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Wednesday, 20 May
Daily Programme
Exhibitions
Genuine Fake Premium Economy:
Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison & Jasmine Gregory
Through satirising, staging or appropriating the real, these artists probe what effect this post-2008 era of financial collapse has had on societal myths of fairness and progress under capitalism.
Films
Queer as Punk
1:00 PM
8:50 PM
In Muslim-majority Malaysia, a queer punk band led by a trans man are outliers of the system – carving out spaces to exist through their music while challenging conservative traditions and religious extremism.
Films
Miroirs No. 3
2:00 PM
Laura, a piano student from Berlin, miraculously survives an accident. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident. When her husband and adult son also give up their initial resistance to Laura's presence, the four of them slowly build a familial routine. 
Films
Rose of Nevada
3:00 PM
When a fishing boat, the Rose of Nevada, lost with all hands 30 years ago, mysteriously reappears in the old harbour of a forgotten Cornish village, for those who remember, it’s surely a sign. The boat must go out to sea again and maybe then the luck of the devastated village will turn.
Films
Romería
4:00 PM
18-year-old Marina, travels to Vigo on the Galician coast in the early 2000s, in search of information about her biological father, seeking his death certificate to apply for a scholarship to film school. Reconnecting with her paternal side of the family, she discovers a huge amount of shame and secrecy around his death.
Films
Kokuho
5:30 PM
In 1964 Nagasaki, an orphaned yakuza heir enters the world of Kabuki, growing up beside his mentor’s son as rivalry and ambition shape their destinies.
Talks & Engagement
Visible Justice
the body, its shadow, dreams and imaginaries...
6:30 PM
This opening event brings together Amak Mahmoodian, Patricia J. Williams, Sunnah Khan and Haia Mohammed, alongside a short film by Walid Raad, to explore questions of visibility and resistance. Through image and voice, the event considers how dominant narratives can be challenged and reframed across Palestine, Lebanon and Iran.
Films
Reflection in a Dead Diamond
8:45 PM
When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur is confronted by the demons of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.
Talks & Engagement
Maite de Orbe
Artist Development Residency
12:00 AM
The ICA is pleased to announce that Maite de Orbe is the Artist Development Resident for 2026.
Talks & Engagement
Visible Justice
Collective in Residence
12:00 AM
Visible Justice are the 2026–27 Collective in Residence at the ICA.