Ben Uri Gallery & Museum

Ben Uri Gallery & Museum Benuri.org - is the first full scale virtual Gallery/Museum and Research Centre addressing the universal issues of identity and migration through art.

It includes 80 exhibitions, 150 films, 125 podcasts, 1000 artworks and much more. Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, engaging as benuri.org, is the first full scale virtual museum and research centre. Conceived in 2018 and published within the 2019 Sustainability and Public Benefit Strategic Plan benuri.org was ‘soft’ launched in September 2020. The future is digital - our future is benuri.org

Disruptors: Fractured Images and Migrant Wordl Open Wednesday to Friday, from 10am to 5:30pm until the 4th of September....
31/07/2026

Disruptors: Fractured Images and Migrant Wordl

Open Wednesday to Friday, from 10am to 5:30pm until the 4th of September.

It traces over a century of word-image experimentation, from early twentieth-century avant-garde practice to post-war concrete poetry and conceptual art, exploring how artists disrupt the boundary between reading and viewing while addressing themes of migration, exile, belonging, identity, and meaning-making.

Featuring a catalogue with contributions from curator Dr. Ana-Maria Milčić, collector William Allen, and scholar Dr. Greg Thomas, Disruptors promises to both dazzle and inform.

Eva Frankfurther fled N**i Germany as a teenager, settling in Britain where she painted intimate portraits of immigrants...
31/07/2026

Eva Frankfurther fled N**i Germany as a teenager, settling in Britain where she painted intimate portraits of immigrants, workers, and everyday life with empathy and honesty.

Her journey reflects exile, compassion, and social observation.

Want to know more?

Discover her full profile on the Ben Uri Research Unit:

https://bit.ly/3NNcPLp

Happy Belated Birthday to Yehuda Bacon!Born on July 28, 1929, in Czechoslovakia, Yehuda’s artwork reflects the horror he...
30/07/2026

Happy Belated Birthday to Yehuda Bacon!

Born on July 28, 1929, in Czechoslovakia, Yehuda’s artwork reflects the horror he witnessed during the Holocaust.

When he was 13 years old, he was deported to Theresienstadt, a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Then, at 14 years old, he was deported to Auschwitz, where he was for 6 months before he went to Birkenau as part of a labour program.

Yehuda’s awful and life-changing experiences in the concentration camps shaped his art for the years to come.

Learn more about the artist at the link in bio: https://bit.ly/4xbJHmS

Discover Ben Uri podcasts, enjoy over 160 episodes: voiceovers, brief lives, interviews, migrant stories, and discussion...
30/07/2026

Discover Ben Uri podcasts, enjoy over 160 episodes: voiceovers, brief lives, interviews, migrant stories, and discussions. All on the Ben Uri website, link in bio.

In bi-erasure poem (2022), Astra Papachristodoulou ‘works with blocks of colour against invisibility: colour both concea...
28/07/2026

In bi-erasure poem (2022), Astra Papachristodoulou ‘works with blocks of colour against invisibility: colour both conceals and declares, as strips obscure a text on
bisexuality while forming the bisexual pride flag.’ This work is featured in Disruptors: Fractured Images and Migrant Wordl.

14th May - 4th September ⠀
Wed-Fri 10am-5:30pm

Jacob Epstein emigrated from the United States to Britain in 1905, where he became one of the country's most influential...
24/07/2026

Jacob Epstein emigrated from the United States to Britain in 1905, where he became one of the country's most influential sculptors, challenging artistic conventions with bold new forms.

His story reflects migration, innovation, and artistic courage.

Want to know more?

Discover his full profile on the Ben Uri Research Unit:

https://bit.ly/3NNcPLp

A letter written by Sir William Rothenstein in 1908 to Mark Gertler’s father, Louis Gertler. The letter details the prom...
23/07/2026

A letter written by Sir William Rothenstein in 1908 to Mark Gertler’s father, Louis Gertler. The letter details the promise Sir William saw in Mark’s artwork.

In Bands of Pride (2017), Hormazd Narielwalla ‘reworks vintage French tailoring instructions into fractured collages tha...
20/07/2026

In Bands of Pride (2017), Hormazd Narielwalla ‘reworks vintage French tailoring instructions into fractured collages that place old Jewish family photographs alongside blue patches. This at once recalls the thirteenth and fifteenth century expulsions of Jews from England and Spain and the blue-washed houses in their new home in Chefchaouen, Morocco. The result is a world cut and re-stitched anew.’

This work is featured in Disruptors: Fractured Images and Migrant Wordl.

14th May - 4th September ⠀
Wed-Fri 10am-5:30pm

📆 Join us on Wednesday, 22 July, at 6.00 pm for a guided tour of Disruptors: Fractured Images and Migrant Wordl, followe...
19/07/2026

📆 Join us on Wednesday, 22 July, at 6.00 pm for a guided tour of Disruptors: Fractured Images and Migrant Wordl, followed by drinks with curator Dr Ana-Maria Milčić, collector William Allen, and Dr Greg Thomas.

📍Ben Uri Gallery and Museum

🎨 Discover how migration, movement, belonging and resettlement shaped more than a century of word-image experimentation, from the historical avant-gardes and concrete poetry to contemporary conceptual art.

🖼️ Featuring works by Kurt Schwitters, Li Yuan-chia, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Hansjörg Mayer, Astrid Furnival, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Tam Joseph, Hormazd Narielwalla, Astra Papachristodoulou, Osman Yousefzada and many more.

Book here:

Eventbrite- https://bit.ly/4vI9q5h

Or

Trybooking - https://bit.ly/44EUCct

David Bomberg was born in London to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents. One of Britain's most innovative modernists, he con...
17/07/2026

David Bomberg was born in London to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents. One of Britain's most innovative modernists, he continually reinvented his artistic practice while influencing generations of artists.

His story reflects heritage, experimentation, and artistic transformation.

Want to know more?

Discover his full profile on the Ben Uri Research Unit:

https://bit.ly/3NNcPLp

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