{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Late-Night Conversations: Stuart Marshall & Tamara Krikorian", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-12T00:00:00Z", "place": "LUX", "address": "Dartmouth Park Hill, N19 5JF London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/video-art"], "description": "An exhibition bringing together works by the pioneering video artists Stuart Marshall (1949–1993) and Tamara Krikorian (1944–2009), co-curated by Conal McStravick and Holly Argent and presented by LUX as part of LVA50, a year-long programme marking fifty years since the formation of London Video Arts. It looks back to the 1976 exhibition and conference 'Video: Towards Defining an Aesthetic' at Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, organised by Krikorian, which led to the founding of London Video Arts and included Marshall's 'Privileged View'. The exhibition re-stages Marshall's 'Privileged View' (1976) and Krikorian's 'Breeze' (1975), presenting them for the first time in fifty years and together for the first time, alongside historic works, recent archival recoveries, photo and video documentation, recorded oral histories, an archive display and a programme of short videos by both artists. Drawing on the artists' own archives, it takes a queer feminist approach to re-imagining their work and treats the archive as open rather than fixed, framed by its curators as an audio-visual fanzine created in a spirit of collectivity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/late-night-conversations-stuart-marshall-tamara-krikorian-37114/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b156d517bd7d71a3177cb6b8560fd13a626f4d6b6b3fd65c7ce85315d8891909-2000.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": "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": "The Films of Annette Kennerley", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "LUX", "address": "Dartmouth Park Hill, N19 5JF London", "price": "Free, booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.outsavvy.com/event/40685/the-films-of-annette-kennerley", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental", "society/queer"], "description": "An evening screening of moving image works by East London artist Annette Kennerley, followed by a Q&A with the artist and filmmaker Sweatmother. Organised by UCL's Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art, Cinenova, LUX and Spectra, it shows works recently digitised by students, exploring queer relationships, transgender lives and motherhood from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. The programme includes 'Bet Lynch's Earrings', 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Red Sails', 'Boys in the Backyard' and 'Kelby'. The event is free with booking, runs about two hours and is 18+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-films-of-annette-kennerley-37112/", "official_url": "https://lux.org.uk/event/the-films-of-annette-kennerley/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6422ce9d7dd00f3d32ca198d84350501ba6272616e63facdcb5570137e0cdd95-2000.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": "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": "Ghyzlène Boukaïla", "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/media-art/film"], "description": "A residency at Gasworks by artist Ghyzlène Boukaïla. Combining film, immersive installation and sculpture, her practice questions the thresholds of reality and fiction, drawing on historical and archival research to challenge existing narratives. At Gasworks she will focus on material research for her next film, which explores the Mediterranean Sea as a territory and its reappropriation, following a maritime smuggler whose acts of piracy become gestures of refusal. Boukaïla, born 1993 in Algiers, lives and works in Algiers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ghyzlene-boukaila-41423/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a90214290a08520574330625887883f0ef34b90fe4b68fd28f7372e4534c5760-2000.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": "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": "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. The talk is organised in collaboration with Vlad Strukov, Professor of Film and Visual Cultures at the University of Leeds.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/redefining-cultural-heritage-from-the-cradle-to-the-pavilion-38084/", "official_url": "https://www.pushkinhouse.org/events/6230", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3af831305ad3d928d0ba1a816417e03c2dcd4c7c5a96f132f6ea945049fffef9-2000.webp"}, {"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://helleniccentre.org/books/", "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": "SET Film Festival 2026 - Night #1: Impossible Cinema", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T22:00:00Z", "place": "Set Social", "address": "Nigel Road 55, SE15 4NP London", "price": "£9 general admission / £7 concessions", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://set-film-festival.eventive.org/schedule/night-1-impossible-cinema-6accbcefd1712e4ba1f9f180", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental"], "description": "An evening of four short films that explore what the organisers call 'impossible cinema', presented as the opening night of SET Film Festival 2026. The festival is an independent, grassroots event for contemporary, artist and archival film, founded in 2023, run by London-based arts organisation SET and curated by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe. The programme gathers works by Jani Peltonen, Maryam Tafakory, Basma Alsharif and Oleksiy Radynski in which borders, bureaucracy and censorship challenge conventions of filmic completion, reclaiming impossibility as a productive condition. The screening is preceded by an introduction by Phoebe Campion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/set-film-festival-2026-night-1-impossible-cinema-38494/", "official_url": "https://setspace.uk/event/set-film-festival-2026-night-1-impossible-cinema/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d0d52d340eb24cdf1daf377adfd3c4c0364e714a0f5dad6304923ea7caea6e28-2000.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": "Lisson Artists in Venice 2026", "start": "2026-05-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-22T00:00:00Z", "place": "Lisson Gallery", "address": "Bell Street 27, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.lissongallery.com/shop", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "Lisson Artists in Venice 2026 brings together presentations by artists of the Lisson gallery during the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. It runs from 9 May to 22 November and features Otobong Nkanga, Dana Awartani, Marina Abramović, Anish Kapoor, Ding Yi, Ceal Floyer, Josh Kline, Lee Ufan, Hugh Hayden, Ryan Gander and Tony Cragg.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lisson-artists-in-venice-2026-41634/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5d9984baef443d559fa0ad4dcf0c0e08490d5aa17a6576430ec5f2a9d6f76050-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Performance: Ewa Poniatowska", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T20:00:00Z", "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": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "A performance by Polish artist Ewa Poniatowska, titled 'We were too poor to spend our vacation in the country', staged at South London Gallery alongside Monika Sosnowska's exhibition 'Weight of Matter'. It explores borders, smuggling and Polish commercial tourism in the 1970s-1990s, drawing on her research into black markets and underground commerce in communist Poland. The work features a musical score by Ewa and is performed with Japanese artist Kazumi Nishimura. It begins in the Main Gallery and continues in the Clore Studio.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/performance-ewa-poniatowska-38709/", "official_url": "https://www.southlondongallery.org/events/performance-ewa-poniatowska/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9f2791b3bcbf00368d2264696da4fd2fd40ae5c7992d7a839679e9061949d2f3-1200.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"}]}