Lynette Yiadom-Boakye art exhibit opening

Yiadom-Boakye was born in 1977 in London, and in 2018 won the Carnegie Internatioal Prize. Photo: Mudam website

The first exhibition that celebrates Yiadom-Boakye’s work in depth is opening at the Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg (Mudam) on Thursday, 31 March.

The exhibition is entitled “Fly in League with the Night” and will feature 67 paintings by the British artist.

“Lynette Yiadom-Boakye makes figurative paintings drawn from a variety of source material. Her figures inhabit deliberately enigmatic settings that are timeless and often abstract. Working in oil paint on canvas or coarse linen, she has developed a language of painting that is uniquely her own,” says the Mudam .

The exhibition will run until 5 November. The event on Thursday evening features an aperitif, a talk by Bettina Steinbrügge (director of the Mudam), as well as a conversation between two curators at the Tate Britain museum, which is a co-organiser of the event.

Entry is free and the Tate Britain conversation (starting at 7:00pm) will additionally be streamed online.