DON'T MISS! Our current exhibition 'That Large Ghost'. Selected egg tempera works by Brian Catling. Curated by Jack Catling. Open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm, Saturdays 12pm-5pm until Friday 17 July 2026: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/that-...

Today at @swedenborghouse.bsky.social beautiful selection of egg tempera paintings by Brian Catling.

"..solo exhibition of egg tempera paintings by Brian Catling RA (1948–2022), bringing together a selection of paintings from the final decades of Catling’s life which inscribe his sustained interest in image-making." ‘THAT LARGE GHOST’ at Swedenborg House Gallery 19 June–17 July shorturl.at/BpoLA

Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944) learned of Swedenborg through Swedish writer & painter August Strindberg (1840-1912). Strindberg, in turn noted that Munch’s paintings “recall the visions of Swedenborg.” Image: 'The Sun', Edvard Munch, 1912, Munchmuseet.

Please join us at Swedenborg House on Monday 13 July 6.30pm-9pm (doors open 6pm) for 'BLAKE, GINSBERG & “AH! SUNFLOWER”: FILM, MUSIC & CONVERSATION'. FREE (£5 admin fee including a FREE copy of 'AH!MERICA' by ISOLARII). BOOKING ESSENTIAL: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/film-...

Please join us at Swedenborg House on Tuesday 14 July 6.30pm-9pm (doors open 6pm) for 'UK PREMIERE: ‘OUTRIDER’ WITH Q&A'. FREE (£5 admin fee). BOOKING ESSENTIAL: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/uk-pr... Image: “Anne Waldman, Union Square Warhol Factory” — photo by Gerard Malanga, 1970.

Please join us at Swedenborg House on Thursday 23 April 6pm-9pm for the private view of our upcoming exhibition 'THE EVERYWORLD - Redux' by Andrew and Eden Kötting. All welcome, but please confirm attendance via: https://www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/the-everyworld-redux/

Installing our new exhibition, ’THE EVERYWORLD – REDUX'! Opening Friday 24 April. For more information, please visit: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/the-e...

Please join us at Swedenborg House on Saturday 25 April 12pm-2pm & 3pm-5pm for 'THE EVERYWORLD – REDUX: MEET THE ARTISTS.' Father and daughter duo Andrew and Eden Kötting have made work together for twenty years. FREE (no booking required). www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/the-e...

Please join us at Swedenborg House on Thursday 23 April 6pm-9pm for the private view of our upcoming exhibition 'THE EVERYWORLD - Redux'. All welcome, but please confirm attendance via: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/the-e... .

Please join us at Swedenborg House on Saturday 30 May 7pm-9pm (doors open 6.30pm) for 'THE EVERYWORLD – REDUX: THE MEMORY BLOCKS (SCREENING AND CONVERSATION)'. For more information and to book your FREE place please visit: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/the-e...

Novelist Chloe Aridjis, previous writer in residence at Swedenborg House, has a new piece in the Financial Times. Read 'The perfect antidote to our tech-addled age? A magic lantern' here: www.ft.com/content/25a9...

Please join us at Swedenborg House on Thursday 23 April 6pm-9pm for the private view of our upcoming exhibition 'THE EVERYWORLD - Redux'. All welcome, but please confirm attendance via: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/the-e...

BECOME A FRIEND OF SWEDENBORG HOUSE FOR £5! Friends of Swedenborg House receive: 20% off books A free subscription to the Swedenborg Review A welcome gift Launching in May: exclusive Thursday late openings (5pm-9pm) for Friends and Members: www.swedenborg.org.uk/be-a-friend/

Did you know that our Grade II-listed Neo-Classical Swedenborg Hall & upper library room, the David Wynter Room, are available for hire? Generous 50% discount for registered charities, not-for-profit organisations & educational institutions: www.swedenborg.org.uk/room-hire/

Please join us at Swedenborg House Thursday 30 April 7pm-9pm for 'Moon City: Mimi Mollica and Iain Sinclair'. Photographic prints from 'Moon City' will be on display exclusively for the evening: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/moon-... Image:Covers of Moon City (2025). Courtesy @mimimollica.bsky.social

Please join us at Swedenborg House on Thursday 26 March 7pm-8.30pm for 'Toby Litt: On Swedenborg, Skateboarding and Sunlight’. For more information and to book your FREE place please visit: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/toby-... @tobylitt.bsky.social

