One day, out of the blue, I fell in love with you — Ruth Beraha at Alice Amati

Taking place from 4 September — 10 October 2026 at Alice Amati, Fitzrovia, this exhibition presents a new body of works by Italian artist Ruth Beraha, developed out of months of research into UK football culture.

For Beraha, football is not a subject to be observed from afar but a lived experience that has shaped her understanding of belonging, identity, and collective life since young adulthood. Her first solo exhibition in London emerges from months spent attending football matches across the United Kingdom, immersing herself in the rituals, emotions, and social dynamics of contemporary fan culture here. Beraha understands the stadium as a symbolic space where individual identities are affirmed and dissolved into a collective voice, and where the emotions of devotion, solidarity, rivalry, pride, and hostility become a lens through which to understand the world.

These concerns have long been central to Beraha's practice, which, spanning from sculpture, drawing, sound and performance, explores the shifting relationship between the individual and the collective, between "us" and "them," and the ways in which ideas of belonging and otherness are constructed. Football fandom offers a particularly revealing vantage point from which to examine these tensions: a space capable of bringing people together across social, cultural, and political backgrounds, while also drawing boundaries and producing exclusion. Looking at football supporters in Britain, Beraha continues her investigation into the ambivalent nature of collective identity, revealing fandom not simply as a cultural phenomenon but as a reflection of the universal desire to belong—and of the divisions that such belonging inevitably creates.

Location: Alice Amati, 27 Warren St, London W1T 5NB
Nearest Station: Warren Street, via Victoria and Northern lines
Date: 3 September — 10 October 2026
Opening Times: Wednesday to Friday 11:00 am — 6:00 pm, Saturday 12:00pm — 5:00 pm