Every Friday our editors bring you their personal highlights of the week to come. Tom Jeffreys selects his top three exhibitions.
From Monday 4th June
Summer Exhibition @ Royal Academy
The largest open contemporary art exhibition in the world, the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition is one of the major dates in the art calendar. Over 11,000 works are submitted but only about 1,200 of these make it through the rigorous selection process. The cream of contemporary talent is on display and all media are well represented. Pretty much unmissable, especially thanks to curator Tess Jaray's innovative hang.
From Friday 8th June
Chris Agnew @ Nancy Victor
Painstakingly detailed pencil drawings and etched panels at Nancy Victor this summer – the works forming a solo show for contemporary artist Chris Agnew. Agnew splices together different ideologies and systems of meaning – the Pentagon re-imagined as a Roman dodecahedron, for example, or the Shard frozen in Friedrich's Sea of Ice – in order to raise questions about dogma and discourse.
From Saturday 9th June
Malerei @ Transition
Sarah Kate Wilson curates a group show examining the materiality of paint and painting at Transition Gallery this summer. Taking its name from the German for painting, and inspired by the writings of Michael Fried and Michel Foucault, the show examines the painting as object in itself. With work on show by a range of artists, including Phyllida Barlow and Wilson herself, this is yet another intriguing exhibition in a strong year so far for Transition.
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