Goldsmiths MFA Curating

𝑷𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒎 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 - a short film screening with live saxophone performance by Hong Kong artists, curated by MFA Curating alum Stephanie Chung (Stephanie Chung), is taking place at Theatreship in Canary Wharf on 5 July, 2pm.

⛲ One afternoon only
🫧 Tickets available at Theatreship’s website

The programme contemplates the recurrence of a specific fountain as a motif in the moving image works by Hong Kong artists – Sharon Cheuk Wun Lee, Christie Lau and Jess Lau Ching-wa.

Interwoven with a trilogy score composed specially for the occasion by Aaron Chung and performed on saxophone by Alvin Wong, the works form a collective reimagining of the fountain as a phantasmic presence, entangled with colonial legacy, collective memory, diasporic nostalgia.

Silhouettes of a Memoir
Ethan Byrne

We are delighted to invite you to Silhouettes of a Memoir, a new immersive installation by interdisciplinary artist Ethan Byrne .

26 June – 13 July 2026
Private View: Thursday 25 June, 6–9pm

SQFT Gallery
95 Bell Street, London NW1 6TL

Bringing together a series of interconnected new works, Silhouettes of a Memoir explores the materiality of language and its capacity to shape bodily experience. Through an interactive multimedia environment, the exhibition examines language’s ability to break through the innate nature of performance. Bringing together sound, image, text, and site-specific intervention, the installation invites visitors to consider the ways constructed realities can affect and inform how we perceive space and the intangible.

Available by appointment:
Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm

SQFT:Space Gallery
95 Bell Street
London NW1 6TL

Curated by: Reaia Parkes
Special thanks to: LJ LJ 樑仔

This exhibition is supported by SQFT:Space Gallery Sqft:Space [email protected]@danleon001

List of Collaborators:


LJ 樑仔
Sqft:Space Gallery
樑仔rchitects
Dan LeonDan Leon

‘Wet Shoes’, a curatorial collective formed by MFA Curating Goldsmiths alumni duo Crystal Li and Priscilla Lo, is launching their first project event on 27 June: ‘Pits and Plots: An Excavation and Collage Workshop with Found Books” at ss space space in Taipei.
As the first phase of the project “zip zip” on secrecy, “Pits and Plots” unzips together the secrets of bones and books. Led by artist Hsu Chih-Yu, the collage workshop unfolds as an archaeological play - from delving into old books as excavation pits, to spatially recomposing fragments into imaginary skeletons.
Bones remain central to Hsu’s collage and sculptural practice, a recurring motif that prompts queries into what lies invisible below the skin’s surface, holding an expansive space for infinite shape and movement.
Inspired by her ongoing practice, this two-part collaging exercise proposes a playful series of assemblage and extraction, questioning what is rendered visible and invisible in the process. While inviting participants to join in a collective bone collage, we also intentionally peer back into the new windows that open in the leftover books, reshaping new fiction and uncertainty. Join us in this collective excavation, and take home your own unique “book skeleton” and whatever new creature we may find.

🪏📖Pits and Plots: An Excavation and Collage Workshop with Found Books
Artist | Hsu Chih-Yu
Curated by | Wet Shoes
Date | 6.27.2026 (六 Sat)
Time | 14:00 - 16:00
Venue | ss space space (No. 199, Section 2, Zhonghua Road, Bali District, New Taipei City, Taiwan)

Goldsmiths MFA Curating student Tiersha Faith Laird is organising ‘Fat And?’, an afternoon reading group and discussion on Sunday 5 July, 2-6pm, at Goldsmiths CCA, exploring the racist origins and current perpetuation of fatphobia, and how we take up space. Fat activist and digital creator Holly Lorn will join for a discussion about fat representation and the social impacts of fatphobia, in an effort to learn how to implement more inclusive living practices. Further information about the event, readings from books by Sabrina Strings and Aubrey Gordon, here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/feministdurationreadinggroup/2255117 tiersha faith

Save the Date!

Doing Ecology Otherwise: Pathways for Art and Transdisciplinary Collaboration in Ecosocial Change

International Conference hosted by the Centre for Art and Ecology, Goldsmiths, University of London

11-12 September 2026

Doing Ecology Otherwise addresses the imaginative, sensory, material and embodied capacities of art to address urgent ecological challenges. Drawing on essential insights from Natasha Myers and Lola Olufemi on the potentiality of imagining and acting ‘otherwise’, the conference explores how art can hold space for new understandings, practices, relations and structures of feeling that may be marginalized in mainstream scientific and environmental action.

The Centre for Art & Ecology is Co-Directed by Head of MFA Curating Goldsmiths Anna Colin Anna Colin

Congratulations to MFA Curating alumn on gasp, on view from 17 May–23 August 2026.

Presented at MACA, gasp is Michele Chu’s first institutional solo exhibition in mainland China and is co-curated by Yang Li and Zhou Chu.

The exhibition brings together newly commissioned works including mass (2026), gasping (2026) and gravestone lullaby i–iv (2026). Through installations incorporating salt, sound and architectural intervention, visitors move through a sequence of spaces spanning the staircase, corridor and exhibition hall.

According to the exhibition text, gasp explores “different forms of salt” to construct “a sensory journey from the exterior to the interior, from skin to bone.”

