Ruins in Reverse by Olena Newkryta was exhibited as part of Watermans’ New Media Arts programme, 5 September to 1 November 2022. Shot in a steppe landscape in southern Ukraine, this short film follows the process of transformation of an abandoned Soviet residential apartment building.

The Pillars of Our Latex House Tendayi Vine 23 March – 11 April 2024  The Pillars of Our Latex House: A […]

The launch event for a new exhibition by artist Tendayi Vine, The Pillars of Our Latex House was held at Watermans on Saturday 23 March 2024. The exhibition was the first of the pilot commissions for the EU funded project, Artcast4D.

From 20 October 2023 – 14 March 2024, Watermans presented a group of leading contemporary artists from India with a radical approach to the use of a wide variety of media in their art. Tenderly Towards the Tipping Point brought together a multitude of artistic responses to time and the imposition of time.

On 20 October 2023, Watermans held a launch event for the group exhibition, Tenderly Towards the Tipping Point.

Co_Sonic 1884 km² is a visual-poetic reflection and an AI powered soundscape, that tells the story of the (co)existence of river environments and their inhabitants. It was presented at Watermans from Friday 14 July until Sunday 15 October 2023.

A special event closed Katarzyna Depta-Garapich’s exhibition, Excursion on Sunday 9 July 2023.

Katarzyna Depta-Garapich’s exhibition launch and talk event, for Excursion, took place at Watermans on Friday 28 April 2023.

Katarzyna Depta-Garapich’s exhibition, Excursion took the theme of the bear in the Tatra Mountains and its pop-culture image as represented by a ‘white bear’ – a mascot that entertains tourists on the main street of Zakopane, Poland.  The exhibition ran from 28 April – 9 July 2023.

The launch event for The Museum of Dating exhibition took place on Friday 10 February 2023 at 6.30pm.

The Museum of Dating exhibition was curated by Valentina Peri and ran from 10 February to 23 April 2023.

A Date With Destiny was an exhibition of a video art work made by Niklas Goldbach which was exhibited at Watermans, Brentford, UK 9 November 2023 – 5 February 2023. It was filmed over the course of one day in the resort towns Desert Shores, Salton Sea Beach, Salton City, Red Hill Marina, Bombay Beach, North Shore & Mortmar, all situated around the coast lines of the Salton Sea, California.

The Axis Mvndi – Cosmic Sculptures exhibition was launched at 6.30pm on Friday 20 May 2022 with an opportunity to see the exhibition and talk to the artists.

Axis Mvndi was an exhibition at Watermans 20 May – 31 July 2022. Axis Mvndi is a device that sends radio waves in space in order to draw shapes at a cosmic scale. By playing on the movement of a dish antenna, ancient cosmological models are materialized into space and become autonomous shapes in infinite movement.

Connected Nature was presented at Watermans  between1 October 2021 and 20 February 2022. The exhibition outlined the diversity of the current environmental landscape by exploring both major and marginal phenomena, their qualification often depending on point of view and context.

Crowd Crystal was a video-performative project conducted by Anna Jochymek,  curated by Klio Krajewska and presented at Watermans on Thursday 13 Jan & Sunday 13 March and then Friday 20 May to Sunday 25 July 2021, as part of Watermans’ New Media Art programme.

Technology Will Save Us? was the third part of an exciting three-year programme called Trajectories. Through events including exhibitions, workshops, discussions and a performance, the programme showcases and explores the great potential of new media arts to help us engage critically in the current and future issues of the world through the work of students and recent graduates.

Join us for the launch event of our new exhibition Data Dating. The exhibition curator Valentina Peri will host a […]

What does it mean to love in the Internet age? How are digital interfaces reshaping our personal relationships? What do […]

Air Matters: Learning from Heathrow is an exhibition and programme of events that explores the politics of air. Focusing on the […]

Join us for a day of presentations, discussions and debates on the politics of air in the Heathrow neighbourhood. What […]

Please join artist and anthropologist Hermione Spriggs and artist Laura Cooper to explore bird experiences of the air and exchange […]

Sound is one of the major ways Heathrow airport impacts upon its neighbours. But what other stories can we make […]

In this workshop participants join design writer and maker Dr. Jane Norris to design and build listening devices. The devices […]

