South London Gallery

21/10/2026

Join us for a screening of two films exploring the effects architecture has on people, accompanying Monika Sosnowska’s current exhibition Weight of Matter.

Set against London’s changing landscape, the films explore how architecture affects us psychologically and physically.

PROGRAMME

Emily Richardson, Block, 2005 (12 min).

Block is a day and night portrait of a tower block in southeast London. Working with a static camera, the fixed shots are repeated and edited together in sequence, similar to CCTV footage that flicks from one camera view to another.

Charlotte Ginsborg, The Mirroring Cure, 2006 (28 min).

Tracing the life of a large construction site from demolition to the completion of new office space, The Mirroring Cure follows a company secretary who decides to interview those working around her. Appearing initially as a documentary detailing the complexity of personal identities formed through being ‘at work’, as well as the effects of architecture on behaviour, the film begins to incorporate fictional elements leaving the viewer unsure as to where reality lies.

The screening will be introduced by Lily Tonge, Head of Programme, and Leila Arenou, Producer of Public Programmes at South London Gallery.

📅 Wed 28 Oct, 6:30-8pm
🎟️ £10 standard / £5 concessions
🔗 Book here: https://f.mtr.cool/crjdppx83v
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Image Credits:
Still, Mirroring Cure, 2006. Courtesy of Charlotte Ginsborg and LUX, London.
Still, Block, 2005. Courtesy of Emily Richardson.

Join us for a screening of two films exploring the effects architecture has on people, accompanying Monika Sosnowska’s current exhibition Weight of Matter. Set against London’s changing landscape, the films explore how architecture affects us psychologically and physically, as well as the social...

19/10/2026

Twisted rebar and fractured terrazzo form the basis of Monika Sosnowska’s monumental sculptures, but that’s not where her work begins.

Writer and curator Hettie Judah takes us through Monika’s creative process, exploring how her sculptures take shape and how their imposing, distorted forms transform the experience of moving through a space, creating an almost unsettling sense of danger.

Monika Sosnowska: Weight of Matter is free to visit until 22 November.

📍65 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH
🎥 Gordon Beswick

18/10/2026

Join us for The Conch, an event where artists share new work that is still in development.🐚💫

This edition of The Conch brings together artists who explore domestic architectures.

Georgina Hill is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in academic research. Her practice brings together materials, images, and processes to form an ecosystem of references.

Beatrice Vorster examines the mechanics of cinematic feeling through recording and reproducing. She has been collaborating with Yasmin Vardi since 2022, making artist films which investigate the grammar of cinema combining remade cliches with structural approaches to filmmaking.

Alia Hamaoui is a visual artist whose practice collides systems of control and material seductions to explore the performance of objects in service of cultural narration.

📅 Wed 15 Jul, 7pm
🎟️ £10 standard / £5 concessions
🔗 Book here: https://f.mtr.cool/wpafep5461

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Images:
Goergina Hill, Frieze Maquette.
Georgina Hill, 17 metres, 46 seconds, 800 frames.
Beatrice Vorster, Unfinished Business, film still, Beatrice V orster & Yasmin Vardi, 2026
Alia Hamaoui, A Step (a beat) towards an arid shade, 2026. Photo by Arthur Grey

15/10/2026

Martin Glover (), is an artist and arts facilitator, creating spaces where deaf audiences can engage with art in their first language.

Back in August, we caught up with Martin to learn more about his work and approach to making art accessible through BSL tours. Ahead of his upcoming tour of Monika Sosnowska: Weight of Matter, we're sharing this conversation to offer more insight into Martin and his work.

Join Martin for BSL tour of the exhibition, exploring Sosnowska’s large-scale sculptures, her use of industrial materials and the ways her work challenges familiar ideas of architecture and space.

📅 Sun 25 Oct, 1–2pm
📍 South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Rd, London SE5 8UH
🔗 Read the full Journal article and book your place on the BSL tour through the links below:

https://f.mtr.cool/ku5vjub3kc

The South London Gallery, which has been free and open to the public for more than 125 years, presents contemporary art exhibitions, film and performance events, with integrated education projects for children, young people and adults.

14/10/2026

✨The SLG Forever Raffle closes next week

This gives you one last chance to win an incredible collection of prizes while supporting the South London Gallery.

Participants could win a limited edition artwork, a brunch for two, subscriptions, experiences, vouchers, books, ceramics and much more, from some of our favourite local businesses and creatives.

