{"title": "Adeela Suleman: The Rising Crescendo of the Band Baja", "start": "2026-10-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "place": "Grosvenor Gallery", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/crafts", "history"], "description": "An exhibition of new works by the Pakistani artist Adeela Suleman, presented by Grosvenor Gallery in collaboration with Canvas Gallery, Karachi. It centres on the spectacle of the South Asian band baja, with drummers, trumpeters and uniformed bandsmen appearing amid forests, flowers and wild animals in celebratory, dreamlike scenes. Working in repoussé metalwork and textile, Suleman explores the layered histories of ceremonial bands and the tensions between pageantry and power, with a major textile work linking the independence movements of India and Ireland.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/adeela-suleman-the-rising-crescendo-of-the-band-baja-76625/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/81c39b4c36579513c45c492fe5c02241aa7f713acecf49b86767ac3eed13a505-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "place": "Grosvenor Gallery", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Green: Salman Toor and South Asian Literary Production In Detail", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Courtauld Institute of Art", "address": "Strand, WC2R 0RN London", "price": "Free, booking essential", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://courtauld.ac.uk/join-and-support/friends", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting", "literature"], "description": "A lecture evening with two talks and an in-conversation exploring the motifs and symbols of South Asia in the work of painter Salman Toor, tracing the colour green and South Asian literary production through his art. It is part of the Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series, organised alongside Toor's first solo museum exhibition in Europe, and features curator and writer Aziz Sohail and writer, editor and critic Evan Moffitt. It is organised by Elena Crippa and Leyla Arrianne Bumbra at The Courtauld.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/green-salman-toor-and-south-asian-literary-production-in-det-35440/", "official_url": "https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/green-salman-toor-and-south-asian-literary-production-in-detail/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1f74b1bbf0f0446f31a18c826bc51796f3d7f3ac0c25f9e9d729d898ac076ebb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Walking Tour: Bhajan Hunjan’s studio visit and exploring public art in East London with Kuda Mushangi", "start": "2026-10-31T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T13:00:00Z", "place": "Bow Road & Nunnery Gallery, 181-183 Bow Road, London, London, E3 2SJ, United Kingdom", "address": "", "price": "£7.00 – £10.00 (£7 for concessions)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://bowarts.org/shop/", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/public-art"], "description": "A guided walking tour that begins with an introduction to 'Bhajan Hunjan: speaking through materials' at the Nunnery Gallery and a visit to the artist's studio at P1, where participants can meet and speak with her about her use of materials such as silk-screen printed glass, laser-cut acrylic and metal, and stonework in public art. Artist and architect Kuda Mushangi then leads a walk to explore Hunjan's public art commissions in East London, created with local schools and communities in Tower Hamlets, including Three Mills Pontoon (2011) along the Lea Canal and Stroudley Walk (2026), celebrating the legacy of the Suffragettes in Bow. The walk considers how public space can hold multiple histories and how art can function as cultural memory, touching on East London's histories of migration, settlement, activism and community-building, and themes of empire, displacement, resilience and cultural exchange. Participants are invited to share their own memories and reflections, and will gather at the Nunnery Gallery at 10.45am for an 11am start.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/walking-tour-bhajan-hunjans-studio-visit-and-exploring-publi-35041/", "official_url": "https://bowarts.org/event/walking-tour-bhajan-hunjans-studio-visit-and-exploring-public-art-in-east-london-with-kuda-mushangi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c7765bddff6be19007d3e05be8c6c571ca0183fe4d3b7802e43242547dff486e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Redefining Cultural Heritage, from \"The Cradle\" to the Pavilion. Zulfiya Spowart and Maria Redaelli in conversation", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pushkin House", "address": "Bloomsbury Square 5a, London", "price": "£12, with national art pass and student discounts available", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art", "history"], "description": "An in-person talk at Pushkin House: artist Zulfiya Spowart and researcher Maria Redaelli in conversation. Starting from Spowart's work \"Beshik (The Cradle)\", shown at the Uzbekistan National Pavilion's 2026 exhibition \"The Aural Sea\" at the Venice Biennale, they discuss her experience as a participating artist. Drawing on Redaelli's research into the Central Asian Pavilion (2005–2013), which united artists from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and, from 2009, Tajikistan, they trace how the region has staged itself at Venice and how the shift to separate National Pavilions has reshaped how Uzbekistan's cultural heritage is presented globally. 