Waterside Contemporary

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Waterside Contemporary (referred to as "waterside contemporary") was a visual art gallery in Hackney, central-east London. The gallery's programme focussed on politically- and socially-engaged artists,.^[1][2][3] representing UK and European artists 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 Waterside Project Space in the Waterside building on Wharf Road, from which the gallery got its name. 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 brand 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]

Notable exhibitions[]

2013

• Long ago, and not true anyway, a group exhibition with Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Rabih Mroué, et al.^[14][15]
• Reconstitution, an event at Soho House accompanying the exhibition^[16]

2014

• Animal with a Language, a solo exhibition by Oreet Ashery^[17]
• The Unreliable Narrator, a solo exhibition by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler^[18]
• The Freestone Drone, a solo exhibition by George Barber^[19][20]

2015

• Nascent States, a group exhibition with Olivia Plender, Mathilde ter Heijne, Chiara Fumai, Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčova, Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Judith Barry, et al.^[21][22]
• Limits of Responsibility, a solo exhibition by Nikita Kadan^{[23][24][25][26]}

2016

• The Book of Evil Spirits, a solo exhibition by Chiara Fumai^[27][28]

References[]

External links[]

• Waterside Contemporary archive website.

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