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We think long-term, and work across borders
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.
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Presentation of Marzia Migliora's Monograph in London
Join us on the 30th of October at the Italian Cultural Institute in London for the preview of Marzia Migliora. Seven Imaginative...


Presentation of Marzia Migliora's Monograph in Rome
On Saturday October 12th, join us at the Museo delle Civiltà in Rome for the launch of Marzia Migliora: Seven Imaginative Exhibitions...


Marzia Migliora: Seven Imaginative Exhibitions
Marzia Migliora. Seven Imaginative Exhibitions 1993-2024 is the first monograph of the artist. Curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi and Matteo...


Biennale Democrazia: Visible Temporary Parliament
We have curated the communication and the booklet for this event in Turin on Sunday, 26 March, in the framework of Biennale Democrazia. ...


Biennale Democrazia: online conversation with DAAR and Robida
On March 18th at 11 am (CET - Rome), we are coordinating the online conversation with DAAR and Robida Collective in preparation for the...


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


My Echo, My Shadow and Me (virtual show)
Our project within Esch European Capital of Culture 2022 consists of a physical show at the University of Luxembourg, a book and this...


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...


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


Fiamma Montezemolo: Traces
Fiamma Montezemolo's film 'Traces' is a video-essay which uses thorough research and art to discuss the border life between the USA and...


Feedforward: Tijuana's Border
Public presentation of the Empathy&Risk project at the Auditorium of the Instituto de Cultura de Baja California, Tijuana, and...


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


Yamile Calderon: Even Jesus Was Bipolar
Part of our Screening Room Programme. Yamile Calderon's film 'Even Jesus Was Bipolar' is a documentary about Hernando Calderón, who...


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...


Deptford Film Club #03
Deptford Film Club is a regular monthly event organised by Empathy & Risk and Looking Forward and in collaboration with ACAVA. Join us for the third instalment, which features videos by Helen Cammock, Keith Piper, and Joyce Treasure. This event, curated by Carolina Lio, is dedicated to British Black History and coincides with the launch of our partnership with MoSAF London (Museum of Slavery and Freedom). Event supported by SHAPESLewisham, Lewisham’s Creative Enterprise Zone.


Spectres of Morocco
German-French artist Adrian Schindler’s ‘Spectres of Morocco’ is a performance that aims at deconstructing and counteracting stereotypes...


Deptford Film Club #02
Deptford Film Club is a regular monthly event organised by Empathy & Risk and Looking Forward and in collaboration with ACAVA. The second instalment featured videos by Francis Almendárez, Zain Al Sharaf Wahbeh, Carla Geronimi. Curated by Carolina Lio and Katerina Matheson. 11 January 2022 Empathy & Risk, 1 Borthwick Street, London SE8 3GH 6.20 pm Francis and Anthony Almendárez Navigating the Archives Within 'Navigating the Archives Within', a film by brothers Francis and Anth


Feedforward: EU/Morocco
A day of study, research and dialogue about cultural cooperation between the EU, UK and Morocco. The event starts the new format...
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