A bit Berlin and little of London

I've got some curation things underway. The prints I curated for absolutart.com have launched online - and a selection are on display in the Absolut Art Apartment at Moritzplatz in Berlin Until Dec 6. (and for those who like liquid there is free coffee in the day from 11 and free cocktails between 5 an 7pm daily). Top Floor, Prinzenstrasse 84, Berlin. Artists include Gregor Hilderbrant, Hanna Schwarz, Thomas Helbig, Juliette Bonneviot, Matthias Bitzer and Ei Cortinas. Londoners save the date -December 17 for #officeparty 7pm-midnight The last party with a DJ set by Dave MacLean (Django Django), dance class by Joelle D'Fontaine, and free photocopy artworks by Aaron Angell, Alexandre da Cunha, Jeremy Deller, Benedict Drew, Celia Hempton, Allison Katz, Oscar Murillo, David Noonan, Athena Papadopolos, Peles Empire, Prem Sahib, Daniel Silver, Marianne Spurr, Julie Verhoeven, Jesse Wine, Bedwyr Williams and more...

#officeparty GIF by Ben Sansbury, 2015. Courtesy the artist

Freezing

My recommendations leading up to Frieze are up.

Also if you're there Friday, head to the reading room at 530pm to hear me talk with Celia Hempton and Julie Verhoeven for Kaleidoscope. I'll also be posting a VIDEOCLUB project to coincide next week. News to come!

New Shows in London

Work has bamboozled me and I have missed the following openings that I intend to catch up on fast:

Oliver Laric @ Austrian Cultural Forum

(image above)

Looks @ ICA

Carol Bove @ David Zwirner

AA Bronson @ Maureen Paley

David Douard @ Union Pacific

Tal R @ Victoria Miro, Wharf Rd

The Symptom of Art II Schizoanalysis @ Cabinet (with my favourite Danny Macdonald)

Sanya Kantarovsky @ Studio Voltaire

Adam Pendleton @ PACE

Toby Christian @ Vigo Gallery

Abigail Reynolds @ Rokeby

Favourite Paintings in London

TimeOut asked me to contribute to their top 100 paintings in London and these are my top 10. And they are all bloody good.

Save the date: Seana Gavin PV July 10

Post Frieze 2013

Here are the blogs I wrote for Dazed
Day 1: The Build up
Day 2: The Fair
Day 3: The Rest
Day 4: The End and the Best

(Images from top Cory Arcangel at Team Gallery, Adrian Villar Rojas at Serpentine Sackler Gallery, Jordan Belson at Raven Row)

A Frieze Has Come Upon Us

Frieze is here and I am prepping for a VERY busy week. 

My preview highlights from the fair are up on Artsy, I am taking over the Dazed Magazine's Instagram all week @dazedmagazine, will be tweeting highlights from my private view timetable (which you can see here at the bottom right as well as on twitter @roughversion) and writing daily run downs for for Dazed Digital (links to follow).

I also had a very louche Artforum diary debut where I was snapped with the lovely Robert Bound from Monocle.

Not So Far East Guide

I thought it was about time I updated my guide to London that I give to mates passing through town. Thought it was about time I did a specialised East London update (after all I spend far to much time in).

Galleries
Maureen Paley, Laura Bartlett and Herald St - the trio on Herald St
Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Rd, E3
SPACE, 129-131 Mare St, E8
Cell Project Space, 258 Cambridge Heath Rd, E8
Also: Seventeen Gallery, French Riviera, Welcome to Corfu, Kate MacGarry, Eighty1, Almanac

Coffee
Allpress, 58 Redchurch St, E2 - but ask for one shot as this tasty rocket fuel guarantees sleepless nights
Beagle, 397-200 Geffrye St, E8 - under the arch of Hoxton Station
Climpson & Sons, 67 Broadway Market, E8
Wiltons, 63 Wilton Way, E8

Food
Pizza East Shoreditch, 56 Shoreditch High St - esp for the salads and smalls
Voodoo Rays, 95 Kingsland High St, E8 - pizza slice spot in the belly of the Dalston beast
Lardo, 197 Richmond Rd, E8 - great Italian
Viet Grill, 58 Kingsland Rd, E2 - the best of the Vietnamese strip of Kingsland Road
Bistroteque, 23-27 Wadeson St, E2 - sit at the bar (v excited by their new spot coming to the Ace Hotel)

Drink
Spurstowe, 68 Greenwood Rd, E8
Ridley Road Market Bar, 49 Ridley Rd, E8
The Royal Oak, 73 Columbia Road, London E2
Floyds, 89 Shaklewell Lane, E8 - the food up and down, the cocktails always amazing

Shop
Donlon Books, Broadway Market, E8
Artwords, 69 Rivington St, E2 - for magazines
Camden Lock Books - despite name this is a secretly amazing bookshop in Old St station
APC, 15 Redchurch St, E2
Aime, 17 Redchurch St, E2 - French womenswear
Also: Start, Goodhood

Image Tobias Till print 'G - Gherkin' (2012)

Instability of the Image

I am writing a series of texts throughout the year for the programme of shows Attilia Fattori Franchini is curating at Paradise Row. They are being printed as a series of leaflets as well as archived online. The first kicked off last night and I'm pasting it here too.

