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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.

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum installation photography
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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.

A building in construction, with cement blocks forming the frame and a partial timber frame roof. There are large piles of sand on the floor.
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Art & design Talks & 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. 

A photo of some of Pablo Bartholomew's photographs on the wall in the Barbican Art Gallery
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Art & design Talks & 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. 

A statue of a folder stands with a flag in its head.
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Art & design Cinema

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.  

orange painting on a brick wall in a gallery
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Art & design Tours & 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.

Gieve Patel, Off Lamington Road, 1982-86.
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Art & design Talks & 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.

A man and a woman embrace in the dark, both look happy.
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Art & design Cinema

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. 

Black and white photo of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. She is sat at a large table and he is next to her, perched on the table.
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Art & design Talks & 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
Installation view of Citra Sasmita, Ode to the Sun, Yeo Workshop, Singapore, 2020
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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. 

Noah Davis Pueblo del Rio
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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 & design Cinema

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.