Summer Newsletter 2024

It has been another busy year for all of us at Michael Hoppen, and suddenly the summer is upon us! We are looking forward to a short break during August and wanted to take this opportunity to share with you some exciting shows to come.

In July we installed and opened our current exhibition Outside Inside, which explores the relationship between photography and botanical life. This show features artists including Charles Jones, Richard Learoyd, Tim Walker, Nobuyoshi Araki, Ori Gersht and Siân Davey. We very much hope to see you at 10 Portland Road, but if you can’t make it please send us a message and we will share the list of works online.

In addition to our summer exhibition in London, we are delighted to be bringing Siân Davey's new series The Garden to Japan. This solo presentation of Davey’s photography will be displayed for our gallery takeover of Studio 35 Minutes in Tokyo, opening on August 15th. We hope that in the heat of the Japanese summer The Garden will prove a green oasis, drawing in photography enthusiasts and collectors from across the city. 

Looking ahead to the autumn, we are thrilled to announce an exhibition at 10 Portland Road dedicated to the Japanese Surrealist photographer and poet Yamamoto Kansuke. Further details regarding the exhibition and associated publication will follow soon. We will also present a curated online exhibition of Deborah Turbeville’s fashion photography and portraiture, anticipating the artist’s forthcoming solo show at The Photographers Gallery here in London. Finally, in November, we will once again be participating in Paris Photo, which returns this year to the splendour of the Grand Palais.

The gallery will be closed for our summer break from the evening of Friday 9th August re-opening on Wednesday 21st August. Wishing you all a happy summer!
 
 
 

 

The Garden by Siân Davey at Studio 35 Minutes
15 August - 7 September 2024, Studio 35 Minutes, Tokyo
In proposing to bring our gallery to Tokyo for the summer, we wish to reinforce our commitment to the community of artists, friends and colleagues who have supported our involvement with Japanese photography over the years. Bringing the work of one of our British photographers, Siân Davey, we hope to promote the spirit of inter-cultural exchange that has been the foundation of so many fruitful collaborations in the past two decades.

Studio 35 Minutes is an independent gallery space, based in a former photography studio in Nakano, Tokyo. The gallery’s name is taken from the original shop sign, referring to the time taken to develop clients’ reels of film, but today the building functions as a gallery and bar. Studio 35 Minutes has hosted exhibitions by many of the contemporary Japanese artists who we continue to work with, including Yamatani Yusuke, Utsu Yumiko and Yamauchi Yu, and the role it plays as a nexus for the photography community made it feel like the right place for us to set up our gallery temporarily in Tokyo.

In the heat of the Japanese summer, we hope that The Garden will prove a green oasis, drawing in photography enthusiasts from across the city. We also look forward to hosting some special events with local artists who we represent, so please check our Instagram page for further details.

To view the full Japanese press release, please click on the link below:
 
 press release
 
 
 
 

 

Outside Inside | A Summer Exhibition
15 July - 20 September 2024, 10 Portland Road
Now open at 10 Portland Road, this summer exhibition celebrates the relationship between photography and botanical life. From garden scenes to botanical studies, this show brings together works from across the medium’s history. Highlights include a large selection of 19th century gold-toned silver gelatin prints by the English gardener and photographer Charles Jones and unique work by Richard Learoyd, created without the use of a negative in his room-sized camera obscura. We are also delighted to be showing a group of photographs from Siân Davey’s series The Garden, which recently entered the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

 

Paris Photo
7-10 November 2024, Grand Palais, Paris
We are delighted to be returning to Paris Photo this year and are very much hoping to welcome many of our clients and esteemed colleagues to our stand at the restored Grand Palais. This year, we will present a selection of unique and vintage works which explore Surrealism alongside contemporary studies of the movement. Featured artists include Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ei-Q, Guy Bourdin, Horacio Coppola, László Moholy-Nagy, Shigeru Onishi, Man Ray, Osamu Shiihara, Yamamoto Kansuke and Shomei Tomatsu.

Our preview will follow in the weeks before the fair opens. 
 
 
 

 

Yamamoto Kansuke
Opening this November at 10 Portland Road, Holland Park
This November we are delighted to present the work of Japanese photographer and poet Yamamoto Kansuke (1914—1987) at our gallery in Portland Road. Yamamoto rose to prominence as a leading member of the Nagoya Avant-Garde during the 1930s, and continued throughout the subsequent half-century to pioneer an experimental photographic practice that explores the possibilities of working with chance, juxtaposition, and imagery drawn from the subconscious. An admirer of European Surrealism, Yamamoto incorporated Japanese motifs and concerns to bring this body of thought to bear upon the context of his own situation. A resurgence of interest in Yamamoto’s work occurred after his retrospective at the Getty museum (Japan’s Modern Divide, 2013) and his inclusion in the Metropolitan Museum’s exhibition Surrealism Beyond Borders (2021), and we are looking forward to presenting a selection of unique vintage prints from Yamamoto’s archive in the centennial year of Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto. Stay tuned for further details about this exhibition and our associated publication coming soon.
 
 
September 20, 2024
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