Coming soon to South London Gallery Leonardo Drew & Museo Jumex.
Leonardo Drew: Ubiquity II -Fri 30 May - Sun 7 Sep 2025
Free Admission
This summer, American artist Leonardo Drew takes over the SLG’s main gallery with a new immersive sculptural installation. Known for his explosive sculptural works, this is Leonardo Drew’s first solo exhibition in a London institution. He creates reflective abstract pieces that play on the tension between order and chaos. Transforming and eroding materials by hand in the studio, he explores the cyclical nature of life and decay.
At the SLG, a new site-specific work will cover the walls and floor of the main gallery space. Fragments of wood are distressed, as though they have been through extreme weather events, natural disasters or, in Drew’s words, “acts of God”. Drew refrains from attaching specific meaning to each work, preferring to title pieces numerically so the viewer can engage directly with the installation and discover a multitude of experiences within it.
Further Information: Leonardo Drew: Ubiquity II
Leonardo Drew and Ekow Eshun in Conversation: Fri 30 May, 7-8pm, £10 / £5 concession BOOK NOW
Museo Jumex in Residence (Part 1): Wed 21 May - Sun 31 Aug 2025
Free Admission
Discover works from the Museo Jumex, Mexico City, in a new collaboration with the SLG. This group exhibition in the Fire Station will share a curated selection of works from the international collection of Museo Jumex. Featured works bring together installation, sculpture, video, and photography by artists from around the world. Participating artists include Ana Pellicer and Tania Pérez Córdova from Mexico and Salla Tykkä from Finland.
Mexican artist Damián Ortega’s Clay Mountain is an immense mound of clay, shaped to reference a mountain or volcano. Jenny Holzer’s Truisms displays deliberately challenging and often contradictory statements flashing on a screen. For Alma, Silueta en Fuego from Cuban artist Ana Mendieta’s Silueta series, the artist used a range of natural materials to create an outline of her body on the ground, in this instance, fire, to explore the body and representation.
A second presentation from the Museo Jumex will launch in the Fire Station galleries in Autumn 2025.
Further Information: Museo Jumex in Residence (Part 1)