Past
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The Remarkable Story of Samuel and Atiya Fyzee-Rahamin
Uncovering a sleeper in the Ben Uri Collection 27 November 2024 Sarah MacDougall and Hassan Vawda, a Doctoral Researcher at Tate and Goldsmiths University, discuss the dynamic, South East Asian couple Samuel Fyzee-Rahamin (1880–1964), painter, dramatist and poet, and Atiya Fyzee-Rahamin... Read more -
Bands of Pride
Hormazd Narielwalla and Sarah MacDougall in conversation 20 November 2024 Artist Hormazd Narielwalla, whose mural, Expanding Universe , has just been unveiled at the Royal Geographical Society, was born in Mumbai, India in 1979 and moved to Britain in 2003,... Read more -
Finding an Indian Expressionist
Tensions, Innovations and Visions in the work of Lancelot Ribeiro 13 November 2024 A restless artist and continuous innovator, Lancelot Ribeiro's work draws upon both his Indian heritage and his storied European experience. Reflecting on artistic currents of modernism, Expressionism and pioneering experimentation,... Read more -
In Their Voices: The Roots of the Indian Artists’ Collective
Parts 1 & 2 5 - 6 November 2024 Established in 1963, the Indian Painters Collective UK (IPC) was set up by four painters; Gajanan Bhagwat, (Yashwant) Mali, Lancelot Ribeiro and Ibrahim Wagh. A 25-year movement, the IPC evolved... Read more
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From Bombay to Belsize
Marsha Ribeiro on Lancelot Ribeiro 30 October 2024 Marsha Ribeiro, the younger daughter of artist and poet Lancelot Ribeiro, tells her father's story via his poignant collection of photographs, letters, diaries and other writings from the Ribeiro archive.... Read more -
The Art Dealer Grete Ring (1887-1952)
28 August 2024 Lucy Wasensteiner is Junior Professor in the Art History Department at the University of Bonn. She wrote her doctoral dissertation at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, a provenance-based... Read more -
William Ohly and the Abbey Arts Centre
14 August 2024 Jane Eckett is a lecturer in art history and art curatorship at the University of Melbourne. She teaches and researches in modern and contemporary art, specialising in modernist sculpture and... Read more -
Lea Bondi Jaray and Transnational Women Artists
7 August 2024 Dr. Cai Lyons is an independent art historian and early career researcher. They received their PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2023. Dr. Lyons’ doctoral thesis critically analysed the... Read more
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Alannah Coleman and the postwar London art scene
31 July 2024 Dr. Simon Pierse was born in London. He is Emeritus Senior Lecturer at Aberystwyth University and author of the award-winning Australian Art and Artists in London 1950-1965: An Antipodean Summer,... Read more -
Defining the Female Gaze
Erica Brausen’s Hanover Gallery and Women Artists 24 July 2024 Cherith Summers works as an art advisor for Murphy and Partners, where she advises on Contemporary, Post-War and Emerging Art. As an art historian, Cherith's research has predominantly focussed on... Read more -
Jack Bilbo and The Moderns
17 July 2024 Gallerist Jane England will be talking about about the legendary German émigré, bohemian artist, author and art dealer, Jack Bilbo, and the gallery that he opened in London during the... Read more -
Cosmopolis: Refugee Art Dealers in London - Curator's introduction
10 July 2024 A Curatorial Introduction to Cosmopolis: The Impact of Refugee Art Dealers in London Helena Cuss is the curator of Cosmopolis: The Impact of Refugee Art Dealers in London. The interplay... Read more
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Book launch: Pennings Poemings by artist and writer Boris Lurie
9 July 2024 Tuesday 9th July at Ben Uri from 6.30 pm. There may be a few seats free so please seek an invitation to events@benuri.org Ben Uri and the Boris... Read more -
Piers Secunda: Historian, Detective, Artist
The man who proved Alderney had a disturbing secret war 1 April 2024 View the related online exhibition here . Book here Read more -
April lecture bundle
1 - 30 April 2024 Responding to your many requests this week we launch the opportunity to catch up on the zoom events missed last year. Every month we offer you the chance to gain... Read more -
