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At the Barbican, Liam Young has built rooms around his films rather than films for his rooms. A foyer, a curved gallery and a car park become a route through possible futures.
25 August 2026
10 May 2026
In the late 1970s, a young German teacher arrived in Berlin and met Martin Kippenberger. Four decades later, the gallery she built from that encounter celebrates its fortieth anniversary in Naples, with a double exhibition that brings Kippenberger's Italian obsession to the city he never reached in his lifetime.
12 July 2026
A film shot on Super 8, hand-developed in caffenol, and now finding a second life on a streaming platform. Eva Sajovic's Rise and Fall of a Temple begins with the ruins of Rome and ends with a cardboard temple collapsing on the porch of the British School. The most fragile medium for the most monumental subject.
16 June 2026
In 1613, water arrives in London through a hand-dug channel and gathers at a site called New River Head. For four centuries, this place carries something essential to the city. On 5 June 2026, it opens its doors again as the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, the world's largest space dedicated to a language that everyone understands.
23 April 2026
Since 1996, Artecinema has been bringing contemporary art to the screen in Naples. Thirty editions later, the festival founded by Laura Trisorio remains one of Europe's most important programmes of film on art, and one of the most generous: admission is free.