The Creative Mapping: Art Educators Lab will gather art educators working in traditional and untraditional settings to connect and discuss…

iniva and Down River Road invite you to be ear to ear with voices that will not respond to you,…

BOOK HERE Join us for a lunchtime sharing session where we will showcase books, journals, and articles featuring the use…

whya (a listening exercise) invites listeners to be guided through an auditory journey into the digital artwork ‘whya’ by Nolan…

The iniva bookshop is a destination for books on art, identity & social justice and we stock items from Afterall, Silver Press…

BOOK HERE Join us for a lunchtime sharing session where we will showcase books, journals, and articles which champion and…

iniva is looking for protest and activist zines which focus on documenting, investigating, and holding space for global social and political movements…

Initiated by iniva (Institute of International of Visual Arts), The Gathering 2024 offers a unique space centring Global Majority UK-based…

BOOK HERE Join Archivist and Engagement Producer Kaitlene Koranteng she as presents reflections developed during a research trip to Ghana…

BOOK HERE Event Schedule: 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM: Opening Playlist Join us for a curated selection of music with…

BOOK HERE Join us for this brief lunchtime session titled “On Our Table: Global Resiliences”. This talk showcases zines, books,…

SIGN-UP HERE How can we link sounds with our cultural identities? Where do those links exist? Join us for an…

BOOK NOW Join us for an evening panel discussion focusing on the artistic practice of John Akomfrah, exploring themes such…

Open Call for 11:11 London residency, in November 2024 (duration 4 weeks) in collaboration with Iniva’s specialist collections library: Stuart…

RSVP NOW As part of the public programme for the British Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, iniva presents Unseen…

BOOK A SLOT “Wikipedia matters because it is a go-to source of information, the tenth most visited site in the…

BOOK HERE Identity is not as transparent or unproblematic as we think. Perhaps instead of thinking of identity as an…

Maria Amidu is the third artist in iniva’s Future Collect Commission partnership programme. Her exhibition, in the perpetual back and…

BOOK HERE iniva invites you to join us in celebrating our upcoming publication Contested Sites in our newly refurbished space….

BOOK HERE “Had her name been scribbled on the back of the albumen print, there would be at least one…

BOOK HERE “I wanted to make stories for my kids and other black kids to see a future in which…

BOOK HERE Together with PRIM and iniva, Joshua Woolford will be hosting a reading group around themes and topics Ingrid…

Reflecting on the exhibition themes, the session with students from Millbank Academy will support young people to learn about the…

“Entangled Threads: Revisiting the Clothes, Cloth & Culture Group,” draws on the legacy of the CCCG, reinterpreting Stuart Hall’s writings in the context of contemporary fashion, textiles, and fibre arts studies.

BOOK HERE Identity is not as transparent or unproblematic as we think. Perhaps instead of thinking of identity as an…

Join us for a creative and interactive afternoon exploring the work of artist Frank Bowling as part of Hauser &…

BOOK HERE This brief session, titled ‘On Our Table: Art Pedagogy,’ aims to delve into the role of books in…

iniva’s Creative Mapping: Design and Architecture Lab is a gathering dedicated to artists, designers and architects from the global majority….

iniva is pleased to announce an open call for writing commissions as part of Unseen Guests – Post-National Digital Pavilion….

Join us online for an in-conversation with curator Orsod Malik, artist Jacob V. Joyce and archivist Kaitlene Koranteng to explore…

APPLY HERE iniva and 32° East Trust are pleased to announce a new partnership and opportunity through British Council’s Biennials…

BOOK HERE This brief session, titled ‘On Our Table: Artist Books,’ aims to spotlight materials from the Stuart Hall Library…

Join us for an interactive reading group with Gary Stewart as we explore the authenticity of dubbing sound. Gary works…

Join us for an in-conversation with Dharma Taylor and Kaia Charles where she’ll be sharing her journey as the sixth…

BOOK HERE Join us for an interactive performance evening with Gary Stewart as we explore auteurship and how technological innovations…

In this talk, Lamya Sadiq will attempt to trace some of the characteristics and contours of ancestral wounds, using the…

At a time when our unfreedoms are so pronounced; wars are raging and we are reminded safety is conditional. Pleasure,…

What is the role of an institution, artist, researcher, practitioner in this wounded time? Join Meera Shakti Osborne who will…

Short lunchtime tour on resources on the theme of anti-colonial thought from Stuart Hall Library and iniva archive.