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Taring Padi, founded in Yogyakarta in 1998 by progressive art students and activists, makes banners, woodcut prints, posters and cardboard puppets as tools of political education and resistance. Titled after a Reformasi-era protest chant meaning 'the people united will never be defeated', the show gathers works and archival material from the collective's nearly thirty-year history. It unfolds over three chapters, accompanied by a public programme of workshops, talks and activations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rakyat-pasti-menang-36597/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1dd97e13e5854217d5545f4dd1478cadd49fc52c1a96fb67aef008767b8676c9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "‘Journeys – Wedding Shawls, Baghs and Phulkaris from the Karun Thakar Collection'", "start": "2026-06-03T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Osterley House", "address": "Jersey Road, TW7 4RB Isleworth", "price": "Free event (admission applies)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art"], "description": "An exhibition of intricately embroidered wedding shawls, baghs and phulkaris from the Karun Thakar Collection, displayed at Osterley House. The textiles were made by young women in the undivided Punjab for ceremonial use and fill Robert Adam's neoclassical rooms with colour and craft. They bring new energy and cultural presence to a property with strong links to global craftsmanship, trade and Empire through the East India Company.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/journeys-wedding-shawls-baghs-and-phulkaris-from-the-karun-t-63701/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/99e741e00595ed5791c21ad40d527a15586095b3a06c7a56cb740984a3edd970-2000.webp"}, {"title": "BSL Tours of ‘The Coming of Age’ with Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wellcome Collection", "address": "Euston Road 183, NW1 2BE London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bsl-tour-of-coming-of-age-with-rubbena-aurangzeb-tariq-tickets-1989545523217?aff=WCWebsitelink", "category": "tours", "tags": ["society/disability", "art"], "description": "A Deaf-led gallery tour of the exhibition ‘The Coming of Age’, delivered entirely in British Sign Language with no voiceover or audio. Artist and facilitator Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq guides visitors through selected objects and themes of the exhibition, including adolescence and how experiences of age vary across cultures and societies. Participants can ask questions and share their perspectives in BSL. The tour is free and meets at the Information Point on level 0.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/bsl-tours-of-the-coming-of-age-with-rubbena-aurangzeb-tariq-40248/", "official_url": "https://wellcomecollection.org/events/bsl-tours-of-the-coming-of-age-with-rubbena-aurangzeb-tariq", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7cacbb429fcb782e5c3d458e52d3f299977668127b8b0c9bcfeedacb06d443ad-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Walking Tour: mapping histories of migration, community and public art with Kuda Mushangi", "start": "2026-11-07T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T13:00:00Z", "place": "Bow Road & Nunnery Gallery, 181-183 Bow Road, London, London, E3 2SJ, United Kingdom", "address": "", "price": "£7.00 – £10.00 (£7 for concessions)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://bowarts.org/shop/", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/public-art", "history/migration", "community"], "description": "A guided walking tour exploring Bhajan Hunjan's public art, beginning with samples in the Nunnery Gallery before visiting her public commissions around the local area. It is led by Kuda Mushangi, an award-winning London-based artist and architect whose practice explores migration, memory and belonging. The walk takes in sites speaking to East London's histories of migration, settlement, activism and community-building, including works in Stroudley Walk and on St Paul's Way made with local schools and communities. Participants are invited to consider how public space holds multiple histories and to share their own memories and reflections.