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Meet Monika Sosnowska, a Polish artist whose sculptural practice explores architecture and urban transformation. Drawing...
24/08/2026

Meet Monika Sosnowska, a Polish artist whose sculptural practice explores architecture and urban transformation. Drawing on her own observations of the built environment in Poland, Sosnowska transforms industrial forms and materials into striking sculptural works.

Sosnowska’s solo exhibition, Weight of Matter, opens at the South London Gallery on 10 September. The exhibition brings together monumental sculptures made from steel, concrete and other materials associated with modernist architecture.

Swipe through to discover more about the references and ideas behind this work.

Monika Sosnowska: Weight of Matter
10 September - 22 November 2026
Main Gallery & Fire Station Galleries

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Image: Monika Sosnowska, Ballerina, 2024

Courtesy the Artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain Galerie Gisela Capitain. Photo Simon Vogel

Quote: A Staircase Without Stairs by Heather Pesent, 2020

Images: Monika Sosnowska reference images

Monika Sosnowska, Rebar 12, 2017.

Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Hauser & Wirth - Art Gallery. Photo: Alex Delfanne

Quote: The Monika Papers Part II by Tom Emerson, 2025

Images: Monika Sosnowska reference images

Monika Sosnowska, Oyster, 2024, photo Simon Vogel

Courtesy the Artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain Galerie Gisela Capitain . Photo Simon Vogel

PageMasters Zine Fair is coming to South London Gallery for its 6th edition! 📚✨To celebrate the fair’s arrival, our book...
20/08/2026

PageMasters Zine Fair is coming to South London Gallery for its 6th edition! 📚✨

To celebrate the fair’s arrival, our book shop team have put together this selection of zines. These include publishers that will be at the fair as well as local zines from our own shelves.

Sat 29 Aug - 11AM-6PM Sun 30 Aug - 11AM-5PM

📍 South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Rd, London SE5 8UH

Find out more about the event and PageMasters through the link in bio 🔗

Publishers:

AiRiji Manga
BOOKS BOOKS
Breakdown Press Breakdown Press
BUNNY BISSOUX
CAMP! CAMP!
Caterpillar Press caterpillar press !
Coastal Lines Press: Zines from Gaza Coastal Lines Press
Colossive Press Colossive Press
Decadence comics
Disability Action Research Kollective Disability Action Research Kollective
Ⓐ DUDLEY Ⓔ Ⓐ DUDLEY Ⓔ
Em-Dash Em—Dash
Ex-Zine Editor Bubblegum Zine Archive
Famicon Express Cathopreicon
Fortified Journal
HomoPleasure Collective Taipei HomoPleasure Collective Taipei - Berlin Chieh
How to catch a pig How To Catch A Pig - 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️
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18/08/2026

Join chef and culinary artist Safiya Robinson in our kitchen as she talks about her practice, centred around the philosophy of ‘intentional nourishment’, plant-based cooking and her recent work on the Flavour Cravers programme.

Learn more about Flavour Craves through the South London Gallery website 💻

More than 25 British and international artists, who have strong connections to the SLG, have generously donated works to...
14/08/2026

More than 25 British and international artists, who have strong connections to the SLG, have generously donated works to SLG Forever. This selling exhibition presented by Christie’s London is online until 30 September 2026.

Proceeds from sales will raise much-needed funds to upgrade the historic main gallery building, commission new works by some of today’s most exciting artists, and engage thousands more local children and young people each year through the SLG’s acclaimed Communities & Learning programmes.

🔗 Learn more about SLG Forever here: https://f.mtr.cool/wdvmoxmeev
📅 SLG Forever | Christie’s London | Online selling exhibition until 30 September

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Image Credits:

Installation image from Katharina Grosse, This Drove my Mother up the Wall, acrylic on wall and floor, in the Main Galleries, 2017. Photo: Andy Keate.
Katherina Grosse, Untitled, 2026.
Installation view of Tracey Emin’s exhibition I Need Art Like I Need God at the South London Gallery, 1997
Tracey Emin, You Were Supposed to have Loved Me, 2023.
Leonardo Drew: Ubiquity II, South London Gallery, 2025. Photo: Andy Stagg
Leonardo Drew, Number 79X, 2025.
Anish Kapoor (filming in the gallery), 1994
Anish Kapoor, Untitled, 2019.

12/08/2026

Want to see Encantados and Sacred Groves through a curator’s eyes?

Join us next Wednesday for a free curator’s tour led by South London Gallery’s Director Margot Heller and Head of Programme Lily Tonge.

Following the tour, we invite you to explore the galleries and browse the shop, which is open until 9pm.

Join us for a free BSL tour, led by Martin Glover.Discover Paulo Nimer Pjota: Encantados and Ranti Bam: Sacred Groves, c...
07/08/2026

Join us for a free BSL tour, led by Martin Glover.

Discover Paulo Nimer Pjota: Encantados and Ranti Bam: Sacred Groves, connect with other visitors in the café afterwards.

Sun 16 Aug, 1 - 2pm

Book your place via the link in bio.

