Cubitt Gallery
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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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’.
📍 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.
📍 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.
📍 Performance slots within current exhibition run
Inspire your Friends
- 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.
