Beneath the Pavement, the beach!
In challenging times, it’s often easy to overlook culture, community and collective joy. Zimmerman draws on their extensive work to show how often the most striking work comes from the most marginalised locations. Everyone is an artist (no permission needed)!
About
Andrea Luka Zimmerman (they) is a Jarman Award-winning artist and filmmaker whose multilayered practice embodies and explores fragile refusals and counter memories.
Films include: Taskafa, Stories of the Street (2013, written and voiced by the late John Berger), Estate, a Reverie (2015), Erase and Forget (2017), Artangel-produced Here for Life (2019) and The Wapping Project-produced Wayfaring Stranger (2024, featuring Eileen Myles), which have screened widely around the world including at Locarno, CPH:DOX, Istanbul, Berlin, BAFICI and IFFR festivals, as well as in cinemas, galleries, and community and activist spaces. Andrea’s short films include Art Class (2020), Shelter in Place (2021), here and not here (2025), and While the Gods Were Busy with Another Child (2026).
Selected exhibitions include ’The Child Within Us All’, Arnolfini, ‘Shelter in Place’, SAW, and Estuary Festival, ‘Civil Rites’, the London Open at Whitechapel Gallery, solo exhibitions ‘Common Ground’ at Spike Island, and ‘Real Estates’ at Peer Gallery.
Selected writing includes essays in ‘Brick’, ‘Room: a Sketchbook for Analytic Action’, ‘Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter’.
The films are held in the BFI National Film Archive and the Arts Council England Collection and in the Artangel Collection. A 2 disc Blu-ray, Fugitive Images: Selected Works, was released by Second Run.
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June 20, 2026 |
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14:00 – 15:00 |
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