June Exhibitions at No.9 Cork Street

The summer programme at Frieze No.9 Cork Street launches in June, with pop-up exhibitions from spaces in Korea, North America, Mexico and India.

From 3–17 June, ONE AND J. Gallery (Seoul) will present Dongwook Suh, Ahnnlee Lee, and Yoonhee Choi alongside Vadehra Art Gallery's (New Delhi) show of paintings by Arpita Singh and Ross-Sutton Gallery's (New York) solo exhibition of Khari Turner. 



Opening June 22 – 25, Alex Tieghi-Walker – the gallerist, curator, and founder of design platform TIWA Select – will present 'The North American Pavilion', an exhibition featuring eight young galleries from the United States, México and Canada all under five years of age.

3–17 June 2023

Dongwook Suh, Ahnnlee Lee, and Yoonhee Choi: 'Acquainted with the Night'

Presented by ONE AND J. Gallery

Featuring three Korean artists – Dongwook Suh, Ahnnlee Lee, and Yoonhee Choi – 'Acquainted with the Night'  is titled after the poem Acquainted with the Night (1928) by Robert Frost (1874-1963, USA). The show presents various artistic practices through portraits, abstract paintings, installations, and poem exploring human experiences of the night through metaphors of darkness, solitude, and emptiness. Dongwook Suh presents the portraits implying the emotion of solitude we all feel as human beings. Having delved into her internal being, Yoonhee Choi paints her innermost emotions by rubbing paint with her physical movements. Between the paintings, Ahnnlee Lee, presents immersive installations inspired by the artist's poem Alchemy (2019).

3–17 June 2023

Khari Turner: 'Solid to Gas'

Presented by Ross-Sutton Gallery

'Solid to Gas' is Turner’s first solo exhibition in London. The artist explains, 'I paint because of my understanding of my identity and history, recovering the air of a story. I imagine the personifications of the magic that is water. I use water from oceans, lakes, and rivers from places that have either a historical or personal connection to Black people -- water that I collect to mix with and pour onto my paintings. My paintings and drawings combine abstraction with realistic renderings of Black noses and lips to investigate the spiritual and physical record to my ancestor’s relationships with water. The average body is made up of 60% water, the same water in these ethereal beings that inhabit the work. All the water on this earth is the same water that has always been on this earth. The knowledge water holds is in all of us, and the realization that we share this water is my focus. My work is constantly evolving, absorbing water and history as a material, painting to bring the stories of elegance and chaos that comes with this existence. The work in ’Solid to Gas’ is the result of a deep dive into all these elements and trying to evaluate the line between water as solid to gas thinking about the water taking on a similar look and ideology in the work.”



'Solid to Gas’ is Khari Turner’s first solo exhibition since his milestone exhibitions in 2022, which included Turner’s first international solo presentation, “Blue Moon” a series inspired by traditional Venetian portraiture, shown at the 59th Venice Biennale.

3–17 June 2023

Arpita Singh: 'Meeting'

Presented by Vadehra Art Gallery

New Delhi-based Vadehra Art Gallery presents a solo exhibition by celebrated Post-Modernist Arpita Singh, titled 'Meeting' and featuring a curated body of canvases, watercolours and drawings. Singh’s works assume new dimension as cartographical autobiographies, accenting imagined characters and landscapes with the flourish of expressionist emotion. With compositions foregrounded in movement, Singh tends to emphasize the potential of individual agency operating within collective constraints – whether fictional, mythical, personal, public fact or dream. These almost think-scapes capture constructs of space in abstraction, whose protagonists occupy their frames implicitly and navigate time, cultures and history through an assemblage of connection.

June 22 – 24, 2023

'The North American Pavillion'

Curated by Alex Tieghi-Walker

An exhibition of eight young galleries from the United States, México and Canada, all under five-years-old. The guiding principle behind The North American Pavillion is a celebration of the cultures existing side-by-side in the vast North American landmass, and exposing a British audience to this visual history. Curated by Alex Tieghi-Walker, the gallerist, curator, and founder of design platform TIWA Select, the assemblage of galleries was selected for their directive in straddling the space between art, design and craft.



The exhibition will include works presented by Los Angeles-based NOON Projects, who place queerness and social practice at the heart of their program, and will showcase artists Ben Borden and Matt Momchilov alongside ceramics from Maddy Inez Leeser and Will Moss. Marta will bring works by North American design-world luminaries including Minjae Kim and Wentrcek–Zebulon, alongside landscapes of the American East Coast by the Hamptons- based Swedish artist Virva Hinnemo. Meanwhile, TIWA Select, based in New York City, will demon- strate storytelling through textiles made across the USA, from intricate Navajo and Diné weavings to Applachian quilts and works by the Gee’s Bend quilting collective. The North American Pavillion will also illustrate the ongoing growth of North American galleries that specialize in and show collectible design, with additional participation from Bruises Gallery, Emma Scully Gallery, Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery, OF THE CLOTH, and Studio IMA.

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