Ben Uri: Audio Adventures

Listen to a lecture by Dr Nicola Kozicharow, a specialist in 19th and 20th Century Russian and Soviet Art and Visual Culture, and affiliated lecturer at the University of Cambridge. The  Bulldozer  exhibition was an unofficial art exhibition by avant-garde artists from Moscow and Leningrad on September 15, 1974. The exhibition was broken-up forcefully by a large police presence using bulldozers an...

Women from University of the Third Age, and school girls from Acland Burghley Secondary in conversation, as part of the International Women's Day celebrations at the Ben Uri Gallery.

Sabbath Rest by Samuel Hirszenberg discussed. Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary

Discover and enjoy the work of Lazar Benson Ben Uri founder. Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.

Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.

Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.

Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.

Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.

Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.

Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.

Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.

Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.

Part of an audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.

Marsha Ribeiro and David Herman discuss their experiences of growing up with immigrant artist fathers. Listen here

Charlie Patterson, a 2nd year trainee Art Therapist at Roehampton University, spent her placement at Netherwood Dementia Centre in Kilburn from September 2016 to June 2017 working in partnership with Ben Uri Gallery & Museum as part of the Picturing Memories programme.

Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.

Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.

Ben Uri podcasts series 2x01

Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.

Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.

Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary. Listen

Brief Lives #9 - Alfred Wolmark Aron Wolmark was born in Warsaw, and moved to England with his family in 1883, first to Devon and then to the East End. He trained at the Royal Academy (from 1895), where he added the English ‘Alfred’ to his name. He had his first solo exhibition at Bruton Galleries in London (1905). Wolmark’s teenage years in London’s East End and two lengthy stays in his native Po...

Brief Lives #8 - Frank Auerbach Painter Frank Auerbach was born to Jewish parents in Berlin, Germany in 1931 and, following the rise of Nazism, was sent to England in 1939; his parents, who remained behind, subsequently perished in concentration camps. Auerbach spent his childhood at Bunce Court, a progressive boarding school in Kent for Jewish refugee children. He attended St Martin’s School of A...

Brief Lives #7 - Dora Holzhandler Dora Holzhandler was born into a Polish-Jewish family in Paris, France in 1928. To escape Nazi persecution, she moved with her immediate family to London in 1934, where she studied at the Anglo-French Art School (1948–50). In 1949, she began her artistic career in England, exhibiting in the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) Young Contemporaries show; she woul...

Brief Lives #6 - David Bomberg David Bomberg was born to Polish-Jewish parents in Birmingham, England, in 1890. The family moved to Whitechapel in 1895, where he later became prominent among the ‘Whitechapel Boys’ and made an important contribution to British Modernism. Initially apprenticed as a chromolithographer, and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, where he was seen as a ‘disturbing in...