👀 A first look at Lubaina Himid's Predicting History: Testing Translation at the 61st International Art Exhibition @la_biennale 👀 Lubaina Himid’s newly commissioned work meditates on the nature of belonging and the place we call home. The installation – with a soundscape created in collaboration with @magda_stawarska centres on five multi-panel paintings of industrious figures in surreal settings, each grappling with how to adapt to an unfamiliar place. The title characters in Architects, Tailors, Chefs, Boatbuilders and Gardeners talk intently to one another, working through the practical and creative challenges of adapting to a new environment. 🔗 Find out more in the link in bio. 📹: @zqfilm #BritishPavilion #LubainaHimid #PredictingHistoryTestingTranslation #VeniceBiennale British Pavilion Artist 2026: Lubaina Himid (@lubainapics ) Shane Akeroyd Associate Curator: Ese Onojeruo (@ese_onojeruo ) Soundscape created in collaboration with Magda Stawarska (@magda_stawarska ) Thanks to our major partner @artfund , our supporting partners @friezeofficial and @corkstreetgalleries , our commission supporters @henrymoorefdn_gardens , Girlfriend Fund, and @rothschildfoundationofficial , and our digital partner @bloombergdotorg . @hollybush_gardens @greenenaftali @t_e_m_p_l_o

🪴 Exploring the Installation: Gardeners 🪴 In Gardeners, botanical illustrations from naturalists’ guides are rendered outsized and theatrical. In adjacent panels, two gardeners tend to a cactus using different (and equally ineffective) methods. Neither tactic is correct, yet the cactus grows regardless. What emerges is a kind of surplus: life exceeding the world meant to manage it. 📷: @eva_herzog_ #BritishPavilion #LubainaHimid #PredictingHistoryTestingTranslation #VeniceBiennale British Pavilion Artist 2026: Lubaina Himid (@lubainapics ) Shane Akeroyd Associate Curator: Ese Onojeruo (@ese_onojeruo ) Soundscape created in collaboration with Magda Stawarska (@magda_stawarska ) Thanks to our major partner @artfund , our supporting partners @friezeofficial and @corkstreetgalleries , our commission supporters @henrymoorefdn_gardens , Girlfriend Fund, and @rothschildfoundationofficial , and our digital partner @bloombergdotorg . @hollybush_gardens @greenenaftali Visual identity: @t_e_m_p_l_o

😊 It must be festival season — we’re back at The Great Escape in Brighton with delegates from the music industry around the world and holding our Selector stage at Fabrica with four incredible UK artists. 🌍 Meet the artists and get ready to hear highlights and interviews with them on Selector Radio and tracks from their shows on our YouTube channel — all starting next week! 📷 Image 1: @kuleeangee 📷 Image 2: @eaveswilder 📷 Image 3: @dolder 📷 Image 4: @morn.band 🔗 Stay tuned to Selector Radio @selectoruk and head over to our YouTube channel (link in bio) for all Selector Sessions past and present. #SelectorRadio #SelectorSessions #GreatEscape #UKMusic #NewMusic #FestivalSeason

Lubaina Himid RA reflects on identity and belonging through monumental paintings, installations and sound. Representing Britain at this year’s Venice Biennale, Himid explores race, cultural memory and the people who shape a nation—tailors, gardeners, architects and workers—revealing what it means to make a home in places not always designed to welcome us.

🛶 Exploring the Installation: Oars 🛶 Twenty-one mismatched Oars – overpainted with flowers, birds, talismans and geometric forms – also line one wall of the pavilion, evoking Venice’s maritime histories of movement, displacement and exchange. The found oars become layered surfaces of memory, resistance and revision. 📷: @eva_herzog_ #BritishPavilion #LubainaHimid #PredictingHistoryTestingTranslation #VeniceBiennale British Pavilion Artist 2026: Lubaina Himid (@lubainapics ) Shane Akeroyd Associate Curator: Ese Onojeruo (@ese_onojeruo ) Soundscape created in collaboration with Magda Stawarska (@magda_stawarska ) Thanks to our major partner @artfund , our supporting partners @friezeofficial and @corkstreetgalleries , our commission supporters @henrymoorefdn_gardens , Girlfriend Fund, and @rothschildfoundationofficial , and our digital partner @bloombergdotorg . @hollybush_gardens @greenenaftali Visual identity: @t_e_m_p_l_o

