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Anne Bean in ‘Unruly –The Body in Punk’, ARoS
27 June – 13 December 2026
ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark
England & Co are pleased to have arranged three works by Anne Bean, including Who Speaks My Voice, for the exhibition Unruly – The Body in Punk at ARoS art museum in Aarhus, Denmark. The exhibition traces punk’s origins in 1970s London and shows how the movement spread and changed, all the time using the body as a form of resistance against discipline and societal norms. The exhibition is a collaboration between ARoS and Aarhus University and is curated by Marie Arleth Skov.
Vlatka Horvat at MSU, Zagreb
Until 21 June
MSU, Zagreb, Croatia
Vlatka Horvat, who has shown with England & Co at Paris Photo and Photo London, is exhibiting her Venice Biennale project, By the Means at Hand, in a solo presentation at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU) in Zagreb.
Paule Vézelay in ‘Peggy Guggenheim: Making of a Collector’
Until 19 October 2026
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
‘Blue for You’ at the Menil Collection, Houston
4 October 2025 – 8 February 2026
Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
The video Blue for You (1981) by Anne Bean and Dov Eylath is currently on view in the exhibition Lines of Resolution: Drawing in the Advent of Television and Video at the Menil Collection, Houston, USA.
Co-curated by Dr Anna Lovatt, Associate Professor of Art History at Southern Methodist University, and Kelly Montana, Associate Curator, Menil Drawing Institute, the exhibition “explores the relationship between drawing, television, and video from the late 1950s into the 1980s. Personal electronics became widely available during this era and soon made their way into artists’ studios. These electric screens became a source of artistic imagery, a surface for inscription, and a device that could be manipulated to generate entirely new kinds of drawing.”
Albert Herbert: Seeking Treasure Blindfold
10 September – 4 October 2025
Isaac Benigson Old and Interesting Art, London WC1
Jane England, director of England & Co, is collaborating with Isaac Benigson of Old and Interesting Art to present an exhibition of works by Albert Herbert (1925-2008), an idiosyncratic, visionary, British artist, to mark what would have been his centenary. Herbert’s seemingly naïve, yet highly sophisticated small paintings, etchings and works on paper used biblical stories and theological symbols as metaphors as the artist explored “what lies beneath the surface of the mind”.
England & Co worked with the artist for many years and continues to represent his estate.
Paule Vézelay: Network Paris
5 July 2025 – 11 January 2026
Arp Museum Rolandseck, Germany
England & Co have arranged loans of three works by Paule Vézelay to the exhibition Network Paris Abstraction-Création 1931–1937 at the Arp Museum Rolandseck, Germany. Between 1931 and 1937, the group Abstraction-Création, an international network based in Paris, fought for the freedom of art. Their fluctuating membership included Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Alexander Calder, Barbara Hepworth, Naum Gabo, Piet Mondrian, Marlow Moss and Paule Vézelay. This multigenerational, liberal, progressive and visionary group set about uniting all the different strands of non-objective art. This is the first exhibition on this pioneering association of artists since the 1970s.
Julie Lawson among Barbara Steveni’s friends at Modern Art Oxford
Julie Lawson was one of nine women included by artist-activist Barbara Steveni in her project Conversations Between Ourselves, a series of interviews in which Steveni highlighted the often unacknowledged work of women supporting and administrating the Artist Placement Group and later O+I. The project forms part of the retrospective Barbara Steveni: I Find Myself at Modern Art Oxford (until 8 June 2025).
England & Co director Jane England reflects on Julie Lawson’s remarkable life and her role at the ICA for the Modern Art Oxford blog.
Dom Sylvester Houédard at the Estorick Collection
The Estorick Collection, London N1 2AN
Until 11 May 2025
Clay Perry‘s 1964 portrait of Dom Sylvester Houédard (1924–1992) is featured in Breaking Lines at the Estorick Collection. The exhibition focuses on the work of Dom Sylvester Houédard, widely recognised as one of the masters of concrete poetry. A Benedictine monk and noted theologian, Houédard wrote extensively on new approaches to creativity, spirituality and philosophy, and collaborated with figures such as Gustav Metzger, Yoko Ono and John Cage.
His work – which blurs the boundaries between literature and visual art – helped shape the development of post-war British poetry, and also influenced the global experimental poetry movement.
Anne Bean at CEREMONY
23 – 27 April 2025
Copeland Gallery, London
Anne Bean took part in CEREMONY: A Festival of Performance at Peckham’s Copeland Gallery curated by Future Ritual. Bean’s performance was titled What is that damned beast? Anatomy of performance and she wrote:
“This is a search, a hunt, for the beast that has plagued and soothed me, seared me and haunted me, filled me with unease and with tenderness, with fear and quietude, with disturbance and focus, with bewilderment, with perplexity, with astonishment. It has offered me doorways to transcendence and banishment. This fire-spitting, shape-changing, teeth baring, ecstasy inducing beast will be encountered in some of its manifestations in my lifeworks.”
Eduardo Kac in ‘Electric Dreams: Art and Technology before the Internet’
Tate Modern
Until 1 June 2025
Three of Eduardo Kac’s 1980s Minitel works are included in Electric Dreams – an exhibition at Tate Modern that celebrates the early innovators of optical, kinetic, programmed and digital art, and brings together groundbreaking works by a wide range of international artists who engaged with science, technology and material innovation.
Kac was a pioneer of telecommunications art in the pre-web 1980s, and his Minitel works evolved from his explorations of the relationship between experimental poetry and new media, leading to him to create animated poetic works on the French Minitel platform.
Electric Dreams is curated by Val Ravaglia and all three exhibited works by Kac, plus an additional minitel work are now part of the permanent collection at Tate. Kac is interviewed in the winter edition of Tate Etc. magazine.