{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-09-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Serpentine North Gallery", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Saturday Talks: Chris Bayley on Amar Kanwar", "start": "2026-10-31T12:30:00Z", "end": null, "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/saturday-talks-chris-bayley-on-amar-kanwar-exhibition", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/media-art/film"], "description": "A free Saturday Talk at Serpentine North Gallery in which Chris Bayley, the gallery's Exhibitions Curator, gives an introduction to the artist Amar Kanwar. 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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": "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": "There Are No Honest Poems About Dead Women: Jemma Desai", "start": "2026-07-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Somerset House", "address": "Strand, WC2R 1LA London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation/video-installation", "society/feminism"], "description": "There Are No Honest Poems About Dead Women is an installation by Jemma Desai, an artist in residence at Somerset House Studios, presented in space G31. At its heart is a film that assembles archival footage, text, song and new 16mm material drawn from the work of poets, writers, musicians and artists. These extracts form a collage of image and sound bringing together real and imagined scenes of feminist coalition and inheritance. The work invites visitors to consider what commitments they might make when forming relationships across the intimate and the political, and how such relationships might be rehearsed, reimagined and received anew.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/there-are-no-honest-poems-about-dead-women-jemma-desai-38682/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4b8e94453a18da6eeba0c809da012bbf390cb78ee8b3278374fa96a019addc15-600.webp"}, {"title": "Arcadia by Sir John Akomfrah", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-05-03T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Natural History Museum", "address": "Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year.html", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image", "history/colonialism"], "description": "\"Arcadia\" is a multi-screen film installation about a global migration of people, nature and disease. It is by John Akomfrah, a widely respected artist and filmmaker known for works exploring memory, post-colonialism and the experiences of migrant diasporas. The installation shows the mass movement of plants, people, animals, metals, diseases and ideas between the Americas, Afro-Eurasia and Europe from the 1400s onwards, known as the Columbian Exchange. Across five screens, imagery of deserts, ice fields, mountains and seas is set to a soundtrack of nature sounds, opera and poetry, asking how migration, colonialism and empire have shaped the planet and its legacies today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/arcadia-by-sir-john-akomfrah-37307/", "official_url": "https://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/arcadia", "image": "https://noky.io/images/87cfdafa70afbf36f276ba78f0bbea4e9f99d2506264574d3eb39780c75ad3e0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "'RAFT' & The Parlour Collective & 'The Moon Over The Alley'", "start": "2026-11-07T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Horse Hospital", "address": "Colonnade, WC1N 1JD London", "price": "£10 standard, £15 solidarity", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://gel.now/events/1212", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental", "stage/musical"], "description": "An evening triple bill of films celebrating the entanglement of bodies and place, with a special focus on London and its shelters, rafts and sanctuaries. It brings together Chiara Ambrosio’s ‘Raft - A London Story’, a screening of work by The Parlour Collective, and Joseph Despins’s 1976 feature ‘The Moon Over The Alley’, with an opening performance from Bird Radio and James Hesford. Ambrosio’s film is described as a musical haunting and contemporary fairytale about a specific place poised between appearance and disappearance, seeking new forms of sanctuary and belonging; The Parlour Collective are artists working with site-responsive performance and film, exploring the psychological and somatic experience of landscape. Despins’s dark yet tender 1976 British experimental musical, scored by Galt MacDermont, explores the problems facing the multicultural residents of a Notting Hill boarding house destined for demolition.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/raft-the-parlour-collective-the-moon-over-the-alley-39366/", "official_url": "https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/raftparlourmoon", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9083b82df6e14dd0f8bdaaa6996611a9b4d27dd5850e925237bea3a84bb36982-2000.webp"}, {"title": "George Clark and Eiko Soga", "start": "2026-09-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Arts Centre", "address": "Arkwright Road 52, NW3 6DG London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media", "film/documentary"], "description": "George Clark and Eiko Soga are Camden Art Centre's 2026 Studio Residency Artists, and its first family in residence, setting up the residency studio as a collective space to work and make alongside their young family. Clark is an artist and writer working across