Artist-run space

An artist-run space is a gallery space run by artists, thus circumventing the structures of public and private galleries.

Artist-run spaces have become realised as an important factor in urban regeneration. This effect was particularly strong in Glasgow, where the city won the accolade 'European Capital of Culture' in 1990, largely due to the large number of artist-run exhibition spaces and galleries.^[1] Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist coined the term "The Glasgow Miracle" to describe this.

Examples of artist-run spaces include City Racing, BANK, studio1.1 [2] Studio Voltaire, Cubitt and Auto Italia South East in London, Milwaukee's BATHAS Internationale, Berlin's Sparwasser HQ , island6 in Shanghai, Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou, 16 Beaver (New York), Good Children (New Orleans), Mercer Union and YYZ Artists' Outlet (Toronto), p-10 (Singapore), Southern Exposure (San Francisco), Transmission Gallery and Market Gallery in Glasgow, The Embassy Gallery and Total Kunst in Edinburgh, Generator Projects in Dundee, OUTPOST Gallery and STEW Gallery & Artist Studios in Norwich. In the last years many artist-run spaces started opening in South America, mostly in Brazil and Argentina, an example being APPETITE Gallery [3] in Buenos Aires.

In 2005 Seattle-based SOIL Publications released SOIL: Artist-Run Gallery 1995-2005, edited by Yuki Nakamura. This collection of critical essays, features on past exhibitions and profiles of artists documents ten years in the running of an artist-run space.

In 2007 Chicago not-for-profit threewalls began publishing PHONEBOOK, a directory of independent art spaces, programming and projects across the United States now in its 3rd edition with over 750 listings. The most recent edition features essays by the artists who administrate the spaces listed or have a history of participating in artist-run culture.

New York City

During the 1950s in Manhattan, artist-run co-ops became the alternative to the uptown Madison Avenue galleries that catered mostly to wealthy blue-chip and European art-oriented collectors. From the early 1950s to the early 1960s the Tenth Street galleries located mostly in the East Village in lower Manhattan became the proving ground for much of the contemporary art that achieved popularity and commercial success in the decades that followed. During the 1960s the Park Place Gallery became the first important contemporary gallery in SoHo.^[2] Park Place gallery was an artist-run cooperative that featured cutting-edge Geometric abstraction.^[3] Eventually by the 1970s SoHo became the new center for the New York art world as hundreds of commercial galleries opened in a sudden wave of artistic prosperity.^[4]

Pierogi 2000, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is run by artist Joe Amrhein. The gallery puts on traditional exhibitions and also presents works on paper in an extensive system of flat files. Viewers can look through hundreds of individual artists’ portfolios of works on paper contained within the flat file drawers. These files travel for exhibition at other venues in the United States and abroad.

Momenta Art is an artist-run nonprofit institution also in Williamsburg. Momenta Art shows work by emerging artists that are not well represented in commercial galleries. It has an annual fundraiser which is a benefit group exhibition and raffle. The fundraiser has been hosted regularly by White Columns, another non-profit organization dedicated to supporting emerging artists.

MINUS SPACE is an artist-run curatorial project devoted to reductive art. Minus Space maintains an exhibition space in Brooklyn and curates exhibitions at other venues nationally and internationally. Minus Space also has a location on the Internet enabling it to collaborate with other institutions.^[5] The website has a running log of related exhibitions and a chronology documenting the development of reductive and concept-based art.

Manhattan Graphics Center (MGC), located in the West Village, is run by artist volunteers and offers artists printmaking studios and classes. In a cooperative system artists can also use the facility in exchange for administrative work. Manhattan Graphics Center also exhibits the work of artists who have used the facility.

San Francisco

The Kitsch Gallery is an artist-run space located in San Francisco's Mission District. It was founded in 2009 by three students, Nikki Mirsaeid, Taj Robinson, and Myrina Tunberg at the San Francisco Art Institute and University of San Francisco. Kitsch was voted Best New Warehouse Space of 2010 by SF Weekly.^[6] Artists who have been presented or exhibited at Kitsch include Alex Braubach, Boyz IV Men, Ryan Coffey, Dean Dempsey, Henry Gunderson, Greg Ito, Warren Thomas King, and Cal Volner-Dison.^[7]

London

Charles Thomson founded the Stuckism International Gallery in 2002 in Charlotte Road, Shoreditch, in a four-story Victorian warehouse.^[8] He said, "The main space was my living room. It had sofas and normal home lighting ... People could come in, sit down, maybe have a cup of tea".^[9] The last show there was in 2004.^[10]

The Transition Gallery was founded in October 2002 in a converted garage close to Victoria Park, Hackney, London, and is run by artists Cathy Lomax and Alex Michon to show work by established and new contemporary artists.^[11] In 2006, the gallery moved to Regent Studios in Andrews Road, London. Charles Saatchi bought Stella Vine's painting Hi Paul Can You Come Over I'm Really Frightened from the gallery in 2004.

