Call for moving image, digital and performance work
Visions in the Nunnery is the Nunnery Gallery’s renowned showcase of moving image, digital and performance art. The biennial open call is an opportunity to be part of one of the most varied and exciting presentations of moving image in London.
Visions offers an informed overview of the provocative and quick-changing mediums of moving image and performance, presenting works from across the world. For each Visions we run two to three programmes and invite lead artists, renowned for their innovation in the digital field, to head and inspire each one. The ideas of the lead artists support the selection process and set the tone for the wider exhibition.
This year we are delighted to have Rosie Gibbens and Onyeka Igwe leading Visions 2025. Each will be exhibiting work as part of the show.
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. Gibbens brings to Visions her intrigue in the technologically augmented body and will present her work and the films selected from the open call in an installation that will take over the gallery. Gibbens’ sculptural presentation Muta featured in The Box at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery from February-March 2025 and her 2024 exhibition Parabiosis took over the Bomb Factory in May 2024, with puppet-like sculptures brought to life via Gibbens’ own body․
Onyeka Igwe is a moving image artist and researcher whose work explores the question: how do we live together? She seeks to pull apart the nuances of mutuality and co-existence in our deeply individualized world. Igwe’s practice is concerned with the prosaic and everyday aspects of black livingness. For her, the body, archives and narratives act as a mode of enquiry that makes possible the exposition of overlooked histories. Recent solo exhibitions include History is a Living Weapon in Yr Hand at Peer in 2024 and A Repertoire of Protest (No Dance, No Palaver) at MoMA PS1, New York in 2023. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at Tate Britain in September 2025.
Established in 1999, Visions is curated by Tessa Garland in collaboration with the lead artists and Director of Arts & Events Sophie Hill. Previous exhibiting artists include Tacita Dean, Patrick Goddard, Dryden Goodwin, Hetain Patel and Oreet Ashery.
What can you submit?
We are looking for moving image, digital and performance work. We have the capacity to display by screen and projector but we are also keen to encourage small objects and installation works that use moving image and sound too – work that activates the space.
- Please submit works under 10-minutes duration for display in the Nunnery Gallery
- We will accept a small number of works up to 20-minutes in duration for special screening events as part of the exhibition programme
- Performances will be included as part of the exhibition programme
You can submit up to 3 works. The entry fee is £10 per work (£5 for concessions)
When is the deadline?
Friday 20 June 2025
Exhibition dates
Programme 1 led by Rosie Gibbens: 4 October – 9 November 2025
Programme 2 led by Onyeka Igwe: 15 November – 21 December 2025
£10 / work (£5 concessions)