film, installation and performance, exploring moving image in the expanded field and the non-aligned histories of the Global South. Soga is an artist and researcher working with moving images, photography, poetry and installation, exploring embodied knowledge and the relationships between emotional and natural landscapes, through a long-term engagement with the Indigenous Ainu community in Hokkaido, Japan. Working collaboratively for the first time, they will explore children's prelinguistic worlds and sonic resonances, expanding field recordings in the studio, in dialogue with the philosophies of Japanese farmer Fukuoka Masanobu and with filmmaking as a form of permaculture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/george-clark-and-eiko-soga-73859/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/32ec879ac1df4acfdabfc668c359fb098c3218349ca1a60815115557a2796007-2000.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": "Julio Le Parc: Light. Colour. Action.", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-05-03T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Tate Modern", "address": "Bankside, SE1 9TG London", "price": "£15, £13 Concessions, £5 for Tate Collective, Free for Members", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.tate.org.uk/ticket/date?cgid=375281", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An immersive exhibition spanning seven decades of work by the Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc, from the late 1950s to the 2020s. It brings together interactive installations, shimmering light sculptures and large-scale geometric paintings in a playful, mesmerising show. Le Parc is best known for his pioneering kinetic sculptures, which use light, movement and mirrored surfaces to surprise and draw in the viewer. He wanted to make viewers feel active, bringing each artwork to life through their acts of looking and experiencing, and to make more democratic art that everyone can easily enjoy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/julio-le-parc-light-colour-action-38879/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4503b7a5baedd939fd978bbf4d1b65c1be3bb13dad1b9d3482fb5cf4f8cb6066-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lower Gallery Spotlight Movana Chen", "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/sculpture"], "description": "An exhibition presenting new work by Movana Chen, an artist based between Hong Kong and Lisbon whose practice is rooted in personal exchange and chance encounters. She collects found paper, maps, letters and documents into an evolving archive carrying traces of individual lives and journeys. In this new body of work, maps from across the world are shredded and knitted by hand into intricate sculptural forms, installed as a constellation that retains remnants of their geographic origins while dissolving their borders. The presentation accompanies her performance series 'Questioning the Line' at The Coronet Theatre, Notting Hill.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lower-gallery-spotlight-movana-chen-69807/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/969cf9609634d64278179d379591a14ce44eb2da34672a9edde9d2186841cabc-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Message Is in the Pattern", "start": "2026-05-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-30T00:00:00Z", "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/media-art/digital-art"], "description": "The Message Is in the Pattern is the third edition of iniva's Post-National Digital Pavilion, a digital programme presented in collaboration with the British Council at the 61st Venice Biennale. Curated by Beatriz Lobo with programme support by Vasita (Pleng) Jirathiyut, it responds to Lubaina Himid's British Pavilion commission and explores how collective care, tradition-making and belonging are built through everyday practices such as cooking, braiding and gathering. Three artists, Anya Paintsil, Rajyashri Goody and Rose Afefé, are supported to make new commissions in their local contexts, while four writers from an international open call will respond to the works in a digital publication. The programme runs online from 1 May to 30 November 2026, continuing iniva's transnational, research-led public programmes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-message-is-in-the-pattern-60787/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5a0979f0cd962a9acaffabcb74cfecb03fa4c4c6e1270c8b02b22bb88ad6ac3f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Areez Katki", "start": "2026-09-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Gasworks", "address": "Vauxhall Street 155, SE11 5RH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art"], "description": "Areez Katki is a residency at Gasworks, running from 30 September to 15 December 2026. The artist Areez Katki, from Aotearoa New Zealand, works with hand-embroidered drawings on found cloth, expanding into installation, sound, video and performance. During the residency, they will continue developing a new performance and moving-image work, An Internal Dissenter Who Remains in Relation, which explores how a body holds space for the sacred and the profane. Using their position as a Zoroastrian priest, they will cultivate rituals that mobilise the queer body and propose different modes of knowledge transmission.