The Top 6 Art Books to Read in 2021
4 January 2021 • Tabish Khan
The top art books for the year ahead including Banksy, Basquiat and Emin.
Tag: Open Space Contemporary
10 Questions from Isolation… with Lemonot
15 May 2020 • Irene Machetti
This week I talk with Lemonot, a design and research platform founded by Sabrina Morreale and Lorenzo Perri in 2016. Fluctuating between London, Bangkok, La Paz and Italy
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.
What’s the afterlife of performed artworks? ‘Forum: Bread and games’ investigates
10 March 2020 • Irene Machetti
How do we perceive objects when they become “activated” by a performer? Can there be, thereafter, a neutral spectatorship? ‘Forum: Bread and Games’, curated by Natalija Pauni for Open Space Contemporary, reflects on these questions, considering the precariousness of authors’ ideas and authorship.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London right now
23 June 2019 • Tabish Khan
Edible art, a daydreaming leopard, a house made of skin, whooping cranes, tag team art, a wooden Parliament and lost letters.
The power of food. An interview with Inês Neto Dos Santos
23 April 2018 • Irene Machetti
Inês Neto Dos Santos is a Portuguese artist who recently graduated from the Royal College of Arts in London. She has always demonstrated a keen interest in the relation between human beings and the elements surrounding their daily lives.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week 18/03/18
18 March 2018 • Tabish Khan
This weeks Top 7 includes: A shopping centre, virtual reality sculpture, mirrors, pillows, Suffragettes, breaking down and prison.
My week in the art world – Human interventions
12 March 2018 • Staff
If Sondra Perry’s opening at the Serpentine uses digital tools to make our dark history extremely contemporary, Open Space Contemporary’s Adventitious Encounters exploits its location to explore our desire for nature in a technologically saturated world.
Open Space Contemporary set to take over the historic Whiteleys Shopping Centre with ‘Adventitious Encounters’
5 March 2018 • Mark Westall
Adventitious Encounters is a group exhibition from Open Space Contemporary with 20 internationally acclaimed, emerging and established contemporary artists. Co-curated by Huma Kabakc and Anna Skladmann, the exhibition is held on the sky-roof of the historic Whiteleys Shopping Centre, a space rarely open to the public.