Ibraaz
A new space for art, culture and thought opening in the heart of London in October.
Opening on 3 October 2025, Ibraaz is a platform dedicated to highlighting art, culture and ideas from the Global Majority. Rooted in London yet globally attuned, the programme will take place across six floors of a striking 10,000 square foot Grade II listed building at 93 Mortimer Street in the heart of the capital. Ibraaz means ‘to shine a light on’ in Arabic and offers a bold model as a cultural institution championing forthright expression, critical discourse, and collective imagination.
Drawing inspiration from the creative energies of the Global Majority and its diasporas, Ibraaz is committed to creating a generative environment grounded in curiosity – where art serves as a means of rethinking systems, telling new stories, and forging connections across borders. It will also extend a culture of hospitality and hosting – into its institutional practice by embedding care, generosity, and welcome at the core of its operations and audience engagement.
Through dynamic, multidisciplinary programming including exhibitions, talks, screenings, music nights, and a residency structure for its library, café and bookshop, Ibraaz will bring communities and ideas together underpinned by a politics of joy. Bridging local and global conversations to create a “world of many worlds” within one vibrant space, Ibraaz will also reimagine and reconfigure the relationships between the digital and physical, with an online platform hosting original, multiform commissions alongside content and documentation produced from the building.
With a building reimagined by Architect-in-Residence Sumayya Vally, Ibraaz launches with Ibrahim Mahama’s exhibition Parliament of Ghosts (3 October 2025 – 15 February 2026) aa site-specific adaptation of an ongoing, long-term research and production project. The first Library-in-Residence programme will be launched with The Otolith Collective, as well as a Bookshop-in-Residence and Café-in-Residence – anchoring an ambitious public programme and online editorial platform.
- Ibraaz is located at 93 Mortimer Street, London W1W 7SS
- Opening hours from Wednesday–Sunday: 11am–6pm
- Free admission