{"title": "Jenkin van Zyl: Enclosure", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Somerset House", "address": "Strand, WC2R 1LA London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://my.somersethouse.org.uk/events?K=Enclosure&StartDate=2026-09-24", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "film"], "description": "An exhibition pairing a newly commissioned film with a large-scale immersive installation in the Lancaster Rooms of the New Wing. It is the work of Jenkin van Zyl, an artist in residence at Somerset House Studios, commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, Somerset House Studios and HOME, Manchester. Set in a decaying facility once built for replication, where visitors could temporarily live the lives of others, it follows Mercy, a starlet whose likeness was lent to the programme, as she arrives to terminate her contract and the boundary between original and copy turns porous. The work explores a culture where technological advancement has outpaced our ability to make sense of it, asking what happens when systems built on desire and self-preservation outlast the conditions that created them. The exhibition contains references to and images of blood, death, and psychological distress and is not suitable for visitors aged 12 and under.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/jenkin-van-zyl-enclosure-38680/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/eb0db8af13099015f49f783e6b33cfc73d7fdf7b2013833c5907ac0dd735deb1-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Somerset House", "address": "Strand, WC2R 1LA London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Faerdom: Now, As Ever", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration", "address": "Myddelton Passage 1, EC1R 1AG London", "price": "Adults £15, concessions available. 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The exhibition explores how the digital landscape is shaping our modern lives and asks whether humanity's oldest stories still resonate and can offer perspective and hope.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/faerdom-now-as-ever-38102/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5bf92ecfadc45a060caf679a9b762cc13905c9fdabbd2e925b9b9e09923bd708-2000.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": "Second Daughter: She Was Never One Body pt II", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Eastway Baths", "address": "80 Eastway, E9 5JH London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eastwaybaths.co.uk/events#", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/film-video", "film/short-film"], "description": "An art exhibition with a short film screening, presented by Second Daughter at Eastway Baths. The works and films explore the body as a collective swarm, with pieces by Karolina Ursala Urbaniak, Keyannah Isaacs, Lottie Stephens, Holly Lou Jones, Eleanor Cox, Georgia Scholes and Kai Thaís, and films including Cailleach, Uproot, Dancing with Broken Feet, Choir of Catharsis and Know That As I Hex You, I Hug You. Film curation is by Lucy Chappell and artwork curation by Holly Lou Jones and Noda Lichen. Second Daughter celebrates dark cinema, art and performance exploring women's stories, made by anyone.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/second-daughter-she-was-never-one-body-pt-ii-60442/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b729ec8bc12fc075cd3fe063f334b03ee0f2cdcd811785077d4da46481f84c6c-1200.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": "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": "13.00", "price_to": "14.50", "tickets_url": "https://shop.foundlingmuseum.org.uk/products/general-admission", "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": "post-", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "Heights", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "A studio exhibition titled 'post-' at Heights. Curated by AxisAxis, it presents new works by Libby Hoffenberg and Louis Caseley. Responding to AxisAxis' site in a rapidly redeveloping Elephant & Castle, it explores how sites of artistic and administrative labour are continuously transformed, repurposed and reappropriated in both public and private spaces. It inhabits the gap between the expectations of a visionary future and the realities of a present that has failed to deliver.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/post-39387/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/295dd877a837fb8698840de0d4bf2b5ee6e63d8b635486313a8ee58e928dc4af-600.webp"}, {"title": "Escalate Entropy", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-04T00:00:00Z", "place": "Elements Gallery London", "address": "Lower Clapton Road 26, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "Escalate Entropy is a group art exhibition whose private view runs on the evening of 11 November and continues until 4 December. Six artists — Justin Brown, Ross Chisholm, Thomas Crane, Andy Jackson, Robert Orchardson and Tom Walker — shared a studio in Deptford while studying at Goldsmiths College London between 2004 and 2007, in a building since demolished for luxury apartments. The show recreates that vanished studio through interior and architectural features, re-presents artwork from 2004–2007 and shows new work within