{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Sunday Painter", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Meeting Mohini", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Horniman Museum and Gardens", "address": "", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "society/queer"], "description": "Meeting Mohini is a free photographic display at the Horniman Museum and Gardens, shown in the Balcony Gallery above the World Gallery. It presents work by Zoya Thomas Lobo, India's first transgender photojournalist, and is her first solo exhibition and her first outside India. The photographs look at Koovagam, where thousands of transgender women, non-binary and gender non-conforming people gather each year in the Tamil month of Chithirai to reenact the story of Aravan, who was married for a night by Krishna in his form as the goddess Mohini. The images capture the joy of the wedding day, the sadness of the funeral ceremony, and life outside the festival in Mumbai, shining a light on one of the oldest recognised transgender and LGBTQI+ communities in the world.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/meeting-mohini-50301/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/268fd55d28ef2dfb5aa4ca932d7a9dca815bc14b312d6a36f4d761a0c04b20ab-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Art on Your Doorstep", "start": "2026-09-04T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Boston Manor", "address": "Boston Manor Road, TW8 9JX Brentford", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Art on Your Doorstep is a free outdoor exhibition bringing life-size reproductions of National Gallery masterpieces to Brentford, displayed across the town in fine detail and complete with their frames. It is part of The National Gallery: Art On Your Doorstep, a national touring project taking works from the nation's collection beyond Trafalgar Square to twelve towns across the UK. Brentford is one of those twelve towns, with up to 30 masterpieces exhibited, shaped by this year's Creative Mile theme of 'Love' and by the people, landmarks and history of Brentford. Visitors to Boston Manor House can see three masterpiece reproductions: one by the café terrace and two photo stand-ins inside the House.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/art-on-your-doorstep-35024/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fc999c3f25e613b04ee7dac017aa6cdd1309692f498f2aea24ec5c49e803c497-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Queer Diary: Zine-Making Evening", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T20:00:00Z", "place": "London LGBTQ+ Community Centre", "address": "Hopton Street 60-62, SE1 9JH London", "price": "Pay What You Can", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://londonlgbtqcentre.org/quiet-room-bookings/", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/zines"], "description": "Queer Diary: Zine-Making Evening is a crafting workshop where LGBTQIA+ adults can make their own personal Queer Teenage History Zine, collaging, doodling and writing to a throwback soundtrack. All materials are provided, including paper, scissors, felt-tips and old teen mags to cut up, and attendees may bring a favourite object, picture or memory as inspiration. It is brought to you by the team behind Queer Diary, the night where LGBTQIA+ adults read their teenage diaries on stage. Booking is essential and spaces are limited.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/queer-diary-zine-making-evening-41650/", "official_url": "https://londonlgbtqcentre.org/event/queer-diary-zine-making-evening/2026-11-05/", "image": ""}, {"title": "The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café", "start": "2026-10-30T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-30T19:00:00Z", "place": "Boys! Boys! Boys! Gallery Cafe", "address": "Warren Street, W1T 5NF London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.qxmagazine.com/event/shopping-in-soho-4/2026-10-26/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café is a gallery café that promotes queer and gay fine art photography. It serves wine and coffee, among other things. The event is part of a series at the Boys! Boys! Boys! Gallery Cafe on Warren Street in London.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-boys-boys-boys-gallery-cafe-46278/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2ce031427f0dff15332a30b1eac2054feb4acd260305409158bef7ae4be40ae5-2000.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": "Field of Asura", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Lisson Gallery", "address": "Bell Street 27, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.lissongallery.com/shop", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/contemporary-painting"], "description": "Yu Hong presents 'Field of Asura', an exhibition of new and recent paintings. The monumental works, anchored by large-scale multi-panel compositions inspired by classical European altarpieces, depict figures bound by vulnerability, endurance and mutual dependence. Her touching, allegorical and apocalyptic approach to contemporary life brings together personal experience, collective history and painterly tradition.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/field-of-asura-41640/", "official_url": "https://lisson.com/exhibitions/yu-hong-lisson-new-york", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5c3469bdb0578cb5965f58b2414b97a6ad7e6b03a80b6d70b64a9aaefea82833-1200.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": "SCRAPBOOKING + ZINE MAKING: MANOS QUEER x TAC", "start": "2026-11-03T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T20:00:00Z", "place": "Dalston Superstore", "address": "Kingsland High Street 117, E8 2PB London", "price": "Free, with optional pay-what-you-can tickets", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/zines", "society/queer"], "description": "SCRAPBOOKING + ZINE MAKING: MANOS QUEER x TAC is a free scrapbooking and zine-making workshop with doodling, scrapping and sticking. It is run by Manos Queer in collaboration with the Trans Artists Collective and hosted at Dalston Superstore, which donates the month's posters to be ripped up. The space is open to all levels and is focused on trans+ and queer folks coming together to make things. Attendance is free with a booked ticket, and optional pay-what-you-can tickets help support the spaces.