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Yuko Mohri

YUKO MOHRI

Yuko Mohri: In Concert Barbican 1 October 2026–24 January 2027 London
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Japanese artist Yuko Mohri transforms The Curve with a new site-responsive commission exploring states of flux and acts of repair via light, sound and kinetic sculpture featuring Barbican objects.

Mohri’s practice is grounded in DIY aesthetics, surrealist assemblage, experimental music and an enduring fascination with the flow of energy. Her sculptures often combine ordinary objects—from umbrellas to feather dusters, apples to xylophones—with what she terms ‘unstable elements’, including magnetism, humidity, air, water and gravity.

Mohri’s continuously transforming installation will respond to the gallery’s atmospheric conditions, and explore ideas of entropy, transience and renewal resonating with the Barbican’s current period of renovation.

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Exhibition view: Yuko Mohri, Yuko Mohri: In Concert, Barbican (10/1/2026–24 January 2027). Courtesy Barbican.
About the Artist

Yuko Mohri is an installation artist. Her kinetic sculptures, using reconfigured everyday objects and machine parts, highlight various facets coming from the encounter between objects and invisible energies such as magnetism, gravity, wind, or light. She authorises uncontrollable and nonhuman elements to conduct within their networks, which are often compared to a self-contained ‘ecosystem’, incessantly channeling the surrounding environment.

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About the Gallery

The Barbican is a world-renowned arts and learning hub in the City of London, celebrated for its striking Brutalist architecture and multidisciplinary programming. Opened in 1982 as part of the larger Barbican Estate, it has become a cultural landmark, bringing together visual arts, music, theatre, dance, film, and education under one roof.

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Bank Holidays, 12 – 11pm
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London Barbican Centre, Silk Street
Barbican contemporary art institution in London United Kingdom
Barbican
Silk Street, London, United Kingdom
http://www.barbican.org.uk

Opening hours
Monday – Sunday, 9.30am – 11pm
Bank Holidays, 12 – 11pm
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