Installation view of Horizontal Shift, in 'Borrowed Landscapes' Aliki,s 2024 solo exhibition presented by Benjamin Parsons x Hannah Payne, curated by Rodrigo Orrantia, at Cromwell Place.
Congratulations to Aliki Braine on having two works selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2026 (13 June - 28 Aug) — a thoroughly deserved achievement and exciting recognition of her distinctive and intellectually rich practice.
We are especially delighted to see Horizontal Shift included, a work we had the pleasure of exhibiting in Aliki's solo exhibition, Borrowed Landscapes, at Cromwell Place in 2024. It will be wonderful to see this remarkable work presented to a wider audience once again.
Joining it is a work from Aliki's acclaimed Shuffle series, in which reproductions of art Western European historical imagery are cut, reconfigured and woven to create entirely new visual relationships.
Across her practice, Aliki interrogates the nature of the image itself, often working directly with photographic negatives or physically manipulating photographic and printed materials to challenge conventions of composition, perception and meaning.
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition remains one of the most prestigious and eagerly anticipated open exhibitions in the world, making this recognition particularly meaningful.
Congratulations, Aliki. We look forward to seeing both works on the walls this summer and to following the continued evolution of this exceptional practice.
Acclaimed artist and Royal Academician Ryan Gander will co-ordinate the 258th Summer Exhibition in 2026, sponsored by Insight Investment. The Summer Exhibition Committee members include Royal Academicians Eileen Cooper, Michael Craig-Martin, Oona Grimes, Katherine Jones, Goshka Macuga, Humphrey Ocean and Peter St John (Adam Caruso and Peter St John RA). The Committee will be chaired by the President of the Royal Academy, Rebecca Salter.
For the 2026 exhibition, Ryan Gander has chosen to explore the theme of
‘Interconnectedness’. He said “It will aim to explore ideas of entanglement, as well as the unexpectedand fortuitous connections and associations between disparate things, no matter how abstract or illogical. Proof that, as humans, our outputs hold more commonality than separation, without us intentionally seeking it.”
Image credits:
Horizontal Shift, 2022
Black and white photograph from hole-punched and rearranged negative
110 x 98 cm
Edition of 3
Shuffle (after Mondrian Tableau II, 1921-25)
2021
Mixed media, woven printed album pages
34 x 43 cm
Unique
Installation view of Horizontal Shift, in 'Borrowed Landscapes' Aliki,s solo exhibition 2024
Portrait of Aliki Braine, by Jo Hones.
