BEN URI GALLERY AND MUSEUM LIMITED
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Mission Statement
We are a British art museum uniquely exploring the important social issues of Art, Identity and Migration. We aim to access the largest global audience to engage with the work, lives and contribution of Jewish and immigrant artists to British visual culture since1900, digitally through www.benuri.org and physically at our size restricted gallery and research centre in St. John’s Wood in London. Benuri.org enables unrestricted global audiences, facilitating limitless ambition and content without the capital cost of a prime located building and all associated running costs. Launched in 2019, benuri.org hosts 45 exhibitions, 400 artist biographies, 850 artworks, 150 films and podcasts, 200 school programmes and the Ben Uri Research Unit including 10,000 pages of archives since 1915, the Ben Uri Arts and Health Institute including 100 researched and downloadable art interventions and much more.
About This Cause
Ben Uri Gallery and Museum Limited, registered in England # 01488690, was founded in 1915 and is a UK registered charity #280389. Ben Uri is a small, tightly focused but imaginative public benefit institution that has purposeful, effective delivery and return on investment at the core of its operating philosophy. Ben Uri closed in 1995 and reopened in 2001 with a new focus addressing Art, Identity and Migration and invests in three important areas as follows. The Ben Uri Research Unit, inspired by our century-old immigrant and arts heritage, was formally launched in 2019. It digitally records for the first time the Jewish and immigrant contribution to British visual culture since 1900. This is an extensive, exhaustive, valuable and timely academic and social integration initiative. Its purpose is to share, and quantify for the first time, this diverse and richly influential contribution to British culture. Unrestricted online access is available to all and is of specific relevance to students, scholars, museum professionals, critics, art collectors, dealers, auction houses, writers, journalists and politicians alike. Additional outcomes of the research are new online and physical exhibitions, collection acquisitions, artist focus films, podcasts, events and publications. Building on this Ben Uri focus since 2002, the Research Unit has already published more than 250 biographies of impactful immigrant contributors to British's visual arts culture and currently has another 800 under research. We anticipate some 5,000 individuals, their biographies and contribution will be recognised and recorded. The Ben Uri Arts and Health Institute researches and develops cost effective, widely engaging, up-scalable art programming, principally for the 12 million strong 65 years and over demographic. With 96% of people in that age bracket still living in domestic settings and 4% living in care homes; with many living in social isolation and/or with dementia. The 75+ age group is the fastest growing demographic; forecast to double in size in the next 30 years. The physical and mental regression of ageing, and wide scale loneliness in particular, are central features of our ever-growing crisis in social care. Ben Uri has been active in delivering researched art interventions in London care settings for the past 12 years across diverse communities Residential care only represents some 5% of the demographic with the remaining 95% living in their own homes and are greatly more difficult and expensive to engage. The culmination of five years’ research and evaluation sees Ben Uri creatively address the need for affordable, national interventions that will enhance wellbeing and the quality of life of our older people. Ben Uri is pioneering researched digital engagements through bespoke, high-accessibility ‘arts’ TV programming inspired by, and sourced from, our museum collection. The objective is to create a national channel engaging some 500,000 viewers by 2025 in care settings and, most importantly, the majority living in their own homes in a highboy qualitative and cost effective fashion. Benuri.org is committed to measurable, distinctive, and highly cost effective delivery and outcomes.