London Senses and Experiences surveys the wise range of work by Leon Kossoff and Euan Uglow both born and bred in London, Michael Andrews who grew up in Norwich and arrived at London's slade in 1974, Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach who escaped the Holocaust and arrived in London from Germany in 1933 and 1939 respectively and Ohio born Ronald Kitaj who came to London in 1959 to study at the Royal College of Art.
This catalogue provides a detailed account of all the works in the exhibition and full biography's of all the artists on display, it also includes a splendid introduction by Richard Cork.
• PROJECT 3, Paintings by David Breuer-Weil
- £25.00
Project 3 is the third in a series of ground-breaking exhibitions of monumental paintings by David Breuer-Weil that have establishes him as one of the most significant painters to have emerged in this generation. The paintings and drawings that make up this ongoing series are characterised by the endlessly fertile imagination with which the artist explores some of the most compelling contemporary issues whilst addressing timeless subjects. Project 1 took place at the Roundhouse in 2001 and Project 2 at the Barge house, Oxo Tower Wharf in 2003. Project 3 was executed between 2003 and 2007 and is being exhibitited for the first time in a disused art deco building in Mercer Street in the heart of Covent Garden under the auspices of the Ben Uri Gallery, the London Jewish Museum of Art.
• REGARD AND RITUAL, Julie Held
and Shanti Panchal - £5.00
It is now over 10 years since Julie Held had a solo exhibition at the Ben Uri Gallery in the summer of 1996 and the Gallery is delighted to exhibit her work once again, this time together with the work of her friend and fellow artist Shanti Panchal. Despite the apparent differences in their backgrounds, these two contemporary painters share many strands of commonality. Together their work explores shared memory of a lost culture, alongside a vibrant celebration of a new home, of lyrical possibilities and hopes for the future.
Co - curated by Rachel Dickson and Julia Weiner, this delightful exhibition has been captured through a concise exhibition catalogue, and charming introduction by its curators.
• AMBIGUOUS REALITIES, Colour Photographs by Dorothy Bohm - £5.00
Throughout a career spanning nearly seven decades, Dorothy Bohm has remained a purist in her approach to the photographic medium, reluctant to manipulate her images are in any way and never wavering in her belief that for her at least, a photograph should do what only a photograph can do: namely, capture a moment that a millisecond later will be gone forever.
Curated by the artist's daughter, Monica Bohm - Duchen, this exhibition catalogue offers a delightful retrospective of Bohm's talent, with a personal introduction by Monica Bohm-Duchen.
• A Storm in Europe - £10.00
Béla Kádár, Hugó Scheiber and ‘Der Sturm’ Gallery in Berlin
Continuing the museum’s collaboration with other museums and galleries in Europe, the exhibition was curated by Mariann Gergely, the Chief Curator of the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest who is the world expert on Béla Kádár, and is produced in collaboration between the Ben Uri and the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London, as part of Magyar Magic: Hungary in Focus from 2003 to 2004.
• Bernard Meninsky - £5.00
• Chagall and his Circle Exhibition Catalogue - £5.00
Chagall and his Circle brings together a small select group of works primarily from private collections and museums abroad that have not been seen in London before. The exhibition is a forerunner to a substantial Ecole de Paris exhibition planned for 2007/2008.
These works take the audience from Russia through Eastern Europe to Paris where the Ecole de Paris flourished and was a huge influence on the world’s art movements and art collectors during the first half of the twentieth century.
• Claude Rogers - £9.00
• Dora Holzhandler: Outside In & Inside Out, A Retrospective - £6.00
• Dora Holzhandler by Phillip Vann - £25.00
• Embracing the Exotic - £15.00
• Fortnight of Solo Shows - £2.00
• Jacob Kramer Reassessed - £5.00
• Joash Woodrow: A Retrospective Catalogue - £10.00
• Making Waves: Masterpieces from Modern & British Art - £6.00
The Ben Uri Gallery hosted the first public exhibition of Making Waves: Masterpieces of Modern British Art. This exhibition featured some 25 masterworks by Modern British artists and represents a wonderful opportunity to reappraise the contribution to the development of modern European art by a broad range of twentieth-century British artists
• Mark Gertler A Biography - £25.00
• Mark Gertler: A New Perspective - £20.00
The Ben Uri Gallery - The London Jewish Museum of Art is delighted to announce the first exhibition for a decade of the work of the artist Mark Gertler (1891-1939).
• Ludwig & Elsie Meidner - £8.00
After six years without a home of its own the Ben Uri Gallery re-opened at its new gallery at 108A Boundary Road on July 1st with an exhibition of the famous German expressionist Ludwig and his wife Else Meidner.
• Postcards - £50p
• Rediscovering Wolmark (Hardback) - £20.00
• Rediscovering Wolmark (Softback) - £15.00
• Solomon J Solomon - £8.00
• Simeon Solomon & The Pre- Raphaelites a Gallery Guide - £4.99
• Simeon Solomon & The Pre-Raphaelites a Catalogue Hardback - £30.00
• The Ben Uri Collection Catalogue - £25.00
A comprehensive catalogue of the collection of the Ben Uri Gallery up to 1994
• The Ben Uri Story: from Art Society to Museum - £25.00
A fully illustrated catalogue marking the exhibition at Philip’s (now Bonhams) in London in 2001 which marked a turning point in Ben Uri’s history; this book gives a full history of the Ben Uri.
• The Tortoise and the Hare - £6.00
An exhibition of works by William Roberts and Jacob Kramer
The Ben Uri Gallery in conjunction with the University Gallery Leeds held the third exhibition in the series ‘The Whitechapel Boys’ which focuses on the Jewish artists who were part of the early twentieth-century cultural outpouring which emerged from London’s East End.
• Rediscovering Wolmark - £20.00
The Ben Uri Gallery originated and toured the first major retrospective of Alfred Wolmark’s work for nearly 30 years in the autumn of 2004. The fourth in our series of the 'Whitechapel Boys', this is the first museum retrospective since 1975 and highlights the transformation from his early brilliant evocations of Eastern European Jewish life to becoming Britain's first and most eloquent apostle of pure colour.
