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Congratulations to Simeon Barclay whose site-specific commission has been unveiled today at Deutsche Bank’s new UK headquarters, London.

Barclay’s commission combines his interest in architectural space and the use of collage to engage with Deutsche Bank’s long history of trade and its structure as a multinational company.

Activating the architecture of 21 Moorfields, Barclay uses collage, layering and surface to both contradict and create new meaning. These strategies, where differing forms and images coalesce, is reflective of Deutsche Bank’s values of inclusivity and diversity.

As a form of visual communication that aims to talk across physical and conceptual boundaries, the work attempts to replicate complex human interaction, suggesting the cultural dynamics essential both in the world and the workplace as a means to driving personal and organisational innovation forward.



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Simeon Barclay’s Deutsche Bank Commission at Deutsche Bank, London, 2024. Photos: Eva Herzog. Courtesy of the Artist and Workplace, UK.

Now open | Jacob Dahlgren’s solo exhibition ‘When Anxieties Become Form’ continues at Workplace | London until 28 September.

A series of new wall-based sculptural works, considered as paintings by Dahlgren, are on view in the lower ground floor. Formed from mass-produced coat hangers, composed in a horizontal striped pattern, these works continue Dahlgren’s longstanding investigation into geometric and abstract motifs in the everyday environment. Stripped of their original function, the coat hangers transcend their utilitarian origins to become vibrant and dynamic works.

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Jacob Dahlgren, ‘Blackpool 1996’, 2024. Courtesy of the Artist and Workplace, UK.

If you are in New York this week, make sure to check out b cheyaheb’s solo booth with Ochi at The Armory Show, opening on Thursday 5 September.

Workplace are presenting b’s first European solo exhibition ‘tomboy heaven’ at our London gallery in November 2024.

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Portrait of b chehayeb, 2024; b chehayeb, ‘tomboy bbq’, 2024. Photos: KC Maddux. Courtesy of the Artist and Ochi.

Opening tonight | Jacob Dahlgren: ‘When Anxieties Become Form’ at Workplace | London.

Please join us this evening, Thursday 29 August from 6-8pm, for the opening reception of Jacob Dahlgren’s solo exhibition.

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Jacob Dahlgren, ‘From Art to Life to Art’, 2011-2024; Jacob Dahlgren, ‘Nagasaki 1988’, 2024. Courtesy of the Artist and Workplace, UK.

Rachel Lancaster is included in the group exhibition ‘Episode II: Home and Away’ curated by Matt Carey-William which opens tomorrow, 29 August at Gallery 2, Seoul.

The artists in the exhibition often use the body as a signifier for an array of concerns, predicated upon various tributaries of status, and charge their practices as vehicles to emblematise certain class or identity friction. Patterns and paradigms of desire, and their ever-shifting geology of being and becoming, come together to collectively paint a tapestry of experience that reflects what it means to live in Britain today.

29 August - 28 September 2024

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Rachel Lancaster, ‘Always Already’, 2024. Courtesy of the Artist and Matt Carey-Williams.

‘Who as one’ by James Cabaniuk is included in our group exhibition ‘and still I may’, at Workplace | London which closes this week.

Cabaniuk’s large and thickly painted abstract paintings delve into charged memories of encounters. Painted with speed, and in a performative mode, they explore ideas of a q***r temporality and how experience, histories and identities can shift and dissolve outside of a conventional linear developmental progression. The abstraction and constant state of change leans into the opacity of q***rness, traversing bodily and emotional autonomy.

‘and still I may’ is open by appointment until 24 August. Please email [email protected] to arrange a time to visit.

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James Cabaniuk, ‘Who as one’, 2024. Courtesy of the Artist and Workplace, UK.

Tianyue Zhong is included in our group exhibition ‘and still I may’, at Workplace | London. On view until 24 August.

In Tianyue Zhong’s paintings, human presence has been obliterated and reworked with linear marks. Beginning her paintings with an image taken at a place and time different from where she is at the time of making, her muted gestural abstractions connect back to a sense of intimacy, introspection and place. Through her work Zhong is interested in reconnecting with past experiences of feeling restrained within a structure, locked within a frozen moment remembering how to begin to escape.

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Portrait of Tianyue Zhong, 2024; Tianyue Zhong, ‘Time Stops’, 2024. Courtesy of the Artist and Workplace, UK.