BSMT Space

BSMT Space BSMT SPACE hosts the best in current Urban and Contemporary Art. BSMT SPACE hosts the best in current Urban Contemporary Art.

Situated in the heart of Dalston we continually work towards maintaining a space that connects people, ideas and projects together, a gallery space galvanised! Born out of a disused black basement, the gallery has evolved over the past four years to gain a reputation as a platform to showcase some of the finest UK-based and global artists. Having relocated to a brand new space our goals as a gall

ery remain the same: the support and development of emerging and established artists, to use the gallery to support causes we believe in and to allow the gallery to be a place to create as well as to exhibit. We produce authentic exhibitions showcasing people and ideas at their best. We have worked towards maintaining a unique attitude towards the Art world without undermining our professionalism, a collaborative and unique gallery- if you know about Urban Art you’ll know about BSMT Space. Gallery curated by Greg Key and Lara Fiorentino. Please contact [email protected] for further info or to view.

‘Summer Warp of Woven Tongues’ by Opening Thursday June 4th | 6–9pmrsvp: hello@bsmt.co.ukAs the days lengthen towards th...
30/05/2026

‘Summer Warp of Woven Tongues’ by
Opening Thursday June 4th | 6–9pm
rsvp: [email protected]
As the days lengthen towards the summer solstice, BSMT presents a new solo exhibition by Valeska Hykel.
Working between painting and printmaking, Hykel creates richly layered monotypes that blur the line between memory, ritual and dream. Drawing on folk traditions, seasonal symbolism and the heightened atmosphere of midsummer, the works unfold as vibrant, shifting landscapes where colour intensifies and the familiar becomes strange.
Delicate yet feverish, folkloric yet contemporary, these new works capture a world suspended between bloom and decay, inviting viewers into a sensory, almost hallucinatory state of return.
Opening night drinks generously provided by our friends
Exhibition continues until 21 June, closing on the summer solstice.

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‘Summer Warp of Woven Tongues’ by OPENING NEXT THURSDAY JUNE 4th 6-9PMRSVP: hello@bsmt.co.ukAs the sun turns towards us...
28/05/2026

‘Summer Warp of Woven Tongues’ by
OPENING NEXT THURSDAY JUNE 4th 6-9PM
RSVP: [email protected]
As the sun turns towards us and the days grow longer in a heady heat, will mark the richness of the season with the opening of Summer Warp of Woven Tongues, a solo exhibition by .
The longest day of the year stretches into something both ancient and other. Summer Warp of Woven Tongues threads abstract gestures as desire lines to a world that blooms with heightened, almost hallucinatory life. Traditional folk-wear and rural ritual surface like fragments of shared cultural memory tied to land, season and ceremony. Colour intensifies, forms break down and the familiar slips into the psychedelic- a sensory landscape where memory and time loosen and perception bends. Hykel invites us into a solstice state: a moment of return suspended in light.
Hykel’s monotypes exist in a space between painting and print. By working directly onto the mesh of the silkscreen, she treats printmaking as an ever-evolving ritual. Her images are not simply transferred but conjured. Marks degrade, colours bleed into one another, and the surface carries the ghosts of its own making. What remains is something alive and half-remembered: the echo of a gesture, the afterimage of ceremony, the shimmer of a world caught between bloom and decay.
There is a tension in Hykel’s work between control and surrender. Her process begins with the hand, with the immediacy of painting, but passes through the mechanics of print, where chance, resistance and loss become part of the image. The resulting works feel woven from contradiction: delicate yet feverish, folkloric yet strange, intimate yet expansive. They hold the atmosphere of midsummer at its most unstable, when the natural world feels overlit, overripe, almost speaking.
Summer Warp of Woven Tongues opens with a private view at 6pm on Thursday June 4th at BSMT, Dalston. The exhibition runs until Sunday June 21st, the summer solstice, closing on the longest day itself.
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Opening night drinks are generously provided by our good friends

Tonight! ‘States of transition’ the new solo presentation by opens at the , curated by .With thanks to Paul and the tea...
21/05/2026

Tonight!
‘States of transition’ the new solo presentation by opens at the , curated by .
With thanks to Paul and the team at Saatchi who have been so great to work with- it’s such a privilege to be able to show these phenomenal pieces in this setting. We can’t wait for you to see the exhibition.
Thank you for your hard work behind the scenes, and to our brilliant framer Miwa for pulling it out the bag at the last minute.
See you at 6:30 all! If you can make this evening the show will run until June 13th.
For enquiries about work please drop us a message. 🙌

Thank you to everyone who came down to support us for 'Ploc Ploc Blompf!', the new show by . Such a great crowd as alway...
17/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who came down to support us for 'Ploc Ploc Blompf!', the new show by . Such a great crowd as always and a really fun evening full of laughter!!

