{"title": "Autumn Knight: I Can't Complain", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "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": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation"], "description": "I Can't Complain is a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Autumn Knight, her first major presentation in the UK, combining a new commission with recent work. Knight's practice draws on theatre, psychology, improvisation and social exchange, and the exhibition centres on the act of complaining: its pleasures, frustrations and political potential. The Lower Galleries hold an audio and spatial installation with a canopy of balloons and a sound installation built from recorded conversations about everyday irritations, alongside recent video works. New performance work, including solos by Knight and collaborations with Samra Mayanja and with Michelangelo Miccolis and nick von kleist, punctuates the exhibition's run.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/autumn-knight-i-cant-complain-74128/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/exhibitions/autumn-knight", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5d3936d1b8f28ea08402a80f861e9e245c83e06ecfde97d7600296a7b23ca7e7-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-13T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-17T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-18T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-19T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-20T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-22T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "party done: Performance by Samra Mayanja", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "party done is a solo performance by London-based artist Samra Mayanja, staged in the Lower Gallery as part of the setting of Autumn Knight's exhibition. It presents the aftermath of a party that may have just ended or may never have begun, with a cargo net of balloons lowered and some escaped balloons strewn on the floor. Moving along a lightbox, Mayanja may pop some of the balloons with sharp implements. She conceived the piece in direct response to the exhibition's themes and brings her own stories of complaint into the gallery, rehearsing and reworking them in the space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/party-done-performance-by-samra-mayanja-74130/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/exhibitions/autumn-knight-party-done", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ee6e3edce865f4e0850e10bd5daeded2b844308d0486356b76dfd4b358fd6298-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Sara Ahmed on Complaining, Again! Lecture", "start": "2026-11-10T18:45:00Z", "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": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/non-fiction", "society/feminism"], "description": "A special lecture titled \"Sara Ahmed on Complaining, Again!\" taking place at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. The scholar Sara Ahmed reflects on what it means to give \"a feminist ear\" to complaint, marking the publication of her new book No is Not a Lonely Utterance: The Art and Activism of Complaining (2025). Coinciding with Autumn Knight's exhibition I Can't Complain, she considers how complaint can bring people together, enabling new solidarities and alliances in the struggle for change. Ahmed is an independent queer feminist scholar of colour whose work is concerned with how power is experienced and challenged in everyday life and institutional cultures.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sara-ahmed-on-complaining-again-lecture-36637/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/exhibitions/lecture-sara-ahmed-on-complaining-again", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3eab35294f01b762fcd761e9d14415d5d3af9665def5caba0cc2a4cced5ed6f2-1200.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": "5.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/checkout/view-event/id/9012754/chk/38ad5769eb249ae485e7f3303743ccd0/?ref=website&modal_widget=true&widget=true", "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": "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. 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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": "The Conch", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T20:30:00Z", "place": "South London Gallery", "address": "Peckham Road 65-67, SE5 8UH London", "price": "£10/£5 members & concessions", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "The Conch is an event where artists share new work that is still in development, with the audience invited to respond after each presentation by sharing thoughts, questions and reflections. 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The event takes place at South London Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-conch-38708/", "official_url": "https://www.southlondongallery.org/events/the-conch-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3cf5e3fce0bb7a0ab456dc088eb17a976b430c7f2da4442b2f458c2d9e29f574-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Akın Aslan", "start": "2026-11-05T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Museum of Comedy", "address": "The Undercroft, St Georges Church, Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2SR", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://museumofcomedy.ticketsolve.com/shows/873668327/events/128667611", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/stand-up"], "description": "Akın Aslan brings his solo show to the Museum of Comedy, a comedy venue in London. The successful comedian is known from stand-up stages, from writings for Uykusuz magazine and from his one-man show 'İYİ HUYLU' published on YouTube. He performs his one-person show at the venue. The performance is in Turkish and runs for 80 minutes, with an age advisory of 18+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/akn-aslan-37200/", "official_url": "https://www.museumofcomedy.com/akn-aslan/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Process Makes Practice", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Art Centre", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/process-makes-practice-sharing-day-tickets-2002624928069?