ANSSI KASITONNI
Gentle Means and Easy Tasks
Exhibition: 7 March – 26 April 2025
Anssi Kasitonni, fourth winner of the Below Zero Finnish Art Award, is in residence with Beaconsfield from 22 January 2025.
Current
On-site
Manifesto for Sustainable Experimentation
Exhibition: 21 May – 9 August 2025
Manifesto for Sustainable Experimentation celebrates thirty years of Beaconsfield commissions in an exhibition of historic works and ephemera, interspersed with new commissions, performances, readings, workshops and other happenings.
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recent projects
Shino Yanai with Ken Ikeda
Memories float for a moment and then fall
Exhibition: 15 November 2024 – 18 January 2025
Shino Yanai’s new installation explores the plasticity of sound and its power to create new and imagined memories. Ken Ikeda (Tokyo) contributes sonic material and visits for a live performance, to improvise with Yanai’s voice and her prepared piano.
FALL – a Film Poem Sampler
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – Deadline 8 November 2024 at 23.59 GMT
Screenings at Beaconsfield London on 29 November and at the Andrew Stewart Cinema, Glasgow University on 30 November 2024
FALL is an exploration of experimental film and text and announces the start of a new collaboration between Beaconsfield and Glasgow University’s Creative Writing course.
news and events
Beaconsfield, The Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland and Serlachius are pleased to announce Anssi Kasitonni as the winner of the Below Zero Finnish Art Award 2025.
Pauli Sivonen of Serlachius comments: ‘This will only be Anssi’s second solo exhibition abroad. He is held in affection by the Finns since his artworks speak very directly to the Finnish sensibility. It will be exciting to see how this artist responds to the London context and how the work translates’.
Read more here PRESS RELEASE
Exhibition: 15 May – 6 July (Wednesday – Saturday, 12-5pm)
British artists Simon Bedwell and Stephen Sutcliffe collaborate in an exhibition of new ceramics, video and painting. Bedwell’s new ceramics portray mainstream political figures from the last decade as slugs, inspired by satirists James Gillray and Steve Bell. These amorphous forms become the support for video works by Sutcliffe, which draw on an extensive archive of British television, film sound, broadcast images and spoken word recordings.
SONIC REFLECTIONS ON WINDRUSH WITH DUBMORPHOLOGY
26 October 7.30-11pm
Black Industrial Sound artists Trevor Mathison and Gary Stewart AKA Dubmorphology return to Beaconsfield for Black History Month to weave black histories into a specially commissioned electro-acoustic sound performance.
Below Zero Finnish Art Prize exhibition travels to Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, Finland
Exhibition: 7 September 2024 – 23 March 2025
The third recipient of the Below Zero Finnish Art Prize, investigates relationships between the digital era, power, humanity and the future of our planet. For this commission she will develop three new moving image works on site, produced with Beaconsfield under the working title salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears.
BEACONSFIELD AND THE WILD ESCAPE
Beaconsfield is part of The Wild Escape, a major new project uniting hundreds of museums and galleries with schools and families to connect to the natural world in their local habitats. We will be working with local families and school children, ceramic artist Phoebe Collings-James and Rachael Nilssen of Mud Gang Pottery Studio, to contribute to re-wilding Kennington/Vauxhall while thinking about the role that earth or clay plays in our ecologies. These themes will be expanded in a public talk with Professor Kathryn Yusoff, author of A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (2019).
LUCY GREGORY WINS BLOOMING LAMBETH AWARD 2022 FOR BEACONSFIELD’S GARDEN-YARD
Congratulations to our brilliant horticulturalist Lucy Gregory, who won a Blooming Lambeth Award for Beaconsfield’s Garden-yard! Her ‘Best in Bloom’ 2022 award was presented in Lambeth Town Hall at a prizegiving event hosted by Arit Anderson, from BBC’s Gardeners’ World, and Incredible Edible Lambeth.
SYSTEMIC PERIPHERALISM
Mark Fell
8 October – 3 December 2022
Responding to Beaconsfield’s main gallery spaces, two new sonic installations mark a cautious return to public life, asking visitors to collectively engage in sensory exploration.
MONICA SJÖÖ THE TIME IS NOW AND IT IS OVERDUE!
Paintings by artist-activist Monica Sjöö (1938-2005) animated by performances, reading groups, films and symposia led by contemporary artists and writers.
11 June – 10 September 2022