The Koppel Project

Applications for SOS-26 close 18 May but first, here's what you're applying for 👇 SOS-26 is a free, 8-week spatial practice development programme in London, running 16 July - 3 September 2026. Now in its sixth year at The Koppel Project, 12 participants will develop individual projects rooted in their own lived experiences and communities - writing a brief for their first, or next, project. This year's theme is In Dialogue: relationships, bridge-building, community conversations, collective intelligence, and consciousness raising. You'll bring an existing project or set of conditions between you and your community, and develop it through the programme. The programme includes: * A public lecture series with practitioners from design, academia, journalism and beyond - including Thomas Aquilina @thomasaquilina , Earth Tenders @earth.tenders , Andy Belfield (Public Works) and more * A closed-door Sustainable Finance series with POoR @poor_collective , Sophie Williams (Edit Collective) @sophieerwilliams @edit.cllctv and others * Weekly technical workshops in Data & GIS Analysis and Visual Communication * A final exhibition at The Koppel Project, opening 28 August
 As in previous years, The Koppel Project provides studio space and a home for all public events throughout the programme. Central to SOS-26 is the Dia-Log, a document that takes whatever form you want it. It acts as a reflective journal, a diary of events, a plan of action, a list of components, a record of conversations with stakeholders, a compilation of thoughts from you and your community. It is a log [meaning a record], that is dia- [prefix meaning “across” and “through”] mediums and through time, producing a dialogue between your project objectives and your community. 🔗Apply via the link in bio. (Image: 'Misused Margins' by Sara Omar, SOS-25) @seasonedsaraa

SAVE THE DATE! 3 JUNE AT KOPPEL COLLECTIVE 157 Regent’s Park Rd NW1 8BB RSVP & READ MORE VIA LINK IN BIO With: Daisy Douglas Miller, Anya Kashina, Henry Glover, Miya Kosowick, Sian Kelly, Anna Pakosz, Rebecca Gilpin, Megan Rea, Zack Townsend, Ellie Walker, Harriet Gillett, Milo Anani, and Emilio Bartolome Martin MARGINALIA brings together a group of artists whose practices intersect around the overlooked, fragmentary, and peripheral. The term marginalia traditionally refers to notes or marks made in the margins of a text, though in this context it is expanded outside these confines and into the visual landscape. It denotes the sketches, studies, and side thoughts that often remain unseen: works that exist on the edge of an artist’s practice, though they hold a quiet significance. By repositioning these marginal works as complete and resolved in their own right, the intimacy and immediacy of process is unravelled. It is often in the intimacy of an artist's periphery where a truth is contained that the final work obscures. In showcasing these smaller works, Marginalia invites viewers to consider the value of the unfinished, incidental, and peripheral as points of authenticity and reflection. Supported by The Koppel Project & First Thursday @first_thursday @daisymiller_studio @anya.kashina @hgglover @miyakosowick @siankellyartist @pakoszanna @rebeccagilpinart @megan____rea @zacktownsendprint @ellierwalker @harrietgillettart @milo_anani @emilio.b.martin

// NOTHING UNWANTED Opening Saturday 9th May at ANNEX With Attiyyah Rahman & Mathijs Hunfeld  Running until 17th May, the exhibition explores how identity and belonging are increasingly shaped by consumerism, digital spaces, and pop-cultural narratives. The artworks oscillate between collective fantasies and nuanced interpersonal experiences, suggesting hidden traumas, dreams, addictions, and coping mechanisms that balance between truth and reality. As the thresholds between online and physical space continue to dissolve, we constantly navigate ourselves between performance and vulnerability. The multi-medium body of work considers the ways in which today’s digital cultures continue to construct and destabilise our sense of self; it may feel like a condition in which we have exhausted any forthcoming ‘newness’. // Tap the link in our bio to read more about the exhibition!

🦄 “In difficult times, we all try to return or find a safe place. For each of us, that place is different. For me, it’s my childhood. A time when everything around felt magical, when the biggest problem was homework.” Thank you everyone who came to the opening last night. We entered this space to find our haven, and to rediscover the courage to face the tough times. 𝟣𝟢 ᴅᴏɢꜱ, 𝟣𝟢 ᴄᴀᴛꜱ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴀ ᴜɴɪᴄᴏʀɴ Adriana Shportan Solo Exhibition Open everyday 12-6pm 14-23 May

Billy Allen & Alice Poyzer at The Koppel Project Private View 9 June 6-9PM Open 9-12 June 12-5PM 157 Regent's Park Rd, London NW1 8BB The Koppel Project presents an exhibition bringing together the work of Billy Allen and Alice Poyzer, two photographers whose practices intersect through a shared dedication to constructed black-and-white imagery. Working across portraiture and still life, both artists build immersive visual worlds that blur documentation and invention, using photography as a means of staging psychological, material, and emotional landscapes. Full press release & RSVP via link in bio Made possible with the generous support of @yeslucid & @cansoninfinity

