{"title": "Thiang Uk: Forever and a day", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Sunday Painter", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "A solo exhibition of paintings by Thiang Uk at The Sunday Painter, marking his first solo show in the UK. His luminous, tumultuous paintings are built from layered color fields, radiating bursts and structures that hold multiple realities in tension. Shapeshifting is both subject and method, picturing the adaptations demanded by new languages, cultures and environments, and draws on animist stories from his grandmother and Christian narratives of his childhood in Hakha, Myanmar. Formal experimentation and lived history remain inseparable across his work.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/thiang-uk-forever-and-a-day-39750/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c50ff3cf71f01d0a8a6c4ffd0402ff878dffc257e1985d4af0fbdb1d3620069f-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Sunday Painter", "address": "", "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. 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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": "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": "Faerdom: Now, As Ever", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration", "address": "Myddelton Passage 1, EC1R 1AG London", "price": "Adults £15, concessions available. Tickets include entry to all exhibitions. Members go free.", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://qbcentre.org.uk/ticket-hub", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture", "literature/fairy-tales"], "description": "Faerdom: Now, As Ever is a new exhibition blending UK folklore, viral memes and 3D printed sculpture. It is created by London-based duo Vince Ibay and Jessica Miller, who work together as Fromm Studio. Visitors travel through two co-existing spaces, 'Dystopia' and 'Utopia', meeting animated figures of ancient legend and myth, from Cornish piskies to a Pied Piper of Hamelin with TikTok-style dancing rats. The exhibition explores how the digital landscape is shaping our modern lives and asks whether humanity's oldest stories still resonate and can offer perspective and hope.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/faerdom-now-as-ever-38102/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5bf92ecfadc45a060caf679a9b762cc13905c9fdabbd2e925b9b9e09923bd708-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Justin Caguiat: Change Ringing", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-10T00:00:00Z", "place": "Serpentine South 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/installation"], "description": "An exhibition of painting, sculpture, printmaking, sound and film arranged as an installation responsive to the gallery's architecture. It is the work of Justin Caguiat, an interdisciplinary artist born in Tokyo whose art explores architecture, spirituality and the rituals embedded in everyday urban infrastructure. The show features a new series of thermochromic paintings that change with heat and light, alongside bronze bells cast in the shapes of flowers and plant seeds that ring in continually changing sequences to a score by Lily Pickett. Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Natalia Grabowska with Alexa Chow, it considers how buildings accumulate memory, ritual and acts of transformation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/justin-caguiat-change-ringing-38469/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9496f00cd73d3e7b4d87133a9fdcd459913fe848abbd1e78a1fb89a544a4f8e6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Emmanuel Awuni", "start": "2026-09-29T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/all-artworks", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/printmaking"], "description": "ETERNAL SUNSHINE is a selling display of thirteen new prints by Emmanuel Awuni, a graduate of the RA Schools, shown in the Sir Hugh Casson Room at the Royal Academy of Arts. His colourful, upbeat work engages with diasporic sounds such as hip-hop, jazz, reggae and Afrobeats. The prints respond to William Blake's poem The Little Black Boy from Songs of Innocence, using material from the RA's archive and library to illustrate the interior world of Blake's figure and give the room 'music, colour, life and rhythm'. The artworks on display are available for sale through the RA, with sales supporting the artist and the next generation of artists in the RA Schools.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/emmanuel-awuni-38256/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/77d037af9a610cbc86cd14fc7d5b3a5e4b2eae127b97dd872dc63dfcbc052d50-600.webp"}, {"title": "Daichi Takagi", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "David Zwirner", "address": "Grafton Street 24, W1S 4EZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "\"Suchness\" is an exhibition of new paintings by Japanese artist Daichi Takagi, held in The Upper Room at the David Zwirner gallery in London. It is Takagi's first solo presentation in the United Kingdom and his first exhibition with the gallery. The title describes a state in which things simply are as they are; the 2026 paintings range from small canvases of rain or cloudy night skies to larger close-ups of stones, leaves and tree trunks emerging from velvety black backgrounds. Takagi, who collects stones and leaves on walks near Tokyo and further afield, seeks to give form to the presence of his subjects rather than interpret them.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/daichi-takagi-35545/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cbf1052833d20c7c9c790ec6776f1be9dbafbda0a5e85cb75b0cb19ba5499363-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Khalif Tahir Thompson: Send in the Clowns", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "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/khalif-tahir-thompson-london-2026/#", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting"], "description": "An exhibition of new paintings by Khalif Tahir Thompson, presented at Victoria Miro's London gallery and the gallery's first solo presentation of his work since announcing his representation. Thompson, who was born and is based in Brooklyn, paints vibrant domestic scenes full of texture and pattern that portray the everyday lives of his subjects, both individually and collectively. The show takes its title from the 1973 Stephen Sondheim ballad famously sung by Sarah Vaughan, and reflects, in the artist's words, the ways we use humour to mask vulnerability and respond to tragedy. He describes the exhibition as a love letter to his younger self, his journey as an artist and Brooklyn.