Eastside Projects
Facade of Eastside Projects on Heath Mill Lane.
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| Established | 2008 |
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| Location | Digbeth, Birmingham, West Midlands, England |
| Type | Contemporary art |
| Director | Gavin Wade |
| Website | eastsideprojects.org |
Eastside Projects is an artist-run space in the Digbeth area of Birmingham, England. It is a free public space that is imagined and organised by artists, and includes galleries and studios. It commissions and presents experimental contemporary art exhibitions and proposes ways in which art may be useful to society. It is organised by Simon Bloor, Tom Bloor, Céline Condorelli, Ruth Claxton, James Langdon, and Gavin Wade, who first conceived and now runs the space. The gallery has a programme for high-profile exhibitions and events.
Group exhibitions have featured artists and organisations such as Art & Language, Mel Bochner and Grizedale Arts, while past solo shows include Liam Gillick, Shezad Dawood, Carey Young, William Pope.L, and Dan Graham. Since the space opened in 2008, it has made a substantial contribution to Birmingham and its burgeoning reputation as a centre for contemporary art; through Extra Special People, the We Are Eastside Consortium, and other partnerships, it has successfully supported the developing ecology of artists, projects, and independent culture in the surrounding area in order to enrich the life of the city and region.
The gallery opened on 26 September 2008 with its inaugural exhibition, "This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things". Since its launch, the exhibition programme has featured a series of exhibitions that use the mode of a medium to explore it from within: Sculpture Show" (2009), "Abstract Cabinet Show" (2009), "Curtain Show" (2010), "Book Show" (2010), "Narrative Show" (2011), and "Painting Show" (2011–2012). Led by Gavin Wade, the space is run and staffed entirely by practicing artists and designers who combine careers within the UK and international art worlds with working for Eastside Projects. They, and the artists who work with them, are drawn to the unique environment that has been created in an old industrial space on Heath Mill Lane.
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