Riflemaker

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Riflemaker, 79 Beak Street, second building from the right
View of the shop front, 2016

Riflemaker was an avant-garde art gallery in London in a historic building at 79 Beak Street , Soho , built in 1712, in which the workshop of a gunsmith (English riflemaker ) was.

history

The gallery was opened in 2004 by Virgina Damtsa and Tot Taylor . The focus was on feminist and performance art. There were performances and discussions every Monday evening. Works and performances by emerging and internationally acclaimed artists were shown, including Stuart Pearson Wright, Leah Gordon, Francesca Loewe, Artists Anonymous, Liliane Lijn, Alice Anderson , Wen Wu and many more.

In 2006, Riflemaker transformed into the legendary Indica art gallery for four months , which was a center of London's underground culture from 1965 to 1967 . Performances by Peter Whitehead and Yoko Ono have been shown.

The Art Newspaper announced the closure in 2017, for this May it was stilllisted as a participantat the Photo London 2017 art fair.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Riflemaker's Tot Taylor (Co-funder) . FAD magazine, September 22, 2016
  2. ↑ 79, BEAK STREET W1. In: org.uk. historicengland.org.uk, accessed October 15, 2019 . Description of the house at English Heritage, entry as Grade II building, no.1066484.
  3. ^ Matt Swain: Interview with Virginia Damtsa, Co-Funder of Riflemaker . Aesthetica magazine, June 30, 2014
  4. ^ Sally O'Reilly: Riflemaker becomes Indica . In: Frieze . No. 105 , March 3, 2007, ISSN  0962-0672 ( frieze.com ).
  5. ↑ Running a contemporary gallery is tough: we look at London's lost commercial art spaces. In: theartnewspaper.com. The Art Newspaper , accessed October 15, 2019 .
  6. ^ Riflemaker Contemporary Art. In: artfacts.net. ArtFacts, accessed October 15, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 46.4 "  N , 0 ° 8 ′ 11"  W.