CHISENHALE ART GALLERY
Is one of London’s most innovative galleries for contemporary visual art, promoting national and international developments in visual culture through its ambitious commissioning of solo exhibitions and a newly established programme of public events including performances, film screenings and talks. Chisenhale Gallery is dedicated to increasing access to the visual arts through its’ artist-led, community and schools education programme.
Chisenhale Gallery has a long-term reputation for producing innovative solo commissions with artists often at a formative stage in their career. In the 1990s Chisenhale Gallery produced exhibitions with artists such as Rachel Whiteread, Cornelia Parker, Gillian Wearing, Sam Taylor Wood, Wolfgang Tillmans, Paul Noble, Pipilotti Rist, Peter Friedl and Thomas Hirschorn and more recently with Marine Hugonnier, Olaf Breuning, Mai-Thu Perret, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer and Jaki Irvine.
The gallery currently produces up to five solo exhibitions each year. Artists are given a platform to make ambitious new work in response to the gallery’s unique space, a converted factory of 2,500 square feet.
Chisenhale Education- A Sense of Place, was a project exploring the changing face of the East End in the run up to the Olympics 2012 through working with a range of contemporary artists and other cultural practitioners.
A Sense of Place overview:
3 year cross-curriculum project involving artists, teachers and the Chisenhale.
The theme of Sense of place relates to both the changes in the East end in the run-up to the Olympics, to the transition into secondary school at key stage 3 and the artwork/ artist and processes.
Objectives:
To embed artists into school day and initiate ongoing contact with Chisenhale as a resource
To develop sustainable links/network between the 3 schools and Chisenhale.
To commission exciting artworks as part of the process – a proportion/all may become public artworks increasing visibility for school, sense of pride, stake in local area and resources, association and working relationship with up and coming and established contemporary artists working in non-object based and live art – at the forefront of new processes.
Chisenhale Gallery has a long-term reputation for producing innovative solo commissions with artists often at a formative stage in their career. In the 1990s Chisenhale Gallery produced exhibitions with artists such as Rachel Whiteread, Cornelia Parker, Gillian Wearing, Sam Taylor Wood, Wolfgang Tillmans, Paul Noble, Pipilotti Rist, Peter Friedl and Thomas Hirschorn and more recently with Marine Hugonnier, Olaf Breuning, Mai-Thu Perret, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer and Jaki Irvine.
The gallery currently produces up to five solo exhibitions each year. Artists are given a platform to make ambitious new work in response to the gallery’s unique space, a converted factory of 2,500 square feet.
Chisenhale Education- A Sense of Place, was a project exploring the changing face of the East End in the run up to the Olympics 2012 through working with a range of contemporary artists and other cultural practitioners.
A Sense of Place overview:
3 year cross-curriculum project involving artists, teachers and the Chisenhale.
The theme of Sense of place relates to both the changes in the East end in the run-up to the Olympics, to the transition into secondary school at key stage 3 and the artwork/ artist and processes.
Objectives:
To embed artists into school day and initiate ongoing contact with Chisenhale as a resource
To develop sustainable links/network between the 3 schools and Chisenhale.
To commission exciting artworks as part of the process – a proportion/all may become public artworks increasing visibility for school, sense of pride, stake in local area and resources, association and working relationship with up and coming and established contemporary artists working in non-object based and live art – at the forefront of new processes.