🥄 Exploring the Installation: Chefs 🥄 In Chefs, a wash of pink partially fills the space, leaving areas deliberately unpainted, as if awaiting the next gesture. Cooking becomes a space of possibility, of collaboration, adaptation, timing and responsiveness to everyday materials. The scene feels paused between a question and its answer. 📷: @eva_herzog_ #BritishPavilion #LubainaHimid #PredictingHistoryTestingTranslation #VeniceBiennale British Pavilion Artist 2026: Lubaina Himid (@lubainapics ) Shane Akeroyd Associate Curator: Ese Onojeruo (@ese_onojeruo ) Soundscape created in collaboration with Magda Stawarska (@magda_stawarska ) Thanks to our major partner @artfund , our supporting partners @friezeofficial and @corkstreetgalleries , our commission supporters @henrymoorefdn_gardens , Girlfriend Fund, and @rothschildfoundationofficial , and our digital partner @bloombergdotorg . @hollybush_gardens @greenenaftali Visual identity: @t_e_m_p_l_o

🎬 Meet our Cannes Film Festival Travel Fund Grantees! 👇 ✨ This week, Festival de Cannes launches its 79th edition and we’re delighted to be supporting emerging filmmakers premiering brand new short films and supporting UK creative teams behind XR work, selected in Cannes Immersive Competition as part of this year’s stellar line-up. 👍 Here’s who will be heading out there with a helping hand from our @BFI @BFINETWORK partnered Travel Grant Fund and the projects they are representing 🎥 Directors' Fortnight (Shorts) 🔸 Daughters of the Late Colonel – producer Abigail Addison (@animateprojectsuk ) 🔸 Oh Boys – co-producers Patrick James Verlin and Anastasiya Mykhaylova (@utace @donuts.film ) 🔸 Madrugada – director Sebastián Lojo (@sebastianlojo ) 🎥 Short Film Competition 🔸 Para Los Contrincantes – producer Augusto Matte 🎥 La Cinef 🔸 Pickled – director Fanny Capu and producer Dora Galosi (@fannycapu , @dora_galosi ) 🔸 Left Behind, Still Standing – director Vida Skerk and producer Dora Galosi (@dora_galosi ) 🔸Sunday's Children – writer, director, producer Reuben Hamlyn (@urghreub ) 🎥 Cannes Immersive Competition 🏆 Recipients of our Large XR awards ... 🔸 GAWD v The People – producer Mark H. Geary (@nilor.studio ) 🔸 Playing With Fire: An Immersive Odyssey with Yuja Wang – producer Samantha King 🔸 The Pirate Queen: No Safe Waters – writer, director, co-producer Eloise Singer (@singerstudiosuk ) And, selected to present new work-in-progress for Cannes Docs Marché du Film's Spotlight selection is ... 🔸 Jinwar Land of Women – producer Fleur Nieddu (@fleurnieddu , @lovelacefilms ) 🔗 For more details on these projects, and all of the UK productions and co-productions selected for Cannes this year, head to the link in bio @cannes.2026 and select Selection. 👋 Bon voyage! 📸 Images: Playing With Fire, Sunday's Children, GAWD v The People, Madrugada, Daughters of the Late Colonel, Pirate Queen, Jinwar and Oh Boys. #Cannes2026 #UKFilm #Filmmakers #XR #FilmFestival #BFI #NationalLottery #CannesFilmFestival #TravelGrantFund #ArtsOpportunities

