No Man's Art Gallery

No Man's Art Gallery is an online affordable art gallery, and the first art gallery to organize pop up galleries in a different country every three months.^{[citation needed]}

The gallery describes its purpose to be 'to provide an international platform for young artists'.^{[citation needed]} Most art in the gallery is painting or photography. The predominantly young artists are recruited in the city of exhibition, and taken along to the next cities when possible. Within three months, No Man's Art sets up a network of artists, art lovers/buyers, press and support.

Background

No Man's Art Gallery was founded in 2010. Since 2010, the organization set up or planned pop up art exhibitions in Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2010); Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Hamburg, Germany; Mumbai, India; and Paris, France (all 2011).

The gallery was in the Dutch news in March 2011, when the NRC Handelsblad newspaper revealed the story behind No Man's Art Gallery.^{[citation needed]} In an interview with that newspaper, Emmelie Koster, founder of No Man's Art Gallery, admitted to having invented the gallery to sell her own paintings, which she made out of boredom, using the artist pseudonym 'Bob Koster'. It was only when 'real' artists asked her to feature their work in the gallery that she decided to turn her fake art gallery into a real one and organize pop up exhibitions.^[1]

Pop Up Gallery

The pop up galleries organized by No Man's Art follow a similar pattern.^{[citation needed]} Every three months, the gallery pops up in a different metropole. The address is secret and is only revealed to people that sign up beforehand. The gallery takes pride in finding special locations for their galleries. Previous locations were:

• Rotterdam: A luxury flat for sale in Rotterdam-Kralingen.
• Amsterdam: Westerpark in Amsterdam. The art was exhibited on trees, for one night only during the Dutch annual Midwinter barbecue.
• Hamburg: Hasenmanufaktur at Hafentor 7, an old 1930s harbor building at Landungsbrücken, Hamburg.
• Mumbai: New Great Eastern Mills in Byculla. On the premises of an old mill compound, the visitors had to cross the magnificent ruins of the cotton mill to get to the gallery space facing a pond with turtles.

Projects

Leading up to their exhibition in Mumbai in July 2011, No Man's Art Gallery organized a photography contest for teenagers in the slums of Dharavi, Mumbai's biggest slum. The winner of the contest was exhibited at the pop up gallery in Mumbai.^[2]

References

1. ^ "Student verzint galerie". NRC Handelsblad. 24 March 2011. 
2. ^ "No Man’s Art organizes photography contest in slums of Mumbai". No Man's Art Gallery website — Blog. http://www.nomansart.com/No_Mans_Art/Blog/Entries/2011/5/25_No_Mans_Art_organizes_photography_contest_in_slums_of_Mumbai.html. 

External links

• Official website