Durante il mese di agosto, ATPdiary ha proposto una mappatura di diversi artisti internazionali attraverso il filtro dei curatori, organizzatori, critici che hanno costituito i diversi artist run spaces diffusi sul nostro territorio. Sono stati coinvolti 21 spazi a cui abbiamo chiesto di indicarci gli artisti che stimano e apprezzano, con cui hanno intrapreso una collaborazione.
ATPdiary ha deciso di allargare la panoramica degli artist run spaces anche a livello internazionale, ma sempre con il filtro dei nostri connazionali: abbiamo chiesto di indicarci dei nomi di spazi no profit esteri che considerano interessanti per la qualità delle proposte, dei progetti portati a termine, degli artisti presentati.

Seguono gli spazi emersi e il relativo segnalatore italiano. Le descrizioni sono state recuperare dai vari siti web —

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Jupiter Woods (Londra)

From 2017 Jupiter Woods reconfigures as a curatorial studio, co-directed by Hanna Laura Kaljo, Lucy Lopez and Carolina Ongaro. This shift reflects our commitment to facilitating the production and exchange of artistic and curatorial research; forging and developing collaboration across borders; and cultivating curatorial methodologies founded on relatedness, experimentation and the feminine.
We look forward to rearranging the rhythm of how we work, providing space for reflection, uncertainty and moments of being together. This is a response to our three-year experience of navigating the London art scene, as well as our ongoing question of the role of small-scale curatorial organisations in supporting the very first, fragile stages of artistic ideas. Our nomadic activity includes discursive programming, residencies, exhibitions and publishing. Jupiter Woods is currently based in South Bermondsey, London.
Jupiter Woods was established in early 2014 by Hanna Laura Kaljo, Lucy Lopez, Carolina Ongaro, Barnie Page, Cory Scozzari and Emma Siemens-Adolphe, with an exhibition space and residency facility in a domestic setting.

Gasworks (Londra)

Established in 1994, Gasworks is a non-profit contemporary visual art organisation working at the intersection between UK and international practices and debates. We provide studios for London-based artists; commission emerging UK-based and international artists to present their first major exhibitions in the UK; and develop a highly-respected international residencies programme, which offers rare opportunities for international artists to research and develop new work in London. All programmes are accompanied by events and participatory workshops that engage audiences directly with artists and their work.
Process and development are fundamental to us. We establish long-term relationships with artists and work with them to test out new ideas and establish dialogue with peers and the public. This level of support allows artists to confidently make a significant new step in their professional career, whether the outcome is a work-in-progress, an event or an exhibition.
Over the last two decades Gasworks has worked with over 250 artists from 70 countries around the world. Many of our alumni have gone on to exhibit at major institutions and art events, and have received nominations for – or won – prestigious awards including the Turner Prize, Absolut Award and Pinchuk Art Prize. Alumni include Yinka Shonibare, Goshka Macuga, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, The Otolith Group, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Tania Bruguera, Song Dong, Hassan Khan, Alexandre da Cunha, Renata Lucas, Cinthia Marcelle, Subodh Gupta and many more.
Gasworks has recently secured its future by purchasing and redeveloping its home. The £2.1million project has given the organisation unprecedented resilience and great confidence in continuing to support new generations of emerging UK and international artists.
Gasworks is also the hub of the Triangle Network, an international network of over thirty arts organisations, mostly based in Africa, Asia and South America. Triangle Network regularly develops and facilitates artists’ residencies and workshops as well as peer-to-peer exchanges, both between the UK and the rest of the world or within a specific region. Triangle informs Gasworks’ programme, giving the organisation unparalleled opportunities to nurture and exhibit artists from across the world.

MOMART (Amsterdam)

MOMART – base for emerging and independent artists is a platform for the presentation, research and production of contemporary art. Momart aims to stimulate the development and visibility of artists that explore the boundaries of media and the representation and interpretation of contemporary art making.
Working in interdisciplinary teams and making use of the expertise of young as well as more experienced artists and art related professionals, curators and writers, Momart presents a varied program of exhibitions, often in collaboration with art fairs and other art spaces. Exhibitions are complemented by artist talks, performances and debates, in which present-day themes in contemporary art are being investigated.

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K Gold Temporary Gallery (Lesbo, Grecia) 

It is a temporary, nomadic platform for contemporary art that was founded in 2014 in the Greek island of Lesvos by Nicolas Vamvouklis.
The Gallery focuses on collaborative approaches to cultural production within its locality and beyond by activating alternative spaces and offering artists and curators the opportunity to expand their research and practice through art commissions, socially engaged projects, exhibitions, cultural exchanges, performances, residencies, workshops, educational programmes and other projects that strongly connect communities.

Isthisit? (Londra)

isthisit? is a platform for contemporary art founded in 2016 by it’s current director, Bob Bicknell-Knight. Online, it operates as a gallery creating weekly exhibitions showcasing emerging to mid-career artists, hosting a roster of guest curators experimenting with the medium of the internet to interrogate a variety of different concepts. The website also hosts monthly residencies, where artists are given a web page to create a completely new work that exists on the internet as a piece of net art. Offline, it has held exhibitions in venues across the UK and is the publisher of the isthisit? magazine. The first issue is available to buy online, with the second issue currently in production.

Hyperspace (Istanbul, Turchia)

Artist run gallery che aprirà a settembre con un grande spazio in centro.

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Exo Exo (Paris)

Exo Exo is a curatorial program and a non-for-profit exhibition space in Paris FR founded and run by curator Elisa Rigoulet and artist Antoine Donzeaud presenting shows and projects by contemporary artists and curators.

Lodos (Città del Messico)

Lodos is an exhibition space organised by artists, curators, writers, collaborators and friends.

