Established December 1986 Website www.chisenhale.org.uk Founded 1986 | Director Polly Staple Phone +44 20 8981 4518 Type of business Non profit art gallery | |
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Location 64 Chisenhale Road, London, E3 5QZ Public transit access No. 277, 425, 339 or D6 bus; Mile End Bethnal Green Address 64 Chisenhale Rd, London E3 5QZ, UK Hours Open today · 2–6PMSunday2–6PMMondayClosedTuesdayClosedWednesdayClosedThursdayClosedFriday2–6PMSaturday2–6PM Similar Whitecha Gallery, Matt's Gallery, Raven Row, Victoria Miro, Flowers Profiles | ||
Florian hecker exhibit at the chisenhale gallery
Chisenhale Gallery is a non-profit contemporary art gallery based in London's East End.
Contents
- Florian hecker exhibit at the chisenhale gallery
- Exhibitions
- Events programme
- Interim
- 21st Century
- Education
- Stop Play Record
- Schools
- Propeller
- Offsite
- Board of Trustees
- Directors
- How to work together
- Common Practice
- Plus Tate
- References
The organisation focuses on a programme of commissioned exhibitions, offsite projects and events, performances, film screenings and talks. Chisenhale Gallery produces up to five major exhibitions each year.
The gallery occupies the ground level of a 1930s veneer factory on Chisenhale Road situated in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, near Victoria Park. The gallery is one of Arts Council England's National Portfolio Organisations.
Exhibitions
Chisenhale Gallery promotes emerging and under-represented artists while contributing to the pursuit of new directions in their practice. The curatorial remit is to commission new work and support the artists throughout the project from inception to realisation and exhibition.
Chisenhale Gallery has been presenting inspiring and challenging new forms of artistic activity since the late 1980s. Artists who have exhibited at Chisenhale Gallery include Rachel Whiteread, Cornelia Parker, Gillian Wearing, Sam Taylor Wood, Wolfgang Tillmans, Paul Noble, Pipilotti Rist, Peter Friedl and Thomas Hirschhorn. More recently under the directorship of Polly Staple the gallery has produced solo commissions with a new generation of artists including Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Florian Hecker, Duncan Campbell, Pablo Bronstein, Melanie Gilligan, Hito Steyerl, Daniel Sinsel, Janice Kerbel, Josephine Pryde, James Richards, Christina Mackie, Linder, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Amalia Pica, Helen Marten, Ed Atkins, Mariana Castillo Deball, Pratchaya Phinthong, Cara Tolmie, Nick Relph, Jordan Wolfson, Camille Henrot, Céline Condorelli, Edward Thomasson, Ed Fornieles, Caragh Thuring, Patrick Staff, Ahmet Ögüt, Nicholas Mangan, Jumana Manna and Park McArthur.
As of 2015 Chisenhale Gallery has presented a series of online commissions including work from Ahmet Ögüt, Wojciech Kosma, Rachel Pimm, Ian Law and Leah Clements
Events programme
Chisenhale’s events programme comprises various exhibition related talks and screenings, Interim and 21st Century events.
Interim
Interim is a programme which consists of one-off live and performance based projects, commissioned to response to the gallery’s unique space. Past Interim events include performances by Bonnie Camplin (2009), Pablo Bronstein, Emily Roydson & Ian White, Linder (all in 2010), Haroon Mirza, Elizabeth Price, Alexandra Bachzetsis (all in 2011), Eddie Peake (2012), Alice Theobald (2014) and Wojciech Kosma with Dwayne Browne, Timothy Murray, Llewellyn Reichman, Yunuen Rhi and Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor (2015)
21st Century
21st Century hosts a divers range of artists, curators, theorists and writers in a range of interdisciplinary, research-based projects. Recent events have included screenings of moving image work by recent graduates, panel discussions, performances and presentations by artists, writers and curators including David Raymond Conroy, Neil Beloufa, Quinn Latimer, Mark Beasley, Sabel Galvadon, Boony Poon, Julia Tcharfas and Tim Ivison, Vanessa Visual and Virginia Verbal, Joseph Walsh, Katrina Palmer, The Melt, Brian Fuata, Rachel Pimm, Ian Law and Leah Clements.
