ARTANGEL

07/08/2026

“For years I’ve been interested in the condition of the ‘invaded’ party in a conflict. What offence did these people commit to become enemies? Their offence was to simply be in the way of someone else’s interests, whether land, trade, or resources.” – Terence Gower
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As we pass the 250 year anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, Artangel launches a new polyphonic sound installation that revisits this moment in history. ⁠
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Gower's new site-responsive artwork, created for the Original Cell in the Maughan Library, examines a largely forgotten opening campaign of the American War of Independence: the Invasion of Quebec.⁠
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Visit: Enemies and Rascals by Terence Gower⁠
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🗓️ Open from Wednesday – Sunday until 18 October 2026 ⁠
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📍 The Original Cell, in the Maughan Library, King’s College London,⁠
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🎫 Free to attend, booking recommended ⁠
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🔗 Book tickets: https://www.artangel.org.uk/project/enemies-and-rascals/
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Presentation Partners: King's College London

🎥 Cinematography: Tilly Shiner

05/08/2026

"On 18 June 1984 I was watching the evening news and saw footage of a picket at the Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire in which thousands of men were chased up a field by mounted police. It seemed a civil war between the North and the South of the country was taking place in all but name." - Jeremy Deller

In 1984 the National Union of Mineworkers went on strike. In 2001, Artangel commissioned Jeremy Deller to produce The Battle of Orgreave, a spectacular re-enactment of what happened that day.

Captured on film, the enactment was staged at the original site of the 1984 clash between striking miners and police at Orgreave in South Yorkshire. More than 800 people participated in the re-enactment, many of them former miners, and a few former policemen, reliving the events from 1984 that they took part in.

Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave is now part of the Artangel Collection. The work is currently on show at Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen in Germany as part of Radical Hope, a group exhibition examining the themes of strikes and industrial disputes.

🗓️ Open Tuesday – Sunday until 4 Oct 2026⁠
📍 Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
🔗 Find out more here: https://www.artangel.org.uk/project/the-battle-of-orgreave/

Video credits: Jeremy Deller, The Battle of Orgreave, 2001. Excerpt from The Battle of Orgreave. Filmed by Mike Figgis.

03/08/2026

Earlier this month we returned to Yto Barrada’s The Mothership in Tangier with a group of our supporters, known as Angels.⁠
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The Mothership launched in 2024, and two years later, it’s remarkable to see how this eco-campus has developed. Across the dye house and dye lab there are traces of making everywhere: splashes of dried yellow dye on the walls, indigo staining the floors, and library shelves steadily filling with books. The Mothership feels ever more rooted in its purpose – a place for artists, makers and communities to gather, learn and experiment together.⁠
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Founded with the support of Artangel through the Artangel International Circle, The Mothership is led by artist Yto Barrada. The dye house works to create new opportunities for local communities and artists from around the world to experiment, learn, and exchange knowledge about natural dyes. Residents and participants share new approaches and techniques while keeping endangered traditions alive. ⁠
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A heartfelt thank you to Yto Barrada, her family and The Mothership team, including colour anthropologist Arnaud Dubois, master dyer Charlotte Marembert, Sean, Vega, Kuralai and Munia for hosting us.⁠
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Our Angels programme brings supporters closer to the artists and projects they help make possible. ⁠
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Find out more about The Mothership here: https://www.artangel.org.uk/project/mothership/

Find out more about the Angels programme here: https://www.artangel.org.uk/be_an_angel/
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And if you’re headed to Venice, don’t miss Yto Barrada’s latest project Comme Saturne at the French Pavilion, as part of the 61st La Biennale di Venezia. Drawing inspiration from the myth of Cronos and the textile technique of dévoré, each room presents an entirely new environment. The Study Room is rooted in The Mothership and features materials naturally dyed on-site in Tangier. Open until 22 November 2026.

