London Museums Partner with Serendipity Arts for South Asian Festival in 2027
Scheduled for 19-27 June 2027, the Serendipity Arts Festival London will be spearheaded by six female curators. This festival will showcase a variety of disciplines, including visual arts, music, dance, new media, and culinary experiences, with contributions from artists hailing from India and its diaspora. Notable partners for the event include the Victoria and Albert Museum, Science Museum, Natural History Museum, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Geographical Society, Royal College of Art, and Royal College of Music, in association with Imperial College's Great Exhibition Road Festival. The curatorial team comprises Veeranganakumari Solanki, Nancy Adajania, Latika Gupta, Preethi Athreya, Sneha Khanwalkar, and Elizabeth Yorke. The festival aims to celebrate the diversity of London and will build upon the previous Serendipity Arts event in Goa. Additional program details will be revealed later.
Key facts
- Serendipity Arts Festival London runs 19-27 June 2027 across Exhibition Road and South Kensington
- Partners include the V&A, Science Museum, Natural History Museum, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Geographical Society, RCA and Royal College of Music
- The festival is in partnership with the Great Exhibition Road Festival led by Imperial College
- Six women curators were appointed across new media, visual arts, dance, music and culinary arts
- Serendipity Arts' Goa festival marked its tenth anniversary in 2025 and has drawn over one million visitors since 2016
- The V&A will stage South Asia Now: Fashion. Art. Design. at V&A East in spring 2027 and reopen its South Asia Gallery in 2028
- The Royal Geographical Society will mount an exhibition drawn from its Indian subcontinent collections
- The Natural History Museum brings Wildlife Photographer of the Year to the Goa festival in December
Entities
Artists
- Shefali Munjal
- Veeranganakumari Solanki
- Nancy Adajania
- Latika Gupta
- Preethi Athreya
- Sneha Khanwalkar
- Elizabeth Yorke
- Kristian Volsing
- Joe Smith
Institutions
- Serendipity Arts
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- V&A South Kensington
- V&A East
- Science Museum
- Natural History Museum
- Royal Albert Hall
- Royal Geographical Society
- Royal College of Art
- Royal College of Music
- Imperial College
- Great Exhibition Road Festival
- National Pavilion of India
- Venice Biennale
- Rencontres d'Arles
- Centre national des arts plastiques
- The Art Newspaper
- Imperial College London
- V&A
- Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
Locations
- London
- United Kingdom
- South Kensington
- Exhibition Road
- Goa
- India
- Venice
- Italy
- Arles
- France
- Paris