{"title": "The Abbey Art Centre as Postwar Refuge: 1946–56", "start": "2026-10-07T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "Ben Uri", "address": "Boundary Road 108, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://benuri.org/exhibitions/the-abbey-art-centre-as-postwar-refuge/overview/#", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/exhibition", "history/postwar"], "description": "An exhibition telling the story of the Abbey Art Centre, a cosmopolitan art colony at New Barnet that offered a postwar haven to stateless Jewish refugees and artists from Australia, Britain and continental Europe. It was established in 1946–47 by artist, gallerist and collector William Ohly, who had fled Nazi Germany for England. The show traces the colony's affordable lodgings, studios and cross-cultural community, its role in many artists' careers, and Ohly's work and world art collection. It is curated by Simon Pierse, Jane Eckett, Sheridan Palmer and Sarah MacDougall, and runs at Ben Uri in St John's Wood.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-abbey-art-centre-as-postwar-refuge-194656-60060/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cd297aedb140a26873329a59a9ecf474045fccc082bdc801d485977c9dd1ec93-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-07T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "Ben Uri", "address": "Boundary Road 108, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Together on this Island: Émigré Art Networks in Britain", "start": "2026-06-20T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-06-20T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Austrian Cultural Forum", "address": "Rutland Gate 28, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art", "history"], "description": "Together on this Island: Émigré Art Networks in Britain is a display telling the stories of émigrés, most of them Jewish, who came to Britain in the 1930s and 40s seeking refuge from the Nazis. It is presented with material from Tate Library and Archive as part of the Émigré Art Archives Project, funded by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust. The display shows how artists, art dealers, writers and teachers who fled Nazi Europe contributed to artistic culture in Britain. Highlights include rarely seen works by Oskar Kokoschka, Kurt Schwitters, Jankel Adler, Josef Herman, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky and Franciszka Themerson.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/together-on-this-island-emigre-art-networks-in-britain-40982/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d9662628da0faeda8bfa42d871d13ccb32aa335ce4bebe99477fcc3cdb18dc39-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Darkness Never Lasts – Collective Drawings", "start": "2026-10-07T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "£200", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "An exhibition of collective drawings made in monthly open sessions at the gallery, where participants drew with charcoal on large sheets of paper while electronic music played. Behind it are the gallery's residency with musician Cos Chapman, whose live improvisation guided the sessions, and visual artist and performer Jo Roberts, presiding in her role as The Librarian. The drawings move from dark masses surrounding human figures and despairing hands toward coloured, hopeful forms, and the works reflect the suffering of the Palestinian people and a wish for a peaceful, equalitarian solution. Each selected drawing is sold at the same price of £200, with half of the proceeds donated to Medical Aid for Palestine, a scheme that has so far raised £8,500.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/darkness-never-lasts-collective-drawings-36564/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/10fc6918b15c0f711f3d6bd048c28baef1ffc29dd6683f255292becf580241fa-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Process Makes Practice", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Art Centre", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "Process Makes Practice is a free, drop-in exhibition at Camden Art Centre marking the culmination of a three-year programme supported by The Mildred Fund. Over three years the centre worked with seven artists, two schools and two community groups, including Sidings Community Centre and The Hive, on iterative creative processes without defined outcomes. The exhibition brings together installations, artworks and documentation alongside reflections from those involved, with projects led by artists including Shepherd Manyika, Sam Williams, Sara Heywood, Eva Jonas, Nancy Allen, Lydia Paulett and Maymana Arefin. It offers an insight into the work of artists at the forefront of engagement practice and the creativity of young people in Camden.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/process-makes-practice-60157/", "official_url": "https://camdenartcentre.org/whats-on/process-makes-practice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67e8e3729b3ecdace538eb998057d839179d6d3d0a837bcf53d5a361a67bbfb5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Alison Ramm", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Bonnington Cafe", "address": "Vauxhall Grove 11, SW8 1TD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An exhibition of the art of Alison Ramm, running throughout October at the Bonnington Cafe. It is presented by Alison Ramm together with BCCA and 4th World Arts, and marks a welcome return, celebrating a member of the extraordinary community of artists who lived and worked there in the 1980s. 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Over 45 paintings and drawings are shown alongside photographs, film, objects and oral histories, with works by artists such as Edward Ardizzone, Evelyn Dunbar and Henry Carr. The exhibition shows Londoners facing loss, displacement, overcrowding and shortages, and is suitable for both adults and children, with a stamper trail and activity sheet for families.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beauty-and-destruction-wartime-london-in-art-36628/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d8e851068fff0ca5592f7974efa2d0e68eb8ea7ec7edd36beec9dd222c61df07-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Sabine Moritz: Lie Down in Green Pastures", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-20T00:00:00Z", "place": "Garden Museum", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "13.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://gardenmuseum.digitickets.co.uk/event-tickets/65931?catID=63040", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/contemporary-painting"], "description": "An art exhibition at the Garden Museum in London, running from 8 October to 20 December 2026. It is the first UK museum exhibition of the contemporary German artist Sabine Moritz, and reflects on her growing up in East Germany through imagined landscapes, still lifes and abstract works, most of which have not been shown before. The works draw on her memories of Neulobeda, a concrete-slab satellite town where her family moved after her father's death, showing grief, family, home and displacement, and the solace she found in the surrounding countryside. The exhibition features a vast new piece created for the show and is supported by Pilar Corrias.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sabine-moritz-lie-down-in-green-pastures-36212/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f1bedacb0f3a0eb1be1a2317675da461415c281bb72b9978f4fe13cb8eb2342d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "post-", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "Heights", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "A studio exhibition titled 'post-' at Heights. Curated by AxisAxis, it presents new works by Libby Hoffenberg and Louis Caseley. Responding to AxisAxis' site in a rapidly redeveloping Elephant & Castle, it explores how sites of artistic and administrative labour are continuously transformed, repurposed and reappropriated in both public and private spaces. It inhabits the gap between the expectations of a visionary future and the realities of a present that has failed to deliver.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/post-39387/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/295dd877a837fb8698840de0d4bf2b5ee6e63d8b635486313a8ee58e928dc4af-600.webp"}, {"title": "Manasa Chitra: the Art of Mental Health from Bengaluru to Bethlem", "start": "2026-06-26T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Bethlem Museum of the Mind", "address": "Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3BX", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An exhibition of pictures made by artists from India with lived experience of mental distress, opening at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind. Some were drawn by patients at what in the 1950s was known as Bangalore Mental Hospital as part of occupational therapy, while others are by people living with mental health challenges in and around Bengaluru today. The 1950s works came to England through the friendship between M.V. Govindaswamy and German emigré psychiatrist Wilhelm Mayer-Gross, who together helped establish that hospital, later the National Institute for Mental Health and Neurosciences. Full of movement, colour, humour and joy, the pictures tell stories of people, places, homes and religions, sharing a message of hope that is authentically one of India.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/manasa-chitra-the-art-of-mental-health-from-bengaluru-to-bet-60061/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f29bf0639ffb6b09947469a70767512f76cb0eb78db041673a745f6acb119c3b-1200.webp"}]}