ART & CULTURE: WHAT'S NOT TO BE MISSED IN MARCH?
- Cornelia Falknäs
- Feb 27
- 6 min read
La Fomo is your go-to place for discovering unique events and venues beyond the mainstream. In collaboration with Shoreditch Arts Club and curated exclusively for its members, we have listed the Top 10 events on our radar for March, so keep reading to find out what we think you really shouldn’t miss this month. And if you like our list, we have good news for you!
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EXHIBITION
LEIGH BOWERY!
TATE MODERN
Southwark I 27 February to 31 August
Leigh Bowery’s short but extraordinary life left a distinct, undeniable mark on the art world and beyond. From his emergence in the nightlife of 1980s London through to his later daring and outrageous performances in galleries, theatres, and the street, Bowery fearlessly forged his own vibrant path. He reimagined clothing and makeup as forms of painting and sculpture, tested the limits of decorum, and celebrated the body as a shape-shifting tool with the power to challenge norms of aesthetics, sexuality and gender.
Embracing performance, club culture and fashion design, Bowery created some of the most iconic images of the 1980s and 90s that continue to resonate. This eclectic and immersive exhibition is a rare chance to experience many of Bowery’s ‘Looks’, and will provide a fresh insight into the creative scenes in London, New York and beyond. Moving from the club to the stage, to the gallery and beyond, step inside Bowery’s dynamic creative world that blurred the lines between art and life.
Find out more and book tickets here.
TALK
TALK
MAXIMUM EVERYTHING: EXCESS AND (UN)RESPECTABILITY IN CLUB PERFORMANCE
TATE MODERN
Southwark | 1 March 14:00 - 16:00
As part of the Leigh Bowery! exhibition, this talk delves into how nightclubs have provided vital space for artists to make transgressive performance art. Dr Phoebe Patey-Ferguson hosts a conversation with artists Kazuko Hohki, Rose Cory and Tamm Reynolds. Together they explore excess in queer and feminist counter-culture and performance.
Maximum Everything is offered as part of Acceptable at the Time?, a day exploring the bold ideas embodied by the lives and practices of Leigh Bowery and Helen Chadwick.
All information and tickets here.
EXHIBITION
DEUTSCHE BÖRSE PHOTOGRAPHY FOUNDATION PRIZE 2025
THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S GALLERY
Oxford Circus | 7 March to 15 June
This long-standing annual Prize, originally established in 1996, is one of the most important international awards for contemporary photographers. The Prize spotlights outstanding, innovative and thought-provoking work by artists whose exhibitions or books have made a significant contribution to photography over the past year.
The exhibition features work by the four shortlisted artists, including documentary photography, constructed images, self-portraiture, performance and family archives. Themes of migration, community and belonging, intergenerational traditions and rituals, family memories and histories are brought together in this powerful shortlist.
Find out more and book your tickets here.
Left image: by Rahim Fortune I Right image: by Lindokuhle Sobekwa
FILM
PRINCES CHARLES CINEMA: FOCUSING ON FEMALE FILMMAKERS
PRINCE CHARLES CINEMA
Leicester Square I 28 February to 16 April
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema is putting on a season with female filmmakers in focus throughout March and the first half of April. A treat for all cinephiles, and an opportunity for everyone to indulge in cult classics on the big screen, the season will feature films new and old, with the earliest one released in 1966 and the newest in 2024. On 8 March, for example, they're screening Beau Travail, Bound, The Matrix, and Lost In Translation, just to name a few.
See the full programme and get tickets here.
EXHIBITION
TRANSCESTRY: 10 YEARS OF THE MUSEUM OF TRANSOLOGY
LETHABY GALLERY
Kings Cross I 11 March to 11 May
This groundbreaking exhibition marks a decade of community collecting by the Museum of Transology – home to the world’s biggest collection of objects and stories celebrating trans, non-binary, and intersex lives.
Driven by community collaboration, this milestone exhibition is the largest exhibition of its kind showcasing over 1,000 personal artefacts donated by more than 1,000 members of the community from across the UK and Ireland. TRANSCESTRY amplifies underrepresented, and often forgotten, stories from the trans community, and celebrates resilience, identity and creativity.
Find all details here.
