Chisenhale Gallery is a non-profit contemporary art gallery based in London's

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Background

The organisation focuses on a programme of commissioned exhibitions, events, performances and talks. Chisehale Gallery

The gallery occupies the ground level of a 1930s veneer factory on Chisenhale Road situated in the

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, near

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, housed in the same building are Chisenhale Art Place and

Chisenhale Dance Space Chisenhale Dance Space is a British, member-led charitable organisation based in east London. It provides rehearsal and performance space for independent dancers. It was founded in the early 1980s by members of the X6 Dance Collective who were o ...

. The gallery is one of

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's National Portfolio Organisations.

Exhibitions

Artists who have exhibited at Chisenhale Gallery include

Rachel Whiteread Dame Rachel Whiteread (born 20 April 1963) is an English artist who primarily produces sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She was the first woman to win the annual Turner Prize in 1993. Whiteread was one of the Young British Ar ...

Cornelia Parker Cornelia Ann Parker (born 14 July 1956) is an English visual artist, best known for her sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physica ...

Gillian Wearing Gillian Wearing CBE, RA (born 10 December 1963) is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize. In 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Her ...

Sam Taylor Wood Samantha Louise Taylor-Johnson OBE (née Taylor-Wood; 4 March 1967) is a British filmmaker and photographer. Her directorial feature film debut was 2009's ''Nowhere Boy'', a film based on the childhood experiences of The Beatles songwriter an ...

Wolfgang Tillmans Wolfgang Tillmans (born 16 August 1968) is a German photographer. His diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations. Tillmans was the first photog ...

Paul Noble Paul Noble (born 1963) is a British visual artist. Life and career Noble studied at Humberside College of Higher Education (1983–1986) and Sunderland Polytechnic (1982–1983), before moving to London in 1987. He was one of the five foun ...

Yoko Terauchi Yoko Terauchi (born 1954) is an artist who makes sculpture and artists books, interested in concepts of the one, whole and interior and exterior. Life and career Terauchi was born in 1954 in Tokyo, Japan. She studied at the Department of Art and ...

Pipilotti Rist Pipilotti Elisabeth Rist (born 21 June 1962) is a Swiss visual artist best known for creating experimental video art and installation art. Her work is often described as surreal, intimate, abstract art, having a preoccupation with the female bo ...

, and

Thomas Hirschhorn Thomas Hirschhorn (born 16 May 1957) is a Swiss artist. He lives and works in Paris.Randy Kennedy (June 27, 2013)Bringing Art and Change to Bronx''New York Times''. Life and works In the 1980s, Thomas Hirschhorn came to Paris with the will to ...

. In the past decade under the directorship of Polly Staple the gallery has produced solo commissions with a new generation of artists including

Florian Hecker Florian Hecker was born in 1975 in Augsburg, Germany. He was raised in Kissing, Germany and studied Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics at Ludwig Maximilian Universität, Munich and Fine Arts at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, V ...

, Duncan Campbell,

Melanie Gilligan Melanie Gilligan (born 1979) is a Canadian artist living in New York City who works in video, performance, text, installation, and music. Gilligan graduated from Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2002 and studied at the Whitney Museum of Amer ...

Hito Steyerl Hito Steyerl (born 1 January 1966) is a German filmmaker, moving image artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary.

Janice Kerbel Janice Kerbel (born 1969) is a British artist. Biography Kerbel graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1996. In 2011 she won the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for artists. She works at Goldsmiths, University of London as a Reader in Fine Art. S ...

Josephine Pryde Josephine Pryde (born 1967 in Alnwick, Northumberland) is an English artist. In 2010, reviewing a show of Pryde's work which featured "seven colour photographs of extreme close-ups of clothing on a body, and four sculptures made from half-finish ...

, James Richards, Linder,

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) is a British painter and writer. She is best known for her portraits of imaginary subjects, or ones derived from found objects, who are painted in muted colours. Her work has contributed to the renaissance in pai ...

, Amalia Pica,

Helen Marten Helen Elizabeth Marten (born 1985 in Macclesfield) is an English artist based in London who works in sculpture, video, and installation art. Marten studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford (2005–2008) an ...

, Ed Atkins,

Jordan Wolfson Jordan Wolfson is an American artist who lives in Los Angeles. He has worked in video and film, in sculptural installation, and in virtual reality. Biography Wolfson was born in 1980 in New York. He took a BFA in sculpture from the Rhode Isl ...

Camille Henrot Camille Henrot (born 1978) is a French artist who lives and works in Paris and New York. Biography Henrot was born in 1978 in Paris, France. She attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs where she studied film animation and s ...

, Céline Condorelli, Ed Fornieles,

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, Park McArthur,

Maria Eichhorn Maria Eichhorn (born November 19, 1962, in Bamberg) is a German artist based in Berlin. She is best known for site-specific works and installations that investigate political and economic systems, often revealing their intrinsic absurdity or the ...

, Luke Willis Thompson,

Hannah Black Hannah Black is a visual artist, critic, and writer. Her work spans video, text and performance. She is best known for her open letter written with Ciarán Finlayson and Tobi Haslett, ''The Tear Gas Biennial'', criticizing co-chair of the board o ...

Banu Cennetoğlu Banu Cennetoğlu (b. Ankara, 1970) is a visual artist based in Istanbul. She uses photography, installation, and printed matter to explore the classification, appropriation and distribution of data and knowledge. Her work deals with listings, colle ...

, and

Lawrence Abu Hamdan Lawrence Abu Hamdan (born 1985, in Amman) is a contemporary artist based in Beirut. His work looks into the political effects of listening, using various kinds of audio to explore its effects on human rights and law. Because of his work with soun ...

Networks

Plus Tate

'' Plus Tate'' was launched in 2010 with an aim to share art collections and expertise with other UK galleries. The Chisenhale Gallery is one of 34 partners.

How to work together

''How to work together'' was a partnership programme of contemporary art commissions and research based projects devised by Chisenhale Gallery, The Showroom and

Studio Voltaire Studio Voltaire is a non-profit gallery and artist studios based in Clapham, South London. The organisation focuses on contemporary arts, staging a celebrated public programme of exhibitions, performances, and live events. Studio Voltaire i ...

between 2013 and 2016. The project is supported by

's Catalyst Arts grant scheme,Catalyst Arts scheme explained
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, Cockayne Grants for the Arts and the

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References

External links

Chisenhale Gallery's official website

How to work together website
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