Bauhaus Women
Talk by Dr Elizabeth Otto 13 December 2023 UK 6.30pm | LA 10.30am | NY 1.30pm | SA 7.30pm | Israel 8.30pm Elizabeth Otto is an art and cultural historian whose research centers on early twentieth-century visual... Read more
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Parallel Lives: Eight Women Artists
6 December 2023 7 December 6.30 pm GMT on Zoom Join Gill Clarke co-curator of Parallel Lives: Eight Women Artists as she explores some of the artwork produced by Enid Marx, Gertrude Hermes,... Read more -
Legacy: WIAC Historic Artists and The National Gallery
22 November 2023 UK 6.30pm | LA 10.30am | NY 1.30pm | SA 7.30pm | Israel 8.30pm Jon King on the National Gallery's Women in the Arts Forum with Una Richmond on historical... Read more -
Unsung: Lesser-known women artists from the Ben Uri Collection
15 November 2023 In Unsung, a joint presentation by Ben Uri's Sarah MacDougall and Rachel Dickson , the speakers explore the lives and careers of a number of lesser-known women artists from the... Read more -
Women Sculptors: Gordine, Frink, Hepworth and Jonzen
Talk by Fran Lloyd 8 November 2023 UK 6.30pm | LA 10.30am | NY 1.30pm | SA 7.30pm | Israel 8.30pm Talk by Fran Lloyd Professor Fran Lloyd is Professor of Art History, Director of the Visual... Read more
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Bloomsbury Women
Frances Spalding in conversation with Jon King 1 November 2023 UK 6.30pm | LA 10.30am | NY 1.30pm | SA 7.30pm | Israel 8.30pm If you cannot make, it don't worry – book your seat, and we will forward a... Read more -
Colour Electric: Women Artists and Abstraction
Talk by Dr Marie-Anne Mancio 25 October 2023 UK 6.30pm | LA 10.30am | NY 1.30pm | SA 7.30pm | Israel 8.30pm If you cannot make, it don't worry – book your seat, and we will forward a... Read more -
Still Life and Intimacy
Talk by Rebecca Birrell 18 October 2023 UK 6.30 pm | LA 10.30am | NY 1.30pm | SA 7.30pm | Israel 8.30pm Rebecca Birrell was born in Liverpool in 1991. She studied English Literature at UCL, then... Read more -
In/Visible: The Visibility of Women Artists in Public Collections
16 October 2023 This panel event brings together Dr. Nina Pearlman, Head of UCL Art Collections, Harriet Loffler , curator of The Women’s Art Collection at the Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge,... Read more
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Join the Club: Marlow Moss and the WIAC
Talk by Lucy Howarth 4 October 2023 UK 6.30pm | LA 10.30am | NY 1.30pm | SA 7.30pm | Israel 8.30pm Zoom presentation by Lucy Howarth Dr Lucy Howarth is an art historian, lecturer and curator; her... Read more -
History of the Women's International Art Club
27 September 2023 UK 6.30pm | LA 10.30am | NY 1.30pm | SA 7.30pm | Israel 8.30pm Join guest curator Una Richmond and Mengting Yu, author of 'London’s Women Artists, 1900-1914', for an... Read more -
Curator's introduction to "Sheer Verve"
21 September 2023 UK 6.30 pm | LA 10.30am | NY 1.30pm | SA 7.30pm | Israel 8.30pm Join curators Una Richmond and Sarah MacDougall for this enlightening introduction to the new Sheer... Read more -
Laura Knight RA at The Nuremberg Trial
30 August 2023 30 August 2023, from 6.30 pm BST both in person and on Zoom LA 10.30am | NY 1.30pm | UK 6.30pm | SA 7.30pm | Israel 8.30pm Join Dr Alice... Read more
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1946 - The Nuremberg Trials and Laura Knight
22 August 2023 22 August 2023, from 6.30 pm BST on Zoom LA 10.30am | NY 1.30pm | UK 6.30pm | SA 7.30pm | Israel 8.30pm Sir John Tusa, co-author with the late... Read more -
Haunted Images: The War Art of Laura Knight and Peter Howson
12 July 2023 Claire Brenard has been the Art Curator of the historically important Collection at the Imperial War Museum since 2012. She has just completed what will be a must-have book for... Read more -
Ukranian Art during the War: Between Sacrasm and Compassion
28 June 2023 Art Historian Vita Susak speaking from Switzerland on the current situation of Ukrainian art and artists. Vita Susak is an independent scholar and member of the Swiss Academic Society for... Read more -
Law and Order - How much has changed in 60 years?
