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Explore Paulo Nimer Pjota's celestial, botanical and mythical worlds at SLG this summer. The exhibition is titled 'Encan...
03/06/2026

Explore Paulo Nimer Pjota's celestial, botanical and mythical worlds at SLG this summer.

The exhibition is titled 'Encantados',which translates to 'enchanted' in Portuguese. It draws on the dual definitions of the word, which can refer to being charmed and filled with delight, but also to a state of being placed under a spell or bewitched.

Pjota’s works leave the viewer to make their own sense of his fantastical scenes.

Free to visit, Wed-Sun, until 23 Aug.
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Photos: Jo Underhill

02/06/2026

"I enjoy the corporeal immediacy of working with clay... There is so much I love about it – the way it remembers every action. It feels to me as if I am working with spirit manifested as matter... I like that it has great narrative potential, telling stories about civilisations long gone.” – Ranti Bam

During our discussion with Ranti Bam, we explored more about her relationship with clay.

🔗 Head to the link in our bio to watch the full interview.

'Sacred Groves' is free to visit, at the SLG Fire Station Galleries, on until 23 August.

🎥: Film by Grey Moth

29/05/2026

Paulo Nimer Pjota is a Brazilian artist who predominantly works in oil, tempera and acrylic on canvas. His large-scale paintings draw on art history, popular culture, mythology and folk tales, merging multiple references to create new, imaginary scenarios. His approach borrows from the sampling and remixing practices adopted in Brazilian hip-hop and rap music, as well as on his experience as a graffiti artist as a teenager.

This Is Allowed Space is a free exhibition exploring inclusive, sensory and accessible approaches to art and learning. D...
28/05/2026

This Is Allowed Space is a free exhibition exploring inclusive, sensory and accessible approaches to art and learning.

Developed in collaboration with artists, teachers and students from SEND schools in Peckham and Camberwell, the show brings together new work that centres creativity, collaboration and lived experience.

Featuring work by Yolanda Shields (Milktooth), Jenny Pengilly and Billy Ash Sakula alongside pupils from three local schools: Highshore, Cherry Gardens and Tuke School.

11–14 June
Clore Studio
Free, no booking required
Find out more: https://f.mtr.cool/feokpkwkyf

SLG Forever comes to Christie’s London this June. To raise vital funds for the South London Gallery, over 25 artists, wh...
26/05/2026

SLG Forever comes to Christie’s London this June. To raise vital funds for the South London Gallery, over 25 artists, who have strong connections to the SLG have generously donated works, for an exhibition and online sale with Christie's.

Thanks to all of the artists who have donated works: Oliver Bak, Nairy Baghramian, Alvaro Barrington, Firelei Báez, Sir Frank Bowling, Chila Burman, Peter Davies, Leonardo Drew, Tracey Emin, Ryan Gander, Antony Gormley, Katharina Grosse, Anish Kapoor, Allison Katz, Christina Kimeze, Michael Landy, Francesca Mollett, Gabriel Orozco, Estate of Pope.L, Pedro Reyes, Magali Reus, Ana Segovia, Raqib Shaw, Yinka Shonibare, Silät (Wichi Community, Argentina), Keith Tyson, Edmund de Waal, Joseph Yaeger.

As we mark our 135th anniversary, the SLG Forever campaign aims to raise £2million to ensure that the gallery continues to thrive for years to come.

Visit the exhibition at Christie's, 8 King St, London SW1Y 6QT
Free to visit from 5 - 25 June 2026
https://www.southlondongallery.org/exhibitions/slg-forever-at-christies/

25/05/2026

Yolanda Shields aka Milktooth is a south London based artist. Their practice is autobiographical and inspired by their experiences of Complex-PSTD.

This year Milktooth has been working with young people, teachers and assistants at Highshore, an SEND Secondary School on an exciting new project.

Over a series of workshops, they have created new work which will be exhibited in a free exhibition at SLG, titled ‘This is Allowed Space’.

Find out more about the project in our interview with the artist and save the date! ‘This is Allowed Space’ will be at the SLG from 11 - 14 June.

See what Milktooth and Highshore pupils have been working on.

20/05/2026

"I think art is life and life is art.. and there is an artful way of living, a creative way of living and it's just something I choose to honour"

Artist Ranti Bam sat down with us to discuss her practice and exploring touch, spirituality and our relationship to the environment.

See Sacred Groves, free until 23 August at our Fire Station Galleries.

Artist Oscar Murillo works across painting, sculpture, installation, performance and video. His practice explores ideas ...
19/05/2026

Artist Oscar Murillo works across painting, sculpture, installation, performance and video. His practice explores ideas of cultural exchange and the ways in which ideas, languages, and everyday items are displaced, circulated, and combined.

