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CRYPT RESIDENCY 2026: BORIS KWOK
PLEASE NOTE- DUE TO LAST MINUTE FILMING THE GALLERY WILL BE CLOSED THURSDAY 12 FEBRUARY 11-15 February 2026 Opening times: 1-4pm daily I am Boris, a sculptural printmaker. I graduated from the MA Print at Camberwell College of Arts in 2025. My practice explores repression in the human condition through expressing my own fears, often working between printmaking and sculptural processes during research and installation. Boris will be working in the gallery creating and developing work in response to the…
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CRYPT RESIDENCY 2026 – HEINI KING
PLEASE NOTE- DUE TO LAST MINUTE FILMING THE GALLERY WILL BE CLOSED THURSDAY 12 FEBRUARY 13 – 15 February 2026 Opening times: 1 – 4pm daily Drawing Days at the Crypt Gallery is an exhibition of drawings by Finnish-British artist Heini King. Drawing Days celebrates drawing as a medium for gentle observation and as a tool for creative discovery. The exhibition is organised in the context of a group residency taking place at the Gallery. While looking at the exhibition…
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CRYPT RESIDENCY FEBRUARY 2026: LITO APOSTLAKOU
16-20 February 2026 3-7pm daily Lito Apostolakou works across drawing, moving image and installation, combining works on paper with animation and film, and creating small and large-scale installations, often outside traditional gallery spaces. Lito’s research-based practice is shaped by a fascination with in-between places where the imagined and the physical overlap. Water often recurs both as a motif and a point of reference in her work. Constantly shifting and immersive, it embodies a condition of flux. Neither fixed nor…
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CRYPT RESIDENCY FEBRUARY 2026: NOLS NATHANKSKI
OPEN CALL TO POETS! MAKE POETRY WEIRD AGAIN PRESENTS PENANCE RESIDENCY @ THE CRYPT GALLERY, LONDON. We are very excited to announce that we will be having our first PENANCE residency at the historic Crypt gallery in London. FREE ENTRY FOR ALL. By appointment or between 3-7pm! All poets that make poems under Penance conditions will have completed A poetry ‘residency’ and will receive an email confirmation of the same. There will be Penance prompts for all who attend to…
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CRYPT RESIDENCY FEBRUARY 2026: Pid’or Tampa
16-20 February 2026 Open: 3-7 daily Pid’or Tampa: Writer & Director of Eyes See Song interdisciplinary theatre show About the show: A show about how we can move through trauma within the safety of friendship. With irresistible energy and magnetic charm, characters Matty, Lala, Laure, Wrinkles, Z, and Chlo remind us healing is never a solo act. It’s messy, communal, vulnerable, and profoundly human. These women call us into their circle — into song, dance, movement, breathwork, and collective release —…
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HOLD SPACE POETRY FESTIVAL
The Crypt Gallery & Make Poetry Weird Again present HOLD SPACE FESTIVAL Seven days of experimental poetry in a Church of England crypt during Holy Week Venue: The Crypt Gallery, 165 Euston Road, London NW1 2BA Dates: 1–7 April 2026 · Holy Week Entry: Free throughout · Workshops free with booking Presented by: The Crypt Gallery & Make Poetry Weird Again Make Poetry Weird Again will take up residence at The Crypt Gallery for seven consecutive days…
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CRYPT RESIDENCY 2026: Maurice Andresen
20-23 August 2026 Gallery open 1-5pm daily Maurice Andresen presents Object Agency, an ongoing, ever-growing project that revolves around a fictional government agency which maintains equilibrium between the corporeal and the ethereal. In its current form, the project takes shape as an interactive video game world. The project’s inception took the form of exhibitions, club nights and ritual workshops based around virtual recreations of derelict, disused and under-appreciated urban environments in Glasgow. Filling these virtual approximations with digital creatures…
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CRYPT RESIDENCY 2026: Özgül Arslan & Gözde Altun
CRYPT RESIDENCY 2026 Özgül Arslan & Gözde Altun Site-Specific: A State of Becoming 20-23 August 2026 Gallery open 1-5pm daily During the residency at The Crypt Gallery, artist Özgül Arslan and curator Gözde Altun will work together to develop a site-specific project shaped by the space itself. Through ongoing dialogue, observation and experimentation, they will explore how the gallery’s architecture, light, airflow, surfaces and atmosphere can become part of the creative process. Arslan will work with large scale paper and…
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CRYPT RESIDENCY 2026: HOLLIE MILLER & SAMANTHA SWEETING
20-23 August 2026 Gallery open 1-5pm daily This proposal is for a new collaborative project between performance artists Hollie Miller and Samantha Sweeting who make work about the female body politics through a mythological framework, and who have both recently become mothers. They are interested in exploring the space of The Crypt Gallery through the open framework of Womb/ Tomb to capture imagery of birth/ death/ rebirth cycles. Image credits Hollie Miller, Splitting and Doubling (2026) WIP Samantha Sweeting, La…
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RESIDENCY 2026: FRANCIS SOLVEZ-WILSHAW
20-23 August 2026 Gallery open 1-5pm daily Instagram: @francisolvezwilshawartist Website: www.francisolvez-wilshaw.com During my residency at the Crypt Gallery, I will explore the relationship between sound, moving image and the architecture of the crypt. My practice is concerned with memory, ritual, labour, power, environmental catastrophe within the complexities of my mixed Filipino–English identity. Often bringing personal experience, cultural histories and contrasting environments into dialogue. I will develop a new video collage using Super 8 footage filmed during my most recent visit…
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