Aiming to extend the legacy of Future Collect, in 2023-24 CoLab takes place in Eastbourne, led by artist Arpita Shah…

BOOK HERE Transformation of Silence into Words & Action is the title of an essay by poet, feminist, activist &…

BOOK HERE Join International Curators Forum (ICF) and iniva at the Stuart Hall Library for a special screening of Edward…

As part of Shifting the Centre – Anticolonial Ways of Seeing‘s Public Programme, artist Beverley Bennett, supported by therapist Stephen…

BOOK HERE Imagine you were never considered to be human. How would you perceive the world? What future is possible?…

Join us for an interactive reading group with Orsod Malik as we explore whether a shared history is possible, and…

BOOK HERE As part of our Shifting the Centre: Anticolonial Ways of Seeing exhibition, International Curators Forum (ICF) are hosting a Reading…

BOOK HERE As part of our Shifting the Centre: Anticolonial Ways of Seeing exhibition, International Curators Forum (ICF) are hosting…

BOOK HERE Join Future Collect curatorial trainee Hollie Douglas as she presents on research developed over her traineeship with iniva…

Join us for an interactive reading and listening group with Dharma Taylor as we explore sociocultural vibes and the crowd’s…

“…The whole apparatus of a history, key figures, and works, tendencies, shifts, breaks, ruptures, slips into place silently.” – Stuart…

Book Free Ticket Join us on 25th October 2023 from 5.30-7.30pm to celebrate the launch of iniva’s first online archive…

Book tickets ‘Uncovering the Archive’ is thrilled to present Moushumi Bhowmik, a Calcutta (Kolkata)-based Bengali singer, composer and practice-led researcher…

When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and…

BOOK HERE Are you passionate about arts education and preserving history? Come along to our focus group session exploring iniva’s…

BOOK HERE This instalment of our show-and-tell series focuses on iniva’s X-Space collection. X-Space was iniva’s virtual gallery and online…

Buy Tickets on Eventbrite Book Free Ticket Join us on Monday 9 October 5.30-7.30pm for the launch of Afterall’s newest…

iniva is delighted to invite you to our annual book sale – a one week sales event at the Stuart…

BOOK HERE In April 1994 iniva held its founding symposium titled ‘A New Internationalism’ at the Tate Gallery, which brought…

Book tickets The West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library presents a film screening and talk in collaboration with…

BOOK HERE Join this introductory show and tell tour of iniva’s governance collection from the archive led by Cataloguing Archivist…

An event to mark the launching of a publication by Meera Shakti Osborne, resulting from the Village Letters exhibition’s public programme. This publication is a collaborative effort between artists Meera Shakti Osborne and Prafulla Mohanti. It showcases the artworks by workshop participants, including students from Paddington Academy and Millbank Academy.

Book Tickets Join us for an interactive reading group and discussion at Stuart Hall Library with the artist Lauren Craig….

BOOK HERE This workshop offers a space to consider y/our practices as an artist or art worker, as they are…

BOOK HERE As part of Future Commons’ series of public events responding to the needs and wants of art workers…

Book Tickets Join us on Thursday 15 June 5.30-7.30pm for the launch of Afterall’s newest Exhibition Histories publication Reshaping the…

In this financial literacy workshop we will focus on basic financial admin skills required for sustaining ourselves as individual practitioners…

WATCH LIVE HERE Join Iniva on 12th June 2023 for a day of conversation on transforming the culture of commissioning…

BOOK HERE When Maria Amidu was working on her Future Collect expression of interest, she discovered during a conversation with…

BOOK HERE In this workshop led by April Lin 林森, we discuss what an access rider is, and how to…

Artist and cultural futurist Lauren Craig delivers a workshop to unpack her conceptual modality S:E:P:A:L:S

BOOK HERE This short session, entitled ‘On Our Table: Finding Home’ aims to showcase contemporary art histories around the concept…

BOOK HERE Join us for an interactive reading group and discussion at Stuart Hall Library with the author of Fugitive…

In the anatomy of the human body and in the anatomy of the envelope the throat is the locus of…

iniva is pleased to announce its participation at Offprint, the annual book fair for independent experimental and socially engaged publishers…

Book tickets As part of the INDEX exhibition ‘Untitled: an exhibition of works in progress’ by Maria Amidu’s Public Programme,…

This event is a show-and-tell event exploring the archive collection of Veil, a touring art exhibition with our Cataloguing Archivist Niamh Glanville-Frayne.

