Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016
Exhibitions & Events / Exhibitions
BNC 2016, ICA, London

Showcasing new and recent fine art graduates, the ICA is delighted to welcome back Bloomberg New Contemporaries to its galleries. The panel of guest selectors comprising Anya Gallaccio, Alan Kane and Haroon Mirza has chosen 46 artists who now join an illustrious roster of New Contemporaries alumni that includes Tacita Dean, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Mike Nelson and Laure Prouvost amongst many others. In July, New Contemporaries returned to Bluecoat, after 30 years to launch this year’s show as part of the Liverpool Biennial 2016, before it travels to the ICA in November. Bloomberg Philanthropies has supported the New Contemporaries since 2000.

Selected artists for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016 are: Victoria Adam, Katja Angeli, Diana Anghel, Saelia Aparicio Torinos, James Berrington, Jack Bodimeade, Anna Bunting-Branch, Leah Carless, Michael Cox, David Donald, Jemma Egan, Kate Fahey, Jamie Fitzpatrick, Harry Fletcher, Mary Furniss, Roxman Gatt, Christopher D.A. Gray, Jamie Green, Thomas Greig, Byzantia Harlow, Sebastian Jefford, Seungjo Jeong, Alfie Kungu, Janina Lange, Lana Locke, Georgia Lucas-Going, Sophie Mackfall, Karolina Magnusson-Murray/Leon Platt, Richie Moment, Zarina Muhammad, Richard Nicholson, Mooni Perry, Lisa Porter, Alicia Reyes McNamara, George Ridgway, Rodrigo Red Sandoval, Zsofia Schweger, Leonor Serrano Rivas, Ruth Spencer Jolly, Oriele Steiner, Margreta Stolen, Reece Straw, Maryam Tafakory, Tenant of Culture and Jack West.

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016, brings together artists working across a range of media with traditional techniques and materials used alongside digital applications and processes. Themes in this year’s works include; mass-production, socio-economics, gender equality and cultural identity. The resulting exhibition is both a social commentary and an indication of the emerging generations’ preoccupations.

2016 Selectors

Anya Gallaccio (b. 1963. Scotland, UK) is a British installation artist based in London. Gallaccio studied at Kingston Polytechnic (1984–5), and Goldsmiths College, London (1985–8). A core aspect of her work is change and transformation. Both the ephemerality and site-specificity of all her work make it notoriously difficult to document. Gallaccio is careful to discard all the material related to an installation once it has closed and resists photographic documentation; in this sense her work is anti-monumental, unconcerned with a legacy outside the memories of those who witnessed it. Recent solo exhibitions include Anya Gallaccio, MCA San Diego, California, USA, (2015) Anya Gallaccio, Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA, (2015) Anya Gallaccio, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY (2015), Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, California (2014), STROKE, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, Scotland (2014). Selected group exhibitions include About Trees, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern (2015), Beyond Limits. Sotheby’s at Chatsworth: A Selling Exhibition, Chatsworth, Derbyshire, UK (2015), Then For Now, Delfina Foundation, London, UK (2015), Future Seasons Past, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY (2015). Gallaccio is represented by Thomas Dane Gallery, London.

Alan Kane (b. 1961, Nottingham, UK) is based in London. He has worked on Solo exhibitions at galleries including the Whitechapel Gallery, London (2011), Turner Contemporary, Margate (2006 & 2014), and the Showroom, London (2000) and projects including Life Class / Today’s News, for Channel 4 and Art Angel (2009), and The Trongate Codex for The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2012) and The Stratford Hoard for Art on the Underground (2008). He is currently participating in The British Art Show 8. Kane’s work takes diverse forms and often features collaborative, found or readymade components. It plays with the entrenched systems and values in culture, in particular the perceived hierarchies that govern different art forms.

Haroon Mirza was born in London in 1977 where he lives and works. He has a BA in Painting from Winchester School of Art, an MA in Design Critical Practice and Theory from Goldsmiths College (2006) and an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design (2007). Solo exhibitions include Haroon Mirza/hrm199 Ltd. at Museum Tinguely,The Light Hours, Villa Savoye, Poissy, Are Jee Be? at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Random Access Recall at Le Grande Café, St. Nazaire (2014), The Hepworth, Wakefield, UK (2013) and The New Museum, New York (2012). His work was included in the 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, China (2012) and the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), where he was awarded the Silver Lion. Among other awards he won the Northern Art Prize in 2011, the DAIWA Foundation Art Prize in 2012, the Zurich Art Prize in 2014 and the Calder Prize in 2015.