Chisenhale Gallery’s mission is to support the integrated production and presentation of new forms of artistic activity and to pursue interdisciplinary models of engagement for local, national and international audiences.
Chisenhale Gallery produces an integrated artistic, education and outreach programme; artist led with a core focus on commissioning ground breaking new work, developing audiences and legacy building. This expands on Chisenhale Gallery’s 25-year history as one of London’s most innovative organisations for contemporary visual art and our reputation for producing important solo commissions with artists at a formative point in their career.
Chisenhale Gallery enables emerging or under-represented artists to make significant steps and pursue important new directions in their practice. At the heart of Chisenhale Gallery’s programme is a remit to commission new work, supporting artists from project inception to realization, providing creative support and critical reflection as much as fundraising and production. The gallery aims to reflect new forms of artistic production, and to propose alternative models responding to the needs of artists as both participants and as part of our core audience. We aim to represent an inspiring and challenging range of voices, nationalities and art forms based on extensive research and strong curatorial vision.
For audiences, Chisenhale Gallery provides an opportunity to experience the process of art production intimately – this is a place where art is not collected for presentation but where it is made – and this in itself provides important learning opportunities to critically reflect and participate. We continuously seek to develop new networks and reach new audiences both locally, nationally and internationally through strategic collaborations with partner organisations on the commissioning and production of projects as well as sharing resources and ideas. We aim to be a key organisation for artist led activities within the Tower Hamlets community with a particular focus on providing activities for young people. As such Chisenhale Gallery operates alternately as an exhibition hall, production agency, research centre and community resource.
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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 Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Florian Hecker, Pablo Bronstein, Melanie Gilligan, Linder, Hito Steyerl, Janice Kerbel and James Richards.
The gallery currently produces up to five major exhibitions and intermittent major live events, Interim, each year. Artists are given a platform to make ambitious new work often in response to the gallery’s unique space, a converted factory of 2,500 square feet. New programmes 21st Century and Open Research host a diverse range of artists, curators, theorists and writers in a range of interdisciplinary, research-based projects with outcomes presented in our adjunct studio space. These programmes are all currently being developed alongside our Offsite programme realizing artworks with artists working in the public realm. We recently launched Propeller, a youth forum for 15-20 year olds and produce a wide range of exhibition related events and artist led events and workshops for families, further education colleges, universities and schools.
Artists participating in the forthcoming 2012/13 programme include Ed Atkins, Mariana Castillo Deball, Benedict Drew, Christina Mackie, Helen Marten, Matthew Noel-Tod, Amalia Pica, Eddie Peake, Corin Sworn and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
Project partners and supporters include Arts Council England; The Canal and Rivers Trust (formerly British Water Ways); Centre for Contemporary, Glasgow; Chisenhale Primary School; Common Practice; Cove Park, Scotland; East End Women’s Institute; The Henry Moore Foundation; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Kunsthal Charlottenberg, Copenhagen; Outset Contemporary Art Fund; The Paul and Louise Cook Endowment Trust; Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford; Tower Hamlets Arts and Music Services (THAMES); St Paul’s Way Trust School; Victoria Park (Tower Hamlets Parks and Open Spaces Department); Wellington Primary School and Kunsthalle Zurich.
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The Gallery occupies a renovated 1930s veneer factory on Chisenhale Road located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, close to Victoria Park in the heart of London’s East End. The veneer factory and Godson’s brewery industrial buildings have been occupied by three organisations Chisenhale Gallery, Chisenhale Dance Space and Chisenhale Art Place Trust (CAPT) since 1980.
The gallery employs four permanent members of staff and offers extensive internship and volunteering opportunities; providing formative training experiences and enabling the development of future arts professionals. The gallery’s programme, management and finance is led by the director. The gallery has a committed and dynamic board of trustees who support the staff, steer the organisation and advocate for the gallery’s activities.
Chisenhale Gallery is a registered charity and one of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio Organisations currently receiving core funding supporting basic running costs and a share of staff salaries. Further staff salaries and all programmes are fundraised for in entirety through funding bodies, sponsors, trusts and foundations, private benefactors and earned income streams such as sales of limited edition prints and event ticketing. Resource sharing is central to all our activities and Chisenhale Gallery collaborates with arts agencies and other organisations to co-produce the majority of our projects.
As an organisation we regularly aim to take the lead and provide a strong voice for the small-scale galleries sector within the wider arts ecology in London, nationally and internationally. This is premised on the belief that the small-scale gallery sector is uniquely placed to provide artists and audiences with experiences and opportunities not offered elsewhere. Chisenhale Gallery is a Founding Member of Common Practice, an advocacy group working for the recognition and fostering of the small-scale contemporary visual arts sector.
