June is all about the opening of the new Tate Modern, happening mid-month. The new space, according to Tate, will be "ten-storeys on top of The Tanks, which are the world’s first gallery spaces dedicated to live art, film and installations."
Elsewhere this month, the Art Car Boot Fair takes place on Brick Lane, with artists like Tracey Emin selling small, affordable works, and the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery opens to the public.
For more information on these exhibitions, and the other shows getting us excited this month, scroll through the slides ahead.
Whitechapel – 8th June to 21st of August
Heilmenn's work meshes together all the best things about '60s American counterculture; oceanic hues, psychedelia and beautiful lyricism. The other good news is that Heilmann will be speaking about the show at the gallery on 9th June.
Courtesy of Whitechapel Gallery
Dulwich Picture Gallery – 8th June to the 18th of September
Slade School alumna Knights was inspired by Italian Renaissance artists, reimagining their work into intricate paintings of her own. Tickets are £12.50 for adults, but worth it to see the first retrospective of such a talented and yet under appreciated female, British artist's work.
Courtesy of Dulwich Picture Library
Brick Lane – 12th June
Sir Peter Blake, Gavin Turk and Polly Morgan are just some of the artists that take part in this fair on Brick Lane, which flogs originals alongside artisan designs. It's the perfect place to spend a sunny day browsing the work of up and coming artists, as well as more established names.
Photo: Getty.
Louise Bourgeois' Works on Paper
Tate Modern – opens 17th June
Ribbon cut – so to speak – on 17th June, the new Tate space will be ten storeys of galleries. The new building reportedly cost a hefty £260m. Designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron,"the façade uses brick to match the surface of the existing museum, while creating something radically new – a perforated brick lattice through which the interior lights glow in the evening."
The opening kicks off with a show of the late French-American artist Louise Bourgeois' works on paper, and a new series of performances in the atmospheric Tanks.
Courtesy of Tate Modern
National Portrait Gallery – 23rd June - 4th September
Predictable but always enjoyable, the BP Portrait Award represents the best of contemporary portrait painting. This year the winner will be chosen from 2,557 entries by artists from 80 countries.
Courtesy of National Portrait Gallery
Photographers’ Gallery – 23rd - 26th June
Old photos of Debbie Harry, a gig by the Raincoats, and a social, D-I-Y spirit... what's not to like about the Photographers' Gallery mini punk festival? Expect work by Derek Ridgers alongside Anita Corbin's portraits.
Shirley Baker, Girl Punks in Stockport, 1983© Estate of Shirley Baker
Courtesy of the Estate of Shirley Baker / Mary Evans Picture Library
ICA – 29th June - 4th September
A new group show featuring the legendary Linder, Derek Jarman, Barry Kamen, Jim Lambie, Mark Lebon, John Maybury, Jamie Reid, Peter Saville, Juergen Teller, Trojan, Nicola Tyson and Tim Noble & Sue Webster. Quite the list, we know. The show sits next to the ICA's retrospective of art director and stylist Judy Blame's career history, also on this month.
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