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/areez-katki-41424/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d19cc8eea1d73cf74fbf70835a2f8789a0068ab6c66a5cf355e3358f93a596d1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "George Clark and Eiko Soga", "start": "2026-09-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Art Centre", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "George Clark is Camden Art Centre's 2026 Studio Residency Artist, presenting a residency in which he works in an on-site studio. Clark is a London-based artist, curator and writer working across film, installation and performance, focusing on moving image in the expanded field and the non-aligned histories of the global south. During the residency he collaborates for the first time with his partner, the artist Eiko Soga, exploring children's prelinguistic worlds and sonic resonances, from field recordings made in an anechoic chamber during a pregnancy to an active recording and experimental studio space. Inspired by the Maarui Children Farm in Tokyo and by the philosophies of Masanobu Fukuoka, the two look to bring children into their practices and work with natural processes and garden ingredients, stepping away from the fixed certainties of film production.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/george-clark-and-eiko-soga-50256/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/32ec879ac1df4acfdabfc668c359fb098c3218349ca1a60815115557a2796007-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Knots Presents: Oscillations", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T22:00:00Z", "place": "ANNEX, 1 Tiverton Street SE1 6NT", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/knotsnoise/2392847/r/website", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/activism"], "description": "Knots Presents: Oscillations is an exhibition at ANNEX in Elephant and Castle, hosted by The Koppel Project, bringing together a network of artists, organisers and learners. It is curated by Knots, whose noise nights invite artists to meet through an exchange of ideas and collaboration, and it invites artists to respond through visual mediums speaking to collaboration and resistance in shared history, local communities, familial lives and the every day. Knots frames it against the rising influence of the far-right in the UK and beyond, using performance to build relationships, exchange knowledge and work in solidarity with communities resisting authoritarianism and injustice. The opening evening is followed by cross-disciplinary noise collaborations with Knots alumni and a short panel Q&A with the exhibiting artists.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/knots-presents-oscillations-42454/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/knots-presents-oscillations-annex", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e8c4c2a00a05ba4b41afd061a3d875c8e737070a1d5b100bc8610ae61659e961-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Gathering Ground", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Tate Modern", "address": "Bankside, SE1 9TG London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.tate.org.uk/membership", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "nature/environment"], "description": "Gathering Ground is an exhibition at Tate Modern exploring art's power to inspire change in today's ecological crisis. It brings together works from Tate's Collection highlighting the connection between environmental and social justice, inviting us to reimagine our relationships with the natural world and each other. Artists including Outi Pieski, Abbas Akhavan, Bruce Conner, Zheng Bo, Joydeb Roaja, Abel Rodriguez, Munem Wasif, Minerva Cuevas and Carolina Caycedo feature, alongside a new commission by Abbas Zahedi, honouring Indigenous knowledge, nurturing queer multispecies relations and documenting issues such as displacement and destruction of land and waterways. Set in a former oil and coal power station, the exhibition offers a shared space to reflect on our role in creating a more equal world, asking how we can be good Ancestors for future generations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gathering-ground-38892/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ca2f874a9082c1e73d112ff92bb7729f7c6e35916197269c3aa77468aa1a6fb8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Ana Mendieta", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00Z", "place": "Tate Modern", "address": "Bankside, SE1 9TG London", "price": "£18 / Free for Members, £17 Concessions, £5 for Tate Collective", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.tate.org.uk/ticket/date?cgid=375282", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "A major exhibition at Tate Modern dedicated to the artist Ana Mendieta, presenting many of her iconic works alongside newly remastered films, early paintings, and late sculptural pieces, many never before seen in the UK. The Cuban-born American artist, active in the 1970s and early 80s, is best known for her Silueta Series, exploring the presence and absence of the human body using natural materials including fire, water and flowers, recorded as photographs and films. Her work posed profound questions around displacement and identity that remain highly relevant today. The show, the first in-depth UK exhibition of her work in over ten years, also continues outside the gallery walls, embracing her deep relationship with the natural world.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ana-mendieta-38881/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e2321a27214d04910aa2b550868992faab5e53ef2736b12abac19386b805b3a9-2000.webp"}]}