Ekow Eshun

My route takes us across London, travelling East to West. We begin at Victoria Miro, which is showing paintings by Geoffrey Holder and his older brother Boscoe Holder together for the first time. Born in pre-war Trinidad, the Holders were both celebrated artists. They also led incredible lives as successful dancers and choreographers in America and Britain respectively. Geoffrey even starred as a villain in the James Bond movie Live and Let Die. I’m very much looking forward to the exhibition. 

Moving to Central London, Thaddaeus Ropac is presenting an exhibition of works by Robert Rauschenberg, created during an epic ten country cultural exchange programme he undertook in the late 1980s, seeking inspiration from artists, artisans and cultural figures in places including China, Mexico, Cuba and the Soviet Union. 

At Maximillian William, there’s the first posthumous solo exhibition of British-Indian artist Gurminder Sikand, a fascinating artist whose paintings draw from myth, dream and fable. Sikand died in 2021 but interest in her work is now on the rise - she was recently included in major group shows at the Barbican and Tate Britain. 

In West London, Lisson Gallery - Bell St is presenting a solo exhibition by the multidisciplinary artist Otobong Nkanga, whose work invokes the connections between the human and natural world with a deep poetry.