Core Texts: Exploring Swedenborg’s Heaven and Hell | A three-part evening seminar series Thursdays | 6–7pm | April 2, 9, 16 For more information and to book please visit: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/intro... Image: Jacob's Ladder, William Blake, (c. 1799–1806)© The Trustees of the British Museum

DON'T MISS! 'Friday Lates: Stilled shadows A magic lantern show with Chloe Aridjis' at The National Gallery on Friday April 2026 6.30pm-7.45pm. Drawing on the magic lantern slides held in Swedenborg House’s historic archive www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/music...

Please join us at Swedenborg House Saturday 28 February 2pm-5pm for a special event to mark the end of our exhibition 'Elective Affinities'. Featuring live performances & readings by Margarita Gluzberg, Paul O’Kane & Natalia Zagorska-Thomas: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/marga... Photo: Mela Hilleard

Please join us at Swedenborg House on Thursday 26 February 7pm-8pm (doors open 6.30pm) for 'A Diagrammatic Foray into the World of Animals and Machines with Dean Anthony Kenning'. For more information and to book your FREE place please visit:: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/dean-...

Quay Brothers, film décor from Street of Crocodiles (1986). On display in our current exhibition 'Elective Affinities', until Friday 27 February 2026: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/elect...

We are delighted to announce that Swedenborg House will participate in London Bookshop Crawl 2026! Swedenborg House Bookshop will be open from 9.30am-5pm on Friday 13 February and 10am-5pm on Saturday 14 February. For more details please visit: www.bookshopcrawl.co.uk @bookshopcrawluk.bsky.social

Established in 1810, the Swedenborg Society is a registered charity, academic publisher, museum, gallery and archive. We organize a wide range of FREE cultural events, lectures, exhibitions, educational workshops and film screenings.

#OnThisDay 23 January 1688: Birth of Ulrika Eleonora (1688-1741), queen of Sweden who reigned between 1718-20. During her brief reign, she ennobled the Swedberg family, which gave Emanuel the amended surname of Swedenborg and a place in the Swedish House of Nobles

#OnThisDay 22 January 1849: Birth of August Strindberg (1849-1912), the great Swedish playwright. Strindberg's ‘Inferno’ period in the mid-1890s is imbued with Swedenborg. Image: The Town, August Strindberg, 1903, Photo: Erik Cornelius / Nationalmuseum

"There was a whole world of underground activity [in the period that birthed Lud Heat]. Those first years of the 70s were the best for it, because so much of the 60s had been taken up by psychedelic gangsters and chancers”' #IainSinclair’s Lud Heat At 50 buff.ly/x4m4wMR

The latest issue of the Swedenborg Review is out now! Featuring full-length articles as well as reviews of contemporary cultural events, books, exhibitions and more, plus a round-up of further activities. Available via our online bookshop - £1.95 (PLUS P&P): www.swedenborg.org.uk/product/swed...

ARCANA COFFEE is open on our premises Monday-Friday 8.30am-3pm:

Swedenborg House Bookshop will be open Monday - Friday 9.30am - 5pm through to Friday 19 December 2025. The bookshop is then closed over the festive period, reopening on Monday 5 January 2026. Come and browse works by Swedenborg, classic novels, poetry, and more. We look forward to seeing you!

SFF2025 at CURZON SOHO* (*hired venue) on Saturday was a great success! The quality and variety of work made for a fascinating programme. We would like to thank everyone who submitted and in particular the shortlisted filmmakers. Our special thanks also to guest judges Iain Sinclair and Chris Petit.

Surprised and delighted to be alongside Philip Hoare as writing one of the New Statesman’s ‘Books of the Year 2025’, chosen by Geoff Dyer. Dyer is kind and generous to us both, characterising Hoare’s writing as ‘ecstatic, kaleidoscopic and visionary’, and mine as consistently thoughtful and moving.’

As part of an extended 12 hour continuous screening, please also join us for Swedenborg Film Festival 2025 on Monday 8 December between 10am-10pm at Swedenborg House. No booking is required (stay for as much as you like. Full programme available here: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/filmf...

