{"title": "A Different Kind of Pop: Giorgos Ioannou’s Works 1960s – 1970s", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-19T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Hellenic Centre", "address": "Paddington Street 16-18, W1U 5AS London", "price": "Free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://helleniccentre.org/books/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/pop-art", "history"], "description": "An exhibition marking the centenary of the birth of Greek artist Giorgos Ioannou (1926–2017), the first significant presentation of his work in the UK. Co-curated by Sofia Karamani and Nayia Yiakoumaki, it focuses on paintings from the late 1960s and 1970s, shaped by the Greek military dictatorship. Known for pop art and comic-book imagery, Ioannou wove together personal memory, political trauma, folk traditions and autobiography. The exhibition is accompanied by a small publication and a programme of events, including an in-conversation with the artist's son, Dimitris Ioannou, and Kostas Stasinopoulos, moderated by Andrew Wilson.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-different-kind-of-pop-giorgos-ioannous-works-1960s-1970s-39348/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/546225ea0fc72b4aaeabe3759a73725ef98443719858127d25fc1e9feaf131a3-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-19T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Hellenic Centre", "address": "Paddington Street 16-18, W1U 5AS London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "In Conversation: Vasilis Papageorgiou and Dr. Marianna Tsionki", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Hellenic Centre", "address": "Paddington Street 16-18, W1U 5AS London", "price": "Free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://helleniccentre.org/books/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/sculpture", "nature/environment"], "description": "An evening talk at The Hellenic Centre. Artist Vasilis Papageorgiou and curator Dr. Marianna Tsionki discuss his artistic practice, including the new sculptures he is developing during his residency at Gasworks, London, and key themes of his forthcoming 2027 exhibition at Leeds Arts University. His work explores relationships between the human body, architecture and landscape, tourism's impact on the environment, and the parallel exhaustion of the planet's resources and of people under contemporary life. The new work focuses on the mining industry in Yorkshire, engaging with the region's socio-political histories, including the miners' strikes of the 1970s and 80s, and examining the entanglements of resource extraction, labour and collective memory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/in-conversation-vasilis-papageorgiou-and-dr-marianna-tsionki-74935/", "official_url": "https://helleniccentre.org/event/in-conversation-vasilis-papageorgiou-and-dr-marianna-tsionki/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b8bc6a3fc789f7b8a4daed9ecd65e3481ba87d83008a16b8a19feab797bd6a38-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Allen Jones: In Town Tonight", "start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "Gazelli Art House", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/pop-art"], "description": "\"Allen Jones: In Town Tonight\" is a solo exhibition of new and earlier work by the artist Allen Jones, presented at the London gallery Gazelli Art House during Frieze Week. Jones, a British artist born in Southampton in 1937 and a defining figure of British Pop Art, has worked for more than six decades in painting, sculpture, printmaking and photography. The exhibition pairs substantial new work made between 2024 and 2026 with significant pieces from across his career, centring on his investigation of the human figure, performance and the relationship between image and object. At its heart is a new series of shaped canvas paintings whose intense green, yellow and red evoke a theatre, where spotlights pick out performers' bodies observed from opera boxes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/allen-jones-in-town-tonight-41426/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/052305c89a511ba53538c97eb7960d9a52e17c4a9b34c81495894611c5736a5d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Georg Baselitz The Heroes 1965–66", "start": "2026-10-13T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac", "address": "Dover Street 37, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting", "history/postwar-germany"], "description": "An art exhibition devoted to Georg Baselitz's Hero paintings, held at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac's Ely House in London. The German painter created this breakthrough series in 1965 and 1966, when he was just 27, producing around 60 paintings, 130 drawings and 38 prints. The works centre on monumental, ragged and vulnerable figures set in ravaged landscapes, confronting post-war German society rather than offering optimism. The show brings together key works on loan from major collections including Tate, Berlinische Galerie, Museum Frieder Burda and Museum Küppersmühle Duisburg, and is the first exhibition in the UK devoted exclusively to this series.