CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS AT BEN URI GALLERY AND EXTERNAL VENUES
NOW OPEN
Disruptors: Fractured Images and Migrant Wordl
Until 4 September 2026
A century of word-image experiment shaped by migration, exile, and belonging.
every Wednesday-Friday, 10 am - 5:30 pm
At Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, 108A Boundary Rd, London, NW8 0RH.

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Disruptors: Fractured Images and Migrant Wordl
14 May - 4 September 2026This exhibition traces more than a century of artistic experimentation with the relationship between words and images. It spans early-twentieth-century historical avant-garde practices through post-war developments in concrete poetry to... -
The Abbey Art Centre as Postwar Refuge: 1946–56
7 October - 18 December 2026The exhibition unfolds the remarkable story of the Abbey Art Centre, a cosmopolitan art colony established at New Barnet in 1946 by charismatic artist, gallerist and world art collector, William... -
borders, blurring and the international networks of concrete poetry
18 June 2026As part of Disruptors: Fractured Images and Migrant Wordl , Dr Greg Thomas, a leading scholar of concrete poetry and contributor to the exhibition catalogue, will discuss migration, mobility, and... -
“begin again”: Dom Sylvester Houédard (dsh) and Li Yuan-chia
24 June 2026This lecture explores the artistic dialogue between the Benedictine monk, poet, and artist Dom Sylvester Houédard and the Chinese-born artist Li Yuan-chia. Through their artworks, poems, poem-objects, and correspondence from...
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