Art Map December

04/12/2013 National Maritime Museum, 7pm Yinka Shonibare MBE in Conversation (£15)
Join Yinka Shonibare MBE in conversation with Senior Curator Christine Riding as they discuss the artist’s work and his attraction to the collection at the National Maritime Museum. The talk will explore Shonibare’s new installations at Royal Museums Greenwich, starting with Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle and how it gave birth to the other pieces on show.

05/12/2013 Schwartz Gallery, 6-9pm 'Stars in my eyes' group show 
13 artists present work made to a brief set by artist-curator Ismail Erbil all the works having to be predominantly black in colour. The show takes inspiration from Martin Creed’s controversial Turner Prize-winning piece Work No 227, Minimalism and science fiction phenomena such as time and light-travel.

05/12/2013 Gallery SO, 6-9pm Leo Fitzmaurice 'Post Match 1999-onwards'
Leo Fitzmaurice's Post Match, a project spanning over a decade. Post Match, an ersatz collection of close to 300 'sports tops' fashioned from cigarette packets, comments on obsession, addiction and its associated visual culture.  

05/12/2013 Espacio Gallery, 6-9pm Sweet Art Collective 'Freeze' 

05/12/2013 Wilkinson Gallery, 6-9pm late night view Derek Jarman 'Black Paintings' and 'Waiting for waiting for Godot' 
Derek Jarman was an English film director, stage designer, diarist, gardener, author and artist. His Black Paintings were create after he was diagnosed with HIV and thus resemble a painfully honest, dark, and somehow humorous meditation on living.

05/12/2013 The Residence Gallery, 6-9pm late night view Mike Ballard 'Advertising the Invisible' 
Beyond Ultra in association with The Hackney Snare Drum Awareness Program presents Mike Ballard’s solo exhibition Advertising the Invisible, at The Residence Gallery. Featuring a series of audio scores and incidental music for unmade fictional films, the installation includes props, production stills, set design, graphical scores and more.

05/12/2013 Stour Space, 7-11pm Stour Collective 2013
Celebrating its 6th annual group show, resident artists at Stour Space will display a collective exhibition showcasing the diverse practitioners and varied mediums working in the converted warehouse gallery.

05/12/2013 Arcade Fine Arts, performance 'The Reception Squares & Triangles Met Upon Returning to Arcade'
A performance within the context of Arcade's current debut exhibition by Squares & Triangles, a band founded in 2007 by a group of primarily London-based artists interested in the possibilities of improvised music.

05/12/2013 The Graffiti Life Gallery, 6:30pm The Advent Show
A Christmas themed show where work will e displayed as if in an advent calendar. Pieces will be paired with a door, also worked on by the artist, and numbered with the relevant day of Advent. Through-out the month of December we will be unveiling the works to online audiences.

05/12/2013 IMT, 5-9pm Flore Nové-Josserand 'The Scream of the Commode' (late night view)
The Scream of the Commode is an exhibition of new work by multimedia contemporary artist Flore Nové-Josserand about the activation of objects as art and the creative transitions between art making and documentation.

05/12/2013 Raven Row, late night show 'Reflections from Damaged Life. An exhibition on psychedelia.'
This exhibition sets out to question what ‘psychedelic art’ might be, and reassess the artistic problems it poses. Rather than through the framework of counterculture and the hippie scene, it focuses on how specific artistic practices inflected the drug culture and its concepts of transformation and non-human perception. 

06/12/2013 Union Gallery, 6-9pm Tobias Lehner 'Gyration'
Union Gallery is pleased to announce a forthcoming solo exhibition by gallery artist Tobias Lehner. Across the Gallery’s four walls Tobias Lehner’s latest series of paintings generate a sense of this impending collapse; his art imagines the precarious moment where this fracture may occur, the image is frozen and the outcome unknown.

06/12/2013 Bearspace, 6-9pm group show 'Refresh' featuring works by Anastasia Shin, Suzanne Moxhay, Reginald Aloysius, Jane Ward, Geoff Diego Litherland, Cheryl Field, Jess Littlewood.
The show piles together artists working in the fantastical and otherworldly each with their own twists on psychogeography and the implied surrealism of space. Each artist binds space and objecthood with swirling results, slicing through dimensions, imagining the intoxication of growth or the implosion of space between the confines of canvas. Whilst their approaches vary wildly the overall result oozes a kind of Hollywood effect, cinematic, sci-fi but embedded within the chaos of the world itself.

11/12/2013 P21 Gallery, 6:45-8pm Wednesday Readings 'Contemporary Egyptian Literature'
P21 Gallery Reading Group: The Word and the World, Literatures, Cultures and Histories of the Islamicate World Convened by Karima Laachir and AbdoolKarim Vakil (must book). 

11/12/2013 Hauser & Wirth, 7pm, Lecture
The final event for the current exhibition 'Re-view: Onnasch Collection' is a lecture given by art historian and curator Marco Livingstone, 'Dine and Oldenburg in the Sixties: Hands On'

12/12/2013 Richard Saltoun, 6-8pm 'Transformers'
On the 40^th anniversary of 'Transformer: Aspects of Travesty' - a groundbreaking show curated by Jean-Christophe Ammann in 1974 - Richard Saltoun Gallery announces a re-proposition of the original exhibition, that will reunite all the artists, in London. This is the first such reunion to commemorate the exhibition which deals with the aesthetics of desire and sexuality through travesty and drag performance.

12/12/2013 Daniel Blau Gallery, 6-8pm private view 'Space is Deep' Le Gun Collective
This exhibition sees the collective imagination of Le Gun venture into new territory as the group’s collaborative artwork moves from black and white into technicolor. Le Gun work together on each drawing they make, creating idiosyncratic imagery which blends a punk, occult, pop and surrealist aesthetic. 

12/12/2013 Espacio Gallery, 6-9pm In Transition  

14/12/2013 Arcade Fine Arts, 3pm performance 'Conclusion'
A performance within the context of Arcade's current debut exhibition by Squares & Triangles, a band founded in 2007 by a group of primarily London-based artists interested in the possibilities of improvised music.

16/12/2013 Payne Shurvell Peter Newman 'Circulation'
The show features Newman's works from his on-going Metropoly series - photographs that record the view looking up of iconic architecture in different cities around the world, including a number of locations around London, such as Shoreditch, St. Mary Axe and Fitzrovia.  

17/12/2013 Massimo De Carlo  6-8pm Aaron Young 'Limited Exposure' 
A solo show by New York artist Aaron Young.

18/12/2013 Cubitt Gallery, 6:30-8:30pm  'Attachments and Assignations' group show curated by Jamie Stevens
This is the final exhibition in the programme of Cubitt curatorial bursary holder Jamie Stevens.

18/12/2013 Work Gallery 6-8pm late night opening, Reconnecting Cultures: The Architecture of Rocco Design
Rocco Design Architects’ work is grounded in the belief that architecture is the embodiment of culture. Based in Hong Kong–where modern and traditional cultures co-exist, and values from diverging times and places converge and collide–the practice employs different aesthetic and cultural strategies to respond to disparate cultural and physical landscapes.