Sculpture in the City Tour: Archaeology, Mythology & Contemporary Art

Sculpture in the City 14th edition Tour: Archaeology, Mythology & Contemporary Art

Led by Artist Duo, Jane & Louise Wilson

Join artist duo Jane & Louise Wilson on an exclusive walking tour of the 14th edition of Sculpture in the City, which features their new work Dendrophiles. Explore the sculptures, and encounter their new site-specific commission Performance of Entrapment at London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE.

Dendrophiles, highlights hidden stories beneath London’s modern architecture, exploring the fragile connection between The City’s high-rise skyline and its ancient past. Situated beneath the escalators of The Leadenhall Building, the work combines ink drawings based on images of 3D scans of ancient oak that date over 2,000 years old. These timbers were excavated on the site of Bloomberg’s European headquarters and may have once supported a crossing over the River Walbrook, linking the City’s present with its past.

Performance of Entrapment extends these themes in a site-specific installation at London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE, that weaves archaeology, film, and contemporary art into an immersive reflection on time, renewal and ancient shrines.

Together, the two works form a dialogue between the City’s ancient foundations and its contemporary structures, inviting audiences to reflect on what is preserved, and passed on from one generation to the next.

Date & Time: Tuesday 23 September, 5.00pm-7.30pm

Duration: 150 minutes.

Starting location: London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE, 12 Walbrook, London EC4N 8AA

Key Information:

· You are solely responsible for your own safety during the event.

· Please wear sensible footwear and bring weather appropriate items e.g. umbrella, water bottle etc.

· In participating in this tour, you agree to being filmed and photographed. Documentation will be used for promotional purposes including but not limited to social media and websites for Sculpture in the City, if you do not wish to be snapped, please inform a member of the team on the day of the event.

The activation programme is supported by Activations & Promotions Partner, Eastern City BID and curated & produced by LACUNA.

Should you have any questions or access needs you would like to share with the team, please email alice@lacuna-projects.com

Bios:

Jane and Louise Wilson have been working as an artist duo in collaboration for over three decades since 1989, Their early works reflected on abandoned buildings to reveal a form of psychic architecture often imbued with the presence and ideology of the original occupants. Through carefully choreographed film installations, sound works and photography they have explored some of Europe’s least accessible sites including a former Stasi Prison in former East Berlin, the British Houses of Parliament and the huge Star City complex in Moscow, a key site of the Russian Space Program. In 1996 they were awarded a DAAD artists scholarship in Berlin and Hanover. In 1999 they were nominated for The Turner Prize for their multi-screen installation Gamma 1999. The Wilson sisters have had held exhibitions in the UK and internationally in international group shows, including the Carnegie International (1999), Solo exhibitions have included Suspending Time (2010) at CAM Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Tempo Suspenso, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela; The Toxic Camera (2015) at Whitworth Art Gallery, Sealander (2017) at Focus Gallery, The John Paul Getty Museum; ‘The Toxic Camera’ at Maureen Paley, (2022) Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy (2018 -2019), The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ‘Dreamtime TM’ Jane and Louise Wilson, UCI, Irvine, California, 2023, “OUT OF THE BOX”, Schaulager, 2023 Laurenz Foundation, Switzerland, Jane and Louise Wilson ‘Altogether’ 303 Gallery, New York 2025. Jane and Louise are appointed as joint Professors of Fine Art at Newcastle University and Royal Academicians in 2018.

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London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE is situated on the site of Bloomberg’s European headquarters, and is home to an ancient Roman Temple to Mithras, a selection of remarkable Roman artefacts found during the recent excavations, and a series of contemporary art commissions responding to one of the UK’s most significant archaeological sites. Book a free ticket to visit, or explore expert-curated content for this site, and many others, on Bloomberg Connects.

Photo Credits:

Dendrophiles (2025), The Leadenhall Building, Sculpture in the City 14th ed. Copyright Jane and Louise Wilson, Courtesy of Maureen Paley, London and 303 Gallery New York. Photo: © Nick Turpin