The Warburg Institute
Exhibitions, Performances, Residencies, Books
2024-
In 1879, the art historian Aby Warburg traded his birthright to his family’s bank in Hamburg for any book he asked for. His library grew rapidly and in 1926, was moved to a purpose-built building forming the basis of a new research institute, the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg (KBW). In 1933, the election of the Nazis forced the KBW to emigrate to London, where it became The Warburg Institute.
The Warburg’s Library, Archives and Photographic Collection form a holistic, associative engine for exploring the histories of the arts and sciences—linking the textual and the visual, the intellectual and the social, the scientific and the magical.
From October 2024 a new programme of exhibitions, talks, performances, screenings and artistic residencies begin at the Centre.
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Exhibitions, Performances, Residencies, Books
2024-
In 1879, the art historian Aby Warburg traded his birthright to his family’s bank in Hamburg for any book he asked for. His library grew rapidly and in 1926, was moved to a purpose-built building forming the basis of a new research institute, the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg (KBW). In 1933, the election of the Nazis forced the KBW to emigrate to London, where it became The Warburg Institute.
The Warburg’s Library, Archives and Photographic Collection form a holistic, associative engine for exploring the histories of the arts and sciences—linking the textual and the visual, the intellectual and the social, the scientific and the magical.
From October 2024 a new programme of exhibitions, talks, performances, screenings and artistic residencies begin at the Centre.
More information
Work-Leisure
Artist’s Books, Exhibitions, Archive
Park Royal, London, 2019-21
Sheffield, 2024-25
Compiled in collaboration with Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad, Work-Leisure is an ongoing project that catalogues the personal, playful, and practical objects being made after-hours and between tasks by industrial workers across Britain.
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Artist’s Books, Exhibitions, Archive
Park Royal, London, 2019-21
Sheffield, 2024-25
Compiled in collaboration with Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad, Work-Leisure is an ongoing project that catalogues the personal, playful, and practical objects being made after-hours and between tasks by industrial workers across Britain.
People Make Television
Exhibition
Raven Row, 28 January-26 March, 2023
People Make Television was a major exhibition of DIY and community television from the 1970s.
Throughout the 1970s and 80s, hundred of campaigning and community groups including anarchists, farm workers, Black teachers, women priests, office cleaners, radical housing associations, trans women, ex-cons, situationists, film co-ops, neurodiverse people, freethinkers and channelers of the extra-terrestrial, produced their own television for the BBC, ITV and a handful of short-lived local cable channels. People Make Televisions revisits these moving image archive to piece together the story of Britain’s community broadcast history. Co-curated with Lori E. Allen, William Fowler and Alex Sainsbury.
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Exhibition
Raven Row, 28 January-26 March, 2023
People Make Television was a major exhibition of DIY and community television from the 1970s.
Throughout the 1970s and 80s, hundred of campaigning and community groups including anarchists, farm workers, Black teachers, women priests, office cleaners, radical housing associations, trans women, ex-cons, situationists, film co-ops, neurodiverse people, freethinkers and channelers of the extra-terrestrial, produced their own television for the BBC, ITV and a handful of short-lived local cable channels. People Make Televisions revisits these moving image archive to piece together the story of Britain’s community broadcast history. Co-curated with Lori E. Allen, William Fowler and Alex Sainsbury.
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Artists in Residence
Film Programme
Barbican Centre, 2024
A film season comrpising artist’s film and archive material to explore the unstable relationship between London’s space, art-making, and everyday life. Each programme presents a moving image chronology of London: encountering the shifting neighbourhoods and spaces adopted as artists’ studios, to shared living spaces, to pubs; bringing together artist’s responses to the changes in everyday urban landscape with documents of the culture industry’s varying embrace, rejection and struggle under these conditions.
Co-curated with Matthew Barrington and Therese Henningsen.
Screenings and more information.
Film Programme
Barbican Centre, 2024
A film season comrpising artist’s film and archive material to explore the unstable relationship between London’s space, art-making, and everyday life. Each programme presents a moving image chronology of London: encountering the shifting neighbourhoods and spaces adopted as artists’ studios, to shared living spaces, to pubs; bringing together artist’s responses to the changes in everyday urban landscape with documents of the culture industry’s varying embrace, rejection and struggle under these conditions.
Co-curated with Matthew Barrington and Therese Henningsen.
Screenings and more information.
Radical Broadcasts: Theory On TV
Film & Talks Programme
Whitechapel Gallery, RIBA, Institut Francais,
Verso Books, 2018
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the 1968 radical uprising across Europe, Radical Broadcasts: Theory On TV was a London-wide screening season which brought together a combination of documentary, archive footage and drama from an era of British television where public intellectuals and provocative ideas were never far from our screens. Featuring the Yippies, Julia Kristeva, Stuart Hall, Jacques Derrida, Raymond Williams and Helene Cixous. Co-curated with Colm McAuliffe.
Screenings listed here.
Film & Talks Programme
Whitechapel Gallery, RIBA, Institut Francais,
Verso Books, 2018
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the 1968 radical uprising across Europe, Radical Broadcasts: Theory On TV was a London-wide screening season which brought together a combination of documentary, archive footage and drama from an era of British television where public intellectuals and provocative ideas were never far from our screens. Featuring the Yippies, Julia Kristeva, Stuart Hall, Jacques Derrida, Raymond Williams and Helene Cixous. Co-curated with Colm McAuliffe.
Screenings listed here.
