The exhibition is a series of curated narrative collages that highlights the paradoxical essence and influence of London in unlikely places, as an ideal, a dream, a barrier or even a destination.
Event
Art & designTours & public spaces
Concrete and Clay: Archiving the Barbican
Free
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.
Event
Library
I'm Not Okay: An Emo Retrospective
Free
A pilot exhibition exploring the rise of Britain’s Y2K lost subculture: Emo. Focusing on the first-generation Emo scene from 2004 to 2009.
Event
Art & design
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998
A landmark group exhibition of art made in response to India’s changing cultural-political landscape during pivotal years.
Event
Art & design
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: It will end in tears
Free
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.
Event
Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.
Event
Cinema
Joker: Folie à Deux
Two years on from the rise of the Joker, Joaquin Phoenix cackles his way back onto the big screen as infamous villain Arthur Fleck.
Event
Cinema
The Substance
Demi Moore gives a career-best performance as a former A-lister suddenly fired from her fitness TV show and desperate to reclaim her youth.
Event
Cinema
The Teacher
A Palestinian school teacher struggles to balance his political stance, his students, and the chance of love, from Farah Nabulsi.
Event
Talks & eventsTheatre & dance
Dance Umbrella: Moving with Equity
Join us for a panel discussion, designed to interrogate and move forward discussions around the body, its politics and movement practices, and the current discourse with colonial history.
Event
Classical music
Academy of Ancient Music: Actéon and Pygmalion
Charpentier’s Actéon and Rameau’s Pygmalion: two mythological mini-masterpieces of baroque opera, in an exuberant concert performance.
Marc-Antoine CharpentierActéon
Jean-Philippe RameauPygmalion
Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummingsdirector & harpsichord
Anna Dennissoprano
Rachel Redmondsoprano
Katie Braymezzo-soprano
Thomas Walkertenor
Event
Theatre & dance
Dance Umbrella: HATCHED ENSEMBLE
Urgent and subtly spectacular work from choreographer Mamela Nyamza featuring ten dancers, an opera singer and an African traditional multi-instrumentalist.
Event
Cinema
The Outrun
Saoirse Ronan sails the waves of addiction and recovery in this gripping story about the healing powers of the ocean, set between Scotland and London.
Event
Library
Mudproof London by Olayanju Dada
Free
The exhibition is a series of curated narrative collages that highlights the paradoxical essence and influence of London in unlikely places, as an ideal, a dream, a barrier or even a destination.
Event
Art & designTours & public spaces
Concrete and Clay: Archiving the Barbican
Free
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.
Event
Library
I'm Not Okay: An Emo Retrospective
Free
A pilot exhibition exploring the rise of Britain’s Y2K lost subculture: Emo. Focusing on the first-generation Emo scene from 2004 to 2009.
Event
Art & design
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998
A landmark group exhibition of art made in response to India’s changing cultural-political landscape during pivotal years.
Event
Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.
Event
Art & design
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: It will end in tears
Free
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.
Event
Cinema
Joker: Folie à Deux
Two years on from the rise of the Joker, Joaquin Phoenix cackles his way back onto the big screen as infamous villain Arthur Fleck.
Event
Cinema
The Outrun
Saoirse Ronan sails the waves of addiction and recovery in this gripping story about the healing powers of the ocean, set between Scotland and London.
Event
Cinema
The Substance
Demi Moore gives a career-best performance as a former A-lister suddenly fired from her fitness TV show and desperate to reclaim her youth.
Event
Theatre & dance
Dance Umbrella: HATCHED ENSEMBLE
Urgent and subtly spectacular work from choreographer Mamela Nyamza featuring ten dancers, an opera singer and an African traditional multi-instrumentalist.
Event
Library
Mudproof London by Olayanju Dada
Free
The exhibition is a series of curated narrative collages that highlights the paradoxical essence and influence of London in unlikely places, as an ideal, a dream, a barrier or even a destination.
Event
Art & designTours & public spaces
Concrete and Clay: Archiving the Barbican
Free
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.
Event
Library
I'm Not Okay: An Emo Retrospective
Free
A pilot exhibition exploring the rise of Britain’s Y2K lost subculture: Emo. Focusing on the first-generation Emo scene from 2004 to 2009.
Event
Art & design
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998
A landmark group exhibition of art made in response to India’s changing cultural-political landscape during pivotal years.
Event
Art & design
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: It will end in tears
Free
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.
Event
Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.
Event
Cinema
Joker: Folie à Deux
Two years on from the rise of the Joker, Joaquin Phoenix cackles his way back onto the big screen as infamous villain Arthur Fleck.
