Waterside Contemporary was a visual art gallery in Hackney, central-east London. The gallery's programme focused on politically- and socially-engaged artists, [1] [2] [3] 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 the Waterside Project Space, named after the Waterside building on Wharf Road in which it was located. 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 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]
In 2024, the team behind Waterside Contemporary launched Verdurin, a cultural project space in the former gallery's premises. [14]
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Waterside Contemporary was a visual art gallery in Hackney, central-east London. The gallery's programme focused on politically- and socially-engaged artists, [1] [2] [3] 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 the Waterside Project Space, named after the Waterside building on Wharf Road in which it was located. 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 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]
In 2024, the team behind Waterside Contemporary launched Verdurin, a cultural project space in the former gallery's premises. [14]
51°31′55″N 0°05′46″W / 51.532°N 0.096°W