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We are inspired by and learn from others. To every project, we bring ideas from personal experiences, observation and research. Our Influences capture artworks, ideas and initiatives from our immediate environment that we believe bring new perspectives.

A #must see exhibition A Necessary Fiction: Maps, A #must see exhibition A Necessary Fiction: Maps, Art, and Mosels of Our World running in Venice until 23 November featuring historical to fictional maps from 13th century through to new commissions and contemporary works by 29 artists - a selection of details of some of the works presented including @shilpaguptastudio Shilpa Gupta, @wael_shawky Wael Shawky, @tavaresstrachan Tavares Strachan, @enejgala Enej Gala, @moniraism Monira Al Qadiri, @trevorpaglen Trevor Paglen, @reenakallat Reena Saint Kallat, @nassaralsalem Nasser Al Salem, @yokoono Yoko Ono and @aseelalyaqoub Aseel AlYaqoub Curated by @sara.endipity Sara Almutlaq, @dr.aurora.fonda commissioned by @visualarts_moc
It’s a joy to work with the international cohort It’s a joy to work with the international cohort of students  @curatorial.school and @dr.aurora.fonda and @benrp1 I’m looking forward to seeing the fruits of their hard work later this summer 
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‘We all needed the same sun’ is the title of the upcoming exhibition by the 2026 Summer International Programme Fellows of the School for Curatorial Studies at A plus A, Venice.
Stay tuned for more.
One of the leading community organisations in Lamb One of the leading community organisations in Lambeth, and former participant in our 
Future Connected leadership programme is at risk. Please sign the planning objection by following the link below which also offers opportunity to support the campaign. Repost from @bureau_of_silly_ideas
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Thank you to Lambeth’s Mayor, @paulvalentine87 , for visiting us in the thick of our campaign to keep Lambeth silly by saving our arches.

And thank you to all our sillies for your endless support and for showing up to the events we’ve been putting on. We couldn’t do this without you. 💛

#brixton #bureauofsillyideas #clubsilly #sillyfun #campaign
Early start with full moon setting dawn rising Early start with full moon setting dawn rising
Off to school @curatorial.school 🌸🌺 Off to school @curatorial.school 🌸🌺
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Congratulations to Jessica Morgan on her appointment as the new Director of @tate.

Jessica curated “Lee Ufan”, the exhibition currently on view at SMAC Venice through 22 November, in her capacity as Director of @diaartfoundation.

Her thoughtful vision and longstanding commitment to contemporary art have shaped an exhibition that offers a profound encounter with Lee Ufan’s practice.

We extend our warmest congratulations to Jessica on her appointment and look forward to following this exciting new chapter while continuing to welcome visitors to experience Lee Ufan at SMAC Venice until 22 November. 

Photo: Lee Ufan with Jessica Morgan at SMAC Venice, May 2026.
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Congratulazioni a Jessica Morgan per la sua nomina a nuova direttrice della Tate.

Jessica ha curato la mostra “Lee Ufan”, attualmente in programma a SMAC Venice fino al 22 novembre, in qualità di direttrice della Dia Art Foundation.

La sua visione ponderata e il suo impegno di lunga data nei confronti dell’arte contemporanea hanno dato forma a una mostra che offre un incontro profondo con la pratica artistica di Lee Ufan.

Porgiamo le nostre più calorose congratulazioni a Jessica per la sua nomina e non vediamo l’ora di seguire questo nuovo entusiasmante capitolo, continuando ad accogliere i visitatori che desiderano scoprire Lee Ufan da SMAC Venice fino al 22 novembre. 

Foto: Lee Ufan con Jessica Morgan nelle sale di SMAC Venice, maggio 2026. 

#LeeUfan #SMACVenice #Jessicamorgan #Tate
Thank you @victoriamirogallery for a wonderful eve Thank you @victoriamirogallery for a wonderful evening preview of new collage-paintings by Wangechi Mutu.

"Wangechi Mutu engages in a distinctive form of mythmaking, often connecting the human body with the natural world. For her forthcoming exhibition, the artist returns to the subject of water, a theme she has explored throughout her practice, not only as a mythical realm but also as a fragile, symbiotic ecosystem.