Murillo first gained attention in the art world with his paintings that featured loose, scratchy, expressive marks, patches of pure colour, and dust collected in the studio, scrawled with words such as 'mango', 'maiz' and 'chorizo'.

In 2013, the SLG hosted his first institutional show in the UK, titled: 'if i was to draw a line, this journey started approximately 400km north of the equator'. He presented the contents of his studio in our Main Gallery. Stitched canvases, drawings, sculptures and films, copper tables, and floor pieces made from masses of pulped biro drawings acted as physical remnants of distinct social situations. In 2022, he also co-curated and shared work in a group exhibition at the SLG, 'The Show is Over', in 2022.

To celebrate our close relationship, and to support the gallery's work, Murillo is collaborating with LITO and Sotheby's on a limited edition print, 'Mango', 2026.

All artist's proceeds will be donated to support the SLG's exhibition, events and communities & learning programmes.

Available online only through Sotheby's: https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/preview/pdp/fine-art/print/_oscar-murillo-mango-2026-ed89

🎨 New Paulo Nimer Pjota posters available exclusively from the SLG Bookshop now! Pjota's work draws on art history, popu...
18/05/2026

🎨 New Paulo Nimer Pjota posters available exclusively from the SLG Bookshop now!

Pjota's work draws on art history, popular culture, mythology and folk tales, merging multiple references to create new, imaginary scenarios. Take his fantastical worlds home, in one of two A2 prints.

Every purchase in our Bookshop helps us to keep the gallery and its activities free, and realise our ambition for contemporary art to be accessible to all.

Shop in-store or online today: https://f.mtr.cool/rfhqokdblq
P.S Get 10% off your first order online by signing up to our mailing list.

Exciting opportunity for artists based in the UK and France! Applications for MAGNETIC 5 are open now until Tue 2 June. ...
16/05/2026

Exciting opportunity for artists based in the UK and France! Applications for MAGNETIC 5 are open now until Tue 2 June.

Magnetic is a joint Franco-UK initiative that brings together institutions to create a programme of artist residencies of 2 to 3 months each: five in France and five in the UK, at Wysing Arts Centre, Gasworks , Flax Art Studios, Aberystwyth Arts Centre and Cove Park.

Each residency is based on a tandem partnership. Artists based in France are invited to apply for a UK residency, and artists based in the UK are invited to apply for the residencies in France. Find out more: https://fluxusartprojects.com/residencies

Images courtesy Wysing Arts Centre.

11/05/2026

Visit artist Paulo Nimer Pjota in his studio in São Paulo. 🎨

Find out more about how his practice has developed over time, where he finds inspiration and how his paintings relate to each other.

Nimer Pjota's exhibition, 'Encantados' is free to visit at the SLG, until 23 August.

'Encantados' is a new, limited-edition artwork by artist Paulo Nimer Pjota made to coincide with his first institutional...
07/05/2026

'Encantados' is a new, limited-edition artwork by artist Paulo Nimer Pjota made to coincide with his first institutional show in London.

Pjota is a Brazilian artist whose paintings draw on art history, popular culture, mythology and folk tales, merging multiple and often contrasting references. He creates magical environments populated by mythical characters. The sun, stars and moon are recurring motifs in Pjota’s cosmos, as are ancient and modern vases, shells and invented vessels, often brimming with flowers and hybrid plants.

In his engraving 'Encantados', insects, fish and invertebrates explore a mysterious land with a castle in the distance. Unlike a story book in which a clear narrative unfolds, with a beginning, middle and end, Pjota’s work leaves the viewer to make their own sense of his fantastical scenes.

All proceeds from edition sales directly support the exhibition, events and communities & learning programmes.

£400 (£360 members)
Edition of 40, signed and numbered
Metal engraving, Hahnemühle, 300g
390 x 350 mm, unframed
Printed by Atelier Graphias – São Paulo, Brazil

Shop now: https://f.mtr.cool/irhkoddkwk

Join us for a free curator’s tour of Ranti Bam: Sacred Groves.See new sculpture, film and photography created especially...
06/05/2026

Join us for a free curator’s tour of Ranti Bam: Sacred Groves.

See new sculpture, film and photography created especially for this exhibition, her first solo institutional show. Bam explores our relationship to the environment through touch, spirituality and healing.