Exhibition runs 6-20 September Public opening event is on Sunday 8 September at 5-8pm in the gallery with the artists The DRHA […]

Join us for the free exhibition launch and gallery tour of Radical Immersions with the artists. Sunday 8 September, 5-8pm. FREE. […]

We are inviting submissions of artworks that engage with the theme of RADICAL IMMERSIONS: Navigating between virtual/physical environments and information […]

‘Vague but exciting’ was how those in the know first described the World Wide Web (WWW) back in 1989. Thirty […]

Join us for the free exhibition launch and gallery tour of our new exhibition H4ppy D33p W3b by Systaime aka Michael […]

The processes of watching and describing the world are no longer the sole domain of people. Nowadays, and almost everywhere, […]

On the same night as Alexander Whitley Dance Company, join us for the free exhibition launch and gallery tour of […]

A shared Virtual Reality Experience. Earth and everything it contains, including your human body, is made from material born in […]

A family friendly introduction to DIY Electronics through craft. Learn the basics of electricity and make a cute light-up card […]

We present another spectacular audiovisual odyssey in our theatre, featuring musicians working at the edge of technological innovation: sound and […]

Sew, wire, code and play your own musical instrument glove that responds to your movements. Based on a gestural glove […]

Speak to someone thousands of miles away as though they were in the room! In Monitor Man, Yassine Khaled creates […]

Whether botanical, wildlife, or human, all bodies experience the right to claim natural space their own. Yet changes in the […]

An early sharing of TrueLove prototype (R&D); an interactive experience which explores the impact of future technology on intimacy and […]

Strange Stranger is a performance and interactive light installation that investigates the idea of presence and the right to be forgotten […]

The event is part of the Trajectories II: Technology Never Sleeps project How have digital infrastructures become an immersive environment in which […]

Free Public Launch Event and Gallery Tour with the Artists: Thursday 24 January, 6.30-8.30pm – tickets can be booked here […]

Learn about the creative possibilities of using a commercially available Electroencephalography (EEG) headset that detects signals coming directly from the […]

A creative programming session that is designed for those who are interested in the idea of artificial life. It’s a […]

Artist Karen Bosy leads this workshop in which you’ll model and visualise personal concepts of public space. What does public […]

This workshop explores how art can help overcome a sense of isolation which can be brought on by digital technology, […]

Ever wondered how machines learn? How do we make artificial intelligence intelligent? How do we teach machines to make choices […]

Free Public Launch Event and Gallery Tour with the Artists: Thursday 24 January, 6.30-8.30pm Join the artists and the Watermans […]

Human Factors is a group show presenting recent and new work by Hanna Haaslahti in collaboration with Tyler Henry, Anna […]

Human Factors is a group show presenting recent and new work by Hanna Haaslahti in collaboration with Tyler Henry, Anna Estarriola […]

In Biorhythmic drawing, artist Daksha Patel explores the ways in which data captured from the human body – by technologies […]

Learn new skills in creative coding and explore a variety of analogue drawing processes in response to bio-medical images of […]

The Seeker is a machine entity which will travel the world virtually, and describe what it sees. Named for Ptah-Seker, […]

The Chinese term shanzhai (山寨) refers to counterfeit consumer goods. This includes imitation, trademark infringement, parody, lookalikes and improved goods, particularly in […]

Panel: Tue 15 May, 6-9pm at Goldsmiths (please note this event is off-site, not at Watermans) Richard Hoggart Buliding 137A, […]

In the current age of rapid changes, challenges, and accelerating technological developments, we are being swallowed by constant information streams […]

Join leading designers and innovators and learn how to develop your ideas, as well as methodologies and tools for successful […]

Learn new skills and how to develop your ideas by taking part in our digital art workshops to explore creative […]

Join the artists as they discuss the inspiration for the work they’ve been selected to show in this exhibition, and […]

Trajectories is an exciting new three-year programme exploring the potential of creative learning and making to help us engage critically in […]

Patrick Tresset is an artist who develops and presents theatrical installations with robotic agents as actors. Tresset’s installations use computational […]

FREE INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION & WORKSHOPS. An interactive sound Installation & Two Free Drop-in Instrument Making Workshops The Science of Music […]

A mesmerising animated projection of a river in our riverside gallery. London and Beijing based new media artist Jiayu Liu’s […]

