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Auto Italia is an artist-run organisation and project space that commissions new work, bringing together international networks of artists committed to the development of emerging practices and discussions in contemporary art.

28/05/2026

‘Noorani Metal Sound’ by Zahra Malkani is open Thursday to Sunday, 12 – 5pm and runs until 21 June.⁠

The exhibition is commissioned and produced by Auto Italia, with support from Arts Council England, Cockayne Grants for the Arts, the Embassy of the Netherlands, ZVM Rangoonwala Foundation, La Becque and Stroom Den Haag.

Image: Zahra Malkani, ‘Noorani Metal Sound’, 2026. Installation view at Auto Italia, London, UK. Courtesy the artist and Auto Italia. Photographer: Jack Elliot Edwards.

20/05/2026

Book Now: Join us on Thursday 18th June, 6:30 - 8:30pm for ‘From the Same Night - DIY Ephemera Toolkit’, a zine-making workshop with artist Reuben Brown.

‘From the Same Night - DIY Ephemera Toolkit’ is a portable archive and a DIY-ephemera-making toolkit designed as part of “club [construction]”, an ongoing research project by Reuben Brown.

Participants will be provided with a toolkit containing a curated selection of reproduced club culture artefacts: handmade flyers pulled from walls, floor plans, archival photographs, press clippings, found graphics and other traces of nightlife communities.

While each toolkit contains more or less the same selection, the acts of cutting, collaging, annotating and reconfiguring produce distinct and deeply personal reimaginings of the archive that may be playful, narrative, critical or abstract. The resulting zines form a temporary collective record: a set of parallel interpretations that speak to the multiplicity of q***r memory, the impossibility of a single authoritative narrative, and the ways nightlife is remembered, forgotten, retold, misremembered and rebuilt.

This event is free to attend and will take place at Auto Italia. To register, follow the link in our bio.

19/05/2026

Paul Rekret reviews Zahra Malkani’s solo exhibition ‘Noorani Metal Sound’ for The Wire.

“With Shahana Rajani, Malkani has spent the past decade developing Karachi LaJamia, a nomadic pedagogical project of walks, listening sessions and oral history, that responds to an increasingly enclosed and militarised city in which universities and cultural spaces are surveilled and securitised.

Noorani Metal Sound translates this method into exhibition form. On the cassettes, music gives way to Malkani’s own voice offering context, then back to song; the archive is more expansive than a single listening can take in. The recordings were mostly made on a phone, a tool small enough to pass unnoticed in spaces where a camera attracts attention and where a notebook can be confiscated or become evidence. The fragments remain partial and fugitive, but what coheres over the course of the exhibition is a rigorous and elegant entanglement of place and song, intimacy and struggle.”

Image: Zahra Malkani, ‘Noorani Metal Sound’, 2026. Installation view at Auto Italia, London, UK. Courtesy the artist and Auto Italia. Photographer: Jack Elliot Edwards.

15/05/2026

Next Wednesday: Join us on Wednesday 20th May, from 6pm for ‘how to cannibalise the dead’, a participatory performance with Palestinian artist Izdihar Afyouni.

Exploring testimony, consent, authorship and the circulation of stories across cultural borders, the performance considers how first-hand oral testimonies operate within institutional frameworks, and how they are consumed, reshaped or used to produce value.

Participants are invited to submit or prepare a testimony in advance, though this is optional. You are welcome to attend without preparing anything and will not be asked to share a personal testimony.

Please arrive from 6pm for a 6:30pm start.

This event is free to attend. To register, follow the link in our bio.
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Image: Izdihar Afyouni, ‘2024’, 240 x 140 cm, oil and blood on linen, 2024.

13/05/2026

Book Now: Join us on 6 June at 3pm for ‘A falling’ – death and cadence with Zoé Samudzi.

The activist and writer shares insights from her scholarly research, primarily concerned with the Ovaherero and Nama genocide and its afterlives, settler colonialism in southern Africa, and coloniality across the continent more broadly.

Framed by the concept of cadence – derived from the Latin cadere (‘to fall’) that describes the sense of closure at the end of a musical phrase – Syma Tariq will host a discussion on warring modes of historical repetition through the sacred and the profane, incantation and the performance of language as power, and the never-present tense of genocide.

This event is the fifth in a public programme series curated by researcher, writer and sound practitioner Syma Tariq, and is supported by the La Becque Artist Residency Programme. Full listings for ‘Metal on Metal’ can be found on our website.

