Window Gallery 2024

Take a look at the exhibitions that took place in Central Saint Martins' Window Galleries throughout 2024.

Revolutions

14 December 2023 - 23 January 2024

REVOLUTIONS was a showcase of 16 projects from five cohorts of Masters in Biodesign at Central Saint Martins.

Queer Resistance and Expression Through Creativity

1–29 February

To celebrate LGBTQIA+ History Month, Arts Students’ Union selected UAL students to showcase their work in our Window Gallery, within the theme of Queer Resistance and Expression Through Creativity, aiming to demonstrate how the queer community throughout history has used creativity to fight for queer rights and showcase their immense talent.

Take up space (TUS)

1 February - 24 March

While queer practices and queer theory are of growing interest and visibility in art and design, queer spaces in London have all but disappeared. The goal of this Window Gallery exhibition was to TAKE UP SPACE, and find new ways to hold space, together! Investigating new approaches to dialogue in public, contributions to the exhibition were community-driven, this crowd-sourced exhibition developed throughout its duration.

Women, Life, Freedom: The Body of the Woman in Struggle

11 March – 11 April

In 2023, inspired by the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran, London Metropolitan University curated an exhibition in collaboration with Central Saint Martins and Public Works, for the Venice Architecture Biennale Carnival programme. Four pieces of work were produced as a collaboration between academics and students who were inspired by the feminist, anti-colonial and radical nature of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. These pieces focus on the body of women in struggle, colonised by patriarchal values and systems that both shapes culture and becomes a realm for counter-culture.

Inga Kaugsay / Habitar Inga / Inga Dwelling

13 March – 10 May

Inga Kaugsay (Inga Dwelling) is an ancestral knowledge mapping project, recognising the symbolic, spiritual, spatial, and constructive aspects of the Inga inhabitation knowledges and practices in parts of the Colombian Andean Amazon region. This window gallery contained extracts from the publication which documented the mapping project, and dialogues with the community on design and content. During the exhibit, three creative practitioners were invited to further dialogue with the display through use of natural material, form, and illustration.

Beyond the show

11 April - 7 May

This exhibition displayed a collection of pieces designed for performance by students and graduates from BA and MA Performance: Design and Practice.