In a new series of collage-paintings, Mutu conjures a cast of feminine water spirits — figures that are at once powerful, awe-inspiring and unsettling. Imagined as protectors, companions and guides, these aquatic beings can be understood as symbolic inhabitants of both the sea and the subconscious. Created with Venice in mind, this body of work resonates with the city’s enigmatic character — a place where land and water, history and myth, continually converge." Victoria Miro Gallery
Repost from @thecosmichouse • We are delighted t Repost from @thecosmichouse
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We are delighted to announce a new exclusive limited-edition print, Now We Worship (All That Changes You. Metamorphosis) (2025) by Isaac Julien, launched to coincide with the site-specific presentation of ‘All That Changes You. Metamorphosis’ (2025) at The Cosmic House (on view until 18 December 2026).

Created especially for The Cosmic House, this print is generously offered in support of its mission. All proceeds will go directly towards our educational and curatorial programmes. We are deeply grateful to Isaac Julien.

Head to the link in bio for more information and how to purchase the print.

📸 Isaac Julien, Now We Worship (All That Changes You. Metamorphosis), 2025. Inkjet print on Ilford Gold Fibre Gloss with glitter, 58 x 77 cm (unframed), Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro © Isaac Julien

#IsaacJulien #TheCosmicHouse #CharlesJencks #MaggieKeswickJencks #PostModernism
#summer #joy #summer #joy
Great opportunity Repost from @turnercontemporary Great opportunity Repost from @turnercontemporary
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Are you a strategic business thinker with entrepreneurial vision? Looking for your next challenge?

We’re currently recruiting for a Head of Commercial to join our team—a crucial new role that will oversee the generation of essential funds to support our internationally renowned exhibitions, learning and community programmes. 

This opportunity comes at an exciting moment for Turner, following the roll-out of our new brand identity, and offers a unique opportunity to shape our commercial future, aligned with our refreshed visual and strategic direction.

As a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will drive sustainable revenue growth across multiple income streams including commercial events, venue hire, retail operations (both on-site and online), educational courses, corporate partnerships, and our café franchise. Your entrepreneurial vision will be instrumental in developing innovative commercial strategies that both generate income and enhance the visitor experience.

For full details, head to the link in our bio 🔗

📍 Location: Margate
⏰ Hours: Full time
💰 Salary: £45,000 per year
📅 Application deadline: 10am, Wednesday 15 July
🗓️ First-round interviews: Week commencing 27 July
Thank you to @esteierhoffer and @lilyjencksstudio Thank you to @esteierhoffer and @lilyjencksstudio and the team at The Cosmic House for a truly special evening for The Cosmic House Patrons earlier this week for the launch of the new series of intimate Fireside Chats for supporters of The House's programmes. Chair of Trustees, Lily Jencks led an insightful and moving conversation with the acclaimed author Jung Chang CBE known for her bestselling Wild Swans (1991) and Mao: The Unknown Story (2005). On the occasion of Jung Chang's latest book Fly Wild Swans (2025), they discussed the author's writing practice, her long-standing relationship with the Jencks family and insights into female resilience set against the three muses atop the fireplace in the Spring room.
#thankyou @sigridakirk @awitalondon @smac_venice @ #thankyou @sigridakirk @awitalondon @smac_venice @thetokyobanana @davidazio @dhranko @tatarenko_k Repost from @awitalondon
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Yesterday, we hosted a breakfast at @smac_venice to honour 25 cultural leaders across generosity, vision, and impact - not as a retrospective, but as a living recognition of what they are building and passing forward.

As AWITA enters its tenth year, it feels like the right moment to recognise that leadership is not singular - it is collective, relational, and built through connection.

These 25 women represent a truly global network. Each, in her own way, is shaping how culture is produced, supported, and understood - not only through individual achievement, but through the ecosystems they sustain and the futures they make possible.

Images by @goldsmith_studio
Performance by @saralongosings

@pelhamcomms

#awitalondon #AWITAHonoursLeadsinCulture #VeniceBiennale #CulturalLeaders
Repost from @e_flux • e-flux Announcements gathe Repost from @e_flux
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e-flux Announcements gathers a selection of collateral events taking place on the occasion of the 61st International Venice Biennale.

Held in resonance with Koyo Kouoh’s curatorial vision, these projects span exhibitions, performances, and public programs unfolding across the city, alongside the national pavilions.

#labiennale #venicebiennale2026 #inminorkeys

Cover image courtesy of Asia Forum
Repost from @victoriamirogallery • Join us tonig Repost from @victoriamirogallery
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Join us tonight at Victoria Miro Venice for the private view of Flora Yukhnovich: Egg, an exhibition of new paintings conceived in dialogue with a site-specific wall painting. 5–7pm, all welcome.

