Summer programme at Pi Artworks curated by Goldsmiths students

A gallery in the heart of London’s bustling Fitzrovia has chosen Goldsmiths, University of London students to curate its summer programme of exhibitions, set to open on Friday 10 July.

Pi Artworks London (55 Eastcastle Street) will host a series of three group exhibitions by three MFA Curating students – Adriënne Groen, Isabel Dexter and Ashlee Conery - featuring artists who have not previously exhibited with the gallery.

Earlier this year, students on the course were invited to submit exhibition proposals to the gallery’s director, with three chosen to develop and realise their unique projects in the gallery’s space. The resulting exhibitions demonstrate both Goldsmiths Curating students’ talent, and Pi’s commitment to creating opportunities for emerging practitioners and experimental curatorial ventures.

 

An Avalanche of Subtlety

Curated by Adriënne Groen

10 July – 08 August

An Avalanche of Subtlety is an artistic discussion with 32 boxes that were discovered by curator Adriënne Groen, in a house which no one had entered, apart from its sole occupant, for 15 years.

The meticulously organised items contained in the boxes – from wine corks to twigs to tools without their handles - are re-examined in the exhibition, as artists John Henry Newton, Laura Reeves, and Himali Singh Soin pick up and create a new history for the stagnant objects.

With every box representing a window into the past, the exhibition frames a specific moment in the objects’ journeys before they will be re-distributed again, interpreted in new settings by new people.

 

Red Dog, Black Wolf Will you Remember Your Name

Curated by Isabel Dexter

14 August – 5 September

From the 14 August -5 September the space is given over to Red Dog, Black Wolf Will you Remember Your Name by installation artist Charles Sandford and painter Rae Hicks, curated by Isabel Dexter. Transforming the gallery into a semi-domestic interior, the artists distort the environment and create a liminal space between exhibition venue and home.

 

Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens

Curated by Ashlee Conery

11 September – 1 October

Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens engages 10 artists in observing states of suspended development. The exhibition begins with Kihlberg & Henry’s Apeirophobic Framework, a video dissecting the fear of an infinite future were no change or evolution is possible.  

The works presented either exhibit an instance where apeirophobia – the fear of infinity - can be found, or lend the viewer a moment of suspension. The artists deal with a ‘present-future’- a London without artists, or a life of confinement – by developing a narrative in which they take control of seemingly inevitable stagnation.

Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens brings together the work of Kihlbery & Henry, Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, Simon Le Boggit, Sarah Derat, William Mackrell, Maude Maris, Rachel McRae, Claire Trotignon and David Velez.

 

Pi Artworks was founded by Yesim Turanli in 1998 in Istanbul to showcase the best of contemporary art to Istanbul's growing art scene and provide an international platform for its roster of artists. In October 2013 it became the first Turkish commercial gallery to expand into the UK when Pi Artworks London opened on 55 Eastcastle Street.

MFA Curating is based within the Department of Art at Goldsmiths. The programme is designed for students who wish to take up contemporary curating as an artistic, social and critical undertaking, and who wish to develop their professional practice in this area. It's also designed for curators and those with related academic and practical experience who wish to achieve professional excellence in their practice and innovate in the expanding field of curatorial practice.