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/scrapbooking-zine-making-manos-queer-x-tac-35525/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/39241378fd88dad7247d1163b3f89b0a409e7c33afb375c937e16e106e3c2a95-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Nocturnal", "start": "2026-09-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "London Hong Kong", "address": "Bath Road 388, UB7 0DH West Drayton", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "Nocturnal is a group exhibition at the gallery David Zwirner in Hong Kong. It was organized and conceived by gallerist Matthew Brown and shows works by fourteen artists, including Uri Aran, Patricia Ayres, Julie Beaufils, Carroll Dunham, Sasha Gordon and Trevor Shimizu. The gallery presents the exhibition with an opening reception and shows paintings, sculptures and photographic works by the participating artists.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nocturnal-35543/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/df3307f2517648ce63834463175646a183e8a23954f3e3e7541d124433fe8d44-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Knit & Knatter — 留白 / Beyond Emptiness edition", "start": "2026-11-09T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/crafts/knitting"], "description": "The SOAS Library Knitting Club returns to the SOAS Gallery for a relaxed crafting social, held alongside the exhibition 留白 – Beyond Emptiness by Hong Kong architect and artist Raymond Fung. The session takes its backdrop from 留白 (liú bái), the art of \"leaving blank\" in traditional Chinese ink painting, about the meaning held within space and silence. It is a drop-in, not a class: there is no instruction and no fixed programme, just needles and conversation in the gallery's calm. Bring your own project — knitting, crochet, embroidery or any textile craft — and your own needles, hooks and materials; all skill levels are welcome and booking is essential as space is limited.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/knit-knatter-beyond-emptiness-edition-43663/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/knit-knatter-liubai/beyond-emptiness-edition", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8c436d7adda14312bd33958a1ba1e2866a811307916c3c3b15dc789700c678d6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Aligned – a Solo Show by Ayush Sinha", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "place": "Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan", "address": "W14 9HE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "\"Aligned\" is a solo art exhibition of paintings shown at an art gallery in London. It is by the artist Ayush Sinha, whose works explore the quiet power of geometry through rhythm, balance and colour. Circles, lines and intersecting forms become symbols of connection, energy and contemplation, inviting viewers to find harmony within structure and stillness within movement. Together the paintings form a meeting point between abstraction, spirituality and the human experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/aligned-a-solo-show-by-ayush-sinha-34977/", "official_url": "https://www.bhavan.net/events/aligned-a-solo-show-by-ayush-sinha/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4b31d415b2ee3b81edb862899236894f6ee5e36084c88470af43caf2115c5ecc-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Meeting Mohini", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Horniman Museum", "address": "London Road 100, SE23 3PQ London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/queer/trans", "art/photography"], "description": "Meeting Mohini is a free photographic display at the Horniman Museum. It looks at Koovagam and spotlights Indian transgender culture through the lens of Zoya Thomas Lobo, India's first transgender photojournalist. Her images follow the ancient Hindu festival celebrating the marriage of the goddess Mohini to Aravan, which thousands of transgender women, non-binary and gender non-conforming people gather each year to reenact. It is her first solo exhibition and first outside India, also centring her own experiences in Mumbai.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/meeting-mohini-36549/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/268fd55d28ef2dfb5aa4ca932d7a9dca815bc14b312d6a36f4d761a0c04b20ab-2000.webp"}, {"title": "EVELYN TAOCHENG WANG: Being Poetic Ruins Life", "start": "2026-10-30T12:00:00Z", "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": "Laoniang", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Collective", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography"], "description": "Laoniang is a photographic exhibition presented by The Koppel Project at Collective. It is the work of Zhiyan Liu, a London-based photographer, and centres on her maternal grandmother, whom she has called Laoniang since childhood. Through sustained engagement with the eighty-year-old's daily life — working the land, tending the courtyard, caring for animals and resting at home — the project explores kinship, ageing, domesticity and self-determination. It considers the tensions between familial care and personal autonomy, inviting a reconsideration of how lives are looked at and understood.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/laoniang-42455/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/laoniang-zhiyan-liu", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c722e40a70b4e39b1183adddd3b0fe6df5552555d0a01d8a21746c09052ae4b7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Laoniang", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T20:00:00Z", "place": "Koppel Collective", "address": "Adelaide Road 1, NW3 3QE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography"], "description": "Laoniang is a photographic exhibition by Zhiyan Liu, presented by The Koppel Project. It is an enquiry into kinship, ageing, domesticity and self-determination, centred on the photographer's maternal grandmother, now eighty years old, whose everyday life of working the land and caring for her home Liu has followed with her camera. Rooted in their close family relationship, the series considers how familiar routines carry knowledge and autonomy, and questions assumptions about later life, labour and care. The images invite viewers to look at a life that cannot be reduced to the perspectives or expectations of others.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/laoniang-42456/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/laoniang-zhiyan-liu", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c722e40a70b4e39b1183adddd3b0fe6df5552555d0a01d8a21746c09052ae4b7-1200.webp"}]}