This free installation invites visitors to orient themselves in the buildings and their complex, fascinating histories in an exciting new display at the heart of the Barbican’s Foyers.
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Art & design
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: It will end in tears
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In her first solo exhibition at a major UK institution, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum fills The Curve with theatrical installations, building an imagined world in which to display her paintings.
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Art & design
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998
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A landmark group exhibition of art made in response to India’s changing cultural-political landscape during pivotal years.
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Art & designTalks & events
Architecture on Stage: Ken De Cooman
Co-founder of BC Architects & Studies and BC Materials, Ken De Cooman’s work focuses on the decarbonisation of the construction industry.
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Art & designTalks & events
Pablo Bartholomew: Artist Talk – The Bhopal Gas Tragedy
Join us for a talk by renowned photographer Pablo Bartholomew, artist featured in The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998.
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Art & designCinema
Rewriting the Rules: In the Name of God
This provocative documentary by Anand Patwardhan explores the intense and turbulent socio-political landscape of India in the early 1990s.
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Art & designTours & public spaces
The Imaginary Institution of India: Tour with Amber Li
Join Amber Li, Assistant Curator, as she leads a tour of The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998.
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Art & designTalks & events
Panel Discussion: Destabilising 20th-Century Art Histories
Organised in collaboration with The Courtauld, this panel discussion explores comparative frameworks outside South Asia and asks how curatorial practices can destabilise established art histories.
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Art & designCinema
Rewriting the Rules: Alley of Ill Repute
Originally believed lost and only recently rediscovered in 2019, this pioneering film was India’s first queer film.
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Art & designTalks & events
Architecture on Stage: Stardust
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Join us for two screenings of Stardust: The Story of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (2024) – an intimate portrait of two of the most influential architects of the last century.
Speakers:
Jim Venturi
Anita Naughton
Jemima Kelly
Speakers:
Jim Venturi
Anita Naughton
Ellis Woodman
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Art & design
Citra Sasmita
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The Indonesian artist transforms The Curve in her first solo UK exhibition. Via painting, installation, embroidery and scent, take a sensory journey exploring ancestral memory, ritual and migration.
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Art & design
Noah Davis
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Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.
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Art & designCinema
Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land: Pather Panchali
Coinciding with Citra Sasmita’s Into Eternal Land, the artist has selected Satyajit Ray’s celebrated debut film Pather Panchali.