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Nomenclature for the Time BeingJune eventsAnisa Jackson, Imani Mason Jordan and Nikita Sena Quarshie in conversationWedn...
03/06/2026

Nomenclature for the Time Being
June events

Anisa Jackson, Imani Mason Jordan and Nikita Sena Quarshie in conversation
Wednesday 10 June, 7pm

Join Imani Mason Jordan, curator of Nomenclature for the Time Being, Nikita Sena Quarshie, who undertook additional research for the exhibition, and artist, writer, DJ and curator Anisa Jackson for a conversation event.

Nomenclature for the Time Being Curator's tour
Thursday 11 June, 7pm

Imani Mason Jordan will lead a tour of the exhibition.

Find out more and book via our website: https://ravenrow.org/exhibitions/nomenclature-for-the-time-being

Image:

Atiéna R. Kilfa
Espresso Adagio No.2, 2025
Collection Patrick Collins

Nomenclature for the Time Being21 May to 6 September 2026Opening Wednesday 20 May, 6.30–8.30pmThis exhibition gathers th...
07/05/2026

Nomenclature for the Time Being
21 May to 6 September 2026

Opening Wednesday 20 May, 6.30–8.30pm

This exhibition gathers the work of Rebecca Bellantoni, Hannah Black, Maren Hassinger, Deborah-Joyce Holman, Marla-Sunshine Kellard-Jones, Atiéna R. Kilfa, Christine Kirubi, Kumbirai Makumbe, Zanele Muholi, Sandra Mujinga, Shenece Oretha, Ingrid Pollard and Ebun Sodipo – artists whose practices span sculpture, performance, writing, photography and video. Most of all, this is a sculpture show, with artists deploying rope, steel wire, leather, plastic, velvet, wood, concrete, petroleum, wax, glass, thread – always with an awareness of the body.

Curated by Imani Mason Jordan, Nomenclature for the Time Being borrows its title from the 2022 book-length poem by Dionne Brand. It proposes that shared sociopolitical realities or structural conditions might also generate certain shared material sensibilities. What emerges could be considered a kind of Black feminist materiality, one that understands objects as social and political actors. These are practices that do not try to represent the world, but actively reconfigure it.

One gallery in the exhibition has been designed by the artist duo repertoire to host a series of performances and other activations that will unfold over its duration. Additional research for Nomenclature for the Time Being has been provided by Nikita Sena Quarshie.

Thank you to everyone who came to visit Conceptual Art and Christine Kozlov at Raven Row, curated by Rhea Anastas, in co...
05/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to visit Conceptual Art and Christine Kozlov at Raven Row, curated by Rhea Anastas, in collaboration with the Christine Kozlov Estate and Alex Sainsbury.

Installation photographs by Marcus J Leith are now available to view on our website, alongside the texts from the publication accompanying the show: https://ravenrow.org/exhibitions/conceptual-art-and-christine-kozlov

Images:

All images installation views, Conceptual Art and Christine Kozlov, Raven Row, 2026
Photographs by Marcus J Leith

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Sound Structure No. 2 Page 2, Sound Structure No. 2 Page 1, 1965

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Installation view, Conceptual Art and Christine Kozlov

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Foreground:

Paper, newspaper, photocopies and three drawings (charcoal on paper and ink and pencil on tracing paper), c. 1991

Background:

This Is Not Art, 1969

Book Launch: Four Corners Books at Raven RowFriday 1 May, 6–8.30pmRaven Row is hosting a launch to celebrate the publica...
24/04/2026

Book Launch: Four Corners Books at Raven Row
Friday 1 May, 6–8.30pm

Raven Row is hosting a launch to celebrate the publication of London's Ours! Images From The Greater London Council 1981–1986 by Hazel Atashroo, published by Four Corners Books.

The book explores the GLC’s remarkable visual culture and its role in London’s political history, from poster campaigns to public art.

Everyone welcome.

Postponed: Screening of The Set-UpWe regret that the screening of The Set-Up tomorrow at Close-Up is postponed. The film...
21/04/2026

Postponed: Screening of The Set-Up

We regret that the screening of The Set-Up tomorrow at Close-Up is postponed. The film print has been inexplicably held up by US customs.

We hope to announce a new date for screening as soon as we have further information.

Thank you for your patience.

Image:

Christine Kozlov
Untitled (Nothing IV), c. 1967–69
© Christine Kozlov Estate
Photo: Carter Seddon

Conceptual Art and Christine KozlovFinal weeks and Exhibition ToursTuesday 21 and Thursday 23 April, 7pmConceptual Art a...
17/04/2026

Conceptual Art and Christine Kozlov
Final weeks and Exhibition Tours
Tuesday 21 and Thursday 23 April, 7pm

Conceptual Art and Christine Kozlov closes next Sunday 26 April. During the final week, Rhea Anastas, curator of the exhibition, will lead two tours of the show.

Places for the tours are free and very limited. Please find out more and book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conceptual-art-and-christine-kozlov-exhibition-tour-with-rhea-anastas-tickets-1985592147564?aff=fb

The exhibition will be open as normal Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 6pm.

