2023 programme

Mostyn, Wales, are pleased to announce their 2023 programme. Five artists will have their first solo institutional shows in the UK at the gallery, and Mostyn are also pleased to be a partner gallery for Artes Mundi 10. The programme is curated by Mostyn’s Director, Alfredo Cramerotti and Kalliopi Tsipni-Kolaza, Associate Curator of Visual Arts.

Cerith Wyn Evans
Until February 25, 2023

A major solo exhibition by Cerith Wyn Evans, the most widely established and internationally recognised Welsh artist working today. At Mostyn, Wyn Evans has focused on ideas around the folds and flows of energy via material and immaterial conduits, circuitry, and choreology:- the practice of translating movement into notational form. Intricate neon sculptures interrogate the means of perception and question how we interpret the works and their spatial surroundings which are used to construct meaning. The visual assemblage presented in concert throughout the galleries unfolds in a sort of ‘controlled randomness’, in which artworks coexist in a play of exchanges between intervals and intensities. 

Stefan Brüggemann
March 18–June 17, 2023

The first major museum scale exhibition by the Mexican/German London-based Stefan Brüggemann, encompassing painting, works on paper, sculpture, installation, sound, moving image and his very first special edition of NFTs. Spanning sculpture, video, painting, and drawing, Brüggemann’s work deploys text in conceptual installations rich with acerbic social critique and a post-pop aesthetic. His oeuvre is characterized by an ironic conflation of Conceptualism and Minimalism with a punk attitude. In this way, Brüggemann’s practice sits outside the canon of the conceptual artists practicing in the 1960s and 1970s, who sought dematerialisation and rejected the commercialisation of art. Press view: 17th March.  

Diane Dal-Pra
July 1–October 7, 2023

The first UK museum exhibition by the young French artist, whose painterly work equally seduces and disquiets the viewer with its ambiguous composition and detailing. Dal-Pra’s large scale figurative paintings evade the boundary between realism and abstraction and her geometric compositions featuring human bodies and objects create visual tension and enigmatic narratives. Each painting is a new journey, with its duration and its share of surprises. A solo show that promises revelations from an ascending star of contemporary painting.

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum
July 1–October 7, 2023

The first UK institutional solo exhibition by the Botswana-Canadian artist. Sunstrum is an emergent figure of the transatlantic diaspora who works on 2D and 3D installations, painting, drawing and animation and this exhibition will be a mid-career take on her complex and beautiful multidisciplinary artistic practice. Her work alludes to mythology, geology and theories on the nature of the universe. Drawings take the form of narrative landscapes that appear simultaneously futuristic and ancient, shifting between representational and fantastical depictions of volcanic, subterranean, cosmological and precipitous landscapes. Previous notable projects include Sunstrum’s 2018 mural which wrapped around the exterior of The Showroom, London. The work was dedicated to South African Novelist Bessie Head and formed part of the exhibition titled Women on Aeroplanes, curated by The Otolith Group, Emily Pethick, and Elvira Dyangani Ose.

Oren Pinhassi
July 1–October 7, 2023

The first UK museum exhibition by the US-based artist presenting a series of sculptural works which examine the relationship between the human figure, nature and the built environment. Pinhassi is genuinely interested in how architecture shapes and determines the ways we do things—the way we eat, the way we sleep, the way we have sex, how we protect ourselves. His work explores architecture that is designed to separate bodies, and asks what these designs say about our desires and fears. He is interested in the borders we create to avoid contagion, out of fear of the Other, and how the erosion of these boundaries is essential to erotic experiences. 

Rosemarie Castoro
October 21, 2023–February 24, 2024

The first UK institutional solo presentation by the late American master. Including painting, work on paper, poetry, wall relief work and sculptural, floor-based pieces, the exhibition offers a comprehensive angle on her extensive practice from the 1960s onwards. Rosemarie Castoro formulated her unique artistic idiom within the context of Minimalist and Conceptual art in 1960s New York. She shared a SoHo loft with then-partner and fellow artist Carl Andre that became a social hub for creatives, including Lawrence Weiner, Richard Long and Sol LeWitt. While studying graphic design at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, she became involved with the New Dance Group and later appeared in several performances with famed Minimalist choreographer Yvonne Rainer. Defying easy categorisation, Castoro did not like to be put in categories, she said: “People call me a minimalist, but I consider myself a maxiMUST” and she called herself a ‘painter sculptor’. A dancer’s awareness of space informed her works, which is emphasised in the performative Polaroids she took of herself interacting with them in her studio.

Artes Mundi 10 Special Exhibition
October 21, 2023–February 24, 2024

We are delighted to be one of the five nationwide venue partners for the tenth anniversary edition of Artes Mundi, the UK’s leading biennial exhibition and international contemporary art prize, with presenting partner Bagri Foundation. The shortlist of seven international contemporary visual artists include  Rushdi Anwar; Carolina Caycedo; Alia Farid; Naomi Rincón Gallardo; Taloi Havini; Nguyễn Trinh Thi; and Mounira Al Solh.

For media information on any of the above exhibitions, please contact: Nicola Jeffs, nj [​at​] nicolajeffs.com / T +44 7794 694 754