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Images:

Paulo Nimer Pjota: Encantados, 2026, South London Gallery.
Ranti Bam: Sacred Groves, 2026. South London Gallery.

Photos: Jo Underhill

EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT 📣This autumn, the SLG presents Weight of Matter, a major exhibition by Polish artist Monika Sosn...
04/08/2026

EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT 📣

This autumn, the SLG presents Weight of Matter, a major exhibition by Polish artist Monika Sosnowska.

Sosnowska is renowned for her monumental sculptures that transform familiar architectural elements into gravity-defying forms. Working with steel, concrete and other industrial materials, she twists, bends and compresses structures to explore the physical and psychological impact of architecture.

Spanning the Main Gallery and two floors of the Fire Station, Weight of Matter will feature large-scale site-specific installations alongside rarely seen paper maquettes, offering an insight into the artist's process. Responding directly to the SLG's architecture, the exhibition invites visitors to experience the built environment in entirely new ways.

Monika Sosnowska: Weight of Matter
10 September – 22 November 2026
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Images:
Monika Sosnowska, Ballerina, 2024, courtesy the Artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain. Photo Simon Vogel
Monika Sosnowska, Rebar 12, 2017. Installation view of Structural Exercises, 2018, Hauser & Wirth London. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo: Alex Delfanne
Monika Sosnowska, Wallpaper II, 2024, courtesy the Artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain. Photo Simon Vogel
Monika Sosnowska, Cloud, 2024, courtesy the Artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain. Photo Simon Vogel.
Monika Sosnowska, Coil, 2024. Courtesy the artist and The Modern Institute / Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow. Photo: Patrick Jameson.

Monika Sosnowska: Weight of Matter is generously supported by:
Lead exhibition Donor: The Bukhman Foundation
Exhibition Partner: Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Exhibition Donors: Helena and Igor Czernecki, Henry Moore Foundation, Latif & Company, Marcin and Izabela Wiszniewski
Gallery Donors: Foksal Gallery Foundation, Galerie Gisela Capitain, kurimanzutto, The Modern Institute
Additional Support: Emma and Fred Goltz, The Monika Sosnowska Supporters’ Circle

27/07/2026

Join us for a screening of two films by Ja’Tovia Gary, programmed by Ufuoma Essi and A Month of Single Frames.

This event is part of South by South, a quarterly film screening at the South London Gallery. The programme focuses on presenting cinema from Africa and the diaspora to audiences in the UK.

PROGRAMME

Quiet As It’s Kept, 2023 (26 min) is a contemporary cinematic response to The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison’s first novel, published in 1970.

The Giverny Document, 2019 (single channel, 42 min) is a multi-textured cinematic poem reflecting on the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women, filmed on location in Harlem, USA and Claude Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, France.

📅 Wed 29 Jul, 6:30pm
🎟️ £10 standard / £5 concessions
Book here: https://f.mtr.cool/optdgfsoyc

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Video credits:

Quiet As It's Kept, 2023.
The Giverny Document, 2019.

Join Tihara Smith at South London Gallery on Sat 25 July for an exciting family workshop exploring textiles, colour and ...
23/07/2026

Join Tihara Smith at South London Gallery on Sat 25 July for an exciting family workshop exploring textiles, colour and The Caribbean. 🧵✨

Inspired by Caribbean culture and the Windrush Generation, Tihara Smith is a fashion designer and textile artist best known for her vibrant raffia embroidery, creative workshops and colourful designs.

Family Space is a relaxed, artist-led workshop where families can explore, make and create together. Drop in at any time and take part at your own pace in a welcoming, inclusive and informal environment.

📆 SAVE THE DATE: Sat 25 July, 11am-1pm
Free, drop-in, no booking required, more info here: https://f.mtr.cool/mbgwvoouws

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Image Credits:

Family Space with Emma Ogawa Todd. Photo South London Gallery.

Alongside Ranti Bam’s exhibition Sacred Groves, SERAFINE1369 is hosting the workshop ‘Somatic Tuning’.In their current r...
21/07/2026

Alongside Ranti Bam’s exhibition Sacred Groves, SERAFINE1369 is hosting the workshop ‘Somatic Tuning’.

In their current research and practice, SERAFINE1369 works with the ways that we too are material, shaped by our environment - not necessarily in a psychological way, but by way of relational response.

We invite you to join us at the Clore Studio for sensorial practices of listening, moving, and sounding. There will be a focus on slowness and weight. Participants are welcome to engage at their own pace and according to their own comfort levels.

📅 Wed 5 Aug, 6:30pm
🎟️ £10 standard / £5 concessions
Book here: https://f.mtr.cool/chsivhfygt

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Image Credits:

SERAFINE1369, Chorus, Proposition, 2025. Image by Nicol Vizioli
SERAFINE1369, Chorus, Proposition, 2025. Image by Katarzyna Perlak
SERAFINE1369 in IV at Beursschouwberg
SERAFINE1369, We can no longer deny ourselves Somerset House commission, 2022. Image by Yasmine Akim

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