Check out the link in bio for the full list of prizes 🏆

Thank you to everyone who has generously donated prizes:
Andu
ArtReview
Basic_____Space
Brick Lane Jazz Festival
Dinner for One Hundred
DALA
Dash The Henge Store & HENGE Brixton
F45_Peckham Rye
Ganapati
Lala Books
Mr Bao 🇹🇼
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Peckhamplex Ltd
Sally Butcher
Petit Pli – Clothes That Grow
Prince of Peckham
SAGE
South London Gallery Bookshop
South London Louie
FECUND

Enter via the link in bio before 25 October 🎟️

13/10/2026

Frieze has begun!

🎨 This week we’re heading to Frieze London, joining our friends on the Allied Editions booth.

We'll be sharing new editions by Paulo Nimer Pjota and David Austen, as well as works by Chila Burman Kumari and Yinka Shonibare, with proceeds from sales directly supporting our work, both with artists and with our local communities.

🕰️ Special opening hours: From Tues-Sun, 11am-6pm except for late opening on Wed 11am-9pm

🤳 Follow for more updates

13/10/2026

Frieze has begun!

🎨 We’re heading to Frieze London this week, joining our friends on the Allied Editions booth.

This year, we’re sharing new editions by Paulo Nimer Pjota and David Austen, as well as works by Chila Burman Kumari and Yinka Shonibare, with proceeds from sales directly supporting our work, both with artists and with our local communities.

🕰️ Special opening hours: From Tues-Sun, 11am-6pm except for late opening on Wed 11am-9pm

🤳 Follow for more updates

09/10/2026

08/10/2026

What do buildings tell us about the world we live in? What happens when those buildings start to fall apart?

Writer and curator, Hettie Judah takes a closer look at Monika Sosnowska: Weight of Matter at the South London Gallery, where staircases bend, structures collapse and familiar forms become something unexpected.

Drawing on the architecture of Warsaw, Sosnowska transforms familiar structures, materials and forms, reflecting on the legacy of modernism and the ideals embedded within it.

Free to visit until 22 November.

📍 65 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH
🎥: Gordon Beswick

06/10/2026

“My works are about introducing chaos and uncertainty. They make reality cease to be obvious” - Monika Sosnowska

The large-scale pieces created by Sosnowska begin as reference images. These she uses to create intricate paper models which are turned into sculpture using industrial materials.

Visit Monika Sosnowska: Weight of Matter, open until 22 Nov

01/10/2026

What’s On this October at the South London Gallery?

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Opening hours:
Wed-Sun, 12-6pm

Frieze week • 14-18 Oct:
Tues-Sun, 11am-6pm

Late opening:
Wed until 9pm

Monika Sosnowska: Weight of Matter

📆 10 Sep - 22 Nov
🎟️ FREE

Celebrating 15 years with And Other Stories Publishing

📆 Thur 1 Oct
🎟️ £9/£5 members & concessions

Talk: Weight of Matter

📆 Wed 7 Oct
🎟️ £10/£5 members & concessions

Teachers’ CPDL Workshop: Monika Sosnowska

📆 Wed 21 Oct
🎟️ FREE, booking required

SLG Forever Raffle

📆 Enter before 25 October

Film Screening: Psychobuildings

📆 Wed 28 Oct
🎟️ £10/£5 members & concessions

Family Space with Sadie St. Hilaire

📆 Sat 30 Oct
🎟️ FREE

Children’s Garden Trail

📆 Every Sat & Sun

30/09/2026

Talk: ‘Weight of Matter’ - 1 Week to go 🎤

Join curator Natalia Sielewicz and architect Tom Emerson in conversation with the SLG’s Director, Margot Heller at Camberwell College of Arts, focusing on Monika Sosnowska’s current exhibition Weight of Matter and her wider artistic practice.

Together, they’ll explore Sosnowska’s sculptural practice and its relationship to architecture, modernism, urban transformation and the built environment, from the warped structures of ‘Weight of Matter’ to the histories and spaces that have informed them.

📅 Wed 7 Oct, 6:30–8pm
📍 Camberwell College of Arts Lecture Theatre
🎟️ £10 / £5 concessions
For anyone interested in contemporary art, architecture and the spaces in between.

Book your place via the link in bio.
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Images:

Installation view of Monika Sosnowska: Weight of Matter at the South London Gallery. Photo: Jo Underhill

29/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us over the weekend to celebrate our 135th birthday. It was lovely to have so many of you with us. 🎂 
 
No birthday is complete without a belated gift, so we’re keeping the celebrations going with the SLG Forever Raffle. 
 
Tickets are £5, with prizes ranging from limited edition artworks to vouchers from some of our favourite local businesses. 
 