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/georg-baselitz-the-heroes-196566-36211/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bef4e4ac5b4317701694a0b4c7b9b2e3be478a6d27bdf8e4b77685e487ae4853-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid: Underground Experiments", "start": "2026-11-07T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/media-art/video-art", "film/experimental"], "description": "A cinema programme presenting six experimental video works made between 1984 and 1997. It was created by Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid, two artists who have collaborated in video and media art in Ljubljana since 1982. Their works engage with identity, gender, memory, geography, technology and the politics of representation, spanning the late-socialist period, the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the emergence of post-socialist conditions. The London-based platform TLC23, initiated by Katie Shannon and Keira Fox, has been in exchange with Gržinić and presents this first London cinema screening of the collection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/marina-grzinic-aina-smid-underground-experiments-74137/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/marina-grzinic-aina-smid-films-1984-1997", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a9e67ab1d6e12be7cb6a6e5ee36ef1619fd035b85584b02674a7364b53187721-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Mnemosyne Grove: Photography, Memory and Time | Georgia Metaxas in Conversation with Dr. Marta Weiss", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Hellenic Centre", "address": "Paddington Street 16-18, W1U 5AS London", "price": "£5/£4 concession, free for members", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://helleniccentre.org/books/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "A talk evening built around Mnemosyne Grove, a photography work that uses the olive tree to trace connections between land, family archives, migration and storytelling, drawing on the artist's Greek-Australian heritage through an olive grove in Palairos and the island of Ithaca. Australian artist Georgia Metaxas, now based in London, appears in conversation with Dr. Marta Weiss, Senior Curator of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum, discussing the making of the book and how the work has evolved towards an investigation of photography's relationship to time, repetition, return and regeneration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mnemosyne-grove-photography-memory-and-time-georgia-metaxas-39351/", "official_url": "https://helleniccentre.org/event/mnemosyne-grove-photography-memory-and-time-georgia-metaxas-in-conversation-with-dr-marta-weiss/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/914463d2d98dcf004a0b2af34c5f5571e0ffd331259f4da99d733ce447a58cd7-600.webp"}, {"title": "William Crozier Dance of the Living 1961–1974", "start": "2026-10-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Flowers Gallery", "address": "Kingsland Road 84, E2 8DP London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting"], "description": "Flowers Gallery presents 'William Crozier: Dance of the Living 1961-1974', an exhibition of paintings and drawings from a pivotal period in the artist's career. Profoundly affected by post-war existentialist philosophy, Crozier left behind the dark pastoral images that made his reputation and set out to create a contemporary image of the human condition through figure and landscape. His works of the 1960s and early 1970s drew on memories of horrific World War II newsreels and depictions of 'danses macabres', showing figures in heightened emotional states whose feelings streak into a traumatised, imagined landscape. The exhibition includes three of the earliest, visceral skeletal bust portraits and two previously unexhibited large-scale drawings.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/william-crozier-dance-of-the-living-19611974-69806/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/24871fbab55b1b7b74bf56ca66785ac16b477153a341fbe072da62df01444e71-2000.webp"}, {"title": "PHIL GOSS: THE FERRY TO KADIKOY", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "8 Holland Street", "address": "Holland Street 8, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "PHIL GOSS: THE FERRY TO KADIKOY is an exhibition of paintings accompanied by hand-built and glazed ceramic works. The Bristol-based artist Phil Goss made the works after a research trip to Istanbul, prompted by his interest in the writing of the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk. He spent a week walking the banks of the Bosphorus and riding the passenger ferry between the city's two sides, filling sketchbooks with observations of the city and its inhabitants, and later developed these images in his studio using ink painting and woodblock printing. Alongside the Istanbul works there is a series from sketches made on the island of Iona in Scotland during a gale in 2025.