“A grove exists in the in-between, neither fully inside nor exposed. It is a clearing, sheltered yet open to sky, a meeting place of human and divine." - Ranti Bam

Wed 13 May
Two tours at: 6:30PM or 7:30PM
SLG Fire Station, 82 Peckham Rd, SE15 5LQ

Available to book now on the SLG website.
https://f.mtr.cool/ulncrqcxdw

“Hip-hop and street culture, it’s about revolution and community.” - Paulo Nimer PjotaPaulo Nimer Pjota has taken over o...
05/05/2026

“Hip-hop and street culture, it’s about revolution and community.” - Paulo Nimer Pjota

Paulo Nimer Pjota has taken over our Main Gallery with an expansive mural painted directly onto the walls. His approach borrows from the sampling and remixing practices adopted in Brazilian hip-hop and rap music, as well as on his experience as a graffiti artist as a teenager. In his paintings and murals, he reimagines imagery from mythology, folk tales, popular culture and art history.

Free to visit, until 23 Aug.

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Exhibition generously supported by:
Maureen Paley, London; Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York; François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles and New York

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Image:

Paulo Nimer Pjota: Encantados, 2026. South London Gallery. Photo: Jo Underhill

02/05/2026

Free to visit at the SLG until 23 August

01/05/2026

Meet artist Paulo Nimer Pjota in his studio in São Paulo, Brazil.

'Encantados' is free to visit at the SLG from 1 May - 23 August 2026.

Krystle Patel's new performance work, CLOUT, examines the artist’s bio as both lure and trap. Combining writing, spatia...
29/04/2026

Krystle Patel's new performance work, CLOUT, examines the artist’s bio as both lure and trap.

Combining writing, spatialised sound, video and movement, CLOUT moves through versions of the artist’s psyche. Performed with her family, Ronit, Euan and Esmae Patel, the work brings the private sphere into public view.

Describing her work, Patel says: “My practice exists in time and is intentionally slippery and evasive. Research forms the basis of my process relying on experimentation, intuition and conversation. I am interested in language, where it is full and where it is empty, it’s most abstract and literal forms, language as alive and with limitations.”

Part of SHORTWAVE, a new festival of sound and performance unfolding across four independent venues in south east London.

📅 Sat 9 May, 6-7pm
🎟 £10 / £5 concessions
🔗 https://www.southlondongallery.org/events/shortwave-krystle-patel-presents-clout/

Ufuoma Essi from the collective, A Month of Single Frames, is the 2026 curator for South by South, our film programme ...
27/04/2026

Ufuoma Essi from the collective, A Month of Single Frames, is the 2026 curator for South by South, our film programme that presents bold and innovative cinema from Africa and the diaspora to audiences in the UK.

Essi says: “Having attended South By South screenings in the past, I’ve discovered many of my favourite contemporary films from across the African continent and the diaspora. In shaping this programme, I’ve drawn on my current research into bell hooks’ concept of the oppositional gaze as a framework for engaging with the selected works.

'Looking and looking back, black women involve ourselves in a process whereby we see our history as counter-memory, using it as a way to know the present and invent the future.' - bell hooks' - The Oppositional Gaze, in Black Looks: Race and Representation

The personal is always political, and the films in the programme explore ideas of liberation in both intimate and collective forms, from afro-futurism to landmark works of decolonial cinema and contemporary artist filmmakers pushing the boundaries of experimental filmmaking.”

South by South returns in June 2026. Be the first to find out about the programme by signing up to the SLG's email list: https://f.mtr.cool/asyilnqrtf

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Images:
Courtesy Ufuoma Essi
All the Days in May (2023) dir. Miryam Charles. Courtesy of the artist and La Distributrice.

Artist Krystle Patel uses writing, sound and textile to create moving image works and site-specific installations that i...
25/04/2026

Artist Krystle Patel uses writing, sound and textile to create moving image works and site-specific installations that interrogate the construction and value of relationships through language.

⚡Shortwave: Krystle Patel presents CLOUT
Sat 9 May, 6–7pm

At the SLG, join Patel for a new performance titled CLOUT, a four‑player live performance weaving writing, spatialised sound and video. CLOUT investigates the artists’ bio as a site for the emergence of doppelgängers. Performed with her family – Ronit, Euan and Esmae Patel – the work brings the private sphere into public view.

Book now: https://www.southlondongallery.org/events/shortwave-krystle-patel-presents-clout/

25/04/2026

10 years of the Orozco Garden 🌿
A space for performance, play, families, exploration, and quiet moments.

Designed by artist Gabriel Orozco in 2016, the garden is made up of intertwining circles intricately outlined in brick dimensioned York stone. Playing on the idea of an urban ruin, the garden has gradually evolved over time to become rambling and overgrown with different grasses, low-level creepers and fragrant plants.

Watch how it’s grown - and how we’ve grown with it.

ONE WEEK TO GO! 💫 Paulo Nimer Pjota: Encantados opens on 1 May. Paulo Nimer Pjota is a Brazilian artist who works in oil...
23/04/2026

ONE WEEK TO GO! 💫 Paulo Nimer Pjota: Encantados opens on 1 May.

