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New in the cinema 🎞️

Screening from today: Nino – premiering at Cannes Critics' Week, Pauline Loquès's debut is an ode to French New Wave. A routine doctor's appointment leaves Nino with questions about his fertility, and an unusual errand to run before Monday.

Plus, Familiar Touch – as an older woman moves into assisted living, she contends with shifting memory, identity, and desire, and a complicated relationship with herself and those who care for her.

📅 Coming next Friday: new 4K restorations of Audition and A Better Tomorrow, plus Blue Heron.

On 1 July, Maite de Orbe, ICA Artist Development Resident, launches BELIEF SYSTEMS in the Studio – a monthly work-in-progress performance series co-curated with Baby Red.

Each session takes on a theme – Devotion, Unseen (Opacity), Survival, Power, Shame, Destiny – bringing artists together to test ideas in front of a small audience, followed by collective reflection. The first session focuses on Devotion, bringing together five performers to share works in progress, followed by an open conversation.

🗓️ Wed 1 Jul, 6pm
✨ Free to attend, booking required: rb.gy/xh9rou

Visible Justice continue their exploration of sites of resistance and abolitionist futures with a two-part event – Carceral Injustice: Imagining Abolition, and a screening of Steve McQueen's Hunger (1980) – 9 & 10 July.

9 July: Writers, artists and filmmakers Lola Olufemi, Sofia Kari and Saeed Taji Farouky rethink the present justice system, countering the violence inherent in policing, prisons and punishment.

10 July: A screening of Hunger, introduced by special guests from Prisoners for Palestine, reflecting on the connections between the Irish hunger strikes and the recent Palestine Action prisoner hunger strike, and how these actions complicate the legal requirement to "produce the body" under habeas corpus.

🎫 Book now: rb.gy/9c91o3
✨ Use code VISIBLE2026 when purchasing a combined ticket to get £3 off – £20 for both events.

Limited stock remains of our Genuine Fake Premium Economy artist merch. Get yours before it's gone 😭

Still available: Jasmine Gregory's iconic 'DIVORCE' motif shot glasses, Buck Ellison's corporate mug featuring fictional bank Orlo & Co, and GFPE lighter – your essential survival kit for life in this economy.

Jenna Bliss' Lehman Brothers baby onesie is now sold out.

🛒 Shop online or in-store: rb.gy/w839q9

Last chance for tickets 🎫 One Leg One Eye + Daniel Foggin in the round – 20 June

One Leg One Eye, the project of Ian Lynch (founding member of Lankum) and George Brennan, channels folk tradition through black metal, drone, noise, and myth. Their acclaimed debut album, …And Take The Black Worm With Me, weaves haunting vocals, uilleann pipe drones, field recordings, and stark atmospheres into a deeply immersive live experience.

Support from Daniel Foggin (Smote/Bong II).

🔗 Book tickets: rb.gy/cryr70

Supported by d&b audiotechnik.

Just announced and selling fast: Sharp Pins at ICA London, 12 August ⚡︎

Sharp Pins is the lo-fi noise pop project of Chicago musician Kai Slater, also of post-punk band Lifeguard. Drawing on touchstones from the Beatles to Guided by Voices, Slater's songwriting most recently took shape on 2025 album Balloon Balloon Balloon.

🎫 Book now: rb.gy/bgqys0

Presented by Live Nation.

Artists and cultural voices from our Young Artist Programme – in collaboration with
Diasporas Now – are taking over the ICA for a building-wide celebration of the work they've made across the year🔥

Spanning writing, image-making, movement, and performance, the takeover is both a showcase and a collective expression of the ideas and work that emerged throughout the programme – alongside the opening of the ICA Creatives Exhibition, featuring film, video, installation, sculpture and photography by programme participants. On show 2–8 July.

🎫 Free to attend, but booking required: rb.gy/dxdcko

Image: TAIBHSE, 2025 by Eoin McCaul. In collaboration with Dilan Kumar. Photo credit: Kitty Fay.

"Genuine Fake Premium Economy centres on a generational condition: coming of age as both millennial and as artist in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis; a warning to a younger generation of already pessimistic Gen Zs, delivered in a retroactive, superstitious, very American vocabulary" – Lydia Eliza Trail, ArtReview

Genuine Fake Premium Economy is on view in our Lower Gallery until 5 July.

🕰️ Open Tue-Sun, 12-8pm
✨ Members go free

Photography by Rob Harris.