AxisAxis is thrilled to present its first exhibition, ‘Elevator Pitch’ ❤️ Navigating a complex space between desire, performance and production, ‘Elevator Pitch’ presents works by Lucy Hutchinson and Rosie Gibbens that explore the optimised female body across consumer and corporate structures. 01.06.26 - 29.06.26 Open by appointment Thurs-Sun, please email [email protected] @the_koppel_project @rosiegibbens @luc____eh

Zone 10 2025 Show Archive Train approaching… One through nine, which way? Inner to outer, internal and external. We come together from everywhere but London. Delving underground, into the substrata of an ancient city. Compartmentalized zones of travel within this realm; broken apart just to be rejoined in zone 10. Just passin’ through - a nether Zone - one compiled precariously, but steadfast in its lightness, upon the transitive axis of our time within/without. Impermanent marks left on a piled pavement. Pushed underground only to sprout up again, somewhere else. We are not welcome in one thru nine, but rails rode raw to the end of the line: Zone 10. Wiping the sweat of work away,  this cloth is cut from one neverending, a banner heralding the opening of the ending - beginning at  Zone 10.  Doors closing Whrrrrrrrrr 🎨Artists: @ankita_kashyap.art @art.becky_tong @fionamorehouse @studiokaggwa @mono.chaotic @mildewkellison @dingos_art @levinstettlerbrogli @shahnumair @yoyojinxx @ani_syu @junghunlee_ Location: Annex by The Koppel Project, 1 Tiverton Street, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6NT @the_koppel_project Time: 12 - 16 August 2025 #art #london #londonart #royalcollegeofart #rca

UPCOMING EXHIBITION THIS JUNE Liminal is a three artist exhibition by KOPPEL Heights artists: Aida Pouryeganeh, Kiana Azizmohammadi and Sahar Ravanbakhsh. Working across painting, installation, sculpture, ceramics, photography and mixed media, the artists construct an interconnected environment shaped by repetition, surveillance, tension and cyclical transformation. Across the works, systems of control gradually become internalised, blurring the boundary between observation and self-observation, freedom and self-regulation. Situated between tension and release, the works move through repeated forms and gestures that gradually shift through fragmentation, disappearance and return. Opening Thursday 4 June 6-9PM ANNEX, 1 Tiverton Street SE1 6NT RSVP VIA LINK IN BIO

Mathijs Hunfeld’s NOW, I’LL BE ANGEL currently on view in the NOTHING UNWANTED exhibition at ANNEX Open Thursday - Sunday 12-5PM 1 Tiverton Street SE1 6NT Mathijs Hunfeld (b. 2000, Netherlands) is a London-based interdisciplinary artist who graduated with an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art in 2024, and a BA in Product Design from ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands. His multidisciplinary practice examines the intersections between fine art and consumer culture, exploring themes of fantasy, desire, and identity through a conceptual and critical lens. By recontextualising everyday objects, Hunfeld exposes tensions between glorification and collapse in late capitalism, often creating branded bodies of work that blur the line between art and consumer products. Using satire and irony, his work engages with the performative aspects of pop culture to critique emotional dependencies and self-sabotaging behaviour within contemporary consumerism. His work has been exhibited and published internationally, including at Tate Modern, the London Design Festival, and Gallery 46. Alongside his artistic practice, Hunfeld has curated exhibitions, developed visual narratives, and managed project promotion within his area of industry. Through the appropriation and transformation of mainstream objects, his work encourages a deeper understanding of the cultural and emotional forces shaping contemporary identity. NOW, I’LL BE ANGEL 2025 resin, plastic bag, metal zip-ties, metal chain, bolts, eyelets 120 x 120 x 55 cm

Hosted exclusively by @the_koppel_project . Applications close Monday 18th May midnight!! More information at school-sos.com . Link to form in bio 👆

Attiyyah Rahman (b. 2002, Whitehaven, U.K.) is a multi-interdisciplinary artist working and living in London. She completed her BA in Fine Art at Leeds Arts University (2020-23) and undertook her MA in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art (2024-25). Rahman’s practice explores fluctuating themes of memory, unresolved trauma, obsession, taboo and abandonment. Her concepts often manifest work of a poetically sensitive and psychologically uncomfortable nature that delves into an emotionally-charged atmosphere associated with the derealisation of the self. Her practice is guided by the autonomy of the fantasy, the psychological projection and semi-autobiographical experiences, where fiction and reality become increasingly indistinguishable. She is ultimately interested in positioning skewed ideas of intimacy, belonging, and the abject in unexpected situations, where these things are ultimately found in (or surrendered and given to) the wrong places—places which exist with a liminal in-betweenness, split between compromising dualities which look to critique wider musings concerning gender, sexuality, and identity. NOTHING UNWANTED Attiyyah Rahman & Mathijs Hunfeld An exhibition exploring how identity and belonging are shaped through consumer culture, digital space, and constructed fantasy. Moving between fiction and reality, the works consider performance, vulnerability, and the blurred thresholds of contemporary experience. Saturday 9 May 6-9PM ANNEX 1 Tiverton Street SE1 6NT

Installation views of the duo show by @katyatsareva_artist and @alexander.tarasenko , curated by @professional_art_bullshitter , which took place from 28 April to 2 May 2026 at KOPPEL Collective @the_koppel_project . 📷 @plus1ap