'Patterns and Recognitions - a composition in three parts' will open on February 2nd at the Design Hub Barcelona (DHub).

Curated by DHub Artistic Director Jose Luis de Vicente and Maria Güell Ordis, Director of LlumBCN festival. The exhibition will feature three of UVA's site-specific works: 'Silent Symphony'; 'Vanishing Point' and 'Present Shock' with the unifying theme of exploring how the models and systems produced by science and the economy shape knowledge about the universe, society, and human cognition.

UVA is pleased to announce that its largest survey show to date will open at 180 Strand on October 12th 2023 celebrating the studio’s 20th anniversary. The exhibition, curated by Julia Kaganskiy will feature a number of new site-specific installations and collaborative works.

UVA returns to Dark Mofo, Tasmania’s midwinter festival celebrating the dark, with a new work commissioned for the festival’s 10th anniversary.

Inspired by Ancient Greek philosophers' belief that the universe produced an inaudible kind of music, Silent Symphony traces resonant frequencies and synchronicities occurring at the cosmic scale and explores how they relate to our sense of harmony.

Along 55m eight custom kinetic sculptures cast rotating planes of light across the room. Oscillating between order and chaos, the beams of light slice through space, creating complex patterns and interactions with the architecture. Drawing inspiration from the movements and correlations of celestial objects, the work physicalizes invisible energetic forces, such as gravity, giving them form as light and sound. Unfolding as a generative performance, the work is a dynamic, constantly evolving interplay of elements that never repeats.

Silent Symphony features a sonic interpretation of the celestial patterns by composer Ben Frost and sound programming by Dave Meckin.

Silent Symphony is on display between 8th - 11th and 14th - 18th June

The Great Animal Orchestra, our collaboration with soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause makes its West Coast debut at the Exploratorium, the museum of science, technology and arts in San Francisco. The installation is on display from 10th June until 15th October.

Creation Destruction, our collaboration with choreographer Dana Gingras and the Animals Of Distinction dance company features in the 17th edition of the FTA dance + theatre festival in Montreal.

First premiered in Toronto in June 2022, the project is a live performance integrating dance with a dynamic light sculpture featuring 11 dancers and an original score composed by members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Timothy Herzog, Efrim Menuck, Sophie Trudeau and Thierry Amar with additional strings and voice.

Creation Destruction is on at Esplanade Tranquille, Montreal May 25th - 27th 2023.

An exhibition featuring two works, Present Shock and Vanishing Point 3:1 #3. Vantage Points is at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Wood Street Galleries from April 28 - August 27 2023.

Our solo show UVA: Edge of Chaos curated by Julia Kaganskiy opens on 17th September 2022. Commissioned by Borusan Contemporary and coinciding with the Istanbul Biennale, Edge of Chaos features predominantly new works exploring the bounds of knowledge and meaning-making in an age where human cognition is increasingly being augmented by artificial intelligence. The exhibition will be on display until August 2023

For the Noor Festival of Light, Riyadh’s annual citywide cultural event United Visual Artists is displaying ‘Hidden Order’, part of the studio’s explorations into programmable architecture, creating the illusion of light and sound as physical materials. The festival continues until March 10th 2023 at JAX District

United Visual Artists is presenting two installations at Future Shock, a group exhibition at 180 The Strand commissioned by Fact Magazine and 180 Studios.

Located at the entrance ramp, Topologies #2 will be the second work visitors encounter. A new iteration of Topologies, originally commissioned by NXT Amsterdam, Topologies #2 consists of three kinetic sculptures that project single-colour planes of light stretching across the room, creating shifting geometries that continuously divide and reconfigure the space.

Vanishing Point 3:1 #2 is a significant new update of an installation first conceived in 2013 to explore the relationship between geometry, sound, light, and space. It retains the intensity of the original work but features new sound design governed by tighter rules to dictate the behaviour of the sonic composition in relation to the visual. Vanishing Point 3:1 #2 acts as the closing work of Future Shock.

The exhibition opens on 28th April and is on until 28th August 2022.