Fran Lloyd and Faisal Abdu’Allah in conversation with David Glasser 24 May 2023 'Law and Order’ by Ernst Eisenmayer, 1962 — How much has changed in 60 years? Fran Lloyd is Professor of Art History at Kingston University and Director of Postgraduate Research.... Read more
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The Second Generation
Growing up with immigrant artist fathers 26 April 2023 From 6.30 pm BST Marsha Ribeiro, daughter of Indian born artist Lancelot Ribeiro and David Herman, son of Polish born artist Josef Herman, compare their upbringing and life experiences as... Read more -
Samuel Hirszenberg (1865-1908): A Polish Jewish Artist in Turmoil
13 March 2023 This book reveals the innermost turmoil of Polish born artist, Samuel Hirszenberg’s struggle to juggle not only the contradiction of traditionalism and modernism and the representation of his fellow Jews... Read more -
My heart will always reek of Deutschland: the life and work of Boris Lurie
11 January 2023 Boris Lurie was born in Leningrad and he and his father survived the camps during the Holocaust and immigrated to New York in 1946. Lurie was his own man and... Read more -
Paula Rego and Anthony Rudolf
Painter, Model, Companions 20 October 2022 Paula Rego was one of the world's foremost artists and her extraordinary talent enabled her to articulate ugly uncomfortable truths about society through her extraordinary and distinctive talent. Her body... Read more
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Paul Rosenberg: Picasso’s Dealer in America
21 September 2022 The renowned French art dealer, famed for promoting such modernist giants as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, had become a refugee as Paris’s Nazi occupiers turned his home into the... Read more -
Exiled Artists and in Wartime America
14 September 2022 Many prominent European artists-including George Grosz, Jacques Lipchitz, and Marc Chagall-resettled (permanently or temporarily) in the United States following the Nazis' rise to power in Germany or the outbreak of... Read more -
Forging an American market for German Expressionism
7 September 2022 Curt Valentin and Karl Nierendorf, German émigré art dealers who relocated to New York in the late 1930s, played critical roles in creating an American market for German Expressionism during... Read more -
The Man Ray I knew, advised and represented
3 August 2022 Wednesday, 3 August 2022, 6.30 pm BST Lewis Kruger was Man Ray's personal attorney and is professor emeritus of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. He will... Read more
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Helmut Newton: Living to make pictures
12 July 2022 Helmut Newton (1920-2004) was one of the most singular and successful photographers of his generation, known for his provocative fusion of fashion, portrait, and erotic subjects. Philippe Garner, a fifty-plus... Read more -
The Messel Family as Creators, Collectors and Connoisseurs
16 June 2022 Thursday 16th June at 6.30pm BST / 1.30pm EDT. Presented on Zoom by John Hilary. The Messels were a distinguished German-Jewish family who enhanced British culture in numerous ways. John... Read more -
A Total Artwork
Important new perspectives on the threatened Oldham Mural 10 May 2022 6.45 – 8 pm, 10 May 2022 George Mayer-Marton's 'dazzling' Oldham Mural is at risk - just as its significance is being better understood. Join us for this special online... Read more -
R.B. Kitaj - An American Painter in London
Immigrant, Secret Jew and Avowed Diasporist 13 April 2022 Wednesday 13th April at 6.30pm GMT / 1.30pm ET. Presented on Zoom by Dr Eckhart Gillen. Eckhart Gillen, art historian and freelance curator, studied Art History, German and Sociology at... Read more
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Paul Gauguin: Migrations and Emigrations
15 March 2022 Tuesday 15th March at 6.30 pm GMT / 1.30pm ET. Presented on Zoom by Ziva Amishai-Maisels Prof. Ziva Amishai-Maisels is a full professor emerita of the Department of Art History... Read more -
Amedeo Modigliani and the Creation of 'International' or 'Modern' Art in Paris
