Matt's Gallery is a contemporary art gallery currently located in Nine Elms at 6 Charles Clowes Walk, London, SW11 7AN.
Its director, Robin Klassnik OBE, opened the gallery in 1979 in his studio on Martello Street, before moving premises to Copperfield Road, Mile End in 1993. The gallery is named after Klassnik’s dog, ''Matt E. Mulsion''.
In 2022 Matt's Gallery moved to its new permanent space in Nine Elms, Battersea as part of Wandsworth Council's cultural strategy.
History
Among the artists represented by Matt's Gallery are
Willie Doherty, a 1994 and 2003
Turner Prize
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nominee,
Susan Hiller
Susan Hiller (March 7, 1940 – January 28, 2019) was an American-born artist who lived in London, United Kingdom. Her art practice included installation, video, photography, performance and writing.
Early life and education
Born in Tall ...
,
Richard Grayson,
Graham Fagen,
Nathaniel Mellors, 2001 and 2007
Turner Prize
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nominee
Mike Nelson, Benedict Drew,
Imogen Stidworthy and
Lindsay Seers
Lindsay Seers (born 1966) is a British artist living and working in London. Her installation ''Extramission 6 (Black Maria)'' was included in Nicolas Bourriaud's Tate Triennial, ' Altermodern' in 2009. She was recently awarded the Derek Jarman A ...
. They have also exhibited many female artists including,
Melanie Counsell,
Emma Hart and
Susan Hiller
Susan Hiller (March 7, 1940 – January 28, 2019) was an American-born artist who lived in London, United Kingdom. Her art practice included installation, video, photography, performance and writing.
Early life and education
Born in Tall ...
. In 2009 Mellors, Nelson and Seers exhibited at
Tate Britain
Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery, is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London, England. It is part of the Tate network of galleries in E ...
in the Tate Triennial and in 2011 Susan Hiller had a major retrospective at Tate Britain.
Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen represented Finland in the 2017
Venice Biennale
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and
Imogen Stidworthy was selected for
Documenta 12
documenta 12 was the twelfth edition of documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition. It was held between 16 June and 23 September 2007 in Kassel, Germany. The artistic director was Roger M. Buergel in collaboration with Ruth No ...
in 2007. Stidworthy and Drew were also both selected for the
British Art Show
The British Art Show (BAS) is a major survey exhibition organised every five years to showcase contemporary British Art. Each time it is organised, the show tours to four UK cities. It usually requires a number of venues in each city to accommod ...
8 in 2016-2017.
Robin Klassnik was awarded an OBE for services to the arts and media in 2014. Matt’s Gallery was short-listed for the Prudential Award for the Visual Arts in 1996 along with
Bookworks and
South London Gallery
The South London Gallery, founded 1891, is a public-funded gallery of contemporary art in Camberwell, London. Until 1992, it was known as the South London Art Gallery, and nowadays the acronym SLG is often used. Margot Heller became its direc ...
. Robin Klassnik was also short-listed for Prudential/Arts Council Award in 1994 for an individual contribution to innovation and creativity in the Arts.
In 2016 Matt's Gallery successfully applied for charitable status, allowing it to receive funds from a broad range of charities and agencies. As a National Portfolio Organisation, Matt’s Gallery receives revenue funding from
Arts Council England and the programme is frequently supported by the
Henry Moore Foundation
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,
Outset Contemporary Art Fund and The Foyle Foundation amongst others.
Matt's Gallery currently resides at 92 Webster Road, home to Ron Henocq Fine Art. The gallery ran twenty short-form (ten day) exhibitions in its 3x3x3m cube gallery space in 2018, designed by architect Tomas Klassnik. In the lead up to its move to Nine Elms, anticipated in 2019-2020, Matt's Gallery presented
Richard Grayson's 'By Our Own Hand', a textiles-based project working with the Wandsworth community.
See also
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Art group An art group or artist group, sometimes also an artist collective, describes itself as an open or fixed association of artists to a group with a name. Founders and initiators of artist groups are mostly well-known artists, around whom similarly thin ...
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List of Turner Prize winners and nominees
References
External links
Matt's Gallery
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Contemporary art galleries in London
Art galleries established in 1979
1979 establishments in England