Somerset House Studios will host te largest outdoor work by Turner Prize winner and Studios artist Tai Shani, a return of the Artists' Fair, and a collaborative commission by artists Sophia Al-Maria and Lydia Ourahmane this year.
The news comes at the London arts space reveals its plans for the year which also include new initiative n-Space, and an expanded international residency programme includes American Artist, DeForrest Brown Jnr and Ellen Arkbro.
The Spell Or The Dream is a major new work by Turner Prize winner and Somerset House Studios artist Tai Shani, drawing together sculpture, radio, live gatherings and a host of guest contributors, to collectively dream of new horizons.
It will be open for viewing from August 8th to September 14th for fre.
On July 20th, BAFTA-nominated filmmaker and Somerset House Studios resident Akinola Davies Jr will premiere a new film, rituals: union black, featuring a specially commissioned score performed live by a line-up of contemporary musical talent.
From April onwards, Sophia Al-Maria and Lydia Ourahmane’s Lancaster Place commission, 2125, continues their collaborative exploration of the ‘grey areas’ of England’s narratives, focusing on the notion of the ‘right to remain’.
The title of the work refers to the ending of the current Somerset House lease, a date that will surpass the lifetimes of the artists, the inhabitants and the decision-makers of Somerset House.
From April to June 2025, the artists will invite six individual practitioners from diverse disciplines to take up two-week residencies each in the G31 project space at Somerset House, in dialogue with the site-specific installation outside.
These residencies will encourage reflection and bold exploration of themes such as resilience, refuge, rest and the unspoken politics of public space, through conversations and creative actions that provoke critical engagement.
The Artists’ Fair returns for its third edition on 7th and 8th June featuring an artist-led market and a discursive programme of talks and workshops addressing topics and themes that feel most urgent to artists today.
New hub for interdisciplinary experimentation across art and technology, n-Space, will launch in October to extend the Studio's artist-led, community-driven ethos.
It will bring together practitioners from different fields to explore how we might generate new insights, interventions and knowledge in emerging sociotechnical systems, originating new programmes for the Studios.
The news comes at the London arts space reveals its plans for the year which also include new initiative n-Space, and an expanded international residency programme includes American Artist, DeForrest Brown Jnr and Ellen Arkbro.
The Spell Or The Dream is a major new work by Turner Prize winner and Somerset House Studios artist Tai Shani, drawing together sculpture, radio, live gatherings and a host of guest contributors, to collectively dream of new horizons.
It will be open for viewing from August 8th to September 14th for fre.
On July 20th, BAFTA-nominated filmmaker and Somerset House Studios resident Akinola Davies Jr will premiere a new film, rituals: union black, featuring a specially commissioned score performed live by a line-up of contemporary musical talent.
From April onwards, Sophia Al-Maria and Lydia Ourahmane’s Lancaster Place commission, 2125, continues their collaborative exploration of the ‘grey areas’ of England’s narratives, focusing on the notion of the ‘right to remain’.
The title of the work refers to the ending of the current Somerset House lease, a date that will surpass the lifetimes of the artists, the inhabitants and the decision-makers of Somerset House.
From April to June 2025, the artists will invite six individual practitioners from diverse disciplines to take up two-week residencies each in the G31 project space at Somerset House, in dialogue with the site-specific installation outside.
These residencies will encourage reflection and bold exploration of themes such as resilience, refuge, rest and the unspoken politics of public space, through conversations and creative actions that provoke critical engagement.
The Artists’ Fair returns for its third edition on 7th and 8th June featuring an artist-led market and a discursive programme of talks and workshops addressing topics and themes that feel most urgent to artists today.
New hub for interdisciplinary experimentation across art and technology, n-Space, will launch in October to extend the Studio's artist-led, community-driven ethos.
It will bring together practitioners from different fields to explore how we might generate new insights, interventions and knowledge in emerging sociotechnical systems, originating new programmes for the Studios.
For details of everything happening at Somerset House Studios this year head to somersethouse.org.uk.
Tai Shani The Spell or The Dream (C: Adam James Sinclair and Lotti V Closs 2024)