Current and upcoming exhibitions
What’s on in the Metroland Studios Gallery.
Ngo Chun Tse: Through a Glass Darkly
A contemplative journey through the layered, haunting landscapes of memory. Ngo Chun Tse is one of Metroland’s Peer-to-Peer artists in residence.
Francesca Telling: Emergency
A study of education, linguistics and colonialism. Francesca Telling is one of Metroland’s Peer-to-Peer artists in residence.
Metroland Exhibitions Programme 2024/25
A look at the exhibitions coming up in our gallery.
Past exhibitions
Linett Kamala – BASS TONE REGENERATION: BUILDING COMMUNITY
Rose Nordin: Sharp Eyes for the Invisible
A collection of divine tangents as part of Rose’s on-going exploration of Southeast Asian ritual practices and the language and materials that ground them.
“DAE OF HARLESDEN” – Amanda Colares Silva
Paradise Close by Daisy Jones
Enter Paradise Close, where an eternal off-season haunts a land previously known as the Caribbean. This immersive installation unveils traces of a vanished Black culture, challenging perceptions of paradise and cultural memory.
Collective Imaginings, an exhibition by Other Cinemas’ Film School
An exhibition showcasing the work of students at the Other Cinemas film school.
DO YOU BELIEVE IN DIVINE INTERVENTION?
A brand new exhibition from multidisciplinary artist and researcher Emmanuel Shogbolu created by Harlesden High Street, and held here at Metroland Studios
‘the face of you, my substitute for love’ Adam Farah-Saad & Elvis Universe
A new exhibition from Adam Farah-Saad & Elvis Universe. Reflecting on memory, mourning, connection and catharsis.
Sukoon – Zine Launch and Exhibition
3 Feb: Join us to celebrate the launch of Sukoon, a brand new zine, and it’s companion exhibition.
Soft Tissue: Feeling-through precarious times – Squishy Collective
You are invited to get tactile with Squishy Collective’s latest show. Expect clay, sculpture, film and more. 25th Nov – 10th Dec 2023.
I am sure, Circumsure – Arsalan Isa
A personal show about the titillating world of male circumcision. With 80s love songs, velcro, Frank Ocean and DIY kits. 4th – 19th November 2023.
Send to Print: A Dispatch from the OOMK Archive
Come to an ever-evolving exhibition of the OOMK Zine archive. 14th-29th October 2023.
Amanda Camenisch and Therese Westin
Come and play with these large sound sculptures, share your good intentions for Kilburn and enjoy the healing soundscape. 29th Sept – 8th Oct 2023.
Allegorhythms – Bill Daggs
Artist Bill Daggs will take over Metroland Studios Gallery and create a space for listening, rest, and meditation. 8th – 24th September 2023
Sometimes, I Live in a Shell – Yasmin Nicholas
A mixed media exhibition exploring the complexities of Black womanhood.
Mosaic LGBT+ Young Persons’ Trust x Ed Webb-Ingall
‘Growing Up B[r]ent’ is a radio play by artist and filmmaker Ed Webb-Ingall produced in close collaboration with Mosaic LGBT+ Young Persons’ Trust, as part of a series of four community-led commissions.
Linett Kamala
‘Disya Dancehall’ is an installation by artist Linett Kamala at 2c Maygrove Road in Kilburn, that considers the place and the uses of Jamaican dancehall culture in creating and facilitating opportunities for enjoyment and celebration.
Mahmoud Khaled
The ‘Proposal for a House Museum of an Unknown Crying Man’, Khaled’s installation at Metroland Studios in Kilburn, begins with a video tour of the house as it was installed at the villa of ARK Kültür cultural space in Istanbul, before giving way to the bedroom of the ‘Unknown Crying Man’.
AWRC x Amanda Camenisch and Therese Westin
Metroland Cultures presents Making The Room Sing, a commission by artists Amanda Camenisch and Therese Westin developed in collaboration with a group of women from the Asian Women’s Resource Centre (AWRC) based in Harlesden, Brent.