<p dir="ltr">Marking 75 years of New Contemporaries, the 2024 exhibition features 35 artists who have been selected through an open call by internationally renowned artists Liz Johnson Artur, Permindar Kaur and Amalia Pica. </p> <p dir="ltr">Launching in <a href="https://mirrorplymouth.com/">MIRROR</a> at Arts University Plymouth, <a href="https://karst.org.uk/">KARST</a>, and <a href="https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/autumn-2024-new-contemporaries">The Levinsky Gallery</a> at the University of Plymouth, this exhibition marks the first time New Contemporaries has returned to Plymouth in 60 years.</p> <p dir="ltr">Donna Howard, Executive Director of KARST says: “New Contemporaries is a great opportunity for Plymouth to showcase the city’s ambitious and dynamic contemporary art scene at a local, regional and national level. </p> <p dir="ltr">“The artists in this year’s New Contemporaries focus on themes and issues that are relevant to Plymouth and society more widely and we are excited about the conversations that will emerge as audiences visit the exhibition across the three venues.” </p> <p dir="ltr">Works are arranged thematically at each venue, offering an overview of urgent lived concerns, interests and social realities from this generation of artists. </p> <p dir="ltr">Recurrent themes include mindfulness, consumerism, conviviality, environmentalism, geographical borders, and identity politics. A diverse range of mediums and approaches are featured including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, moving image and sound. <br /></p>

<p dir="ltr">The artists showing at MIRROR will explore boundaries, borders and fragmented memories. Works suggest the experiences of movement between places or the thresholds and tensions between geographical and imagined spaces. Some of the artists also use familiar tropes from architectures and domestic interiors.</p> <p dir="ltr">Professor Stephen Felmingham, Vice-Chancellor Academic at Arts University Plymouth, said: “Bringing Bloomberg New Contemporaries back to Plymouth for the first time since 1964 is another milestone in establishing the city as a pivotal hub for arts and culture in the South West. Late 2022 saw the return to Plymouth of the British Art Show, another successful cultural event of international significance. It has been a pleasure to collaborate once more with colleagues in KARST and The Levinsky Gallery and to know that students in the region will benefit from attending and learning from an exhibition of such vital contemporary art.”</p> <p dir="ltr">This year’s exhibiting artists are: Motunrayo Akinola, Libby Bove, Max Boyla, Molly Burrows, Fergus Carmichael, Mya Cavner and Edith Liben, Karen David, Roo Dhissou, Beverley Duckworth, Georgia Dymock, Tom Fairlamb, Farzaneh Ghadyanloo, Sara Graça, Dageong Han, Siomha Harrington, Anna Howard, Fi Isidore, Asmaa Jama and Gouled Ahmed, Laura Kazaroff, AC Larsen, Sophie Lloyd, Hazel O'Sullivan, Sun Oh, Sara Osman, Saul Pankhurst, Varshga Premarasa, Elliott Roy, Millie Shafiee, Sai Stephenson, Valentino Vannini, Joshua Whitaker, Danilo Zocatelli Cesco, and Yang Zou. </p> <p dir="ltr">The exhibition will tour to the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London from 15 January to 23 March 2025.<br /></p>