Rose English
exhibitions
performances + exhibitions + film + talks + selected writings + bibliography + acting + choreography & dramaturgy + upcoming + contact rose english
exhibitions
performances + exhibitions + film + talks + selected writings + bibliography + acting + choreography & dramaturgy + upcoming + contact rose english
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2024
Begin Suddenly in Splendour
Rose English: Performance, Prescence, Spectacle
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria.
Curated by Marijana Schneider
Guest Curator: Lisa Moravej
5 July 2024 - 4 May 2025
2023
Berlin: Remembering the Spectacle
Rose English and Sally Potter
3 February - 9 April 2023
HEIRLOOM center for art and archives, Copenhagen.
‘In 1976, Rose English and Sally Potter created the ground-breaking four-part site-specific performance Berlin across multiple venues in central London. The work, its subjects and its methods deeply influenced their subsequent practices: the exhibition revisits the project with a new installation engaging the material evidence of the performance in a dialogue with its archival remains.’
2021
Rose English Various Forms of Fire presentation at Grafisk Værksted Næstved, Denmark.
3 December 2021 - 31 January 2022.
2021
The Pioneers. Part 11: Rose English - a tribute to Guy Brett. Richard Saltoun Gallery, London. 5 July - 4 September 2021. Virtual exhibition also includes: Amy Tobin and Cora Gilroy-Ware in conversation on Rose English.
2019
Rose English: Form, Feminisms, Femininities, solo exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery, London.
2018
Remember This! - installation by Rose English as part of Circus Originals, Somerset House, London.
2016
Rose English for The Grand Tour, solo exhibition, The Harley Gallery, Welbeck Estate, Nottinghamshire.
2015/16
A Premonition of the Act, solo exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London.
2014/15
The Eros of Understanding, solo exhibition curated by Stine Hebert, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen.
2009
NOTES on a Return, Archival Exhibition 1: Rose English - Plato's Chair, curated by Sophia Yadong Hao, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle.
2008
Lost in Music, installation commissioned by Northern Stage, Newcastle.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Women in Revolt! Art, Activism and the Women’s Movement in the UK 1970–1990
8 November 2023 - 7 April 2024
Tate Britain, London.
‘A major survey of work by over 100 women artists working in the UK from 1970 to 1990. Through their creative practices, women’s liberation was forged against the backdrop of extreme social, economic and political change.’
2023
Eye Body
29 March - 29 April 2023
TJ Boulting, London.
Group exhibition of performance and photography, where the artist is present in both. Including Atong Atem, Poulomi Basu, Juliana Cequeira Leite, Juno Calypso, Daisy Collingridge, Rose English, Rosie Gibbens, Sam Keelan, Gabby Laurent, Mitchell Moreno, Haley Morris-Cafiero and Trish Morrissey.
2022
Radical Landscapes
‘A major new exhibition looking at our connections to the rural landscapes of Britain’. Curated by Darren Pih, Tate Liverpool 5 May - 4 September 2022. Mead Gallery, Warwick 6 October - 18 December 2022.
2022
Born From Earth
Group show bringing together ceramics by eleven contemporary artists including .Judy Chicago, Carmen Dionyse, Rose English, Gaia Fugazza, Carol McNicoll, Florence Peake, Jacqueline Poncelet and Holly Stevenson. Exhibition design by Lisa Chan. Richard Saltoun Gallery, London; 5 July - 13 August 2022.
2022
Female Sensibility: Feminist Avant-Garde from the Sammlung Verbund. Touring group exhibition curated by Gabriele Schor at the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia; May 20 - June 20 2022 as part of European Capital of Culture 2022.
2021
Female Sensibility: Feminist Avant-Garde from the Sammlung Verbund. Touring group exhibition curated by Gabriele Schor at LENTOS Kustmueum, Linz, Austria; 24 September 2021 - 9 January 2022
2020
Bodily Objects
Group exhibition curated by Philomena Epps including: Helena Almeida, Renate Bertlmann, Helen Chadwick, Judy Chicago, Rose English, Alexis Hunter and Carolee Schneemann at Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh in partnership with Richard Saltoun Gallery, 17 July - 31 August 2020
2019/2020
Rose English’s Quadrille (1975) featured in Tate Britain's all-female display, Sixty Years, from 22 April 2019 - 17 May 2020.
