“Everything Must Go” by Hilary Powell & Dan Edelstyn
Saturday May 9th to Monday May 25th, 2026
Free entry: 12-6pm, Wednesday to Sunday
Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell's installation Everything Must Go, tells the story of the artist/activist couple's multilayered works that became the feature documentary films Power Station (2025) and Bank Job (2021).
Bank Job instigated a community heist on an unjust financial system - setting up a rebel bank on a high street and printing money to cancel £1.2 million of predatory debt. Power Station saw them imagining themselves as both Central Bank and Central Government to unleash a green new deal in microcosm and involved rooftop sleeping, sunflowers and singing in the pursuit of energy democracy.
Exhibits on show include “Big Bang 2”, the gold van full of debt detonated during Bank Job; the bed the couple slept in on their roof during Power Station; an ingot and a coin, both smelted by hand at London Sculpture Workshop from the metal of the destroyed van engine; the original HSCB printing plates (the source plates for the banknotes already in the V&A's permanent collection); as well as other prints and artefacts from the two films.
On Saturday May 23rd, we're holding a Live Auction of selected pieces from the show, along with a few set price items. The auction will be conducted by Kairos regular, artist Gavin Turk. It will be followed by Dan’s first ever cabaret performance, with a chance to sing along. It promises to be historic.
Proceeds from the auction will go towards Hilary and Dan’s next project – setting up a community energy centre in Nigel Farage’s constituency.
“Big Bang 2” and other works are being auctioned online so as to reach the widest audience. To access the Digital Auction click here. The hope is to raise £250,000.
The title of the show cuts two ways. Everything in the room must go — prints, paintings, the van, the lot. And so must everything that made the work necessary: the fossil-fuel economy, the extractive banks, the debt machine. Clearing the studio is the easy part. Clearing the system is the work.
Everything Must Go!
Entry is free to view Everything Must Go. Opening hours are 12pm to 6pm, Wednesday to Sunday and by appointment (email events@kairos.london).
Supporting events include a screening of Power Station on Saturday May 9th, a screening of Bank Job on Friday May 22nd, the Live Auction on Saturday May 23rd, a talk, The Art and Activism of Money by Max Haiven on Sunday May 24th, followed by a Money Making Workshop later that afternoon and closing drinks with Hilary and Dan.
To see details of all the events in the series click here.
Kairos, 84 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TG
Free entry. The show is open to view between 12pm and 6pm, Wednesday to Sunday.
You can find our Club Rules, including our no phone policy, here.
