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FRINGE 🫧 KCAW
23 - 29 June 2025
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Deadline 20 June 🫧

Kensington + Chelsea Art Week was founded in 2018 with a public consultation by a group of volunteering arts industry professionals. We are an independent, not-for-profit cultural festival and a placemaking organisation. Since its inception, the festival continues to shine a spotlight on the area's unexpected and unique cultural variety across a multitude of studios and galleries, museums, exhibit

ion spaces and businesses. It attracts local and international audiences to 150+ events and installations throughout the borough. ART WEEK and the summer-long temporary ART TRAIL celebrate the rich heritage of the borough by opening doors to local creative spaces along with leading organisations in the area to facilitate further public engagement in the local culture. Over 1 million visitors engage with ART TRAIL weekly. The festival activities are a collective endeavour, delivered every year thanks to our advisory board and participating organisations, from small practices to major cultural institutions. The borough of Kensington and Chelsea has an artistic heritage that encompasses some of the best and brightest creative names. From South Kensington’s Museum Quarter to the bustle of King’s Road; from the urban bohemia of Notting Hill to the modern elegance of the Design Museum, a journey through Kensington and Chelsea is a journey through history.

11/03/2026

David Hockney: A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting
Serpentine North Gallery
12 March - 23 August 2026
FREE

Tickets for March–May are available now.
Tickets for June–August will be released at a later date. Subscribe to our Newsletter to be notified when new dates are released.

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney invites viewers to slow down and notice the extraordinary within the everyday in his first exhibition at Serpentine. Created specifically for this presentation, Hockney’s new paintings extend his lifelong fascination with the act of looking, affirming his belief that simple beauty is worth celebrating.

The exhibition is conceived in close collaboration with the artist and brings Hockney’s celebrated ninety-metre-long frieze A Year in Normandie to London for the first time. Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, this monumental work captures the changing seasons at the artist’s former studio in Normandy. In the context of the exhibition at Serpentine, it opens a dialogue with the surrounding nature of Kensington Gardens.

29/10/2025

Kensington’s Christmas 2025

Opportunity Kensington is delighted to announce the winner of the open call which invited designers, artists, architects, and creative thinkers to submit proposals for a striking, demountable Christmas tree structure to be displayed on the forecourt outside the Design Museum in Kensington during the 2025 festive season.

A large number of imaginative, bold, and meaningful interpretations were submitted as part of the Open Call.

The winning entry was Oru, designed by Amy Jackson.

Rooted in circular design and inspired by origami’s spiritual symbolism, Oru invites
people to make mediate and manifest a wish - the tree is listening and responds to the wish in its own way.

Amy’s tree turns tradition into a shared moment of contemplation about the future. Fully reusable, her design is an exciting centrepiece where functionally and purpose embrace the festive spirit with an innovative take on a ‘listening tree’ to enjoyed by all visitors to High Street Kensington.

The judging panel were very impressed with the runners up - quality of designs and depth of ideas deserving to be shared. The organisers are seeking a venue to display those designs.

Runners up were:
Interlocking Christmas Tree by Adalberto Londardi
Spiral of Joy by Julian Rodrigues
Spoonful by Emma Lindwall, Siana Bezuhanova
Tree of Kindness by SustainLab RCA

Well done to all artists and designers taking part. More news to come.

futures

04/10/2025

The Design Museum and Opportunity Kensington invite creatives to submit proposals for a bold, reusable Christmas tree installation to be showcased on the museum’s forecourt during the 2025 festive season.

The structure should celebrate sustainability, circular design, and community spirit, with decorations refreshed annually.

Open to designers, artists, architects, and students, entries must include a concept statement, drawings, budget and bio by 10 October 2025. The winning design will receive a £2,000 honorarium and £15,000 production budget, with installation set for mid-November.

For the full brief and to submit entries, please email [email protected] with the subject line: Reusable Christmas Tree 2025 Entry. Good luck!

03/10/2025

The Design Museum and Opportunity Kensington invite creatives to submit proposals for a bold, reusable Christmas tree installation to be showcased on the museum’s forecourt during the 2025 festive season.

The structure should celebrate sustainability, circular design, and community spirit, with decorations refreshed annually. Open to designers, artists, architects, and students, entries must include a concept statement, drawings, budget and bio by 10 October 2025.

The winning design will receive a £2,000 honorarium and £15,000 production budget, with installation set for mid-November.

For the full brief and to submit entries, please email [email protected] with the subject line: Reusable Christmas Tree 2025 Entry. Good luck!

14/09/2025

Respond by 22 October via the link or by scanning the QR code above 👆

01/09/2025

Summer is over the the gallery season officially open!

in.culture

20/07/2025

Open now! 🌟

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Open Call Announced for “ArtEvol 2025: Voices from the Undefined” at Saatchi Gallery

ArtEvol 2025
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The London Art Collective (LAC) is proud to announce the open call for “ArtEvol 2025: Voices from the Undefined”, the fifth edition of its critically engaged curatorial series spotlighting boundary-pushing practices in contemporary art. The exhibition will take place at the Saatchi Gallery, London, from 12 to 19 September 2025. The exhibition will focus on emerging artists who are shaping the visionary future of contemporary art, collectively examining the motivations and emotional tensions encapsulated by “Evol”, which signifies “Evolution” in the context of today’s art landscape.
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“ArtEvol 2025: Voices from the Undefined” provides a vital platform for creators who do not seek validation within established systems, but continue to voice themselves from undefined positions. These artists are forging emergent creative languages that shift across disciplines, identities, and cultural forms—offering open-ended responses to the complexities of our time. It centres on practices that shift across disciplines, identities, and cultural forms, offering open-ended responses to the complexities of our time. These artists do not seek validation within established systems but continue to voice themselves from“undefined” positions.
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“ArtEvol: Voices from the Undefined”, is curated by Nelson Qin, organised by London Art Collective (LAC), and a jury panel composed of curators, artists, critics, and scholars who evaluate the works based on their experimental spirit and contemporary expression. The exhibition aims to present undefined new creative languages in response to this ever-changing world. It calls for not only fresh visual experiences but also a reimagining of the relationship between art and reality.

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