Venue detail
Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art
14 Wharf Road
London N1 7RW United Kingdom
www.parasol-unit.org
T. 020 7490 7373
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Current and forthcoming events
9 Events listed
10.06.13 - 10.06.13Talk begins in 16 days
The Psychoanalysis of Making: lecture by Prof. Margaret Iversen.
20.06.13 - 20.06.13Talk begins in 26 days
Intercapillary Places: Common Presence with Peter Larkin and John Milbank
11.07.13 - 11.07.13Performance begins in 47 days
Configuring the Potential: A Response to MERLIN JAMES
28.07.13 - 28.07.13Workshop begins in 64 days
Adult workshop: Acrylic painting with artist Anna Ilsley
Past events
99 Events listed
16.05.13 - 16.05.13Art Fair ended on May 16, 2013
Object as Process #3: 'Conversation with artist Matthew Plummer-Fernandez + trend'
11.05.13 - 11.05.13Workshop ended on May 11, 2013
Storytelling Family Workshop: 'Mythology of Objects'
17.04.13 - 17.04.13Talk ended on April 17, 2013
Object as Process #2: 'Lecture by Professor James Williams'
15.04.13 - 16.04.13Conference ended on April 16, 2013
SensingSite: two-day research seminar with Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design
11.04.13 - 11.04.13Screening ended on April 11, 2013
Object as Process #1: Screenings + discussion with artist Joanne Masding + curator Harry Burke
06.04.13 - 06.04.13Workshop ended on April 6, 2013
Launch of Storytelling Project for Families: 'The Experience of Things'
24.03.13 - 24.03.13Workshop ended on March 24, 2013
Sunday Family Workshop: I am just an idea between the tape and the wall
21.03.13 - 21.03.13Event ended on March 21, 2013
'Intercapillary Places: Forest Realms' - Jeff Hilson and Jack Langton
01.01.13 - 23.02.13Exhibition ended on February 23, 2013
Parasol Unit: Jannis Kounellis
01.01.13 - 23.02.13Exhibition ended on February 23, 2013
Shezad Dawood: New Dream Machine Project Parasolstice Winter Light 2012
12.02.13 - 14.02.13Screening ended on February 14, 2013
Parasol unit Film + Video | Dis-location series
02.02.13 - 02.02.13Performance ended on February 2, 2013
Shezad Dawood: PRAED with New Dream Machine Project
27.01.13 - 27.01.13Workshop ended on January 27, 2013
Sunday Family Workshop: Transforming the Everyday
24.01.13 - 24.01.13Workshop ended on January 24, 2013
Adult workshop: Cut up writing
15.01.13 - 15.01.13Talk ended on January 15, 2013
Talks + performance: On beat
13.12.12 - 13.12.12Talk ended on December 13, 2012
Intercapillary places: The space of the republic
09.12.12 - 09.12.12Workshop ended on December 9, 2012
Sunday Family Workshop: Investigating light & reflection
04.12.12 - 04.12.12Exhibition ended on December 4, 2012
Parasolstice: Launch of ‘New Dream Machine Project’ with introduction by Shezad Dawood
28.11.12 - 28.11.12Talk ended on November 28, 2012
Jannis Kounellis: in conversation with Ziba Ardalan
14.09.12 - 11.11.12Exhibition ended on November 11, 2012
Bharti Kher at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art
30.10.12 - 30.10.12Workshop ended on October 30, 2012
The Big Draw 2012: Significant Circles Adult Workshop
28.10.12 - 28.10.12Workshop ended on October 28, 2012
The Big Draw 2012: Along the lines of sound Family Workshop (suitable for all ages)
13.10.12 - 13.10.12Event ended on October 13, 2012
East End Night, in association with Frieze Art Fair
03.10.12 - 03.10.12Event ended on October 3, 2012
EXPOSURE 12 Award: Panel discussion with the winners from Slade School of Fine Art
09.07.12 - 15.07.12Performance ended on July 15, 2012
Parasol Public: A place to live when we are old by Ana Gallardo
24.06.12 - 24.06.12Workshop ended on June 24, 2012
Investigating Time through Video
21.06.12 - 21.06.12Talk ended on June 21, 2012
Beholding Video: Motion in the Picture Gallery
13.05.12 - 13.05.12Event ended on May 13, 2012
Sunday Family Workshop : Lines of Thought – Block Printing and Wall Drawing
02.05.12 - 02.05.12Screening ended on May 2, 2012
Animated Drawings: screening of works by emerging artists.
