future
* ViennaFair 2011
gallery artists
* Ştefan
Constantinescu
* Marcin Dudek
* Javier Rodriguez
* Kama Sokolnicka
* Florian Wüst
project artists
* Aoife Collins
* Hreinn Fridfinnsson
* Dave Hanger
* Karen Mirza and
Brad Butler
* Trong G. Nguyen
* Karim Noureldin
* Anna Ostoya
* Ben Washington
past exhibitions
* I Will Eat
This Sleepy Town
* murmur
* Cornered Rooms
* Inside outsider
language
* Empty Sets
* All that remains
* unfinished business
* Cathode Ray Mission
* Weird Science
* just another shadow
* Javier Rodriguez
* an inquiry..
* Unnamed
Collaboration
past events
* Flip the coin
* Digging and climbing
* The Cu Chi Tunnels
* Siegfried Zaworka
* In translation
* Performing the text
* Riding the Wave
* Poetic Corners
* ViennaFair 2010
* 3:00
* What will the
next revolution
look like?
* Phoney Language
* Tension,
Intervention
and Restraint
* travelling alone
* Memento
Project artists - works and editions available
Hreinn Fridfinnsson
Dave Hanger
Karen Mirza and Brad Butler
Karim Noureldin
Amikam Toren
Born 1943 in Iceland, lives and works in Amsterdam
Fridfinnsson has been at the forefront of the development of conceptual art not only in Iceland, but also in Europe, influencing generations of artists since the 1970s. His work is celebrated for its lyricism and stark poetry that transcends the often-commonplace subjects and materials that he uses. Fridfinnsson presents found objects with which he interferes to a minimal extent, often creating new works that investigate the ideas of the self and of time. Although there is a consistency of theme and a common emotional thread to his art, the media that Fridfinnsson employs are remarkably varied in scale and substance, from photography, drawings and tracings to presentations and installations of sound, texts and ready-mades.
In London, Fridfinnsson exhibited in a solo-show at the Serpentine Gallery in 2007, and has represented Iceland at the 45th Venice Biennale. He has also exhibited at the National Gallery of Iceland, the ICA, Amsterdam, Kunsthalle Wien, and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Untitled (More or Less), 2010
silkscreen print on paper, two 36x36cm, edition of 50, signed
£550 unframed
House Project, 2007
gicleé print on paper, 19x28.8cm, edition of 100+20ap
£450 unframed
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Born 1982 in Kettering, lives and works in London
Dave Hanger appropriates ubiquitous everyday motifs and interprets them within a reductive form of abstraction. By using recognisable elements of our everyday visual vocabulary, he allows viewers a notional familiarity with his work which maintains its ambiguous form as it enters the gallery space. Hanger currently works at Cubitt and Studio Voltaire.
Hind-Sight, 2010
painted pewter, radius c. 120cm
Description of a Picture, 2008-
brass, perspex and steel, dimensions variable
currently on display in the gallery office
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Born 1967 Zurich, lives and works in Lausanne
Noureldin's geometrical abstraction opens new spatial dimensions. The meticulously executed colourful wall works, described by him as ‘room drawings’, create a multitude of visual scenarios. For Noureldin, abstraction is an international language with local dialects, and his work is based more on intuition than on calculation and deduction.
Noureldin studied at the University of Art Zurich and at the University of Art Basel, and since 2002 has been a professor of Fine Art at University of Art and Design in Lausanne. Noureldin has exhibited at Von Bartha Garage, Kunsthalle Basel, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain MAMCO in Geneva, and Kunstmuseum Winterthur.
The imposing rays of Sunset (2005) project escape routes but also consume the occupier, offering a darker, more contemplative space. The emotional contingency projected from the work invites the dreamer, without excluding the world outside.
Evo (07-11018), 2007
colour pencil on paper, 32x40cm
currently on display in the gallery office
Evo (07-11100), 2007
colour pencil on paper, 32x40cm
currently on display in the gallery office
Evo (08-1102), 2008
pencil on paper, 32x40cm
currently on display in the gallery office
Exhibition with Waterside Project Space:
Cornered Rooms
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Karen Mirza and Brad Butler's artistic practice is based on collaboration and dialogue. This manifests itself in a multi-layered practice of filmmaking, drawing, installation, photography, performance, publishing and curating. Their work is engaged with challenging and interrogating terms such as participation, collaboration, the social turn and the traditional roles of the artist as producer and the audience as recipient. www.no-w-here.org.uk. Karen Mirza and Brad Butler have been actively involved in the London art scene for over thirteen years and have participated in many exhibitions in leading institutions in Europe and abroad. They recently received the 2009 production grant from the Museum of Contemporary Cinema Foundation Madrid, they were Festival Award winners at The 2010 Chicago Film and Video Festival and were nominated for the 2010 Transmediale Award Berlin. Their current body of work, The Museum of Non Participation, commissioned by Artangel, proposes a museum as a conceptual (geo)political construct of gesture, image and thresholds of language. This ongoing body of work has since been the main feature in Kaleidoscope Magazine, the front cover of Art Monthly and the subject of Future Now Greats in Art Review whilst their first film made in this context The Exception and the Rule has screened in over 16 major international festivals. Karen Mirza and Brad Butler's forthcoming work opens at Vivid in Birmingham on 3rd November 2010 and they are invited artists in residence at Townhouse Gallery in Cairo 2010/11.
Projects with Waterside Project Space:
What will the next revoltion look like?
ViennaFair 2010
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Born 1945, Israel, lives and works in London
Amikam Toren reworks objects to evaluate their potential content through a practice that is positioned between painting and sculpture, weighing the balance of comedy and critique. Often described as a painter, he manipulates this medium to explore moments of triviality and their relationship to recognisable canons. Toren has exhibited internationally, including the Serpentine, the ICA, IKON, Matt’s Gallery and Keith Talent Gallery.
Exhibition with Waterside Project Space:
Inside outsider language
Last Drawing No. 0, 2005