May at Somerset House → This month, explore a vibrant programme of exhibitions, events, tours, hands-on workshops, and activities for all ages.
👉 Swipe through the highlights and tap the link in bio for full events programme
📸: London Original Print Fair - Hales Gallery: Ken Kiff
Step Inside, Think Outside
HOLY POP! is coming.
An exhibition curated by @tory_turk exploring the modern shrines we create for the icons we adore. Come and explore the sacred side of pop culture. 💫
📅 21 May – 9 Aug 2026
📍 Somerset House
🎟️ Tickets via link in bio
Step Inside, Think Outside
SUMMER SERIES WITH @AmericanExpressUK – 2026 LINEUP IS HERE!
The wait is over. 11 nights featuring some of the world’s most exciting artists, live in our iconic courtyard.
16 July - Naïka
17 July- Palace
18 July- Thee Sacred Souls
19 July- Lightning Seeds
20 July- The Cribs
21 July – Agnes Obel
22 July- Black Country, New Road
23 July- Venna
24 July- Raf-Saperra
25 July- The Flaming Lips
26 July- Benjamin Clementine
🎟️ Sign-up via link in bio for pre-sale access to tickets on 5 March at 10am.
General sale opens on 6 March at 10am.
Amex® Cardmembers get exclusive presale access from 10am 3 March. Max 6 tickets per Cardmember. Terms apply.
Step Inside, Think Outside
Britney Spears remains an enduring icon. Once framed as the perfect pop star, later through narratives of vulnerability, control and resilience, and still revered, almost deified, by fans today.
@connor.coulston ’s practice transforms familiar pop references into objects that feel immediate and almost sacred. In Notice me…take my hand (2025), snakes wrap a ceramic form referencing Britney’s 2001 MTV VMAs performance of “I’m a Slave 4 U”, exploring transformation and rebirth.
For Coulston, Britney becomes a modern goddess, a figure of devotion embedded in shared cultural memory.
An exhibition curated by @tory_turk exploring the modern shrines we create for the icons we adore. Come and explore this and more at HOLY POP! 💫
📅 21 May – 9 Aug 2026
📍 Somerset House
🎟️ Tickets via link in bio
Musician, curator and theorist @clinicalpoetics asks what comes next in a music industry oversaturated by AI and endless algorithmic loops
Between sound and words, DeForrest Brown Jr. reflects on how we can reimagine making and listening to music in this sonic essay for The Process
Listen now on Channel, or on your favourite podcast app.
@londonoriginalprintfair is officially open! Come and explore six centuries of print making and take home something special, on until this Sunday 17th May.
Marking 10 years of Somerset House Studios this autumn is 3 Evenings, a three-night event and international transmission at east London’s 25 Wapping Wall, 16–18 October.
A playful reimagining of 1966’s groundbreaking 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, the programme unfolds inside a former hydraulic power station, bringing our spirit of interdisciplinary experimentation offsite for three nights of live performance, technology and artistic collaboration.
Featuring: @gazelletwin , @earshot.ngo (@lawrenceabuhamdan , Caline Matar, @fabioclaudiocervi , @_r.02111 and @leeseoph ), @garyzhexizhang , @klara_kofen & @poet_mechanic , @lawrencelek , @ligiamlewis and @team.rolfes , alongside newly commissioned interactive installations by @ayoung___kim , @_keiken_and@xin_liu_studio . More to be announced soon.
3ETV, an interactive TV channel and evolving digital artwork broadcasting beyond the live event, will extend the project online in partnership with @pioneerworks and @HEK_Basel .
3 Evenings is supported by Glass Castle Foundation.
Announcing Enclosure, a new film and immersive installation by Somerset House Studios artist @jenkinvanzyl , from 24 Sep - 29 Nov 2026.
Set in a decaying facility that once allowed tourists to inhabit replicas of other people, Enclosure follows its protagonist, Mercy, over a single day as she tries to end her connection to her double (known as a Cherub) with unexpected consequences.
The installation expands the film into a large-scale immersive environment where audiences move through the material remains of the facility: fairground signage, holograms, inflatable cocoons, decaying ephemera, a world still performing its upkeep long after the system it served has collapsed.
The work is commissioned by @filmvidumbrella , Somerset House Studios, and @homemcr , and developed in residence at Somerset House Studios. FVU and HOME are supported using public funding by Arts Council England. After premiering at Somerset House Studios, Enclosure will open at HOME, Manchester from 26 February to 16 May 2027.
Studio portrait of Jenkin van Zyl by Eugenia Shiskina.
Join us for our June Upgrade Yourself Monthly and explore poetry as a creative and professional practice with Forward Arts Foundation (@
forwardprizes), the national charity behind National Poetry Day and the Forward Prizes for Poetry.
Join Mónica Ibarra Parle and Lucy Macnab, Co-Directors of Forward Arts Foundation, as they share insights into today’s poetry ecosystem - from writing and performance to the wider networks that bring the artform to life. They’ll offer practical guidance on developing a poetic voice, engaging audiences, and finding pathways into the creative industries.
🍹 Free drinks & food from Butch Salads
📅 For 18–30-year-olds only
⏰ Sign-ups close 10am Tues 19 May
