Created in partnership with Republiek Gallery this collaborative exhibition hosts several artists across our two collections, tracing the car as a trusted vehicle, plaything and cultural icon across the decades. Our group show pays homage to the enduring power of the car, its cultural meanings and its visual significance.

In this stunning journey across the two collections of Republiek and Elliott Gallery we pay homage to the enduring power of the car, its cultural meanings and its visual significance. We invite you to join us through sun-kissed roadtrips, daily commutes and hedonistic races.

Anthony and Eosa, 1985 by Paul Glazier

Cars as play.

In the sensual images of Ignazio Lozano the car becomes an escape, a meeting place for anonymous desire. The car is a toy, a playground, an endless source of imagination. The expert polaroids of Jasper Zwartjes’ miniature race cars and the irreverent collage works of Antoni+Alison continue to experiment with this limitless potential.

Cars as style.

Both an onlooker and sign to moving fashions, the car is an expert model and forever in vogue. Since the fashion photography of Sheila Rock to the sunlit cruisers of Sophie Ebrard and Jochem van Grunsven, our photographers continue to capture this flair in all its magnetism. 

Cars as history.

From the wrecked Ferrari pulled from the Ij in Joram Blomkwist’s Nobody Knows to the kitsch Americana of Daniel Mirer’s Indifferent West, nostalgia serves a key driving force for many of our artists. We are honoured to premiere unseen works from Henry Horenstein’s Speedway series, a stunning document on the American racing scene left undisturbed for fifty years.