Please join us at Swedenborg House on Friday 5 December 6.30pm-8.30pm where Ben Wickey will be discussing his debut graphic novel, 'More Weight: A Salem Story', with Alan Moore (joining by remote link), Iain Sinclair and Victor Rees. Followed by a book signing: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-weigh...

Due to exceptional demand - the shortlisted programme for SFF2025 taking place at CURZON SOHO* (*hired venue) on Saturday 6 December 2025, will now take place in Screen 1 at the updated time of 1.30pm-4.30pm (previously 6pm-9pm). FREE (£3 admin fee): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swedenborg...

Looking forward to this! Very exciting program. I’ll be speaking remotely on Friday morning. Attendance is free! 👇

BOOKING NOW OPEN for Swedenborg Film Festival 2025! Shortlisted films will be taking place at CURZON SOHO* on Saturday 6 December 2025, 6pm-9pm. FREE (£3 admin fee): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swedenborg... *Curzon Cinema has been hired as the venue and this is not part of the Curzon programme.

Please join us at Swedenborg House on Friday 7 November 2025 6.30pm-8.30pm where we will be launching the limited 50th anniversary edition of Iain Sinclair’s classic text, 'Lud Heat' (Swedenborg House Editions, 2025): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

London-based film-maker & writer John Rogers' latest film, 'Secret History of London's East End' is a walk through the hidden landscape of London to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Iain Sinclair's groundbreaking book Lud Heat: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvxE...

Please join us 6 to 8 November 2025 for 'Retracing Swedenborg: Texts, Contexts and Changing Perspectives' the first in a new bi-annual series of international academic conferences exploring the work and legacy of the polymath Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772): www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/acade...

Directed by artist & writer Stephen McNeilly, the publications of @swedenborghouse.bsky.social chart the legacy of Swedish scientist & philosopher, Emanuel Swedenborg, and include work from Alice Albinia, Gareth Evans and Iain Sinclair. New titles launch at #smallpublishersfair25, Fri 24/ Sat 25 Oct

It's #smallpublishersfair25 in London this Fri/Sat! Here's a quick link to the PDF of the Fair programme, with details of all 66 UK & international publishers, special exhibition, readings & talks: smallpublishersfair.co.uk/wp-content/u... (Print copies also available at Conway Hall on Fri/Sat)

Please join us at Swedenborg House on Thursday 16 October 2025 6.30pm-9pm for the launch of the latest publication in the Swedenborg Archive Series: 'Hereafter', edited by Simon Moretti. For more information and to book your FREE place please visit: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/herea...

#smallpublishersfair25 - our participation will promote the publication of Gifts Returned by the River, ed. Iain Sinclair (2025) in a new paperback edition, along with other recent titles such as Swedenborg’s Lusthus (2024) & the expanded paperback edition of Homero Aridjis, An Angel Speaks (2025).

Please join us at Swedenborg House on Friday 17 October 7pm-8.30pm for 'Close Readings Live: Fiction and the Fantastic'. Live podcast with Marina Warner, Adam Thirlwell and Edwin Frank: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/close... Image: Leonora Carrington,‘Dogs of the Sleeper’,1942.Courtesy of Viktor Wynd

Badbloodandsibyl is the imprint of artist Andrew Kötting, maker of films, performances, installations, bookworks, CDs, LPs, VR and music, often in collaboration with his daughter Eden or writer Iain Sinclair. At #smallpublishersfair25 Friday 24 & Saturday 25 October: smallpublishersfair.co.uk

Led by Hayfaa Chalabi, Miriam Elgon and Gareth Proscourine-Barnett, and previously home to the renowned MA Book Arts, Camberwell Press / MA Illustration present new publications from the in-house imprint of this London art college at #smallpublishersfair25. Discover their work on 24 & 25 October.

Please join us at Swedenborg House Wednesday 22 October 7pm-9pm for DEAD HAMLETS: PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY, IAIN SINCLAIR + LUD HEAT'. Tickets £12.50. Whilst the event is fully booked, please email [email protected] to be added to the waiting list. londonmonthofthedead.com/deadhamlets....

London-based @cbeditions.bsky.social (founded in 2007 by Charles Boyle) is a publisher of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, including work in translation. Find their books (including 'Ghost Stations' by Patrick McGuinness) at #smallpublishersfair25 on Fri 24 & Sat 25 Oct: smallpublishersfair.co.uk