180 Studios’ new space dedicated to film, The Underground Cinema, follows its month-long theatrical residency of Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions with a season of music-oriented films.

The Sound & Vision season, which runs from 10 April until 4 June 2026, features legendary live shows, iconic documentaries and cult classics, including Fred again..’s secret life at the coliseum, recorded at the LA Memorial Coliseum in June 2024.

Sound & Vision features a different film every week, beginning with Getting it Back: The Story of Cymande, the largely unheard tale of the greatest ever UK jazz fusion band. The two-month season also includes screenings of the iconic Paris is Burning, the award-winning documentary chronicling New York’s 1980s ballroom culture, and Finding Fela, the story of Afrobeat musician and activist Fela Kuti.

The season also features films about the late Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, ambient musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland and David Bowie, as well as screenings of Lisa Rovner’s 2020 film Sisters with Transistors, telling the story of electronic music’s pioneering women artists.

These feature-length films will be complemented by a rotating program of music videos by movie directors showing in the adjacent exhibition space, from directors including Romain Gavras (Jamie xx – ‘Gosh’), Gabriel Moses (Travis Scott ‘4×4’), Melina Matsoukas (Beyonce – ‘Formation’), Kahlil Joseph (Flying Lotus – ‘Until the Quiet Comes’) and Chris Cunningham (Aphex Twin – ‘Windowlicker’).

Sound & Vision runs at London’s 180 Studios from 10 April until 4 June 2026.  Tickets are available from the 180 Studios website.

Sound & Vision films

Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande (Tim Mackenzie-Smith, 2022)

The incredible story of the UK’s best-ever jazz-funk bands, whose sound has influenced generations with their irresistible rhythms and message of peace.

Screening dates: April 10, 11, 12, 15, 16

Finding Fela (Alex Gibney, 2014)

The story of Afrobeat pioneer, musical mastermind and restless agent for change, Fela Kuti’s life, his music, his social and political importance.

Screening dates: 17, 18, 19, 22, 23

Fred again.. – secret life at the coliseum (LOOSE, 2024)

An intimate, ambient live set by Fred again.., performing his album ‘secret life’ for 100 fans at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on 11 June 2024.

Screening dates: April 24, 25, 26, 29, 30

Keyboard Fantasies (Posy Dixon, 2019)

Emerging from years in isolation to an enraptured crowd, transgender septuagenarian musical genius Beverly Glenn-Copeland finally finds his place in the world. Keyboard Fantasies tells the tale of this mystical musician as he embarks on his first international tour at the age of 74.

Screening dates: May 1, 2, 3, 6, 7

Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990)

This Sundance-winning, iconic cult classic is a must-see movie: filmed in the mid-late 1980s, it chronicles the drag ball culture of New York: a world of fierce competition, sustenance, and survival.

Screening dates: May 8, 9, 10, 13, 14

Bowie: The Final Act (Jonathan Stiasny, 2025)

Ten years on from the release of his final album, Bowie: The Final Act charts the extraordinary last creative chapter of one of music’s most iconic and inventive artists.

Screening dates: May 15, 16, 17, 20, 21

Sisters with Transistors (Lisa Rovner, 2020)

The story of electronic music’s female pioneers, including Delia Derbyshire, Laurie Anderson and Suzanne Ciani – composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies.

Screening dates: May 22, 23, 24, 27, 28

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (Stephen Nomura Schible, 2017)

An intimate documentary chronicling the legendary composer’s life, focusing on his creation of the album async following a cancer diagnosis, his activism against nuclear power, and his career spanning four decades.

Screening dates: May 29, 30, 31, June 3, 4

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Ojas Music, the new label from Devon Turnbull’s audio, hi-fi and design company of the same name, has released its first record in partnership with The Vinyl Factory: Unna, an ambient, minimalist collaboration between Michael A. Muller & Otto A. Totland.

Muller, co-founder of minimalist instrumental duo Balmorhea, has a long history of solo recordings, and film scoring, releasing on Deutsche Grammophon and collaborating with artists including Hania Rani, Alva Noto, Víkingur Ólafsson, The Album Leaf, and Douglas McCombs of Tortoise.

Totland is one half of the Norwegian experimental/ambient duo Deaf Center, whose seminal releases on Type Records and Sonic Pieces helped shape a generation of minimalist and ambient music. His solo piano trilogy, produced by Nils Frahm, received wide acclaim.

Unna (Norwegian for “away”) operates as a double entendre: gesturing both to the physical distance between the two artists and to the inward pull of the creative flow state, where time recedes and attention deepens. The music pairs Totland’s close-miked, delicate piano with Muller’s contributions on double bass, glockenspiel, Mellotron, and Rhodes as a textural counterpoint.

