{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-03T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "hARTslane", "address": "Hart's Lane 17, SE14 5UP London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "if you like rice, you’ll understand – Collective Noise", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-11T00:00:00Z", "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/contemporary"], "description": "This is an exhibition project titled 'if you like rice, you'll understand – Collective Noise', bringing together painting, photography, moving image, text and sound. It is a new project by artist and educator Andrew Pierre Hart, part of a joint programme between iniva and Chelsea Space at Chelsea College of Arts. Drawing on Stuart Hall's cultural studies legacy, it explores sound as a form of learning and cultural exchange, examining the relationship between sound and diasporic experiences. The project includes a cross-site exhibition, an events programme and a publication, supported by The Ampersand Foundation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/if-you-like-rice-youll-understand-collective-noise-60786/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aabf80b0df67e5692d00f33769a693ca39fc9b1eab2066da1de9d0767fe6eb43-1200.webp"}, {"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"}, {"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": "Knots Presents: Oscillations", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T22:00:00Z", "place": "ANNEX, 1 Tiverton Street SE1 6NT", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/knotsnoise/2392847/r/website", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/activism"], "description": "Knots Presents: Oscillations is an exhibition at ANNEX in Elephant and Castle, hosted by The Koppel Project, bringing together a network of artists, organisers and learners. It is curated by Knots, whose noise nights invite artists to meet through an exchange of ideas and collaboration, and it invites artists to respond through visual mediums speaking to collaboration and resistance in shared history, local communities, familial lives and the every day. Knots frames it against the rising influence of the far-right in the UK and beyond, using performance to build relationships, exchange knowledge and work in solidarity with communities resisting authoritarianism and injustice. The opening evening is followed by cross-disciplinary noise collaborations with Knots alumni and a short panel Q&A with the exhibiting artists.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/knots-presents-oscillations-42454/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/knots-presents-oscillations-annex", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e8c4c2a00a05ba4b41afd061a3d875c8e737070a1d5b100bc8610ae61659e961-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Hernan Bas: TIME TO SHINE! (the salesmen)", "start": "2026-09-17T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Victoria Miro Gallery", "address": "Wharf Road 16, N1 7RW London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/hernan-bas-london-2026/#", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of new paintings by Hernan Bas, presented by the Victoria Miro Gallery in London. Titled TIME TO SHINE! (the salesmen), the works are set in places of retail – shops, stands, markets and malls – where minor characters take on leading dramatic roles. Several paintings grew out of the artist's childhood memories and touch on nostalgia, humour and loss, including the demise of mall culture and the one-on-one performance of the salesman.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hernan-bas-time-to-shine-the-salesmen-40106/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5d2cf0257683b782da5ead3f124aee32c8414dc6f2960b40a4c7ca46d094aaf-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Beauty Fall — Sabrina Tirvengadum", "start": "2026-04-29T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "SPACE Ilford", "address": "", "price": "Free and all welcome", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "wellness/beauty"], "description": "Beauty Fall is a free solo exhibition by deaf British Mauritian artist Sabrina Tirvengadum, turning the gallery into a satirical beauty salon. It features AI-generated beauty ads, a face-morphing mirror and installations exposing colonial influences on algorithmic beauty standards. Drawing on her childhood wish to be pretty and archival family photographs, including 3D-printed masks of her grandparents, it explores how Western and social media beauty ideals distort identity and self-esteem. Visitors are invited to question how beauty is measured, confront their own reflections and reclaim traits that beauty culture seeks to erase.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beauty-fall-sabrina-tirvengadum-65185/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6a18e35bb07754daabc38505658154c6805b33fa65f79c4fb89e0380a745507c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "some fundamental forces", "start": "2026-08-15T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Southwark Park Galleries", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "some fundamental forces is an art exhibition at Southwark Park Galleries, shown across its Lake Gallery and Dilston Gallery. It is the first comprehensive solo exhibition in the UK of the Irish artist Isabel Nolan, who represents Ireland at the 61st Venice Biennale. Spanning works from 2005 to 2025, it brings together painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography and tapestry. Nolan's work argues that art can go beyond documenting the world, urging viewers to look to their place in the universe and the vastness of the cosmos.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/some-fundamental-forces-38733/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aabe98f5c16edb160af787050f3cdac779bde8065a5418d09948ad2b81eb14ae-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Our Adoption Project: A Soft Inheritance Launch Event", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T21:00:00Z", "place": "The People Speak", "address": "Aberfeldy Street 27, London", "price": "Free - Booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/family", "art"], "description": "The launch of Soft Inheritance, an adoptee-led, multidisciplinary arts exhibition that explores adoption, featuring the Talkaoke talk show, which is spontaneous and open to all. The People Speak collaborate with Our Adoption Project on the event, which aims to challenge traditional narratives around adoption through reflection, storytelling and creative perspectives. The project foregrounds lived experience, examining family and identity beyond conventional framing and letting multiple viewpoints coexist. The exhibition will run at PINK, Hilton House, Stockport, after the launch.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/our-adoption-project-a-soft-inheritance-launch-event-42615/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e5fba018d492792d34739a75e9ee4b06b8297324fbbc0bb0821bf78010fc5f58-2000.webp"}, {"title": "DIRECTOR'S SELECTION | October 2026", "start": "2026-10-13T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Everard Read", "address": "Fulham Road 80, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/contemporary-painting"], "description": "DIRECTOR'S SELECTION | October 2026 is a group exhibition of largely South African artists running at the Everard Read gallery in London. The gallery presents artists with diverse backgrounds who share a commitment to contemporary storytelling and craft. The artworks grapple with contradiction, spirituality, and the natural world, with artists confronting the dichotomies around us through figuration and abstraction, blending humour and sensitivity. Featured names include Shany van den Berg, Aron Demetz, Deborah Bell, Alessandro Papetti, Norman Catherine, Lucinda Muge, Ricky Burnett, Maja Marx and John Murray.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/directors-selection-october-2026-36033/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8b6f5393b2c4e44cf9e68d1a7a977169f3510082df5c7324b902be90823b884f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Flesh of Vessel", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-24T00:00:00Z", "place": "198 Contemporary Arts & Learning", "address": "Railton Road 198, SE24 0JT London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "Flesh of Vessel is an exhibition of sculpture, moving image and installation running at 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning. It is by Soko Hwang, an artist who lives and works in Helsinki and Seoul, curated by Shane Sutherland in collaboration with the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland. The exhibition explores the desire to perpetuate order through the domination of bodies and the struggle of flesh that refuses subjugation, with ships, gardens, collections and zoos emerging as vessels that transport, classify and regulate bodies. Juxtaposing maritime hulls, Victorian glasshouses, garden design diagrams, Wardian cases, cabinets of curiosities and myths of Daphne and werewolves, it asks whether bodies can transcend the boundaries that constitute them.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/flesh-of-vessel-34610/", "official_url": "https://198.org.uk/contemporary-art/flesh-of-vessel", "image": "https://noky.io/images/18484c135a1663a0d8d2bddb9656503ac4bd6dfe44e71ca6d9cc76237524d752-2000.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": "", "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"}]}