exhibitions, events & Offsite programme 2014-15

Chisenhale Gallery is one of London’s most innovative forums for contemporary art, producing solo commissions with emerging UK and international artists. At the heart of our programme is a remit to commission new work, supporting artists from project inception to realisation. For audiences, Chisenhale Gallery, provides the opportunity to experience art production intimately, to critically reflect and to participate. As such Chisenhale Gallery operates alternately as an exhibition hall, production agency, research centre and community resource.

Programme highlights for the forthcoming year include:

• The first UK solo exhibition by Paris and New York based artist Camille Henrot who works across sculpture, drawing and video. This major new sculptural installation follows Henrot’s success at the Venice Biennale 2013 where she received the Silver Lion for most promising young artist.

• Céline Condorelli will explore the relationship between work and friendship for her exhibition commissioned as part of How to work together – a shared programme of contemporary art commissioning and research organised by Chisenhale Gallery, The Showroom and Studio Voltaire.

• Edward Thomasson’s exhibition The Present Tense develops from his recent performance produced during his Chisenhale Gallery Create Residency in 2013, devised by the artist with non-professional actors and adapting the genre of musical theatre.

• For his first solo exhibition in a UK institution Ed Fornieles explores the transformation of digital images, connecting a specially commissioned online artwork with a sculptural installation in the main gallery.

• A new programme of Interim performance events launches in February 2014, with a new commission by London-based artist Alice Theobald.

• In June 2014, our Offsite programme premiers a site-specific project by Cathy Haynes, the Chisenhale Gallery Victoria Park Residency artist for 2013-14.

• Our programme of 21st Century events continues in March 2014 with presentations by curators Sabel Gavaldon and Mark Beasley.

• Production has also started on two further commissions by Caragh Thuring and Patrick Staff, who will present new exhibitions at Chisenhale Gallery in 2014-15.

Chisenhale Gallery is pleased to announce the continued support of the Exhibitions programme by the Fiorucci Art Trust, who are Chisenhale Exhibitions Partner for 2014, providing seed funding for our exhibition commissions.

We are delighted to announce that our director Polly Staple has been awarded the 2014 Genesis Prize, ‘recognising her work as an outstanding mentor of artistic talent’. This award, worth £25,000, will enable Chisenhale Gallery to expand the scope and quality of our programme by supporting four new commissions.

Raspberry Poser - our current exhibition by New York based artist Jordan Wolfson continues until 2 February.

Alice TheobaldI’ve said yes now, that’s itSaturday 8 February 2014, 7pm

Chisenhale Gallery re-launches Interim – a programme of event-based commissions for Chisenhale’s unique gallery space – with a new performance by London-based artist Alice Theobald.

Theobald’s live performances and videos explore authenticity and spectacle, borrowing and conflating theatrical techniques such as method acting and role-play. The performances reference the hybrid nature of their construction, often including musical scores composed by the artist, which borrow from the genres of pop music and film scores. Theobald frequently works in collaboration with a cast of non-professional actors and performers and employs repetition as a strategy to interrogate the unstable relationship between art, communication and representation. For her Interim commission, I’ve said yes now, that’s it, Theobald will present a new performance combining live music with vocal experimentation.

Alice Theobald (b. 1985, Leicester) lives and works in London. Selected recent performances and exhibitions include They Keep Putting Words In My Mouth! An Operetta of Sorts, Pilar Corrias, London; Situation|Event, Gasworks, London; Alice Theobald, And/ Or Gallery, London and Young London, V22, London (all 2013). Alice Theobald’s commission is supported by Pilar Corrias, London. Interim 2013-14 is supported by Oscar Murillo.

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Camille HenrotThe Pale Fox28 February – 13 April 2014Preview: Thursday 27 February 2014, 6.30-8.30pm

The first UK solo exhibition by Paris and New York based artist Camille Henrot who works across sculpture, drawing and video. This new commission follows Henrot’s presentation at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013), for which she received the Silver Lion for most promising young artist. The Pale Fox makes links between the history of the universe and the universe of the artists’ studio, the construction of knowledge and its relationship to haptic experience. Chisenhale is partnering with Tate Modern to host a screening of Henrot’s recent film Grosse Fatigue (2013) on Friday 28 February 2014, followed by a discussion between the artist and Dan Fox, co-editor of Frieze magazine.

Camille Henrot (born 1978) lives and works in Paris and New York. Recent solo exhibitions include New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans (2013), Slought Foundation, Philadelphia (2013), Kamel Mennour, Paris (2012). Henrot was nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2010 and received the Silver Lion at the 55th Venice Biennale, 2013.

