Join us for the preview of the annual exhibition of work by emerging and early career artists. This event is now fully booked.

The annual exhibition returns to the ICA, featuring 35 emerging and early career artists selected through an open call by artists Liz Johnson Artur, Permindar Kaur and Amalia Pica. 

A series of screenings, talks and workshops organized in collaboration between Lagos-based Monangambee and London-based Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)

New Contemporaries artists will present new live works as an opportunity to test out a work in progress, experiment or showcase new ideas.   

Edith and Mya welcome you to join the world of Ballet for Non-Dancers where the world is our stage and we always aim to look and feel free rather than beautiful. 

New Contemporaries and ICA have invited exhibiting artists to select and introduce a film that has been formative, or a reference in their practice.   

New Contemporaries and ICA have invited exhibiting artists to select and introduce a film that has been formative, or a reference in their practice.   

Join the Young New Contemporaries artists for this drop-in making session and create your own artwork inspired by the YNC’s practices, and the exhibiting New Contemporaries artists they’ve collaborated with.

An afternoon dedicated to thoughtful and inclusive discussions, that explore the role of artists in society today. Convened by artist and educator Elle Reynolds, this event aims to envision innovative possibilities for an artist-centred and sustainable art world. 

Join us for the preview of pool7 by Nora Turato, her first solo exhibition in the UK.  

The first solo presentation in the UK by Amsterdam-based artist Nora Turato features a site-specific exhibition of newly commissioned work spanning performance, graphic design, video and sound.

A behind-the-scenes curatorial tour of Nora Turato’s pool7 exclusively for ICA Members and their guests.

Nora Turato debuts an all-new performance that confronts a collective disembodiment during a cultural obsession with surface image. In a gripping partially improvised format, Turato uses her voice and body to enact pool7 live on the ICA stage. 

Join artist Nora Turato and exhibition curator Andrea Nitsche-Krupp for an in-depth conversation about Turato’s practice and her newest work, pool7 – the artist’s first solo exhibition in the UK . 

A preview to celebrate Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985 – 2025

This major exhibition curated by Lubaina Himid celebrates 40 years since The Thin Black Line, the groundbreaking group show of young Black and Asian women artists at the ICA in 1985.

This film season celebrates the work of Pratibha Parmar, whose films have shaped the politics of feminist, queer, and diasporic visual cultures for over four decades.

This evening brings together three films by Pratibha Parmar that explore South Asian queer diasporic life.

A special double-bill screening of Sutapa Biswas’s films Lumen (2021) and Kali (1983 – 85) followed by a Q&A with the artist. 

An evening with Bermudian poets sharing their words, exploring Bermuda and its place within Britain’s wider cultural landscape. 

This series presents three moving image works by Helen Cammock that trace and reimagine histories of Black life across time and geography.

Helen Cammock’s two-part video work explores the entangled legacies of colonialism, migration, and appropriation. Accompanied by a live performance. 

Magda Stawarska reimagines her moving image installation Music and Silence (2023) for this unique presentation with a live performance by pianist Zeynep Özsuca.  

An immersive audiovisual performance connecting the ICA’s history from the 1980s to the present by Trevor Mathison, Gary Stewart and Tansy Spinks. 

This richly layered portrait of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker traces her journey from the segregated American South to international literary and activist acclaim. 

Poet Andra Simons turns to art when words fail. Following his 2023–24 readings inspired by Philip Guston’s Passage and Monument at Tate Modern, he now responds to Marlene Smith’s new commission for Connecting Thin Black Lines.

This screening presents two deeply personal and politically resonant works by Helen Cammock: They Call It Idlewild (2020) and Changing Room (2014), followed by a conversation with curator Nydia A. Swaby. 

Through spoken word, Rommi Smith presents a new work in collaboration with Christella Litras on keyboard/vocals, responding to The Thin Black Line, Maud Sulter’s Zabat and beyond. 

This newly commissioned film by Liverpool Biennial 2025, celebrates a deeply personal tale of friendship, single motherhood and alternative, matriarchal community networks in Liverpool 8, one of the oldest Black communities in the UK. 

Marking forty years since The Thin Black Line, this panel discussion responds to Connecting Thin Black Lines by bringing together artists and curators to reflect on the exhibition’s legacy and the evolving practices and solidarities it continues to inspire.

Bermudian writer and performer Andra Simons brings his book Turtlemen to the stage; an often raw and intimate telling, part myth, part truth, that wades ankle-deep into the legacies of ancestral grief and healing. 

This deeply moving and formally inventive work explores lament as both an emotional expression and a political gesture. Interweaving women’s stories of loss and resilience with Baroque music by female composers, the film reflects on how grief, resistance, and memory travel across histories and geographies. 

This evening brings together three landmark films directed by Pratibha Parmar that chart a bold feminist politics of resistance, kinship, and solidarity across transnational feminist imaginaries. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion and the launch of a new publication on Parmar’s work. 

This retrospective exhibition offers an intimate look back at Fashion East’s dynamic history.

Join us at the preview to celebrate the opening of Morale Patch, alongside the presenting artist, special guests, Patrons and fellow ICA Members.

Morale Patch is an exhibition of new work by Tanoa Sasraku (b. 1995, Plymouth) examining the seductive and destructive power of oil – its ties to war and national identity – through a meditation on emblems and mementos.

In a special offer to ICA Members, Exhibition Curator Andrea Nitsche-Krupp leads a behind-the-scenes curatorial tour of Morale Patch, a new commision from Tanoa Sasraku.

From ancestral memory to digital desire, from queer ecologies to fragile landscapes, ten artists’ films explore resistance, love and transformation in the present tense. 

To accompany her new solo exhibition Morale Patch, artist Tanoa Sasraku presents four film works that connect with and expand on the show's central themes.

Join us for an insightful conversation about the development of Sasraku’s work in the context of her new show at the ICA.

Join ICA Creatives alumni Ishy Pryce-Parchment for a reading group in response to Tanoa Sasraku's solo exhibition Morale Patch. 

Sports Banger joins Tanoa Sasraku for a conversation on artist’s books, moderated by ICA Exhibitions Curator Andrea Nitsche-Krupp, to celebrate the launch of Sasraku's new ICA publication.