It’s London Gallery Weekend and we have a guide for you. This time, we decided to let other people do the hard work for us and write the recommendations. Don’t worry, they really know what they’re talking about.
Here we go again… another city-wide art event, another guide of what to see and where to eat and drink.
London Gallery Weekend was founded in 2021, in the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic. The idea was to promote art across the city by getting galleries to open their doors all weekend. Plus, Berlin had one, and the London art scene doesn’t like to be one-upped. This year, between 31st May – 2nd June, more than 130 galleries will participate, alongside a programme of talks, performances, workshops, book launches and parties. Plus, there’s our competition, the
Plaster One-Liner (write a one-sentence review of any London Gallery Weekend show and you could win £1,000 –
full details here).
We’ve published
a few of
these guides now and each time we’ve spent an afternoon checking our camera rolls and reading Google reviews. So we had a better idea: get other people to do the hard work for us by spamming our contacts for reccs. Here they are, and here’s the
Google Map.
Nimrod Kamer
Journalist, former NFT trader, Plaster contributor
See: Klodin Erb at Bernheim Gallery
Bernheim Gallery is showing Swiss artist Klodin Erb opening May 31. Because Maria has the tallest art building in LGW, five floors, it’s incredibly good exercise. You never know who you’re gonna find all the way at the top, where the gallery becomes a living room. Sometimes it’s Jon Rafman, sometimes it’s Lola Kramer from Artnet (my aunt).
Drink: Shreeji Newsagents
Shreeji Newsagents on Chiltern Street because you can pose with all the art magazines like Art Review and pretend to read them without buying, while looking at the gate of Chiltern Firehouse. Take a note of collectors checking in and out of the hotel, then move closer to the reception desk.
Eat: Miznon
Miznon: they shove a whole cauliflower in a pita. So it’s both gluttony and a veg meal. Don’t forget to add tahini.
Travel: London Gatwick
Place to fly from: London Gatwick cause it’s called LGW. Most glum airport in London.
