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Citra Sasmita in The Curve
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Art & design

Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land

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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. 

Noah Davis's painting titled Pueblo del Rio: Arabesque, depicting six ballerinas dancing on the lawn outside a housing project.
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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.

Concrete and Clay: Archiving the Barbican
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Art & design Tours & public spaces

Concrete and Clay: Archiving the Barbican

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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.

Three of Noah Davis's paintings hanging on white walls. Two people are looking at the paintings.
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Art & design

Noah Davis: Relaxed View

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Our Relaxed Viewings are dedicated to visitors who'd benefit from a more informal approach to noise and movement in the space, or who feel more comfortable knowing that they can enter and exit freely.

A group shot of people enjoying each other's company.
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Art & design Talks & events

Young Barbican Night: Noah Davis

Join us for a private view of the Noah Davis exhibition and enjoy a series of workshops and performances by an incredible line-up of artists, specially curated for Young Barbican members.

Wilton Square house, London by Studio KA
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Art & design Talks & events

Architecture on Stage: New Architects

A talk from some of the most exciting, emerging architects working in Britain today: EBBA, NVBL, OF Architecture and Studio KA.

A painting of Davis's wife Karon, holding two golden wings at her sides, reminiscent of a winged goddess. She is in front of the grey wooden wall of the house, and the branches of tree looming over her. By her side there's a box and an old appliance.
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Art & design

Noah Davis: Curator Tour with Wells Fray-Smith

Join curator Wells Fray-Smith on this exhibition tour, highlighting Davis’s use of found photography and images of friends and family as source material for his exuberant paintings of everyday life.

CY Collage Cookbook
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Art & design Talks & events

CYFF: Collage & Community Cookbook

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Free drop-in activities during the festival, come along for to the Collage & Cookbook Corner. 

A group of people hold their artwork up proudly in front of a table filled with craft objects.
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Art & design Take part Talks & events

Home: Community Exhibition

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Come along to this free foyer exhibition that brings together a range of artworks in response to the themes of family, identity and the home.

Gateway West by Jack Hobhouse
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Art & design Talks & events

Architecture on Stage: Gort Scott

London-based architects Jay Gort and Fiona Scott discuss their diverse portfolio in the UK and beyond.

Huma Bhabha standing in a studio with two tall sculptures, one carved out and one with markings ready to be carved.
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Art & design

Encounters: Giacometti x Huma Bhabha

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Within a new, intimate gallery in the Barbican, contemporary artist Huma Bhabha's monumental sculptures forge new dialogues with works by 20th century sculptor Alberto Giacometti.

Jason Moran standing in a doorway. The back half of his body is obscured by the door frame, and he is turning to face the camera. His reflection is visible in a mirror behind him.
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Art & design Talks & events

Talk: Jason Moran on Noah Davis and music making

Join American jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran in the Art Gallery as he explores different contexts for music making, taking inspiration from the paintings of Noah Davis.

Desert Cloud
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Art & design Talks & events

Architecture on Stage: Graham Stevens

Artist and architectural designer Graham Stevens presents his pioneering work in the development of pneumatic structures.

An architectural blueprint composed of tiny 0s and 1s.
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Art & design Talks & events

Architecture on Stage: Architecture in the Age of AI

Speakers from three of the world's leading architecture practices address the ways in which artificial intelligence is reshaping their discipline. 

Mona Hatoum sitting on a radiator on the wall of her studio. On the wall next to her is Untitled (Bed Springs), one of her lithograph print depicting a structure made of bed springs, curved and crumpled.
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Art & design

Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum

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Works by contemporary artist Mona Hatoum and 20th century sculptor Alberto Giacometti are seen together for the first time in this ground-breaking exhibition, part of Encounters: Giacometti.