30/07/2026

“When you go deep into the archive, perspectives may shift, narratives can reverse, and familiar historical figures can change allegiance.” – Terence Gower ⁠
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Planning a visit to our new polyphonic sound installation, Enemies and Rascals by Terence Gower? Don’t forget to explore The Quebec Act, an exhibition of related rare books and historical documents, which is located down the corridor from Enemies and Rascals.⁠
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The 1774 Quebec Act earned star billing in the soon-to-be United States as one of the so-called ‘Intolerable Acts’, which reorganised the British government’s influence over the Province of Quebec and set the scene for the 1776 Declaration of Independence.⁠
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Curated by Terence Gower with Katie Sambrook and John Wilby of the Foyle Special Collections Library King's College London, the exhibition allows visitors to witness history in the making, providing a precursor to the events which unfold in Enemies and Rascals, namely the 1775-76 Invasion of Quebec. ⁠
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The Foyle Special Collections Library is housed at the Maughan Library (once the UK’s Public Record Office) where Enemies and Rascals is also staged. ⁠
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🗓️ Open Wednesday – Sunday until 18 October 2026 ⁠
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📍 The Original Cell, in the Maughan Library, King’s College London,⁠
WC2A 1LR ⁠
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🎫 Tickets for Enemies and Rascals also include entry to The Quebec Act. Free to attend, booking recommended ⁠
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🔗 Book your tickets here: https://www.artangel.org.uk/project/enemies-and-rascals/
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Presentation Partners: King's College London

Image credit: The Quebec Act exhibition at the Weston Room, Maughan Library. Photography by Thierry Bal

26/06/2026

🎧️ Listen now: The Last X Years Podcast ⁠
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Last year Artangel launched The Last X Years by Jay Bernard, a digital artwork examining 2016 and people’s memories of the EU referendum. ⁠
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To mark the tenth anniversary of the referendum, Artangel launches a new podcast mini-series that teases out the themes of the artwork. ⁠
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Bernard introduces the podcast with an exploration of the civic role of the poet. They consider the rise of populist politics all around us, catalysed by the events of 2016. Listen as Jay articulates how and why poetry survives and becomes essential for making meaning in a world of chaotic events. ⁠
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The series features discussions from three panels that originally streamed live in March 2026. ⁠
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Now available on demand, each episode includes new introductions by the series host, artist and human rights researcher, Caroline Sinders. In each episode, artists, researchers and journalists discuss the intersection of democracy and technology. ⁠
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Listen here: ⁠https://www.artangel.org.uk/project/the-last-x-years/the-last-x-years-podcast/
Available on Soundcloud and Spotify. ⁠

Presented by Artangel ⁠
Digital partner: Tank.TV Tank

18/06/2026

Now showing: The Story of Fixity by Noémie Goudal

"The three films at the heart of The Story of Fixity show a photographic backdrop in constant flux” - Noémie Goudal
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The inaugural presentation of Noémie Goudal’s moving image installation was presented at the Borough Yards in London in Autumn 2025. Now part of The Artangel Collection, The Story of Fixity is currently showing at Le Portique Contemporary Art Center of Le Havre, France and a further iteration of the work has just opened at Pola Museum of Art, Japan for The New Vision: Monet and the Contemporary Gaze. ⁠
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📷 Image Credits 1, 2, 3: Le Portique. In this new presentation of The Story of Fixity, Noémie Goudal’s deconstructed landscape expands across multiple gallery floors, where one of the screens for the three-channel films is split vertically in two and water seeps between levels. Thank you Le Portique for making this possible. ⁠

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📍Le Portique, Le Harve, France⁠
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📅 18 April 2026 – 27 September 2026⁠
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📍 Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan ⁠
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📅 June 17, 2026 — April 7, 2027

12/06/2026

Cha-U-Kao and Lola Lola make their debut in Seoul 🐈‍⬛ 🐈️⁠
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Last month, Abi Palmer Invents The Weather: Rain, screened in Seoul for EMAP(Ewha Media Art Presentation), an open-air international media art festival organised by 이화여자대학교 Ewha Womans University.

