Book tickets
Join us to celebrate the launch of Fantasy, the first monograph dedicated to the work of French artist Julie Béna.
Featuring contributions by Michal Novotný, Silvia Franceschini, Eva Barois de Caevel, Laura Herman, Rose English, and Nicoletta Lambertucci, the book explores over twenty years of Béna’s artistic practice, from early site-specific performances and post-conceptual gestures, to the development of theatrical alter egos through narrative sculptures, subversive performative acts, and moving-image works.
This event will feature an exclusive screening of Béna’s film STRAKATI (2022), followed by an in-conversation between Nicoletta Lambertucci and the artist.
Tickets are £10, or £25 with a discounted copy of the book when purchased in advance.
Featuring contributions by Michal Novotný, Silvia Franceschini, Eva Barois de Caevel, Laura Herman, Rose English, and Nicoletta Lambertucci, the book explores over twenty years of Béna’s artistic practice, from early site-specific performances and post-conceptual gestures, to the development of theatrical alter egos through narrative sculptures, subversive performative acts, and moving-image works.
This event will feature an exclusive screening of Béna’s film STRAKATI (2022), followed by an in-conversation between Nicoletta Lambertucci and the artist.
Tickets are £10, or £25 with a discounted copy of the book when purchased in advance.
Bios
Nicoletta Lambertucci is a curator based in London. Since January 2024, she has worked at Tate as Curator of Modern and Contemporary British Art. From 2017 to 2023, she served as the inaugural Contemporary Art Curator at The Box, Plymouth. She played a pivotal role in overseeing its opening in 2020 and led numerous significant acquisitions, commissions, and exhibitions, including solo shows by Leonor Antunes, Sue Williamson, and John Akomfrah.
Julie Béna lives and works between Prague and Paris. Heir to a childhood spent in a travelling theatre and an adolescence as an actress, Julie Béna’s reflections are nourished and inspired by theatre and literature as well as popular culture. Through a work that mixes performance, sculpture, cinema and installation, Julie Béna summons imagery and everyday concerns that she makes her own through stagings, transforming them into subjects of fictions that are sometimes poetic, romantic or epic. Fantasy is her first monograph.
Book tickets
06:45 pm
Wed, 05 Nov 2025
Cinema 1
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Cinema 1
- Both our Cinemas have step free access from The Mall and are accessible by ramp
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- All seats are hard back, have a crushed velvet feel and they do not recline
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Nicoletta Lambertucci
Julie Béna
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