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Gasworks is a leading non-profit organisation based in South London. Working at the intersection of UK and international contemporary art, we have supported more than 750 artists from over 100 countries since our founding in 1994.
We commission exhibitions by UK-based and international artists, and host residencies that enable artists from all over the world to research and develop new work in London. We also provide studios for London-based artists and develop participation projects for local children and young people together with community partners.
In 2027 Gasworks presents four solo exhibitions by Thuy Tien Nguyen, Monia Ben Hamouda, Anna Engelhardt and Pedro Neves.
Thuy Tien Nguyen
January 14–March 21, 2027
Working primarily with sculpture and installation, Thuy Tien Nguyen examines personal and collective memories by investigating how they are adjusted, translated and reconstructed over time. Her exhibition takes the form of a skeletal conveyor belt snaking through the gallery. Constructed from modular polished steel and intricately carved wooden fragments salvaged from balustrades, boats and door frames, the work evokes mechanisms that process and circulate goods, and global systems through which labour flows. Small sculptures from Thailand, Vietnam and the UK rest on top of the conveyor belt. As they circulate without reaching their destination, fragments of pop songs overlap and dissolve into the gallery's atmosphere. The system continues to operate, but its purpose shifts from delivery to rhythm, pleasure and delay.
Monia Ben Hamouda
April 15–June 20, 2027
Monia Ben Hamouda’s practice traces her Tunisian-Italian heritage through personal experience, collective memory and intergenerational transmission. Drawing on symbols and materials tied to Arab and Islamic cultural belonging, she examines the tensions that emerge around identity, representation and belonging within shifting social and political contexts. Her exhibition at Gasworks will include a new sculptural installation using unorthodox art materials – specifically oil and spices – that carry potent socio-political histories and resonances. Oil is a contemporary analogue of what spices once were: a material that is not only traded but which fundamentally underpins geopolitics and the global economy.
Anna Engelhardt
July 15–September 19, 2027
Anna Engelhardt is a video artist and writer based in Kent, working with video installation, computer-generated animation, and found footage. Her films follow semi-fictional characters caught in environments of political conflict. The subjects draw from her investigations into contested histories of technology, extraction, and infrastructure. Her new moving image commission for Gasworks examines the political power of climate prediction. Focusing on disaster simulation, from extreme weather modelling to military testing grounds, the work outlines the role of forecast as both premonition and threat.
Pedro Neves
October 7–December 12, 2027
Pedro Neves’ paintings explore the boundless connections between body, territory, and belonging. Drawing inspiration from Maranhão, where he was born, and Minas Gerais, where he grew up, his works intertwine material culture, family memories, oral histories and fabulation to reflect on the enduring imprint of Afro-Indigenous culture on life in Brazil. For his exhibition at Gasworks, Pedro will explore the Pedra da Memória [Stone of Memory], a term used in Afro-Maranhense religions to describe people born with the gift of coexisting with their ancestors. Pedro’s exhibition will be preceded by a three-month residency at Gasworks from January to March 2027.
Acknowledgements
All exhibitions are supported by Gasworks Exhibition Supporters and public funding from Arts Council England. Thuy Tien Nguyen’s exhibition is commissioned by Thailand Biennale, Phuket and Gasworks. It is supported by British Council Biennials Connect, Henry Moore Foundation and Art Fund. With thanks to Articulate Studio, ICAT Logistics, Goethe Institut London and Truong Phat Company. Monia Ben Hamouda’s exhibition is commissioned by Gasworks and supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council programme (2026). Pedro Neves’ residency and exhibition are supported by Prue MacLeod.
Gasworks’ current exhibition Disco Inferno by Paloma Contreras Lomas is open until December 13, 2026.
