Peckham Rye Station has a Victorian waiting room that was closed for roughly fifty years and still opens only for occasional events. For five days in September, thirty-eight artists fill it. Free entry, no booking, straight off the platforms.

The Old Waiting Room sits inside Peckham Rye Station, a Victorian interior that was closed for roughly fifty years and still opens only for occasional events. Most people who pass through the station every day have never been inside it. For five days in September it holds The Way. Thirty-eight artists worked from a single brief. Begin at one turning point in your own life, small enough that nobody noticed it at the time. Not the events that appear in a biography, but the ones that quietly decide what the biography ends up saying. A room you walked past for years. A sentence you never repeated. A decision made in under a minute and lived with ever since. Thirty-five works fill the room, and three artists perform live on the evening of 18 September. The work is autobiographical without being confessional. There is no fixed route and no recommended order. The room was built for the interval between arriving and leaving, and the works are arranged as a conversation rather than a sequence. Twenty minutes is enough. An hour is better. VISITING 15 to 19 September 2026 The Old Waiting Room, Peckham Rye Station, London SE15 4RX Free entry, no booking required Programme Night 18 September, 6 to 9pm, walk-in welcome ARTISTS Agak-Agak Unit, Ai Deng, Aida Pouryeganeh, Ben Adamson, Chiemi Haraguchi, Elina Browerman, Fatima Ezzahra Rezqi, Feng Zhao, Gianluca Iadema, Huilin Li, Jianqiang (Vincent) Xia, Jie Dong, Joy Wang, Kengo Horikoshi, Laia Sarukhan, Margaret Bruton, Maxim Lester, Millieon Hu, Muchuan, Nadiia Rom, Polina Filippova, Qi Shi, R James Healy, Rachel Romanowsky, Sarunas Berinas, Sijie Lyu, Sue Kite, Suwei Xia, Tyrone Moreno, Xinde Ren, Yiming Sun, Yixuan You, Yujia Yang, Zhiying Chen, Zishi Tu (Yuxi Chen) PERFORMANCE Chadzing Kung, Yuyang Zhou, Zhiqiang Li Presented by OMMFA as part of London Design Festival 2026. OMMFA is a not-for-profit arts organisation working across physical sites, public spaces and online platforms. It collects specific fragments of individual lives: the material that shapes a person without ever reaching the headlines.