Based in the heart of London, Delfina Foundation is an independent, non-profit foundation dedicated to facilitating artistic exchange and developing creative practice through residencies, partnerships and public programming.
Founded in 2007, Delfina Foundation promotes artistic exchange and experimentation. We create opportunities for emerging and established artists, curators and writers to reflect on what they do, position their practice within relevant global discourse, create career-defining research and commissions, and network with colleagues. We forge international collaborations to build shared platforms to incubate, to present and to discuss common practices and themes.
In January 2014, Delfina expanded into an adjacent building at 31 Catherine Place in central London, becoming London’s largest provider of international residencies for artists, creative practitioners, and collectors.
Delfina Foundation is a non-political and non-grant-making foundation.
9 June 2023 • Mark Westall
For their first exhibition in nearly three years, Delfina Foundation will present the first European solo exhibition by its former… Read More
12 January 2021 • Mark Westall
Delfina Foundation in partnership with the Horniman Museum and Gardens is delighted to announce an open call for a UK-based… Read More
16 December 2019 • Irene Machetti
Delfina Foundation recently launched its new publication Politics of Food, which gathers together research dating back to the origins of the foundation itself.
8 May 2019 • Irene Machetti
Ex-Delfina Resident Asunción Molinos Gordo explores the inequalities inherent in the global food system in her first UK solo exhibition Accumulation by Dispossession. Curated by Dani Burrows.
18 November 2018 • Tabish Khan
Lie on a bed, landscapes break apart, Croydon, what we hang in our homes, a petrol station, a car crash and motherhood.
1 August 2018 • Mark Westall
Delfina Foundation announces the London premiere of The Scar, a fiction film installation by London and Istanbul based artists Noor Afshan Mirza and Brad Butler.
29 October 2017 • Tabish Khan
Suicide vests, robots, eroticism, eggs, hands, Rodin, a shopping centre and surreal landscapes.
27 September 2016 • Staff
The Most Interesting Art Events ‘ to see in London this week.
7 June 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 5 includes food, fairytales, post-it notes, sunflowers and weightlifters
16 February 2015 • Staff
For his first UK solo exhibition Ecuadorian artist Oscar Santillan will make England 1cm shorter.
3 February 2014 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan brings you five art exhibitions in London that you should visit during the week. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you.
24 January 2014 • Mark Westall
Art Pics: The Politics of Food @Delfina Foundation
15 January 2014 • Mark Westall
Raed Yassin, ‘Self-Portrait with Foreign Fruits and Vegetables’, 2012. Courtesy of Kalfayan Galleries, Athens – Thessaloniki. Inaugural Exhibition and Residency… Read More
14 October 2013 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan brings you five art exhibitions in London that you should visit during the week. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you.
24 July 2012 • Mark Westall
Delfina Foundation have announced London-based Studio Octopi and Cairo-based Shahira Fahmy Architects are the winning duo of an architecture competition… Read More
24 January 2011 • Mark Westall
This March Art Dubai Projects, a programme of films, talks, radio dispatches and performances, will feature the work of more than 75 artists commissioned to create interactive works in response to the fair.
