During Frieze Week 2025, a collective of sixteen artists presents The Doorway Effect, a group exhibition on view in Gallery 1 & 2.. Positioned as an independent satellite to the Frieze Art Fair, the exhibition offers complementary perspectives on contemporary art and interrogates how cultural and personal memory is shaped and eroded by the proliferation, manipulation, and absence of images.

Materiality is the inaugural exhibition from No Place Art, showcasing the work of 80 artists whose practices explore the physical and conceptual qualities of materials in contemporary art.

No Place Art is an artist-led exhibition platform dedicated to connecting artists at any stage of their careers with supporters, institutions, and new opportunities. Through curated exhibitions, awards, and partnerships, the platform provides pathways for artists to grow their practice, expand their networks, and gain recognition in the contemporary art world.

Experience Ground 1 in London, showcasing contemporary works by emerging and established artists. Explore paintings, sculptures, and installations that celebrate creativity and push artistic boundaries.

Ritual in Progress — London Design Festival

Ritual in Progress by Every Archive explores how repeated gestures—whether in eating, cleansing, socialising, or mourning—solidify into enduring rituals, and how objects carry and renew these practices. Featuring over thirty ceremonial objects by Chinese artists and brands, the exhibition transforms the gallery into a dynamic ritual space where personal spirituality, collective ceremony, and daily rhythms intersect. Each object, from ritual vessels to incense holders, serves as both a functional design and a vessel of memory and transformation, accompanied by detailed cultural documentation. Through the exhibition, live performances, workshops, and discussions, Every Archive invites audiences to engage actively with contemporary expressions of ritual, reconnecting with the deeper meanings embedded in the material world.

This exhibition uses the prism as a metaphor to explore identity, perception, and the boundaries of time and space. Through fragmented stories—from Eastern symbolism to digital futures, from gender deconstruction to trauma healing—visitors are invited on an immersive journey that asks: How do we affirm the authenticity of the self?

Opening a Space for Artistic Dialogue

Eighteen emerging artists come together to ask a simple yet urgent question: Shall we talk? Through image, object, sound, body, and silence, the exhibition explores how art speaks—across cultures, identities, and shifting boundaries.

Traces We Carry is Tanaka Mazivanhanga’s first solo exhibition at ASC Gallery, exploring her evolving sense of home shaped by migration from Zimbabwe to the UK. Through printmaking, casting, collage and rubbings, the works reflect on belonging, identity, memory and the objects, places and people that carry us across geographies. From rubbings of walls and floors to collaged prints blending Zimbabwean and London landscapes, Tanaka maps the emotional and physical traces of migration, asking: what does home mean when it exists in multiple places?

Bainbridge Open 2025 brings together contemporary printmakers from the UK and beyond at The Handbag Factory, Vauxhall. Selected by Rabley Gallery and artist Jason Hicklin, the exhibition showcases both emerging and established practices. Tanaka Mazivanhanga, winner of the ASC Solo Show Prize 2023, will also present new work.

Curated by Zhang Hailun, Tempolumen Rhythmos is the second exhibition in the Symphōnia series.

Following Prelude in Asylum, this chapter shifts focus to awareness, deconstructing our cognition and questioning how our understanding of the world is perpetually reshaped by technology. The exhibition brings together ambitious artists working across diverse media, from painting and sculpture to AI and sound, whose practices bridge Eastern and Western philosophy. Symphōnia provides a vital platform for these forward-looking voices to initiate cross-disciplinary dialogue and create a deeper societal impact.

Pearlescent is ASC’s landmark Summer Open Exhibition, celebrating 30 years of supporting artists across London. Featuring over 100 works by ASC studio artists, the exhibition showcases the vibrant creativity and diversity that define our community. Taking place across three gallery spaces here at The Handbag Factory, this special event is more than a showcase — it’s a tribute to the thousands of artists who have shaped ASC’s journey. Join us this August to mark the occasion, discover incredible work, and be part of the celebration.

Echoes of Stillness is a multisensory art exhibition exploring presence, perception and the poetics of pause. Featuring 37 artists across installation, sculpture, sound, performance and digital media, the exhibition invites you to slow down and engage with the subtle, the quiet, and the embodied. Through acts of deep listening and sensory connection, it reimagines stillness as a space for healing, resistance and transformation.