Zabriskie Point (Ginevra)

Zabriskie Point is a contemporary independant art space.
Almost totally glazed, it’s a space in which one does not go in. Exhibitions are visible 24/24 and 7/7. Since 2011, Zabriskie Point occupies the space of daily life, of the real, of the present. Its architecture and positioning allows it to escapes the typical barriers of traditional art spaces.
Zabriskie Point is run by a pluridisciplinary collective currently composed of art researcher Roxane Bovet, and  artists Laure Marville and Yoan Mudry.
Former members of ZABRISKIE POINT are artist Vidya Gastaldon (2011-2015), Séverin Guelpa, (2011-2015) , Magdalena Ybarguen (2010-2013), art historians Samuel Gross (2012) and Nolwenn Mégard (2011).
Zabriskie Point expresses its thanks as well to all those who worked together to open the space: Séverine Fromaigeat (art historian), Alexandra Maurer (artist), Livia Gnos (artist), Marie Velardi (artist), Erwin Oberwiler (architect) and Matthias Schmid (cultural actor).

Melange (Colonia)

Next show “Strenght in Numbers” by Joachim Coucke, 07 09 2017 — 01 10 2017.

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Frankfurt am Main (Berlino)  

An exhibition space inititated and run by Emiliano Pistacchi & Anthony Salvador

Konstanet (Tallinn, Estonia)

Konstanet is a non-profit gallery founded in July 2013. Konstanet is made up of two spaces – the online space at konstanet.com and a scaled (1:5) physical space located in the centre of Tallinn, Estonia. Konstanet focuses mainly on international collaborations with young emerging artists interested in exploring the possibilities of exhibiting their work online, merging the online and offline realm.

K-Gold Temporary Gallery (Lesbo, Grece)

It is a temporary, nomadic platform for contemporary art that was founded in 2014 in the Greek island of Lesvos by Nicolas Vamvouklis.
The Gallery focuses on collaborative approaches to cultural production within its locality and beyond by activating alternative spaces and offering artists and curators the opportunity to expand their research and practice through art commissions, socially engaged projects, exhibitions, cultural exchanges, performances, residencies, workshops, educational programmes and other projects that strongly connect communities.

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Suburbia (Granada)

Suburbia is born of the firm belief that the future of society and cities is inextricably linked to the creative and cultural development of the same. Culturally active urban centers make them better places to live, work and have fun. In turn, the generation of cultural stimuli makes their citizens intellectually active, more prepared and open minded, in order to face the changes and evolutions of an ever-growing society. Global and in constant evolution. Suburbia is a collaborative initiative, a space for exhibitions, conferences and workshops, an innovative reality that becomes a forum for exchanging ideas, proposing solutions and activating creativity.

Galeria 24/7 (Sao Josè, Costa Rica)

Veinti4/Siete Galería is an experimental art gallery space that is visible 24 hours, 7 day a week. It is a window display and cultural hub focused on Central American contemporary art and discourse. Based in San José, Costa Rica, the gallery aims to serve as a link between Central American artists and the world.
Founded in 2017, it will showcase both emerging and established Central American artists and collaborate with international artists, curators and project spaces. During its first year of life, Veinti4/Siete Galería plans on curating solo exhibitions of a wide array of artists whose work explore painting, new media, performance, photography and installation.

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1857 (Oslo)

1857 is an artist-run exhibition space occupying a former lumberyard in Grønland, downtown Oslo.
Founded in 2010, 1857 aims to forge connections between the Norwegian art scene and young artists abroad. It is a place to convene and converge, receive, answer and honour contemporary art in Oslo.
1857 is a non-profit organization initiated and run by Stian Eide Kluge and Steffen Håndlykken.

Noplace (Oslo)

Next exhibition “Amiga”, with Serina Erfjord, Anne Guro Larsmon, Sandra Mujinga, Camilla Skibrek, Ilija Wyller, 01.09.17 – 17.09.17.

EL PARCHE Artist Residency (Bogotà)

It is an open cultural space for exchange of knowledge.

INCA (Seattle)

INCA is not well-adjusted. INCA rejects populist, and market-driven framing by consensus. Raymond Williams: “A culture has two aspects: the known meanings and direction, which its members are trained to; the new observations and meanings, which are offered and tested.” INCA takes the stance that already-existing forms of culture are not inherently more valuable than emerging forms. INCA is run on generosity and collaboration. INCA is an artist-run initiative founded and directed by Bergman/Salinas.

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Transition Gallery (Londra)

Transition is an independent gallery and publisher founded by artist Cathy Lomax in October 2002. The gallery shows work by both emerging and established contemporary artists as well as producing publications and periodicals.

Aujourd’hui (Portogallo)

Aujourd’hui is an independent editorial and curatorial platform. Our mission is to promote and support contemporary art practices through a curated selection of exhibitions and projects alongside the production of our own exclusive content, program, events and editions.

1 Koffer Kunst

1 Koffer Kunst is a project by Veronica Liotti and takes its name from the first group exhibition that she organized in Düsseldorf in May 2015.
1 Koffer Kunst is an art space that you can visit only for a short amount of time and on specific occasions.
1 Koffer Kunst is a project of contemporary art: it functions as an art space but without a fixed location. It has just a nominal location in Düsseldorf, where it is currently based.
1 Koffer Kunst will be accessible to the public only on occasion of exhibitions, events, art fairs and so on. Every time it will provisionally take a real address and location.
Even though its epiphanies are discontinuous and wanderer 1 Koffer Kunst is of course always reachable.
Bearing all this in mind 1 Koffer Kunst goes every time everywhere curiosity and chances driven it.