Van Gogh House presents ‘Cycles’, a thoughtful group exhibition and events programme situated within Vincent van Gogh’s boarding house. The exhibition explores natural and mechanical rhythms and processes interacting with this domestic building.

‘Cycles’ explores natural and mechanical rhythms and processes.

Artists Clara Hastrup, Vibeke Mascini, Inés Cámara Leret were invited to spend time in the house and develop new works in response to the titular theme, the house and its existing spaces and objects – including electrical currents, cleaning routines, heating systems and the chain reactions that are generated.

The works presented in the house lead us to examine how the building itself, and perhaps all buildings, are composed of interconnected, delicately balanced conditions – vulnerable to changing circumstances. It will be an opportunity to question how people can ‘read’ and interact with the house, and where they see the boundaries between technology, historical narratives and nature.

Visitors who would like a more in-depth introduction will be able to take a guided tour of the house, which situates Van Gogh’s time in London, examining the city’s politics, material culture and fabric through the house.

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The exhibition is accompanied by a public programme including talks by Art Historian Ben Street, Artist Yingmei Duan and Curator Katie Hill; three sound interventions taking inspiration from the exhibition and house by Rie Nakajima, Rory Salter and Samuel Loveless; a film night by artist Daisy Smith and curator Rufus Rock; and writing and painting workshops with Deborah Walker and Quratulain Shams.

• Children’s Workshops | Little Visitors Sundays, 22 September – 15 December 2024, 10 – 11.30am Tickets ⟶
• Course | Miniature Painting, Alternate Saturdays, 5 October – 16 November 2024, 10am – 12pm Tickets ⟶
• Talk | Yingmei Curious About Vincent van Gogh, with Yingmei Duan and Katie Hill, 30 October 2024, 7 – 8pm Tickets ⟶
• Talk | Van Gogh Born Again! With Ben Street, 6 November 2024, 7 – 8pm Tickets ⟶
• Workshop | Writing for Self Expression, 9 November 2024, 10am – 12pm Tickets ⟶
• Music | Décollage, With Marie Roux, Pierre Berthet, Anghrad Davies, Billy Steiger & Rie Nakajima, 13 November 2024, 6.30pm & 8pm Tickets ⟶
• Music | inter:action, With Samuel D Loveless, 30 November 2024, 2 – 6pm Tickets ⟶
• Film | Artist Film Screening, Curated by Rufus Rock, 4 December 2024, 7 – 8pm Tickets ⟶

• Full Price – £7.50
• Students, National Art Pass Holders – £6
• Free for Friends of Van Gogh House
• Free for under 16s,  Museums Association and ICOM members
• As part of Lambeth Heritage Festival, for the month of September Lambeth residents (with proof of address) pay £4 concession tickets

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Clara Hastrup (b. Århus, Denmark) lives and works in London. Clara works in a variety of media combining analogue and digital technologies. Everyday objects, domestic and animate materials are playfully transformed to allow for new relationships and provide imaginative ways of looking at the seemingly familiar. Clara received her BA (hons)–Painting and Printmaking–from The Glasgow School of Art in 2016 and her Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from the Royal Academy Schools in 2021. In 2023 she was awarded the Artists’ Collecting Society Studio Prize and recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Fishphonics: Accelerando’, MATTA, Milan, 2024; and ‘Organic Behaviour’, LAMB Gallery, London, 2023.

Vibeke Mascini (b. 1989) is a visual artist, writer, and amateur moth breeder based in Amsterdam. Using fluid media including installation, sound, video and text, Vibeke creates work where memories and mysterious sensorial experiences meet the newest technology of the rapidly growing field of energy storage systems. Mascini graduated from Rijksakademie (NL) and has taken part in artist-in-residency programmes including Delfina Foundation (UK), Fondazione Antonio Ratti (IT) and Alps Art Academy in Tenna (CH). Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Nottingham Contemporary, Contemporary Art Museum Shanghai, Proyectos Ultravioleta in Guatemala City, RADIUS CCA in Delft. Publications include ‘Silent Whale Letters’ (2023), co-authored by Ella Finer and published by Sternberg Press, ‘Cloud Inverse’ (2017) and ‘The Dent of Walter Umenhofer’ (2015).

Inés Cámara Leret (b. Madrid, 1990) lives and works in Madrid. Her work often examines landscapes, both through small details and the anecdotes that form them. She collaborates with the existing elements that shape and imprint upon these landscapes, drawing connections across ecology and time, most recently through her project ‘La Trampa’, investigating a small common butterfly that has fallen into an evolutionary trap. Her approach is a constant balancing act between the past and the present. Cámara Leret holds a BFA from the Complutense University of Madrid (2008-2013) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (2012-2013). She also holds an MFA from the University of the Arts London (2013-2015). Recent exhibitions include Intermediae Madrid, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Museo Helga de Alvear, Ars Electronica, Copperfield Gallery, Somerset House, V&A. Recent residencies include CC Las Cigarreras, Centro Internacional de Cultura Contemporánea Tabakalera & recently at Van Gogh House London.