The Warburg Institute

The marvellous aesthetic and technical advances of the Renaissance age fascinate us here in the Warburg Institute. We are therefore delighted to announce our next 'Material World' event, exploring just that theme.

Dr Louisa McKenzie of the University of Glasgow will speak on: “Artistic Encounters: Orsino Benintendi, Verrocchio, and the Exchange of Aesthetic and Technical Know-How in Renaissance Florence”.

This event will take place in person, and online.

Details:
🗓️ 7 July
🕰️ 5:30pm (UK time)
📍The Warburg Institute, Bloomsbury, WC1H 0AB, or Online
🔗 Booking free but essential: https://buff.ly/W5jZ6Qx

*Opening tomorrow* 17 June, The Department of Euterpe (1926 – 2026) transforms the Warburg gallery into the listening room of a near-forgotten archive and audio laboratory; featuring a rich public programme of talks, concerts, regular broadcasts on NTS Radio, and office hours to visit the Department of Euterpe’s record collection.

With the gallery hosting the clerical afterlife of this department, visitors will enter a space to listen to and reflect on what happens when private collections become public, and subculture finds a temporary home in academic institutions. Accompanying the installation is a full programme of talks, concerts, regular broadcasts on NTS Radio, and office hours to visit the Department of Euterpe’s record collection.

The exhibition runs from 17 June 2026 to 3 October 2026 and the Opening party is on 16 June, 6–8pm, all are welcome. The Department of Euterpe (1926 – 2026) is curated by the artist and DJ duo Time Is Away, in collaboration with writers and researchers Esther Leslie and Sam Dolbear.

Find out more ➡️ https://buff.ly/Nxul8Lf

Coming soon: The Department of Euterpe at the Warburg Institute The Department of Euterpe (1926 – 2026): a major new installation where a imagined department of the Warburg gives sound to the Institute’s history and collections.

*Opening tomorrow - the Biblioteka Art Book Fair 2026, at the Warburg*

On Friday 12 and Saturday 13 June we are hosting the second edition of the Biblioteka Art Book Fair. With a diverse group of over 60 publishers, book dealers, artists and practicing librarians, the fair spans artists’ books, photography, architecture, critical theory, philosophy, and art writing, the fair brings contemporary publishing practices into dialogue with independent and institutional libraries.

The fair will take place both on the ground floor (Gallery, Auditorium and Teaching Suite) and has a programme of talks in the Common Room on the Fourth Floor. The event is free to attend and open to all without booking.

Details:
Friday 12 June 12pm - 8pm
Saturday 13 June 11am - 7pm
Warburg Institute, Bloomsbury, WC1H 0AB

Find out more and come along ➡️ https://buff.ly/Np3KpnR

Our latest 'Renaissance Lives' talk featured Jeremy Robbins (University of Edinburgh) in conversation with Peter Cherry (Trinity College Dublin) and François Quiviger (the Warburg Institute) looking at the life and work of Francisco de Zurbarán, one of the very greatest painters of life, light, thought and silence.

Watch now ➡️ https://buff.ly/NvksqMF

Renaissance Lives is a series of biographies published by Reaktion Books as well as a series of conversations discussing the ways in which individuals transmitted or changed the lives of traditions, ideas and images.


School of Advanced Study The National Gallery Nationalmuseum Stockholm

Image: 'The Veil of Saint Veronica' by Francisco de Zurbarán. Credit: Nationalmuseum Stockholm.

On Friday 12 and Saturday 13 June we will host the second edition of the Biblioteka Art Book Fair. Bringing together a diverse group of over 60 publishers, book dealers, artists and practicing librarians, the fair spans artists’ books, photography, architecture, critical theory, philosophy, art writing and more. The fair aims to cultivate the discursive field bridging contemporary publishing practices with independent and institutional libraries.

The fair will take place across the ground floor: Gallery, Auditorium, Teaching Suite, with the programme of talks in the Common Room on the Fourth Floor. The event is free to attend and open to all without booking.