FILM FESTIVAL
BFI FLARE: LONDON LGBTQIA+ FILM FESTIVAL
BFI SOUTHBANK
Waterloo I 19 March to 30 March
BFI Flare, the British Film Institute's annual LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, and a celebration of queer cinema, is soon returning to BFI Southbank for its 39th edition. Between the 19 and 30 March you will be able to see some of the best LGBTQIA+ cinema from around the world and enjoy special events such as DJ nights, filmmaker talks, workshops, and panel discussions.
Tickets are now live, and they go quickly, so don't wait too long before securing yours! You can see the full programme and book your tickets here, and of course, we've curated a list with our recommendations and highlights to make it a bit easier for you when deciding what to book. Read it here!
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE
SHUE LEA CHEANG AND DONDON HOUNWN: HAGAY DREAMING
TATE MODERN
Southwark | 13 March to 15 March
Experience this theatrical performance drawing together ancient myths with futuristic technologies. Through dance, movement, instrumentals, ritual and chant, Hagay Dreaming recounts a story based on an ancient legend connected to the Truku indigenous culture of Taiwan. On stage, performers move within intricate light beams projected by a choreography of lasers.
This new theatrical production is an artistic collaboration by Taiwanese-American artist Shu Lea Cheang and indigenous performance artist and practicing shaman Dondon Hounwn. Connecting Cheang’s new media practice with Hounwn’s inheritance of tribal ballads and rituals, Hagay Dreaming combines advanced technologies with traditional ways of performing tribal culture.
Shu Lea Cheang often creates sci-fi narratives and in Hagay Dreaming the pair present an artistic vision for a future reality based on the ‘Gaya’ living principle of the Truku people. For them, Gaya is a spiritual world that is everywhere and everything, in which all living creatures are understood as connected and non-binary.
Find out more and book your tickets here.
EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE
THE JUDGEMENT HALL FESTIVAL
ST BARNABAS CHURCH & ALGHA'S PLANTROOM
Dalston & Hackney Wick I 15 March to 16 March
The Judgement Hall Festival returns, as an underground movement in London and a pocket of resistance in the age of surveillance capitalism, bringing you two days of avant-garde heavy music, cinematography and performing arts with a focus on site-specific performances. They will enter the Neo Byzantine chamber of St Barnabas Church, alongside the Second World War Heritage Site Algha’s Plantroom. To mark the occasion, they present to you their heaviest ever curation of special one-off performances.
See the line-up and get your tickets here.
FESTIVAL & CONFERENCE
AVA LONDON
VARIOUS VENUES
20 March to 22 March
AVA London is the leading music, culture, visual-arts festival and conference in the UK. They bring together innovators and the brightest minds to push the boundaries of contemporary culture – in the world’s biggest cultural capital. Their eighth edition will present a three-day and night programme of keynote lectures, masterclasses, raves & cutting-edge live shows at the forefront of contemporary culture and nightlife.
This year, their programme includes FKA twigs as a guest in a live podcast hosted at The British Library, horsegiirL in conversation, Munroe Bergdof hosting a session titled Re-Queering Dancefloors, and a keynote lecture by Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker which tells the story on how he used to be "afraid of nature".
Discover the full programme and get your tickets here.
Image: FKA twigs via AVA.
EXPERIMENTAL ART
FUTUR.SHOCK CHAPTER THREE "ABYSSAL"
FOLD
Canning Town I 20 March 19:00 - 00:00
FOLD nightclub's experimental art platform returns with Chapter Three of its fourth season, titled “Abyssal”. The evening merges experimental live performances, cutting-edge club sounds, and evocative visual art, delivering a boundary-pushing, multi-sensory experience.
This chapter invites you to step into the "unthinkable," exploring the human and non-human worlds through a political lens. It offers a Dionysian experience of collective musical catharsis—destruction as a pathway to creation—unfolding as a dark, multi-sensory journey that confronts the absurd foundations of existence in search of meaning. The night features four boundary-breaking acts that push musical and performance experimentation.
Tickets are selling fast and are already down to the final release, so make sure to secure yours quickly to not miss out. You can find them, and more information, here.
And if you're interested to know more about Futur.Shock and its concept of intersecting experimental art and nightlife, read our interview with their founder Karolina Magnusson Murray here.