Turnbull’s communal listening installation, HiFi Listening Room Dream No. 1, is a permanent fixture at 180 Studios, offering an audiophile space where each element has been carefully considered to create an environment that honours both the music and the listener.

Unna is available now from The Vinyl Factory shop on 180g vinyl and is limited to 500 copies worldwide. Listen to ‘Rolig’ via the visualiser above.

Read next: Interview: Devon Turnbull

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180 Studios has opened a new space dedicated to film called The Underground Cinema, which will celebrate the medium of film in all forms, from feature-length movies and music documentaries to artist commissions and collaborations.

The Underground Cinema launches on Friday 27 February with a month-long theatrical residency of Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, a feature-length work adapted from his acclaimed video art installation, BLKNWS.

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions mirrors the sonic textures of an album or mixtape, weaving fiction and history in an immersive journey where fictionalised figures of W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey join artists, musicians, Joseph’s family, and even Twitter chats, in a vision for Black consciousness.

“BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is a film conceived with the fluidity and creativity of an album,” says Joseph. “This approach allowed me to think beyond traditional boundaries, embracing a process that seamlessly incorporates the contributions of other directors, artists, and collaborators. Poets, writers, editors, designers, musicians, scholars, and more have all left their mark on this project, enriching its texture and expanding its scope.”

The film features original music by Klein plus tracks from Robert Hood, Aphex Twin, Sampha, Kelsey Lu and Flying Lotus. Joseph has worked across the mediums of installation, music video and film throughout his career, directing videos for Kendrick Lamar, Sampha, Flying Lotus and Beyoncé.

180 Studios has collaborated with Joseph for a decade. His work featured in The Infinite Mix (2016) and Reverb (2024), and 180 Studios commissioned his 2018 film Fly Paper.

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions runs from 27 February to 27 March 2026. Tickets are available from the 180 Studios website.

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Ryoji Ikeda’s new installation, showing now at 180 Studios, has been extended until 1 February, 2026, due to popular demand. Tickets are available now from the 180 Studios website.

Commissioned by 180 Studios, data-cosm [n°1] is described as “a total sensory encounter that transforms vast datasets into an immersive audiovisual environment, exploring the intersection of art and physics on an unprecedented scale.”

The installation, which invites visitors to lie down beneath a vast LED ceiling while being enveloped by Ikeda’s soundscapes, “charts the full spectrum of data in nature – from the microscopic world of particle physics to the macroscopic scale of astrophysics.”

Ikeda’s new work expands on ideas first explored in his acclaimed data-verse project, and is running alongside Paradigm Shift, an exhibition exploring revolutions in moving image culture from artists including Mark Leckey, Arthur Jafa, Derek Jarman, JulianKnxx, Martine Syms and Andy Warhol.

Tickets for data-cosm [n°1] are available now from the 180 Studios website.

Ryoji Ikeda
data-cosm [n°1]

180 Studios
6 Surrey Street, London, WC2R 2ND
15 October, 2025 – 1 February, 2026
12pm–7pm, Wednesday – Sunday (Last entry at 7pm)

Watch next: Ryoji Ikeda Presents: data-verse

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180 Studios will present the world premiere of Japanese audiovisual artist Ryoji Ikeda’s latest installation data-cosm [n°1]. The site-specific work transforms data from nature into a large-scale, immersive experience, and opens on 15 October, 2025. Tickets are available now from the 180 Studios website.

Commissioned by 180 Studios, data-cosm [n°1] is described as “a total sensory encounter that transforms vast datasets into an immersive audiovisual environment, exploring the intersection of art and physics on an unprecedented scale.”

The installation, which invites visitors to lie down beneath a vast LED ceiling while being enveloped by Ikeda’s soundscapes, “charts the full spectrum of data in nature – from the microscopic world of particle physics to the macroscopic scale of astrophysics.”

Ikeda’s new work expands on ideas first explored in his acclaimed data-verse project, and runs at 180 Studios until 21 December, 2015.

data-cosm [n°1] continues a long history of collaboration with 180 Studios and The Vinyl Factory, which began with the premiere of Ikeda’s audio-visual installation supersymmetry at Brewer Street Car Park in Soho, London. In 2021, 180 Studios hosted the largest exhibition of Ikeda’s work to date, featuring large-scale installations and data-driven work from across his career.

data-cosm [n°1] runs from 15 October to 21 December, 2025. Tickets for the exhibition are available now from the 180 Studios website.

Ryoji Ikeda
data-cosm [n°1]

180 Studios
6 Surrey Street, London, WC2R 2ND
15 October – 21 December, 2025
12pm–7pm, Wednesday – Sunday (Last entry at 7pm)

Watch next: Ryoji Ikeda Presents: data-verse

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Works by Mark Leckey, Andy Warhol and Nan Goldin all feature as part of Paradigm Shift, a major new exhibition about moving image culture opening at London’s 180 Studios on Wednesday, 15 October 2025. Tickets are available now from the 180 Studios website.