Click here for recent press coverage of Chisenhale Gallery Part 1
Click here for recent press coverage of Chisenhale Gallery Part 2
Chisenhale Gallery
Registered charity no. 1026175
Registered company no. 02851794
Company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales
Registered office 64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ
Website design by Studio Frith
Chisenhale Gallery produces an integrated artistic, education and outreach programme; artist led with a core focus on commissioning ground breaking new work, developing audiences and legacy building. This expands on Chisenhale Gallery’s 25-year history as one of London’s most innovative organisations for contemporary visual art and our reputation for producing important solo commissions with artists at a formative point in their career.
Chisenhale Gallery enables emerging or under-represented artists to make significant steps and pursue important new directions in their practice. At the heart of Chisenhale Gallery’s programme is a remit to commission new work, supporting artists from project inception to realization, providing creative support and critical reflection as much as fundraising and production. The gallery aims to reflect new forms of artistic production, and to propose alternative models responding to the needs of artists as both participants and as part of our core audience. We aim to represent an inspiring and challenging range of voices, nationalities and art forms based on extensive research and strong curatorial vision.
For audiences, Chisenhale Gallery provides an opportunity to experience the process of art production intimately – this is a place where art is not collected for presentation but where it is made – and this in itself provides important learning opportunities to critically reflect and participate. We continuously seek to develop new networks and reach new audiences both locally, nationally and internationally through strategic collaborations with partner organisations on the commissioning and production of projects as well as sharing resources and ideas. We aim to be a key organisation for artist led activities within the Tower Hamlets community with a particular focus on providing activities for young people. As such Chisenhale Gallery operates alternately as an exhibition hall, production agency, research centre and community resource.
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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 Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Florian Hecker, Pablo Bronstein, Melanie Gilligan, Linder, Hito Steyerl, Janice Kerbel and James Richards.
The gallery currently produces up to five major exhibitions and intermittent major live events, Interim, each year. Artists are given a platform to make ambitious new work often in response to the gallery’s unique space, a converted factory of 2,500 square feet. New programmes 21st Century and Open Research host a diverse range of artists, curators, theorists and writers in a range of interdisciplinary, research-based projects with outcomes presented in our adjunct studio space. These programmes are all currently being developed alongside our Offsite programme realizing artworks with artists working in the public realm. We recently launched Propeller, a youth forum for 15-20 year olds and produce a wide range of exhibition related events and artist led events and workshops for families, further education colleges, universities and schools.
Artists participating in the forthcoming 2012/13 programme include Ed Atkins, Mariana Castillo Deball, Benedict Drew, Christina Mackie, Helen Marten, Matthew Noel-Tod, Amalia Pica, Eddie Peake, Corin Sworn and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
Project partners and supporters include Arts Council England; The Canal and Rivers Trust (formerly British Water Ways); Centre for Contemporary, Glasgow; Chisenhale Primary School; Common Practice; Cove Park, Scotland; East End Women’s Institute; The Henry Moore Foundation; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Kunsthal Charlottenberg, Copenhagen; Outset Contemporary Art Fund; The Paul and Louise Cook Endowment Trust; Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford; Tower Hamlets Arts and Music Services (THAMES); St Paul’s Way Trust School; Victoria Park (Tower Hamlets Parks and Open Spaces Department); Wellington Primary School and Kunsthalle Zurich.
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The Gallery occupies a renovated 1930s veneer factory on Chisenhale Road located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, close to Victoria Park in the heart of London’s East End. The veneer factory and Godson’s brewery industrial buildings have been occupied by three organisations Chisenhale Gallery, Chisenhale Dance Space and Chisenhale Art Place Trust (CAPT) since 1980.
The gallery employs four permanent members of staff and offers extensive internship and volunteering opportunities; providing formative training experiences and enabling the development of future arts professionals. The gallery’s programme, management and finance is led by the director. The gallery has a committed and dynamic board of trustees who support the staff, steer the organisation and advocate for the gallery’s activities.
Chisenhale Gallery is a registered charity and one of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio Organisations currently receiving core funding supporting basic running costs and a share of staff salaries. Further staff salaries and all programmes are fundraised for in entirety through funding bodies, sponsors, trusts and foundations, private benefactors and earned income streams such as sales of limited edition prints and event ticketing. Resource sharing is central to all our activities and Chisenhale Gallery collaborates with arts agencies and other organisations to co-produce the majority of our projects.
As an organisation we regularly aim to take the lead and provide a strong voice for the small-scale galleries sector within the wider arts ecology in London, nationally and internationally. This is premised on the belief that the small-scale gallery sector is uniquely placed to provide artists and audiences with experiences and opportunities not offered elsewhere. Chisenhale Gallery is a Founding Member of Common Practice, an advocacy group working for the recognition and fostering of the small-scale contemporary visual arts sector.
Click here for recent press coverage of Chisenhale Gallery Part 1
Click here for recent press coverage of Chisenhale Gallery Part 2
Chisenhale Gallery
Registered charity no. 1026175
Registered company no. 02851794
Company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales
Registered office 64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ
Website design by Studio Frith