{"title": "There Are No Honest Poems About Dead Women: Jemma Desai", "start": "2026-07-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Somerset House", "address": "Strand, WC2R 1LA London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation/video-installation", "society/feminism"], "description": "There Are No Honest Poems About Dead Women is an installation by Jemma Desai, an artist in residence at Somerset House Studios, presented in space G31. At its heart is a film that assembles archival footage, text, song and new 16mm material drawn from the work of poets, writers, musicians and artists. These extracts form a collage of image and sound bringing together real and imagined scenes of feminist coalition and inheritance. The work invites visitors to consider what commitments they might make when forming relationships across the intimate and the political, and how such relationships might be rehearsed, reimagined and received anew.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/there-are-no-honest-poems-about-dead-women-jemma-desai-38682/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4b8e94453a18da6eeba0c809da012bbf390cb78ee8b3278374fa96a019addc15-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-07-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Somerset House", "address": "Strand, WC2R 1LA London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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. 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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. 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Developed over more than a decade, it has been staged in Johannesburg, Cape Town, São Paulo, Paris, Amsterdam, Munich and beyond, and arrives in London following the cancellation of the South African Pavilion in Venice. Installed in the sonic chamber of Ibraaz's Minassa, voices and moving images immerse audiences in a space of mourning, kinship and collective care. Addressing rape culture and femicide in South Africa, the genocide of Ovaherero and Nama peoples in Namibia and the ongoing devastation of Palestinian life, it proposes mourning as a sustained practice of collective presence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/elegy-36599/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bddd26bf2c80c57cde9f964f820a194720c5676bda6d23e076a328fea43bc74d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Jenkin van Zyl: Enclosure", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Somerset House", "address": "Strand, WC2R 1LA London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://my.somersethouse.org.uk/events?K=Enclosure&StartDate=2026-09-24", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "film"], "description": "An exhibition pairing a newly commissioned film with a large-scale immersive installation in the Lancaster Rooms of the New Wing. It is the work of Jenkin van Zyl, an artist in residence at Somerset House Studios, commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, Somerset House Studios and HOME, Manchester. Set in a decaying facility once built for replication, where visitors could temporarily live the lives of others, it follows Mercy, a starlet whose likeness was lent to the programme, as she arrives to terminate her contract and the boundary between original and copy turns porous. The work explores a culture where technological advancement has outpaced our ability to make sense of it, asking what happens when systems built on desire and self-preservation outlast the conditions that created them. 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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. 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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": "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": "sounding towards - -", "start": "2026-07-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Mosaic Rooms", "address": "Cromwell Road 226, London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sound-art"], "description": "Mosaic Rooms presents sounding towards – –, a five-month project turning the gallery into a site for listening, sonic experimentation and conviviality. It features an installation From–To by Gaza's Dahaleez Collective, Common Frequencies by El Warcha Collaborative Design Studio, and a rolling programme of artist takeovers by Bint Mbareh, 1000 Pounds to Survive Us, felix taylor and Aditi Jaganathan. Instruments, recording devices, books and listening stations remain available for use, misuse and re-use, and Sunday Jams run throughout the project, free, open and bookable in advance. Initiated and developed by Angelina Radaković in conversation with the artists, the project is an experiment in institutional openness, asking what kinds of collectivities can emerge through shared acts of listening and convening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sounding-towards-39449/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8b33793d4201d98c4d7b9cabed1e3652dd1766b5195edea21c65e4b0f099e98e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Sparkle, The Blossom and The Milky Land", "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": ["society/feminism", "art"], "description": "This is an art exhibition titled 'The Sparkle, The Blossom and The Milky Land', showing moving image, textile and sculpture work. It is the first UK solo exhibition by Taiwanese artist DanFong Wang, who presents her 2024 animation of the same title alongside new embroidery and soft sculpture. Drawing on feminist theory and cultural rituals, the work explores female labor, the body and spiritual transformation, referencing Catholic and Buddhist funerary practices to examine gender and motherhood. Wang was selected by curator A—Z (Anne Duffau) as winner of the gallery's 41st Annual Open in 2025.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-sparkle-the-blossom-and-the-milky-land-38734/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8ab5822757fe9a2ae0b9e736aec7dfc277199c7e57c81da2bf3ea5537bdf478f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Gathering Ground", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Tate Modern", "address": "Bankside, SE1 9TG London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.tate.org.uk/membership", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "nature/environment"], "description": "Gathering Ground is an exhibition at Tate Modern exploring art's power to inspire change in today's ecological crisis. It brings together works from Tate's Collection highlighting the connection between environmental and social justice, inviting us to reimagine our relationships with the natural world and each other. Artists including Outi Pieski, Abbas Akhavan, Bruce Conner, Zheng Bo, Joydeb Roaja, Abel Rodriguez, Munem Wasif, Minerva Cuevas and Carolina Caycedo feature, alongside a new commission by Abbas Zahedi, honouring Indigenous knowledge, nurturing queer multispecies relations and documenting issues such as displacement and destruction of land and waterways. Set in a former oil and coal power station, the exhibition offers a shared space to reflect on our role in creating a more equal world, asking how we can be good Ancestors for future generations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gathering-ground-38892/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ca2f874a9082c1e73d112ff92bb7729f7c6e35916197269c3aa77468aa1a6fb8-1200.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"}, {"title": "Amar Kanwar", "start": "2026-09-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Serpentine North Gallery", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://serpentinegalleries.ticketing.veevartapp.com/tickets/view/list", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image"], "description": "A major solo exhibition by the artist and filmmaker Amar Kanwar, transforming Serpentine North Gallery into a meditative visual and sonic environment. Over three decades, the New Delhi-based artist has created lyrical films and multi-video installations moving between documentary, travelogue and visual essay. Shaped by the history of the Indian subcontinent, his work investigates the legacies of decolonisation and the 1947 Partition, bearing witness to displacement, power, violence, justice and memory. Visitors encounter a trilogy of films, including Such a Morning (2017), The Peacock's Graveyard (2023) and the new seven-screen installation The Charcoal Man (2026), premiering at Serpentine, with the darkened galleries shown in very low light and moments of complete darkness.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/amar-kanwar-38472/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e75635bbf02f40fbbb179b67fd202dfbf16baebc7e3c4474606c179f6eedc66d-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": "Glasshouse Stories – an installation by artist Claudia Fontes", "start": "2026-03-16T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "100 Bishopsgate", "address": "", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://onecitylondon.com/shop/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture/installation-art", "nature/plants"], "description": "Glasshouse Stories is an art installation displayed in the glass-fronted reception space of an office building in the City of London. It was created by Brighton-based artist Claudia Fontes and explores the hidden lives of plants and the relationships between nature, history and migration. The display is inspired by the relocation of plants from Kew Gardens' historic Palm House to a new sustainable home, and at its centre are sculptures made from plant-based resin, developed from 3D scans of plant root systems. Two major sculptures, 'Choir' and 'HIP', create the feeling of a modern conservatory and invite visitors to consider movement, resilience and the interconnected histories of plants and people.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/glasshouse-stories-an-installation-by-artist-claudia-fontes-37565/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/823875b9ad7d6f100a83bd3a65c9bb6fd0a2170e991e0aa43b63f45666e4ad1f-2000.webp"}]}