Karl Nawrot: Mind Walk #1

Please join us for the launch of ‘Mind Walk #1’, an exhibition by Seoul based artist and web designer Karl Nawrot.

The exhibition reveals Nawrot’s aesthetic sensibility as a curious union of the macabre and the childlike, offering an overview of his practice through a dense presentation of crude monochrome prints. These include representations of various simple models which in some cases exist as works in themselves: for example in an architectural structure derived from Le Corbusier’s Dom-ino House the minimal staircase is replaced by a cave.

(more…)

Bring Your Own Beamer

Vivid Projects’ acclaimed 33 REVOLUTIONS programme concludes this winter with Bring Your Own Beamer, a one-night event curated by Antonio Roberts and his digital agency.

Armed with projectors, an army of artists will beam their responses to the Revolutions call in Vivid Projects’ space.

Hailing from Birmingham and beyond, exhibiting artists include Antonio Roberts, Pete Ashton, Sam Alexander Mattacott, Dom Breadmore, chromatouch, Daniel Salisbury, David Checkley, Mark Murph, Natalie O’Keeffe, Ben Waddington, Tim Neath, amongst others.

(more…)

Maia Conran Solo Show Opening

Grand Union is proud to introduce Here is the Yard, a solo exhibition of new work by emerging artist Maia Conran. The exhibition presents three works that transform short video recordings of brief moments filmed, or found by the artist, into a large scale panorama, a sculptural sound installation and a discrete video work.

Conran’s artistic practice moves between old and new media, from film to computer animation and from video to sculpture or performance. She has a fascination with the stage and screen, and these thresholds can be seen as a motif throughout her work.

(more…)

Echoes

Greetings from the Other Side! (Of High St Deritend, that is…) We’re pleased to announce that bookings for Echoes at the Edge are now open. Echoes is a totally unique artwork, a performance without performers, a tour without a guide and ‘all around you’™ experience, an exhibition you can poke, prod and mooch around in to your hearts content – no ‘do not touch’ signs here. Since 1992 we’ve been inhabiting the Free State Of Digbeth, and Echoes is inspired by the hundreds of stories we’ve collected during our 21 year residency.

(more…)

Bob Parks: And The Heavens Cried

Join us at Grand Union this Friday for the opening of And The Heavens Cried, a solo exhibition by artist Bob Parks.

Taking its title from Ronnie Savoy’s Rhythm and Blues song And the Heavens Cried, the show charts Parks’ vast autobiographical output from the 1960s to the present day, including painting, sculpture, poetry and performance.

(more…)

Cao Fei: Haze and Fog

‘Haze and Fog’ is a new type of zombie movie set in modern China. The film will explore how the collective consciousness of people living in the time of what the artist calls “magical metropolises” emerges from seemingly tedious, mundane, the day-to-day life where a magical reality is created through struggles at the tipping point between the visible and the invisible.

(more…)

A Demonstration of Possibilities

Eastside Projects presents A Demonstration of Possibilities, an exhibition by Sophie Bullock, Freya Dooley and Sebastian Jefford in Flatfile, a plan-chest sited permanently within the gallery.

A Demonstration of Possibilities is a framework that is open to movement and alteration. In it Flatfile is converted into a growing and interactive toolbox where works appear as instructional or functional but for potentially unknowable or absurd uses.

(more…)

Haze and Fog Exhibition Launch

Everyone is welcome at the launch of ‘Haze and Fog’ a solo exhibition by Cao Fei in the main gallery, ‘Dear Lynda’ in the second gallery and ‘A Demonstration of Possibilities’ in Flatfile. Exhibitions continue until 16 November.

‘Haze and Fog’ is a new type of zombie movie set in modern China. The film will explore how the collective consciousness of people living in the time of what the artist calls “magical metropolises” emerges from seemingly tedious, mundane, day-to-day life.

(more…)