By entering, you’ll also be helping us continue to support art and community at the SLG for years to come. 
 
The raffle is open until midnight on Sunday 25 October. 
 
Find out more via the link in our bio.

With support from some of our favourite south London businesses, previous collaborators, supporters and friends, we are offering a total of 21 prizes to be won, including:

South London Gallery: Paulo Nimer Pjota Limited Edition Artwork Paulo Nimer Pjota
South London Gallery Bookshop: Voucher South London Gallery Bookshop
South London Louie: Weekend Brunch for Two South London Louie
Andu Masebo: Candlestick Andu
Art Review: 1-year Magazine Subscription ArtReview
Basic Space: One Month Unlimited Mat Membership Basic_____Space
Brick Lane Jazz Festival: 2x tickets to Brick Lane Jazz Fest 2027 Brick Lane Jazz Festival
Dinner4onehundred: Voucher Dinner for One Hundred
DALA: Voucher DALA
Dash the Henge: £20 Gift Voucher and Dash the Henge tote bag Dash The Henge Store & HENGE Brixton
F45 Peckham: 10x Class Pack Vouchers F45_Peckham Rye
Ganapati: Voucher Ganapati
LALA Books: 2x tickets to a LALA event and book to take home of your choice Lala Books
Mr. Bao: £40 Voucher Mr Bao 🇹🇼
Pagemasters: Book and Poster Bundle including Princess Diana as Mushrooms, notepad ad A3 poster 𝕻 𝖆 𝖌 𝖊 𝕸 𝖆 𝖘 𝖙 𝖊 𝖗 𝖘
Peckhamplex: Bundle including 2x pairs of tickets and merch bundle including a t-shirt, mug and bag Peckhamplex Ltd
Persopolis: Afternoon Treats for Two Sally Butcher
Petit Pli: Bundle including the exclusive Petit Pli x V&A Mary Yonge print, including Versatile Printed Bottoms and a matching Pullover in our MiniHuman size (9 months–4 years), alongside a Soft Toy Mascot. Petit Pli – Clothes That Grow
Prince of Peckham: Prince of Peckham Black Card Prince of Peckham
Sage Flowers: Bo

28/09/2026

Monika Sosnowska: Weight of Matter | ★★★★ – Time Out

Monika Sosnowska is best known for creating large-scale pieces using industrial materials but her ideas are first developed through intricate paper models. Rarely seen outside the studio, these small-scale maquettes are being shown for the first time in London as part of the exhibition, Weight of Matter.

See the models alongside monumental sculptures across the Main Gallery and Fire Station.

Free to visit until 22 Nov.

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Images: Installation view of Monika Sosnowska: Weight of Matter at the South London Gallery. Photo: Jo Underhill

25/09/2026

As Dovecot approach the opening of Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now at Guildhall Art Gallery, we're reflecting on Christina Kimeze's first ever textile work, Blue Door (2024), presented as part of Between Wood and Wheel at the South London Gallery.

Created in collaboration with Dovecot Studios, the tapestry translated Kimeze's luminous painting into woven form, offering a new way to experience the dreamlike worlds at the heart of her practice.

“It’s the feeling you have when your body stays on the ground, but your soul is flying. I thought it was really beautiful.” - Christina Kimeze

Across the exhibition, Kimeze explored ideas of freedom, flight and escape through radiant, dreamlike scenes that hover between memory and imagination. Her figures inhabit in-between spaces, inviting us to reflect on our inner lives and the shifting relationship between thoughts, feelings and memories.

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Image Credit:

Installation View: Christina Kimeze, Between Wood And Wheel, 2025. South London Gallery. Photo: Andy Stagg

24/09/2026

Join us this Saturday for the SLG Forever Fête! 🎉

Enjoy a day of food, drinks, music, art and activities for all ages, as we celebrate 135 years of the South London Gallery.

🍕 Food from D4100 Pizza
🍹 Drinks from El Rayo Tequila
🎶 Live music from Donut Jam
🎨 Creative workshops and face painting
🎈 Bouncy castle + more!

Sat 26 Sep, 11am–5pm

24/09/2026

Join us this Saturday for the SLG Forever Fête! 🎉

Enjoy a day of food, drinks, music, art and activities for all ages, as we celebrate 135 years of the South London Gallery.

🍕 Food from D4100 Pizza
🍹 Drinks from El Rayo Tequila
🎶 Live music from Donut Jam
🎨 Creative workshops and face painting
🎈 Bouncy castle + more!

Sat 26 Sep, 11am–5pm
Free entry