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Camberwell Space

Camberwell Space is a dynamic platform for the arts, hosting three ambitious international exhibitions and a programme of invited smaller scale projects each year, working with established and emerging practitioners.

Housed at the front of the main building at Camberwell College of Arts, the gallery provides a site for the dissemination and discussion of key ideas and debates within current art and design practice. The interdisciplinary exhibition programme supports public symposia and works in partnership with the Camberwell Press.

Camberwell Space is sited in one of London's most vibrant and expanding art scenes. Located next to the South London Gallery and participating in the South London Art Maps 'Last Fridays', Camberwell Space is part of the new 'art mecca'.

Recent projects include Terminator curated by Juan Bolivar with artists Nicky Carvell, John Chilver, Nick Dawes, Angus Sanders-Dunnachie, Stewart Gough, James Hopkins, Andy Hsu, Hiroe Komai, Alec Kronacker, Jack Newling, Ian Monroe, Pamela Richardson & Kevin Smith, Julie Verhoeven and Elusive curated by Sian Bonnell a major exhibition that brought together the work of 29 artists featuring photography, video, performance and book works.

Camberwell Space has an illustrious role call of past artists and designers including:  Xavier Drong; Olivier Gourvil; Geoffroy Gross; Nicolas Roye; Suky Best; Dan Hays; Tim Head; Kathy Prendergast and Anna Maria Maiolino among many others.

Aims

  • To stage three innovative and dynamic exhibitions each year that address current debates within art and design practices.
  • To stage public symposia related to and running parallel with aspects of the exhibition programme.
  • To produce innovative publications that document the processes and ideas behind the projects through partnership with Camberwell Press.
  • To provide a platform for a number of smaller-scale projects emerging directly from the college's community of arts practitioners.
  • To support the college's commitment to foster engaging and challenging learning opportunities and contexts; to contribute to the wider culture and debates related to art and design both nationally and internationally; and to initiate and participate in art and design initiatives involving local communities in South East London.
  • To provide administrative support for curators and/or artists to develop and implement ambitious exhibition projects.

See past events on the Camberwell blog