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Gasworks is a contemporary art organisation based in South London - exhibitions, events, residencies. Above all, Gasworks is a home for artists.

Gabriel Abrantes: Bardo Loops Exhibition runs 16 April - 14 June 2026 Gasworks is a leading non-profit arts organisation based in south London. Working at the intersection of UK and international contemporary art, we have supported more than 700 artists from over 100 countries since our founding in 1994. We commission and produce exhibitions by emerging and underrepresented artists, and host resid

encies that enable artists from all over the world to research and develop new work. We also provide subsidised studios for London-based artists and co-design participation projects for local children, young people and families together with community partners. We are committed to building long-term relationships with all the artists we work with. Thanks to our award-winning history, we have developed an unparalleled reputation for cultivating new artistic talent. Gasworks is a registered charity, the London hub of Triangle Network, and part of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio. Mémoires des corps by Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien now open in our gallery Weds-Sun 12-6pm until 14 December

03/06/2026

📣 Trustee Announcement 📣

We’re thrilled to welcome Zoé Whitley back to the Board of Trustees of Gasworks and Triangle Network ✨

Zoé is an independent curator and contemporary art historian. She previously held curatorial roles at the V&A, Tate, and the Hayward Gallery (2003–2019), and served as Director of Chisenhale Gallery from 2020 to 2025.

Bringing intersectional and multidisciplinary perspectives into the canon, her work has helped reshape how institutions engage with living artists. She is the recipient of a 2026 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency, the author of a forthcoming major monograph on Barbara Kruger, and the official biographer of Betye Saar. Alongside Gasworks and Triangle Network, she is also a trustee of the Teiger Foundation in New York and Sir John Soane’s Museum in London.

We are delighted that Zoé is rejoining the Gasworks and Triangle Network family, having previously served as a Trustee in 2019-20, prior to her appointment at Chisenhale Gallery. We look forward to learning from her experience, insight, and longstanding commitment to supporting artists.

02/06/2026

🇩🇿 Announcing Ghyzlène Boukaïla from Algeria who will be joining us for a residency at Gasworks from 30 September – 15 December 2026! 🇩🇿

Combining film, immersive installation, and sculpture, Ghyzlène Boukaïla’s practice questions the thresholds of reality and fiction. Drawing on historical and/or archival research, her work often challenges existing narratives, through a process of opening, and producing, new speculative realities.

At Gasworks, she will focus on material research for her next film. The project explores the Mediterranean Sea as a territory and explores the reappropriation of this site of passage. Ghyzlène will visit archives and museums as inspiration for archaeological elements in the film, experimenting with objects and sculpture.

Ghyzlène Boukaïla’s residency is supported by Selim & Houda Bouafsoun.

Credits:

1- Ghyzlène Boukaïla, still from an interview produced by Projets Média for Art Explora, 2025. Courtesy of the artist, Projet Média and Art Explora.
2- Ghyzlène Boukaïla, Red Manifesto, 2024, immersive film installation featuring 3D film and car parts – re-edition Jaou Tunis 2024, © Mehdi Ben Temessek.
3- Ghyzlène Boukaïla, Wet waiting, 2024, video, steel, plexiglass, monitor TV, wet sponge.
4- Ghyzlène Boukaïla, #31 #, 2022, wood, melted phone, text, music by Cheb Abdou.
5- Ghyzlène Boukaïla, Wet waiting, 2024, diptych video, polycarbonate, plexiglass, moisture vapour, string, plastic seating.

30/05/2026

Just two weeks left to catch Bardo Loops by Gabriel Abrantes at Gasworks! 🎹 👀

Drawing on his love of animation, Pixar and Disney films, alongside existential questions about humanity and the world we live in, Gabriel created Bardo Loops. Behind each ghost is a real actor whose expressions and movements were translated into animation. Animators recreated every gesture — from raised eyebrows to moving fingers and shoulders — to achieve the emotional intensity experienced throughout the installation.

