Camden Art Centre Archives

New Contemporaries opens this Friday at Camden Art Centre

18 January 2024 • Mark Westall

New Contemporaries returns to Camden Art Centre after more than 20 years, showcasing a new generation of emerging artists in the UK.

New Contemporaries to return to Camden Art Centre.

17 November 2023 • Mark Westall

New Contemporaries is set to return to Camden Art Centre after more than 20 years. Bloomberg New Contemporaries features 55… Read More

Shortlist for Freelands Award 2023 announced.

18 September 2023 • Mark Westall

Freelands Foundation has today revealed the 5 visual arts organisations and women artists under consideration for the eighth Freelands Award.

ART NEWS

Frieze London gets ready to celebrate 20 years

1 August 2023 • Mark Westall

Frieze has revealed a series of collaborations with UK arts organisations and public institutions to mark 20th anniversary in London

The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London right now

21 May 2023 • Tabish Khan

War, sofas, shadows, portraits and a squashed coffee cup.

Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Camden Art Centre

4 January 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent

Camden Art Centre, founded in a former library building in 1965, has been in the news recently for an unwelcome reason: its annual Government funding has been cut by more than a third, from £937,000 to £600,000.

Mohammed Sami, The Point 0, Sami’s first institutional solo exhibition in the UK

20 December 2022 • Mark Westall

Camden Art Centre will open a new exhibition, The Point 0, by Mohammed Sami (b.1984, Baghdad, Iraq). This is Sami’s first institutional… Read More

Camden Art Centre to present solo exhibition by Tenant of Culture this July.

27 May 2022 • Mark Westall

Camden Art Centre will present a solo exhibition by Tenant of Culture, the anonym of Dutch artist Hendrickje Schimmel (b. 1990, Arnhem, Netherlands) this July 2022.

Tenant of Culture is the recipient of the 2020 Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Prize with Frieze

9 October 2020 • Mark Westall

Today, Camden Art Centre and Frieze announce Tenant of Culture as the recipient of the 2020 Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Prize with Frieze. Tenant of Culture, who is represented by Soft Opening, London, will realise a major exhibition at Camden Art Centre in 2022.

ART NEWS

10 Questions from Isolation… with Nora Silva

1 May 2020 • Irene Machetti

This week’s guest from isolation is Nora Silva. She is a London-based multidisciplinary artist, cook and singer born in Madrid (Spain). Silva graduated from the Royal College of Art, and she has since performed at Tate Exchange, the Design Museum and the Camden Arts Centre in London.

The Botanical Mind an online programme from Camden Art Centre

30 April 2020 • Mark Westall

Camden Art Centre are launching The Botanical Mind this complimentary online programme of new artist commissions, podcasts, films, texts, images and audio, expanding on and enriching the ideas and issues informing the show.

ART NEWS

Rendered Reality, a joint presentation of works by Joonhong Min and Shinuk Suh, opened at the Korean Cultural Centre in London

11 March 2020 • Meike Brunkhorst

Rendered Reality, a joint presentation of works by Joonhong Min and Shinuk Suh, opened at the Korean Cultural Centre in London last month.

Camden Arts Centre to launch their new Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze

25 September 2018 • Mark Westall

Camden Arts Centre is pleased to announce a new partnership with Frieze London for 2018. The Camden Arts Centre Emerging Artist Prize is a major new prize offering an emerging artist the opportunity to realise an exhibition at the Centre.

ART NEWS

Amy Sillman: Landline : The first institutional exhibition of the acclaimed American painter

4 July 2018 • Mark Westall

The first solo institutional exhibition in the UK of the acclaimed American painter Amy Sillman. Taking over all of the galleries at Camden Arts Centre, the exhibition, which includes over 30 new works, will explore the breadth of Sillman’s practice.

ART NEWS

Allied Editions, best value @ #FriezeLondon

6 October 2017 • Mark Westall

Allied Editions is a unique artist’s editions collective organised by Camden Arts Centre, Chisenhale Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), South London Gallery, Studio Voltaire, Serpentine Galleries and Whitechapel Gallery.

ART NEWS

FAD sat down with Artist David Raymond Conroy

14 September 2017 • Gaston La-Gaffe

David Raymond Conroy is a London based artist. Recent projects include Prosu(u)mer at EKKM, Tallinn, London, A Shared Space of Difference, Camden Arts Centre, London, PPE, or It is Spring and I am Blind, Modern Art Oxford and staging Brief Interviews with Hideous Men with Andy Holden, ICA, London and Arnolfini, Bristol.

INTERVIEWS

Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week .

11 August 2013 • Mark Westall

Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week .

EXHIBITIONS

Review: Emma Hart: Dirty Looks at Camden Arts Centre

6 August 2013 • Yvette

‘Someone keeps on coughing. After a while I feel as though I might start coughing, as if embodying this strange, toxic, disconcerting environment’.

Art Reviews

Tate to launch £5 million arts award for under 25s funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation

17 December 2012 • Mark Westall

These projects will encourage participation, develop excellence and build confidence in young people from a wide range of social, economic and cultural backgrounds.