I was reminded of this art exhibition by a comment by poster CH1 in an Urban 75 forum thread about Loughborough Junction station history, posted August 3 2026. He said “The one tantalising thing I can recall-but cannot find any online confirmation- is that when the renovations were starting there was a German art exhibition in that back area on the ground floor for a few weeks or even months.”

The area is now closed off behind the railing gate.

The exhibition was organised by Gustav Deutsch, an Austrian artist then living in London. The exhibition was titled The Art of Travel and was the third in a series of exhibitions, the 1st, The Art of Travel was in Vienna followed by The Art of Travel Frankfurt. It ran for the months of July and August.

The following is a Google English translation from Gustav Deutsch’s website.

A disused ticket office at Loughborough Junction Station, located in south London between Brixton and Camberwell, was transformed into the TRAVEL ART ARCHIVE for two months.

London artists were invited to contribute a work to the ARCHIVE.

Branch offices of the ARCHIVE were established at the Battersea Arts Centre, the Chisenhale Gallery, and the Watermans Arts Centre, where selected works were presented in display cases in weekly rotating exhibitions.

In addition, events were organized at the ticket office, the cooperating art centers, and the London Filmmakers Co-operative, culminating in a final exhibition at the Chisenhale Gallery.

Events:

GREETINGS FROM ABROUD

Battersea Arts Centre, July 2, 1991

A public reading. Each attendee presented a text of their own choosing or writing.

IN MOTION

Film night at the London Filmmakers Co-operative, July 4, 1991

Films by:

Karsten Bott, Gustav Deutsch, Dennis Dracup, Gerald Harringer, Wolfgang Herburger, Kim Hogben, Herbert Kerschbaum, Gerda Lampalzer, Lilo Mangelsdorff, Michael Maziere, Manfred Neuwirth, Dietmar Schipek, Anna Thew, Achim Wollscheid.

THE TIDE COMES IN

Watermans Arts Centre, July 9, 1991

An open-air event on the banks of the Thames, with a program of live music, pre-recorded audio, and a sound performance changing every 15 minutes, from 7:12 pm (low tide) to 1:34 am (high tide).

Participating artists:

Jamie Crafts, Gustav Deutsch, Dracup 2, Werner Kodytek, Mike Lewis, Philip Sanderson, Hanna Schimek, Deborah Williams.

On the 11 July 1991 They had a special Travel Art Travel Card event

For one day, the Archive was transformed back into a ticket office to distribute the TRAVEL ART TRAVEL CARD, which allowed users of the London Rail and Underground network to experience cinematic, theatrical, musical, and other events during their daily journeys.

The following is a list of artists who made contributions to the exhibition at the various locations.

Peter Arkl, William T. Ayton, Amanda Benson, Eva Brunner Szabo, Nick de Ville, Gustav Deutsch, Axel Dielmann, Dennis Dracup, Der Blaue Kompressor, Luitgard Eisenmeier, Anthony Escott, Dagmar Frühwald, Chris Furby, Lore Heuermann, Marina Jahncke, Joanna Jones, Wolfgang Herburger, Sophie Horton, Herbert Kerschbaum, Rob Kessler, Ulf Kilian, Stefan Köser, Silvia Kniefacz, Gerda Lampalzer, Richard Miklin, Herbert Pasiesznyk, Joseph Pletsch, Ute Schendel, Alex Silber, Pavel Sisulak, Stefan Szczelkun, Mostafa Tabbou, Gerhard Winkler.

The following photos from the Gustav Deutsch website. Some photos at the end are from the other venues for the exhibition.

https://www.gustavdeutsch.net

Thanks to my friend Brian, who was friendly with some of the group of Austrian artists in London at that time, and remembered the exhibition and found the Gustav Deutsch link for me.

PS, Brian remembers at that time , Loughborough Junction Train Station was closed at weekends, with trains not stopping, however the Austrian artists had access to the station and a lunch was held one Sunday on the platform, where they laid out on a trestle table .