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Type
  
Gallery

Country
  
United Kingdom

Structural engineer
  
Techniker Ltd

Opened
  
3 October 2007

Phone
  
+44 20 7739 7855

Architect
  
David Adjaye

Town or city
  
London

Architecture firm
  
Adjaye Associates

Quantity surveyor
  
Bucknall Austin Ltd

Floor area
  
1,445 m²

Architectural style
  
Postmodernism

Rivington Place

Address
  
69 Rivington St, London EC2A 3AY, UK

Similar
  
20 Hoxton Square, Gasworks Gallery, Hayward Gallery, The Old Blue Last, The Shoreditch

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Rivington Place is a purpose-built international visual arts centre in Shoreditch, London.

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Origins and history

Rivington Place was commissioned by two publicly funded visual arts organisations, Iniva and Autograph ABP, with the intention of establishing the new venue as a major international visual arts centre in Shoreditch, London. In the late 20th century, this part of the East End emerged as a new arts quarter, famous for harbouring the YBA movement, with leading private galleries such as White Cube in nearby Hoxton Square. Both Iniva and Autograph were founded to reflect and promote cultural diversity in the visual arts, and it was hoped that the new building would advance this aim. The five-storey building was designed by leading architect David Adjaye and opened to the public on 5 October 2007. It cost £8 million to complete and was the first publicly funded new-build international art gallery in London since the Hayward Gallery opened more than 40 years earlier.

Function and activities

Primarily a free public gallery, for most of the year, the two exhibition spaces are used to show contemporary visual art shows organised by either Iniva or Autograph. With 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m2) of space, the venue also houses education facilities and seminar rooms as well as the offices of Iniva and Autograph ABP. The building is home to the Stuart Hall Library, which is Iniva's public reference library for research into diversity and the visual arts.

Significant exhibitions

Featuring in the programme of exhibitions held in the building by the two organizations have been shows by Ghanaian photojournalist James Barnor, British sculptor Hew Locke, French film maker Zineb Sedira and Nigerian/British fine-art photorapher Rotimi Fani-Kayode.

References

Rivington Place Wikipedia