John Berger: Art and Property Now

‘Art and Property Now is a lightning tour through a unique career.’
The Independent ****

‘Archive exhibitions are rarely thrilling, but something of Berger’s magnetism and sincerity comes across here.’
The Spectator

'Stunning'
OpenDemocracy

'Fascinating tour around art & the left from 1940 to the present'
Keith Flett

Art and Property Now brings together unseen highlights from John Berger’s personal archive, with artworks connected to his life as a storyteller, artist and critic. The exhibition spans his entire career from his 1940s drawings to the 2009 collaboration with Artangel and Alan Kane, Life Class: Today’s Nude.

2012 marks the 40th anniversary of two of Berger's key works: Ways of Seeing (1972), the collaborative series of films and book which changed the way we understand art and its private and public ownership, an essay from which the exhibition borrows its title, and Berger's novel G., for which he won the Booker Prize, sharing half the proceeds with the Black Panthers.

Presented by King’s College Cultural Institute and the British Library, and curated by Tom Overton, cataloguer of the John Berger archive, the exhibition has been drawn together through close communication with many of Berger's key collaborators.

A FREE public programme of events is running in support of this exhibition - all events run from 7pm till 9pm with free admission.

The exhibition closes with Redrawing the Maps, a week-long, open programme of conversations and workshops in which the public are invited to revisit the paths which Berger’s work has opened up and follow them in new directions.

Including pieces from Artangel, Artevents, the Arts Council, The British Library, John Christie, Prunella Clough, Complicite, Delia Derbyshire, Mike Dibb, Eva Figes, Peter de Francia, B. S. Johnson, Alan Kane, Leon Kossoff, Fernand Léger, Simon McBurney, Jean Mohr, Peter Peri and Tom Waits