Private View & Artists Gathering: Visions Programme 2 led by Onyeka Igwe
Friday 14th November 2025 , 6:00pm to 9:00pm
An opening reception of Visions Programme 2 featuring Onyeka Igwe and 24 artists from across the globe, interrogating themes of memory, narrative, identity and the archive.
Onyeka Igwe’s Programme 2 presents her award-winning film the names have been changed, including my own and truths have been altered (2019), in which Igwe explores the story of her grandfather, the story of ‘the land’ and the story of an encounter with Nigeria from a single point in time, in a single place. The film throws the ordinary and the everyday within the archive into relief by daring to write and re-write the stories of diasporic African life against the grain of colonial history’s master narratives. Showing in the Nunnery’s cinema-screen set-up alongside 24 other artists’ works the show will interrogate themes of memory, narrative, identity and the archive.
We are invited to bear witness to injustice and protest in Iran (Niyaz Saghari), trace the relationships between Guyana and Scotland through photographs, sewing and matrilineal lines (Maybelle Peters), and observe a vampiric trio facilitating the transition of a new host in the sacred mountain grotto of Mary Magdalene (Lou Lou Sainsbury and Gabi Dao) to name a few from the works hailing from 9 different countries.
Selected from an international open call, Visions brings together artworks from across the globe, giving you a unique chance to discover different voices, ideas and perspectives through film and performance.
Programme 2 Exhibiting Artists: Lucy Cash, Kate Clark, Jo Cope, Gabi Dao, Anna Doyle, Duck & Rabbit Projects (Arlene Wandera and Richard Zeiss), Tessa Garland, Onyeka Igwe, Sana Iqbal, Mark Jeffery, Emery Joan, Maria Joranko, Anthea Kennedy, Bo Lanyon, Maybelle Peters, Niyaz Saghari, Lou Lou Sainsbury, Kadie Salmon, Vicky Smith, Wilma Stone, Kialy Tihngang, Sasha Waters, Ian Wiblin and Sheri Wills.
Visions in the Nunnery Programme 2 is curated by Onyeka Igwe, artist and selector Tessa Garland, and Bow Arts.
This event will take place at the Nunnery Gallery, 181 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ.
Doors of the Nunnery Gallery will open at 6pm. The Nunnery Café will be open until 9pm, selling their usual fare of delicious drinks and snacks.
About Onyeka Igwe
Onyeka Igwe is a London born and based moving image artist and researcher. Her work is aimed at the question: how do we live together? Not to provide a rigid answer as such, but to pull apart the nuances of mutuality and co-existence in our deeply individualized world. Onyeka’s practice figures sensorial, spatial and counter-hegemonic ways of knowing as central to that task. She is interested in the prosaic and everyday aspects of black livingness. For her, the body, archives and narratives both oral and textual act as a mode of enquiry that makes possible the exposition of overlooked histories. The work comprises untying strands and threads, anchored by a rhythmic editing style, as well as close attention to the dissonance, reflection and amplification that occurs between image and sound.
Solo exhibitions include history is a living weapon in yr hand, Bonington Gallery and Peer, UK, 2024, and A Repertoire of Protest (No Dance, No Palaver), MoMA PS1, New York, 2023. Recent group exhibitions include Nigeria Imaginary, 60th Venice Biennale, 2024 and Lagos Peckham Repeat: Pilgrimage to the Lakes, South London Gallery, London, 2023. Onyeka has an upcoming solo exhibition at Tate Britain in September 2025. Her work is distributed by LUX and argos. She is represented by Arcadia Missa.
Access information
The Nunnery Gallery and Cafe have step-free access throughout from street level, including to the accessible toilet, and is service animal friendly. This venue does not have a hearing loop system.
Accessible parking is not available on-site.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this venue or event, would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of visiting, or would like this information in an alternate format including Easy Read, please email nunnery@bowarts.com or call 020 8980 7774 (Ext. 3)
Access requirements could include things like providing equipment, services or support (e.g. information in Easy Read, speech to text software, additional 1:1 support), adjusting workshop timings (e.g. more break times), adjustments to the event space (e.g. making sure you have a table near the entrance) or anything else you can think of!
Transport Information
Nearest station(s): Bow Road (District and Hammersmith and City lines) is a 6-minute walk away, and Bow Church (DLR) is a 3-minute walk away. Bus: 205, 25, 425, A8, D8, 108, 276, 488 and 8 all service the surrounding area. Bike: Bicycle parking is located at Bow Church Station. The nearest Santander Cycles docking station is at Bow Church Station.
Address: Nunnery Gallery, 181 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Opening hours: Weds-Sun, 10am to 4pm
