Current Exhibition
Anna Frijstein
I am more than porridge
19 May – 15 September 2025
Please join us to celebrate the opening on Sunday 15 June between 14:00 – 18:00. Anna will be in conversation with Lucy Cowling, the curator of the exhibition, about the recurring themes of motherhood, female rage, performance, and play which are prevalent throughout the works in her exhibition.
Anna Frijstein (b. 1991, The Netherlands) lives and works in London. Frijstein’s work playfully evokes the bestial side of ‘socialised’ human beings. She embodies animals, plants, planets, fruits, and other beings, scrutinising human behaviour in absurdist performances, paintings, drawings, collages, videos, and sculptural installations. Discarded cardboard, found textiles, her own clothes, and other preloved bits are ritualistically re-used as surfaces to paint and write on. Beneath the works’ childlike gestures, and poetic light-hearted titles, lies an unsettling layer of dark humour, full of bittersweet, raging, raw feelings around socio-psychological and ecological issues.
Selected exhibitions and performances include Sorry about the mess, 125 Shaftesbury Avenue, London (2025); Prospects & Concepts, Art Rotterdam (2024); Let Them Eat Fake, Bad Art Presents, London (2023); RiverRun, Lighthouse, Poole (2021); The Domestic Landscape, Jupiter Woods, London (2019); Nothing Really Mattress, South London Gallery (2018); Life/forms, Chisenhale Art Place, London (2018); LOCKERS, Museo Nacional Cento de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2016); and Marres Tourist Office, Marres, Maastricht (2016). She completed her MA at the Royal College of Art, London, in 2019 and holds a BFA Fine Arts from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
Curated by Kip, a nomadic project presenting solo exhibitions in unusual gallery spaces, run by Mark Couzens and Lucy Cowling.
Curator’s corner
Throughout 2025 the exhibition programme is being guest curated by Lucy Cowling. Dorus’ exhibition is part of Kip, a currently nomadic project she runs together with Mark Couzens, which presents solo exhibitions in unusual spaces.
Lucy says: “Mark and I landed on the name Kip because of both the English meaning (a small nap), with the idea that this project represents a break from our day-to-day, and the Dutch meaning, which is chicken. We love that Dorus has really run with this and brought it to a whole new level, by including 431 prints of pencil drawings depicting male chicken varieties, which will tile the walls of DKUK”.
Pop into the salon to view this exciting exhibition and refresh your look!