Facilities Hire
Explore our diverse range of hireable spaces designed to support creatives and community groups. Whether you're in need of gallery spaces, fully equipped training rooms, or workspaces, we have versatile options to meet your requirements.
Book 198 Galleries for Your Next Event
198 Galleries features three unique spaces designed for exhibitions and various gatherings, available to hire. On occasion we form partnerships with external organizations to enhance our outreach, connecting with new audiences and providing additional support for our artistic programs.
If you're keen on establishing a partnership with 198 for events within our galleries or to explore rental options, reach out to us at sales@198.org.uk. We're eager to have a conversation, discuss possibilities, and bring your event vision to life.
Education and Community Space Rental
198 provides a spacious, well-lit, and fully accessible second-floor area dedicated to our education program and community events. This versatile space is open for rental, offering options for half or full-day sessions, as well as evenings for workshops, meetings, screenings, and talks.
Additionally, our second-floor space features a suite of 10 industry-standard iMacs equipped with Adobe and Microsoft software, available for group training sessions or as individual workspaces.
For details on current availability and more information about renting either of our second-floor spaces, please reach out to us at sales@198.org.uk.
Workspace Dynamics
With vital support from the Lambeth Future Workspace Fund, 198 has established six bright and inviting workspace studios. These studios are currently home to a diverse group of organizations, promoting a vibrant atmosphere of exchange and collaboration within our building.
Available Workspace
Come and join us at 198!
We have one beautiful, light and airy double aspect 28sqm studio to rent in our redeveloped building in Herne Hill, very close to Herne Hill BR station and local bus routes. The building is fully accessible with lift access and disabled toilets. The studio is most suitable for a creative business or social enterprise. Rent is £1015 per month with one month’s deposit required.
If interested, please email lucy@198.org.uk for more information or to book a viewing.
Our Tenants
Ajamu Studios
Ajamu X [Hon FRPS] is a fine art studio based / darkroom led photographic artist and scholar. As a darkroom/fine art photographic artist, Ajamu works mainly with early analogue printing processes. His visual -photographic philosophy unapologetically celebrates the materiality of the black queer body, the erotic senses, joy, intimacies, and pleasure as freedom. His work has been shown in Museums, galleries and alternative spaces worldwide. In 2022, Ajamu was canonised by The Trans Pennine Travelling Sisters as the Patron Saint of Darkrooms and received an honorary fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society. His work appears in private and public collections worldwide. Find out more about Ajamu Studios here AJAMU: STUDIOS (ajamu-studio.com).
Out and Proud African LBGT
OPAL offers support and refuge to African people who have had to flee persecution, torture and indefinite detention because of their sexual orientation and gender identity. OPAL is a social community where African LGBTI asylum seekers and refugees can feel safe and at peace, as well as become empowered to overcome the legacy of oppression they endured from their own families and communities. They journey with their members through a stressful asylum procedure and support them through the integration processes in the UK. Find out more about OPAL here https://africanlgbti.org/
Land in Our Name
LION is a grassroots collective of Black and People of Colour getting land through reparations. The collective works to reconnect Black and People of Colour to land, both in the city and in the countryside. Their work addresses the inequalities in access to land and food and reimagines land stewardship towards climate and racial justice. Find out more about Land in Our Name here Land In Our Names
Eddie Otchere
Eddie Otchere is a British-Ghanaian photographer, writer and cultural archivist based in South London. Through his photographic practice and the founding of Maison de l’Otchéré, Eddie works to preserve and reimagine Black cultural memory through exhibitions, publications, digital storytelling and collaborative projects. His work explores the power of imagery as resistance, revival and ritual, creating space for narratives often excluded from dominant histories.
Feminist Review
Feminist Review’s purpose is to hold space for conversations that rethink and reimagine feminist scholarship and praxis: the modes and contexts in which it operates, the questions it takes up, and with whom feminisms are in conversation. They aim to publish accessible knowledge and timely interventions that build on the work of Black, Indigenous, decolonial, and transnational feminist struggle. Feminist Review is committed to inspiring exchanges of ideas and explorations of praxis that address, disrupt, and break through structural violence to make and nurture communities, connections, and ways of sharing knowledge founded on mutual respect, kindness, and care.
Testimonials
“Really nice space, aesthetically good space to work, loads of natural light, and recently built, really nice environment, low traffic neighbourhood and nice and quiet but near to cafes etc. Next to the park.”
“I had been in and around 198 since the mid-90s. I was aware it was going through new identity with two new floors, and I wanted to be part of that. 198’s history was part of the appeal, it’s a beautiful, very familiar, and I’ve seen people grow up here.”
“With 198 we thought it would be nice for our colleagues and staff to be part of a community, and it’s not a white space, which is rare for an arts organisation. In the past, our experience is that we are the diverse people in a homogenous workspace.”
“Me and my collective were all looking for workspaces. We were attracted to having space in a community around other similar groups or demographics of people working in similar areas. An accessible space where we could potentially collaborate with additional space that we could utilise to do events.”
“The history of the gallery played a role in choosing to rent here, as well as the nature of the space and connection to the local community. A black-led space was very important to us; we wanted a space that works for POC and queer people, and 198 has a focus on black artists and the queer community.”
“We liked 198’s values, we knew what 198 was all about from before.”