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/walking-tour-mapping-histories-of-migration-community-and-pu-35044/", "official_url": "https://bowarts.org/event/walking-tour-mapping-histories-of-migration-community-and-public-art-with-kuda-mushangi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/74d0ddaf428855060e861a2ad69f00fcdd7dcec0e4f8cfaea29d498f5555acf3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "People's Justice: Towards an Understanding of Art Solidarity", "start": "2026-11-06T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T16:30:00Z", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://tickets.ibraaz.org/events/ibraaz/2491764/select-date?ref=website_widget", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/activism"], "description": "A panel talk bringing together Alexander Supartono, Marco Baravalle, and Rehana Zaman to discuss art as a means of building solidarity. It forms the final chapter of Rakyat Pasti Menang, where Taring Padi presents works from People's Justice, a series rooted in the collective's commitment to art as a tool for political change and social transformation across borders. Drawing on the speakers' personal and collective experiences of constructing progressive alliances, the conversation examines solidarity as the formation of common practices against the co-optation, disciplining, and censorship of the global art-industrial complex.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/peoples-justice-towards-an-understanding-of-art-solidarity-49152/", "official_url": "https://ibraaz.org/whats-on/peoples-justice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4530f2b39e1c23d2c1a92b6c63f8994b8f6e3866b93f14940dffa9122f30497f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "if you like rice, you’ll understand – Collective Noise", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-11T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institute of International Visual Arts | Stuart Hall Library - iniva", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "This is an exhibition project titled 'if you like rice, you'll understand – Collective Noise', bringing together painting, photography, moving image, text and sound. It is a new project by artist and educator Andrew Pierre Hart, part of a joint programme between iniva and Chelsea Space at Chelsea College of Arts. Drawing on Stuart Hall's cultural studies legacy, it explores sound as a form of learning and cultural exchange, examining the relationship between sound and diasporic experiences. The project includes a cross-site exhibition, an events programme and a publication, supported by The Ampersand Foundation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/if-you-like-rice-youll-understand-collective-noise-60786/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aabf80b0df67e5692d00f33769a693ca39fc9b1eab2066da1de9d0767fe6eb43-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Justin Caguiat: Change Ringing", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-10T00:00:00Z", "place": "Serpentine South Gallery", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://serpentinegalleries.ticketing.veevartapp.com/tickets/view/list", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation"], "description": "An exhibition of painting, sculpture, printmaking, sound and film arranged as an installation responsive to the gallery's architecture. It is the work of Justin Caguiat, an interdisciplinary artist born in Tokyo whose art explores architecture, spirituality and the rituals embedded in everyday urban infrastructure. The show features a new series of thermochromic paintings that change with heat and light, alongside bronze bells cast in the shapes of flowers and plant seeds that ring in continually changing sequences to a score by Lily Pickett. Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Natalia Grabowska with Alexa Chow, it considers how buildings accumulate memory, ritual and acts of transformation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/justin-caguiat-change-ringing-38469/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9496f00cd73d3e7b4d87133a9fdcd459913fe848abbd1e78a1fb89a544a4f8e6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Amar Kanwar", "start": "2026-09-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Serpentine North Gallery", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://serpentinegalleries.ticketing.veevartapp.com/tickets/view/list", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image"], "description": "A major solo exhibition by the artist and filmmaker Amar Kanwar, transforming Serpentine North Gallery into a meditative visual and sonic environment. Over three decades, the New Delhi-based artist has created lyrical films and multi-video installations moving between documentary, travelogue and visual essay. Shaped by the history of the Indian subcontinent, his work investigates the legacies of decolonisation and the 1947 Partition, bearing witness to displacement, power, violence, justice and memory. Visitors encounter a trilogy of films, including Such a Morning (2017), The Peacock's Graveyard (2023) and the new seven-screen installation The Charcoal Man (2026), premiering at Serpentine, with the darkened galleries shown in very low light and moments of complete darkness.