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 & 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.
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Classical music
Guildhall School: Spring Opera Scenes
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Outstanding performers from the first year of Guildhall School’s Opera Course present classical and contemporary operatic excerpts with piano accompaniment.
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Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
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Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.
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Theatre & dance
Guildhall School: Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
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Enter the world of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, a spellbinding journey through jealousy, loss, and forgiveness.
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Classical music
Britten Sinfonia: 1945 – A Kind of Haunting
80 years after the end of WWII, we hear musical responses from then and now.
Bohuslav MartinůDouble Concerto for two string orchestras, piano and timpani
Richard StraussMetamorphosen
Michael Zev GordonA Kind of Haunting (world premiere)
Britten Sinfonia
Jonathan Bermanconductor
James Newbybaritone
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Art & designTalks & events
Architecture on Stage: Piovenefabi
Architecture studio Piovenefabi talk about their endeavours in Paris's Chapelle International district.
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Classical music
Shostakovich Quartets: Intimate Portraits, Part 3
The multinational young Kyan Quartet joins the Carduccis as Gubaidulina’s compact Quartet No 2 is stitched into a Shostakovich sequence including the penultimate quartet, with its focus on the cello.
Dmitri ShostakovichQuartet No 14
Quartet No 11
Sofia GubaidulinaQuartet No 2
Dmitri ShostakovichQuartet No 2
Carducci Quartet
Kyan Quartet
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Art & designTalks & events
Barbican Young Poets: In Response to Noah Davis
Young Barbican
Join Barbican Young Poets alumni at this special performance inspired by the work of Noah Davis, in collaboration with poet Claudia Rankine.
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Classical music
Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra
Julian Clayton conducts the outstanding young musicians of Junior Guildhall in a programme of 20th-century America-inspired works.
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CinemaClassical music
Pierre Boulez - Boulez at the BBC (film)
Two classic BBC Television Boulez documentaries - a compilation fronted by Tom Service, and one of Barrie Gavin's many celebrated films.
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Classical music
Pierre Boulez – The Second Piano Sonata
Boulez’s shattering Second Piano Sonata, and two extraordinary works for solo clarinet, performed by the talented musicians of the Guildhall School and introduced by BBC Radio 3’s Kate Molleson.
Pierre BoulezDomaines for solo clarinet
Piano Sonata No 2
Dialogue de l’ombre double for clarinet and tape
Guildhall School musicians
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Classical music
Pierre Boulez – Pli selon pli
An evening-long tribute to the limitless creative mind of Pierre Boulez, culminating in a rare performance of his five-movement epic masterpiece Pli selon Pli.
Pierre BoulezDeux Études, musique concrète for tape
12 Notations
Incises
Cummings ist der Dichter
Pli selon pli
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbinsconductor
Tamara Stefanovichpiano
Anna Dennissoprano
BBC Singers
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Contemporary music
Ichiko Aoba
Japanese folk singer-songwriter Ichiko Aoba performs her latest album, Luminescent Creatures alongside 12 Ensemble.
