosphorescent green... Read more

Kishin Shinoyama

NUDE 14 Jan - 20 Feb 2010 Still hard at work well into his late 70s, Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama's images have lost none of the potency that would make his 1960's nude studies so revered and sensationalized in equal measure. Michael Hoppen Contemporary is pleased to announce the first exhibition of his work in the UK,... Read more

Fernand Fonssagrives

14 Jan - 25 Apr 2010 The Michael Hoppen gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of work by one of America’s foremost fashion photographers Fernand Fonssagrives. Once the highest paid photographers in the world, he was ambivalent about the acclaim he received in his chosen field, preferring to remain anonymous. Little was written about him,... Read more

Group Show

C O L O U R 25 Nov 2009 - 9 Jan 2010 How do you describe colour? Even the dictionary definition of it is poetic: That aspect of things that is caused by differing qualities of the light reflected or emitted by them, definable in terms of the observer or of the light. Read more