Elizabeth Xi Bauer presents two exhibitions for the sixth edition of London Gallery Weekend, 5th – 7th June 2026.
Elizabeth Xi Bauer, Deptford, showcases the solo exhibition by Abraham Kritzman: Palms and Smoke. Uniting painting, sculpture, and ceramics into a conceptual and spatial framework, Palms and Smoke brings together all facets of Kritzman’s practice, revealing connections between the different strands of the artist’s work. Across mediums, the exhibition explores themes of introspection, transformation, and material process. Richly textured surfaces and imagined figures evoke a sense of intimacy and timelessness, seamlessly integrating narrative and biographical content.
For LGW 2026, Elizabeth Xi Bauer, Deptford, will extend its opening hours and be open on Friday and Saturday, 5th and 6th June, from 11 am to 6 pm, and on Sunday, 7th June, from 12 pm to 5 pm.
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Elizabeth Xi Bauer, Exmouth Market, presents the group exhibition, Response to a Request (or spasm of the soul), curated by Brian Griffiths. Exhibiting works by Judith Dean, Gina Fischli, Nicola Gunnarsson, Sebastian Jefford, Sarah Jones, Richard Kirwan, Hamish Pearch, Cathie Pilkington, Max Prus, Elinor Stanley, Oliver Tirré, Chris Thompson, David Thorpe, Francis Upritchard, and Robert Walser.
Response to a Request (or spasm of the soul) brings together paintings, drawings, sculptures and text that consider what happens when artistic production is shaped by pressures that are not always fully articulated. Rather than resolving the request placed upon them, the works in the exhibition absorb it, sometimes misinterpreting or even pushing against it. The exhibition examines the space between instruction and impulse, extending Griffiths’ longstanding interest in the artist as an unreliable narrator and exhibition-making as staged and provisional.
The title of the exhibition is borrowed from a 1907 story by the Swiss writer Robert Walser (translated from German by Christopher Middleton), which is also included in the show. Walser’s Response to a Request fulfils its duty – but only obliquely, unfolding into a set of instructions in which politeness becomes evasion, and hesitation becomes form. The “request” of the title is never named. It may signal a condition in which expectations –whether institutional, social, or internalised – precede the work, making art a discipline that can never quite discipline itself.
On 6th and 7th June, the short story Response to a Request (1907) by Robert Walser will be read on the hour, every hour, throughout Saturday and Sunday. All artists in the exhibition have been invited to read the text. A request or a response will follow each reading.
The curator, Brian Griffiths, will be present awaiting queries, prompts, appeals and solicitations.
Elizabeth Xi Bauer, Exmouth Market, will be open on Friday and Saturday, 5th and 6th June, 11 am – 6 pm, and on Sunday, 7th June, from 12 pm – 5 pm.
Read more about the exhibition. Response to a Request (or spasm of the soul)
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