Laura Aldridge

Perceptions
National Museum, Montenegro; Gallery of Matica Srpska; National Gallery, Kosovo; Museum of Contemporary Art of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Museum of Contemporary Art of Macedonia, Macedonia
28/09/2018 – 12/08/2019

Laura Aldridge, Helen Chadwick, Tracey Emin, Anthea Hamilton, Celia Hempton, Lubaina Himid, Abigail Lane, Camilla Løw, Sarah Lucas, Elizabeth Price, Clare Strand, Gillian Wearing, Rachel Whiteread, Madame Yevonde

Perceptions is a series of five exhibitions that focusses on the work of women artists. Each exhibition comprises a core group of 24 works by 14 female artists from the British Council Collection, shown alongside works by artists local to each venue. The themes of these ambitious and innovative exhibitions have been conceived by the curators from each of the five exhibiting museums, from across the Western Balkans.

Perceptions builds on the recent series of successful British Council exhibitions in the Western Balkans region, Henry Moore’s The Printmaker, 18 April 2013 – 30 May 2015 Damien Hirst’s New Religion, 2011 – 2016 and most recently Grayson Perry’s The Vanity of Small Differences in 2017. It has been developed from a core list of works from the British Council Collection to form the basis of an ambitious exhibition at each venue, where the host collections’ own works or those borrowed from local artist’s, will be shown alongside work by, amongst others, Sarah Lucas, Lubaina Himid and Tracey Emin.

Museums and Galleries taking part in Perceptions

• National Museum, Montenegro – 3 July – 28 August, Why Have There Been No Great (wo)Men Artists?
• Gallery of Matica Srpska, Serbia 28 September – 6 January 2019, Women tailored to society?
• National Gallery, Kosovo, 24 January – 24 February 2019, Currency of Adoration
• Museum of Contemporary Art of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 8 March – 28 May 2019, Set Yourself Free
• Museum of Contemporary Art of Macedonia, Macedonia, 12 June – 12 August 2019, Perceptions: Engendered