Art Night is a biannual contemporary art festival presenting ambitious work by artists at pivotal moments in their career. Developing within towns, villages and cities across the country, Art Night takes place in public spaces and civic buildings. The festival is free and everyone is welcome. We are rooted in the communities we work within and work in partnership with local organisations to both enrich existing work and bring meaningful new experiences to a wide range of audiences.
Their model, as a national and biannual festival, takes place in towns, villages and cities in the UK. They champion the possibilities of decentralisation, working within communities to write their own narratives. We partner with local organisations to ensure our programme is rooted in place and they present critically excellent and experimental work by artists.
Art Night is an intersectional organisation: They are committed to diversity in all areas of our work including who runs the organisation, our artists, board, stakeholders and communities. We are particularly focussed on accessibility and work hard to ensure Disability is considered across all elements of the festival.
28 June 2023 • Mark Westall
Art Night made its debut in Dundee on Saturday, marking its first expansion beyond London. The event proved to be a tremendous success for both Dundee and Art Night,
21 June 2023 • Mark Westall
In 2023, internationally renowned contemporary art festival Art Night will deliver its first full iteration in a city outside London… Read More
6 April 2023 • Mark Westall
In 2023, internationally renowned contemporary art festival Art Night will deliver its first full iteration in a city outside London – Dundee.
10 January 2023 • Mark Westall
In 2023, the internationally renowned contemporary art festival Art Night will deliver its first full iteration in a city outside… Read More
20 October 2022 • Mark Westall
Museum of London today announced that iconic London venue fabric will become the world’s first nightclub-in-residence.
11 August 2022 • Mark Westall
Art Night and the Museum of London are pleased to announce the presentation of a new performance commission by Tai… Read More
18 June 2021 • Mark Westall
Anonymous U.S feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls today unveil a series of large scale billboards across the UK, in iconic locations from outside the Glasgow Barrowlands, and at London Bridge, to countryside locations and seaside towns from 18th June to 18th July 2021.
6 April 2021 • Mark Westall
Art Night, London’s favourite contemporary art festival, will celebrate its fifth edition by taking place in 10 locations across the United Kingdom for the first time this summer.
17 October 2019 • Mark Westall
Launching next week: new public art commission by Eyal Granit (b.1979) to remain on the building façade of New Covent Garden Market in London for a year, as part of new three-year initiative.
21 June 2019 • Staff
Art Night returns this year for it’s fourth run in Walthamstow and King’s Cross. This year differs to the last in that Walthamstow was awarded the first London Borough of Culture. The festival shall run on Saturday 22nd of June, starting around 7pm and finishing around 3am.
19 March 2019 • Mark Westall
Curated by Helen Nisbet — her first edition as Art Night’s Artistic Director — the programme will take place on the night of 22 June 2019, beginning at 5.00pm in King’s Cross and 7.00pm in Walthamstow, and running throughout the night
23 November 2018 • Mark Westall
The Art Night Open programme invites London’s artistic community to participate in the festival with proposals of projects in response to the 2019 curatorial themes.
30 October 2018 • Mark Westall
Art Night, London’s largest free contemporary art festival, will run in June 2019 in two core locations: Walthamstow and King’s Cross. The fourth edition will be taking place in extraordinary and unusual public spaces from 6.00pm into the early hours of Sunday.
10 July 2018 • Staff
This week I gave my undivided attention to Art Night, because who wouldn’t?
6 July 2018 • Mark Westall
Random International have a new art installation located next to St James’ Merano Residences a new residential building designed by… Read More
5 July 2018 • Staff
Art Night is almost upon us! On Saturday 7 July I intend on spending 12 hours walking around the South Bank, Vauxhall and Nine Elms to see the incredible projects and installations on show. In true me fashion, I have already created a schedule (not too dissimilar from the arduous task of organising set times for festivals) and will be sharing my trail and thoughts in my usual column.
18 January 2018 • Mark Westall
Applications to be part of Art Night 2018 are now open.
12 November 2017 • Mark Westall
Hayward Gallery and Art Night are hooking up to produce London’s largest free contemporary arts festival on Saturday 7 July 2018.
20 August 2017 • Mark Westall
Art Night, one of the UK’s largest free arts festivals, took place across east London on Saturday 1 July, attracting over 75,000 visitors.
30 June 2017 • Mark Westall
You wait ages for a decent VR art exhibition then three come along all at once!
15 June 2017 • Mark Westall
Bompas & Parr will unveil ‘Organs of London’ as part of the Art Night Associate Programme on the 1st July 2017
5 April 2017 • Mark Westall
Art Night will activate various historic and iconic sites, secret locations and public spaces throughout the East End.
27 June 2016 • Mark Westall
Art Night is a new annual contemporary arts festival that will transform London for one night only. Expect large-scale art installations and performances across Westminster.
