Haunch of Venison London is delighted to announce the second of a pair of exhibitions that constitute a retrospective for the acclaimed British artist, Keith Coventry. 'Works 2002-2009' follows last years exhibition of 'Early Groups' and includes the series 'Anaesthesia as Aesthetic', 'Black Paintings', 'Echoes of Albany' and 'Repressionism' among other works.

(Until the 27th of August, the gallery will be closing at 18.00 on Thursdays)

For her first solo exhibition in Switzerland, British artist Rachel Howard presents a new body of paintings which explore the furthest reaches of human experience. Entitled 'Der Wald', the German word for the forest, the exhibition evokes a shadowy world in which horrifying acts go unchallenged.

6 Jun - 15 Aug 2009

Haunch of Venison New York presents 'The Figure and Dr Freud'. This group exhibition features portraiture and figurative works by 31 artists spanning the last century, including Brian Alfred, Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Francis Bacon, Chuck Close, John Currin, Alberto Giacometti, Willem de Kooning, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tony Matelli, Jonathan Meese, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, David Salle, and Tom Wesselmann. This exhibition focuses on the psychological theories developed by Sigmund Freud as a critical lens through which to observe the inner psyches of both artist and subject.

8 July - 22 August 2009

British artist Mark Alexander has long been fascinated by what he calls 'the Primitive Gaze'-seemingly blank and unaffected, such as those seen on the statues of Easter Island, Minoan masks, and the artist's face in Warhol's late self-portrait.

2 May - 15 Aug 2009

This augmented version of the M/M (Paris) Inventory, with an additional 80 pages and updated with works which have appeared since the first edition in 2006, was published to coincide with their exhibition at the Drawing Center, New York City, 2008, 'Just Like An Ant Walking On The Edge Of The Visible'.

Haunch of Venison is delighted to announce the first solo show in
Britain by acclaimed young Romanian painter, Adrian Ghenie. The
exhibition demonstrates Ghenie's ongoing exploration of the medium of paint, and his enduring fascination with European history, addressed through ideas relating to memory, trauma and extremism.

15 May - 25 July 2009

(Until the 27th of August, the gallery will be closing at 18.00 on Thursdays)

This double-plated photogravure, produced especially for 'Mythologies', derives from Collishaw's insecticide series of photographs that resemble enlargements of microscope slides. They include moths, spiders, wasps and dragonflies that have been caught and squashed behind the glass of 35mm transparencies then quickly scanned in high resolution and enlarged to an epic scale.

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