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Welcome to Ben Uri
WE CELEBRATE, RESEARCH AND RECORD THE RICHLY DIVERSE JEWISH, REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT CONTRIBUTION TO BRITISH VISUAL CULTURAL SINCE 1900
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The Jewish, refugee and immigrant contribution to British visual culture since 1900
BEN URI is a leading, distinctive and focussed digital resource enhancing its vibrant gallery programming in St. John’s Wood, North West London.
This expansive digital platform is designed to be the, and your, first stop for profile and biographical information on Jewish, refugee and immigrant artists, designers, dealers and scholars who have made significant contributions to the rich and diverse British cultural mosaic.
The Ben Uri Research Unit, founded in 2018 consolidating 15 years work in the field, is the engine of the museum’s overall impact.
You will find this information presented through:
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950 Collection works, over 25% by women, all fully digitised and searchable
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700 researched profiles on refugee and immigrant contributors to British arts since 1900
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400 profiles on refugee and immigrant artists from 40 different countries of birth in our Collection
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180 videos and 70 podcasts
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60 essays and catalogues
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50 online exhibitions with explanatory notes
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10,000 pages of fully searchable archives since 1914 including 400 archive exhibitions since 1925
You will also find a full range of traditional departments and current activities listed and regularly updated.
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READ OUR LATEST NEWS
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BURU Announces the New Academic Steering Committee
Professor Burcu Dogramaci , Munich University Professor Dorothy Price , Courtauld Institute of Art Dr Tom Stammers , Durham University Ariela Braunschweig, MA , Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project Foundation... -
BU launches guide on Bloomberg Connect
Ben Uri launches new digital guide to Enrich Both Onsite and Offsite Visits The free guide joins more than 100 cultural institutions around the globe on the Bloomberg... -
BU 2023 exhibiting in London, the UK, Europe, the USA and via benuri.org globally
Ben Uri’s digital programme offers a huge range of options on, and through, benuri.org . September 2022, Ben Uri was honoured to be invited to join the exclusive World Art... -
BU elected to the World Art Foundations
18 October 2022Ben Uri is honoured to have been elected into the world art foundations association. Chairman David Glasser attended their recent conference in Milan and he reported “It was one of... -
BU tours Chagall across Europe
16 October 2022More details soon.
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3D Exhibitions
3D VIRTUAL GALLERIES In each exhibition you can navigate your journey through replica virtual galleries, enjoying an authentic exhibition experience. This unique digital perspective allows the artwork to be seen... -
Art-exit 1939: A Very Different Europe
Adler, Chagall, Bloch, Auerbach, Daghani, Feibusch and otherThis exhibition shines a spotlight on a very different Europe in 1939 and the forced journeys made by many of Central Europe’s most distinguished, talented and pioneering artists, who escaped... -
Marc Chagall
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Jankel Adler
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Whitechapel at War: Isaac Rosenberg and his Circle
CatalogueWhitechapel at War: Isaac Rosenberg and his Circle is the first book for almost 20 years to focus on the visual work of poet-painter Isaac Rosenberg. It is also the... -
Becoming Gustav Metzger
Uncovering the Early Years, 1945-59Becoming Gustav Metzger: Uncovering the Early Years, 1945-59 accompanies the first museum exhibition to exclusively examine the little-known formative years of refugee artist and activist Gustav Metzger prior to the... -
DAVID BOMBERG'S 'GHETTO THEATRE' I
In 'Uproar! The First 50 Years of the London Group' exhibition 20 May 2014Sarah MacDougall, curator of Uproar!': The First Fifty Years of The London Group 1913-1963, which was held between 1st November 2013 — 2nd March 2014, discusses David Bomberg's Ghetto Theatre... -
OUT OF CHAOS:PRIVATE VIEW, BEN URI CENTENARY CELEBRATION
Exhibition Openings: Opening Nights and Private Viewings of BU Exhibitions 11 September 2015A private viewing of the Ben Uri exhibition, Out of Chaos at Somerset house as part of Ben Uri's 100th anniversary. -
Jacob Epstein
Bust of Jacob Kramer, 1921bronze
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Jankel Adler
Mother and Child II, 1941oil on canvas
78.1 x 57.1 cm -
Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid
Yalta 1945 (1)121.92 x 121.92 -
Zory Shahrokhi
Revolution Street 2fabric, charcoal and soft pastel on paper
57 x 82.5
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