{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pushkin House", "address": "Bloomsbury Square 5a, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "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": "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": "Walking Tour: Bhajan Hunjan’s studio visit and exploring public art in East London with Kuda Mushangi", "start": "2026-10-31T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T13:00:00Z", "place": "Bow Road & Nunnery Gallery, 181-183 Bow Road, London, London, E3 2SJ, United Kingdom", "address": "", "price": "£7.00 – £10.00 (£7 for concessions)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://bowarts.org/shop/", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/public-art"], "description": "A guided walking tour that begins with an introduction to 'Bhajan Hunjan: speaking through materials' at the Nunnery Gallery and a visit to the artist's studio at P1, where participants can meet and speak with her about her use of materials such as silk-screen printed glass, laser-cut acrylic and metal, and stonework in public art. Artist and architect Kuda Mushangi then leads a walk to explore Hunjan's public art commissions in East London, created with local schools and communities in Tower Hamlets, including Three Mills Pontoon (2011) along the Lea Canal and Stroudley Walk (2026), celebrating the legacy of the Suffragettes in Bow. The walk considers how public space can hold multiple histories and how art can function as cultural memory, touching on East London's histories of migration, settlement, activism and community-building, and themes of empire, displacement, resilience and cultural exchange. Participants are invited to share their own memories and reflections, and will gather at the Nunnery Gallery at 10.45am for an 11am start.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/walking-tour-bhajan-hunjans-studio-visit-and-exploring-publi-35041/", "official_url": "https://bowarts.org/event/walking-tour-bhajan-hunjans-studio-visit-and-exploring-public-art-in-east-london-with-kuda-mushangi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c7765bddff6be19007d3e05be8c6c571ca0183fe4d3b7802e43242547dff486e-2000.webp"}]}