Best shows this month

Human Wave: The Videotapes of Raymond Pettibon at Space Studios, London

Stephen G Rhodes at Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin

David Horvitz at Chert, Berlin

Danny McDonald at Cabinet, London (actual show opens from Feb 10)

What to see in London this week

Thursday November 15 is a night a damn good night for London art. There are three openings all in East London and an after party at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club at 9pm - where I am DJing in fact. These are the three are musts. All are open between 6-9pm on the opening night.

Thomas Dozol 'Côtes d'Azurs'

French Riviera , 309 Bethnal Green Road, London  E2 6AH
until Dec 16 2012

CHIMERA Q.T.E.

Curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini

Cornelia Baltes, Nicolas Deshayes, Adham Faramawy, Jack Lavender, 

Berry Patten, Sabrina Ratté, Travess Smalley, Oliver Sutherland

Cell Project Space, 258 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9DA
until Jan 13 2013 (closed Dec 17-Jan 3)

Tiling 

Curated by Tim Steer

Laura Aldridge, Larry Bell, David Berezin, Andy Boot, David Raymond Conroy, Timothy Davies, Mark Soo

Seventeen Gallery, 17 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8AA

until Dec 22 2012

What to do in London before Frieze starts

Bjarne Melgaard @ ICA Sept 25 - Nov 18

Rashid Johnson @ South London Gallery Sept 28 - Nov 25

Yuri Pattison @ Project Number PV September 28 6-9pm, runs to Oct 14

Leslie Kulesh @ French Riviera private view October 2, Oct 5 - Nov 11

Born to Curate

I'm taking part in a funny sounding performance game show on Thursday - Born to Curate - connected to the current show at Nettie Horn. Free but RSVP.

Maybe Its Because I'm a...

Whenever people come to London they ask me for recommendations and I realise the list I put up here years back needs some updating. So if you're in town for three days this is where I'd shove you:

Galleries
- Maureen Paley, 21 Herald Street, London E2
- SPACE Studios, 129—131 Mare St, London E8

- Ibid Projects, 35 Hoxton Square, London N1
- Seventeen Gallery, 17 Kingsland Rd, London E2
- Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Rd, London NW3

- Whitecube Bermondsey (for the insane building if nothing else), 144-152 Bermondsey St, London SE1

Coffee

- Flat White, 17 Berwick St, London W1

- Wiltons, 61 Wilton Way, London E8 (where I do my occasional London Fields Radio show)

- Daquise, 20 Thurloe Street London SW7 (in afternoons only for apple strudel and a taste of 60s poland)

- Sensory Lab, 75 Wigmore St, London W1

Food
- Dean Street Townhouse, 69 Dean St, London W1 (art, amaretto sours)
- Polpo, 41 Beak St, London W1 (or Polpetto above the French House)
- Bar Bruno, 101 Wardour St, London W1
- St John (the bar area), 26 St John St, London EC1 and the bar at St John Hotel
- The Wolseley, 160 Piccadilly, London W1
- Pizza East, 56 Shoreditch High St, London E1
- Rochelle Canteen (lunch only mon-fri), Arnold Circus, London E2 (recommend booking 02077295677)

Drink
- The French House, 49 Dean St, London W1
- The Royal Oak, 73 Columbia Rd, London E2
- The Holly Bush, 22 Holly Mount, London NW3
- Cecconi's, 5a Burlington Gardens, London W1 (prosecco on tap at the bar)

Shop
- Compton News, 48 Old Compton Street, London W1
- Fopp for 3 quid DVDs and CDs, 1 Earlham Street, London WC2
- Music and Video Exchange shops (esp the Book one 14 Pembridge Road, and Soul and Dance, 42 Notting Hill Gate).
- Fenwicks, 63 New Bond St, London W1
- The Top Shop concession in Selfridges; APC and Acne on Dover St; The B Store on Kingly St for shoes; Fred Perry on Newburgh St etc

Tourist Stuff

Sir John Soane's Museum, 13 Lincoln Inn Fields, London WC1

Walk up Primrose Hill in general or swim in Hampstead Heath ponds in summer

London Books

JG Ballard 'High-Rise'

Graham Greene 'Ministry of Fear'

Anything by Iain Sinclair