This conversation marked a collaborative event, titled Reckoning, bridging together two exhibitions in Brixton:

Epiphany (Temporaire) by Exodus Crooks, curated by Orphée Kashala, commissioned by Ort Gallery and ICF, and presented by ICF as part of their 2023 residency at Block 336
(26 August – 17 September 2023)

Love is a state of mind by TITANESS aka Maria Joranko and Tiffany Wellington at San Mei Gallery
(8 September – 4 November 2023)

San Mei Gallery is delighted to announce that we have received an Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant! This invaluable funding will offer integral support towards the gallery’s exhibition and events programme and the artists and practitioners we work with this year. Game-changing!!

San Mei Gallery is pleased to present our fourth annual winter fundraiser exhibition, featuring a variety of artworks, prints, and objects by more than 50 emerging and mid-career artists.

We are delighted to announce our selection for the 2024 open call for exhibitions! In order of next year's schedule, a big congratulations to....

We’re delighted to share San Mei Gallery’s new public-facing Window Gallery, presenting a series of micro-exhibitions by emerging contemporary artists.

We’re delighted to announce our 2024 Open Call for Exhibitions at San Mei Gallery. We are looking for exhibition proposals from artists, creatives, designers, architects and makers (solo or groups) with research-based practices to stage an exhibition in our Brixton-based gallery in 2024. 

We’re delighted to announce the winning projects of our 2023 Open Call for Exhibitions. As a space committed to research-led, educational and collaborative exchanges, we look forward to supporting more artists to experiment with new ideas this year. 

To celebrate In the Garden, our affordable fundraising art sale in Brixton, we’ve invited three guest curators to select their favourite limited edition artworks, ceramics, prints, sculptures and more.

It’s been quite the five years, so inspired by our upcoming exhibition ‘Between You and Me’, we will be celebrating the support structures of friendship and community through food and nature.

Van Gogh House & Gallery C.I.C. is looking for an outgoing and creative Marketing & Digital Communications Manager to oversee the communications for both its spaces (San Mei Gallery and Van Gogh House London). This role covers the communcations for all aspects of both artistic programmes, as well as supporting marketing efforts for the galleries’ income-generating activities such as events, venue hire, Friends and shop. Digitally led with a good understanding of press and PR, we’re looking for someone to help grow the audiences and customer base of our young organisation.

We are delighted to be collaborating with Paradise Row Projects on their exhibition CITY ENTWINED with artists Laila Majid and Louis Blue Newby, alongside a number of incredible galleries and project spaces.

We are delighted to announce that we are currently hiring for two new positions, Events Coordinator and Building Manager & Art Technician, working across both San Mei Gallery as well as our sister space Van Gogh House.

Further information and details on how to apply can be found on our Opportunities webpage.

We are delighted to announce the winning projects of our 2021 Open Call for Exhibitions.

Over the course of 2022, we will be working with Louis Blue Newby and Laila Majid, Feral Partnerships, Davinia-Ann Robinson and Roxanne Mbanga to realise their four ambitious exhibition projects.

We received a large quantity of applications this year – three times as many as the previous year – of which many were of an exceptionally high standard.

Thank you to all those who took the time to apply.

Have you got pictures of parties, protests, meetings, dinners, screenings, walks, plays in Brixton? We are looking for images depicting gatherings that happened in Brixton in the last fews decades, to be featured in our upcoming show 'Yesterday, Together, Tomorrow'.

We are pleased to announce that our annual Open Call for Exhibition Proposal is now open for entries.

San Mei Gallery is looking for exhibition proposals from artists, creatives, designers, architects and makers (solo or groups) to stage a six-week long exhibition in our Brixton-based gallery in 2022. Open to anyone at any stage in their career, this Open Call doesn’t present a particular theme. We look to work with artists with research-based practices and a demonstrated record of critical thinking.

Submissions cost £12 to cover the costs of administration, with a half price discount for early bird submissions made before 15 August.

Early bird deadline: Sunday 18 July 2021
Final submissions deadline: Sunday 15 August 2021

We’re very pleased to present a recording of Matthew Beach’s talk in conversation with Anna Lawrence which took place over zoom in April 2021.

Introduced by San Mei Gallery Associate Curator, Ludovica Penelope Bulciolu.

Further details about the event can be found on the event page here.

We’re very pleased to present a recording of Harold Offeh’s talk ‘Black Bodies in the Landscape,’ which took place over zoom in April 2021.

Introduced by San Mei Gallery Associate Curator, Ludovica Penelope Bulciolu.

Further details about the event can be found on the event page here.

We very excited to share our upcoming events programme accompanying The Herbarium’s Shadow, our forthcoming exhibition with artist and researcher Matthew Beach opening on 14 April.

The programme includes a number of online and even in person events (with social distancing), including a talk and online screening with Harold Offeh, tea workshops with Olha Pryymak, a discussion between Matthew Beach and fellow geographer Anna Lawrence, as well as a plant painting workshop for families and a plant swap taking place across the exhibition.

Visit our Events page to find out more and book tickets.