Past Exhibitions
MOOD
We asked artists from our associates and wider artists community to think about the word ‘MOOD’ and they responded!! Come and find out what happened..
The Worlds Within Us
1st year BA Fine Art student from Oxford Brookes University will be showing us what they've been up to. There will be performances too..
For one night only!
OVADA Jumble
From 14-16 April, our warehouse will be a place for meeting like-minded people; eating delicious food at Waste 2 Taste cooking demo; learning money saving skills, tips and tricks at workshops; treasure hunting at our jumble sale; mending your items with Repair Cafe.
Holy Craft!
Join us on 25 March at 6:30pm at OVADA for the premiere of Holy Craft!, a series of short films celebrating craftsmanship, our relationship with the objects in the world around us, sustainability, heritage, and the creative process.
Procreate Project Archive Launch Event at OVADA
We are inviting artist-mothers and parents, and their families, based in Oxfordshire to join us for the launch of the Procreate Project (PCP) Archive at OVADA on Saturday 4th March from 12-4pm.
DreaMFActory 2022
DreaMFActory 2022 is an interim exhibition of work by students from the MFA Fine Art programme at Oxford Brookes.
OVADA Sunday Hang-outs
Experience local art, meet other creatives and grab a drink from our bar for a cosy, creative evening in the warehouse.
Dido’s Bar
Epic music theatre retelling of Aeneas’ journey as a modern-day refugee trying to belong.
Prehension Blooms
Part of Dancin’ Oxford’s Family Dance Festival, Neon Dance presents an interactive contemporary dance show that incorporates world-class performers, immersive sound design, music and the latest in AI robotic technology.
Megalith
Mechanimal are coming to Oxford with their stunning theatre show, Megalith, with projection from award-winning Limbic Cinema.
concave 2022
We would like to invite you to our annual open day and ask you to bring your memories of our area and of us to contribute to our Local Archive Project.
Incorporating our postponed Sunday Hangout we will have an in-an conversation with artist Karima Brooke at 5pm and a pop-up exhibition with previous featured artists.
OSR 2022: Work in Motion
Come and see what our wonderful summer residents have been working on this month in the warehouse…
PoeTree
Contemporary art and poetry on the theme of trees by three invited artists from Bonn, together with three artists from Oxford.
Digging Crates
We are happy to host Inner Peace Records: lyrical hip hop with samples from African instruments.
Duende
Come and support these students and see art works created to celebrate their respective cultural heritage following a series of workshops exploring language division, oral histories, music, poetry, fashion and textiles.
Palindrome
Back by popular demand! We are happy to present the second instalment of Palindrome on Sunday 22 May.
un/re/dis/cover
un/re/dis/cover will feature the work of OVADA’s eight resident artists.
Think Human
An interactive augmented reality installation by award winning poet Jay Bernard.
YWMP Takeover @ OVADA
YWMP are taking over OVADA. There will be a range of workshops and music from 6pm. Everybody welcome.
Palindrome
Palindrome will take place on the last Gregorian palindromic date, for a long long time.
Resisting the temptation to launch into pandemic related rhetoric, we simply invite you to join us in an attempt to re-create and re-invent the vision of these events.
Holly Hewitt
We are so excited to introduce Holly Hewitt as one of our newest studio artists at OVADA. Come along to see a range of the multi-disciplinary work Holly produces.
HATCHED21
OVADA welcomes you to visit HATCHED21 who are exhibiting with us as part of the 2021 Photo Oxford Festival programme of events.
The Hidden Noise: Tinnitus and Art
OVADA is delighted to host an exhibition of work by commissioned artists Fern Thomas and Nina Thomas, who are set to transform our warehouse into a multi-layered exploration of their shared experiences of tinnitus.
Twenty Twenty One
OVADA presents highlights from the 2020 and 2021 Oxford Brookes Masters in Fine Art graduation show. This will be the first time these works have been open to view: due to the pandemic, the 2020 cohort held their final show entirely online, while the 2021 group installed a physical show but were unable to open to the public.
Autonomy – Warehouse Art School Exhibition 2021
The seven artists exhibiting work this year range from video,
performance, installation, painting and 3D sculptural work- all
completed during the last three months of the year-long course.
HOME-ing: a live art odyssey on foot from London to Wales
Wearing a costume of the word ‘HOME’, artist Harriet Hill will perform a month-long walk from her home in South-East London to her childhood home in Mid Wales.
Unprecedented
Unprecedented will be an exhibition of collective work created since March 2020 when the Coronavirus pandemic hit.