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Group Show: Symposium, Kristin Hjellegjerde, West Palm Beach, December 2025

Lecturer: University of the Arts, London

Represented by: Ncontemporary (Milan & Venice) and Kristin Hjellegjerde (London, Berlin, Nevlunghavn & Palm Beach)

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jonnybriggs176

Artist | Lecturer | Lover of squirrels

Showing works in a new group show, Bridging the Ga Showing works in a new group show, Bridging the Gap, curated by Hermione Allsopp, Poppy Whatmore & Paul Carey-Kent, opening tonight at Hypha Studios South Bank (there's air-con!) 

42 Southwark Bridge Road, London, SE1 9EU
Runs to 26th July

Pictured: Tread, 2025, Sculpture, 11 x 13 x 32cm

https://hyphastudios.com/hypha-gallery-south-bank/
Showing work at Miart with Ncontemporary, booth C1 Showing work at Miart with Ncontemporary, booth C14.

Pictured: Gag ii (my mouth holding prints of B&W stripes), Photography: aluminium mounted photographs, in cut timber frames, 40 x 86cm, 2023

Commissioned for GRAIN x V&A Wedgwood Collection
I'm giving a free public talk at Goldsmiths Univer I'm giving a free public talk at Goldsmiths University, 5pm today: https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=15764 all welcome

Pictured: Consuming a Grief That's Yet To Come (my mum's fingers bursting through a photo of my dad), 2017
New group show opening today: Symposium Kristin H New group show opening today:

Symposium
Kristin Hjellegjerde: West Palm Beach
https://kristinhjellegjerde.com/exhibitions/511/overview/

Pictured: Shoes to stand in a corner (sculpture), with accompanying photograph
New group show opening in Rome, today: Impossible New group show opening in Rome, today:

Impossible Images
Curated by Arianna Catania
Roma Arte in Nuvola

Pictured: Diversion of Interest (my mum's pointing finger, partially painted grey, in front of black and white backdrop)
Just under 2 weeks left of Fitting In: Kristin Hj Just under 2 weeks left of Fitting In:

Kristin Hjellegjerde Wandsworth Town 
Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm

Pictured:

Shoes to Form a Triangle (sculpture), 128 x 112 x 20cm, 2025
Shoes to Form a Triangle (photography), 15 x 13cm, 2025
Install shot (credit: Ben Deakin @bjdeakin_photography)
New solo show opening Tuesday evening with Kristin New solo show opening Tuesday evening with Kristin Hjellegjerde Wandsworth Town: all welcome.

Pictured:
1. Shoes to walk on tiptoes (sculpture)
2. Shoes to walk on tiptoes (photography)
3. Shoes to stand in a corner

'Men’s formal leather dress shoes are the central motif of Fitting In, Jonny Briggs’ solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Wandsworth. They appear as sculptures in absurdist, animalistic forms with elongated tips bent into bizarre angles, creating playful interventions within the gallery space; as props worn by the artist in a series of monochrome photographs; and as residual marks: bright pink footprints scaling the gallery’s walls. For Briggs, these shoes, in their unaltered form, symbolise a rigid kind of masculinity and gendered expectations that his performative practice critiques and reconfigures. 

When worn by the artist, the sculptures restrict his movement, not only preventing him from moving in a natural way, but dictating that he form a particular shape. Violence lingers in these gestures of forced movement and bodily tension, but Briggs’ wearable sculptures are also ridiculous – anti-functional objects with a hint of slapstick. They resemble circus props or surreal creatures, imbued with a childlike joy that mocks social formality and rigid gender roles. 

At its core, Fitting In is not simply a confrontation with gender norms or inherited constraint – it is a reclaiming of authorship over one’s own narrative. The title plays on this double bind: the pressure to conform, and the impulse to misfit. Briggs’ work transforms tools of conformity into vessels of absurdity and play, rendering once-authoritative symbols strange, tender, and mutable.'

- Millie Walton

FITTING IN

Private View: Tuesday, 10th June 2025

6-8pm

11 June - 12 July, Tues - Sat, 

Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery

533 Old York Road

LONDON SW18 1T

2 minutes from Wandsworth Town station
New group show opening tonight at Paul Smith, 9 Al New group show opening tonight at Paul Smith, 9 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BL, hosted by Hi-Noon editions. 