Image:

Exhibition view, Conceptual Art and Christine Kozlov, Raven Row, 2026
Photograph by Marcus J Leith

Screening of The Set-Up at Close-Up Film CentreWednesday 22 AprilDoors from 7pm, screening at 7.15pmThe Set-Up, 1978Dire...
16/04/2026

Screening of The Set-Up at Close-Up Film Centre
Wednesday 22 April
Doors from 7pm, screening at 7.15pm

The Set-Up, 1978
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
15 minutes, 35mm
Preserved by The Museum of Modern Art with support from the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation.

Raven Row is hosting a screening of MoMA’s 35mm print of Kathryn Bigelow’s remarkable first film, The Set-Up. There is no digital version.

Bigelow collaborated on projects with Christine Kozlov when they were both members of Provisional Art & Language in New York in the mid 1970s. She later attended film school at Columbia University, where she made The Set-Up.

In Bigelow’s words, The Set-Up explores ‘why violence in cinematic form is so seductive’. It depicts two men brutally fist-fighting in a dark alley while two renowned semioticians – Sylvère Lotringer, founder of the journal Semiotext(e), and Marshall Blonsky, then Professor of semiotics at Vassar College – analyse the images in voice-over.

Places are free but very limited. This is an off-site event at Close-Up Film Centre, E1 6HR.

Please book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-set-up-screening-at-close-up-tickets-1985591275957?aff=fb

Image:
The Set-Up (still), 1978 (dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
Image courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Conceptual Art and Christine Kozlov19 February to 26 April 2026Opening Wednesday 18 February, 6.30–8.30pmBy the time she...
05/02/2026

Conceptual Art and Christine Kozlov
19 February to 26 April 2026

Opening Wednesday 18 February, 6.30–8.30pm

By the time she left art school in New York in 1967, Christine Kozlov (1945–2005) was part of a radical new direction in art practice that became known as Conceptual Art. This exhibition reveals the scope of Kozlov’s activity, with a focus on her contributions to Conceptual Art from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, shown with work by a network of her peers.

Conceptual Art emerged as a theoretical and left political position that rejected the high modernism, Minimalism and Pop Art that dominated the discourse of the mid-to-late 1960s. Valuing the production of ideas over objects, foregrounded by language, works of Conceptual Art were often made using readily available materials such as office supplies and photocopies, and devices to hand such as typewriters and sound recorders. Works were readymades, or took the form of documentation or information. Many conceptual artists tilted toward the politics of daily life and antiauthoritarian protest. From 1968 through to the mid-1970s, the positions and camps of global Conceptual Art were represented predominantly in the form of group exhibitions, some of which Kozlov coorganised. Nearly all of the works Kozlov contributed to these exhibitions will be on view here.

A broader context for this way of working and Kozlov’s thinking is raised in the exhibition through the relationships between her artworks and those of her friends and interlocutors. These include stanley brouwn, Douglas Huebler, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Adrian Piper and Lawrence Weiner. Collective and group work absorbed Kozlov from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s. This exhibition reflects her collaborations with The Red Krayola, as well as Art & Language, Joan Jonas and Robert Rauschenberg. Kozlov moved to the UK in 1977. The last of her works in this exhibition was made here, in response to the first Gulf War.

Conceptual Art and Christine Kozlov is curated by Rhea Anastas in cooperation with the Christine Kozlov Estate.

Book launch: Baskerville’s Teardrop ExplodesThursday 29 January, 6.30–8.30pmPlease join us to celebrate the publication ...
19/01/2026

Book launch: Baskerville’s Teardrop Explodes
Thursday 29 January, 6.30–8.30pm

Please join us to celebrate the publication of Baskerville’s Teardrop Explodes: A Selection of Books as Muses, a new book by John Morgan. John Morgan studio designed all the graphics, signage and publications for Raven Row from its opening in 2009 until John’s death last September.

Completed shortly before he died, the book presents John’s selection of 31 books as Muses. Chosen primarily for their visual appearance and associative value, they are books that touched him and his work as a book designer in some way or another. Collected together as a Library of Muses, they express all the contradictions and compound sensibilities found in John’s work.

The criteria for selection are numerous and variable. Some were chosen for the title alone, or for the colour or materiality of the book, for the feel, the weight, the lightness, the rightness, the wrongness, the modesty, the excess, the charm, the humour, the attitude or bite of a book, the memory it conjures. Each Muse has its own magic and energy. Some bring reverberations of romance, others of fear, anxiety, humour or tragedy. Some are heroic. Some fail in technique or just miss the mark; they are imperfect. Some are chosen as signs, others as votives for direction.

Baskerville’s Teardrop Explodes is the second title from Ten Thousand Angels Press, a publishing imprint founded in 2025 by John Morgan, primarily to publish the second edition of his project Usylessly, which explores the non-literary aspects of the 1922 edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses, and a long-researched study of the Gallimard Blanche series of books. Usylessly edition two was published in October 2025. Both titles will be available to buy at this event.

All welcome, no booking required.

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