{"title": "In Conversation: Christos Dikeakos and Emily Butler", "start": "2026-10-29T19:00:00Z", "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": "An artist talk at The Hellenic Centre in which photographer Christos Dikeakos looks back over five decades of his artistic practice, in conversation with curator Emily Butler. It covers key works including the series Sites and Places: Athens (1986-1997) and Sites and Places: Vancouver (1990-2015), which reflect on the layered nature of history, moving cultures and the presence of Greek mythology in present-day life. Dikeakos' long-standing fascination with collecting is also explored through The Collectors, a series of portraits of artists, patrons, curators, writers and art lovers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/in-conversation-christos-dikeakos-and-emily-butler-39350/", "official_url": "https://helleniccentre.org/event/artist-talk-christos-dikeakos/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1c3dee30717f0b9b6d5fc4eebe6edd6be5cec5e52d6ef73d189840da6adbce52-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Hellenic Centre", "address": "Paddington Street 16-18, W1U 5AS London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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://events.humanitix.com/mnemosyne-grove-photography-memory-and-time", "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": "Vasilis Papageorgiou at Gasworks: In Conversation with 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://events.humanitix.com/in-conversation-vasilis-papageorgiou", "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/vasilis-papageorgiou-at-gasworks-in-conversation-with-dr-mar-74935/", "official_url": "https://helleniccentre.org/event/in-conversation-vasilis-papageorgiou-and-dr-marianna-tsionki/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b8bc6a3fc789f7b8a4daed9ecd65e3481ba87d83008a16b8a19feab797bd6a38-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Revisiting: Fernweh, or Nostalgia for Unknown Lands", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "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": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media"], "description": "\"Revisiting: Fernweh, or Nostalgia for Unknown Lands\" is an exhibition at The Hellenic Centre in London. Curated by Katerina Hadji and presented by the Irene Y. Panagopoulos Collection in collaboration with the Hellenic Centre, it brings together 15 international artists and 17 artworks from the Irene Y. Panagopoulos Collection, spanning sculpture, painting, photography, printmaking, collage, video, lightboxes, and books from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. One year after its debut in Athens in 2025, where it inaugurated the Irene Y. Panagopoulos Collection Space, it comes to London with a renewed perspective shaped by the venue's spatial parameters. At its conceptual axis lies Fernweh, the German word for a longing for distant places, framing an exhibition that draws on the legacy of Romanticism and reflects on Greece as a cultural and symbolic landscape defined by journeys, myths, memories, and perceptions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/revisiting-fernweh-or-nostalgia-for-unknown-lands-39349/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d02a0beaaf65c3ecf4742877707eda6f08030596d4b96b2de9d9385af0559e97-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Roots", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Photographers' Gallery", "address": "Ramillies Street 16-18, W1F 7LW London", "price": "from £665 + VAT", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["nature/plants/trees", "art/photography"], "description": "\"Roots\" is a group exhibition at The Print Sales Gallery exploring trees, memory, cultural heritage and belonging through photography and mixed media across global landscapes. The show brings together works by Julie Cockburn, Paul Cupido, Gohar Dashti, Chrystel Lebas, Miho Kajioka, Michael Kenna, Ingrid Weyland and Pentti Sammallahti. It considers trees as living embodiments of origin, memory and belonging, symbols of cultural heritage and archives of collective memory. The works invite us to consider the reciprocal relationships between people and place and to act as guardians for the forests that sustain us.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/roots-39559/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f818861dcf24a700f3df307343302d93e76c7ef72f4fc42909ffec12726bdc94-1200.webp"}, {"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": "", "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"}, {"title": "Lines of Enquiry: Graphic Arts and the Afterlives of Material Past", "start": "2026-11-06T09:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "place": "Society of Antiquaries", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["diy/printmaking", "history"], "description": "Lines of Enquiry: Graphic Arts and the Afterlives of Material Past is the Society of Antiquaries' annual Collections and Research Day, focusing this year on its Prints and Drawings collection of works on paper from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. The event is hosted by the Society of Antiquaries and presents the work of early career researchers and collections professionals. It examines how images shape knowledge production and circulation, mediate encounters with lost and extant objects and buildings, and contribute to the study of the material past, from early modern prints to contemporary graphic practices. The keynote, 'Towers and Transformations: 40 years of printmaking by Anne Desmet RA', spans her career as artist-printmaker, and attendees can also visit curated displays at the library of either the Royal Academy of Arts or the Linnaean Society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lines-of-enquiry-graphic-arts-and-the-afterlives-of-material-38657/", "official_url": "https://www.sal.org.uk/events/lines-of-enquiry/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7db67b77575aa91c39629348415212837d9c42d8f7d5ace48bea44c9b8f4b718-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Artist Talk: Charlie Phillips", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Photographers' Gallery", "address": "Ramillies Street 16-18, W1F 7LW London", "price": "£10/£7.50", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://thephotographersgallery.ticketsolve.com/shows/1173694266/events", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography"], "description": "An artist talk at The Photographers' Gallery celebrating the retrospective publication 'A Grassroots Legacy – 1962–2010'. Photographer Charlie Phillips, who documented the West Indian community in London across the 1960s, 70s and 80s, joins Paul Goodwin in conversation, chaired by Isaac Huxtable. The book gathers his era-defining street photography, from musicians, street life and parties to British Caribbean funerals and cultural traditions, capturing a changing London and Britain. The conversation explores his approach to documenting community, culture and everyday life, and the lasting importance of this work.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/artist-talk-charlie-phillips-79084/", "official_url": "https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/artist-talk-charlie-phillips", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a994b85458f523c3654765927f5abced2a15d6a04bd528d5e73c29c2cd3ed88a-1200.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": "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": "THIIIRD AUTUMN Social", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Feminist Library", "address": "Sojourner Truth Community Centre, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL", "price": "", "price_from": "9.38", "price_to": "9.38", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thiiird-autumn-social-tickets-2003137168193", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "THIIIRD AUTUMN Social is an evening for creatives who want meaningful connections in an industry that often feels like a solo pursuit. It is hosted by THIIIRD, whose socials are led by leading creative voices sharing their work and stories in an intimate Q&A. This edition features Kim Lang, a prominent voice in contemporary photography known for his bold, theatrical portraiture and narrative approach to individuality, identity, and cultural heritage. It is a space for candid conversation, real connection and potential collaboration, held in Peckham's Sojourner Truth building.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/thiiird-autumn-social-70555/", "official_url": "https://feministlibrary.co.uk/2026/10/28/thiiird-autumn-social/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1f63eef74843c68d3eb66c439d6e72aedfb381be7039b3dc7132db33b26a684-2000.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": "Piccolissimo book launch | Published by COSE", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Tenderbooks", "address": "Cecil Court 6, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "A book launch celebrating Piccolissimo, a miniature book published by COSE. The book was conceived by Alex Sonsino and Giulia Nardi and explores the tenderness of tiny things through photographs in which Alex's finger becomes a landscape and resting place for a collection of small objects. The photographs give the objects context, scale and unexpected intimacy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/piccolissimo-book-launch-published-by-cose-76840/", "official_url": "https://tenderbooks.co.uk/blogs/events-window/piccolissimo-book-launch-published-by-cose-thursday-5-november-6-8pm", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d7c60749de9a853f411ba558e87a02b25670084c3f61e5595d96e7af659a832b-2000.webp"}]}