Waterside Contemporary

Waterside Contemporary was a visual art gallery in Hackney, central-east London. The gallery's programme focused on politically- and socially-engaged artists,[1][2][3] including Oreet Ashery, George Barber, Mirza and Butler, Nikita Kadan, and Chiara Fumai. The gallery exhibition programme involved over a hundred artists like Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Mathilde ter Heijne, Slavs and Tatars in nearly thirty exhibitions, performances, public events,[4] publishing, and institutional collaborations.[5]

Waterside Contemporary was founded in 2008 by Pierre d'Alancaisez[6] as the Waterside Project Space, named after the Waterside building on Wharf Road in which it was located. Initially an artist-run not-for-profit, the gallery became commercially active in 2010 with a presentation at ViennaFair.[7] Olga Ovenden became co-director with the gallery's move to nearby Hoxton.[8][9] The gallery stopped exhibiting operations under the Waterside name in 2017.

Waterside Contemporary commissioned, curated and premiered landmark works such as Animal with a Language by Oreet Ashery,[10] The Unreliable Narrator by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler,[11] and The Freestone Drone by George Barber.[12][13]

In 2024, the team behind Waterside Contemporary launched Verdurin, a cultural project space in the former gallery's premises.[14]

Notable exhibitions

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2013

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2014

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2015

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2016

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  • The Book of Evil Spirits, a solo exhibition by Chiara Fumai[28][29]

References

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  1. ^ "waterside contemporary". waterside-contemporary.com. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Reichman stirs the pot with his Light show". The Jewish Chronicle. 24 January 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2023 – via PressReader.
  3. ^ "waterside contemporary | Culture24". www.culture24.org.uk. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  4. ^ "New Exhibition To Mark The Summer Solstice At Waterside Contemporary". Artlyst. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  5. ^ Morton, Elise. "Postponed futures: GRAD offers an alternative look at the Ukrainian avant-garde". The Calvert Journal. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  6. ^ ArtDependence. "ArtDependence | Dealing in politics: an interview with Pierre d'Alancaisez". www.artdependence.com. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  7. ^ "Waterside Project Space at ViennaFair 2010". waterside-contemporary.com. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  8. ^ "art-agenda". www.art-agenda.com. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  9. ^ "Artnotes". Art Monthly. 347: 18. 2011 – via ProQuest.
  10. ^ Sheerin, Mark (30 October 2014). "The Psychedelic and Porcine Provocations of Oreet Ashery". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  11. ^ "Karen Mirza and Brad Butler's "The Unreliable Narrator" - Features - art-agenda". www.art-agenda.com. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  12. ^ Sandhu, Sukhdev (April 2013). "'I Admit I'm a Bit Creepy...'". Sight and Sound. 3 (4): 68.
  13. ^ Gregory, Derek (3 January 2013). "The Freestone Drone". geographical imaginations. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  14. ^ "About Verdurin". Verdurin. March 2024.
  15. ^ "Long Ago, and Not True Anyway | Frieze". Frieze. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  16. ^ "Long ago, and not true anyway". Ibraaz. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  17. ^ "Reconstitution". artreview.com. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  18. ^ "Oreet Ashery: Animal with a Language at waterside contemporary". waterside-contemporary.com. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  19. ^ "Karen Mirza and Brad Butler: The Unreliable Narrator at waterside contemporary". waterside-contemporary.com. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  20. ^ "George Barber's "The Freestone Drone" - Features - art-agenda". www.art-agenda.com. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  21. ^ Rich, Kate (12 March 2013). "View from a Kill". Mute. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  22. ^ "Nascent States at waterside contemporary". waterside-contemporary.com. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  23. ^ www.dandelion-burdock.com, dandelion & burdock. "Nascent States". thisistomorrow. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  24. ^ "Nikita Kadan: radical roots from Kiev | Bad at Sports". Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  25. ^ "Nikita Kadan: Limits of Responsibility at Waterside Contemporary". DAILY SERVING. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  26. ^ www.dandelion-burdock.com, dandelion & burdock. "Nikita Kadan: Limits of Responsibility". thisistomorrow. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  27. ^ "Nikita Kadan: Limits of Responsibility at waterside contemporary". waterside-contemporary.com. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  28. ^ Sheerin, Mark (11 April 2016). "Within Gallery Walls, an Artist Channels the Ghosts of Marginalized Women". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  29. ^ "Chiara Fumai: The Book of Evil Spirits". waterside-contemporary.com. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
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