Allsopp Contemporary opened in June 2005 in a converted Rolls-Royce garage in West London. The gallery currently represents 10 emerging artists working from the European centres of Berlin, London and Paris. Their practices range from sculpture to painting, installation to photography and video. With a 200 sqm exhibition space our aim is to offer recently graduated and emerging artists the support and funding to produce major projects at the critical early part of their careers.
Curatorialy, the programme has aimed to place gallery artists within an international context exploring a broad range of artistic practices and identities. Group shows have focused on notions of national trends in France (PARISITES, Julien Berthier, Lili Phung, Nicolas Pol, 2006), Germany (Kitty Kraus, Jonas Lipps, Blinky Palermo, 2007, cat.) and Brazil (Paper Trail: 15 Brazilian Artists, 2008, cat.) whilst also placing emerging artists within a wider art-historical context.
The gallery recognises the importance of publications to compliment the exhibitions programme. As well as two accompanying group show catalogues Allsopp Contemporary has produced two artists monographs (Annie Morris, in conjunction with Jeannie Freilich Contemporary, New York, 2007; Nicolas Pol, 2008). The gallery was also a major contributor to Julien Berthier’s recent drawing publication Nothing Special (CRAC Alsace, 2007).
The focus of Allsopp Contemporary is to grow with the artists we represent through developing strong relationships with galleries and institutions worldwide.
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