What’s on

Tue 27 Aug –Tue 31 Dec 2024

This free installation invites visitors to orient themselves in the buildings and their complex, fascinating histories in an exciting new display at the heart of the Barbican’s Foyers.

Thu 19 Sep 2024 –Sun 5 Jan 2025

In her first solo exhibition at a major UK institution, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum fills The Curve with theatrical installations, building an imagined world in which to display her paintings.

Sat 5 Oct 2024 –Sun 5 Jan 2025

A landmark group exhibition of art made in response to India’s changing cultural-political landscape during pivotal years.

Thu 12 Dec 2024, 18:30

Originally believed lost and only recently rediscovered in 2019, this pioneering film was India’s first queer film. 

Mon 16 Dec 2024 –Tue 21 Jan 2025

Join us for two screenings of Stardust: The Story of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (2024) – an intimate portrait of two of the most influential architects of the last century.

Thu 30 Jan –Sun 20 Apr 2025

The Indonesian artist transforms The Curve in her first solo UK exhibition. Via painting, installation, embroidery and scent, take a sensory journey exploring ancestral memory, ritual and migration. 

Thu 6 Feb –Sun 11 May 2025

Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.

Mon 10 Feb 2025, 18:10

Coinciding with Citra Sasmita’s Into Eternal Land, the artist has selected Satyajit Ray’s celebrated debut film Pather Panchali. 

Thu 6 Mar 2025, 18:30

Join curatorial assistant Kitty Gurnos-Davies on a tour of the exhibition that highlights how Davis explored the emotional textures of everyday life through his artmaking. 

Thu 20 Mar 2025, 18:30

For this special evening, join curator Wells Fray-Smith as she selects some of her favourite works in the exhibition and how Davis referenced and defied his art historical heroes.

Thu 3 Apr 2025, 18:30

A series of films that explore the monumental within the everyday, confronting memory, community, and identity with intimacy and innovation taking inspiration from Noah Davis's Delusions of Grandeur.

Thu 10 Apr 2025, 18:30

Join curatorial assistant Kitty Gurnos-Davies on this tour of the exhibition that charts Davis’s work as a painter, curator and community builder.

Thu 24 Apr 2025, 18:30

Join curator Wells Fray-Smith on this exhibition tour, highlighting Davis’s use of found photography and images of friends and family as source material for his exuberant paintings of everyday life.