Sonia Boyce at Dover Street Market
Sonia Boyce, In the Mix: Mel & Kim Respect, 2022 © Sonia Boyce. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2025. Photo: Ben Westoby
Sonia Boyce at Dover Street Market
Ursula magazine are pleased to present two special installations by Sonia Boyce at Dover Street Market (DSM) in London as part of Frieze 2025 celebrations. Presented in collaboration with Hauser & Wirth, Boyce’s installations will be on display on the Ground Floor and Third Floor at DSM.
On view from Thursday 16 October through Sunday 19 October, DSM are showcasing a series of special installations and product launches alongside Sonia Boyce, including a window installation featuring Georgia O’Keeffe by Comme des Garçons and more.
Sonia Boyce, In the Mix: Shirley Songs, 2022 © Sonia Boyce. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2025. Photo: Ben Westoby
Sonia Boyce, In the Mix: Skunk Sputnik, 2022 © Sonia Boyce. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2025. Photo: Ben Westoby
A pioneer of the British Black Arts Movement of the 1980s, Sonia Boyce DBE RA works across film, photography, sound, print and installation, creating immersive environments that invite audiences to participate in moments of play and improvisation. For the cover story of Ursula Issue 13, Sonia Boyce talked about her inspirations—as disparate as Warhol and Willy Wonka—and the subtle power of wallpaper.
Sonia Boyce: Wallpaper (2025) directed by Yvonne Zhang, for Ursula Issue 13
About the artist
Over the course of four decades, Sonia Boyce has developed a powerfully original practice that transcends boundaries as an interdisciplinary artist and academic. Boyce creates immersive and experiential spaces that explore themes of play, disruption and revelation in which the audience become active participants. Boyce’s practice today is focused on questions of artistic authorship and cultural difference.
She continues to break new ground through her commitment to questioning the production and reception of unexpected gestures, with an underlying interest in the intersection of personal and political subjectivities. In 2022, Boyce presented ‘FEELING HER WAY,’ commissioned for the British Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia for which she was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation.
The cover of Ursula Issue 13 featuring Sonia Boyce’s ‘Braided Wallpaper’ (2023)
About Dover Street Market
Conceived by Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, the original Dover Street Market (DSM) was first opened in London, Mayfair in September 2004. Since then Dover Street Market stores have opened in Ginza (Tokyo), New York, Paris, Singapore, Beijing and Los Angeles. ‘I want to create a kind of market where various creators from various fields gather together and encounter each other in an ongoing atmosphere of beautiful chaos: the mixing up and coming together of different kindred souls who all share a strong personal vision,’ says Kawakubo.
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We return to Frieze London this year with a group presentation celebrating the breadth and diversity of the gallery’s roster, including new and recent works by contemporary masters.
‘Sonia Boyce. Improvise with what we have’ is on view at Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street through 18 October 2025.
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