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "Process Makes Practice is a free, drop-in exhibition at Camden Art Centre marking the culmination of a three-year programme supported by The Mildred Fund. Over three years the centre worked with seven artists, two schools and two community groups, including Sidings Community Centre and The Hive, on iterative creative processes without defined outcomes. The exhibition brings together installations, artworks and documentation alongside reflections from those involved, with projects led by artists including Shepherd Manyika, Sam Williams, Sara Heywood, Eva Jonas, Nancy Allen, Lydia Paulett and Maymana Arefin. It offers an insight into the work of artists at the forefront of engagement practice and the creativity of young people in Camden.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/process-makes-practice-60157/", "official_url": "https://camdenartcentre.org/whats-on/process-makes-practice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67e8e3729b3ecdace538eb998057d839179d6d3d0a837bcf53d5a361a67bbfb5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Nicole Eisenman", "start": "2026-09-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Sadie Coles", "address": "Davies Street, W1K 3DJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/contemporary-painting"], "description": "An exhibition of ten new paintings, all from 2026, by the French-born U.S. artist Nicole Eisenman, presented at Sadie Coles HQ on Savile Row in London. The works, titled such pieces as Orgy, Togetherers and The Waiter, unite a great variety in form and subject with a painterly attention to surface and texture, exploring how many universes one canvas can hold. A text by Canadian writer Emily LaBarge accompanies the show, describing how Eisenman paints her life and feelings, assigning images to emotions. The exhibition coincides with the unveiling of a monumental sculpture by Eisenman in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nicole-eisenman-76807/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e06629b59a66f928b605c9369e098aec896d0b6ade20f8640e3030c21f62b0a6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Khalif Tahir Thompson: Send in the Clowns", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Victoria Miro Gallery", "address": "Wharf Road 16, N1 7RW London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/khalif-tahir-thompson-london-2026/#", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting"], "description": "An exhibition of new paintings by Khalif Tahir Thompson, presented at Victoria Miro's London gallery and the gallery's first solo presentation of his work since announcing his representation. Thompson, who was born and is based in Brooklyn, paints vibrant domestic scenes full of texture and pattern that portray the everyday lives of his subjects, both individually and collectively. The show takes its title from the 1973 Stephen Sondheim ballad famously sung by Sarah Vaughan, and reflects, in the artist's words, the ways we use humour to mask vulnerability and respond to tragedy. He describes the exhibition as a love letter to his younger self, his journey as an artist and Brooklyn.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/khalif-tahir-thompson-send-in-the-clowns-40107/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cf7af2288c136f106537822d4180a7b34725428da2aa653b5deda418fc5d05d9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Elaine Mitchener – LATE JOYS", "start": "2026-11-09T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Opera House", "address": "Bow Street, WC2E 9DD London", "price": "£5 - £25", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.rbo.org.uk/production/dark-nights", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental/vocal", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "LATE JOYS is a one-off performance at the Linbury Theatre, part of the Royal Opera's Dark Nights series of one-off performances by vocal innovators and experimental composers. It is conceived by Elaine Mitchener, a contemporary vocalist, movement artist and composer, and devised with choreographer Dam Van Huynh, moving image artist Reece Ewing and her electro-acoustic group The Rolling Calf: Xhosa Cole, Jason Yarde, Mark Sanders and Neil Charles. The hour-long work unfolds as a reverberation of time and space, where presences are conjured through sound, movement and visual intensity, weaving between a shifting landscape where memory, inheritance and imagination converge. Drawing on the poetics of writers who have inspired Mitchener's practice, it invites audiences into new ways of sensing the past while reaching towards possible futures.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/elaine-mitchener-late-joys-74752/", "official_url": "https://www.rbo.org.uk/production/dark-nights", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fde093da0a62dc754b71f2b9e071746b0d5308d9603df2ca9848d83a38978a44-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Martine Syms: Knot Eye", "start": "2026-09-17T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Sadie Coles", "address": "Davies Street, W1K 3DJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation/video-installation"], "description": "\"Knot Eye\" is an exhibition by the American artist Martine Syms at the gallery Sadie Coles HQ. It brings together two new films, \"RW-LO\" and \"Ex Voto\", alongside an iteration of Dominica Publishing, which works both as an artwork and a concept store. \"RW-LO\" is a 22-minute docu-fantasy set in the Garden District of New Orleans in the year 2000, blending reenactments with home movies of Brent David Freaney, once a Deep South teenager obsessed with a Real World New Orleans castmate, asking what happens when people become celebrities and stop being real. \"Ex Voto\" is a three-handed ensemble set in a New York apartment after a wrap party, where a Director and her two leads stay up drunk and high until the Director leaves this plane of reality.