Exhibition | Carlos Bunga: Something Necessary and Useful
Until 06 Sep 2020 ‘When we walk in that space we are walking between the past and the future and we are the present’. Carlos Bunga (b. 1976, Portugal) creates monumental structures out of everyday materials to propose architecture as transitory and corporeal in his first major commission in London. Bunga makes cardboard...
Exhibition| Mevlana Lipp: Calypso
Marking Mevlana Lipp’s debut solo presentation in the UK, Calypso features thirteen works that expand upon the artist’s dynamic use of colour, dimensionality and shape. Existing between painting and sculpture, Lipp’s work explores the mysteries of the natural world through hybridisations of humans and plants. In particular, this new body of work explores Lipp’s...
Online exhibition | Nadav Kander: Quietude
The exhibition Quietude brings together work by the London-based, award-winning artist Nadav Kander, taken internationally over the last twenty years. These immersive images explore the artist’s love of the beauty that arises from the melancholic state, a sensibility which he has found in the most remote parts of the world, hidden in the fringes of the in-between and at the river’s edge. Kander's...
Hackney Flea Market
Hackney’s monthly curated vintage market returns to Stoke Newington’s Church Street. with another eclectic selection of vintage stall holders, all selling an amazing mix of salvaged, one-of-a–kind, lost and found objects, and handmade items. Items for sale will include – 20th Century Furniture, Records, Old Clobber, Salvaged French Homeware, Curiosities & Collectables, Textiles, Kitschenalia,...
Grown & Thrown – Mix & Match, Ceramics with Plants
A plants and ceramics market is coming to Dalston where you can shop from a range of cacti, succulents and other house plants, and then find the perfect pot or planter for them to live in. Exclusive pots or planters will be produced by ceramic artists that exhibit at the Grown & Thrown, as...
In the Long Run: Idris Elba’s sitcom set in 1980s Hackney returns for a third series
Idris Elba’s sitcom In the Long Run is set to return to the screens for a third series this month. The Sky One comedy created by Idris Elba is loosely based on his Hackney childhood. His parents came to the capital from Sierra Leone in the early Seventies, and his beloved late father Winston spent 30...
Hackney Council launches scheme for first-time buyers to design their home on unused site
Hackney Council is planning to launch its first ever self-build challenge to enable a household in Hackney to build their own home. The self-build challenge has been designed to encourage innovative and environmentally-friendly design as well as to help a local household who would not otherwise be able to afford to buy or build...
Nice Day Out: Timothy Gatenby
British contemporary artist Timothy Gatenby presents his solo exhibition “Nice Day Out” at Hackney’s Waluso Gallery. The artist creates nostalgic, often dystopian, scenes in oils often featuring our childhood television heroes. His work places emphasis on the colours of distinctly blurred compositions as a reference to his refusal to wear glasses as a child.
Visit the Tate Galleries
People will, once more, be able to visit the national collection of art on display at Tate Modern and Tate Britain, featuring hundreds of artworks from across the centuries and around the world. As well as the collection displays at both galleries, Tate Modern will reopen with Andy Warhol and Kara Walker’s Hyundai Commission Fons Americanus. Tate...
Take a 3D virtual tour of the Handel & Hendrix Museum
In London’s Mayfair, separated by a wall and two hundred years are the homes of two musicians who changed music: classical composer George Frideric Handel and rock god Jimi Hendrix. 25 Brook Street is the house that belonged to Handel, where he composed some of the world’s most enduring Baroque music such as Zadok the Priest. On...