The Pale Fox is commissioned and produced in partnership with Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Bétonsalon – Centre for art and research, Paris and Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, where the exhibition will tour in 2014.

Camille Henrot’s exhibition is supported by Cass Sculpture Foundation; Shane Akeroyd; Fluxus, Franco-British

NExt exhibition

Céline Condorelli2 May – 22 June 2014Preview: Thursday 1 May 2014, 6.30-8.30pm

Chisenhale Gallery presents a new commission by Céline Condorelli as part of How to work together, a shared programme of contemporary art commissioning and research organised by Chisenhale Gallery, The Showroom and Studio Voltaire. Engaging with friendship as a condition for working together, Condorelli explores how objects and constructions articulate relationships in both useful and purposeless ways, for her exhibition opening on International Workers Day, 1 May 2014.

Céline Condorelli (b. 1974, Paris) lives and works in London.

Edward ThomassonThe Present Tense3 July – 24 August 2014Preview: Wednesday 2 July 2014, 6.30-8.30pmChisenhale Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Edward Thomasson, commissioned as part of the Chisenhale Gallery Create Residency (2012-14). This new video develops from Thomasson’s recent performance Between You and Me, devised by the artist with non-professional actors and adapting the genre of musical theatre. Thomasson’s video, The Present Tense, considers the potential of multiple interpretations offered by different modes of storytelling and performance. Edward Thomasson (born 1985, Stoke-on-Trent) lives and works in London.

FORTHCOMING exhibitionS

Ed Fornieles19 September – 9 November 2014Preview: Thursday 18 September 2014, 6.30-8.30pm

Ed Fornieles works with performance, installation and sculpture and frequently uses the internet as a means of production and distribution. For this new commission Fornieles will create a sculptural installation, reworking content generated through a specially commissioned online artwork into material configurations and new physical forms. Opening in September 2014, this will be his first solo exhibition in a UK institution.

Ed Fornieles (born 1983, Petersfield) lives and works in Los Angeles.

Caragh Thuring28 November 2014 - 1 February 2015Preview: Thursday 27 November 2014

Caragh Thuring builds covert narratives through traces of images and fragmented painted gestures. Depicted objects suggest and mark human presence, mixing elements of abstraction with figuration to create speculative environments. Thuring continues to expand this precise visual language by presenting a new series of paintings for her first solo exhibition in a UK institution.

Caragh Thuring (born 1972, Brussels), lives and works in London.

Patrick StaffFebruary - April 2015

Patrick Staff’s video, installation and collaborative performance pieces create malleable frameworks for carrying out socially engaged research mediated by moving image. For his exhibition, co-commissioned with Spike Island, Bristol, Staff will present The Foundation, a new video work exploring the collection and physical experience of the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles through compiled discussions, interviews and observational footage.

Patrick Staff (born 1987) lives and works in London.

Cathy HaynesChisenhale Gallery Victoria Park ResidencyNovember 2013 - July 2014

Chisenhale Gallery is pleased to present Cathy Haynes as the Chisenhale Gallery Victoria Park Residency artist (2013-14). Haynes’ projects often investigate the fictional devices we use to make rational sense of the world, aiming to dismantle the divisions between fields of knowledge that limit our sense of permission to explore, question and take part. Over the forthcoming months Haynes will develop a new work to be presented in Victoria Park in July 2014. The Chisenhale Gallery Victoria Park Residency (2013-14) is produced for the third year in partnership with Tower Hamlets Parks and Open Spaces Department. Previous artists-in-residence included Cara Tolmie (2012-13) and Matthew Noel-Tod (2011-12).

Cathy Haynes (b. 1973, Harborough Magna) lives and works in London. Previous projects and exhibitions include A Storm is Blowing, produced as the Timekeeper in Residence at UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology (2013), How to Map a Life, Rongwrong Gallery, Amsterdam (2012) and No Such Place, QUAD, Derby (2010).

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21st century

21st Century is a programme of events featuring performances, screenings, talks and research-led projects by emerging artist, writers and theorists, concurrent to the exhibition programme and taking place in our studio space.

Previous events have included presentations by artists such as Neil Beloufa, Aaron Flint Jamison, Katrina Palmer and Bonny Poon. Panels and discussions have also addressed current trends in visual culture, from art after the internet through ‘Flatness’ to James Bridle’s concept of ‘The New Aesthetic’.

The 21st Century programme for 2014-15 continues to provide a platform for interdisciplinary research-based practices. Forthcoming events include The Museum of Gesture, a presentation by curator Sabel Galvadon and a listening session exploring Extended Vocal Technique with writer and curator Mark Beasley.