Chisenhale Gallery has an award winning, 38-year history as one of London’s most innovative forums for art. With a reputation for identifying new artistic talent, we believe in making cultural impact through working with artists and learning from our neighbours. We develop ideas with artists over a one- to two-year incubation period, from concept to completion.
Chisenhale Gallery’s Commissions Programme for 2023 comprises four new exhibitions by artists Ravelle Pillay, Lotus Laurie Kang, Benoît Piéron and Alia Farid. Spanning painting, photography, sculpture and textile, the programme addresses the body – its movements through space and time, and its physical, emotional and material imprints. As part of our commissioning process, a talks and events series is developed in conversation with each artist to extrapolate and amplify ideas underpinning their new works.
Research and public discussion are central to Chisenhale Gallery’s Engagement Programme, which is informed by artistic practice and acts as a site for collective learning. The programme includes a series of talks and events devised in collaboration with each commissioned artist and local school and community partnerships. The programme creates opportunities for audiences to discuss themes that recur throughout the gallery’s Commissions Programme, and address key social, political and formal questions raised by each artist’s work.
