About Louise Blouin Institute

The Institute is one of the largest non-government funded, not-for-profit cultural spaces in London and will be a showcase for both established and emerging contemporary artists, think-tanks and artistic performances of all forms, whilst also providing a home for the Louise  Blouin Foundation and its work. Louise Blouin MacBain’s £20 million investment has transformed a former coach-works into an important cultural arts space, involving the local community and injecting capital into an area currently undergoing regeneration and redevelopment.

The former coachworks of Barker & Co, coachbuilders for Rolls Royce, Bentley and Daimler has had its 1920s industrial façade retained but architects Borgos Dance have given the interior a complete redesign to maximise the building’s potential and qualities of light. The resculpted interior provides a dramatic triple height 35 ft entrance hall, an adaptable 5,000 sq ft gallery space and café on the ground floor. The first and second floors have been designed to provide office and further exhibition spaces, including a 4,000 sq ft gallery on the second floor. The permanent Turrell installation will work with the façades of the building, using all 80 of the existing external windows. Each window, lit from within, will act as an intelligent unit, controlled individually or as a whole to create an ever-changing artwork on the façade of the building.

If you are interested in hiring the Louise Blouin Institute space for meetings, receptions, cocktail parties, seminars, lectures or other events, please call 0207 985 9600 for further information.