Larry Achiampong

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I hope that the galleries tour I've picked out for you here will also lead you winding your way through this city. Explore on your way, the best of London is as much in the back streets as the main drag, if not more. I've focused on the breadth of what London has to offer in this tour, as much as the shows opening in this moment allow. [Read my full route description below]
- Sherbet Green
  East
  
  Sherbet Green Unit 1, 2 Treadway Street London E2 6QW ChIJk8KQaKEddkgR6Blp-kkC1h4 51.531886778003454,-0.06019948831686435 Sherbet Green is a contemporary art gallery, located on Treadway Street since September 2022. View gallery
- Victoria Miro
  East
  
  Victoria Miro 16 Wharf Road London N1 7RW [Wheelchair accessible] ChIJ28bNtlgbdkgR1yXFqkfZR0I 51.5325,-0.09668 Founded in 1985, Victoria Miro quickly earned acclaim for showing the work of established and emerging international contemporary artists. View gallery
- Gallery 1957
  West
  
  Gallery 1957 1 Hyde Park Gate, South Kensington London SW7 5EW ChIJLc-xJG4FdkgROO7oR25OPzY 51.50127058010458,-0.180561594635899 GALLERY 1957 PRESENTS LEADING ARTISTS WORKING ACROSS WEST AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA View gallery
- Lisson Gallery Bell Street
  Central
  
  Lisson Gallery 27 Bell Street NW1 5BY London [Wheelchair accessible] ChIJbQXrurYadkgRysWRkIHUgz4 51.52093,-0.16948 Lisson Gallery is one of the most influential and longest-running international contemporary art galleries in the world View gallery
- Goodman Gallery
  Central
  
  Goodman Gallery 26 Cork Street London W1S 3ND [Wheelchair accessible] ChIJgY5KDyoFdkgRrSxkK_eBFjc 51.510620,-0.141790 The leading, contemporary art gallery from the Continent, Goodman Gallery is located in Johannesburg, Cape Town and London. Established in 1966 as a non discriminatory space, during the Apartheid years... View gallery
- Maureen Paley: Studio M
  East
  
  Maureen Paley: Studio M Rochelle School Friars Mount House 7 Playground Gardens London E2 7FA Studio M is located on the first floor with access via stairs only. Press the bell for Maureen Paley to gain access. ChIJ4XlnnasddkgRxAMBALi091o 51.52582572691471,-0.07383411741631431 Maureen Paley is a long established art gallery and was amongst the first to present contemporary art in London’s East End. The gallery has been a pioneer of the current... View gallery
- Corvi-Mora
  South
  
  Corvi-Mora 1a Kempsford Road London SE11 4NU [Wheelchair accessible] ChIJoerTAZcEdkgRbB8dKi-aINU 51.491198060666896,-0.10839483680552986 Tommaso Corvi-Mora opened Corvi-Mora in 2000, after having run Robert Prime, in partnership with Gregorio Magnani, since 1995. The gallery was based in Warren Street until 2004, when it relocated... View gallery
- greengrassi
  South
  
  greengrassi 1a Kempsford Road (off Wincott Street) London SE11 4NU [Wheelchair accessible] ChIJ16FT2XIFdkgRN-jJ0or312c 51.49119334928858,-0.10840134247196023 greengrassi was opened in 1997 in London View gallery
I hope that the galleries tour I've picked out for you here will also lead you winding your way through this city. Explore on your way, the best of London is as much in the back streets as the main drag, if not more. I've focused on the breadth of what London has to offer in this tour, as much as the shows opening in this moment allow.

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Central

Start in Kensington for Gallery 1957 and a solo of Godfried Donkor 'Battle Royale - Part II'. Then a 30 minute walk up through Hyde Park north to Lisson Gallery - Bell St who are showing a group show 'Matter as Actor' including Allora & Calzadilla, Dana Awartani, Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, D Harding, Irmel Kamp, Syowia Kyambi, Richard Long, Otobong Nkanga, Yelena Popova, Lucy Raven, Zhan Wang, Feifei Zhou

We’re then down in Mayfair for Goodman Gallery’s group show of works by Ghada Amer, Elisabet Cervino, Vibha Galhorta, Nicholas Hlobo, Kapwani Kiwanga, Laura Lima, Tabita Rezaire, Naama Tsabar, Johanna Unzueta.

East

Jump in a car or public transport east to Victoria Miro with Isaac Julien 'Once Again… (Statues Never Die)' and then again to Maureen Paley: Studio M who are showing Reverend Joyce McDonald, then its a short walk down Columbia Road to Sherbet Green for ‘JUPITER WALK’ including Lulu Bennett, Steph Huang, Jean François Krebs, Madeleine Pledge and Anna Woodward.

South

Finally, make the journey to Kennington and Corvi-Mora for Che Lovelace - 'Day Always Comes' and greengrassi’s show in the same building: Moyra Davey - 'Horse Opera'.

And to finish: my solo exhibition at Copperfield… 'And I saw a new heaven'.

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