Paying Artists Regional Advocates have been busy over the bank holiday weekend, with a hustings event in Glasgow, a relay race in Bristol, plus more activity in Liverpool, Birmingham and Cardiff.
Just because you’re not officially in the Venice Biennale doesn’t mean you can’t be part of the frenzy of activity taking place across the city. Pippa Koszerek highlights some of the alternative and artist-led events taking place during and beyond the Biennale’s three-day preview.
Beyond the main national pavilions, this year’s Venice Biennale features over 40 ‘Collateral’ events, including official presentations from Scotland and Wales. Here, we select ten not to miss.
This week’s selection includes a sculpture show in Milton Keynes, photography at the Whitechapel and a video installation in Brighton.
There are 89 official national pavilions at the 56th Venice Biennale, situated in the Giardini, Arsenale and venues across the city. On the eve of the Biennale’s three-day preview prior to it opening to the public on 9 May, Pippa Koszerek picks ten countries you really should visit.
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
Inaugural festival featuring film, performance and installation launches this weekend in Dalston, London with a focus on young artists and curators.
This bank holiday weekend sees Glasgow awash with exhibitions and events in artists’ homes as part of the second annual Openhouse Art Festival, while at the opposite end of the country Brighton’s artists are also opening their doors.
The organisers of the annual Hackney WickED Festival in East London have announced that the event will not be going ahead this year due to spiralling costs – but that the community interest company will continue to work with artists in London and beyond.
This year’s 50-page a-n Degree Shows Guide 2015 features more than 75 forthcoming shows across the UK, plus perspectives from artists, curators, academics and graduating students on what artist Bob and Roberta Smith refers to as an “incredible rite of passage”.
Acme reveal the winner of award open to current studio residents.
Paying Artists Regional Advocates are planning a host of activities in Glasgow, Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff and Liverpool in the lead up to, and immediately following, the general election.
To coincide with the general election, Photofusion in London is showing Simon Roberts’ The Election Project, a body of work documenting the 2010 election campaign. Here he discusses the photographs in light of the current political climate, the symbolic nature of landscape photography, and his attempts to democratise the artistic process.
The Arts Emergency Response Centre at The Cass, Whitechapel is curated by Bob and Roberta Smith and brings together artists, students and organisations to highlight the importance of arts education.
The recently re-furbished Whitworth in Manchester and Belfast’s The MAC are among the contenders for this year’s Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year.
The Glasgow based artist, writer and curator explains why she is one of 11 Paying Artists Regional Advocates who are making sure artists’ voices are heard in the lead up to the general election.
Art in Bearpit, curated by Hand in Glove, launches the first three months of its participatory public programme in Bristol’s iconic sunken roundabout.
British Art Show 8 curators Anna Colin and Lydia Yee have selected the artists for this year’s exhibition, which opens in Leeds in October.
This week’s selection features a post-production studio in Bristol, old and modern masters in Norwich and an exploration of Birmingham’s history.
Published on the occasion of her solo exhibition at Foam in Amsterdam, Regine Petersen’s Find a Fallen Star is made up of three hardcover books in one slipcase that combine photography with archival material to narrate and establish a small history of meteorite incidents.
10 artists announced for major new alternative education scheme led by a consortium of artist-led and NPO organisations.
Our selection of what’s on highlights for the next week, drawn from postings by a-n’s members on the site’s Events listings section.
A beardless Gavin Turk will be presenting his new limited editions series Project Beard this weekend at The Other Art Fair London. The art fair for ‘undiscovered’ artists will be launching its first regional edition in Bristol in June.
Axisweb’s board of trustees has announced the appointment of Mark Smith as executive director, replacing Sheila McGregor who stepped down at the beginning of April.
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art director Godfrey Worsdale is to leave the organisation in July to join The Henry Moore Foundation as its new head.
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