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/martine-syms-knot-eye-76808/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3ea840b45c4b6484d9b9b47d9a492d9c6540c6099a85c455bf68c749afc6bdb5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "EVELYN TAOCHENG WANG: Being Poetic Ruins Life", "start": "2026-10-31T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Goldsmiths, University of London Campus", "address": "SE14 6NW London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "An art exhibition filling an entire contemporary art building with painting, ink works, handscrolls, garments, silk paintings, installation, video and text. It is the first UK institutional exhibition by Evelyn Taocheng Wang, a Netherlands-based artist, presented by the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art. Through her 'make-up box' approach and her unreliable narrator 'The Cultural Whore', the works move between fiction, autobiography and cultural projection to assemble an idiosyncratic portrait of Britain shaped by translation, misunderstanding, desire and performance. New commissions explore the Chinese diasporic experience and Britain's cultural image in China, drawing on motifs from Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day, the film Titanic and Count Duckula, with paintings indebted to Agnes Martin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/evelyn-taocheng-wang-being-poetic-ruins-life-36261/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e27d2f903af4f6b46d48a95361c04a29a009319bbc0137b1c2f1d1d870e5d02b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "In Concert: Exhibition in Barbican’s The Curve", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-24T00:00:00Z", "place": "Barbican Centre (Cinema)", "address": "Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://onecitylondon.com/event/in-concert-exhibition-in-barbicans-the-curve", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation"], "description": "'In Concert' is a major new exhibition by Japanese artist Yuko Mohri taking over The Curve at the Barbican from October 2026. Through her multidisciplinary practice, Mohri stages dynamic installations in dialogue with spaces and their atmospheric conditions. Her multi-sensory commission features new works inviting visitors to reflect on the radical potential of permeability and repair. Shaped during a residency at the Barbican, it marks the 20th year of the venue commissioning artists for The Curve.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/in-concert-exhibition-in-barbicans-the-curve-37587/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1305ef5f3e5337c1db8fde0f6e46071b672c7dcd361c7d3c8677c90ae7d6d879-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Voices in the Room", "start": "2026-06-16T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Foundling Museum", "address": "Brunswick Square 40, WC1N 1AZ London", "price": "Adult £14.50 (£13.50 online), Student (22+) £13 (£12 online), Reduced price £13 (£12 online), 21 & u", "price_from": "14.50", "price_to": "14.50", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "Voices in the Room is a display of three contemporary artworks recently acquired by the Foundling Museum. The works are by Rachel Kneebone, Tamsin van Essen and Grayson Perry, and are shown for the first time as part of the permanent Collection. They offer fresh perspectives on the Foundling story, exploring care for children, memory, identity and belonging. Among them is Rachel Kneebone's ceramic sculpture Through a Glass III, 2023 and Tamsin van Essen's Entangled Roots, 2023.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/voices-in-the-room-36164/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e5828ed1dd8369ed5e60eeb98b48f39445d5b19874f03a955099fc4cc24132ae-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Nicole Eisenman", "start": "2026-09-22T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-05T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "A monumental outdoor sculpture titled 'Stack' by the New York-based artist Nicole Eisenman is displayed in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts. Standing over eight metres tall, it is an abstracted self-portrait of five main forms: a Birkenstock-wearing artist carrying an impossibly balanced stack of people and things, echoing the fairy tale of The Town Musicians of Bremen. The bronze, aluminium and oak figures include Eisenman's cat Edie and a model of the late sculptor Phyllida Barlow, a symbol of the art that nourishes the artist's own work. Admission is free and no booking is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nicole-eisenman-38254/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/646275e5cc67a33ac6f672632f0c96db2a7d0b96d518bd1392d140a826f839bd-600.webp"}, {"title": "Relaxed viewing: EVELYN TAOCHENG WANG: Being Poetic Ruins Life", "start": "2026-11-04T11:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Goldsmiths, University of London Campus", "address": "SE14 6NW London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/checkout/view-event/id/9065103/chk/b8cc7a726088a83bb4a55b13f5fc25ac/?modal_widget=true&widget=true", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "A relaxed viewing session of Evelyn Taocheng Wang's exhibition 'Being Poetic Ruins Life', held at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art. The exhibition opens an hour early to prioritise visitors who may wish to visit with certain adjustments. Capacity is managed with reduced numbers, no large groups are admitted, and the volume on video and audio works is lowered. A relaxed breakout space is available in the carpeted Residents' space, with the team on hand to support visitors.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/relaxed-viewing-evelyn-taocheng-wang-being-poetic-ruins-life-36270/", "official_url": "https://goldsmithscca.art/events", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1fcb645611a5fc741f23b8b33673e73b5b77f31b1c67c7cce038a9b094ed9b8e-1200.webp"}]}