The Galleries Show at the Royal Academy, London 2002
© Copyright Photograph by Dafydd Jones
The Royal Academy of Arts, in collaboration with twenty of London’s hottest commercial art galleries, is offering visitors a concise view of contemporary art in 2002. This innovative exhibition offers a dynamic insight into the creative activities of commercial galleries, showing the important role they play in positioning London in the international contemporary art world, and exploring how they encourage and support artists.
The Galleries Show provides a unique opportunity for visitors to experience, under one roof, what is happening now in the contemporary art world. These London galleries range from small artist-run spaces to internationally renowned galleries. The show offers visitors the chance to see recent work by established artists including Peter Doig, Grayson Perry, Elizabeth Peyton and Wolfgang Tillmans, as well as the opportunity to discover emerging artists. The majority of artists are showing new work and some have created site specific installations especially for The Galleries Show.
Each gallery has a room in which it presents individually curated exhibitions. Some galleries are showcasing individual artists whilst others are presenting group or themed shows. The included works encompass the many possibilities of contemporary art – from painting, sculpture and photography, to video, installation and performance art. The exhibition is curated by Norman Rosenthal, Exhibitions Secretary at the Royal Academy of Arts, and Max Wigram, independent curator, who previously collaborated on Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art, held at the Royal Academy in 2000. The Royal Academy of Arts aims to present a broad range of contemporary visual art to the widest possible audience, to encourage debate, and provide a focus for the interests of artists and art lovers.
Oil on linen
courtesy Greengrassi
Acrylic on canvas
courtesy Maureen Paley - Interim Art
participating galleries:
*Anthony Reynolds presents Mark Alexander
*Anthony Wilkinson presents A.K. Dolven
Asprey Jacques (now Allison Jaques) presents Paul Morrison
Corvi–Mora presents Glenn Sorenson
Emily Tsingou Gallery presents Lukas Duwenhögger
*Essor Gallery features a film by Johan Grimonprez and sculpture by Paloma Varga–Weisz
*Frith Street Gallery presents Thomas Schutte and Marlene Dumas
Gagosian Gallery presents Howard Hodgkin
Greengrassi presents Lisa Yuskavage
Maureen Paley - Interim Art presents Gillian Wearing, Muntean/Rosenblum, Paul Noble, Wolfgang Tillmans, Malerie Marder, Rebecca Warren and David Thorpe.
*Laurent Delaye Gallery presents Grayson Perry
Lisson Gallery presents Tony Cragg
*Michael Hue–Williams presents Cai Guo-Qiang
Modern Art presents Richard Woods
Sadie Coles HQ presents Elizabeth Peyton
Stephen Friedman presents Yoshitomo Nara and David Shrigley
The Approach presents Michael Raedecker, Tim Stoner, Mari Sunna, and Phillip Allen; sculpture by Gary Webb and Evan Holloway, and a wall–text by Inventory and Emma Kay
Victoria Miro presents Verne Dawson, Peter Doig, Inka Essenhigh, Chantal Joffe, Dawn Mellor, Chris Ofili, Tal R, and Adriana Varejão
*Vilma Gold presents gallery artists
*Gallery Closed