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Projects Test

Jan Hendzel, An Offering

27 February 2026 – 17 April 2026

An Offering

An Offering presents a series of works by Jan Hendzel that unfold between material knowledge and embodied making. Wooden sculptures, crafted furniture pieces and small maquettes form a collective installation conceived through a logic Hendzel calls Timber and Technique, where carving, turning, stacking and alignment become rhythmic acts of assembly.

The exhibition is shaped as a reciprocal gesture: Hendzel’s work is offered to those who encounter it, emerging from the offering made by the gallery through the commission and platform. As a result, the space is transformed into an intimate place of process, memory and making. 


About Jan Hendzel

Jan Hendzel is the founder of Jan Hendzel Studio, where a passion for play, experimentation and British timbers has shaped a distinct design language defined by large-format, sculptural simplicity and finely resolved technical detail. The workshop designs and makes expressive timber furniture and objects, producing an art that moves fluidly between digital processes and handcraft and is guided by sustainability, tactility and an obsessive commitment to process.

About Giles Tettey Nartey

Giles Tettey Nartey is a British-Ghanaian artist and architect. His research-based practice spans filmmaking, creative direction, installation, performance and object design. Nartey has served as curatorial collaborator for An Offering, selecting from Hendzel’s existing works and influencing the development of a new, site-responsive sculpture.

Hanna Benihoud, The Living Room

9 January – 24 February 2026

'The Living Room' proposes a radical act: celebrating ordinary women in public space. The work forms part of the artist's ongoing practice of taking up space with larger-than-life women who share real, lived experiences.

About Hanna Benihoud
Hanna Benihoud is an interdisciplinary artist who left architecture to found her studio in 2016. Her practice combines public art, wayfinding, illustration and animation, challenging where architecture ends and art begins.

Jason Bruges Studio, Living Cornice

18 September 2025 – 6 January 2026

Living Cornice is the inaugural exhibition by Forefront, presented in collaboration with Jason Bruges Studio. Installed within Forefront’s gallery HQ in Old Street, the exhibition showcases a series of lumino-kinetic prototypes that explore dynamic computational caustics through choreographed metallic forms. Drawing subtle references from neoclassical architecture, the works animate light as a living material, producing shifting reflections that transform the surrounding space into a theatrical environment.

Offering a behind-the-scenes insight into process and experimentation, Living Cornice reveals how inanimate structures are engineered to behave as responsive reflectors. The exhibition functions both as a standalone installation and as an experimental testing ground for a forthcoming public artwork commissioned by Forefront for a passageway in Euston.

Marking the beginning of Forefront’s wider programme, Living Cornice establishes a platform for dialogue between art, architecture and the built environment.


“This project is a celebration of the technological craft that transforms liminal, often overlooked spaces into captivating cultural interventions that ignite the imagination and inspire wonder. Through a behind-the-scenes glimpse of prototypes and experiments, the exhibition shares the process of turning the inanimate into living reflectors.”

– Jason Bruges, founder of Jason Bruges Studio


About Jason Bruges Studio

Jason Bruges Studio is a dynamic, multidisciplinary art practice based in London. Established in 2002, the Studio is internationally renowned as a pioneer of the hybrid space between art, architecture, and technology. Exploring the interrelationships between people, data, nature and technology, the team creates high-tech, site-specific artworks and dynamic, spatial experiences. Intervening in the urban environment, they produce moments of theatre that connect people with their environments and weave a sense of magic into the fabric of a place.