In a Land… is a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring 14 artists whose work explores the interplay between fantasy and landscape—how stories take root in, are shaped by, and endure within the layers of a place.

Presented across Gallery 2 and ASC Gallery.

Windows Granted invites viewers into a space of shifting perspectives, where each artwork acts as a “window” into culture, memory and identity. Curated by Zhiwu Zhu and Yurui Shi, this group exhibition explores the politics of visibility and perception through 27 artists working across diverse media. Drawing on Foucault’s theory, it asks: how do we see one another—and what remains unseen?

Curated by Lizzie Hughes, “Over and Over and Over Again” brings together contemporary sculptors united by their deep, ongoing relationship with materials such as metal, ceramic and wood.

This exhibition is the fourth installment in ASC’s 30th Anniversary curating project. Lizzie Hughes, who has a studio at ASC’s Bow studios in London, is also the co-founder of the Urban Arts Foundation, an organization dedicated to making historical metalwork techniques accessible.

Provisional We is a group exhibition featuring 13 multidisciplinary artists exploring themes of incompleteness, empathy and fragmented connection. Through sculpture, installation, moving image and text, the exhibition invites audiences to consider how we relate across cultural and emotional distances.

Step into a world of powerful storytelling with the Photojournalism & Documentary Photography. The 2025 Degree Show showcases final major projects featuring documentary photography, portraiture, sports imagery and fresh, thought-provoking visual narratives that explore and challenge the world around us.

Presented by Fascicle Contemporary, this exhibition brings together works by Victor Guerin, Elina Yumasheva and Riya Bhagat, exploring nourishment, growth, and what it means to thrive through personal, material, and collective perspectives.

Factory Show is a group exhibition showcasing work by Year 1 and Year 2 Fine Art students from City & Guilds of London Art School.

"Collective Domain" reimagines curatorial power by centering the artistic process as the work itself. Artists will create, negotiate, and install their pieces live within the gallery, blurring the lines between preparation and display

Presented by Critical Edge Collective, this exhibition is a collection of pieces created in response to the artists exploring, researching and engaging with The Handbag Factory, its surrounding area and history.

The third ASC curating show by Ilsa Brittain and PAI32 is a multimedia exhibition exploring the convergence of organic life, consciousness, culture, and technological evolution.

Takes up the battle cry from where artist Foz Foster’s 2022, Home Front: Kaleidoscope of the Mundane exhibition left off, to delve deeper into the multi-faceted, complex reality of representing life happening around you, as its happening.

Camberwell College of Arts is pleased to present the artworks of Year 2 BA Fine Art Painting students in the show which marks the mid-point of their studies and is a fantastic opportunity to see London’s up and coming artists.

What if the myth of Atlantis was not a cautionary tale of the past but a prophecy of the future? This exhibition reimagines the legend of a sunken civilization within the framework of contemporary climate crises.

Showcasing a group of emerging voices that engage in dialogue through diverse practices, inviting visitors to the spaces in between, where memory, identity, and history fracture and reform.

Step into a world where the cycles of the earth and the cosmos come alive through art. This captivating duo exhibition by mother artists Blandine Bardeau (@blandinebardeau) and Misa Gott (@misagottart) explores the profound connection between the body, the earth, and the universe.

Mrigesh Inamdar/ Tu Hsiang/ Li Siqi/ Liu Zimeng/Jiacheng Ge/ Simin Huang/ Amal Thomas/ Yian Zhu/ Sisi Chen/ Sejal Kaur/ Tiwei Fan/ Shiqi Liu/ Kai O’Connor/ Fumio Kubota/ Sam Pont/ Yunhao Zhang.

We’re thrilled to host the UAL London Arts Students’ Union ✖️ PHL Joint Art Market at The Handbag Factory, bringing together a dynamic fusion of art, design, and creative expression under one roof.

Join us for 70:15:40, an inspiring exhibition showcasing new work by finalists of a national award aimed at highlighting the gender imbalance in the photography and videography industries. This exhibition is free and open to the public, offering an important platform to explore and support diverse voices in visual storytelling.

Explore the works of contemporary landscape artist Wendy Brooke-Smith. This captivating collection of paintings and drawings explores the passage of time and the ever-changing character of tidal water, with a special focus on London’s iconic Thames and its evolving skyline.