Details:
Friday 12 June 12pm - 8pm
Saturday 13 June 11am - 7pm
Warburg Institute, Bloomsbury, WC1H 0AB

Find out more and come along ➡️ https://buff.ly/Np3KpnR

In the lead-up to the art fair, we have two in-conversation events:

1.
Eiscafé Europa by Enis Maci - HELA Press London Launch
Enis Maci in conversation with Theresa Zwerschke
10 June, 7.00 - 8.30pm
Warburg Institute, WC1H 0AB
Book now ➡️ https://buff.ly/5H5M9oR

2.
Artist Run Spaces and Their Archive: a conversation between the founder of PrintRoom (Rotterdam) and the custodian of de Appel Archive (Amsterdam)
11 June, 7.00 - 8.30pm
Warburg Institute, WC1H 0AB
Book now ➡️ https://buff.ly/y8je27p

Our upcoming exhibition The Department of Euterpe (1926 – 2026) transforms the gallery into a listening room in the style of a haphazard office, archive and audio laboratory.

Hosting the clerical afterlife of an imagined department of the Warburg Institute, visitors will enter a space to listen to and reflect on what happens when private collections become public, and subculture finds a temporary home in academic institutions. The public programme will encompass talks, concerts, regular broadcasts on NTS Radio, and office hours to visit the Department of Euterpe’s record collection.

Find out more ➡️ https://buff.ly/Nxul8Lf

“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”
― François de la Rochefoucauld.

On 19 June, expert scholars from the Warburg, University of Oxford and University of Bern will map out the relationship between migration and food history in the Renaissance between 1500-1800, and the ongoing impact of this today. Supported by the John Coffin Memorial Trust and with a special buffet of historically-themed foods catered by Gather and Gather, this public event showcases new research revealing how Western European dietary habits at this time were shaped by contacts with the Eastern Mediterranean world, and the ongoing impact of this today.

The panel: Lavinia Gambini, Anastasia Stylianou and Federica Gigante.

Date and time:
19 Jun 2026
2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Venue:
The Warburg Institute, Bloomsbury (and online, by registration)

Places are limited - book now ➡️ https://buff.ly/hd9xWfW

In the Warburg, we celebrate true scholarship in art and culture.

Heidi Heimann was not only a celebrated writer, photographer and medieval iconographer - she worked as a curator here in The Warburg Institute also, helping to found our London legacy.

In the 2026 Wohl Lecture, Professor Paul Taylor, Curator of our photographic collection, explored Heimann's life with a focus on her work as a literary critic.

Watch now ➡️ https://buff.ly/A1uXtY5

This May, visitors to the Warburg have enjoyed 'Relics', a fascinating exhibition in our gallery created by students from the MA in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture. The show brings together three interlinked exhibitions, and for it the students availed of the riches of the Warburg’s Library, Archive and Photographic Collection, and related them to new and recent works by PhD artists from the Slade School of Fine Art.

Our new blog explores how they made the show happen, from conception to realisation.

Read now ➡️ https://buff.ly/CcJN0Oy

*Relics closes 3 June.*



Our new blog explores how they made the show happen, from conception to realisation.

Read now ➡️ https://buff.ly/CcJN0Oy

*Call for Papers*

The Society for Renaissance Studies has announced its next conference, and made its Call for Papers, closing 25 September 2026.

'The Renaissance beyond Borders' envisions the Renaissance as a dynamic, interconnected process that transcends the chronological and geographical limitations of a fixed European moment. Bringing together scholars from across disciplines, it encourages narratives that trace the movement of ideas, texts, images, everyday artefacts and peoples across regions from the Mediterranean to Asia and the Americas.

For this iteration of the conference, papers are invited on the following core themes: 'The Renaissance Beyond Europe; 'Beyond the Medieval-Renaissance Divide'; 'London as Global City (including Migration and Multilingualism)' and 'Object-Based Research'. Submissions can also be considered under the 'Open' strand, for proposals that are not connected to those aforementioned core theme(s).

Submit your paper now ➡️ https://buff.ly/91FCXvj