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/phil-goss-the-ferry-to-kadikoy-34616/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/22d66d7f139de9148fe680ceee9026f0e796d778fb015b4fd503cf983699252a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Niovi Kafantari, The Necessary Other", "start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Opera Gallery London", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/contemporary-painting"], "description": "'The Necessary Other' is a contemporary art exhibition of new paintings by Niovi Kafantari, her first solo exhibition in London, running into early November. It explores how identity is shaped through encounter, taking its title from Adriana Cavarero's philosophy of relational identity: the self comes into being through the presence, memory and gaze of another. Trained as a sculptor, Kafantari builds her paintings through mass, with figures that lean, embrace, support or resist one another, drawing upon archaeology, cinema, theatre, literature and art history. Works such as 'Just Met', 'A Pastoral Fragment', 'Last Tango' and 'Married, a second time' leave intimacy, vulnerability and ambiguity deliberately unresolved.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/niovi-kafantari-the-necessary-other-41790/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e254166bad64bbaa960c78304d03e6a7a0689ac3d70479663647526710d6f038-2000.webp"}, {"title": "70 years ACF - meins ist deins", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "Austrian Cultural Forum", "address": "Rutland Gate 28, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "The exhibition 'meins ist deins' marks the 70th anniversary of the Austrian Cultural Forum London and a decade of curatorial collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Curators Josie Sanne and Zaccaria Slater, graduates of MA Culture, Criticism and Curation, selected graduates from the Vienna academy to show alongside UK-based artists on the theme of sharing. Split into the categories 'meins' (mine) and 'deins' (yours), the show spans intimate memories, landscapes, tapestries on land ownership and a site-specific installation, exploring what it means to share a cultural identity. Visitors are invited to explore the ACF building itself, from the intern's office to the salon, library and basement gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/70-years-acf-meins-ist-deins-40985/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0f4337d1e86eb78fb1fa80ffc1355789712f73e2a087c78b8cf46dd09a8633c6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ian Davenport: Reflections", "start": "2026-09-21T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Waddington Custot Galleries", "address": "Cork Street 11-12, W1S 3LT London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "'Reflections' is a survey exhibition of paintings and drawings spanning the late 1980s to the present. It celebrates the career of artist Ian Davenport (b. 1966), showing early experimental pieces made after he graduated from Goldsmiths college alongside the Puddle Paintings for which he is best known. The exhibition marks his 11th solo exhibition with the gallery since his debut show in 1990, and traces his process-led approach, from Erased Lines and Watering Can Drawings to poured colour lines and recent splatter paintings. It is accompanied by a new publication with essays, reviews and a conversation with his brother, writer Philip Davenport.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ian-davenport-reflections-42787/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a313a11d67eea50f265f4ecca04f3c41ccc46794999d7e37d20afb4ee1b83c68-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Colin Self: Unseen", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Frith Street Gallery", "address": "Frith Street 60, W1D 3JJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media"], "description": "Colin Self: Unseen is a major exhibition of works by the British artist Colin Self, his first London retrospective since 1986, presented across two floors at Frith Street Gallery. Curated by writer and curator Ian Collins, it brings together rarely seen pieces from public and private collections alongside the first showing of 365: A Journey in that direction, a multi-media installation of 365 wall-based works ongoing since the year 2000. The show spans painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, sculpture and ceramics, opening with works on war and militarism and reflecting the artist's sense of living on the edge between peace and war, city and country. Turning 85 this year, Self has had a seven-decade career described as a humane, playful response to threats of annihilation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/colin-self-unseen-36200/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/89de7a9e96cb36fe839db998f40745d4fbe74e54d1e67475245223c9692a61ba-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Massimo Giannoni: VOLUMI", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Pontone Gallery", "address": "Newman Street 74а, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "\"Massimo