Showroom Gallery
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The Showroom is a not-for-profit art gallery
at 63 Penfold Street, London NW8. The gallery puts on exhibitions by emerging artists. The current Director is Emily Pethick, who has worked at the gallery since May 2008. She was preceded by Kirsty Ogg, Kim Sweet and David Thorp.
The gallery programme focuses on new works made for the space. The gallery presents four shows per year, a schedule that affords artists the time to develop and realise their work on site.
For many years, and until 2008, the gallery was based at a site in East London
. In 2008, the gallery relocated to a building on Penfold Street, London, which was converted by Berlin-based architects ifau + Jesko Fezer.
Solo shows at The Showroom in the former East End space included Mona Hatoum
, Sam Taylor-Wood
, Simon Starling
, Christina Mackie, Jim Lambie
, Claire Barclay, and Eva Rothschild
.
The Showroom receives fixed-term funding from Arts Council of England and other organisations and individuals.
Art gallery
An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...
at 63 Penfold Street, London NW8. The gallery puts on exhibitions by emerging artists. The current Director is Emily Pethick, who has worked at the gallery since May 2008. She was preceded by Kirsty Ogg, Kim Sweet and David Thorp.
The gallery programme focuses on new works made for the space. The gallery presents four shows per year, a schedule that affords artists the time to develop and realise their work on site.
For many years, and until 2008, the gallery was based at a site in East London
East End of London
The East End of London, also known simply as the East End, is the area of London, England, United Kingdom, east of the medieval walled City of London and north of the River Thames. Although not defined by universally accepted formal boundaries, the River Lea can be considered another boundary...
. In 2008, the gallery relocated to a building on Penfold Street, London, which was converted by Berlin-based architects ifau + Jesko Fezer.
Solo shows at The Showroom in the former East End space included Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum is a video artist and installation artist of Palestinian origin, who lives in London.- Lebanon :...
, Sam Taylor-Wood
Sam Taylor-Wood
Samantha "Sam" Taylor-Wood OBE , born Samantha Taylor, is an English filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist. Her directorial feature film debut came in 2009 with Nowhere Boy, a film based on the childhood experiences of The Beatles songwriter and singer John Lennon...
, Simon Starling
Simon Starling
Simon Starling is an English conceptual artist and was the winner of the 2005 Turner Prize. He lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin, and is a professor of art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.-Biography:...
, Christina Mackie, Jim Lambie
Jim Lambie
James "Jim" Lambie is a contemporary visual artist, and was shortlisted for the 2005 Turner Prize with an installation called Mental Oyster....
, Claire Barclay, and Eva Rothschild
Eva Rothschild
Eva Rothschild is an Irish artist based in London.Rothschild was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her work references the art movements of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Minimalism. She has used materials such as Plexiglas, leather and paper in her sculptural pieces and she also makes wall-based works and...
.
The Showroom receives fixed-term funding from Arts Council of England and other organisations and individuals.