V&A Director’s Circle 'Features Line of Beauty' at Exhibitionist Hotel in South Kensington

Line of Beauty has been featured this week in the Victoria and Albert Museum Patrons’ Director’s Circle News.

 

Presented by the not-for-profit Young Masters Art Prize, the exhibition celebrates the 2025 People’s Choice Award winners: Cristina Schek, a Transylvanian surrealist working in digital myth-making and conceptual portraiture, and Alexandra Baraitser, whose vivid paintings transform interiors and everyday objects into quietly heightened, dreamlike still lifes. The exhibition brings two distinct contemporary practices into dialogue.

 

Rather than taking place within a traditional white-cube gallery, Line of Beauty unfolds throughout The Exhibitionist Hotel in South Kensington, situating contemporary artworks within the building’s refined Georgian interiors.

 

A hotel is, by nature, a liminal space shaped by cultural memory. Its rooms evoke the era of Oscar Wilde and the refined aesthetic sensibilities of artists such as Sargent and Whistler. Within this environment, countless lives intersect as guests pass through corridors and inhabit rooms, each moment leaving a quiet trace.

 

Placed within this setting, the artworks invite a different kind of encounter, subtly altering how viewers experience and relate to them.

 

The exhibition is open 24 hours a day until 30 April 2026.