Programme 2024

Gasworks is proud to announce its programme for 2024, coinciding with the celebration of its 30th anniversary and the appointment of new director, Robert Leckie. The programme includes exhibitions by Anna Perach, Rahima Gambo and Riar Rizaldi, as well as ongoing residency and participation projects.

Exhibitions
Anna Perach: Holes
February 1–April 28, 2024

The first UK institutional solo exhibition by Gasworks studio holder Anna Perach. Taking inspiration from historical instances where the female body is viewed as something that transgresses the rules of morality and nature, the artist explores ideas of identity, gender, and craft. Employing a distinctive visual vocabulary, Anna works with an intricate tufting technique to create surreal wearable sculptures that will be activated in a new two-part performance, taking place at selected times during the exhibition.

Supported by Catherine Petitgas, Gasworks Exhibitions Supporters and the Anna Perach Exhibition Circle.  

Rahima Gambo: Alternative Central Area Locations
June 13–September 8, 2024

A new commission by Rahima Gambo examines her relationship to Abuja, Nigeria, through a form of intuitive cartography. Rahima takes the records of Nigeria’s planned capital city as malleable sites and symbolic material from which to drift into past impressions, slip into her present migrant life, and offer a filter from which to consider possible futures. Through film, sculpture and installation, the artist speculates on the decision-making processes, the omissions, variations and unforeseen needs that the city plan evokes.

Supported by Catherine Petitgas and Gasworks Exhibitions Supporters.

Riar Rizaldi
October 4–December 22, 2024

A moving-image commission by Indonesian artist and filmmaker Riar Rizaldi. Following a residency at Gasworks, Riar will develop a new work based on a dialogue between contemporary particle physics and ideas about the nature of God in tropical Sufi mysticism, a movement that thrived in philosophical spheres across the Indo-Malay Archipelago in the 15th century.

Supported by Prue MacLeod, Catherine Petitgas and Gasworks Exhibitions Supporters.

Residencies
Gasworks’ residency programme offers international artists in the early stages of their career opportunities for self-led professional development, artistic exchange, and experimentation. Artists receive a fully funded three-month residency and studio to develop new work and research alongside our community.

Confirmed artists for 2024 include: Alice Visentin (Italy), supported by Fondazione Memmo; Emilia Álvarez (Argentina), supported by Erica Roberts and developed in partnership with URRA and arteBA; Íris Helena (Brazil), supported by Gasworks’ Brazilian Residency Patrons’ Circle; Julius Agbaje (Nigeria), winner of the Access ART X Prize; Katherine Nuñez (Philippines), supported by Mercedes Zobel; NadiA (El Salvador), supported by The Shelagh Wakely Bequest, administered by the Elephant Trust; Odur Ronald (Uganda), supported by Mercedes Vilardell; Riar Rizaldi (Indonesia), supported by Prue MacLeod; Tanat Teeradakorn (Thailand), supported by The Institutum.

Participation
José García Oliva is Gasworks’ participation artist-in-residence, working with communities in Lambeth and Southwark. In 2024, he will collaborate with unions and organisations to raise awareness about migrant workers’ rights and translate them into collective action through creative means.

Supported by City Bridge Trust, the funding arm of The City of London Corporation’s charity, Bridge House Estates. 

The Manos Creando programme, an initiative between AMPLA (the Association of Latin American Parents) and Gasworks, offering creative workshops connecting the Latin American community with Latin American artists will culminate in April 2024.

Supported by the Lambeth Wellbeing Fund.

Gasworks is a registered charity and part of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio. All our exhibitions, events, and workshops are free.