Giannoni: VOLUMI\" is an exhibition of paintings at a gallery. The Italian painter Massimo Giannoni depicts repositories of learning such as bookshops, libraries and museums, their shelves and walls lined with volumes, folios and manuscripts. He paints in thickly applied oil, with a richly worked surface and a full range of colour, showing spaces that are entirely unpopulated, suggesting scholarship, melancholy and a culture ripe for rediscovery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/massimo-giannoni-volumi-41919/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cd97073cd7b82325009b71723a5cc512439b49d909a56b68c3f2551944afec8b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The 90s: Art and Fashion", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Tate Britain", "address": "Millbank, SW1P 4RG London", "price": "£22 / Free for Members; £20 Concessions; £5 for Tate Collective", "price_from": "22.00", "price_to": "22.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.tate.org.uk/ticket/date?cgid=375284", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history"], "description": "The 90s: Art and Fashion is an exhibition at Tate Britain exploring a decade of bold creativity and rebellious spirit that changed the face of British culture. It is curated by Edward Enninful OBE, whose lived experience of the decade informs the show, examining a period when a new generation of diverse creative talent fused art, design, fashion and photography into one potent cultural force. The exhibition brings together photography, fashion, art and design, including iconic images by photographers Juergen Teller, David Sims and Corinne Day, alongside artists like Steve McQueen, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and Yinka Shonibare, plus collections by designers Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen and John Galliano. It explores how long-held hierarchies were dismantled, with high art and pop culture feeding into one another, and reflects both the energy and the challenges of the decade.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-90s-art-and-fashion-38882/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3c55f646800d98de4da5642a01c60abdd1a61a193ca1dcca70d7fcc5eee593e3-1200.webp"}, {"title": "International Original Print Exhibition (IOPE)", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Society of Designer Craftsmen", "address": "Rivington Street 24, EC2A 3DU London", "price": "Admission free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/printmaking"], "description": "The International Original Print Exhibition (IOPE) is an open-submission exhibition celebrating excellence in contemporary printmaking. It was established by the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) and features work by SDC fellow Sumi Perera, whose etching with aquatint, incision and woven inserts, 'Regeneration Versus Gentrification 2198', illustrates the show. Admission is free, and the gallery is open daily from 11.00 to 18.00.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/international-original-print-exhibition-iope-42037/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/26321fcba7e3731ddae8db79b67d4c31b024602cfd63fb3cd8f76b9381e6e450-600.webp"}, {"title": "Ha Chong-Hyun", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Lisson Gallery", "address": "Bell Street 27, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.lissongallery.com/shop", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "A panel discussion at Lisson Gallery reflecting on the concurrent exhibition of Ha Chong-Hyun and his six decades of pioneering work. Organised in partnership with ArtReview, it considers the development of the Seoul-based artist's practice and its place in the broader history of postwar abstraction. Speakers include Sook-Kyung Lee and Wenny Teo, with moderation by Mark Rappolt, Editor-in-Chief of ArtReview.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ha-chong-hyun-37023/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d4292ec4eb37d5a0f97bab91c1a993bdcd3c7922e43cff897c85392c6a6ba730-2000.webp"}, {"title": "SURFACE TENSION BRITISH PAINTING IN THE 1990s", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "Ben Brown Fine Arts", "address": "Brook's Mews 12, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "SURFACE TENSION: BRITISH PAINTING IN THE 1990s is an exhibition at the Ben Brown Fine Arts gallery in London. It examines how a small group of British painters survived and even flourished in '90s Britain, when the art world was dominated by the conceptual hegemony of the YBA movement with figures like Hirst, Emin, Whiteread and Lucas. Working apart, these painters arrived at strikingly common ground: a shared preoccupation with surface, gesture and the physical act of painting, shaped by the cultural pressures and siege mentality of their age.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/surface-tension-british-painting-in-the-1990s-41029/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d57c224a153fe41a4bb43fcb42e95fd9fa5ccd1310c7bd1c5ee32cb35af9e832-1200.webp"}]}