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New World OrderSummer Programme 2025

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Alaa Abu AsadWild Plants of Palestine

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Jumana MannaForagers

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Mykola RidnyiMazepa's Ride

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Morgan QuaintanceAvailable Light

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Kin Structures present... rooting

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Breakouth YouthUncharted Territory

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Highlights

Event 17 July

Screening of 20 Days in Mariupol

Event 24 – 26 July

Call OutSummer art sessions for 14–19 year olds!

Event 30 July

In Conversation: Mykola Ridnyi and Emanuel Almborg

Event 9 August

British Sign Language tour of New World Order

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Meet us at the Mezzanine Gallery 🏳️‍🌈 For some visitors, passing though our doors can be a daunting step. Navigating vast open spaces, not quite sure where you're going or exactly what lies ahead. Will you understand the work, or mistake a simple chair for a prestigious prize-winning piece? If the above sounds something like you, you might have more in common with the young LGBTQIAP+ artists behind 'Uncharted Territory' than you realise! P.S. Our gallery team is here to enhance the experience of each and every visitor. Everyone is welcome in our space, especially the curious 💛
EVENT ALERT! 🚨⁠ ⁠ In Conversation with Mykola Ridnyi⁠ Wednesday 30 July, 6–7pm⁠ FREE, online⁠ ⁠ Join artist Mykola Ridnyi in conversation with filmmaker Emanuel Almborg alongside Ridnyi’s current solo exhibition, Mazepa’s Ride.⁠ ⁠ Mazepa’s Ride unveils two new artworks that extend Ridnyi’s exploration of Ivan Mazepa’s contested legacy – a political and military leader of the Zaporozhian Sich and Left-bank Ukraine in the late-17th and early-18th century, whose story has been mythologised throughout European art and literature.⁠ ⁠ Together, Ridnyi and Almborg will explore complex social and political questions and form relationships between historical and contemporary events.⁠ ⁠ Emanuel Almborg is an artist based in Stockholm and London. His practice is primarily moving image-based and engages with pedagogy, psychology and theatre.⁠ ⁠ This is an online event, a Zoom link will provided upon registration.⁠ ⁠ Link in bio to book 🔗⁠ ⁠ #JHGRidnyi #JHGNWO #Exhibition #MykolaRidnyi #MazepasRide #Film #ArtistTalk #InConversation #EmanuelAlmborg #TheFoundationFoundation #KyivBiennial #TheRibbonFoundation #Southampton #SotonArts #SouthamptonEvents #NowShowing @uni_southampton @uni_southampton_wsa @uos_engagement @aceagrams @kyivbiennial @pushkinhouselondon
Meet our Poet in Residence: Mandy Merzaban⁠ // Summer 2025⁠ ⁠ We are excited to announce Mandy Merzaban (@mmerzaban) as our Poet in Residence alongside our Summer exhibition season, as part of our Guest Curator @jackkytan’s programme exploring artistic practice within organisational development frameworks.⁠ ⁠ Mandy is a London-based artist and writer with a poetic eavesdropping practice. This often involves close listening to how power is distributed within organisational cultures and how this structuring of power shapes language, silence, and interpersonal dynamics, particularly in relation to the bureaucratic rituals of institutional life in the arts. ⁠ ⁠ Grounded in intimate registers of grief, love and diasporic fragmentation, Mandy’s work is primarily textual, co-learning based and unfolds through the making of poetry, glossaries and other text-based forms. It is often developed in conversation with collaborators who share the hidden, mundane, and difficult realities of navigating colonial institutional frameworks. ⁠ ⁠ For the residency, Mandy intends to keep a diary of reflections resulting in a collection of poetic fragments or poems in the service of deconstructing and making institutions. She is particularly drawn to Kin Structures’ work in the New World Order summer programme as a way of seeing the institutional landscape they are reconfiguring and entangled with, both at the gallery and beyond. ⁠ ⁠ John Hansard Gallery’s Guest Curator of Organisational Development Jack Ky Tan said, “Perhaps through Mandy’s ears, we might be able to glean the poetic soundings, grindings, pulses and moanings of organisations.”⁠ ⁠ Stay updated on Mandy’s residency over the coming months via our website and social media channels.⁠ Read more on link in bio 🔗 ⁠ #MandyMerzaban #Artist #Writer #Researcher #PoetInResidence #JHGEngagement ⁠