Spring / Summer 2012

Exhibition: Amalia Pica 25 May–15 July Chisenhale Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Amalia Pica, featuring newly commissioned works across sculpture, photography, installation, and performance. The exhibition elaborates upon Pica's ongoing interest in the social act of listening, sites of celebration, and technologies of mass communication. This exhibition also marks the culmination of Pica's year-long, off-site project, I am Tower of Hamlets, as I am in Tower of Hamlets, just like a lot of other people are (2011/12).

Zarina Bhimji

In collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery, London, the Kunstmuseum Bern is presenting the first retrospective on Zarina Bhimji, British photographer, filmmaker, and installation artist. Voicing criticism of her times with a gentle lyricism, Bhimji promotes confrontation with the difficult social issues of migration, globalization, and post-colonial history in her work. In 1963 the artist was born to Indian parents in Uganda, where she grew up until the family was forced into exile in 1974. She studied art in London and has exhibited in diverse international group shows.