Matt's Gallery

Matt's Gallery is a contemporary art gallery currently situated in a temporary space at 92 Webster Road, London.[1][2] Its director, Robin Klassnik OBE, opened the gallery in 1979 in his studio on Martello Street, before moving premises to Copperfield Road, Mile End in 1993. The gallery is named after Klassnik’s dog, Matt E. Mulsion.[3][4]

Matt's Gallery exterior, 92 Webster Road, photograph by Tim Dixon

In 2019 Matt's Gallery will move to a new 6,000 square feet (560 m2) permanent space in Nine Elms, Battersea as part of Wandsworth Council's cultural strategy.[5]

History

Among the artists represented by Matt's Gallery are Willie Doherty, a 1994 and 2003 Turner Prize nominee, Susan Hiller, Richard Grayson,[6][7] Graham Fagen, Nathaniel Mellors, 2001 and 2007 Turner Prize nominee Mike Nelson, Benedict Drew, Imogen Stidworthy and Lindsay Seers.[8] In 2009 Mellors, Nelson and Seers exhibited at Tate Britain in the Tate Triennial[9] and in 2011 Susan Hiller had a major retrospective at Tate Britain.[10] Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen represented Finland in the 2017 Venice Biennale[11] and Imogen Stidworthy was selected for Documenta 12 in 2007[12]. Stidworthy and Drew were also both selected for the British Art Show 8 in 2016-2017.

Robin Klassnik was awarded an OBE for services to the arts and media in 2014.[13] Matt’s Gallery was short-listed for the Prudential Award for the Visual Arts in 1996 along with Bookworks and South London Gallery. Robin Klassnik was also short-listed for Prudential/Arts Council Award in 1994 for an individual contribution to innovation and creativity in the Arts.

In 2016 Matt's Gallery successfully applied for charitable status, allowing it to receive funds from a broad range of charities and agencies. As a National Portfolio Organisation, Matt’s Gallery receives revenue funding from Arts Council England and the programme is frequently supported by the Henry Moore Foundation and The Foyle Foundation[14] amongst others.

Matt's Gallery currently resides at 92 Webster Road, home to Ron Henocq Fine Art. The gallery ran twenty short-form (ten day) exhibitions in its 3x3x3m cube gallery space in 2018, designed by architect Tomas Klassnik.[15] In the lead up to its move to Nine Elms, anticipated in 2019-2020, Matt's Gallery presented Richard Grayson's 'By Our Own Hand', a textiles-based project working with the Wandsworth community.[16]

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gollark: If you *ask* someone "hey, random person, would you like people in Africa to not die of malaria", they will obviously say yes. Abstractly speaking, people don't want people elsewhere to die of malaria.
gollark: Capitalism is why we have a massively effective (okay, mostly, some things are bad and need fixing, like intellectual property) economic engine here which can produce tons of stuff people want. But people *do not care* about diverting that to help faraway people they can't see.
gollark: Helping people elsewhere does mean somewhat fewer resources available here, and broadly speaking people do not actually want to make that tradeoff.
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See also

References
  1. Jones, Jonathan (3 March 2009). "Jonathan Jones: Matt's Gallery: a real friend to art". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 April 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
  2. Dorment, Richard (26 June 2006). "Caught in a labyrinth of ideas". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  3. McNay, Michael (16 October 2009). "David Troostwyk obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 April 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
  4. Grayson, Richard (2008). Present Tense Matt's Gallery
  5. "Matt's Gallery – Support Matt's Gallery". www.mattsgallery.org. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  6. Official website. "Richard Grayson".
  7. Waldemar Januszsak, Credit crunch art at East End galleries, The Times Literary Supplement, 17 May 2009
  8. Jonathan Jones (3 March 2009), "Matt's Gallery: a real friend to art", OnArt blog, The Guardian, retrieved 8 April 2009
  9. Altermodern: Tate Triennial
  10. Hiller, Susan. "Susan Hiller Retrospective". Tate Britain 2011.
  11. "Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen: The Aalto Natives - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  12. "Imogen Stidworthy". frieze.com. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  13. Klassnik, Robin. "Birthday Honours lists 2014".
  14. The Foyle Foundation
  15. "Matt's Gallery IS MOVING!Â". us4.campaign-archive.com. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  16. "Matt's Gallery at Nine Elms". www.mattsgallery.org. Retrieved 31 January 2019.

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