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.

Are you aged 16-30 and interested in making or curating film? Would you like to learn more about Black culture and history, and the role of archives?

Led by artist Lulu Wang, this final term of ICA Creatives × Diasporas Now explores the body as a creative engine. Across six weeks, participants will develop artistic manifestos and experiment with movement tools, body-generated sound and live archiving to build collective performance structures.

This iteration of PULSE presents London-based artist Linn Phyllis Seeger’s three-channel moving image installation The (Un)event. 

The ICA is pleased to announce that Maite de Orbe is the Artist Development Resident for 2026.

Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison and Jasmine Greogry join Associate Curator, Nicola Leong to discuss their work in Genuine Fake Premium Economy. 

Join Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture, for a conversation with Selma Dabbagh celebrating the launch of his new book. Ungrounding charts Israel's destruction of Gaza, providing investigation into links between violence, conflict, and the environment. 

ACV mark the launch of their latest trilogy publication INBETWEEN with an evening of film, conversation, sound and immersive installation.

Join us in celebrating the launch of Sex, Clubs, Dissent with a visual presentation and performance lecture from Amelia Abraham, Sweatmother and Nasir Anthony Montalvo on interpreting queer nightlife histories across print, film and decentralised digital space.

Visible Justice are the 2026–27 Collective in Residence at the ICA.

Opening their year-long residency at ICA, Visible Justice brings together Amak Mahmoodian, Patricia J. Williams, Sunnah Khan and Haia Mohammed, alongside a short film by Walid Raad, to explore visibility, resistance, and the reframing of dominant narratives across Palestine, Lebanon and Iran.

A screening of Cruising (1980), directed by William Friedkin and starring Al Pacino, presented in celebration of the publication of Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife by Amelia Abraham. Abraham will be joined in conversation by writer Asa Seresin to discuss the film’s evolving place within queer cinema history.

Writer Em Colquhoun, artists Hilary Powell and Daniel Edelstyn, and economist Ann Pettifor come together to talk about the current era of economic breakdown that has laid bare myths of fairness, progress and meritocracy.