{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Hellenic Centre", "address": "Paddington Street 16-18, W1U 5AS London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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. 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Rather than presenting nature as a static landscape, it proposes a world in constant movement, where memory, geology and imagination flow together. Moving between deep time and the present, the works reflect on cycles of creation and collapse, ecological fragility and the relationships between bodies, water and the Earth.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/paola-estrella-deep-time-currents-37645/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c4247e8454979896007e87739dc6f77a5198b985a436a962c7a4d0516c2ca389-1200.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": "https://helleniccentre.org/books/", "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. 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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": "One Photograph / Different Perspectives", "start": "2026-11-07T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T17:30:00Z", "place": "Collective", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "An artist-led conversation about how the context of a photograph shapes the way we see it. It accompanies Zhiyan Liu's photographic series Laoniang, which documents the everyday life of her maternal grandmother in rural China. Participants look closely at a single photograph from the exhibition and share their interpretations before learning the circumstances in which it was made, then extend the discussion to other works. 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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/in-conversation-vasilis-papageorgiou-and-dr-marianna-tsionki-74935/", "official_url": "https://helleniccentre.org/event/in-conversation-vasilis-papageorgiou-and-dr-marianna-tsionki/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b8bc6a3fc789f7b8a4daed9ecd65e3481ba87d83008a16b8a19feab797bd6a38-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Muscle Memory", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Copperfield", "address": "High Street 212, E17 7JH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "\"Muscle Memory\" is a joint exhibition project at the Copperfield gallery in London, hosted together with galleries from Stockholm, Milan, Beijing and Shanghai and curated by Copperfield. 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The exhibition runs weekly, Wednesday to Saturday from 12 to 6pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/muscle-memory-41304/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/501a58be9aadd9317d0a01197feb22ac56fac8bceebb008297316d5ce9f480c5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Reclaiming the Archives", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T20:30:00Z", "place": "St. Margaret's House", "address": "Old Ford Road 15-23, E2 9PJ London", "price": "£12–£17", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "17.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/stmargaretshouse/2364337/select-date?ref=website_widget&show_event_filter=false", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/zines"], "description": "\"Reclaiming the Archives\" is a hands-on creative workshop at which participants turn their personal photographs into a zine using stitch, writing and collage. It is facilitated by Caroline Lacoma, a London-based self-taught visual artist born in Guadeloupe whose work explores transformation, rebirth and the self. The workshop invites participants to consider the photographs they have inherited, collected or taken and the stories they tell about family, identity, memory and belonging. 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Through sustained engagement with the eighty-year-old's daily life — working the land, tending the courtyard, caring for animals and resting at home — the project explores kinship, ageing, domesticity and self-determination. It considers the tensions between familial care and personal autonomy, inviting a reconsideration of how lives are looked at and understood.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/laoniang-42455/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/laoniang-zhiyan-liu", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c722e40a70b4e39b1183adddd3b0fe6df5552555d0a01d8a21746c09052ae4b7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "NINAGAWA Mika: Captive Blooms", "start": "2026-06-19T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-06-01T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "The Photographers' Gallery", "address": "Ramillies Street 16-18, W1F 7LW London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://thephotographersgallery.ticketsolve.com/shows/1173692530/events", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "A free outdoor exhibition showing works from NINAGAWA Mika's Captive Blooms in Soho Photography Quarter, just outside The Photographers' Gallery on Ramillies Street. The Japanese artist, also a maker of films, video and spatial installations, builds worlds bursting with colour and emotion: intensely coloured photographs of blooming flowers, shimmering goldfish, water, city nights and portraits that dissolve the boundary between the real and the imagined. Her images of domesticated aquatic life and of Japan's springtime cherry blossom, one of her most recognisable motifs, transform the quarter into a place of both spectacle and reflection, bridging art, fashion and pop culture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ninagawa-mika-captive-blooms-39558/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/584c32309066ea576af41118bf07f3546c8b8c7853cd185d76f5d38bd7e12be5-1200.webp"}]}