Helen Charman

2 weeks ago | vam.ac.uk | Helen Charman

Across March and April, Young V&A kicked off Festival season with I AM Festival and Our Voice, Our Future: A Festival of Childhood. On Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 March, I AM Festival, organised in collaboration with A New Direction, brought deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent young people together at Young V&A to empower, celebrate and explore their creativity.

2 months ago | vam.ac.uk | Helen Charman

2025 got off to a flying start at Young V&A with the wonderfully inspiring – and busy – opening of Making Egypt, our second exhibition.  Why Making Egypt, here at Young V&A, you may well be asking yourselves. The reason being that, from ancient Egypt, along the river Nile, to contemporary Egypt, creativity was and is, everywhere.​ And creativity is at the heart of Young V&A.

Aug 14, 2024 | artreview.com | Helen Charman

Duras’s cinema, restless and wilfully obtuse, interrogated the foibles of human expression in a world locked by politics and moneyCinema ‘knows that it can never replace the written text’, wrote the writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras in 1977; nevertheless, it ‘sets out to replace it’. It begins, in other words, with certain defeat and, sustained by this tension, makes its way from there. What does it mean to make a practice out of dissatisfaction, of failure?

Aug 3, 2024 | vam.ac.uk | Helen Charman

I am delighted to share the wonderful news that after its first year of opening, Young V&A has been awarded the incredible accolade of Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 – the largest museum prize in the world. Art Fund annually shortlists five outstanding museums for Museum of the Year.

Jul 21, 2024 | parapraxismagazine.com | Helen Charman

Charcot, we are told, was convinced this would simply make her into a poet; Breuer, on the other hand, believed that the obsessive tendency would diminish as her memories increased. For Bella, meanwhile, such an accumulation means the recovery of lost experiences as much as the acquisition of new ones. Bella is curious first about other people’s pasts: “Tell tell tell your Bell Bell.