​Travel is useful; it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. People, animals, cities, all are imagined. And so our journey together will unfold entirely within the imaginary.

​Over the course of a two‑hour curatorial tour of London Gallery Weekend, we will pass through several artistic universes grown out of many years of ritual persistence by their creators. Our first stop, for instance, is Gregor Schneider and the portal into his Gesamtkunstwerk Haus u r — a house inherited by the artist and transformed into a continuously mutating, otherworldly labyrinth where doors lead nowhere.

We will enter the exhibition of the 2017 Venice Biennale heroine and the defining artist (according to some opinion) of the generation, Anne Imhof, as well as an installation by Christo and Jeanne‑Claude — conceived in 1968 and, apparently, realised already from the other side.

This curatorial tour leads through the key London galleries and gathers the most significant (in my opinion) exhibitions of London Gallery Weekend. But something else matters more: this journey can be undertaken by anyone. You just have to acknowledge the reality that imagination creates.

​The tour is led by curator, producer and art-writer Il Gurn. On a professional level, he has curated contemporary and media art exhibitions internationally across diverse contexts, including Stations of Life (2026, London), Steps (2025, London), Bursting into Flame (2024, London), Psychotherapist for AI (2023, St. Petersburg), In The Name of Liberated Art (2023, Metaverse), Digital Extravaganza (2022, Dubai), among others.

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