{"title": "Niovi Kafantari, The Necessary Other", "start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Opera Gallery London", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/contemporary-painting"], "description": "'The Necessary Other' is a contemporary art exhibition of new paintings by Niovi Kafantari, her first solo exhibition in London, running into early November. It explores how identity is shaped through encounter, taking its title from Adriana Cavarero's philosophy of relational identity: the self comes into being through the presence, memory and gaze of another. Trained as a sculptor, Kafantari builds her paintings through mass, with figures that lean, embrace, support or resist one another, drawing upon archaeology, cinema, theatre, literature and art history. Works such as 'Just Met', 'A Pastoral Fragment', 'Last Tango' and 'Married, a second time' leave intimacy, vulnerability and ambiguity deliberately unresolved.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/niovi-kafantari-the-necessary-other-41790/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e254166bad64bbaa960c78304d03e6a7a0689ac3d70479663647526710d6f038-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Opera Gallery London", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "R&F Mo: Woandering", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Oliver Projects", "address": "Grove Vale 49, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "A solo exhibition by the South London-based artist R&F Mo, titled 'Woandering', held at Oliver Projects. Mo's practice spans drawing, painting, printmaking, sewing and sculpture, with fantastical figures moving through imaginary landscapes while exploring identity. The exhibition shares its name with the artist's recently published book on drawing, which Mo says unites the physical and mental states of a person in motion and thinking. It is her first solo exhibition in London, and a closing talk with artist Ansel Krut takes place on 21 November.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rf-mo-woandering-37547/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/253daa08814cb13a59c8d7c8410050ae993055c2170c9f72cc7c88ac36185f85-2000.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": "November 2026: exhibitions and events in hARTslane", "start": "2026-11-03T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "hARTslane", "address": "Hart's Lane 17, SE14 5UP London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media", "society"], "description": "Soft Sell opens at hARTslane with an opening evening, a multidisciplinary exhibition by Kaitlin O'Connor. It explores how advertising, consumer culture and entertainment shape our identities, aspirations and ideas of empowerment. Three interconnected projects — No Body's Dead Yet, Perpetual Kittenhood and Neon Bodega Cats — combine illustration, moving image, installation and interactive objects to examine the blurring boundaries between personal identity and commercial culture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/november-2026-exhibitions-and-events-in-hartslane-69869/", "official_url": "https://www.hartslane.org/november-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4b746e25c69200a2479adc33bf1931b3a3f032a4e4aec15b56c1d1617efc1609-2000.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": "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": "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. It explores what is passed on through action rather than words or recorded history: the gestures, skills, mannerisms and dances handed down generation to generation. Works include Anna Gonzalez Noguchi's intimate pieces carrying her grandfather's orchid tradition, Rafal Zajko's ceramic relief made from his grandmother's sewing machine, Li Li Ren's sculpture about breath, Narges Mohammadi's video of sifting flour from sand, Aziza Kadyri's patchwork tapestry on needlework, and Luana Vitra's sculptures of iron and copper as a mineral memory. 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": "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": "Laoniang", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Collective", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography"], "description": "Laoniang is a photographic exhibition presented by The Koppel Project at Collective. It is the work of Zhiyan Liu, a London-based photographer, and centres on her maternal grandmother, whom she has called Laoniang since childhood. 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": "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": "Laoniang", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T20:00:00Z", "place": "Koppel Collective", "address": "Adelaide Road 1, NW3 3QE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography"], "description": "Laoniang is a photographic exhibition by Zhiyan Liu, presented by The Koppel Project. It is an enquiry into kinship, ageing, domesticity and self-determination, centred on the photographer's maternal grandmother, now eighty years old, whose everyday life of working the land and caring for her home Liu has followed with her camera. Rooted in their close family relationship, the series considers how familiar routines carry knowledge and autonomy, and questions assumptions about later life, labour and care. The images invite viewers to look at a life that cannot be reduced to the perspectives or expectations of others.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/laoniang-42456/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/laoniang-zhiyan-liu", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c722e40a70b4e39b1183adddd3b0fe6df5552555d0a01d8a21746c09052ae4b7-1200.webp"}]}