The Eastern City BID is bringing empty spaces back into use by transforming vacant units into places for art, activity, and public life. In partnership with Hypha Studios, Eastern City BID unveils Hypha x Eastern City Studios – a space that will showcase a series of exhibitions from emerging artists alongside a programme of events spanning family, sport, music, culture, environment, health and wellbeing, bringing new energy to the ground floor in the Eastern City.

(UN)SEEN, curated by Zoë Goetzmann, brings together 21 contemporary artists whose practices explore the deeply personal threshold between the seen and unseen, through which artists choose what to reveal to audiences at the new gallery location. Through painting, sculpture, and interdisciplinary approaches, the exhibition examines the quiet tension between what is revealed and what remains intentionally withheld, positioning perception as both a visual and psychological encounter.

Emerging from an interest in tracing the familiar and unfamiliar, (UN)SEEN considers how artists navigate the threshold where abstraction and figuration coexist. Gesture, process, and material operate as sites of disclosure, revealing traces of choice, control, and freedom while simultaneously resisting fixed interpretation. Each work exists within a delicate balance between presence and absence, inviting viewers to confront the limits of perception and knowledge.

Tracing a lineage from nineteenth-century representational painting through Surrealism and into contemporary abstraction, the exhibition situates perception as fluid and evolving. Artists continue to negotiate visibility through material experimentation, symbolic language, and abstraction, allowing meaning to emerge gradually through sustained encounter.

(UN)SEEN is not simply concerned with providing visibility to emerging artists, but transcends disciplines, genres, and gender. Bringing together diverse artistic voices across painting, sculpture, installation, design, expanded and project-based practices, the exhibition foregrounds the plurality of contemporary artistic production.

This initiative is delivered in partnership with Hypha Studios, Eastern City BID, Aviva Investors and CO-RE, working together to activate vacant spaces and bring new experiences to the City.

Open: 10th April – 16th May 2026 on Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm (closed from 2.15 – 3pm).

Location: 130 Fenchurch Street, London EC3M 5LY

Artists:

Abbie Griffiths, Adrián Coto, Anna Kolosova, Cas Campbell, Claudia Pang, Ekaterina Adelskaya, Emily Hana, Elena Unger, Epona, Elina Yumasheva, Ewelina Skowronska, Hannah Kline, Hannah Shillito, Hugo Lami, Joonhong Ming, Karolina Dworska, Lucie Davis, Mingzhang Sun, Paul Doherty, Olivia Foster, Taya De La Cruz