Our collaboration with soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause, originally commissioned for The Great Animal Orchestra is included in Les Vivants (Living Worlds) curated by anthropologist Bruce Albert and the General Director of the Fondation Cartier Hervé Chandès. The ‘exhibition–manifesto’ brings together over 250 works and forms part of UTOPIA, the 6th themed exhibition of the lille3000 cultural event that takes place from May 14th to October 2nd 2022.

The Great Animal Orchestra, our collaboration with soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause is having its Australian premiere at the 23rd Biennale of Sydney. Titled rīvus, the 2022 edition of the Sydney Biennale has been developed and realised by a curatorium led by artistic director José Roca and co-curators Paschal Daantos Berry, Anna Davis, Hannah Donnelly and Talia Linz and is the largest contemporary art event of its kind in Australia. The Great Animal Orchestra is also being adapted as a projection on the Sydney Opera House as a taster of the main installation. The Great Animal Orchestra is at Stargazer Lawn, Barangaroo from 12th March to 13th June 2022.

For its North American debut, the Great Animal Orchestra, our collaboration with soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause tours to the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, MA and is on display from November 20th 2021 until May 22nd 2022.

Topologies #1 is currently on show in Amsterdam at Nxt Museum the first museum dedicated to new media art in the Netherlands. As part of the group exhibition, Shifting Proximities, Topologies #1 is the first in a new series of works and consists of five sculptures that project planes of light stretching across a 25m long room, creating shifting geometries that continuously divide and reconfigure the space. Visitors traverse a 25 metre long room through imposing yet immaterial walls, creating a sort of intangible realm that alters the viewers’ perception and their relationship with the space they occupy.

The Sharjah Art Foundation will start reopening is venues and exhibits from June 26th, including Art in the Age of Anxiety which features the UVA work The Etymologies - Square.

UVA have created the visual concept and scenography for Frontera, a new show choreographed by Dana Gingras with live score by Montreal band Fly Pan Am. The show will premiere at Grand Théâtre de Québec this month before showing in Montreal and Ottowa.

We're excited to announce that The Store X The Vinyl Factory will present a new solo exhibition by UVA called Other Spaces at 180 The Strand this autumn, in collaboration with the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris.

Other Spaces will feature three site specific installations – Our Time, The Great Animal Orchestra and Vanishing Point - highlighting 15 years of our practice.

Other Spaces will run from 2nd October until 9th December 2019 at the Store X, 180 The Strand, London WC2R 1EA.

A Distant View III is currently on display at the National Maritime Museum, London, as a part of The Moon exhibition, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon. The show is running until the 5th January 2020.

Beholder was nominated for the S+T+ARTS Prize 2019 and exhibited at Ars Electronica Festival from 5th - 9th September. The work is now touring to Quebec where it will been on show at Quebec national museum (MNBAQ – Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec) during Quebec Film Festival from 12-21 September.

United Visual Artists' work The Great Animal Orchestra, a collaboration with American musician and soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause, will be on display again as part of the Broken Nature symposium at XXII Triennale Milan from March 1st 2019.

One of our artworks from the series A Distant View will be on display at Société in Brussels as part of the group show Earth & Sky, from June 22. to 30. 2018.

This group exhibition will feature artworks by Neal Beggs, Mark Geffriaud & Géraldine Longueville, Jakub Geltner, Marco Godinho, Mishka Henner, Douglas Huebler, Pierre-Philippe Hofmann, Dennis Oppenheim, Ed Ruscha, Kris Van Dessel, Clement Valla and Robert Smithson & Nancy Holt amongst others.

From April 25 to July 29 2018, Great Animal Orchestra will be on display at A Beautiful Elsewhere, a group show curated by the Fondation Cartier, Paris. The show will feature artists such as David Lynch, Ron Mueck and Marc Newson to name but a few.

Our installation Musica Universalis will travel to Hobart, Tasmania to be shown at the art and music festival Dark Mofo, from June 15 to 24.

We are thrilled to announced that Soho House has recently acquire one of the artworks from the series A Distant View, inspired in the fabricated images of the moon which followed the Lunar Orbiter missions of 1966-67.

Our recent collaboration with Christopher Bailey and Burberry presented Our Time in London, UVA’s large-scale installation investigating our subjective experience of the passing of time.

For the show finale, we created Spectrum, an architectural intervention of rainbow-hued lasers to celebrate Bailey’s 17-year career at Burberry.