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Visions Programme 1 led by Rosie Gibbens
Saturday 4th October 2025 – Sunday 9th November 2025 , 10:00am to 4:00pm
Programme 1 of Visions in the Nunnery features Rosie Gibbens and 38 artists from across the globe.
Programme 1 Trailer
Rosie Gibben’s Programme 1 will feature new work by Gibbens alongside those by 38 other artists. Drawing on her interest in the absurd, the Gallery will be a smorgasbord of recorded performing bodies. Bodies pushing against their limits, becoming technologically augmented, morphing into the more-than-human or embracing the bizarre.
Witness bodies explore bizarre appendages (Blue Phoenix), gorge on sugary treats (Julieta Tetelbaum), express the anxieties of life in a digital world (Emily Sarten) and deploy the pedestrian in a quiet refusal to be overlooked (Rozina Pátkai).
The Nave will be transformed into a Frankenstein-style lair of animatronic corporeal sculptures and videos. Encounter a vibrating face (Ivy Vo) and a choker of tongues (Alicia Radage) alongside films exploring themes of loneliness, desire, and intimacy in the digital age (Adam Cole), and the body as a site of resistance to productivity and perfectionism (Annie Edwards) to name just a few of the 38 works on display.
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 1 Exhibiting Artists: Nicholas Blaidd, Johanna Bolton, Greig Burgoyne, Jemima Burrill, Karen Byrne, Adam Cole, Colette Copeland, Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau, Annie Edwards, Iuliia Fedorova, Beth Fox, Rosie Gibbens, Eleanor Green, Katy Howe, Bryan Konefsky, Richie Moment, Seona Myerscough, Daniel Oliver, Savvas Papasavva, Rozina Pátkai, Alex Pearl, Gregor Petrikovič, Blue Phoenix, Alicia Radage, Nik Ramage, Tammy Reynolds, Emily Sarten, Korallia Stergides, Alexis Zelda Stevens, Xinyue Tao, Julieta Tetelbaum, Mariia Timoshenko, Mariya Vasilyeva, Ivy Vo, Frances Willoughby, Jake Wood, Iris Lingyu Zhang and Yanzi Zou.
Programme 1 will open with an evening of performance curated by Rosie Gibbens with work by: Tallulah Haddon, Chuting Lee, Laura Dee Milnes and Jennet Thomas.
Tallulah will be collaborating with Mirabelle Haddon, Kit Marshall, Joana Nastari, Claudia Palazzo and Dre Spisto. Sound design by Alina Maldonado.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an events programme including live performances from Julian Alexander, Rosemary Jane Cronin and Katie Houston.
Established in 1999, Visions has exhibited artists including Oreet Ashery, Tacita Dean, Ori Gersht, Dryden Goodwin, Susan Hiller, Mikhail Karikis, Tina Keane, Lawrence Lek, Uriel Orlow, Hetain Patel, Heather Phillipson and Nye Thompson, many at the very early stages of their careers.
Visions offers an informed overview of the provocative and quick-changing mediums of moving image and performance, presenting works from across the world. Each Visions presents two exhibition and event programmes and invites lead artists to head and inspire each one.
Visions in the Nunnery Programme 1 is curated by Rosie Gibbens, artist and selector Tessa Garland, and Bow Arts.
About Rosie Gibbens
Rosie Gibbens makes performances, videos, sculptures and photographs that feature her body. Using absurd humour, she explores the slippery overlaps between identity, labour and consumer desire. She often makes sculptures that combine household gadgets with sewn body parts. These are brought to life through low-tech chain reactions in the performances/ films. Rosie playfully blends bodies with objects to unpack and question the prospective future body as it becomes increasingly ‘optimised’ by technological augmentation. The mindset behind her work is of a nonsensical product demonstration combined with a perverse children’s TV show.
Solo exhibitions include Muta at Pippy Holdsworth Gallery, 2025 and Parabiosis at the Bomb Factory in 2024. In 2022 Gibbens was winner of the Ingram Prize, ‘Founders Choice’ award and undertook a Sarabande Residency funded by the Alexander McQueen Foundation.
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