The Night With...Kevin Martinez // @ninoarbolx Thanks to @britisharts , we had the pleasure of hosting, producer, DJ, artist and experimentalist Kevin Martinez, AKA, Nino Arbol. Seeing Kevins creative journey and vision unravel throughout the project was unlike any other and it was such a privilege to be part of it! A huge thanks to our close friend Emma Lloyd // @emmsok for all your inspired playing, always such a treat to lean and listen . Major shout out to @woodside.studios -Being able to effortlessly explore and experiment made the whole experience so exciting and freeing! Lots more stuff coming your way, keep your eyes and ears peeled 👀 #TheNightWith #electronics #strings #experimental

📢 Great 8 at Cannes 2026 has been announced! 😊 Each year we champion eight new UK projects from eight new voices at the @marchedufilm just as they are putting the finishing touches to their film. 📽️ Unseen footage from all of the titles is introduced by the filmmakers and screened online to buyers and festival programmers. 🤝 Great 8 is funded and produced by @BFI and us at the British Council, with thanks to BBC Film and Film4. 🔗 Explore the films and find out more about the showcase by heading to the link in our bio @britisharts under News and Features. 🌟 Ancestors – director/writer David Turpin 🌟 Black Church Bay – director/writer Rhys Marc Jones 🌟 Daughter of Eden – director/writer Fateme Ahmadi 🌟 FLORID – director/writer Billy Lumby 🌟 In Starland – director Ray Panthaki, writers Ray Panthaki, Jason Kavan 🌟 Masc – director Bertil Nilsson, writers Bertil Nilsson, Joshua Griffin 🌟 Our Share of Sand – director/writer Shalini Adnani 🌟 Salvation – director/writer Tom Nicol #Great8 #UK #Films #NewTalent #Opportunities #Champions #Cannes

🧵 Exploring the Installation: Tailors 🧵 In Tailors, figures measure, cut and assemble garments that seem to move across time. The tailors have chosen how to dress and, therefore, how to present themselves to the world, embodying the skilled self- determination by which identities are crafted rather than assigned. 📷: @eva_herzog_ #BritishPavilion #LubainaHimid #PredictingHistoryTestingTranslation #VeniceBiennale British Pavilion Artist 2026: Lubaina Himid (@lubainapics ) Shane Akeroyd Associate Curator: Ese Onojeruo (@ese_onojeruo ) Soundscape created in collaboration with Magda Stawarska (@magda_stawarska ) Thanks to our major partner @artfund , our supporting partners @friezeofficial and @corkstreetgalleries , our commission supporters @henrymoorefdn_gardens , Girlfriend Fund, and @rothschildfoundationofficial , and our digital partner @bloombergdotorg . @hollybush_gardens @greenenaftali Visual identity: @t_e_m_p_l_o

✨ 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟: Sleeping Beauties Residency ✨ The project ‘Sleeping Beauties’, a multi-residency programme on collective care in Romanian balneary resorts developed by @eunicromania , is now open for applications! 🌿 This opportunity is open to interdisciplinary and performative practitioners, including: artists, architects (including landscape architects and historians), filmmakers, researchers, designers and makers, community organisers, and socially engaged practitioners. Focus areas include: heritage, wellbeing, ecology, public space, and the regeneration of balneary resorts. 📍 Location: balneary resorts across Romania 📅 Duration: two-week residencies between July and September 2026 🌍 Eligibility: citizens or permanent residents of the Czech Republic, UK, Germany, Poland, Spain and Romania ⏰ Deadline: 21 May 2026 (23.59 EEST) 🔗 Find out more & apply in the 'Arts Opportunities' link in the bio.

Cultural Protection Fund has partnered with Cultural Emergency Response 🤝 This three-year UK-Dutch strategic partnership builds on years of joint work in Palestine, Syria, and beyond. This news means: ✅continued support for interventions that stabilise endangered heritage ✅a jointly coordinated emergency fund ✅informing future strategies by sharing lessons and insights with stakeholders across the field 🔗 Tap the link in bio to find out more 📸 Stabilisation of manuscripts evacuated from Dar al Saada manuscript centre. Credit: Cooperazione Internazionale Sud Sud (CISS), Palestine, 2025 #CulturalProtectionFund