Stop by this weekend!

We are open 12–6pm on both Saturday and Sunday, just under a 10-minute walk from Oval and Vauxhall stations 🚉

🗓 Exhibition runs 16 April – 14 June 2026
📍 Gasworks, London

The Lead Supporter for Gabriel Abrantes’ exhibition is the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (UK Branch). Gasworks’ Exhibitions programme is supported by public funding from Arts Council England.

Video credits: Courtesy of the artist and Galeria Francisco Fino

28/05/2026

⏰ FINAL DAYS TO APPLY ⏰

🇫🇷 OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS BASED IN PARIS, ÎLE-DE-FRANCE 🇫🇷

This open call is for artists based in Paris, Île-de-France, who have presented their work in several venues to date. This eleven-week, fully funded residency will take place at Gasworks in London from 6 January to 24 March 2027.

Our residencies programme supports professional development, cultural exchange, and artistic experimentation. We host up to twenty residencies each year, bringing artists from all over the world to London. All our residencies are self-led, non-prescriptive and process-based; they are about enabling artists to research and develop new work, engage with the city, and build their networks.
This residency is part of Magnetic, a joint Franco-UK initiative under the umbrella of Fluxus Art Projects that brings together ten institutions to create a network of artist residencies in French regions and UK nations.

Visit the Magnetic website for full open call details and application guidance. All applications should be submitted via the Fluxus Art Projects website.

📆 Residency dates: 6 January – 24 March 2027
⏰ Application deadline: 2 June 2026, midnight (CEST)

🔗 Find more information via the link in bio

Image credit: Omar Castillo Alfaro, Gasworks Spring Open Studios, London, 2026. Photo: Peter Otto

27/05/2026

✨ EVENT UPCOMING: FOR LIVING AND DYING OTHERWISE ✨

Throughout 2026, XYZ Projects — Jaunts and Dr Ravi Piccus — have been working with a group of TLGBQIA+ participants to imagine alternative visions of the care home. Together, they have been exploring architectures and systems of care that can hold stories of transition, ageing, and becoming for living and dying otherwise.

Join us for a special installation marking the end of XYZ Projects’ residency, and explore interactive relics shaped through conversations developed during the f.l.a.d.o workshops with participants.

Incorporating audio, video, and sculpture, the exhibition offers insight into discussions around the realities of the UK’s current care-home system, and how collaboration and cooperation might radically reshape our futures.

📅 Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 June, 12–6pm
📍 Gasworks, London

All welcome!

Gasworks’ Participation Residency Artist Programme is funded by the City Bridge Foundation, supporting opportunities for artists and migrant communities in Lambeth and Southwark to work together on collaborative projects.

26/05/2026

🟢 Congratulations to Gasworks exhibiting artist alumnus Trevor Yeung on his first institutional solo exhibition in France, Garden of the Nine Suns, at CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux 🟢

Inspired by the Chinese mythological folklore in which Hou Yi shoots down nine of the ten suns after their chaotic convergence, the exhibition transforms the main hall into a giant vivarium immersed in green light. At its centre, a scaffolding bridge invites visitors to rise through the space and experience the installation from a different perspective. The structure also acts as a wishing tree, where audiences are invited to hang coloured ribbons throughout the exhibition, gradually forming a rainbow in progress.

Trevor Yeung’s practice draws on botanical ecology, horticulture, and aquarium systems to explore desire, vulnerability, and the emotional structures that shape human relationships. Across immersive environments and sculptural installations, his works give physical form to both natural phenomena and personal longing.

✨ Garden of the Nine Suns runs until 20 September 2026 📅 If you happen to be in Bordeaux this summer, make sure to pay it a visit!

Image credits: Arthur Péquin ()

25/05/2026

ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY 📌

🇬🇷 OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS BASED IN GREECE 🇬🇷

This open call is for an artist at a pivotal moment in their career based in Greece. The eleven-week, fully funded residency will take place at Gasworks in London from 30 September – 15 December 2026.