Paulo Nimer Pjota is a Brazilian artist who works in oil, tempera and acrylic on canvas. His large-scale paintings draw on art history, popular culture, mythology and folk tales, merging multiple references to create new, imaginary scenarios.

'Encantados' showcases a new series of paintings against an expansive mural painted directly onto the gallery walls. Magical environments are populated by mythical characters, animals and imaginary beasts.

Bringing together disparate elements from the past, present and an imaginary world, Pjota introduces us to a new universe where established ideas of value are dismantled and redefined, making way for an alternative future.

Join us for the opening preview event on Thu 30 Apr, 6.30-8.30pm

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Exhibition generously supported by:
Maureen Paley, London; Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York; François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles and New York
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Image:
Paulo Nimer Pjota
A criação do ouro, 2025
Acrylic, oil and tempera on canvas
© Paulo Nimer Pjota courtesy Maureen Paley London, and Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo
Photo: Gui Gomes

ONE WEEK TO GO! 💫 Ranti Bam: Sacred Groves opens on 1 May. Working across sculpture, film, performance and photography, ...
22/04/2026

ONE WEEK TO GO! 💫 Ranti Bam: Sacred Groves opens on 1 May.

Working across sculpture, film, performance and photography, Bam explores our relationship to the environment through touch, spirituality and healing. 'Sacred Groves' brings together two sculptural bodies of work - 'Ifas' and 'Abstract Vessels'.

For the 'Ifas' Bam embraces wet clay against her body to form vessels that collapse, crack and fold. She is interested in how physically connecting with the raw material also makes her feel more spiritually connected with the earth.

'Abstract Vessels' are covered with pattern and colour. She rolls out the clay, puncturing and studding the surface with pattern, glazing and then firing combines all the elements – earth, air, fire and water.

Bam will also debut a new film produced in Osun-Oshogbo, a sacred site of the Yoruba fertility goddess Osun.

Join us for the opening preview event on Thu 30 Apr, 6.30-8.30pm

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Image Credit: Tommerup Ceramic Workshop, Tommerup, Denmark, 2025. Courtesy of Ranti Bam. Photo by Alix Mari.
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Exhibition generously supported by:

Major Exhibition Donor: The Burger Collection
Exhibition Donors: Fluxus Art Projects, Henry Moore Foundation, KennedyTing, Marshall and Véronique Parke
Gallery Donor: James Cohan, New York
Additional Support: Guest Artists Space Foundation, Lagos, Steven Corkin, Sarah and Gerard Griffin, The Girlfriend Fund

Almost 10 years ago, Katharina Grosse held her first institutional solo exhibition in London at the SLG. Grosse's work p...
19/04/2026

Almost 10 years ago, Katharina Grosse held her first institutional solo exhibition in London at the SLG. Grosse's work pushes painting beyond the canvas. She sprays colour directly across walls, floors, and architecture until the space itself becomes the work. In 2017, for her exhibition 'This Drove my Mother up the Wall' she engulfed our Main Gallery in colour.

This week she returns to London with a new exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey, which opens on 22 Apr.

In 2021, Grosse produced a limited edition artwork of 100 for the SLG, titled 'Heart and Hair'. All proceeds from sales directly support our art and education programmes, continuing our commitment to keeping entry free for all.

Image credits: Katharina Grosse, This Drove my Mother up the Wall, acrylic on wall and floor, South London Gallery, 2017. Photo: Andy Keate

Family Space is a free, artist-led workshop that takes place on the last Saturday of the month.A relaxed, inclusive spac...
15/04/2026

Family Space is a free, artist-led workshop that takes place on the last Saturday of the month.

A relaxed, inclusive space - come when you’re ready and stay as long as you like.

11am–1pm
For children aged 5–12 with parents & carers
Free, no booking required

Save the date! We've got workshops coming up on:
25 April
30 May
27 June
25 July

Find out more: https://www.southlondongallery.org/whats-on/events/children-families/

✨ LIVE AT THE SLG WITH: TYSON (DJ SET) TIBERIUS B (LIVE) SAN SOUCIS (LIVE)Our friends at Ladies Music Pub are a communit...
09/04/2026

✨ LIVE AT THE SLG WITH: TYSON (DJ SET) TIBERIUS B (LIVE) SAN SOUCIS (LIVE)

Our friends at Ladies Music Pub are a community who support women & gender diverse folk in music. Join us as they take over our Main Gallery for one night only!

Friday 17th April 2026
Performances begin at 7pm
Tickets £20
All tickets include 2x complimentary drinks from our supporters, El Rayo Tequila.

Expect experimental pop blurring 90s trip hop to otherworldly R&B ✨

Book now, link in the comments!

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