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/khalif-tahir-thompson-send-in-the-clowns-40107/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cf7af2288c136f106537822d4180a7b34725428da2aa653b5deda418fc5d05d9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Zearo: It follows me quietly still", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Sunday Painter", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "society/queer"], "description": "A solo exhibition of new work by Zearo, held at The Sunday Painter gallery. Its centre is a single sixteen-metre chalk pastel painting that envelops the gallery's main space. The work takes New Park in Taipei as its point of departure, one of the earliest sites in the Sinophone world where queer men gathered openly, showing it as a place of refuge and exposure where desire finds expression under the shadow of social judgement. Drawing on medieval compositional structures and Chinese handscrolls, the image unfolds as the viewer walks along the wall, considering how longing and connection persist across time.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/zearo-it-follows-me-quietly-still-70671/", "official_url": "https://thesundaypainter.co.uk/exhibitions/81-zearo-it-follows-me-quietly-still/overview/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/72f1b5d564f007509fef065b1c280ed5e5719561787dbfb0f75bf2b3c19331da-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Walking Tour: mapping histories of migration, community and public art with Kuda Mushangi", "start": "2026-11-07T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T13:00:00Z", "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", "history/migration", "community"], "description": "A guided walking tour exploring Bhajan Hunjan's public art, beginning with samples in the Nunnery Gallery before visiting her public commissions around the local area. It is led by Kuda Mushangi, an award-winning London-based artist and architect whose practice explores migration, memory and belonging. The walk takes in sites speaking to East London's histories of migration, settlement, activism and community-building, including works in Stroudley Walk and on St Paul's Way made with local schools and communities. Participants are invited to consider how public space holds multiple histories and to share their own memories and reflections.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/walking-tour-mapping-histories-of-migration-community-and-pu-35044/", "official_url": "https://bowarts.org/event/walking-tour-mapping-histories-of-migration-community-and-public-art-with-kuda-mushangi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/74d0ddaf428855060e861a2ad69f00fcdd7dcec0e4f8cfaea29d498f5555acf3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "THIIIRD AUTUMN Social", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T09:00:00Z", "place": "The Feminist Library", "address": "Sojourner Truth Community Centre, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "THIIIRD AUTUMN Social is an evening for creatives who want meaningful connections in an industry that often feels like a solo pursuit. It is hosted by THIIIRD, whose socials are led by leading creative voices sharing their work and stories in an intimate Q&A. This edition features Kim Lang, a prominent voice in contemporary photography known for his bold, theatrical portraiture and narrative approach to individuality, identity, and cultural heritage. It is a space for candid conversation, real connection and potential collaboration, held in Peckham's Sojourner Truth building.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/thiiird-autumn-social-70555/", "official_url": "https://feministlibrary.co.uk/2026/10/28/thiiird-autumn-social/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1f63eef74843c68d3eb66c439d6e72aedfb381be7039b3dc7132db33b26a684-2000.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"}, {"title": "One Photograph / Different Perspectives", "start": "2026-11-07T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T17:30:00Z", "place": "Collective", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "An artist-led conversation about how the context of a photograph shapes the way we see it. It accompanies Zhiyan Liu's photographic series Laoniang, which documents the everyday life of her maternal grandmother in rural China. Participants look closely at a single photograph from the exhibition and share their interpretations before learning the circumstances in which it was made, then extend the discussion to other works. Open to all, with no prior knowledge of photography required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/one-photograph-different-perspectives-39385/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/one-photograph-different-perspectives", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e9a6013ec402eb7bb5eb72e41025df58ad474d4f401d471e524bd4a4d1c3a576-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Still Life", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Collective", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/multidisciplinary"], "description": "\"Still Life\" is an exhibition bringing together works from different stages of Danlu Zheng's practice. Across moving image, costume, photography and material experimentation, it examines relationships between the body, materiality and the environment, and processes of transformation in which states of completion, stability or disappearance give way to further possibilities. The title evokes a tension between stasis and change, considering regeneration as a process through which matter acquires new configurations and meanings. Danlu Zheng is a London-based multidisciplinary artist and a graduate of Central Saint Martins, whose practice explores human existence, the natural environment and material transformation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/still-life-42452/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/still-life-danlu-zheng", "image": "https://noky.io/images/34a10258b6e2a4747e11b00bd1fd7dcc9508646fd1f8ef831f9ff189749dd381-2000.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": "George Clark and Eiko Soga", "start": "2026-09-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Art Centre", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "George Clark is Camden Art Centre's 2026 Studio Residency Artist, presenting a residency in which he works in an on-site studio. Clark is a London-based artist, curator and writer working across film, installation and performance, focusing on moving image in the expanded field and the non-aligned histories of the global south. During the residency he collaborates for the first time with his partner, the artist Eiko Soga, exploring children's prelinguistic worlds and sonic resonances, from field recordings made in an anechoic chamber during a pregnancy to an active recording and experimental studio space. Inspired by the Maarui Children Farm in Tokyo and by the philosophies of Masanobu Fukuoka, the two look to bring children into their practices and work with natural processes and garden ingredients, stepping away from the fixed certainties of film production.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/george-clark-and-eiko-soga-50256/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/32ec879ac1df4acfdabfc668c359fb098c3218349ca1a60815115557a2796007-2000.webp"}]}