Nottingham Contemporary

16 July – 25 September 2016
Michael Beutler's installations transform spaces with sculptural interventions. Working across genres, he encourages alternative perceptions, opening up new views, and new approaches to the strategies and methods of making art. His works can be understood as reactions to architectural and social structures. Beutler incorporates industrially manufactured or processed materials, such as paper, metal, wood or plastic, shaping them into large-scale building elements with specially developed tools. He also involves local collaborators in this process. Beutler’s exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary will combine existing works and new elements within a new large scale site-specific installation. Michael Beutler’s exhibition is co-produced by Spike Island, Bristol and Nottingham Contemporary.
Drawing on Minimalism and Russian Constructivism, Yelena Popova’s ethereal abstract paintings explore themes of representation and balance, enquiring about the materiality of painting today. Her work also examines the relationship between objects in industrialised and capitalist societies. “I’m not interested in making single objects, but in creating a complex network of facts, fictions, emotions, gestures, materials and images, which could relate to the world outside it,” she explains.

The Antwerp-based Nigerian artist Otobong Nkanga examines land and the value of natural resources through her installations, drawing and sculptures. Her work also passes on knowledge through conversations in the galleries themselves.

Admission

Free

The London-based French artist Marguerite Humeau has described herself as an “Indiana Jones in Google times”. Her work weaves together factual events and speculative narratives, reanimating voices from long-extinct creatures and distant eras.

Reading Capital in Nottingham
Wed, from 20 July to 28 Sept
11am – 2pm
A ten-week course on Volume I of Karl Marx’s Capital. Reading and writing with Prof John Hutnyk. In collaboration with Spokesman Books

Admission

Free but booking is required as spaces are limited.