The Common Guild is a visual arts organisation in

Glasgow Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated pop ...

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. It was established in 2006 and has commissioned two

Turner Prize The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award). ...

-nominated works: Duncan Campbell in 2014 and Janice Kerbel in 2015. The Common Guild is located in a Victorian townhouse owned by Glasgow artist

Douglas Gordon Douglas Gordon (born 20 September 1966) is a Scottish artist. He won the Turner Prize in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997 and the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Work Much of Gordon's ...

. The building houses The Common Guild's offices, a library designed by artist Andrew Miller containing books belonging to Douglas Gordon, and public event and exhibition spaces. In 2019, the event and exhibition spaces are due to close while the organisation continues its off-site project work and looks for a new permanent exhibition space. Exhibitions hosted by The Common Guild have included solo shows by

Martin Creed Martin Creed (born 21 October 1968) is a British artist, composer and performer. He won the Turner Prize in 2001 for exhibitions during the preceding year, with the jury praising his audacity for exhibiting a single installation, '' Work No. ...

Steven Claydon Steven Claydon (born 1969) is a sculptor and musician based in London. Claydon was born in London. He has performed and shown work internationally in exhibitions at Tate Modern in London, Art Basel in Switzerland, in Düsseldorf and Portikus i ...

Roni Horn Roni Horn (born September 25, 1955) is an American visual artist and writer. The granddaughter of Eastern European immigrants, she was born in New York City, where she lives and works. She is currently represented by Xavier Hufkens in Brussels an ...

, Tacita Dean,

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 ...

and Roman Ondák; and numerous group shows. Beyond their own gallery space, The Common Guild organise and curate exhibitions and art events such as 'the Persistence of Objects' at Lismore Castle Arts in 2015 and 'Scotland + Venice 2013' at the 55th

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. Between 2008 and 2013, The Common Guild worked with Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (GoMA) and

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to build a new collection of international contemporary work for Glasgow including works by

Emily Jacir Emily Jacir ( ar, املي جاسر) is a Palestinian artist and filmmaker. Biography Jacir was born in Bethlehem in 1973, Jacir spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia, attending high school in Italy. She attended the University of Dallas, Memp ...

, Matthew Buckingham and

Lothar Baumgarten Lothar Baumgarten (5 October 1944 – 2 December 2018) was a German conceptual artist, based in New York and Berlin. His work includes installation and also film. Early life and education Born 1944 in Rheinsberg, Germany, Baumgarten attended ...

among others, many of which are regularly on display at GoMA. 21 Woodlands Terrace provided a key location for the filming of ''Glasgow: The Grit and the Glamour,'' a film in the BBC's '' Imagine'' series.

Solo shows

Adel Abdessemed Adel Abdessemed (born 1971) is an Algerian-French contemporary artist. He has worked in a variety of media, including animation, installation, performance, sculpture and video. Some of his work relates to the topic of violence in the world. ...

, 'TRUST ME', 2008 *

Spencer Finch Spencer Finch (born 1962 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American artist. After attending The Hotchkiss School, he graduated ''magna cum laude'' with a B.A. in comparative literature from Hamilton College in 1985. Finch then pursued an M.F.A. in ...

, 2008 * Roni Horn, 'the tiniest piece of mirror is always the whole mirror', 2009 *

Mircea Cantor Mircea Cantor (born 1977) is a Romanian-born artist who follows in the tradition of French artist Marcel Duchamp in that he employs readymade objects.Demos, T.J. "Mircea Cantor: The Title is the Last Thing". Philadelphia: Harper Perennial, 20 ...

, 'Which light kills you’, 2010 * Martin Creed, 'Things', 2010 * Gerard Byrne, 'Images or shadows of divine things', 2010 * Robert Barry, 'Words and Music', 2010 * Tacita Dean, 2011 * Ulla von Brandenburg, 'Neue Alte Welt', 2011 * Thea Djordjadze, 'Lost Promise in a Room', 2011 * Wolfgang Tillmans, 'A New Installation, with Works from the Arts Council Collection', 2012 *

Ugo Rondinone Ugo Rondinone (born November 30, 1964) is a Swiss-born artist widely recognized for his mastery of several different media—most prominently sculpture, drawing and painting, but also photography, architecture, video and sound installation— ...

