Exhibitions

Portals to Place: Three Papunya Tula Artists

20 March - 16 May 2026 Fitzrovia Opening reception | Thursday 19 March, 6 – 8pm Edel Assanti is pleased to present a parallel presentation of work by Lorna Ward Napanangka, Yukultji Napangati , and John West Tjupurrula . All three artists are members of the Papunya Tula Artists cooperative in Papunya, Australia, which is entirely owned... Read more

Thornton Dial: From Bessemer to the Cosmos

16 January - 14 March 2026 Fitzrovia Edel Assanti is pleased to present From Bessemer to the Cosmos , the first UK solo exhibition of large-scale paintings and assemblages by late American artist Thornton Dial (1928–2016), organised in collaboration with MARCH Gallery. Coinciding with the ten-year anniversary of the artist’s death in 2016, the exhibition brings together... Read more

Noémie Goudal: And yet it still moves

10 October - 12 December 2025 Fitzrovia Opening reception | Thursday 9 October, 6 – 8pm What fascinates me is the ability to see a landscape not as something fixed, but as a living, moving entity – constantly shifting, evolving, becoming. Even what seems stable is in quiet motion, reminding us that place, like time, is always... Read more

Systems on Paper

12 - 25 September 2025 Fitzrovia Opening reception | Thursday 11 September, 6 – 8pm Farley Aguilar | Roberta Booth | Mirtha Dermisache | Thornton Dial | Marcin Dudek | Sorel Etrog | Lonnie Holley | Marcus Jefferson | Dale Lewis | Victoria Lomasko | Yoshinori Niwa | Jenkin van Zyl Edel Assanti is pleased to... Read more

Simon Lehner: Of Peasants & Basterds

6 June - 22 August 2025 Fitzrovia Opening reception | Thursday 5 June, 6-8pm Edel Assanti is pleased to present Vienna-based artist Simon Lehner’s first UK solo exhibition, Of Peasants & Basterds. Working across sculpture, painting and installation, Simon Lehner’s practice interrogates the relationship between the image-onslaught of the information age and psychic inner life. Lehner’s research... Read more

Si On: Soft Armour, Heavy Bones

28 March - 17 May 2025 Fitzrovia Opening reception | Thursday 27 March, 6-8pm Edel Assanti is pleased to present Soft Armour, Heavy Bones , Si On’s second exhibition at the gallery. Comprising recent paintings and sculptures, the show follows the artist’s acclaimed 2024 solo exhibition, There Is Neither The Beginning Nor An End , at GGM2... Read more

Each Place Its Own Mind

17 January - 15 March 2025 Fitzrovia Opening Reception | Thursday 16 January, 6-8 pm Mirtha Dermisache | Noémie Goudal | Sky Hopinka | Anna Hulačová | Marguerite Humeau | Bronwyn Katz | Kat Lyons | Yukultji Napangati | Emmanuel Van der Auwera Each place its own mind, its own psyche. Oak, madrone, Douglas fir, red-tailed hawk,... Read more

The Stars Fell on Alabama: Southern Black Renaissance

12 September - 30 November 2024 Fitzrovia Opening reception | Thursday 12 September 6-8pm Mary L. Bennett | Richard Dial | Thornton Dial | Lonnie Holley | Ronald Lockett | Joe Minter | Mose Tolliver. The Stars Fell on Alabama: Southern Black Renaissance is a fleeting glimpse of a cultural phenomenon too large for any museum or... Read more

Jodie Carey: Guard

30 May - 23 August 2024 Fitzrovia Opening reception | Thursday 30 May, 6-8pm Exhibition talk | Friday 31 May, 12-1pm We infill plants with meaning for many reasons; they remind us of people we've loved or times in our lives. Guard seeks to remind us of the stubbornness of life, the human ability to evolve and... Read more

Farley Aguilar: The Age of Effluence

23 March - 11 May 2024 Fitzrovia Opening reception | Saturday 23 March, 11am-6pm Artist's walkthrough | Saturday 23 March, 3-4pm Edel Assanti is pleased to present The Age of Effluence , Farley Aguilar’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Farley Aguilar’s evocative and unsettling painted scenes question habitual modes of behaviour and the social facade of... Read more

Jenkin van Zyl: Dance of the Sleepwalkers

19 January - 9 March 2024 Fitzrovia Opening reception | Thursday 18 January 6-8pm Edel Assanti is pleased to present Dance of the Sleepwalkers , Jenkin van Zyl's second solo exhibition at the gallery. The show follows van Zyl's acclaimed solo exhibition, Surrender (2023) at FACT Liverpool, UK, originating from van Zyl's debut exhibition at Edel Assanti... Read more

Oren Pinhassi: After Pleasure

19 January - 9 March 2024 Fitzrovia Opening reception | Thursday 18 January 6-8pm Edel Assanti is pleased to present After Pleasure , Oren Pinhassi's third solo exhibition at the gallery. Featuring a series of new and recently produced sculptures, the show follows Pinhassi's first UK institutional solo exhibition, False Alarm (2023), at Mostyn, Wales, and coincides... Read more

Victoria Lomasko: Cocoon

3 November - 22 December 2023 Fitzrovia Opening reception | Thursday 2 November 6-8pm What does the face of history look like? Not in books or in movies or other countries' news reports, but when history opens the door of your house and comes in, destroying everything in its path. - Victoria Lomasko Edel Assanti is pleased... Read more

Vinca Petersen: Me, Us and Dogs

3 November - 22 December 2023 Fitzrovia Opening reception | Thursday 2 November 6-8pm Edel Assanti is pleased to present Vinca Petersen's second solo exhibition at the gallery, Me, Us and Dogs , concurrent with the artist's inclusion in two inaugural displays on view in London at the V&A Photography Centre and the recently reopened National Portrait... Read more