Education
Education at Chisenhale Gallery enables access to contemporary art. The Education programme offers multiple platforms for engagement including; a series of talks and events run concurrently to the Exhibitions programme, including lectures, screenings and workshops, a young peoples programme which began with Propeller (2011–14) and is now centred on Stop Play Record (2015–18), and partnerships with the local formal education sector.
Stop Play Record
In 2015 a three-year joint initiative called Stop, Play, Record was launched to work with six young people aged between 16 - 24 to produce six new short experiment films and a concurrent series of talks and workshops. This programme is a partnership between Arts Council England, Channel 4, the Institute for Contemporary Arts, Chisenhale Gallery, DAZED, Kingston University, New Contemporaries and [space]. For the first year of the programme the gallery is working with two artists, Ayo Akingbade and William Glass.
Schools
The gallery also represents a resource for the formal education sector. Chisenhale’s Education team facilitates the engagement of schools with contemporary art thorough the explorations of ideas and processes.
Between 2008 and 2011 Chisenhale Gallery commissioned A Sense of Place, a programme of artistic projects in collaboration with secondary schools local to the gallery. Over the three years the artists involved in the project included: Public Works, Simon & Tom Bloor, Harold Offeh, Ruth Ewan and Amalia Pica.
Propeller
Between 2011 and 2014 the gallery launched Propeller, a Youth Forum formed of young people interested in art and who want to engage with an arts institution. Propeller worked with artist Benedict Drew in 2011-2012 and produced a collaborative artwork which was exhibited in the gallery. Chisenhale Gallery also partnered with Ikon Gallery, Birmingham for Slow Boat Summer 2012, which involved Propeller working with Ikon’s Youth Programme.
Offsite
Offsite is a programme launched in 2010 which includes commissions, residencies, collaborations and touring events all taking place outside the gallery. The strand focuses on working with artists interested in engagement with social and cultural contexts.
In 2012 the gallery partnered with Create and launched the Chisenhale Gallery CREATE Residency with Edward Thomasson (2012–14) and Yuri Pattison (2014-16) as artist in residence. The gallery also partnered with Tower Hamlets Parks and Open Spaces Department to deliver the Chisenhale Gallery Victoria Park Residency (2013-2014).
Since its initiation Offsite has realised commissions with Yuri Pattison, Travis Elborough, Edward Thomasson, Cathy Haynes, Ruth Ewan, Amalia Pica, Mathew Noel-Tod, Benedict Drew and Cara Tolmie.
Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees provides guidance and together with senior Chisenhale Gallery staff sets strategic directions for the gallery. The Board is chaired by Alice Rawsthorn and its members are:
Previous Trustees include:
Sally Booth, Patrick Brill, Sian Davies (Chair), Joel Donovan (Chair), Anupam Ganguli, Aphrodite Gonou, Piers Gough, Simon Hirtzel, Emma Kay, Deborah Keily, Priya Khanchandani, Stephen Kirk, Mark Leckey, Alicia Miller, Rosalind Nashashibi, Camilla Nicholls (Chair), Lesie Newey, Helena Pask, Cllr. Joshua Peck, Niru Ratnam, Adam Reynolds, David Rice, Yinka Shonibare, Jane Sillis, Sally Tallant, Sarah Weir, Jane Wentworth and Toby Ziegler.
Directors
How to work together
How to work together is a partnership programme of contemporary art commissions and research based projects devised by Chisenhale Gallery, The Showroom and Studio Voltaire. The project is supported by Catalyst Arts, a match funding grant scheme from Arts Council England, Bloomberg and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.
In 2014 responding to the theme of work and friendship Céline Condorelli presented her work alongside of series of events at Chisenhale Gallery. Studio Voltaire showcased a series of murals by Ella Kruglyanskaya, while Gerry Bibby developed a site-specific installation at The Showroom.
Common Practice
Common Practice, London is an advocacy group working for the recognition and fostering of the small-scale contemporary visual arts sector in London. The group's founding members are Afterall, Chisenhale Gallery, Electra, Gasworks, LUX, Matt's Gallery, Mute Publishing, The Showroom and Studio Voltaire.
Plus Tate
Plus Tate was launched in 2010 with an aim to share collections and expertise and build a network that would use Tate's resources to strengthen the contemporary visual arts ecology across the UK. Chisenhale Gallery was invited to join the network in 2015 and is one of 34 partners.