180 Studios — Attraction in London

As a member I’ve enjoyed many outstanding exhibitions in this great studio space.

Some of the staff could be less pretentious and less precious with patrons. They have different tiers of membership and it shows. When taking a seat in a completely empty area near the gallery exit (not a soul in sight) I was feeling faint and had to wait for my friend to come out of the show to get home.

I was confronted by an usher about my lack of VIP privilege whilst sitting in a completely EMPTY seating area….I was told I couldn’t sit there, despite my trying to explain I needed to. With little energy heading into possibly passing out needing to take pain relief, the staff member finally got that I had a condition and couldn’t stand in that moment.

Approaching members and patrons with questions such as ‘are you alright there’, before launching into reasons why you don’t qualify to be able to sit, might be good training. From what I’ve observed in interactions with other members, each time I visit, there is in general, a slightly condescending attitude as they have a VIP membership and pander towards the more influential bigger...

Only booked tickets for the expensive exhibition 'Reverb' based on the strength of previous exhibitions 'Future Shock' (very good) and 'UVA Synchronicity' (not quite as good but still worth the price). This was a mistake! This one is very different, not at all 'immersive' as described and features mostly extremely low effort, unengaging works; a mixture of plain video installations with dull content like anything you could watch on YouTube for free (like a lad reading rap battle lyrics off his phone cos he can't remember them), and mostly rubbish installations like an ugly empty stage, a room full of vinyl covers and some turntables that you can use to play uninteresting looped sounds. The music accompanying the videos isn't even played at a decent volume, hardly an 'ear rattling journey' or however it was described in the promotional material. I expected to be immersed in sound but felt like I was getting a boring sociological lecture or wandering around a half-finished GCSE project. Left feeling deflated and cheated out of 50 quid (for two adults), will definitely hesitate before coming to...

I went there in January 2023. Not sure how to feel about this gallery because of the things which were inside. I went there as I was travelling to Brazil the week after, and the exhibition was about preservation and natural land destruction by humans. I was quite maybe disappointed but only because the show was quite challenging to understand for me, the main storyline was chaotic and although we are all fighting for the right cause, if my right wing step dad would see that, it would not change his perception into becoming more sustainable. On the other hand I do like modern art, but here, something was “off” and missing.

Regardless, the space and the gallery is great for exhibitions. It was not to cold or warm. The entrance was quite hard to find and the staff though that I am Russian even though I am polish. I am taking one star for that, because poles are the most popular emigrants in the UK (not based on any other data than my walk to Lidl every Saturday), so it would be good to at least recognise who is Russian and who is Polish. Us poles, we also like culture and...