Open now
18 Sep — 14 Dec 2026
After the Noise
Ilse Hartmann returns with a decade of ceramics and graphite, plus a new sound installation made in her Berlin studio.
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Est. 2009 · Foundry Quarter
Where modern art stays unfinished.
Meridian Contemporary is an independent gallery for painting, sculpture and moving image. Four floors of rotating exhibitions, forty-two represented artists, and a viewing room built for slow looking.
The Gallery
A room designed around the work — never the other way around.
We took a 1920s iron foundry and kept almost everything: the concrete, the overhead gantries, the north light. What we added are four galleries, a print room and a courtyard café, all steps from the river.
- Twelve exhibitions a year — a new hang in every hall, every ten weeks.
- Free admission, always. Ticketed previews and private viewings on request.
- Artist-led talks every Thursday evening, recorded and archived online.
Galleries4 floors
Featured Exhibition
Exhibition Details
After the Noise
Nine years of work by ceramicist and painter Ilse Hartmann, brought together for the first time. Glazed stoneware vessels, oversized graphite panels and a single sound piece recorded in her studio at dawn.
Dates18 Sep — 14 Dec
HallB · Lower
Works68 pieces
Now on view
What's On
Three shows, three rooms, one afternoon.
Every season we pair a solo presentation with a group show and something from the archive, so there is always more than one way through the building.
Open now
Open now
02 Oct — 22 Nov 2026
Second Nature
A group show of six painters asking what landscape means once the landscape is a photograph. Works by Okonjo, Vale, Reyes and others.
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From 09 Jan
09 Jan — 29 Mar 2027
Foundry 1926
Drawn entirely from the building's own archive — photographs, casting moulds and drawings from the years it made iron, not art.
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Collection Highlights
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Twelve walls, three hundred works, no wrong turn.
Visitors & Collectors
What people say after they leave.
★★★★★"The Hartmann show is genuinely the best thing I've seen this year. The lower hall is lit so carefully you can read every glaze."
Nadia FerreiraCollector, Lisbon
★★★★★"I bought my first piece here. No pressure, no theatre — just someone who knew the artist's whole career and told me why it mattered."
Tom AlderidgeFirst-time buyer
★★★★★"We bring every visiting curator to Meridian. The hang is fearless and the archive room alone is worth the trip."
Dr. Sofia LindqvistCurator, Nordhavn Kunsthal
Plan Your Visit
Directions & Access
Free entry, seven days, ten minutes from the river.
Open Today
Foundry Quarter, 14 Kiln Street
Gallery hoursTue–Sun · 10:00 — 18:00
Late ThursdaysUntil 21:00, with artist talks at 18:30
AdmissionFree · Previews from £12
Getting hereMetro Line 3 — Foundry Yard, 4 min walk
AccessStep-free throughout · Lift to all halls
Meridian Letter
First look at every new show, one email a month.
Private view invitations, new acquisitions and studio visits — sent before anything is announced publicly. No more than twelve emails a year.