2019
Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970’s: Works form the Sammlung Verbund, Vienna. Touring exhibition curated by Gabriele Schor at CCCB - Centre de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona. July 19th - December 1st.
2019
Room 2: The opening of Karsten Schubert’s new viewing space in Soho. Group exhibition including Rose English, Ann-Marie James, Tess Jaray, Frances Richardson and Alison Wilding. 12 November - December.
2019
From the Kitchen Table: Drew Gallery Projects 1984 - 90. Group exhibition at Southwark Park Galleries, London. Curated by Judith Carlton. 16 May - 30 June 2019.
2019
The Lie of the Land, group exhibition at MK Gallery, 16 March – 26 May 2019.
2019
House of the Sleeping Beauties, group exhibition at S2 Gallery, London, 14 February - 28 March 2019.
2018
DRAG: Self-portraits and Body Politics, Hayward Gallery, London. Group exhibtion curated by Vincent Honoré.
2018
Women Look at Women, group exhibition curated by Paola Ugolini at Richard Saltoun Gallery, London.
2018
Screening of Ornamental Happiness, 2006 during ‘A Utopian Stage’, curated by Vali Mahlouji, Dhaka Art Summit.
2016/17
2024
Begin Suddenly in Splendour
Rose English: Performance, Prescence, Spectacle
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria.
Curated by Marijana Schneider
Guest Curator: Lisa Moravej
5 July 2024 - 4 May 2025
2023
Berlin: Remembering the Spectacle
Rose English and Sally Potter
3 February - 9 April 2023
HEIRLOOM center for art and archives, Copenhagen.
‘In 1976, Rose English and Sally Potter created the ground-breaking four-part site-specific performance Berlin across multiple venues in central London. The work, its subjects and its methods deeply influenced their subsequent practices: the exhibition revisits the project with a new installation engaging the material evidence of the performance in a dialogue with its archival remains.’
2021
Rose English Various Forms of Fire presentation at Grafisk Værksted Næstved, Denmark.
3 December 2021 - 31 January 2022.
2021
The Pioneers. Part 11: Rose English - a tribute to Guy Brett. Richard Saltoun Gallery, London. 5 July - 4 September 2021. Virtual exhibition also includes: Amy Tobin and Cora Gilroy-Ware in conversation on Rose English.
2019
Rose English: Form, Feminisms, Femininities, solo exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery, London.
2018
Remember This! - installation by Rose English as part of Circus Originals, Somerset House, London.
2016
Rose English for The Grand Tour, solo exhibition, The Harley Gallery, Welbeck Estate, Nottinghamshire.
2015/16
A Premonition of the Act, solo exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London.
2014/15
The Eros of Understanding, solo exhibition curated by Stine Hebert, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen.
2009
NOTES on a Return, Archival Exhibition 1: Rose English - Plato's Chair, curated by Sophia Yadong Hao, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle.
2008
Lost in Music, installation commissioned by Northern Stage, Newcastle.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Women in Revolt! Art, Activism and the Women’s Movement in the UK 1970–1990
8 November 2023 - 7 April 2024
Tate Britain, London.
‘A major survey of work by over 100 women artists working in the UK from 1970 to 1990. Through their creative practices, women’s liberation was forged against the backdrop of extreme social, economic and political change.’
2023
Eye Body
29 March - 29 April 2023
TJ Boulting, London.
Group exhibition of performance and photography, where the artist is present in both. Including Atong Atem, Poulomi Basu, Juliana Cequeira Leite, Juno Calypso, Daisy Collingridge, Rose English, Rosie Gibbens, Sam Keelan, Gabby Laurent, Mitchell Moreno, Haley Morris-Cafiero and Trish Morrissey.
2022
Radical Landscapes
‘A major new exhibition looking at our connections to the rural landscapes of Britain’. Curated by Darren Pih, Tate Liverpool 5 May - 4 September 2022. Mead Gallery, Warwick 6 October - 18 December 2022.
2022
Born From Earth
Group show bringing together ceramics by eleven contemporary artists including .Judy Chicago, Carmen Dionyse, Rose English, Gaia Fugazza, Carol McNicoll, Florence Peake, Jacqueline Poncelet and Holly Stevenson. Exhibition design by Lisa Chan. Richard Saltoun Gallery, London; 5 July - 13 August 2022.
