Anthea Hamilton — Photo © Emile Holba

Anthea Hamilton

Anthea Hamilton (1978, United Kingdom) lives and works in London. She creates strange, surreal art: environments in which we can actually walk around. Often combining objects and images that carry certain social connotations (such as kimonos, chastity belts, boots, furniture and perfume). Both amusing and serious, minimal and maximal.

Recently, Hamilton's work was shown in solo exhibitions at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; Kaufmann Repetto, Milan; Tate Britain, London; Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin; Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London; SculptureCenter, New York; and KORO, Oslo.

Group exhibitions include MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Kayu-Lucie Fontaine, Bali, Indonesia; White Cube, London; Loewe Foundation; Miami, 13th Lyon Biennale and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

Her Project for a Door (After Gaetano Pesce) from 2015 is (in)famous: a sculpture of a large naked bottom through which you walk as the spectator.

On display at COME CLOSER

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Anthea Hamilton, Othello, a play — foto © Kristien Daem

Othello, a play, 2024

Performance — more dates (past)

This new creation is Anthea Hamilton's most ambitious exploration of her sculptural methods. She shapes all elements in the space (stage, audience, scenography, light, sound and time) into sculptural material that serves the performer. As such, she presents an alternative reality in which gender roles, sexuality and certain cultural traditions are no longer rusty clichés, but fluid notions instead.