01.05.12 - 01.05.12Screening ended on May 1, 2012
Parasol unit | FILM + VIDEO - Out of line : Artist’s film and video
14.03.12 - 25.04.12Talk ended on April 25, 2012
Sensing Site : A series of research seminars held at Parasol unit in collaboration with Central Saint Martins and Goldsmiths College, University of London.
19.04.12 - 19.04.12Talk ended on April 19, 2012
Drawing Degree Zero: Thinking the Line from the Sixties to the Present
28.03.12 - 28.03.12Talk ended on March 28, 2012
Artist talk: Conrad Shawcross in conversation with Ziba Ardalan
07.03.12 - 07.03.12Talk ended on March 7, 2012
Drawing on medicine : A talk by Dr. Ken Arnold of the Wellcome Collection
02.03.12 - 02.03.12Talk ended on March 2, 2012
Artist talk: Helene Appel in conversation with Oliver Basciano
23.11.11 - 12.02.12Exhibition ended on February 12, 2012
Time and Memory: Cecilia Edefalk & Gunnel Wåhlstrand
02.12.11 - 02.12.11Talk ended on December 2, 2011
D R A F T: A platform for explorative research and performance
23.11.11 - 23.11.11Talk ended on November 23, 2011
In-conversation with James Yamada and Director/Curator Ziba Ardalan
04.11.11 - 04.11.11Conference ended on November 4, 2011
The Politics of Visibility: Mediating the Global, Local and the In-between
27.10.11 - 27.10.11Workshop ended on October 27, 2011
The Big Draw 2011: Drawing Age / Adult Event
20.10.11 - 20.10.11Talk ended on October 20, 2011
Back to beauty: Yang Fudong's aesthetics in a post-realist China. A talk by Dr. Katie Hill
19.10.11 - 19.10.11Screening ended on October 19, 2011
Chinese Cinema: Street Angel, Yuan Muzhi (1937) 91 mins
18.10.11 - 18.10.11Screening ended on October 18, 2011
Chinese Cinema: Springtime in a Small Town, Tian Zhuangzhuang (2002) 116 mins
12.05.11 - 12.05.11Event ended on May 12, 2011
Thursday 12 May, 7 pm Reasons for Love: A talk by Peter Goldie, University of Manchester
05.05.11 - 05.05.11Event ended on May 5, 2011
Thursday 5 May, 7pm First Thursdays event: Yinka Shonibare, MBE, in conversation with Ziba Ardalan
08.12.10 - 13.02.11Exhibition ended on February 13, 2011
Nathan Cash Davidson: Burlesque in which we've thrown it on its head
01.02.11 - 01.02.11Talk ended on February 1, 2011
Edefalks and Wåhlstrands Memory Work: A talk by Astrid Schmetterling
27.01.11 - 27.01.11Performance ended on January 27, 2011
Poetry reading
08.12.10 - 15.12.10Event ended on December 15, 2010
Book sale
04.11.10 - 04.11.10Event ended on November 4, 2010
First Thursdays event: Gallery tour with Jonathan Watkins
28.10.10 - 28.10.10Event ended on October 28, 2010
The Big Draw 2010: Evening Life Drawing Workshop with RART
16.10.10 - 16.10.10Event ended on October 16, 2010
Late night opening
12.10.10 - 12.10.10Event ended on October 12, 2010
Book signing event
07.10.10 - 07.10.10Event ended on October 7, 2010
First Thursdays event: Gallery tour by artist Hew Locke
30.09.10 - 30.09.10Event ended on September 30, 2010
EXPOSURE 10 Panel Discussion: Collaboration with the Royal College of Art
13.03.10 - 13.03.10Conference ended on March 13, 2010
Symposium; Considering the work of Eija-Liisa Ahtila
25.11.09 - 07.02.10Exhibition ended on February 7, 2010
Visible Invisible: Against the Security of the Real
21.01.10 - 21.01.10Talk ended on January 21, 2010
Shaun McDowell in conversation with Hannah Barry and Ben Eastham.
07.01.10 - 07.01.10Talk ended on January 7, 2010
Katy Moran in conversation with Tom Morton
16.09.09 - 11.11.09Exhibition ended on November 11, 2009
Keith Tyson: Cloud Choreography and Other Emergent Systems