THE WORKSHOPS ARE NOW SOLD OUT. A chance to learn about coding, 3D printing and computer drawing in a fascinating […]

Learn new skills, take part in our digital art making workshops to explore different ways to use computers creatively and […]

  In 1913 a group of young artists with radical new ideas were being rejected by the Royal Academy and […]

FREE. Come and play on our entrance terrace! Bicycles, wheels, bathtubs and other everyday objects are transformed to produce sounds […]

Immersive theatre where you could experience the perfect date… WARNING: do not attend if you are fundamentally opposed to falling […]

Family & Adult Workshops: create a funky badge, hat, wristband or something else to wear that lights up or makes […]

A triple bill of musicians at the forefront of technological and musical innovation. Immerse yourself in a holographic universe inspired […]

An immersive virtual reality theatre experience: part theatrical piece, part art installation and part video game. Featured this week in […]

In Gravitate, Esther Rolinson is exhibiting her drawings and light installation Flown together for the first time. The exhibition includes […]

In Gravitate Esther Rolinson is exhibiting her drawings and light installation Flown together for the first time. The exhibition includes […]

Digital arts collective Squidsoup bring the walls of Watermans to life with a dynamic digital projection made of animated texts […]

Sound Installation Swim with sharks without leaving West London! You might come out of the water every time singing is […]

Objects of Transcendence looks at how the object can transcend its individual meaning to make a social or political comment. […]

The ‘Technology Is Not Neutral’ project was inspired by the desire to counteract the frequent under-representation of the achievements of […]

Technology is not Neutral is a touring exhibition project that highlights and investigates the work of a group of women […]

For two days, leading new media artists from around the world gather at Watermans to deliver an explosive programme of […]

Come and take part as the Architectural Association Interprofessional Studio transforms Watermans for a week! The Architectural Association Interprofessional Studio […]

An evening featuring two performances: Shutter Flutter and Feel Me, brought to Watermans by Hacking the Body 2.0. Two interactive […]

Part of the LIFT & Watermans Utopia R&D Residency.  2016 marks the next LIFT festival as well as the 500th […]

In this exhibition in our Riverside Gallery, sensory impaired locals over 55 showcase life story quilts in Hounslow. Quilt Tales […]

NOW OPEN! 13 June – 21 July – Exhibition 15 June – Building the Bridge between Science and Art – […]

To complement the Altered Landscapes exhibition, we will be screening a series of Syrian short films in partnership with Bidayyat […]

A physical performance and storytelling techniques workshop series devised to complement Altered Landscapes, an exhibition by artist Juan delGado that […]

This symposium, which is part of the Altered Landscapes exhibition programme, will discuss issues of displacement and migration, exploring how […]

Hostile takeover or incubated startup? Busy office on a lunch break or liquidated business destined for an auction lot? Production […]

An immersive multimedia installation which tackles themes of trauma, displacement, personal narratives and landscape. The work is an intimate account […]

Create your own modern art work using a classic overhead projector, make your own music or produce your own graphics […]

The Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival is a celebration of the rise of digital arts in Africa. Watermans is delighted […]

Sat 14 & Sun 15 November 2015 The Digital Performance Weekender is an annual festival at Watermans where you’re invited […]

Digital performance and the global politics of electronic waste* Public event and opening, FREE: Saturday 4 July, 2-6pm (ongoing programme, drop-in […]

Dani Ploeger, 10- 25 June For the past three years, Dani Ploeger has exposed his body to the stuff of […]

Tuesday 31 March – Sunday 31 May Computer Art is older than artist’s acrylic paint. Paul Brown Recent blockbuster international […]

Michael Takeo Magruder Wednesday 14 January – Sunday 15 March 2015   In Living Data, a new solo exhibition by […]

Distorted Vision An exhibition of selected GCSE and A-level work from Brentford School for Girls – coming soon The theme […]

Digital Performance Weekender – Networked Bodies Download full programme here Installations and live events 7-9 November 2014 Main Gallery – […]

by Local Young People 19 September – 17 October 2014 Main Gallery The exhibition will bring together artwork, video, digital […]

by Chocolate Films Riverside Gallery 1000 Londoners is a unique portrait of our city. It offers an insight into the lives […]

by Jonathan McCree and Paul Statham Studio 1, Sat 20 – Sun 21 September FREE Event – part of the […]