Upcoming

( Press release audio described available bellow ) Ugly Duck Bermondsey is excited to announce the first ever summer edition of @Disturbance, taking place on Saturday June 22 & Sunday June 23. Following the success of previous programmes championing LGBTQIA+ performance, video and digital artists, @Disturbance makes maximum use of Ugly Duck’s Tanner Street location,…

Les Nuages will come to Ugly Duck on the 13th of July, for one performance only. A 30 minute version of this otherwordly piece directed and performed by Bea Bidault, with original music by Mayah Kadish and costume design by Shanti Bell. Come and be mesmerized by a fictional landscape, bodies filled with air and…

Making Sh*t Happen! LET’S MAKE SH*T HAPPEN! Chisenhale Dance Space takes over Ugly Duck on July 20th and 21st, offering a weekend of art, activism, dance, and networking. MSH Performance Party // 20th July, 7-10pm No stage. No overbearing host. Just great music, dancing, and unannounced performance interventions emerging throughout the night. With a stunning…

The University of New South Wales Judith Neilson Chair of Contemporary Art Paul Gladston, in collaboration with Ugly Duck, proudly presents "Yique's Way - Mutuality in Extremes," an innovative exhibition featuring the works of emerging artist Yique. Last year, Yique and a collective of artists made a bold statement by completely whitewashing the Brick Lane…

Eclipse 30.08.2024 - 08.12.2024 Artist: NONOTAK Date: 2024 Captivate the senses, connect with your surroundings, and challenge reality as you delve into ECLIPSE, NONOTAK’s solo London debut presented by Lumen Studios. This evocative audio-visual experience explores the power and impact of light on visual perception when combined with space and sound. Light will be sculpted…

Grace Quigley is a queer multidisciplinary artist, poet, writer, performer, drag and movement artist. Their work explores the depths of queerness, gender, identity, community, neurodivergence, mental health, recovery and addiction. With a background in acting, Grace graduated with a BA Hons from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Their solo show ‘Bluewater’(2022) ran…

THE QUEER CREATIVE RIDICULOUS: 2 day intensive with Lucy Hopkins for queer clowns and creators of live performance Connect to the creative, ridiculous spirit of your thing and work out how to share it with a roomful of people in a way that they will love. *This workshop is intended for queer folks to work…

THE UNKNOWN: a show-portal to the New The culmination of 2 days of The Queer Creative Ridiculous: an intensive workshop of queer experimentation, exploration and the discovering of brand new things. The Unknown is a 90 minute show-portal to the New, featuring acts, material and musings never before shared with a live audience. You are invited to join us to discover shootlings of greatness,…

MYTO MYTO Episode 2 presents SOLARPUNK: Decolonisation  Myto is a multimodal organism reimagining learning through collaborative practice, spanning music, performance, contemporary art and club culture. For their second episode, Myto teams up with Ugly Duck to bring to life a two day exhibition surrounding the theme of Solarpunk.  Solarpunk is a genre of speculative fiction…

Ugly Duck, an independent arts space that has been a home for experimental, queer, trans, and anti-institutional cultural practices for over a decade. We are currently working on A Collective Archive, a vital project directed by Deen Atger that will document and preserve the legacy of Ugly Duck as a space of radical creativity, collective resistance,…

Toxic Art Gallery is proud to present ‘THE GARAGE,’ a group exhibition celebrating modern art from around the world. No themes, No Boundaries, a diverse collection of works including sculptures and paintings. The show will bring together 15 exceptional emerging artists from around the globe, this exhibition offers the people of the UK a unique opportunity to…

An Easter alternative for blasphemous queers, a feast of hysterical performances, sounds and the launch of a movement. Join us for an evening of DIY queer performances. Deviant poetics and fetish thoughts. Hyster is the queer hysteria unleashed by an overdose of Easter chocolate. Expect: hysterical egg hunt, T4T eroticism, poetry, performances, queer Russian ballet,…

Gaza Biennale – Jinnaah UK علىأنقاضهذاالعالم| Upon the Ruins of the World
 28th May to 1st June
 We invite you to join us across this 5-day journey. Whether you come for a moment or stay for the entire arc, your presence matters deeply. This is more than an exhibition and program — it is a…

Some Kind of Bliss is not a performance you watch. It’s a zone you enter. There’s no stage. Only presence. No protagonist—only fragments. Rooted in the lived experiences of the Pan-Asian queer diaspora in London, this piece reclaims small acts of transgression—taking an onion, leaving a broken speaker, a fake eyelash in the sink—as gestures of…

A Collective Archive 12–15 June 2025 Ugly Duck, London A Collective Archive is a four-day celebration of artistic practices, shared resistance, and the many communities that have shaped Ugly Duck over the past thirteen years. What began as a temporary project space became a home for interdisciplinary, experimental, and politically engaged work—a space for collaboration,…

Fading Out of Dead Air (Transmissions for the Necropolis)  3 hrs durational performance by Martin O'Brien A scratchy sound of white noise emanating from a small radio fills the dark room. A faint voice comes through. It sounds like nothing from this world, as if death itself was speaking. Somewhere else, sickly patients lay in hospital…