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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.
Report of Food for Landscapes: Recipes for Slow Disasters
During Design Week South Africa (23–26 October), Food for Landscapes: Recipes for Slow Disasters unfolded in Cape Town as an exhibition and meeting point for thinking, tasting, and talking about how landscapes and people might heal. The project marks the first South African activation of a long-term, multi-continental project and methodology by British artist Andrew Merritt, which uses art, food, and ecological research to address “slow disasters”, a term coined by Merritt to
Field Hospital: Unearthing Study Group at Delfina Foundation
On Thursday, 29 May 2025, from 18:30 to 20:30, the Delfina Foundation in London will host the inaugural gathering of the Field Hospital project. This event invites participants to explore how we can collectively unearth the ghosts of degraded landscapes and consider what it means to feed a place back to life. Join us for the first public event of Field Hospital, a long-term transdisciplinary project that acts as a nursery for land restoration in zones of slow disaster — a ter
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 art
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 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
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 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
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...
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