Headquarters Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Founded 1988, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | ||
Vox Populi is a nonprofit art gallery and collective in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1988, it presents experimental art and ideas via monthly shows, performances, and gallery talks. It is located on North 11th Street. It is the longest running artist collective in the city of Philadelphia.
Among the artists whose work the space has hosted include Kembra Pfahler, Israeli artist Guy Ben-Ari, and Philadelphia-based artists Virgil Marti and Brainstormers member Maria Dumlao. Musical performers at their old location on Cherry Street included Gang Gang Dance, Comets on Fire, Growing, Wolf Eyes and many others.
In 2011, Vox Populi opened a 1000 square foot black box performance space, AUX, which highlights interdisciplinary time-based art with sound art, film screenings, performance, dance, and experimental theater as well as hosting classes, workshops, and other events. AUX has hosted programs with performers and media artists such as Dynasty Handbag, Jacolby Satterwhite, CA Conrad, Angela Washko, Ann Hirsch and Miguel Gutiérrez among others.
Vox is also home to Fourth Wall, a dedicated video lounge space which the collective invites outside curators to program for 2–3 months at a time. Fourth Wall was founded as an independent gallery within the space called "Screening" in 2007 by collaborative video artists and former members Matthew Suib and Nadia Hironaka.
In 2010, Vox Populi was invited to participate in No Soul For Sale at the Tate Modern, a festival of 70 international independent non-commercial art spaces, held in the Turbine Hall as part of the Tate Modern's 10th anniversary celebrations. In 2014, Vox Populi hosted the show Alien She, the first exhibition to examine the lasting impact of Riot Grrrl on artists and cultural producers working today co-curated by Astria Suparak and Ceci Moss. �
Vox Populi's programming is made possible in part by funding from the Pew Center among other charitable foundations and private individuals.