Cubitt Gallery

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An artist-run contemporary art space operated by the Cubitt Artists co-operative, pairing a changing exhibitions programme with studios and a long-running curatorial residency. Expect experimental shows—often new commissions—ranging from performance and sound to sculpture and moving image, presented in a raw, flexible gallery close to Angel.

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Opening Hours

Wednesday: 10:00 – 18:00

Thursday: 10:00 – 18:00

Friday: 10:00 – 18:00

Saturday: 12:00 – 17:00

What's not to miss inside?

Artist-Run Model

Shows how a co-operative sustains emerging practice outside commercial pressures.

Exhibitions are selected by a resident curator and made with on-site artists, so the programme reads like a live lab rather than a fixed ‘house style’.

Scan wall texts for new commissions; note which works were built or rehearsed in the studios you’re standing beside.

📍 Main gallery and adjacent studios

Curatorial Residency Archive

Documents a lineage of curators whose one-year tenures shape the gallery’s identity.

Each resident leaves a paper trail—posters, essays, event scores—mapping shifts in contemporary concerns from one season to the next.

Pick any past programme leaflet and compare its themes with the current show: what persists, what pivots?

📍 Desk/reading material near entrance (varies by show)

Live & Time-Based Works

The space regularly hosts performance, readings and sound pieces that re-compose the exhibition over time.

A ‘finished’ show becomes a stage; objects turn into instruments and back again.

If a performance is listed, view the installation once before and once after to catch how the traces alter the reading.

📍 Performance slots within current exhibition run

🤓 Fun Facts

Cubitt Artists was founded in the early 1990s as a non-profit studio co-operative with a public gallery; its rotating curatorial bursary became a model widely copied by UK artist-run spaces.

The gallery’s commissioning approach means many exhibitions function as first presentations of brand-new work in London, often accompanied by editioned prints or publications produced in-house.