Lawrence Lek

With a background in electronic music and architecture, Lawrence Lek’s multimedia artistic practice sees him build futuristic, utopian and dystopian virtual worlds with gaming and 3D rendering software. Lek describes himself as a ‘simulation artist’ and terms the vivid digital environments he creates as ‘three-dimensional collages of found objects and situations’. Lek’s work examines technology’s continued infiltration of contemporary society, its effects on the human psyche, and the ethical and moral dilemmas of specific engagements with technology. Through these engagements, the Malaysian-Chinese artist also addresses issues of globalization, xenophobia and climate crisis. Currently, Lek is producing feature-length films to add to his ‘Sinofuturist’ cinematic universe. ...

Sadie Coles HQ is a London-based contemporary art gallery representing over sixty established and emerging international artists. The gallery opened in London in 1997, with its inaugural exhibition – of new paintings by American painter John Currin – presented in parallel with an offsite show by British artist Sarah Lucas, The Law. Since its inception, Sadie Coles HQ has operated from a variety of spaces, mounting numerous off-site projects and partaking in collaborative exchanges throughout the city and abroad. The gallery frequently hosts emerging young galleries and curatorial projects in The Shop at Kingly Street, and a live events programme titled GARGLE. In September 2013, Sadie Coles HQ opened a space at 62 Kingly Street in Soho, in April 2021 a space at 8 Bury Street in St James’s and in October 2025 a third space in Mayfair: a six-storey Georgian townhouse at 17 Savile Row. ...