24th September 26
'The Adelaide Art Salon'
photography by Mi Elverson & Joseph Marchant @theadelaidesalon
The Adelaide Salon | A Celebration of Art, Ideas & Connection
Brighton Beach House, Soho House. September 2026
What an extraordinary evening! Thank you
This September, The Adelaide Salon welcomed over 500 guests to Brighton Beach House for an unforgettable gathering of art, performance, ideas and human connection, marking the opening of our artistic season 2026/27.
Set across The Loft and Rock Room, the evening brought together artists, thinkers, cultural leaders and art lovers through an exciting programme of live performances, talks, moving image and installations.
We were delighted to host ROSA Magazine – Review of Sussex Arts, celebrating the launch of its Autumn issue, and to welcome Hedley Swain, CEO of Brighton & Hove Museums, for a special conversation reflecting on the success of The Royal Pavilion & The Adelaide Salon Art Gala in May 2026. Accompanied by photography and film from the Gala, the conversation celebrated the power of collaboration between independent arts organisations and cultural institutions, and the possibilities such partnerships open for the future.
The evening featured Artists: Isobel Smith, The Writers Mark, Aisling Zambon, Andy Ash, Exploding Appendix, Elen Agasiants, Yara Wereik, Tim Lea Young, Anniek Verholt, The Baron Gilvan, Paulina Anzorge, Viviana Almas and author David Bramwell, alongside a vibrant community of artists and creative voices.
At the heart of The Adelaide Salon is a simple but powerful belief: art is one of the greatest enabling forces of our time. It liberates thought, challenges established concepts, opens new perspectives and creates connections that transcend disciplines, backgrounds and boundaries.
We believe art thrives when people come together, when disciplines cross-fertilise, ideas are exchanged and unexpected conversations begin.
Above all, we are delighted to share our passion and love for the arts with a growing community that believes in the importance of creativity, curiosity and freedom.
To everyone who joined us, performed, contributed and helped make this remarkable evening possible — thank you.
As we embark on a new artistic season, we look forward to continuing these conversations, building new collaborations and creating extraordinary cultural encounters here in Brighton and beyond.
With love and gratitude,
Pascal & Paulina xx
@theadelaidesalon
13th September 25
'The Adelaide Art Salon'
photography by Joseph Marchant @theadelaidesalon
“A pageant of collapse, comedy, and transcendence at the edge of the world.”
The Adelaide Salon invites you into a theatre of surreal, where painting, performance, sound and ritual interlace. The exhibition stages immersive canvasses by The Baron Gilvan—interiors and landscapes where figures hover in reverie or collapse, where the interplay of conscious and unconscious takes you through all private dramas.
From these painted architectures, live works emerge.
Yara Wereik translates brushstrokes into movement, animating still tableaux through bodily automatism. James Li’s contrabass cello resounds like subterranean weather, while Disrupted Rhythms fracture patterns of sound and image to expose the uncanny cadences beneath. Isobel Smith and Foz Foster transform the simple act of pouring tea into a sonic ritual, recalling Surrealism’s fascination with everyday objects made strange. Aisling Zambon, through intimate one-to-one encounters, stages the artist as trickster and witness, asking each participant to step into a theatre of confession and transformation.
Together, these works form not a sequence but a constellation. They echo André Breton’s wager that the marvellous appears when dream and waking life collide, when the ordinary is estranged, and when the unconscious takes form.
We invite you to enter this room with curiosity. Allow the works to mislead and unsettle, and discover affinities where bodies become landscapes, teapots sing, and the unconscious itself takes the stage.
- P.P
30th August 2025
Maureen Paley
Morena Di Luna, Hove
The Adelaide Salon shared evening with Maureen Paley at her gallery ‘Morena di Luna’ showing exhibition of works by
Behrang Karimi’s ‘Child in Time’, and sharing insightful art wisdom and hospitality.
'Thank you everyone for braving the weather and joining us for a fabulous evening with Maureen Paley at ‘Morena di Luna’ celebrating Wonderful Vernissage for the new season of The Adelaide Salon and near Finnissage for Behrang Karimi’s show ‘Child in Time’.
We are looking forward to more exciting events with Maureen in the future ………. And let’s not forget October in London!!'
A residency at the end of the world.
It would be interesting to explore some of these ideas in conversation and relation with The Adelaide Salon.
First thoughts to kick something off!’
During Isobel's residency we will organise a regular rhythm of happenings, workshops, talks and publications to share process and ideas as well as a final fabulous finnissage.
25th of May 2025
The Adelaide Salon is excited to launch a first ever, year long artist residency with the artist: Isobel Smith @isobelxsmith
Isobel said:
’ I have recently been looking at philosopher Federico Campagna, talking about the unfolding end of our world (current systems civilisation era epoch etc…) and how to help herald in a new world ... this resonated strongly with me. As well as
Upstairs / downstairs
crumbling ... empires, grandeur, apple crumble ... !
Monstrous feminine, wildness (always wildness beneath veneer of civilisation)
I began some work with tables a while ago, four legged beasts, pregnant bellies. To be explored perhaps.
Thinking about turning the tables, a feast. eating, being eaten up, grotesque, beautiful, epic, mundane. Relevant, urgent, beautiful, rude, polite and impolite. Who cares, what matters, what is urgent, what is important.