MACA
17 May – 23 August 2026

Bernice Lin participated a curatorial fellowship through Taiwan’s Youth Overseas Dream-Fulfilling Program , organised by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education in collaboration with the National Museums of World Culture in Sweden, featuring a four-week research residency across its two major Stockholm sites: the Museum of Ethnography and the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities .

Dates: 11 October – 5 December 2025

Research Highlights:
🔍 Material Trajectories: Re-identifying East Asian Prehistoric Jade
Conducted in-depth research on the ‘hook-shaped jade’ within the collection of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. Through material analysis and comparative studies of Hongshan Culture characteristics, provided evidence to evaluate the object’s provenance.

🗺️ Decolonial Mapping: Tracing Indigenous Heritage
Focusing on ethnographic objects previously loaned to Taiwan, Bernice utilized mapping and archival literature from the Japanese colonial period to trace the origins of artifacts historically labeled as ‘Tsalisen’. This work facilitates reconnecting museum collections with contemporary source communities and enables a more precise identification of tribal affiliations.

🏛️ Institutional Critique: Observing Systemic Shifts in Swedish Museums Through site visits and professional interviews, Bernice analyzed the current landscape of the Swedish national museum system—specifically institutional consolidation, storage management, and the strategic shift toward ‘digitization’ and ‘child-oriented education’.

Bio:
Shu Yu (Bernice) Lin is a Taiwanese curator based in London. She holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London (2024) and a BA in East Asian Studies from National Taiwan Normal University (2019). Her curatorial practice spans exhibition-making, public programming, and cultural research, extending to research interests in East Asian culture, migration, and environmental psychology. She has co-curated Uncanny Playgrounds at Sugarhouse Gallery (London) with Hypha Studios (2024) and Drifting Tethers: Breathing Spaces with A Particular Reality (2023).

_To call you a forest_ is a film screening happening on the *14th of May* at *7pm at Coldharbour Blue Cinema* (SE24 0HN), curated by alumni collective, soft shock.

The programme brings together ten short artist films exploring our entanglements with forest ecologies, histories of extraction, myth, kinship, and deep time. Moving across documentary, lyrical, and experimental forms, the works consider forests as living communities and ancestral witnesses, and reflect on how we position ourselves within wider ecological systems.

We’ll be joined by the filmmakers for a Q&A after the screening, and there will be time to stay for a drink and conversation afterwards.
Doors open at 7:00pm
Screening begins at 7:30pm (running until approx. 9:15pm, with a short interval)
Bar and space open until 10:00pm
Tickets are tiered with concession options available, and profits will go to Earth Tenders, a Black-led South London organisation supporting long-term community health and local food systems.

You can find full details and tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/to-call-you-a-forest-film-screening-qa-tickets-1987339662428

Goldsmiths MFA Curating at the 61st Venice Biennale Arte 🌊

As Venice fills once again with artists, curators, filmmakers, writers and organisers from across the world, we wanted to celebrate some of the many people connected to the Goldsmiths MFA Curating programme whose work, collaborations and conversations are unfolding across the city this year.

From national pavilions and exhibitions to screenings, performances, talks, publications and informal encounters across late-night tables, Goldsmiths alumni, tutors, students and collaborators continue to shape contemporary art ecologies internationally in exciting and generous ways.

If you’re in Venice in the following weeks, keep an eye out for familiar faces, ongoing projects, chance meetings and the wider communities orbiting around the programme.

A few people and projects to look out for include:

— Nina Wakeford, Head of Research Dept & Curator of the Swiss Pavilion, ‘The Unfinished Business of Living Together’

— , Alumni & Curator of the Austrian Pavilion, ‘SEAWORLD’

— , Alumni & Curator of the Catalonia Pavilion, ‘Paper Tears’

— , Lecturer & Writer for Pauline Oliveros’s work

We’ve also been spotting some familiar faces around Venice this week, including (Alumni), (Alum), (Alum), (Lecturer), (Student), (Student) & (Alum) Alongside exhibiting artists and curators, it’s been lovely to also see members of the wider Goldsmiths community supporting projects across the Biennale including supporting Sammy Baoji’s work, supporting the Lithuanian Pavilion & supporting Forma Arts & Media at the Scottish Pavilion.

(please tag us in anything we’ve missed!)

Congratulations to everyone involved this year 💙

Apophenia - Leah Clements
Until 2 May 2026
Peer, Hoxton

In its final days not to be missed.

Apophenia is a new co-commission and the first major UK solo exhibition by London-based artist Leah Clements, produced in collaboration with , Sheffield. Working across moving image, photography and sculpture, Clements explores experiences of illness, disability, and altered states of perception giving form to what is often difficult to articulate.

At the centre is a new 23-minute single-channel film, following a protagonist moving through sites historically linked to healing from Roman baths to contemporary spas tracing how meaning is made through bodily and psychological experience. Sculptural and audio works extend this, creating a space attentive to access, interdependence, and care.

Text adapted from Peer Gallery

We’re especially excited to share that Goldsmiths MFA Curating student has been working closely on the exhibition during her placement with , including on the newly commissioned moving image work.

Courtesy of the artist. Commissioned and produced by Peer, London and Arts Catalyst, Sheffield. Photo credit: Andy Keate.