V&A East Museum Commission, London
On view from 18 April 2026
V&A East’s new six-monthly rotating creative commissions programme, New Work champions a range of local and global artists, designers and community collaborators who are shaping contemporary culture today. Responding to the theme, Making East London the commissions explore new ideas and pathways for creativity and address the urgent social, cultural, and political issues of our timeand will be displayed across V&A East’s two sites – V&A East Museum and Storehouse.
New Work: Making East London invites artists Tania Bruguera, Es Devlin, Lawrence Lek, Rene Matić, Shahed Saleem, Justinien Tribillon, Carrie Mae Weems, and Laura Wilson to reflect on east London’s layered histories and creative futures. Their works explore east London as a site of global influence, recovery, cross cultural exchange and creative production – drawing on its people, histories, materials, ecosystems, and beyond, to bring new perspectives on the areas surrounding V&A East Museum and Storehouse.