Stella Vine founded the Rosy Wilde gallery^[12] as an artist-run project space,^[13] in 2003 in a former butcher's shop in East London to showcase work by emerging artists.^[14]

Australia

Many artist-run spaces exist across Australian. Below is a list of spaces by Australian cities.

Brisbane

Accidentally Annie Street, Addition, Boxcopy, Current Project, Diagram, The Fort, Inbetween Spaces, Independent Press, Jugglers, Level, Love Love, Nine Lives, The Maximilian, proppaNOW, The Wandering Room

Sydney

Anyplace, Articulate Project Space, At The Vanishing Point, Bill + George, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Collective, Chalkhorse, Das Projects (Das SuperPaper), DB Projects, Ded Space, Eastern Bloc, ESP, Factory 49, Firstdraft, FraserStudios, China Heights, gaffa, Galleryeight, Index, International Noise, Kaleidoscope, Kudos, Locksmith, Match Box Projects, Mils, Monstrosity, MOP Projects, The Paper Mill, Paper Plane, Peloton, Quarterbred, The Red Hattler Theatre, runway, Serial Space, SLAMstudio, SLOT, SNO, Squatspace, TAP, Tortuga Studios, The Ultimo Project

Melbourne

69 Smith Street, arc Yinnar, Blindside, C3, Conical Inc, Cowwarr, Hell, Kings, Loop, Neon Parc, Off The Curb, Platform artists group, Seventh Gallery, TCB, Utopian Slumps, West Space

Perth

6A.N.I.C.A., Breadbox, Gotham Studios, Jacksue, PICA, Spiral, The Terminal, Verge

Adelaide

FELTspace, Two Percent

Moscow

In 2010, Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich joined Solyanka State Gallery in Moscow as its director. The space will be re-launched under the name of SOLYANKA VPA (Videoart. Performance. Animation) - a state museum for screen art and artist-run space.

Paris

Immanence is an artist-run space located in Paris Montparnasse. It was founded in 1998 by two artists, Cannelle Tanc and Frédéric Vincent. Since the opening in January 25th, 2000, this very active artist-run space have organize more of 100 exhibitions. In particular the first Edouard Levé's Exhibition, "Rêves Reconstitué" in 2000, a carte blanche to Jean-Marc Bustamante a solo show of Eric Corne, "Le plus plus grand piano du monde " Goran Vejvoda, "readonlymemories" Grégory Chatonsky, "men crying" Gulsun Karamustafa, "Au-tour de Robert Filliou, Cover record. In 2008, The center of research and documentation around artist book, Archive Station open with a big exhibition of artists books since this opening, Immanence have made lot of exhibition with artists book in particular something else press and around in 2010.^{[citation needed]}

Buenos Aires

The too main artist-run spaces from Buenos Aires were Belleza y Felicidad and APPETITE, both set the standards for emerging art in Argentina, in very different ways. Belleza y Felicidad, founded by artist Fernanda Laguna, was an underground space that had a cult significance, with a small but loyal crowd of followers. While APPETITE, founded by Daniela Luna, was a gallery determined to transform the art scene of Argentina, setting the example of how great things can be achieved with low budget and strong determination. Since its creation in 2005, APPETITE has been acclaimed several times by local and international media such as New York Times, CNN, Time Out, Rolling Stone, BlackBook, Nylon, and more. APPETITE was featured in many art fairs, it was the first argentinian gallery to be accepted at Frieze, London, where it was one of the stands that received more attention from the press and public. APPETITE generated so much movement at its location at the barrio of San Telmo, that a lot of galleries moved to that area, and new ones started to open, transforming San Telmo in the main contemporary art area. As was intended by Daniela Luna, APPETITE inspired many young artists to open their own spaces all around Buenos Aires and also in other provinces, turning this country a never ending flow of art events and parties. In mid 2010 APPETITE closed the doors of its three spaces, as Daniela Luna moved to Beijing, China to start new projects, but she keeps a secret art space hidden in the city that runs together with artist Judith Villamayor, by the name of Popularity.

Footnotes

References

• Volk, Gregory. "The Chelsea Alternative", Flash Art, Summer 1999, Vol.XXXII, No.207.
• MacAdam, Barbara A. "Tilman - Minus Space", Art News, January 2008, Vol 107, No 1, p 132.
• Colon, Lorne. "Artist-run Manhattan Graphics Center celebrates 20 years", Downtown Express, Vol 18, Issue 52, May 12–18, 2006.
• Machine Learning, exhibition catalog, The Boyden Gallery of St. Mary's College of Maryland, The Painting Center, Gallery Sonja Roesch and Minus Space. Essay by Matthew Deleget.
• Satinsky, Abigail; Bryce Dwyer & Shannon Stratton eds. "Phonebook: A directory of independent art spaces, programming, and projects across the United States." threewalls, Chicago, 2011.

See also

• Tenth Street galleries
• Alternative exhibition space
• Artist cooperatives
• Artist-run initiative
• Canadian artist-run centres
• Immanence Paris

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