Crazy to imagine that just last Monday night we were just exploring the possibility of showing Mark's new body of work that we had seen and were so compelled that we just had to exhibit!!

Bearing in mind, Mark was sitting in his studio in Spain with a cuppa tea! But by Thursday he'd arrived at the gallery, canvases in a tube slung over his shoulder.

and stretched them late into the night and and Miwa built tray frames all day Friday. By Sunday it was all framed up and ready to hang. We completed the installation on Monday and boom, we had a show from conception to fully installed in less than a week.

Thanks to our good friends at for quenching our thirst!!
Fabulous 📸's by .

Show runs until 31st May.

SHOW INCOMING! You’ll never run out of reasons to visit . is in London for his new show PLOC PLOC BLOMPF! opening Thurs...
10/05/2026

SHOW INCOMING! You’ll never run out of reasons to visit . is in London for his new show PLOC PLOC BLOMPF! opening Thursday 14 May, 6pm! BE THERE 🤘
It started with a pile of discarded comics found in a Barcelona factory. Malarko picked up the thread and ran with it, not to preserve the images, but to set them back in motion. He let the colour and rhythm of the source material bleed through while the narrative dissolved away.
What’s left sits somewhere between figuration and abstraction. Familiar, but strange.
It’s a good one. Get it in the diary.

LONDON- we like to keep you on your toes! So this is happening NEXT WEEK, the man is winging his way over from BCN with...
06/05/2026

LONDON- we like to keep you on your toes! So this is happening NEXT WEEK, the man is winging his way over from BCN with a fresh new show!
OPENING MAY 14th 6PM- it’s a good one, put it in the diary, feel good factor guaranteed!
A pile of discarded comics in a factory in Barcelona. A chance find that becomes the starting point for an entire body of work. Mark Malarko returns to BSMT Gallery with ‘PLOC PLOC BLOMPF!’, a new series of paintings that began with a coincidence and ended somewhere far more considered.
The works carry the colour, rhythm, and graphic intensity of their source material, but they are not reproductions. They are translations. Fragments absorbed, abstracted, and rebuilt through paint, letting the original imagery
dissolve into something far more loose and open.
‘PLOC PLOC BLOMPF!’ is about circularity. The comics Malarko encountered were conceived, produced, and later abandoned in the same neighbourhood in Barcelona where he found them years later. This is an exhibition about
the past and present folding in on each other. These are not images rescued from obscurity, they are images set in motion again in an entirely new context.
Working with house paint on canvas, Malarko keeps the process direct and physical, no fuss. Malarko edits and responds, letting the source imagery dissolve until what’s left isn’t quite representation and isn’t quite abstraction. It’s
somewhere in between. The colour and form from the original comics carry over but the narrative falls away, leaving something that sits between figuration and abstraction- very familiar but at the same time strange.
The result is a collection of paintings that asks how images persist, how they shift and accumulate different meanings over time and resurface in new forms. Malarko reactivates fragments of a local visual culture not as an act
of preservation, but as a way of natural continuation.

Emerging from the graffiti scene of the early ’90s, Dscreet has built an international reputation through bold, unmistak...
06/05/2026

Emerging from the graffiti scene of the early ’90s, Dscreet has built an international reputation through bold, unmistakable street works that animate city walls around the world. From London and Berlin to New York and Melbourne, his murals bring a raw, graphic energy to public space.

His work has featured at global platforms like Art Basel Miami and the Dakar Biennale, as well as on preserved sections of the Berlin Wall. Decades on, Dscreet remains a vital force in urban art, continuously shaping the visual language of the streets.

Artwork Featured:

‘Decades of Dscreet’ by Dscreet
Acrylic on canvas
85 x 50 cm

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