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/amar-kanwar-38472/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e75635bbf02f40fbbb179b67fd202dfbf16baebc7e3c4474606c179f6eedc66d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Cosmic Breath", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sound-art", "religion/muslim"], "description": "Cosmic Breath is a sound installation by artist Joe Namy made up of recordings of the adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, spanning more than a century and places from Makkah to Singapore and London. Horn speakers like those on mosque minarets each softly play a different call, growing louder at prayer times. First made for the Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah in 2023, it is now shown in Ibraaz's Musalla, a space for spiritual practice. The London-based Lebanese artist presents it as part of his wider study of sound, community and spirituality.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/cosmic-breath-41526/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/51491f3b4819d00350c1680a4b0c049557f2d655ec2a7a93b6be108269822389-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Muscle Memory", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Copperfield", "address": "High Street 212, E17 7JH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "\"Muscle Memory\" is a joint exhibition project at the Copperfield gallery in London, hosted together with galleries from Stockholm, Milan, Beijing and Shanghai and curated by Copperfield. It explores what is passed on through action rather than words or recorded history: the gestures, skills, mannerisms and dances handed down generation to generation. Works include Anna Gonzalez Noguchi's intimate pieces carrying her grandfather's orchid tradition, Rafal Zajko's ceramic relief made from his grandmother's sewing machine, Li Li Ren's sculpture about breath, Narges Mohammadi's video of sifting flour from sand, Aziza Kadyri's patchwork tapestry on needlework, and Luana Vitra's sculptures of iron and copper as a mineral memory. The exhibition runs weekly, Wednesday to Saturday from 12 to 6pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/muscle-memory-41304/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/501a58be9aadd9317d0a01197feb22ac56fac8bceebb008297316d5ce9f480c5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Women artists in conflict zones: imagination as an act of resistance", "start": "2026-10-26T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-04T17:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/women"], "description": "An exhibition of works by eight women artists from countries including Myanmar, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Venezuela, shown in the Atrium Gallery of the London School of Economics and Political Science. It is hosted by the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security and Artists Project Earth, a UK charity that turns artists' creative contributions into support for relief projects, and is curated by May East, a Trustee of the charity. The collection, commissioned since 2022, explores imagination as an act of resistance, turning from the battlefield to the intimate realities of civilian life, from domestic survival to memories of displacement and conflict's marks on bodies and relationships. Among the artists shown are Rala Tarabishi, Khin Thethtar Latt, Sarah Ndele and Dania Bucko, who together give form to experiences rarely captured in peace agreements and reconstruction plans.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/women-artists-in-conflict-zones-imagination-as-an-act-of-res-37076/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/arts-and-music/exhibitions/exhibitions/women-artists-in-conflict-zones", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fc5dd39f3fc7133392ff786f9042c38d405599885f700825d4a0abb4e22dcbca-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Under Wraps Inaugural Mayfair Group Exhibition", "start": "2026-09-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Charles Burnand Gallery", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design"], "description": "Under Wraps is the group exhibition that inaugurates Charles Burnand Gallery's new Mayfair home at 20 Bruton Place. Opening during London Design Festival, it brings together new and recent works by internationally acclaimed artists working across Art Furniture, Illuminated Sculpture, Collectable Design and Sculpture, including Niamh Barry, Peter Lane, Studio Furthermore, Kyeok Kim, Myungtaek Jung and Marc Fish. Selected works stay veiled beneath semi-translucent architectural sheeting and are revealed through a choreographed sequence of automated unveilings, exploring how a first encounter with a work shapes the relationship that follows. Materials span mirror-polished bronze, glazed ceramic stoneware, recycled aluminium, cast glass and precious metal leaf.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/under-wraps-inaugural-mayfair-group-exhibition-41161/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f23f7c7f5afa50c84eaa24e82bb447fb6ecf3bc28f12e41236ceda8ac48445d4-1200.webp"}]}