See ‘Lethal Love’ and lunch in style at Cubitt gallery

Grab some culture with your sandwich and take a lunch break from your work at the Cubitt gallery where they’re always showing something innovative and visually stimulating.

Cubitt’s current presentation is Haegue Yang, Lethal Love – a new commissioned installation by Berlin-based artist Haegue Yang inspired by the life of German activist Petra Kelly - the founder of Germany's influential Green Party - who was shot in her sleep in 1992 by her lover and supporter.

Kelly’s tragic death is seen by Yang as a metaphor for her conflicted life – she was torn between her role as a public defender of pacifism and 90s European political moral on the one hand, and her obscure private life, depending on the protection of an ex-army general on the other.

It’s an ambitious architectural construction and Cubitt joins a group of international institutions that will individually host parts of a large group of installations by the artist over the course of this year. Together with Kunstverein Hamburg, Portikus (Frankfurt), Sala Rekalde (Bilbao) and Cubitt, Yang has developed a series of abstract portraits that take their inspiration from infamous public personas in Asian and European history. This evolutionary storyline will find its final form in a publication to be released late 2008 by Sala Rekalde.

Lethal Love is presented with kind support of Arts Council England.

Cubitt's exhibition programme (October 2007 - March 2009) is supported by: Outset Contemporary Art Fund, 176/Zabludowicz Collection and others.

Lethal Love runs 22 Feb – 6 April 2008. The gallery is open Wed-Sun 12-6pm and until 9pm on each first Thursday of the month as part of the Whitechapel Gallery’s First Thursday Initiative.

Cubitt is at 8 Angel Mews T 020 7278 8226

Book online or to see what's coming up at www.cubittartists.org.uk