The Botanist: February | On Our Radar

ON OUR RADAR: FEBRUARY

By: Frankie Mathieson

Too much time indoors? Revive your senses and beat the winter blues - explore what your city has to offer and be inspired by our edit of current and upcoming art shows below, then return home feeling refreshed and enjoy a Cask Aged Botanist and Soda or Botanist Seasonal Spritz. You’ll find recipes for them, plus our delicious gin chimichurri, ahead.

OUR EDIT OF ART EXHIBITIONS

From an exhibition featuring AI and VR art in Berlin to a multi-generational photographic road trip journey displayed on bus stops across America, here are five key art happenings around the globe.

The Face Magazine: Culture Shift

National Portrait Gallery, London
20 February-18 May

Cult fashion bible The Face is the subject of a new retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery. Featuring iconic covers and spreads from photographers Elaine Constantine, David Sims and Corinne Day, the exhibition is a chance to see the faces who shaped the cultural landscape from 1980 to 2004. npg.org.uk 

Ayoung Kim: Many Worlds Over

Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
28 February-20 July 

Her first solo exhibition at a German museum, Ayoung Kim’s Many Worlds Over spans five years of work. AI, game simulations, sculpture, sonic fiction, VR and video art works create expansive fictional universes. The ambitious exhibition explores the interplay between data, humans and the planet.

In Creative Harmony: Three Artistic Partnerships

Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
Until 20 July

An exhibition exploring the idea that no artist creates in isolation, In Creative Harmony explores shared visual languages, techniques and concerns between three pairs of artists: inter-generational Mexican printmakers José Guadalupe Posada and Artemio Rodríguez; friends and innovators in abstract painting and sculpture Arshile Gorky and Isamu Noguchi; and Nora Naranjo Morse and her daughter Eliza Naranjo Morse.

Carmen Winant: My Mother and Eye

JCDecaux Bus Shelters in New York, Chicago, and Boston
Until 6 April

Artist Carmen Winant’s project My Mother and Eye weaves hundreds of stills from films that she and her mother made when they were teens, taken on the same road trip across the US in 1969 and 2001. Part of the brilliant Public Art Fund, the montages can be seen on bus shelters across New York, Chicago and Boston, inviting passengers and passersby to imagine their own stories of travel, transformation, and connection. publicartfund.org

Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land

The Curve at The Barbican, London
Until 21 April

Indonesian artist Citra Sasmita explores ancestral memory, ritual and migration in her first solo UK exhibition, Into Eternal Land. Transforming The Curve via painting, installation, embroidery and scent, Into Eternal Land will take you on a sensory journey. barbican.org.uk

The Botanist Cask Aged Chimichurri The Botanist Cask Aged Chimichurri

The Botanist Cask Aged Chimichurri

Ridiculously good paired with grilled steak, our bright and herbaceous gin chimichurri is also great drizzled over roast veggies or a leafy green salad for fresh, tangy flavour.

Enjoy with our Cask Aged Botanist and Soda.

The Botanist Cask Aged Chimichurri

Ingredients
50ml The Botanist Cask Aged Gin
1tsp Dried oregano
1tsp Red chilli, chopped
3 Garlic cloves, minced
100ml Olive oil
30ml Red wine vinegar
Large handful chopped fresh parsley

Method
Whisk together the gin, oregano, chilli, garlic, olive oil and red wine vinegar in a small bowl.
Stir in the parsley, and season to taste.


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Image Credits

Face Off, by David Sims, January 1998,©David Sims 

Ayoung Kim, Delivery Dancer Simulation, 2022, Spielsimulation, Installationsansicht, Digital Festival, C/O Berlin © Ayoung Kim, Gallery Hyundai

Nora Naranjo Morse, "Moon Orchids," 2016, clay, full installation (dimensions variable) 4 ft x 27 in. Courtesy of the artist

Carmen Winant Nighttime, 2024 Super 8 and 35mm film prints. Photo: Nicholas Knight, courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY

Citra Sasmita Into Eternal Land installation view 2025 © Jo Underhill and Barbican