Join June Bellebono and Tamara Hart for a workshop that explores how to find peers in archives through zine-making. In…

CoLab promotes interdisciplinary education and well-being practices through contemporary art. The Birmingham edition of CoLab is led by local artist Exodus…

iniva, Short Supply & Proforma are pleased to announce the debut public performance of ‘Rehearsal Methods’ by Jade Montserrat, originally…

Following from our successful pilot session with Lola Olufemi, we are back with MayDay Rooms to bring you another archival…

For our fourth Artist Kitchen Salon as part of iniva’s Research Network Programme: If Sea is History – What is…

Iniva is researching ways we can support young people in Westminster to engage in intersectional climate action and make the…

Short lunchtime tour on resources on the theme of young Black and Asian women artists from Stuart Hall Library and iniva archive

iniva invites you to join us for a private view of Untitled, an exhibition of works by Maria Amidu curated…

CoLab Wakefield is a project working with artist Simone Yasmin, Creative Producer Boseda Olawoye, and Arts Psychotherapist Will Jones to…

iniva and the Stuart Hall Foundation are pleased to announce the sixth Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency commencing in May…

Looking for thoughtful and affordable gifts this December? iniva’s Stuart Hall Library shop will be transformed for a month, bringing…

“The waves of sound are like waves of water in the ocean There is a tide and time of sound…

As part of programme of The European Pavilion in Rome, iniva is proposing three reading sessions organised from 17 to…

BOOK HERE As part of our current exhibition Village Letters, iniva’s curator Beatriz Lobo will lead a reading circle with…

For our second Artist Kitchen Salon as part of iniva’s Research Network programme, If Sea Is History – What is…

Join us on Thursday 20 October 5.30-7.30pm for the launch of Afterall’s Two Works series and Afterall Journal Issue 53 at the…

From October 2022, artist Holly Graham will deliver eight workshop sessions in Northbury Primary School and Eastbrook Secondary School in…

We are kicking off our archival collaborations with MayDay Rooms with a pilot session introducing archives & archiving. Getting to…

Soul food is more than chitlins and collards greens, ham hocks and black-eyed peas. Soul food is about people who…

Join us on Tuesday 27 September 2022, 5.30pm-7.30pm for the opening night of Prafulla Mohanti’s first solo exhibition in London since…

Browse over 40 iniva titles, prices from £1! Every purchase comes with a free tote bag & mystery publication while…

Rohan Ayinde is joined by his mother, Rebecca Spencer-Smith to discuss his upbringing in London and the influence of Caribbean…

A key part of Emii Alrai’s research and work on her Future Collect commission A Core of Scar has been…

iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and Towner Eastbourne are excited to announce an open call for expressions of interest from…

Book tickets Rohan Ayinde is joined in conversation with curator and iniva Artistic Director Sepake Angiama to discuss Ayinde’s new…

What Do We Become is a presentation of research by Tobi Alexandra Falade, current iniva and Barbican Curatorial Trainee. This…

For the first study day in the second year our of Future Collect programme, we will gather at Stuart Hall…

Join us to celebrate the opening of Dancing In The Ellipsis // A Cartographer’s Black Hole, with artist Rohan Ayinde…

#driftdigitalpavillion iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) in partnership with aabaakwad (it clears after a storm) raises the question, ‘What is nation?’ in an in-person…

Book tickets Following from her talk, I felt your spirit when you came, Adjoa Armah leads a reading group which…

A Core of Scar is an exhibition of Alrai’s new work, created for acquisition into The Hepworth Wakefield’s permanent public…

Prafulla Mohanti: Full Circle is an exhibition curated by Future Collect Curatorial Trainee Amber Li who has been conducting new…

Calling all Black and Global Ethnic Majorities (GEM) people who are board members or trustees in UK arts and culture…

Book tickets Daniella Rose King will be joined by writer and researcher Zakiya McKenzie for an online reading group on…

This reading group intends to supplement thinking on key themes related to Lola Olufemi’s ongoing research: imaginative-revolutionary potential, temporality and…

Book tickets ‘Popular culture is not the arena where we find out who we really are, the truth of experience….

