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. Fact|date=July 2007 Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist coined the term "The Glasgow Miracle" to describe this.

Examples of artist-run spaces include City Racing (London), BANK (London), Sparwasser HQ (Berlin), Vitamin Creative Space (Guangzhou), 16 Beaver (New York), AV-ARKKI (Helsinki), Mercer Union and YYZ Artists' Outlet (Toronto), p-10 (Singapore), Studio Voltaire (London), Cubitt (london), Southern Exposure (San Francisco), Transmission Gallery (Glasgow), Market Gallery (Glasgow),The Embassy Gallery (Edinburgh) Total Kunst (Edinburgh), Generator Projects (Dundee) and OUTPOST Gallery (Norwich).

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.

New York City

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. Flat files travel for exhibition at other venues in the United States and abroad.

Momenta Art is an artist-run charitable 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. [MacAdam, Barbara A. "Tilman - Minus Space", "Art News", January 2008, Vol 107, No 1, p 132.] 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.

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.

ee also

*Artist cooperatives
*Artist-run initiative
*Canadian artist-run centres