Neu! Aaron Angell: The Devil's Arse
Terry Dennett - The Crisis Project
The Anti-Library
Joel Holmberg - Inkjet Sculpture (2010) 2010
Bevis Martin and Charlie Youle - A Parade of Problems
Bevis Martin & Charlie Youle
Watch Out Kids - Mick Farren & Edward Barker
Roy Ascott
Bob Cobbing
Good Morning Mr. Orwell (1984)
past
04 Nov–17 Dec 2011 exhibitions
BLACKBOARD: Peter Kennard - Blackboard@Earth. For over forty-years, Peter Kennard’s photo-based work has represented a singular commitment to the political effect of images.
04 Nov–17 Dec 2011
LIBRARY: The possibility of an anti-library, as well as ideas of anti-knowledge and un-learning, informs a new project in SPACE’s LIBRARY gallery.
04 Nov–17 Dec 2011
Terry Dennett and Jimmy Merris: ECONOMICS 101
ANNEXE: In 1902 American author Jack London, dressed head to toe in shabby second hand clothes, took lodgings in the East End and set about exploring the realities of that area’s chronic social deprivation.
04 Nov–17 Dec 2011
AARON ANGELL: THE DEVIL'S ARSE
GALLERY: Bad studio pottery, rural and craft culture, obscure folk music, art-house porn – just some of the many marginal reference points informing The Devil’s Arse, an exhibition of ceramics and walls paintings by Aaron Angell.
21 Oct
PERFORMANCE: Live-performance by the LA based experimental group. In conjunction with Upset The Rhythm
02 Sep–15 Oct 2011
BLACKBOARD: Banner Repeater: The Diagram Series. Banner Repeater is an artist led project space and reading room based on platform 1 of Hackney Downs railway station in East London. The project was initiated by SPACE studio artist Ami Clarke in 2009.
02 Sep–15 Oct 2011
LIBRARY /// In 1972 writer and musician Mick Farren, collaborated with artist Edward Barker to produce Watch Out Kids.
02 Sep–15 Oct 2011
ANNEXE /// SPACE presents an exhibition of work by an international group of young artists whose three-dimensional work, while founded in media art or Internet culture, or made using software, nonetheless expresses a profound enthusiasm for the physical form of the art object (size, material, colour, shape, composition, etc.).
02 Sep–15 Oct 2011
Bevis Martin & Charlie Youle: A Parade of Problems
GALLERY /// A Parade of Problems continues Bevis Martin and Charlie Youleʼs ongoing, more or less directionless, exploration of human knowledge via the production of handmade approximations of mental structures.
20 May–25 Jun 2011
Roy Ascott: The Syncretic Sense
SPACE is proud to present the first major retrospective of Roy Ascott, the British artist, theorist and teacher who has inspired generations of artists. The Syncretic Sense is a touring exhibition from Plymouth Arts Centre curated by Paula Orrell in partnership with i-DAT and the University of Plymouth.
25 Mar–07 May 2011
SOME VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF BOB
ANNEXE AND LIBRARY /// A retrospective exhibition exploring the work of artist and poet Bob Cobbing (1920 - 2002). Some Variations on a Theme of Bob is curated by Lawrence Upton
25 Mar–07 May 2011
BLACKBOARD: Vicky Wright. For the next Blackboard, Vicky Wright presents a continuation of her Extraction and Guardian series, an ongoing project focusing on the paradoxical nature of portraiture, politics and patronage.
25 Mar–07 May 2011
GALLERY /// Graphics, social design and ocular illusion feature in an exhibition of new works by Jack Newling.
21 Jan–05 Mar 2011
: BLACKBOARD: Modern Activity. A new project involving artists who have studios with SPACE.
21 Jan–05 Mar 2011
GALLERY A new cycle of paintings by the London based artist. In two-tone colour (beige and grey), Nettell traces the recurrence of a single stenciled motif over multiple variously sized canvases.
21 Jan–05 Mar 2011
LIBRARY (Reuters) - Space officials in Russia and the United States are tracking hundreds of pieces of debris that were spewed into space when a U.S. satellite collided with a defunct Russian military satellite.
21 Jan–05 Mar 2011
Good Morning Mr. Orwell (1984)
ANNEXE On New Years day 1984, Nam June Paik orchestrated an ambitious intercontinental television experiment. Connecting WNET TV in New York with the Pompidou centre in Paris via a live satellite link that also took in broadcasters in Germany and South Korea, Good Morning Mr. Orwell reached an audience of over 25 million worldwide.
