Speaking Futures is the ICA’s new flagship programme of talks, performances and workshops celebrating artists as catalysts for imagining and shaping the future.

The 2025/2026 edition of the ICA's core youth programme, will take a multidisciplinary, genre-fluid approach to creativity in collaboration with Diasporas Now.

A multimedia event from the Erotic Review exploring what it means to possess a body –digital, real and imagined – through video, readings and discussion shaped by the Autumn/Winter issue.

Laura Lima joins Andrea Nitsche-Krupp, Exhibitions Curator, in an engaging conversation about Lima's distinctive practice and the development of her first solo exhibition in London. 

The ICA, WePresent and The Messy Truth copresent a one-day salon examining the dual image worlds we navigate today. Hosted by Gem Fletcher, the day brings together artists and photographers including Rene Matić, Elle Pérez, Jack Davison, Hanna Moon, Ronan McKenzie and more.

Gem Fletcher is joined by Jack Davison, Ronan Mckenzie, and Hanna Moon, three artists who have taken risks in an attempt to create new models of publishing, exhibiting and making.

Gem Fletcher is joined by Bruno Ceschel (SPBH Editions/Mack), Brian Paul Lamotte (Designer) and Lillian Wilkie (Editor and co-director of Bound Art Book Fair) to explore what is next for PhotoBook publishing.

In an era of rising authoritarianism, the work of art is perhaps more consequential than ever. How can we use photography to preserve history?

What is the role of a photographer in today's chaotic media landscape?