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We produce and curate great art and ambitious projects
Looking Forward develops interdisciplinary projects that move across exhibitions, research, publishing, residencies, digital platforms, and public programmes. We work with institutions, artists, and communities to explore how curating can respond to contemporary cultural, ecological, and social urgencies.
Our work is structured around long-term collaborations, flexible formats, and shared authorship, adapting to different scales, contexts, and challenges. From field-based projects and experimental pedagogies to strategic consultancy and critical publishing, each strand contributes to a wider commitment to rethinking how culture is created, organised, and shared.
Biennale Democrazia: online conversation with Casa delle Agriculture
On March 15th at 2.30 pm (CET, Rome) we are coordinating the online conversation with Casa delle Agriculture in preparation for the...
Open Call for Self-Portraits
This is a call for all 18-30-year-olds who want to add their own wake-up self-portrait to our online gallery part of the project My Echo, My Shadow and Me . Deadline: 30 March 2023. My Echo, My Shadow and Me is our project within Esch European Capital of Culture 2022. It consists of a physical show at the University of Luxembourg (ended 31 December 2022), a book, and a virtual show. The online version of the project includes a selection of the material produced through the
Feedforward: Heritage of Slavery
A British Art Network seminar, held at Museum of London Docklands and supported by Tate, Paul Mellon Centre, Yale and Arts Council England. 28 October 2022 Museum of London Docklands No 1, West India Quay, Hertsmere Rd, London E14 4AL event by invitation only Heritage of Slavery is a BAN (British Art Network) Seminar developed as a special session within the Feedforward programme. The session focus was contemporary artistic and curatorial responses to historical trauma in the
My Echo, My Shadow and Me at University of Luxembourg
Our project within Esch European Capital of Culture 2022. The project takes place at the University of Luxembourg and involves over 50 young people, more than half refugees in temporary accommodation and camps. The exhibition My Echo, My Shadow and Me at Maison du Savoir, University of Luxembourg, is the outcome of regular autobiographical workshops led by artist Cristina Nuñez in 2021 and 2022, involving more than 50 people from three groups: a class C.O.P. (students who ha
Are you an emerging curator/artist interested in the history of slavery?
Looking Forward is organising a BAN (British Art Network) seminar about the legacies of empire and slavery in London. This is an event commissioned by Tate, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Arts Council England. The session - by invitation only and not open to the public - will be held at the Museum of London Docklands on Friday, 28th October. We have 3 in-person spots left for emerging artists and curators willing to participate in person in the seminar and
Open Call for Artists: Screening Room Programme
We are restarting our Screening Room Programme . If you have a video you want to see featured on our channels, send us a link to watch it, a brief statement and your portfolio or website. We accept video art; art films; short films and documentaries about art or social and environmental activism; video documentation of performances; other experimental formats. Deadline: 30 June 2022 Our email for submissions is hello@lookingforward.online Looking forward to receiving your pro
Open Call: Freelance Artist to run School Workshops
The Museum of Slavery and Freedom (MōSaF London) is a recently formed local community group campaigning to raise awareness about the substantial historical connections between the area of Deptford, the British trade in enslaved humans, and the fight for freedom from it on our shores. Our aim is to lay out the complex history of slavery and celebrate freedom in a clear, accessible way for the general public. Therefore, our programme is directed to a wide audience, with specifi
Feedforward: Tijuana's Border
Public presentation of the Empathy&Risk project at the Auditorium of the Instituto de Cultura de Baja California, Tijuana, and Feedforward session. 1 April 2022 Auditorium of the Instituto de Cultura de Baja California Paseo del Centenario 1151, 22320 Tijuana Free entrance This session of Feedforward explores narratives and rhetoric of the border, taking the Tijuana/San Diego area as a paradigmatic example. How can we apply this case study to the rest of the world, understand
Curatorial Residency in Arafura, Mexico City
A three-week research residency in Mexico in the framework of our partnership with Empathy&Risk and supported by the Global Challenge...
Deptford Film Club #04
Deptford Film Club is a regular monthly event organised by Empathy & Risk and Looking Forward and in collaboration with ACAVA. Join us for the fourth instalment, which features videos by Yamile Calderon, Jesse Roth, and Blue Ren. Event curated by Carolina Lio and Katerina Matheson. 18 March 2022, 6 pm Empathy & Risk, 1 Borthwick Street, London SE8 3GH 6.15 pm Yamile Calderon Domestic at Large Calderon's film approaches the drug trafficking problem in Colombia from a grounded
Guided Walk: Deptford Heritage
Learn the role of Deptford and London in the slave trade with MōSaF London (Museum of Slavery and Freedom) with a free guided walk on...
Walking Deptford's Legacy of Slavery
The first public output of our partnership with MoSAF Museum of Slavery and Freedom, curating and commissioning artist responses to the relevant local historical heritage in Deptford, South East London. 12 February 2022, 2.30 PM - 8.00 PM Empathy & Risk, 1 Borthwick Street, London SE8 3GH Museum of Slavery and Freedom (MoSaF) is a community group operating from Deptford that campaigns to raise awareness about the substantial historical role of London in the Slave Trade, and t
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