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, screenings, performances, readings, workshops and other happenings.
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.
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.
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.
salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears
Exhibition: 7 September- 23 March 2025
Below Zero Finnish Art Prize Exhibition at Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, Finland
Memories of the Five Administrations
Exhibition: 15 May – 6 July 2024
Bringing together two very distinct bodies of work, reflecting an unlikely coupling: the earthy materiality of clay and its ephemeral antithesis.
1–16 March 2024
A combination of docu-fiction film, photography, written and spoken word emphasises the role of mobile phones as symbolic links connecting individuals to their origins.
Beaconsfield marks Black History Month with collaborators past and present.
Tuesday 24 October 2023
Beaconsfield’s Environmental Artist in Residence Phoebe Collings-James leads the second in a series of reading groups where participants can read, sculpt or play with terracotta clay while discussing extracts from the book ‘A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None’ by Kathryn Yusoff.
Thursday 26 October 2023
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 that will employ every aspect of the venue as a player in an immersive ambient score.
Exhibition: 22 July – 12 August 2023
Exploring the recuperation of cultural memory, Ioana Marinescu’s project works with the destruction of ancient Pompeii caused by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, alongside events in 1980s Bucharest, when a historic residential quarter of the city was razed to make way for Ceaușescu’s Palace of the Parliament or ‘People’s Palace’.
Phoebe Collings-James works with ceramics and collective gathering to explore the multifaceted meanings of the term ‘sustainability’ as Beaconsfield’s Environmental artist in residence 2023, incorporating the UK-wide Museums project The Wild Escape.
NASTJA SÄDE RÖNKKÖ
Residency: 23 January – 15 March
Exhibition: 16 March – 6 May 2023
Below Zero Finnish Art Prize UK Residency & Exhibition
Beaconsfield Commissions: Below Zero Finnish Art Award 2025
2025 Winner announced!
SYSTEMATIC PERIPHERALISM
8 October – 3 December 2022
A new commission of procedural sonic installations responding to Beaconsfield’s two main gallery spaces
Monica Sjöö The time is NOW and it is overdue!
11 June – 10 September 2022
Controversial paintings by ecofeminist artist and activist Monica Sjöö (1938-2005) animated by performances, reading groups, films and symposia led by contemporary artists and writers including Sally Pomme Clayton, Katy Deepwell, Rachel Fallon, Caitlin Fleming, Rachel Garfield, Una Hamilton Helle, Minna Haukka, Harriet Hill, Sam Hodge, Islaja, Annie Johnston, Kara Keeling, Alexandra Kokoli, Kristin Luke, Nad Ma, Bindu Mehra, Liz Murray, Maggie Parks, Fran Painter Fleming, Linda Persson, Raju Rage, Anne Robinson, Anita Slater, Tansy Spinks, Atau Tanaka, Tears|Ov, Rupert White, Linsey Young.
SINK _VESSEL
16 February – 7 May 2022
Two audio tracks sit side by side simultaneously playing – physically in Beaconsfield’s Arch space and Upper space, providing simple spaces of aural contemplation. SINK composed and recorded in Iran by Shahin Entezami aka TEGH. VESSEL composed and recorded in England by A.David Crawforth & Naomi Siderfin aka BAW.
BEACONSFIELD COMMISSIONS: BELOW ZERO FINNISH ART PRIZE 2023
Winner announced: Nastja Säde Rönkkö
RACHEL GARFIELD
10 November 2021 – 29 January 2022
The Struggle is a trilogy of three video works commissioned by Beaconsfield and developed with a range of partners. The three films, The Straggle (2012), Opening Up (2015) and A Glimpse (2019) are exhibited together for the first time, exploring the impact of familial interactions on the formation of subjectivity.
MONIKA OECHSLER
online from 27 October 2021
Sometimes Everything is Forever is an animated short film that follows on from Sometimes I Dream. Inspired by Franz Kafka’s The Burrow, both films explore bunker mentality, in particular the desire for safety and protection from invasion.
THE COLLECTIVE
10-13 November 2021
The Collective performs the final act of sharing its collection. Artists include Michael Armitage, Fiona Banner, Jemima Brown, Peter Doig, Bobby Dowler, Tracy Emin, David Goldblatt, Joy Gregory, Paul McCarthy, Frances Richardson.
17 July – 6 November 2021
B_T6 throws painting into the metaverse of immersive technologies in a collaboration between Jin Han Lee, artsXR and Beaconsfield to test and demystify aspects of extended realities.