Abbas Zahedi’s interdisciplinary practice blends contemporary philosophy, poetics, and social dynamics with sound, sculpture, and other performative media.
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Chalet Suisse is a dining experience from pop-up legend Jimmy Garcia, in partnership with Switzerland Tourism.
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A collaboration with Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk which saw a unique new version of his collection The Museum of Innocence, installed at Somerset House.
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This Bright Land is a major new cultural festival taking place across the month of August at Somerset House.
/blog/bright-land-mission-statement
Somerset House Director Jonathan Reekie CBE selects his cultural highlights of 2018.
/blog/reekies-round-2018
For the second ASSEMBLY season, resident artist Christian Marclay will curate a series of intimate musical performances.
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Free artist led talks in the galleries, providing an opportunity to hear more about the artists’ exhibited works and wider practice.
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Cross-disciplinary artist and filmmaker, working with a diverse range of media spanning moving-image, sound-design, text, performance and installation
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New Virtual Tour guided by writer and curator, Ekow Eshun
/press/leila-alaoui-rite-passage-goes-online
As we embark on a new decade, explore what's in store for the year ahead at Somerset House as we announce a bumper 2020 programme.
/blog/2020-somerset-house
Artist and filmmaker concerned with ancient concepts and perceptions of femininity and its representations in contemporary patriarchal society.
/residents/evi-kalogiropoulou
A textile installation, elaborated with hand-made materials to represent the breath-taking landscape of Lake Atitlán and bring us closer to to Santa Catarina Palopó.
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Studios residents Project O present a video artwork considering Somerset House’s historical connection to the British Royal Navy.
/blog/saved-project-o
IAM explore the post-technological futures of everything by digging into their 2018 research theme: “The Subversion of Paradoxes”.
/whats-on/defrag-iam
A discussion into the photography project 'Elephant' which documented the people and places of Elephant & Castle, in the borough of Southwark where she lives.
/blog/kaleidoscope-qa-photographer-teresa-eng
How can we anticipate the unintended consequences of technology on people and society?
/creative-careers/creative-careers-academy/open-skills-event-tech-responsible-technology
Join us this Easter holiday for the 11th edition of Now Play This, the UK's leading festival of experimental games.
/whats-on/now-play-this-2025
Since the first edition of Film4 Summer Screen in 2005, one thing that’s remained consistent are the fabled double-bill nights.
/blog/why-see-one-film-when-you-can-double-bill
Artist and astrologer Madeleine Botet de Lacaze hosts a performative workshop that explains the importance of astrology for leading a creative life.
/whats-on/hyper-functional-ultra-healthy/spiritual-map-for-our-creative-self
Somerset House Studios invited applications for a new online spatial sound artist development programme, Sonic Terrains, that took place from May to August 2020.
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