‘Metal on Metal’ is commissioned and produced by Auto Italia, with support from the ZVM Rangoonwala Foundation.

08/05/2026

Join us on Thursday 4th June, 6:30–8:30pm for ‘I hv done brain check they say not much’, a participatory performance and discussion with artist Carmen Hutchins.

This event offers a glimpse into the constant, rolling landscape of living with seizures. Structured as a performative reading group, it delves into the cryptic and charged typings found in the comment sections of random videos and cursed forum threads online. Hutchins edits and interweaves this found text with her own reflections and asides, creating a detailed mise-en-scène that portrays an experience of having seizures.

Participants are encouraged to sit in the unease of these perennial states of unrest, and to consider how such conditions resonate within their own lives and the lives of others.

Moving beyond the typical image of the convulsing figure, the work gestures towards a vast, neglected underbelly of community who are seeking solution and connection. Pushed to the fringes by the systemic failures of the capitalist humdrum and fragmented healthcare systems, they urgently demand immediate, compassionate attention.

This event is free to attend and will be held at Auto Italia. To register, follow the link in our bio.

07/05/2026

‘Noorani Metal Sound’ by Zahra Malkani is open Thursday to Sunday, 12 – 5pm and runs until 21 June.⁠

Featuring new sound work, sculpture, installation, and moving image, the exhibition draws on mysticism, ecological resistance movements and feminist aural practices to explore the intersections of the sonic and the sacred across Pakistan’s heavily exploited coastal and delta regions. Emerging from over five years of ongoing research, Noorani Metal Sound brings together Malkani’s field recordings and archival work tracing oral and sonic traditions of lament, devotion and resistance.

The exhibition is commissioned and produced by Auto Italia, with support from Arts Council England, Cockayne Grants for the Arts, the Embassy of the Netherlands, ZVM Rangoonwala Foundation, La Becque and Stroom Den Haag.

Image: Zahra Malkani, ‘Noorani Metal Sound’, 2026. Installation view at Auto Italia, London, UK. Courtesy the artist and Auto Italia. Photographer: Jack Elliot Edwards.

06/05/2026

Auto Italia is pleased to announce our 2026 Participation Artist-in-Residence, Rose Nordin.

In partnership with Praxis for migrants and refugees and Kazzum Arts, Nordin will collaborate with young migrants as co-authors of a new body of work rooted in cultural memory, lived experience, and ancestral knowledge.

Nordin and the youth collaborators will co-create scent-based and printed objects, talismanic forms, and other sensory artworks that trace migratory journeys and uncover shared histories. Through collaborative workshops, folklore, conversation, and experimentation, the project provides a space for reflection, exchange, and the celebration of migrant voices as central to the cultural, social, and civic fabric of our shared society.

The body of work will be developed over the next six months, alongside a public programme of events, talks, and training, culminating in a public presentation in November.

The Participation Artist-in-Residence Programme is commissioned and produced by Auto Italia, with support from The National Lottery Community Fund and Arts Council England.

24/04/2026

Documentation of our current exhibition ‘Noorani Metal Sound’ is now online!⁠

The exhibition continues until 21 June 2026, open Thursday to Sunday, 12 - 5pm.⁠ Free entry.

‘Noorani Metal Sound’ is commissioned and produced by Auto Italia, with support from Arts Council England, Cockayne Grants for the Arts, the Embassy of the Netherlands, ZVM Rangoonwala Foundation, La Becque and Stroom Den Haag.

Image: Zahra Malkani, ‘Noorani Metal Sound’, 2026. Installation view at Auto Italia, London, UK. Courtesy the artist and Auto Italia. Photographer: Jack Elliot Edwards.

23/04/2026

Michelle Tonta interviews Zahra Malkani’s solo exhibition ‘Noorani Metal Sound’ for East End Review.

“Malkani describes the process of recording and weaving together these sounds as “slow, fluid and meandering”, noting that the recordings were by-products of her travels not just for research but also to meet friends and family, to attend meetings and protests, to visit shrines and spend time by the sea. [...] On her own sense of place and identity, she adds: “I think a sense of identity is something we nurture and sustain in and with community… I found a sense of identification in this political/mystical tradition by participating in it. Working with this material has been a way of maintaining connection and abiding by relationships to the movements, to people, to the river and the sea and the songs.””

Follow the link in our bio to read the full article.⁠

Image: Zahra Malkani, ‘Noorani Metal Sound’, 2026. Installation view at Auto Italia, London, UK. Courtesy the artist and Auto Italia. Photographer: Jack Elliot Edwards.

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