Abi Palmer Invents The Weather is a four-part film series by artist Abi Palmer, commission by Artangel in 2023. Now in the Artangel Collection, Abi Palmer’s work continues to travel across the UK and internationally, with a new presentation at G39 Cardiff due to launch this weekend, from 12 June – 11 July 2026.
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Unable to reach the outside world during the Covid-19 pandemic, Abi Palmer began a year-long process of performing the outside world for her indoor cats Cha-U-Kao and Lola Lola, translating each season into a cat-accessible format.⁠
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This new screening of Abi Palmer Invents The Weather: Rain 🌧️ took place outside and after-dark where it's exposed to the elements, bringing new resonance to the project. Thank you EMAP for making this possible. ⁠
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The Artangel Collection makes outstanding moving image works, commissioned and produced by Artangel over the last 30 years, available across the UK and internationally. With each presentation the works are opened up to fresh interpretation while being seen by new audiences.⁠
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Image credits: Installation view of *A Million Silver Bamboo: The Rain We Share,* 2026.5.11-16, Ewha Womans University Campus. Photo: ChangYuna. Courtesy of College of Art & Design, Ewha Womans University

10/06/2026

Calling Greater Manchester hobbyists!

Hetain Patel's Come As You Really Are will showcase hobbyists from across Greater Manchester at Factory International's Aviva Studios in February 2027.

Commissioned by Artangel, Come As You Really Are is a nationwide, shapeshifting project that presents an alternative portrait of the UK through the hobbies people love.

📆 The deadline to apply is Sunday 19 July.

Find details on how to apply in the post.

What’s your favourite hobby? Be part of the exciting new project for Greater Manchester hobbyists, Come As You Really Are 🧶

Award-winning artist and filmmaker Hetain Patel invites you to join Come As You Really Are, the loudest presentation of our quiet pastimes.

Every day, millions of us dedicate time to our favourite hobbies; as a way to express ourselves and be creative.

Whether you make it, play it, perform it, modify it or collect it, we want to hear from you.

Come As You Really Are will showcase hobbyists from across Greater Manchester at Aviva Studios in February 2027.

All you need to do is fill in the form on our website and be part of the movement.

Come As You Really Are is commissioned and produced by ARTANGEL.

📆 The deadline to apply is Sunday 19 July.

🔗 For more information and to fill out a form, visit our website: factoryinternational.org/get-involved/callout-mapping-our-favourite-hobbies/

04/06/2026

New Project: Enemies and Rascals by Terence Gower
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North America through audio, artefacts and the archive.⁠
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Launching in London on the 3 July, Artangel presents Terence Gower’s new polyphonic sound installation.⁠
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Enemies and Rascals returns to a largely forgotten episode of North American history: the Invasion of Quebec during the American War of Independence.⁠
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Gower’s installation draws on three years of research in public and university archives across Britain and North America. The artist interlaces multiple perspectives from the military campaign, while considering the limitations of the archive itself.⁠
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Enemies and Rascals is presented at the Original Cell in the Maughan Library, King’s College London, where the nation’s public records were formerly housed, including documents relating to the governance of Britain’s colonies. As visitors navigate between the metal and slate shelves of the Cell, they will hear competing perspectives from the campaign that trouble familiar and accepted narratives of national history.⁠
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🗓️Open from Wednesday – Sunday from 3 July 2026⁠
📍 Maughan Library, King’s College London, London WC2A 1LR⁠
🎫 Free to attend, booking recommended⁠ via our website: https://www.artangel.org.uk/project/enemies-and-rascals/

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Enemies and Rascals by Terence Gower is commissioned and produced by Artangel.⁠
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Presentation Partners: King's College London
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This commission is supported by the Terence Gower Exhibition Circle, the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation and the High Commission of Canada in the United Kingdom.⁠
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Artangel is generously supported using public funding by Arts Council England and by the private patronage of The Artangel International Circle, Special Angels, The Guardian Angels and The Company of Angels.

Enemies and Rascals, a new polyphonic sound installation from Terence Gower, returns to a largely forgotten episode of North American history: the Invasion of Quebec during the American War of Independence.

30/04/2026

NEWS: Announcing the 2025 Artangel Open longlisted artists

In 2025, we invited artists based anywhere in the world to submit ambitious ideas. The call received over 1,000 submissions from 80 countries, conveying the breadth of ideas that artists are thinking about across the world.

Artists proposed ideas that subvert the conventions of where we expect to find art, from The Taupō Volcanic Zone in Aotearoa, New Zealand, to the Aralkum Desert in Kazakhstan, and a dormitory in a Scottish youth hostel.

Stay tuned for an update on the resulting commission, which will be announced later this year.

Find the summaries of the longlisted ideas on our website.
https://www.artangel.org.uk/abou.../open/2025-open-longlist/