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Vanessa Bell’s exhibition brings her practice into focus, affirming her as a radical pioneer of modernism in her own right.  With over 100 pieces on display, the full breadth of Bell’s artistic legacy is explored: from her vibrant paintings to her revolutionary textiles, furniture designs, ceramics, and book covers.

Zoe Walker and Neil Bromwich’s projects bring together utopian, socialist and animist ideals to create festival-like spaces for communities to come together around issues related to climate change and social justice. Searching for a Change of Consciousness draws together work made with different communities, in Wales, Denmark, and the Colombian Amazon.

Claudia Pagès Rabal’s practice intertwines words, bodies, music, and movement. Five Defence Towers, a new moving image commission, tells a tale of surveillance, control, settlement, and refuge across five acts.

Another Chance Encounter will present new paintings by Lubaina Himid in a special installation made in collaboration with Magda Stawarska and ‘interventions’ throughout the Kettle’s Yard house.

Tender Women is the latest exhibition the The Women’s Museum exhibition programme Desire Lines. Sahra Hersi is an artist and spatial designer who lives in Barking and  describes her work as “caring about people, places, art & architecture, in that order.”

In Alexis Kyle Mitchell’s first solo exhibition, the artist explores the politics of space, place, and embodiment in dialogue with questions of kinship and belonging.

Louise Nevelson: Total Life presents key examples of the artist’s sculptural reliefs and collages from the 1950s through the 1980s, along with works on paper and jewellery that reveal the origins and depth of her artistic vision.

Morehshin Allahyari’s exhibition features her latest work, Speculations on Capture (2024), a newly commissioned piece. Allahyari’s poetic film explores the histories of astronomical instruments crafted in Iran and Pakistan,

The Silent Game, is an exhibition by Elena Gaul, which takes inspiration from a chessboard, with paintings setting the rhythm of the game.  Balancing between structure and expression, Gaul’s work invites viewers to pause, observe, and perhaps discover their own move in the game of shapes and colours.

Soft crossing, Magdalena Skupinska’s exhibition, takes shape through the slow and meditative work of gathering, grinding, and layering – altered by time, steeped in the rhythms of growth and decay. Her works do not settle into stillness, but emerge from the earth, formed by the elements, taking pigment and texture from nature’s own store.