The exhibition will see 180 Studios’ vast subterranean spaces transformed to present a selection of acclaimed moving image works from the 1970s to the present day, drawing from avant-garde cinema, TV, music video, performance, fashion, gaming and internet culture.

Curated by Mark Wadhwa and Dazed co-founder and CEO Jefferson Hack, the exhibition features works by Sophia Al-Maria, Meriem Bennani, Dara Birnbaum, Foday Dumbuya, Cao Fei, Tremaine Emory, Nan Goldin, Arthur Jafa, Derek Jarman, Julianknxx, Andy Warhol, Josèfa Ntjam, Pipilotti Rist, Martine Syms, TELFAR, Ryan Trecartin, Gillian Wearing and Mark Leckey, who is represented by his 1999 classic Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (embedded at the top of the page).

Paradigm Shift traces multiple revolutions within moving image culture through several new works commissioned by 180 Studios, which sit alongside iconic historical works that offer a view of paradigms shifted by artists who rebelled against the status quo using the technologies available to them at the time for both realisation and distribution of their vision.

Jefferson Hack says: “From the Super 8 and VHS revolutions of the 1970s and ’80s to the digital hyper connectivity of our present moment, video art and moving image have always operated at a crossroads: high and low, visceral and conceptual, personal and political. In Paradigm Shift, we see how great artists inspire us to engage with storytelling through screens differently: for us to feel more, imagine more and recover our senses.”

Paradigm Shift runs until 1 February, 2026. Tickets for the exhibition are available now from the 180 Studios website.

Paradigm Shift: New Dimensions in Moving Image
in partnership with Ray Ban Meta

180 Studios
180 The Strand, London, WC2R 1EA
15 October, 2025 – 1 February, 2026
12pm–7pm, Wednesday – Sunday

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Artist, photographer, and filmmaker Gabriel Moses sits down for an exclusive conversation about Selah, his largest exhibition to date, now showing at 180 Studios.

Reflecting on his debut solo show Regina, held at 180 Studios in 2023, Gabriel says:
 “I’ve grown a lot in those two years. I’ve developed more as an artist. For me, it was important to create a show that felt so much more immersive and interactive.”

Spanning two floors, Selah features over 70 photographs and 10 films showcasing his work across the worlds of fashion, music, and sport, including the premiere of a new short film, The Last Hour, together with a selection of installations and sculptures.

Selah runs until 31 August 2025. Tickets are available now from the 180 Studios website.

Read next: Gabriel Moses announces largest ever exhibition at 180 Studios

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Gabriel Moses’ career-spanning exhibition Selah is being extended due to popular demand until 31 August, 2025. Selah is the largest exhibition to date from the London photographer and filmmaker, who has worked with musicians including Travis Scott, Skepta, Little Simz and Pa Salieu. Tickets are available now from the 180 Studios website.

Selah brings together over 70 photographs and 10 films showcasing his work across the worlds of fashion, music, and sport throughout his career, including films and music videos such as Fein by Travis Scott and Playboi Carti, Lost Times by Schoolboy Q, and portraits of Slawn, Skepta, Alek Wek, Jude Bellingham and more.

Taking over two floors of 180 Studios, Selah also features new work from Moses, including an exclusive new series of photographs and the premiere of a new short film, The Last Hour. The acted-out short film was shot in Atlanta, Georgia, and follows one man’s journey to finding solace in solitude whilst in pursuit of redemption. The film was commissioned by 180 Studios and executive produced by Division and Goat.  

Born in South London, Moses’ practice is deeply rooted in his British-Nigerian heritage. Characterised by a rich colour palette and minimal contextual detail, he produces emotive, soulful images which reflect on personal history, cultural signifiers, and memory. His work is often a tribute to the women who have shaped him, especially his grandmother, mother, and sister, who introduced him to art and fashion.  

Moses possesses a unique photographic eye that has captured the attention of both the fashion and music worlds. In the short time since he stepped onto the scene, he has gathered an outstanding body of work, collaborating with an extensive list of brands and artists including Louis Vuitton, Burberry, Dior, Nike, Vogue, i-D, Pharrell Williams, Zinedine Zidane, Skepta and Travis Scott, amongst others.

In 2024 Moses released his first monograph, Regina, published by Prestel, and was named as the trophy designer of 2025 The BRIT Award. In 2023 he held his debut solo exhibition at 180 Studios, London and has exhibited at Anthony Gallery, Chicago (2024), Spazio Maiocchi, Milan (2024), Permanent, Paris (2024), Frieze Seoul, Korea (2024), WSA, New York City (2024), and Luma Foundation, Arles (2025). 

