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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.


ECAH2026 - Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
The 14th European Conference on Arts & Humanities (ECAH2026) is taking place at SOAS and UCL, in London. We are pleased to share that our founding director, Carolina Lio Rodrigues, will be presenting and chairing the session “Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts”. ECAH2026 is an international interdisciplinary conference organised by The International Academic Forum (IAFOR). The conference brings together scholars, researchers and practitioners working across t


Feedforward: Curating in a Climate Crisis 2
On the 19th of March 2026, Looking Forward convened the second iteration of its Feedforward series Curating in a Climate Crisis, bringing together curators and researchers to address the role of curatorial work within the climate and ecological emergency. This Feedforward session, hosted at Gasworks in London, and convened by Carolina Lio, Director, and Francesca Fantoni, Assistant Curator at Looking Forward, brought together curators from major UK institutions. Participants


Feedforward: Curating in a Climate Crisis
On the 29th of January 2026, Looking Forward convened curators and cultural producers working at the intersection of art and ecology for a Feedforward session titled Curating in a Climate Crisis. Bringing together practitioners working across institutional, independent and interdisciplinary contexts, the session created space to reflect collectively on what it means to curate amidst ecological collapse and how curators and cultural institutions might respond with care and ima


Free Webinars: Research and Development Fund by Arts Council England
A free online event providing a guide to the Research and Development funds and tailored advice on your application drafts. Want to apply for a grant of the Arts Council England as an individual practitioner? ACE is pausing the Developing Your Creative Practice grant until April 2026. In the meantime, to meet the needs of individual artists and practitioners, they have launched a Research and Development fund within National Lottery Project Grants. This 90-minute online sessi


Looking Forward at DCDC25: Reimagining Accessibility Through AI
We’re excited to announce that our director, Carolina Lio, will be speaking at this year’s Discovering Collections, Discovering...


Study Group at Delfina Foundation: Narrative Report
The first Slow Disasters Study Group took place at the Delfina Foundation in London on 29 May 2025. Hosted by artist and designer Andrew Merritt, curator Carolina Lio, and artist Emilio Hernández Martínez, with recorded contributions from Dr Nik Petek-Sargeant (University of Cambridge) and Maya Marshak (Sustainability Institute, South Africa), the session marked the launch of a transnational conversation on the ethics and practice of repair. Participants explored how Field Ho


One-to-One Development Sessions
Looking Forward offers a three-part professional development and support programme for artists and curators navigating the next steps of their practice. Whether you are seeking funding, refining your portfolio or CV, exploring new opportunities, or simply trying to clarify how to move forward with a project or your wider practice, the programme provides tailored guidance and strategic feedback. Led by Carolina Lio, curator and director of Looking Forward, the programme combin


SCIN Conference 2025, Museum of the Future, Dubai: Artistic Practices as Environmental Research
At the SCIN Conference 2025, hosted at the Museum of the Future, Abu Dhabi University, and Istituto Marangoni Dubai, Carolina Lio,...


AR@K25 symposium in Oslo: "Truth, reality and artistic invention"
On March 18, Carolina Lio presents the paper The Politics of Truth in Socially Engaged Art: Agenda or Authenticity? at AR@K, the annual,...


Feedforward: Creative Well-Being
On the 24th of January and the 7th of February, we brought together curators and community engagement leaders from across London to explore the intersection of art and mental well-being in a two-part Feedforward session titled Creative Well-being: Cultivating Mental Health through Artistic Collaboration . Feedforward: Creative Well-being seeks to uncover best practices, foster collaboration, and identify new opportunities for integrating mental health and community-focused a


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...


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. ...
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