Artists

In his first major solo exhibition in London, NEW FICTION, KAWS (Brian Donnelly b.1974) presents new and recent works in physical and augmented reality at Serpentine North from 18 January – 27 February 2022. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with Acute Art and curated by Acute Art’s Artistic Director, Daniel Birnbaum. A parallel digital […]

HOLIDAY SPACE (2020) | Augmented Reality In the summer of 2020, Acute Art had the pleasure of presenting HOLIDAY SPACE, a free new AR work by KAWS. On Monday 17th August, in collaboration with All Rights Reserved, the artist launched this iconic COMPANION figure into space, in celebration of the character’s 20th anniversary. Using a sounding balloon, the KAWS:HOLIDAY […]

Saturday, 19 June 2021 – Sunday, 17 October 2021 This summer, Serpentine and Acute Art present artist Tomás Saraceno’s Webs of Life on the grounds of Serpentine South Gallery and online globally. Saraceno encourages us to move away from a fear of spiders (arachnophobia) and towards a love of spiders (arachnophilia, also the title of Saraceno’s […]

Precious Okoyomon is a poet, chef and artist living in New York City. They make portals into new worlds. Okoyomon has had institutional solo exhibitions at the Luma Westbau in Zurich (2018), and at the MMK in Frankfurt (2020), major performances commissioned by the Serpentine Galleries, London (2019) and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London […]

IMAGINARY FRIEND (2020) | Augmented Reality In collaboration with Acute Art, New York based artist, Nina Chanel Abney, launched her first global AR work, Imaginary Friend in the summer 2020. Imaginary Friend tells us of a story in which a character, reminiscent of a religious figure like a sage, tries to give a blessing to a friend, but […]

Gigant DOKU (2020) | Augmented Reality In collaboration with Acute Art, Lu Yang and BMW have presented a new AR work where “DOKU”, the artist’s digital avatar, takes over the physical world in the form of a giant dancing superhero.

Web of Life (2020 – ongoing) | for a real Augmented Reality Webs of Life, a project by Tomás Saraceno with Arachnophilia for Acute Art, is an experiment in biodiversity and technodiversity*, towards a real Augmented Reality. Subverting the digital to reconnect with the physical, it invites participants to move from arachnophobia to Arachnophilia, against the Sixth […]

(2020) | Augmented Reality For 2020, Bjarne Melgaard’s new AR project uses characters and motifs from his wider oeuvre, which reference a multitude of current and historical affairs; from the colonisation of The Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa, to the international influence of Big Tech, as well as the recent removal of […]