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Mike Nelson: Double Negative (The Clown)
3 October 2026 to 11 April 2027
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Mike Nelson returns with a major site-built commission of new sculptures and relics from past works, tracing shifting ideas of freedom from 1960s counterculture to today.
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Following his acclaimed 2004 exhibition, internationally renowned British artist Mike Nelson returns to Modern Art Oxford with a major new commission. Known for his atmospheric, large-scale installations, Nelson transforms galleries using materials and objects gathered from everyday life. His environments draw on literature, travel, counterculture and political history, creating immersive spaces that feel at once familiar and unsettling....
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The Guardian
Eddy Frankel
A waking nightmare of derelict dunes and desert island despair
"It’s either a cry for help or a scream into the void. Whichever it is, Mike Nelson’s latest exhibition is the English artist at his most frustrated, scared, introspective and personal. This is a show filled with rot and dilapidation, insanity and dereliction."
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