BRITISH ART SHOW 6

British Art Show 6 - the most ambitious survey of recent art in the UK - opens at BALTIC on 24 September 2005. The exhibition presents work by 50 artists and artists’ groups who together represent the breadth and vitality of current British practice. Curated by Alex Farquharson and Andrea Schlieker, British Art Show 6 incorporates work across a range of practices from sculpture, painting, film and video to performance, with a number of artists working across several disciplines. The exhibition opens at BALTIC, the only venue to house the entire exhibition under one roof, and then travels to multiple venues across the cities of Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol. British Art Show 6 is a Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition which takes place every five years.

British Art Show 6 goes beyond the usual conventions of a touring exhibition, evolving as it moves to each host city. It features several commissions for projects in the public realm, a live art programme, and works that respond to the venues, cities and audiences on the tour. British Art Show 6 at BALTIC includes three high profile off-site commissions, funded by NewcastleGateshead Initiative, the organisation which has developed and co-ordinated a wider festival of visual arts in NewcastleGateshead, coinciding with British Art Show 6.

Speaking about the exhibition, the curators of British Art Show 6 commented: “We noticed several interlocking themes that characterise much of the art we encountered – there are frequent references to specific moments in the history of modernism; several artists are engaging with international politics from a personal perspective, and collaborations are increasingly sought with people and organisations beyond the art institution. References to architecture, the urban environment, landscape and ecology are equally prevalent”.

In developing the shortlist for British Art Show 6, the curators Andrea Schlieker and Alex Farquharson travelled extensively throughout the UK and considered work by over 500 artists. For the first time since the British Art Show was launched in 1979, 50% of the artists featured in the exhibition are women and 50% were born outside the UK. The curators went on to say: “It is a particularly exciting moment for us to assemble this exhibition, as the art scene in Britain is now broader in outlook, more vibrant and internationally oriented than at any other time in the British Art Show’s history.”

British Art Show 6 exhibition artists and new commissions: Tomma Abts, Haluk Akakce, Phillip Allen, Tonico Lemos Auad, Claire Barclay, Anna Barriball, Breda Beban, Zarina Bhimji, Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska, public works, Ergin Cavusoglu, Gordon Cheung, Adam Chodzko, Marcus Coates, Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Enrico David, Chris Evans, Doug Fishbone, Siobhan Hapaska, Roger Hiorns, Matthew Houlding, Richard Hughes, Marine Hugonnier, Gareth Jones, Juneau Projects, Kerstin Kartscher, Janice Kerbel, Mark Leckey, Hew Locke, Andrew Mcdonald, Christina Mackie, Goshka Macuga, Daria Martin, Heather & Ivan Morison, Rosalind Nashashibi, Nils Norman, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Silke Otto-Knapp, Toby Paterson, Paul Rooney, Eva Rothschild, Zineb Sedira, Lucy Skaer, Alia Syed, David Thorpe, Mark Titchner, Rebecca Warren, Gary Webb, Carey Young.

Inspired by British Art Show 6 at BALTIC and developed to run simultaneously, NewcastleGateshead’s Festival of Visual Arts (September 2005 – March 2006), celebrates the north east’s creativity, cultural vibrancy and artistic talent through a series of exhibitions, events and special commissions. Arts organisations, artist-led groups and arts venues across NewcastleGateshead are showcasing a wide-range of new and innovative work during this period.

A Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition from the South Bank Centre, London, organised on behalf of Arts Council England and presented in association with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and venues across the cities of Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol. Supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

British Art Show 6 opens at BALTIC before travelling to venues across the cities of Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol. British Art Show 6 is a Hayward Touring Exhibition.

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BRITISH ART SHOW 6
A Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition
Presented in association with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead and galleries across the cities of Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol
Kuratoren: Alex Farquharson, Andrea Schlieker
Organisation: Emma Mahony, Clare Hennessy, Alice Lobb

mit Tomma Abts, Haluk Akakce, Phillip Allen, Tonico Lemos Auad, Claire Barclay, Anna Barriball, Breda Beban, Zarina Bhimji, Marysia Lewandowska & Neil Cummings, Public Works , Ergin Cavusoglu, Gordon Cheung, Adam Chodzko, Marcus Coates, Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Enrico David, Chris Evans, Doug Fishbone, Siobhan Hapaska, Roger Hiorns, Matthew Houlding, Richard Hughes, Marine Hugonnier, Gareth Jones, juneau/projects/, Kerstin Kartscher, Janice Kerbel, Mark Leckey, Hew Locke, Andrew Mcdonald, Christina Mackie, Goshka Macuga, Daria Martin, Heather & Ivan Morison, Rosalind Nashashibi, Nils Norman, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Silke Otto-Knapp, Toby Paterson, Paul Rooney, Eva Rothschild, Zineb Sedira, Lucy Skaer, Alia Syed, David Thorpe, Mark Titchner, Rebecca Warren, Gary Webb, Carey Young

Stationen:

24.09.05 - 08.01.06 GATESHEAD: BALTIC Gateshead

28.01.06 - 02.04.06 MANCHESTER: Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester; Cornerhouse Manchester; The International 3, Manchester; Manchester Art Gallery; Urbis, Manchester; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; The Lowry, Manchester

22.04.06 - 25.06.06 NOTTINGHAM: Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; The Bonington Gallery, Nottingham; New Art Exchange, Nottingham; Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham; Nottingham Castle; The Yard Gallery, Nottingham

15.07.06 - 17.09.06 BRISTOL: Arnolfini, Bristol; Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery; Spike Island, Bristol; ROOM, Bristol; Royal West of England Academy, Bristol; Station, Bristol; Watershed Media Centre, Bristol

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