In these new works, @Flora_Yukhnovich is drawn to the underlying ideologies of creational stories — myths and fairy tales, especially those detailing fantastical conceptions and births — and the ways in which, often, they strive to explain life’s mysteries while failing to account for the far stranger reality of lived experience.

For the artist, this notion of concept versus practice finds salient parallels in painting, where the physicality of the painted mark can hold inherent contradictions and uncertainties, by turns precarious or profound, that live beyond simple interpretation.

See more via the link in bio

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Image: Flora Yukhnovich, Groweth Seeds and Bloweth Mead, 2026. Oil on linen. 150 x 120 cm, 59 x 47 1/4 in © Flora Yukhnovich. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro

#florayukhnovich #victoriamirovenice #victoriamiro
#perfect start to the day @carolynchristovbakargie #perfect start to the day @carolynchristovbakargiev exhibition BRACHA. THE ROOM IS SHARED seven-day exhibition of seven works by @brachaettinger in #sıgmundfreud’s room at the hotel @hotelmetropolevenezia
“One touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin” curated by students from @curatorial.school and featuring work by students from @academia Delle belle arte Venezia @abavenezia 
Repost @curatorial.school Held at the P. F. Calvi Lower Secondary School, a former convent, where the school’s classrooms and spaces are reimagined by works created by students from the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, selected via an open call: paintings, sculptures and participatory installations  examine the mechanisms of knowledge transmission, forming interconnected elements of a single ecosystem. The exhibition itinerary unfolds through a network of thematic nodes dedicated to cross-disciplinary forms of learning: signs, symbols, sensory impressions, metamorphoses and correspondences invite visitors to engage with the multifaceted nature of knowledge. 
During the morning, the school is attended by elementary and middle school students, who will hold their lessons in the same spaces that host the artworks, living alongside them on a daily basis; in the afternoon, the exhibition is open to the public.

ONE TOUCH OF NATURE MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD KIN

Sestiere Castello, 1808, 30122 Venezia

Free entry

With:

Elena Baggio @elena__baggio
Aurora Basso @auroraboreal._._.__
Paola Bianco @paolaa_bianco
Eva Carlan @evabenee
Sara Cecconi @saracecconi_
@sentiziyou
Claudia Frau @claudia_fraucf
Sergio Gagliardo @sg.scribble
Lucia Giromella @luci_giro
Lishan Hung @lishanhuang457
Filippo Locatelli @pippo_loca
Flora Maffezzoli @ffiordalisoo
Sara Manfio @a_sanna16
Alice Moschetta @alicemschtt
Ofelia Piazza @ofelia__
Lucia Rakovaska @luciarakovska
Tommaso Ravasi @tommaso.giuseppe.ravasi_
William Rizzardi @william.rizzardi
Giacomo Rongaudio @g_study_venice
Carlo Alberto Sghinolfi 
Nicole Sinigaglia @nicole_sinigaglia_ 
Jianing Tong t.void_art
Vinicio Tronca
Chloe Motolese @chloemotolese
Gabriel Valenzuela @fornicio_rivera
Laura Zanoni @laura.zanoni.art
Elena Zattin @elena.arteblu
Rebecca Zen @rebecca_zen
Rachele Zerbetto @l.incon.scio