16 February 2022 Amedeo Modigliani and the Creation of 'International' or 'Modern' Art in Paris Wednesday 16th February at 6.30pm GMT / 1.30pm ET. Presented on Zoom by Kenneth Wayne. Kenneth Wayne founded... Read more -
Pablo Picasso: Casting in Troubled Times
The bronze casting of Picasso’s sculpture during World War II 13 January 2022 Pablo Picasso: Casting in Troubled Times Thursday 13th January at 6.30pm GMT / 1.30pm ET. Presented on Zoom by Clare Finn Clare Finn, Ph.D., first trained as a Conservator of... Read more -
Camille Pissarro
Online tour in the Stern-Pissarro Gallery, London 30 November 2021 Camille Pissarro: The Immigrant and His Art Tuesday 30th November 2021 at 6.30pm GMT / 1.30pm ET. Presented on Youtube by David Stern. The inaugural online event of the Ben... Read more
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Insights into Metzger's practice and life
Remembering Metzger with Jo Joelson 9 September 2021 Jo Joelson, artist, writer and co-founder of artistic duo London Fieldworks shares insights into Gustav Metzger's practice through experiences of collaboration, friendship and care. Joelson will discuss collaborative projects on... Read more -
'On visiting Wittgenstein's grave with Gustav Metzger'
18 August 2021 Writer and independent curator, Bronac Ferran addresses negation and its presence in Metzger's work contextualising her discussion by considering other artists and poets of the post-war period, followed by a... Read more -
Ecology and Activism in Metzger's Oeuvre
Panel discussion 28 July 2021 A distinguished international panel explore the themes of ecology and activism in Metzger's oeuvre followed by an audience engaged Q&A. We welcome Pontus Kyander (lecturer at the Finnish Academy of... Read more -
100,000 Newspapers Documentary Film Screening
And discussion with Director Martin Pickles 21 July 2021 Following the inaugural screening of 100,000 Newspapers, a film documenting Gustav Metzger's 2003 'public-active installation' and performances of the same name at the T1 2 Art Space, East London, Martin... Read more
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Ethics and Aesthetics in Metzger's formative years
Discussion panel 14 July 2021 Andrew Wilson ( Senior Curator Modern & Contemporary British Art, and Archives at Tate Britain) and Dr. Elizabeth Fisher (Leverhulme Research Fellow, Northumbria University) talk about the retrieval and re-discovery... Read more -
Fritz Ascher Society Lecture
on the Becoming Gustav Metzger exhibition 7 July 2021 Becoming Gustav Metzger curator, Nicola Baird (Ben Uri Research Unit) gives an online lecture to the Fritz Ascher Society, New York. Serving as an in-depth exploration of the early life... Read more -
Online Private View
Becoming Gustav Metzger exhibition 15 June 2021 Enjoy a virtual curatorial tour of the exhibition ' Becoming Gustav Metzger, Uncovering the Early Years 1945-59' by co-curators Nicola Baird (Ben Uri Research Unit) and Leanne Dmyterko (The Gustav... Read more -
On the 'Public-ness' of Metzger's oeuvre
Online talk by Carina Plath 12 May 2021 Carina Plath (Deputy Director, Sprengel Museum, Hannover Germany) discusses the 'public-ness' of Gustav Metzger's work, his early proposals for monuments and the idea of occupying space by artists, which later... Read more
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Curatorial introduction to the Becoming Gustav Metzger exhibition
28 April 2021 Co-curators of Becoming Gustav Metzger, Uncovering the Early Years 1945-1959, Sarah MacDougall (Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, Director) will introduce Nicola Baird (Ben Uri Research Unit) and Leanne Dmyterko (The... Read more -
Ben Uri's Future - Q&A
23 March 2021 Ben Uri: Survival & A Purposeful Future With the successful launch last year of Ben Uri as the First Full-scale Virtual Art Museum and Research Centre, and content, engagement and... Read more -
Oskar Kokoschka: The Untimely Modernist
Lecture by Professor Rüdiger Görner 4 February 2021 Oskar Kokoschka in Exile, a talk by Rüdiger Görner, author of the new biography, Kokoschka: The Untimely Modernist In this first event in our new 2021 Ben Uri Research... Read more
