Somerset House Studios 10th Anniversary Programme

Over the last decade, Somerset House Studios has become a vital space for artists working across art, culture and new technologies, shaping the future of creativity, supporting over 200 artists from diverse global backgrounds to collaborate, experiment and bring bold new ideas to life. Alongside sustained, long-term support for artists, the Studios connects audiences to new work and cutting-edge ideas at every stage of the artistic process. To mark this milestone anniversary, the programme spotlights this distinctive approach to interdisciplinary experimentation, bringing together international artists and expanding through new global partnerships and co-commissions.

Jenkin van Zyl: Enclosure: 24 September - 29 November 2026

Lancaster Rooms, Somerset House - Free / Pay What You Can

Somerset House Studios presents a major new exhibition in London of resident Studios artist and filmmaker, Jenkin van Zyl, co-commissioned with Film and Video Umbrella and HOME Manchester. Enclosure is a specially-commissioned immersive film installation that explores a culture where technological advancement has outpaced our ability to make sense of it. At its core, the film asks what happens when systems built on desire and self-preservation outlast the conditions that created them. The film will be screened within a large-scale installation at Somerset House’s Lancaster Rooms. Visitors will move through the material remains of the facility: fairground signage, holograms, inflatable cocoons, and decaying ephemera. Mirroring the film, the installation portrays a world that still has the facade of being active, though it has long-since collapsed.

3 Evenings: 16, 17, 18 October 2026 - 25 Wapping Wall

Experiments in Performance and Technology

Tickets £25/20 - Three Night Pass £60 (general) / £48 (concessions)

In October, Studios goes offsite to 25 Wapping Wall – a former hydraulic power station in East London - with 3 Evenings, a landmark three-night event and international broadcast exploring contemporary performance and technology. This radical spirit of experimentation - at the core of the Studios' ethos over the past decade - remains vital for advancing artistic practice and enabling new forms to emerge. Framed across three different live experiments on each of the three nights, the live performances will sit within a wider programme of installations and activations throughout the building, featuring Ayoung Kim, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Klara Kofen and Cameron Graham, Gazelle Twin, Keiken, Earshot, Lawrence Lek, Ligia Lewis, Team Rolfes and Xin Liu. Further names to be announced.

This event will also launch 3ETV, a unique international networked broadcast in partnership with Pioneer Works (New York) & HEK (House of Electronic Arts) in Basel. 3ETV will reframe 3 Evenings as an evolving artwork for two months beyond the live event through multi-channel broadcast and unconventional streaming interventions, as well as inviting international exchange with additional artist contributions and collaborations.

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