Using an experimental mode, in this presentation Lola Olufemi will explore ongoing research related to the utility, location and efficacy…

Introduction to the exhibition at 6pm or 7pm Join us for the opportunity to view the exhibition ‘Pink Tongue, Brown Cheek’ and…

In this talk, Adjoa Armah explores what it means to treat a journey, through time and space, at all possible…

Cairo Clarke will lead an online reading group on 24th February at 6pm exploring the themes of her presentation research…

Cairo Clarke shares reflections on the shape her research has taken over the past year as her practice began to…

Still looking for the perfect gift for someone special this holiday season? We are delighted to invite you to the…

Book tickets Handle with Care will reflect on the groundbreaking partnership commission undertaken by iniva and Manchester Art Gallery as part of iniva’s legacy project Future Collect.   Future…

Calling all Black and Global Ethnic Majorities people (GEM) who are Board members or trustees in UK arts and culture organisations….

Following on from our talk Talking in Tongues*, in this session we will read a selection of texts that explore…

Curator and INIVA Future Collect Alumni Nikita Gill would like to invite you to the Lumiere Reading Salon at Cave…

Talking in Tongues is a research-in-rehearsal of curator and researcher Rahila Haque, in dialogue with artist Rehana Zaman. The session will consider diasporic…

Book here Join us for a conversation between artists Meera Shakti Osborne and Rosa-Johan Uddoh, as they explore Making History,…

We are seeking contributions for an interdisciplinary ‘fairground of ideas’ which will explore manifestations of care in artistic, curatorial and collecting…

Multi media artist and educator Shepherd Manyika will be joined by Mary Evans, artist and BA Fine Art Leader at…

Alongside the Archipelagos in Reverse Research Associates, iniva embarks on its own research sparked from the writing of two previous curators…

iniva’s latest exhibition in the Stuart Hall Library, Me Myself and I // Home // My Grandmother’s House by multi media artist Shepherd…

Book Here For a number of years, Iniva’s learning programme has taken an integrated art and art therapy informed approach…

Artists Maybelle Peters and Gary Stewart take us on an exploratory archival visit through X-Space – a programme of iniva digital art commissions….

Image: STUART for iniva (Graphic by Rose Nordin). With the help of Somerset House we will be broadcasting the Art…

Book here HerStories // Shelf Life brings together B/black women and non binary people of colour collectives who are involved…

Image: Stuart Hall Library collection. Carlos Jiménez, 2018. In collaboration with Stuart Hall Foundation and with support from Arts Council…

iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and The Hepworth Wakefield are excited to announce an open call for expressions of…

Our second Future Collect Study Day emanating from artist Jade Montserrat’s research and thinking around her new commission, centres on…

As a continuation of the conversation which launched STUART as a communal publishing platform last month, we will be discussing publishing and…

Calling all Black and Global Ethnic Majorities people (GEM) who are Board members or trustees in UK arts and culture…

In this talk, artist and graphic designer Rose Nordin introduces the practical and conceptual role of STUART publishing platform and…

Calling all Black and Global Ethnic Majorities people (GEM) who are Board members or trustees in UK arts and culture…

Marking the first presentation of Jade Montserrat’s new performance, made as part of her Future Collect commission and to be…

Join us as researcher Fortunata Calabro presents ‘Axes of the South: A dialogue on resistance and artistic practices in Latin…

Responding to each other and using different timestamps as points of evocation, researcher Xiaoyi Nie and artist Bo Choy will…

On the first Tuesday of the month, art psychotherapist and artist Georgina Obaya Evans will facilitate a zoom group that…

Curious about working in the arts? The Visual Arts Open Workshop is open to everyone who is keen to find…

Future Collect artist Jade Montserrat invites fellow creative practitioners Hamja Ahsan​, ​Emma Dabiri and No Matter to join her in…

Ahead of our Research Network talk, “Vicissitudes of Crossing Borders” join Xiaoyi Nie and Bo Choy for a reading group…