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The Wharf Project

ArtsHub | Thursday, September 18, 2008

The Wharf Road Project brings more than 20 innovative contemporary art initiatives together for the first time in a central location, creating a seminal showcase for the more unusual and innovative. The Wharf Road Project is not an art fair, but a large-scale exhibition featuring the best of London’s specialist and experimental art spaces, complemented by a programme of performances, screenings, music and guided tours.

Participants have each been allocated one of the 5-storey venue’s rooms to curate exhibitions which reflect their artistic endeavours and curatorial ethos. This mash-up of different organisations will create an opportunity to engage with established art spaces as well as some of the newest and most exciting art initiatives in London.

The Wenlock building is owned by Workspace Group plc who have long been supporters of the arts and London’s creative industries. V22 is the first cooperatively run art collection, owned by artists themselves as well as external investor-patrons. Our ethos is to make the best new art accessible to more people in more ways. The Wharf Road Project is a celebration of artists, their supporters and the wider industry. V22 will feature new works for its collection selected by Martin Westwood and Martin Creed.

Participants include:

COLLECTIONS:

The David Roberts Art Foundation
www.galleryoneoneone.com

Martin Creed for V22 &
Martin Westwood for V22
www.v22collection.com

SPACES:

Carter Presents
www.carterpresents.com

David Risley
www.davidrisleygallery.com

E:vent
www.eventnetwork.org.uk

The Hex
www.hexprojects.org

Parade
www.paradespace.com

Seventeen
www.seventeengallery.com

Stedefreund, Berlin
www.stedefreund-berlin.de