Artist-Run Europe: Practice/Projects/Spaces

Since first being published in 2016, this groundbreaking study has become a key text on the subject, a practical tool for those running or wishing to set up artist-run spaces, and a source of research for artists, academics and students, seminars, symposia and publications. This 2nd edition includes an updated and expanded index of artist-run spaces, with the inclusion of 50 additional spaces, and featuring spaces from Ukraine for the first time. 

Part how-to manual, part history, and part socio-political critique, Artist-Run Europe looks at the conditions, organizational models, and role of artist-led practice within contemporary art and society. The aim is to show how artist-run practice manifests itself, how artist-run spaces are a distinctive and central part of visual art culture, and how they present a complex, heterogeneous, and necessary set of alternatives to the art institution, museum and commercial gallery.

In a self-reflexive, critically questioning process, contributions discuss and analyze areas such as: What position do artist-run spaces occupy within the field of contemporary art today? Should they stand in opposition to or in parallel to other art-world structures? How is value ascribed to these often transitory practices, and is this value recognized within the field? How are these spaces organized? Can artist-run spaces develop and be sustained without the need to institutionalize? What do artist-run spaces add to the ecology of the civil society? What can we say about future (or hoped for) trajectories?

Authors
Mark Cullen
Gavin Murphy
Jason E. Bowman
Freek Lomme
AA Bronson
Noelle Collins
Valerie Connor
Triangle France (Céline Kopp & Alun Williams)
Joanna Laws
Megs Morley
Katherine Waugh

Editors
Mark Cullen
Gavin Murphy

Size
6.5 x 9.25 inches
212 pages

Publication Date
2023

Binding
Softcover, swiss binding

Edition
1000

ISBN
978-90-832706-6-1