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Public art exhibitions

We have a programme of public art exhibitions and installations at UCL East. Book your place below for our upcoming events and look back on past exhibitions.

Current and upcoming exhibitions

UCL East Great Get Together 2024 participants

A Pleasant Place

  • 2 October - 17 January 2025
  • Open daily, 10-6pm
  • Location: First Floor Galleries, UCL East - Marshgate

Venture through diverse urban climate environments and discover how photography can help us better understand what makes a pleasant place.

Image of a dense forest

Common Ground - opening soon

  • 13 January - 27 February 2025
  • Open daily, 10-6pm
  • Location: First Floor Galleries, UCL East - Marshgate

An installation of James Berrington's Common Ground which invites visitors to contemplate a single woodland scene. Part of the UCL East Public Art Collection.

Past exhibitions

Gaia globe hangs inside building
Composing for the Climate 

11 November - 30 November 2024
BBC Young Composer and UCL presented a new audio-visual installation for 11-18 year olds focusing on science and creativity.

A man points towards the London skyline in the background
H is for Hostile Environment 

27 June - 9 August 2024
An exhibition exploring the hostile environment through film, poetry, food, political writing, and a workshop with women with first-hand experience of migration and displacement

Image of woman making tea in front of a group of children
Habitat: Degree 51N/-0E

13 June - 07 September 2024
A collaborative installation by artist Suzy Round and UCL lecturer Michael Hrebeniak. Taking its name from the coordinates of the lost Manor Gardens allotments, located half a mile from UCL East, the installation was co-designed with local children, who planted and tended its miniature allotment.