05 Nov–08 Jan 2011
In 1965 radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing co-founded an experimental therapeutic community at Kingsley Hall in Bow, East London. Presenting herself on the brink of a serious mental breakdown, Mary Barnes (1923-2001) was Kingsley Hall’s first resident. Under the guidance of Laing and his colleague Joseph Berke, Barnes underwent a near total behavioral regression. Refusing to eat, dress or wash, she was in her own words “going down.”
03 Sep–02 Oct 2010
!MEDIENGRUPPE BITNIK: Too Big to Fail Too Small to Succeed
COURTYARD An Intervention into the financial systems of London and Zurich: From Crisis to Crime to Punishment.
03 Sep–16 Oct 2010
STAGES & SCREENS - Peter Davis, Villon Films and Friends
ANNEXE A multi-screen film and archive presentation by Peter Davis exploring culture and counter-culture in the UK and America through the 60s.
03 Sep–16 Oct 2010
Charlie Woolley - Mysterious Cults
GALLERY An exhibition of photo and poster collage, textiles and installation work accompanied by the artist’s ongoing Radio Show project and a cycle of broadcasted events. RADIO SHOW is broadcasting now. Click HERE to listen...
03 Sep–16 Oct 2010
Reanimation Library - Hackney Branch
LIBRARY A presentation by Brooklyn's Reanimation Library plus a group exhibition featuring Nina Beier, David Horvitz, Ruth Beale, Hans Diernberger, Richard John Jones, Raphael Hefti and Damien Roach.
13–15 Aug 2010
GALLERY This August the SPACE programme will reopen with an exhibition and performance cycle by Hype Williams.
13 Aug–16 Oct 2010
Our next exhibition cycle will open on 3rd September with a NEU! solo commission by Charlie Woolley, STAGES AND SCREENS - a counter-culture film archive, a group exhibition organised around Brooklyn’s Reanimation Library, an intervention in the Courtyard by !Mediengruppe Bitnik and an installation of screenprinted works by Luke Dowd.
13 May–19 Jun 2010
FOYER you can do twice as much as you think you can and five times more than your mum thinks you can...
13 May–19 Jun 2010
LIBRARY In the second of a new cycle of publication themed exhibitions, SPACE’s independent publications and periodicals Library hosts a retrospective exhibition by New York based North Drive Press.
13 May–19 Jun 2010
ANNEXE Raving ’89 is an exhibition by celebrated British photographer Gavin Watson.
13 May–19 Jun 2010
GALLERY: with subcutaneous lunges soft bullets and hard caresses a plinth of technosavagery*
19 Mar–17 Apr 2010
LIBRARY Installed by Guestroom (the collaborative project of artists Maria Benjamin and Ruth Höflich), The Librarians is a series of 8 video portraits concerned with personal libraries and collections.
19 Mar–17 Apr 2010
Adam Thomas: Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously
ANNEXE Characteristically condensing around the visual dimension of language, Adam Thomas’ practice suggests new and intuitive models for rendering the art/language binary.
19 Mar–17 Apr 2010
Nick Laessing: Light | Reading
Nick Laessing’s work revisits the utopian aspirations of scientific rebels, autodidacts and amateur experimenters.
18 Mar–17 Apr 2010
FOYER Ben Woodeson creates works that aim to tease and unsettle the viewer and the exhibiting institution.
22 Jan–20 Feb 2010
DESTROY ALL MONSTERS: Hungry for Death
Formed at a house party in 1973, Destroy All Monsters played their first gig at a comic book convention using prepared guitars, a drum machine, tape loops, and various other instruments. They were asked to leave after ten minutes.
22 Jan–20 Feb 2010
Rachel Cattle and Steve Richards
FOYER Same Old Scene was the third in a new rotation of works presented in the gallery foyer space.
06 Nov–19 Dec 2009
FOYER Dafna Talmor continued the rotation of work presented in the gallery reception area with new photographic work-in-progress.
06 Nov–19 Dec 2009
Ruth Beale: WHAT I BELIEVE (a polemical collection)
GALLERY A project by Ruth Beale based around her artwork/collection of political and ideological pamphlets: Pamphlet Library (2008 — ongoing).
06 Nov–19 Dec 2009
08 Nov–20 Dec 2009
Schematic: New Media Art From Canada
SPACE Peter Flemming, Germaine Koh, Joe Mckay, Nicholas Stedman and Norman White