Our residencies programme supports professional development, cultural exchange, and artistic experimentation. We host up to twenty residencies each year, bringing artists from all over the world to London. All our residencies are self-led, non-prescriptive and process-based; they are about enabling artists to research and develop new work, engage with the city, and build their networks.

This residency is supported by Thalia and Alex Haidas.

📆 Residency dates: 30 September– 15 December 2026.
Application deadline: 1 June 2026, 1pm (UK time)

🔗 Find more information and apply through our link in bio.

Image Credit: Anastasia Pavlou, Gasworks Open Studios, September 2025.
Photo: Peter Otto

23/05/2026

“The world is, and seems, very chaotic, intense, and troubled — going through a moment of multiple crises (...) and these videos are trying to connect, in whatever simple way, to the person visiting the show.”

Gabriel Abrantes’s full interview about Bardo Loops is now available on our website and YouTube. In the video, Gabriel reflects on the themes and ideas behind his installation at Gasworks, as well as the processes and motivations shaping the work.

Watch the full interview via the link in bio 🔗⁠👀

We are open 12 – 6pm on both Saturday and Sunday, just under a 10- minutes' walk from Oval and Vauxhall stations ⁠🚉

🗓 Exhibition runs 16 April – 14 June 2026
📍 Gasworks, London

The Lead Supporter for Gabriel Abrantes’ exhibition at Gasworks is the UK Branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Gasworks’ Exhibitions programme is supported by public funding from Arts Council England.

Video by Reynir Hutber

22/05/2026

⏳ REMINDER TO APPLY ⏳

🇳🇿 OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS BASED IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALNEW ZEALAND 🇳🇿

This open call is for an early-career artist based in Aotearoa New Zealand. The eleven-week, fully funded residency will take place at Gasworks in London 30 September – 15 December 2026.

Our residencies programme supports professional development, cultural exchange, and artistic experimentation. We host up to twenty residencies each year, bringing artists from all over the world to London. All our residencies are self-led, non-prescriptive and process-based; they are about enabling artists to research and develop new work, engage with the city, and build their networks.

This residency is supported by the Jan Warburton Charitable Trust, British Council Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific, and the individuals who contribute to New Zealand Friends of Gasworks. It is organised in partnership with the Office for Contemporary Art Aotearoa.

📆 Residency dates: 30 September – 15 December 2026.
Application deadline: 1 June 2026, 1pm (UK time)

🔗 Find more information and apply through our link in bio.

Image Credit: Abigail Aroha Jensen, Gasworks Winter Open Studios, London 2025.
Photo: Peter Otto

21/05/2026

🌼 EXHIBITION LOADING… 🌼

THUY TIEN NGUYEN: PRESS, RELEASE

Gasworks presents a major new commission and the first UK solo exhibition by Hanoi- and Frankfurt-based artist Thuy Tien Nguyen.

Working with sculpture and installation, Tien examines personal and collective memories by exploring how they are adjusted, translated, and reconstructed over time. By juxtaposing materials, she questions the narrative associations attached to commonplace objects, creating spaces that feel familiar yet distorted.

Commissioned by Gasworks and Thailand Biennale, the exhibition will take the form of a skeletal conveyor belt installation combining Vietnamese, Thai, and British vernacular objects and sound. Evoking a system that circulates, compresses, and categorises, the work reflects on how identities and memories are formed, fragmented, and circulated like a lost suitcase.

🗓 9 July – 13 September 2026
Preview: Wednesday 8 July, 6:30–8:30pm

Thuy Tien Nguyen’s exhibition is commissioned by Thailand Biennale, Phuket and Gasworks, London. Supported by the British Council Biennials Connect, Henry Moore Foundation, Art Fund, and public funding from Arts Council England.

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