Ph @veronicagelati @rubinastradella
Repost from @friezeofficial • Representing Scotl Repost from @friezeofficial
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Representing Scotland at the 61st Venice Biennale, Bugarin + Castle (@bugarinandcastle) are leading a ‘Shame Parade’ — foregrounding Scottish archives and Filipino heritage to tease out the unsettling contemporary echoes of the charivari, an Early Modern public shaming ritual. Communities would parade people who’d broken social rules (especially marriage norms) through the streets while jeering and performing mockery. Often, the ritual included cross-dressing and role reversals to publicly humiliate the accused and reinforce social order.⁠
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Rooted in research, such as an 18th century engraving by William Hogarth depicting the charivari, the duo brings together a re-enactment of the ritual, alongside sculpture and moving image that contends with today’s hostile climate of gender policing, surveillance and so-called ‘transvestigations’. Across the exhibition, imagery of queer and trans Filipinos, debris gathered by the artists at Pride parades last year, medieval motifs and iconic Filipino objects such as karaoke machines and a Jeepney collide to shift punishment to play, vulnerability into visibility – and visibility into defiance. ⁠
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Read the full article at the link in bio ⁠
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Bugarin + Castle will represent Scotland at the 2026 Venice Biennale, on view from 9 May to 22 November⁠
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Read the full column at the link in bio, or in frieze magazine’s Venice Issue - available now. Follow @friezeofficial for the latest on the 61st Venice Biennale @labiennale⁠
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#Frieze #VeniceBiennale #InMinorKeys #LaBiennalediVenezia #BiennaleArte2026 ⁠
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Words:⁠ @alastair_curtis 
Images: All images © Bugarin + Castle and Scotland + Venice⁠
1/5. Bugarin + Castle, Submit to Sound, 2026⁠
2. Bugarin + Castle, Davide Bugarin and Angel Cohn Castle, at Mount Stuart. Photo by Charlotte Cullen⁠
3. William Hogarth, Hudibras Encounters the Skimmington (Plate 7: Illustrations to Samuel Butler’s Hudibras), 1725-30. Courtesy: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection and Fund⁠
4. Bugarin + Castle, Set Upon, 2026⁠
6/7. Bugarin + Castle, At Certayne Tymes (production image), 2026⁠
8. Bugarin + Castle, Noctural Amusement [production image - discreet visor], 2026
Very much looking forward to opening tomorrow at 5 Very much looking forward to opening tomorrow at 5.30pm @aplusagallery @mattwilliams3101 @dr._sandro_pignotti see repost below for full details all welcome
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Counterforms
Preview: 4 May 2026, 11:30 am - 8:00 pm
cocktail reception at 5:30 pm

Organised by Neue Alte Brücke and Matt Williams

Hannah Black @hannah_black___ 
Yvo Cho @yvo_cho 
Anna Clegg @annaclegg_ 
Racheal Crowther @rachcrowther 
Ufuoma Essi @ufuoma.essi 
Nat Faulkner @nat_faulkner 
Amelia Gill #ameliagill 
Jason Hirata @hiratajason 
Anna Howard @a__howard 
Vincenzo Ottino #vincenzoottino 
Nina Porter @_inanina_ 

Exhibition Dates: 5 May - 26 July 2026

A plus A, Venice

Counterforms examines how meaning is structured through absence. As described by Ellen Lupton and grounded in principles articulated by Jan Tschichold, counterforms refer in typography to the spaces within and around letters that make them legible, defining proportion and rhythm and shaping how forms are read. This logic informs the exhibition, where
interstices operate as an organising condition.

Across film, photography, installation, painting and ephemera, fragmentation and mediation shape how works are produced and encountered. Images appear displaced or incomplete, objects register
traces of use, removal and redaction, and sound resonates as both presence and residue, unfolding through layered temporal and material
conditions. Systems of capture, processing and display further condition how these works take form and come into view. The exhibition extends counterform as a structuring principle, through which intervals, discontinuities and spatial relations determine encounter.

Image: artwork by Anna Howard @a__howard
#thankyou @emermaryg @sean_griffiths1 @gilesround #thankyou @emermaryg @sean_griffiths1 @gilesround @labrumlondon @iamfods #Northamptonshire Black History Archives #discreteensemble #grubbymitts @the_food_library for fabulous opening of the major new artist-led cultural institution @artscollectivenn
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Dr. Bettina Kames, Co-Founder and CEO of @las_artfoundation, joins The Hope Forum 2026 as a speaker. 

She leads LAS’s artistic direction and mission to illuminate the intersections between art, science and technology. Under her leadership LAS has commissioned immersive installations by Refik Anadol, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Ian Cheng, Libby Heaney, Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Pierre Huyghe, Christelle Oyiri, Laure Prouvost and Jakob Kudsk Steensen, among others, covering topics from AI and quantum computing to ecology. She studied History of Art at LMU, Munich, and completed her PhD at FU, Berlin.

The Hope Forum will soon take place in Venice during the opening of @labiennale — stay tuned!

📷: Robert Fischer, Courtesy LAS Art Foundation 

#TheHopeForum2026 #VoicesOfHope
#ArtforGlobalGoals
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An ornate tailed digger wasp (Cerceris sp.) on a yarrow (Achillea millefolium) spotted during an excursion in Berlin. Photo: Frederic Griesbaum © Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.Courtesy Gaia Art Foundation

 
 
 
 
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