Selah is curated by Katja Horvat in collaboration with 180 Studios, with spatial design by Emilia Margulies and graphic identity designed by Jayda Deans. 

Gabriel Moses: Selah
180 Studios
28 March 2025 – 31 August 2025
Wednesday– Sunday, 12pm – 7pm

Tickets are available from the 180 Studios website

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In a new interview, Argentinian artist, choreographer, and dancer Cecilia Bengolea details the experience of making Shelly Belly Inna Real Life, her video installation for The Vinyl Factory: Reverb exhibition.

Exploring the world of dancehall – a genre and form of dance originating in Jamaica – Bengolea’s Shelly Belly Inna Real Life grants an intimate view of the communities and individuals that keep the scene going. Accompanying dancehall icon Shelly Belly, Bengolea explores the choreography and social context of dancehall’s participants and the wider culture around them.

In this interview, Bengolea discusses her connection with dancehall, the relationship between the Jamaican police and dance and the wider world of street dance.

Shelly Belly Inna Real Life isn’t Bengolea’s first brush with Shelly Belly or The Vinyl Factory. In 2016, Bengolea and her collaborative partner Jeremy Deller teamed up with The Vinyl Factory to create Bom Bom’s Dream for The Infinite Mix exhibition.

Following the adventures of a Japanese dancer known as Bom Bom, Bom Bom’s Dream similarly engaged the dancehall and featured Shelly Belly in a starring role.

Watch the video above and book tickets for the exhibition at the 180 Studios website.

The Vinyl Factory: Reverb

180 Studios
180 The Strand, London, WC2R 1EA
22 May, 2024 – 2 March, 2025
Exhibition closed between December 23, 2024 and 8 January, 2025

Wednesday – Saturday: 12pm to 7pm
Sunday: 12pm to 6pm

Watch next: Es Devlin: Screenshare

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One of the most popular exhibitions ever staged at 180 Studios, The Vinyl Factory: Reverb, is being extended due to popular demand until 2 March, 2025. Tickets are available now from the 180 Studios website.

Devon Turnbull, Caterina Barbieri, Jeremy Deller, Carsten Nicolai and Virgil Abloh all feature as part of the exhibition, which showcases the breadth of The Vinyl Factory’s commissions and collaborations over the past 20 years, including site-specific audio-visual installations and sonic experiences from artists including Theaster Gates, Es Devlin and Julianknxx.

REVERB also features UK premieres of artworks by Kahlil Joseph, Stan Douglas and Cecilia Bengolea, as well as installations by William Kentridge, Jenn Nkiru, Hito Steyerl and Gabriel Moses.

100 vinyl records created by artists and released by The Vinyl Factory are also on display in a new space designed by Ben Kelly. These include releases by Nan Goldin, Arthur Jafa, Pipilotti Rist, William Kentridge, Mica Levi, Marina Abramovic, Grace Jones, Yussef Dayes, Es Devlin, Fred Again, Thom Yorke, Ragnar Kjartansson, Massive Attack, Pet Shop Boys, Maurizio Cattelan, Daft Punk, The xx, Rachel Rose, Kojey Radical, Taryn Simon and more.

Hi-Fi Listening Room Dream No.1, created by and programmed with New York artist Devon Turnbull, creates a meditative space within the exhibition to listen to vinyl with an evolving programme of unheard music, including exclusive test pressings and studio outtakes. 

Over the course of the exhibition so far, Hi-Fi Listening Room Dream No.1 has hosted listening sessions with artists and selectors such as Haseeb Iqbal and Charlie Dark.

A new work by Theaster Gates, Amplified, exists as a sonic installation inside Reverb during the day and transforms into a space that hosts live performances at night, with shows recorded and pressed direct-to-disc on The Vinyl Factory Lathe. 

Amplified has hosted musical performances and conversations curated by The Vinyl Factory in partnership with creative studio Alaska Alaska and art bookshop Reference Point, featuring shows by musicians including Ragz Originale, Jamilah Barry, Hendrix Harris, Caleb Femi, Kokoroko and Fabiana Palladino.

Entry to these intimate performances is strictly invite only. For a chance to win tickets to upcoming Amplified sessions, follow 180 Studios on Instagram and keep an eye out for future giveaways.

Tickets for REVERB are on sale now.

180 Studios
180 The Strand, London, WC2R 1EA
22 May, 2024 – 2 March, 2025
Exhibition closed between December 23, 2024 and 8 January, 2025

Wednesday – Saturday: 12pm to 7pm
Sunday: 12pm to 6pm

Watch next: Es Devlin: Screenshare

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