this re-collection context. The works exist between a recollected workplace and a gallery space, a temporary material re-collection of artists from a ghost space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/escalate-entropy-43240/", "official_url": "https://angus-hughes.org/Escalate-Entropy", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fd84e5127c58b73ef720d6f4349754e2c33d80c188501bf55251decf02791024-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Still Life", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T20:00:00Z", "place": "The Koppel Project", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/multidisciplinary"], "description": "\"Still Life\" is an exhibition of works by Danlu Zheng, held at the Koppel Project. The London-based multidisciplinary artist, a graduate of Central Saint Martins, shows works spanning moving image, costume, photography and material experimentation. The exhibition traces her evolving investigation into the relationships between the body, materiality and the environment, examining processes of transformation in which states of completion, stability or disappearance give way to further possibilities. Its title evokes a productive tension between stasis and change, as regeneration is considered not a return to an original form but a process through which matter acquires new configurations and meanings.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/still-life-42453/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/still-life-danlu-zheng", "image": "https://noky.io/images/34a10258b6e2a4747e11b00bd1fd7dcc9508646fd1f8ef831f9ff189749dd381-2000.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. This edition brings together artists who explore domestic architectures not simply as backdrops, but as sites of labour and performance that can take on a life of their own. Georgina Hill performs a work on the overlooked history of cottage industries in Britain, Alia Hamaoui reworks behind-the-scenes footage from the whodunit crime film 8 Femmes, and Beatrice Vorster presents BOO!, a performance made with Yasmin Vardi that deconstructs the ghost-movie genre. 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": "The Coming of Age", "start": "2026-03-26T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Wellcome Collection", "address": "Euston Road 183, NW1 2BE London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/aging", "art"], "description": "'The Coming of Age' is a free exhibition about growing old, exploring experiences and perceptions of ageing from adolescence to later life. It asks how societies can adapt for everyone to age better, and how experiences of age are shaped by our environment, culture and society. The exhibition brings together 150 artworks and objects, from historical artefacts to contemporary works by artists including John Coplans, Serena Korda, Suzanne Lacy, Anna Maria Maiolino, Rory Pilgrim and Paula Rego. It is held at Wellcome Collection on Euston Road in London.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-coming-of-age-40243/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9d1cac3ba10df17a62a52399ec4cdf63b24a11e99d9f85d925a7b84eea4f59a0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "In the Round: Discovery Zone", "start": "2026-10-30T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "£19.11 (including DICE fees + £1.50 venue levy)", "price_from": "19.11", "price_to": "19.11", "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/pop/experimental-pop"], "description": "An evening of widescreen experimental pop in the live programme at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Discovery Zone is the project of New York musician and multimedia artist JJ Weihl, whose new album Library Copy Do Not Remove presents a digital enchantment of reality where nature and technology create each other. On stage she uses a laboratory of instruments and 3D visuals, with luminous vocals and baroque instrumental flourishes, to explore the universe as a source of information. Support comes from the Portuguese singer and composer Leonor Arnaut; the show is presented by Bird on the Wire.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/in-the-round-discovery-zone-74120/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/live/discovery-zone", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5108580e172d13a8521a8f23b64eb5b6ded83b312f2c13cef2028214ad4eab71-1200.webp"}, {"title": "LOST & FOUND", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T21:00:00Z", "place": "ANNEX, 1 Tiverton Street SE1 6NT", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography"], "description": "LOST & FOUND is an exhibition by artist Ryan Blackwell, opening with a private view at ANNEX. It explores London through its waste, asking what the objects we leave behind reveal about how we live. Across four interconnected photographic works, it examines the discarded things at the edges of our attention. Blackwell, originally from Liverpool and based in London, spent five years investigating the city's discarded materials.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lost-found-42451/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/lost-and-found-ryan-blackwell", "image": ""}, {"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"}]}