Cruel The Night Café

Date: Saturday 10 January, 2026, 4 - 6pm

Location: The Blue Lion Pub

The Perimeter is pleased to present a book launch for Cruel The Night Café, a publication produced on the occasion of Florian Krewer's eponymous solo exhibition at The Blue Lion. 

Next door to The Perimeter is the Blue Lion Pub, an establishment which dates back to 1627 from London’s post-Elizabethan era. Layered with histories as a former public house on a working mews, the building has previously been in operation since 1824.

In response to this location, Florian Krewer presents a new body of small-scale paintings and works on paper. Cruel The Night Café intimately explores underground nightlife scenes, in relation to the notion of the artist bar as a collective gathering space. The unfamiliar backdrop of the pub provides a new vantage point on this series of works, where Krewer depicts interior narrative scenes, including images of clubs, parties, drag queens, musicians, animals and Venetian masques. 

Alongside this exhibition, The Perimeter has produced a limited-edition publication, interlaced with images of the artist’s works and personal archives. The catalogue is designed by Moritz Tibes, with a text written by Hiji Nam.