, 'primitive', 2012 *

Carol Bove Carol Bove (born 1971) is an American artist based in New York City. She lives and works in Brooklyn. Early life and education Born in 1971 in Geneva, Switzerland to American parents, Bove (pronounced bo-VAY) was raised in Berkeley, California, ...

, 'The Foamy Saliva of a Horse', 2013 * Roman Ondák, 'Some Thing', 2013 * Gabriel Kuri, 'All probability resolves into form', 2014 * Hayley Tompkins, 'Scotland + Venice', 2014 *

Corin Sworn Corin Sworn (born 1976) is an artist who lives and works in Glasgow. Her 2012 installation and film ''The Foxes'' was shown at the Scottish Pavilion of the 2013 Venice Biennale. Sworn was the recipient of the fifth edition of the MaxMara Art Priz ...

, 'Scotland + Venice', 2014 * Duncan Campbell, 'Scotland + Venice', 2014 * Anne Hardy, 'TWIN FIELDS', 2015 *

Thomas Demand Thomas Cyrill Demand (born 1964) is a German sculptor and photographer. He currently lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles, and teaches at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg. Demand had his first solo exhibition at Tanit Galerie in Munich ...

, 'Daily Show', 2015 *

Akram Zaatari Akram Zaatari (born 1966 in Sidon, Lebanon) is a filmmaker, photographer, archival artist and curator. In 1997, he co-founded the Arab Image Foundation with photographers Fouad Elkoury, and Samer Mohdad. His work is largely based on collecting, st ...

, 'The End of Time', 2016 *

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, ‘At Twilight’, 2016 * Sharon Hayes, 'In My Little Corner of the World, Anyone Would Love You', 2016 *

, ‘The Archipelago of Contented Peoples: Endurance Groups’, 2017 *

Katinka Bock Katinka Bock (born 1976) is a German sculptor and visual artist. She lives and works in Paris and Berlin. Early life Katinka Bock was born in Frankfurt am Main and studied sculpture and visual arts at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, rec ...

, 'Radio Piombino', 2018 * Janice Kerbel, 'Notes from Sink / Routine for 24 Women', 2018

Group Shows

*'Always Begins By Degrees', Adel Abdessemed, Roni Horn, Anna Gaskell, Pavel Büchler, Marine Hugonnier, Marcel Broodthaers, Philippe Parreno, Cerith Wyn Evans, 2008 * “You seem the same as always, -”, Claire Barclay, Kate Davis, Olafur Eliasson, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Douglas Gordon, Gabriel Orozco, Yvonne Rainer, Richard Serra and

David Shrigley David John Shrigley (born 17 September 1968) is a British visual artist. He lived and worked in Glasgow, Scotland for 27 years before moving to Brighton, England in 2015. Early life and education Shrigley was born 17 September 1968 in Maccles ...

, 2011 * 'HOW TO LOOK AT EVERYTHING', Zbynek Baladrán, Simon Martin, Nick Relph & Falke Pisano, 2012 * 'Slow Objects', Vanessa Billy, Edith Dekyndt and Erin Shirreff, 2017

Off-site Exhibitions

* Martin Creed ‘Words and Music’ at the RSAMD (now Royal Conservatoire), 2007 * ‘Jardins Publics’ with Michael Lin, Apolonija Sustersic and Richard Wright for

Edinburgh International Festival The Edinburgh International Festival is an annual arts festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, spread over the final three weeks in August. Notable figures from the international world of music (especially classical music) and the performing arts are ...

, 2007 * The Rodney Graham Band featuring the Amazing Rotary Psycho-Opticon, at the ABC, 2008 * Ruth Ewan ‘The Glasgow Schools’ at Scotland Street School, 2012 * Janice Kerbel ‘Doug’ in The Jeffrey Room, The

Mitchell Library The Mitchell Library is a large public library and centre of the City Council public library system of Glasgow, Scotland. History The library, based in the Charing Cross district, was initially established in Ingram Street in 1877 following a ...

, 2014 *

Phil Collins Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and actor. He was the drummer and lead singer of the rock band Genesis and also has a career as a solo performer. Between 1982 and ...

‘Tomorrow is Always too Long’ in Queen's Park, 2014 * Ulla von Brandenburg ‘Sink Down Mountain, Rise Up Valley’ in Langside Halls, 2016 *

and Graham Eatough ‘At Twilight’ at Holmwood House, 2016 * Janice Kerbel ‘Sink’ at The Western Baths Club, 2018

References

External links

Common Guild website

Common Guild on Twitter
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