2022
Female Sensibility: Feminist Avant-Garde from the Sammlung Verbund. Touring group exhibition curated by Gabriele Schor at the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia; May 20 - June 20 2022 as part of European Capital of Culture 2022.
2021
Female Sensibility: Feminist Avant-Garde from the Sammlung Verbund. Touring group exhibition curated by Gabriele Schor at LENTOS Kustmueum, Linz, Austria; 24 September 2021 - 9 January 2022
2020
Bodily Objects
Group exhibition curated by Philomena Epps including: Helena Almeida, Renate Bertlmann, Helen Chadwick, Judy Chicago, Rose English, Alexis Hunter and Carolee Schneemann at Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh in partnership with Richard Saltoun Gallery, 17 July - 31 August 2020
2019/2020
Rose English’s Quadrille (1975) featured in Tate Britain's all-female display, Sixty Years, from 22 April 2019 - 17 May 2020.
2019
Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970’s: Works form the Sammlung Verbund, Vienna. Touring exhibition curated by Gabriele Schor at CCCB - Centre de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona. July 19th - December 1st.
2019
Room 2: The opening of Karsten Schubert’s new viewing space in Soho. Group exhibition including Rose English, Ann-Marie James, Tess Jaray, Frances Richardson and Alison Wilding. 12 November - December.
2019
From the Kitchen Table: Drew Gallery Projects 1984 - 90. Group exhibition at Southwark Park Galleries, London. Curated by Judith Carlton. 16 May - 30 June 2019.
2019
The Lie of the Land, group exhibition at MK Gallery, 16 March – 26 May 2019.
2019
House of the Sleeping Beauties, group exhibition at S2 Gallery, London, 14 February - 28 March 2019.
2018
DRAG: Self-portraits and Body Politics, Hayward Gallery, London. Group exhibtion curated by Vincent Honoré.
2018
Women Look at Women, group exhibition curated by Paola Ugolini at Richard Saltoun Gallery, London.
2018
Screening of Ornamental Happiness, 2006 during ‘A Utopian Stage’, curated by Vali Mahlouji, Dhaka Art Summit.
2016/17
Of Other Spaces: Where does gesture become event? (Chapters 1 and 2), group exhibition curated by Sophia Yadong Hao, Cooper Gallery, DJCAD Dundee.
2015/2016
Liberties, group exhibition curated by Lucy Day and Eliza Gluckman, The Exchange, Penzance and Collyer Bristow Gallery, London.
2015
Test Run: Performance in Public, group exhibition curated by Ben Roberts, Modern Art Oxford.
2015
Men Gather, in Speech ..., group exhibition curated by Sophia Yadong Hao, Cooper Gallery, DJCAD Dundee.
2014
Keywords: Art, Culture and Society in 1980's Britain, group exhibition curated by Gavin Delahunty and Grant Watson, Tate Liverpool.
2013
Artist House 3: The English Family, group exhibition, Brixton, London.
2013
Freize Masters 'Spotlight' curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Quadrille, presented by Karsten Schubert, London.
2013
re.act feminism - a performing archive, group exhibition curated by Bettina Knaup and Beatrice Ellen Stammer, Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
2013
Taking Matters into Our Own Hands, group exhibition featuring performance art and photography from the 1970's, Karsten Schubert and Richard Saltoun (both galleries), London.
2012
Powerhouse, group exhibition curated by Rosie Grieve, Smiths Row, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
2011
Interloqui, group exhibition curated by Grainne Sweeney in collaboration with partners in the North East of England and Caterina Tognon Arte Contemporanea, Venice on the occasion of the 54th Venice Biennale.
2010
TAPS: Improvisations with Paul Burwell, group exhibition curated by Anne Bean, Robin Klassnik and Richard Wilson, Matt's Gallery at Dilston Grove, London.
2007/9 WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, group exhibition curated by Connie Butler, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada.
2003
Hair - the Show, group exhibition curated by Marcia Farquhar and Peggy Atherton, Tablet Gallery, London.
1999
Atomism & Animism, museum-wide exhibition by artist Martha Fleming, including Simon Vincenzi’s model box for Rose English’s ‘The Double Wedding’; Science Museum, London.
1975
Sweet Sixteen and Never Been Shown, group exhibition at the Women’s Free Art Alliance, London.
1972
Leeds Kids Rule OK?, group exhibition at the ICA, London.