Fair May
Open til 15th June
www.hi-noon.net

Pictured: Extramission Hearing (my ear bursting through a photo of my dad, within cut frame), 14 x 14cm, 2022
Final couple of days for Dissections at Ncontempor Final couple of days for Dissections at Ncontemporary, Milan.

Pictured: Introspect (folded photograph of my grandad), 2024
New work: Imposter (my ear resting on a print of m New work: Imposter (my ear resting on a print of my father, then re-photographed), 2024

On display at Paris Photo, with @ncontemporary_gallery
Showing 11 works at Paris Photo this week, with @n Showing 11 works at Paris Photo this week, with @ncontemporary_gallery, Silvia Rosi @slyrosi and Alix Marie @afnmarie

Pictured: Loop (aluminium mounted photographs of ears within cut frames), 105 x 36cm

#parisphoto #parisphotofair
New solo show: Dissections Open at Ncontemporary, New solo show: Dissections

Open at Ncontemporary, Milan until December.

'The focus on the project room is Cleave (2021), which is an English word with a double meaning: to cut, and to unite. The piece is composed of 32 sliced photographs of dazzling cot bars, gripped by the artist's hands and feet, painted in Chromakey Blue. This colour - traditionally used for superimposing images - is designed to disappear, yet in this work remains visible.

There is a dialectic of revelation and concealment throughout Briggs's work, most recently through dazzle camouflage. "It makes me think of repressed trauma and of my queer experience, of learning to blend in for safety, of hiding in order to fit in. Blue has become a gendered colour, part of a web of socialised gender norms that I felt confined within when younger. The cot, to me, evokes the prison." '
TASTE Opening today: OHSH Projects x Wonzimer, am TASTE

Opening today: OHSH Projects x Wonzimer, among 30 fellow artists. 

341-B South Avenue 17
Los Angeles, 90031
info@ohshprojects.com

Pictured:

Beard
(mop holding photo of my dad to the wall)
2024
Showing a few works with OHSH Projects in LIQUIFY, Showing a few works with OHSH Projects in LIQUIFY, part of Peckham 24. Co-curated by Jon Baker and OHSH Projects.

The show looks at how people record the body using experimental photographic techniques.

Pictured: Dip (my nose on black velvet), aluminum-mounted C-type print within cut timber frame, 51cm x 91cm, 2024

Open Thursday til Saturday, 1 - 6pm
Late opening for Peckham 24 this Friday, 6pm til midnight. 
Location: Peckham arches, SE15 4QN (next to Peckham Rye station) 

www.OHSHprojects.com
www.peckham24.com
Identically smashed mirrors, on show in Mirror Mir Identically smashed mirrors, on show in Mirror Mirror: Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London Bridge, co-curated by the wonderful Soheila Sokhanvari.

Opening tonight! 6 til 8pm, at 36 Tanner Street, London Bridge
Showing work at Miart, with Ncontemporary Gallery, Showing work at Miart, with Ncontemporary Gallery, alongside Panos Tsagaris, Elena Ceretti Stein and a design intervention of Studio EX.

Pictured: Contact (photo of my mum's hand, resting on a photo of my dad, within dissected frame), 2021

@ncontemporary_gallery
Cover (folded photograph of my grandad), 2024 Wit Cover (folded photograph of my grandad), 2024

With @kristinhjellegjerdegallery
Exhibiting photographs at Kristin Hjellegjerde's n Exhibiting photographs at Kristin Hjellegjerde's new Palm Beach gallery, opening today.

First Picture: Point (my pointing finger photographed upon stripes, printed on cut aluminium and presented within cut wooden frames, revealing the hidden framing construct), 73 x 53cm, 2024

Install photo credit: Jacek Gancarz
New Photomonitor feature: https://photomonitor.co. New Photomonitor feature: https://photomonitor.co.uk/interview/jonny-briggs-in-conversation/ in conversation with Nicola Baird. 

Pictured: Blink i & Blink ii (my eye staring through hole-punched photographs of my grandad), 36 x 28cm, Dec 2022

@photomonitor.co.uk
New show opens at Arter Museum in Istanbul today, New show opens at Arter Museum in Istanbul today, featuring an early work 'Smiling Inside' (self wearing up-scaled wooden mask of father's head, with a hole inside it in the exact shape of my own head, which pushes my face in to a smile when worn) :

Suppose You Are Not
Exhition drawn from Ömer Koç Collection & curated by Selen Ansen
19 January – 29 December 2024

https://www.arter.org.tr/EN/exhibitions/suppose-you-are-not/3323
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