Sylvia Snowden: M Street on White

14 September - 28 October 2023 Fitzrovia Opening reception | Wednesday 13 September 6-8pm Essay by Laura Smith, Director of Collection and Exhibitions, The Hepworth Wakefield The human spirit is what interests me more than anything. Colour pulsates, thumps and skids across the surfaces of the eight paintings featured in Sylvia Snowden’s new exhibition M Street on... Read more

Marcin Dudek: NEOPLAN

31 May - 1 September 2023 Fitzrovia Opening reception | Wednesday 31 May 6-8pm Edel Assanti is pleased to present Marcin Dudek: NEOPLAN . The artist’s sixth exhibition with the gallery runs concurrently with his solo show at Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp, and the launch of his new monograph. NEOPLAN harnesses the raw energy of a football... Read more

Sheida Soleimani: Ghostwriter

16 March - 13 May 2023 Fitzrovia Opening reception | Thursday 16 March 6-8pm Edel Assanti is pleased to present Sheida Soleimani: Ghostwriter . Following the work’s debut at Providence College Galleries, Providence, and concurrent with a presentation of Absolute Powers at Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art , Philadelphia, the show explores her family’s history of migration... Read more

Lonnie Holley: Thoughts in Captivity

16 March - 13 May 2023 Fitzrovia Edel Assanti is pleased to present Thoughts in Captivity, a presentation of recent works by Lonnie Holley in conjunction with his inclusion in the Royal Academy’s exhibition, Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers (17 March - 18 June 2023). Bringing together assemblage sculptures composed from found materials, alongside paintings on... Read more

Jenkin van Zyl: Surrender

19 January - 4 March 2023 Fitzrovia Opening Reception | Thursday 19 January 6-8pm Jenkin van Zyl’s first solo exhibition at Edel Assanti transforms the gallery into an engulfing environment built around a new single channel film, Surrender . The exhibition is entered via the gaping jaws of an enormous inflatable rat sculpture, whose fleshy innards create... Read more

Si On: A Peace Brimming with Malice

19 January - 4 March 2023 Fitzrovia Opening Reception | Thursday 19 January 6-8pm My dog barks. Snow falls. Wind blows. The moon rises. I count stars. The sun rises. In the morning, I change water in a vase once and for all. It stinks from stem rot. However, the flower is still beautiful and smells sweet.... Read more

Emmanuel Van der Auwera: Fire and Forget

13 October - 17 December 2022 Fitzrovia Opening Reception | Thursday 13 October 6-8pm I like others are tired of this caravan ploy. What we are seeing are simply paid crisis actors and the left are falling for it like BREAKING NEWS on @CNN. When reviewing the videos ask yourself why is the camera man wearing a... Read more

Sylvia Snowden: Venus of M Street & Men on M Street

13 October - 19 November 2022 Fitzrovia Opening Reception | Thursday 13 October 6-8pm Franklin Parrasch Gallery is thrilled to co-present an exhibition of paintings by acclaimed Washington, D.C.-based artist Sylvia Snowden (b.1942, Raleigh, NC) for the inaugural Gallery-in-Residence program at Edel Assanti, London. Included are six paintings on paper dating from 1999-2001 from the artist’s Venus... Read more

Marcin Dudek: Rite of Passage

9 July - 24 September 2022 Fitzrovia Opening Reception | Saturday 9 July 1pm-6pm Edel Assanti is pleased to present Marcin Dudek: Rite of Passage. Bringing together a selection of collages, sculpture and film, the intimate presentation continues Dudek’s exploration of the politics of identity and space, conflating hooliganism, memory and the architecture of social experience. An... Read more

Yoshinori Niwa: Dictatorship of Possessions

9 July - 24 September 2022 Fitzrovia Opening reception | Saturday 9 July 1pm-6pm Performance | 3-3:30pm Edel Assanti presents Yoshinori Niwa: Dictatorship of Possessions , an installation comprising film, sculpture and works on paper that questions the voracious material consumption that characterises late capitalist society. On the occasion of the opening Niwa will stage a new... Read more

Lonnie Holley: The Growth of Communication

12 May - 2 July 2022 Fitzrovia Opening Reception | Thursday 12 May 6-8pm Performance: 7:30pm Edel Assanti is pleased to present Lonnie Holley: The Growth of Communication, the artist's first exhibition with the gallery and first UK solo show since his 2004 retrospective at IKON Gallery in Birmingham (UK). Lonnie Holley's (b. 1950, Birmingham, Alabama, USA)... Read more

Nour el Saleh: Underfoot

12 May - 2 July 2022 Fitzrovia Opening Reception | Thursday 12 May 6-8pm Edel Assanti is pleased to present Underfoot , a solo exhibition by Nour el Saleh. The exhibition contemplates life in the extremities deep below or high above ground level. Strategically eluding the notions of heaven and hell, the artist imaginatively tunnels hypothetical ecosystems... Read more

Agata Bogacka: Fields of Conflict

24 March - 30 April 2022 Fitzrovia Private View | Thursday 24 March 6 - 8pm Edel Assanti is pleased to present Fields of Conflict, Agata Bogacka’s first solo exhibition in the UK. Bogacka’s abstract paintings are characterised by competing planes of colour in constant states of transition, creating formal imbalances and tensions. The compositions enact dialogues,... Read more

Anna Perach: Spidora

24 March - 30 April 2022 Fitzrovia Private View | Thursday 24 March 6 - 8pm Performance: 7:30pm Edel Assanti is delighted to present Spidora , Anna Perach’s first UK solo show. Perach works with an intricate tufting technique to create wearable sculptures and wall-based objects, informed by Slavic folklore, mythologies, fairy tales and psychoanalytic theory. Her... Read more