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Artist
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Europe

Artist-Run Europe is part how-to resource, part history, and part socio-political critique of the conditions, organisational models, and role of artist-led practice within contemporary visual art and society. This online resource is a newly developed companion to the landmark 2016 publication (now available in an expanded second edition).

It features a project outline, introductory essay, publication overview, new case studies, and is centred around a searchable and updatable artist-run index: a collaborative tool to quantify and compare the disparate attributes, organisational models, funding structures and aims, of spaces and projects from across Europe. An initiative of Pallas Projects.

Albania

MIZA Galeri

Tirana
Founded:
2012–2018
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Miza is a Tirana based, not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation working in the field of culture and contemporary art since its inception in November 2012.
Location:
Tirana
Founded:
2012–2018
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://mizagaleri.com/

OFFICE Tirana Art Center / Gallery On The Move

Tirana
Founded:
2007
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OFFICE Tirana Art Center / Gallery On The Move produces projects by local and international artists, focusing on time-based and site-specific projects that challenge perceived notions and stimulate debate, experimentation, and engagement.
Location:
Tirana
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Private, sponsorship
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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http://www.tiranartcenter.net http://www.galleryonthemove.net

Tirana Ekspres

Tirana
Founded:
2011
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Tirana Ekspres is a non-profit organisation initiated by artists, activists, environmentalists, policymakers, social-business and researchers whose purpose is to enhance the cultural and artistic perception and expression in Tirana and beyond.
Location:
Tirana
Founded:
2011
Funding:
Public & embassies
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://tiranaekspres.com/

ZETA Center for Contemporary Art

Tirana
Founded:
2007
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ZETA Center for Contemporary Art is a non-profit exhibition space founded in 2007 by Valentina Koça in downtown Tirana. ZETA functions as an autonomous cultural venue for multidisciplinary approaches to visual arts, including painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation, sound, and performance.
Location:
Tirana
Founded:
2007
Funding:
State/local government, International Institutions / grants, sponsorship & self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://qendrazeta.com/

Austria

Adhoc Pad

Vienna
Founded:
2011–2018
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adhocPAD is a creative hub for people who share their passion in different subcultures. An office, a showroom, a workshop. Not just another off-space, but a meeting point for the openminded.
Location:
Vienna
Founded:
2011–2018
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://www.adhocpad.com

bb15

Linz
Founded:
2009
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bb15 is an independent artist-run-space and curatorial collective that develops exhibitions, performances, and cultural events, fostering experimental approaches, international and local collaborations, and acting as a platform that supports emerging artists throughout their careers.
Location:
Linz
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Public institutions
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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http://www.bb15.at/

Das Weisse Haus

Vienna
Founded:
2007
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Das Weisse Haus is an art association, exhibition space and non-profit-organisation for the promotion and presentation of young art.
Location:
Vienna
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Public & corporate
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.dasweissehaus.at/

G U I M A R Ã E S

Vienna
Founded:
2016
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Guimarães is an artist run space founded by Christoph Meier, Nicola Pecoraro and Hugo Canoilas in 2016.
Location:
Vienna
Founded:
2016
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.guimaraes.info

HHDM

Vienna
Founded:
2012–2016
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Hinter Haus des Meeres is an artist-run space, founded by Daphne Ahlers, Roland Matthias Gaberz and Philipp Timischl in April 2012.
Location:
Vienna
Founded:
2012–2016
Funding:
Public with cultural partner sponsorship
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.hhdm.eu/

hoast

Vienna
Founded:
2017
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hoast is an independent artist-run space in Vienna with a particular focus on South-Eastern Europe and the local Austrian scene.
Location:
Vienna
Founded:
2017
Funding:
hoast was founded in 2017 by visual artists Wolfgang Obermair and Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.hoast.net/hoast/

Kunstraum SUPER

Vienna
Founded:
2013
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Founded in 2013 by Viktoria Mayer, Andreas Perkmann Berger, Rainer Stadlbauer.
Location:
Vienna
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Public
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.supersuper.at/#

Kunstverein Galerie Arcade/ kunstraumarcade

Mödling
Founded:
1974
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Kunstraumarcade is situaited in the courtyard of the Beethoven House, an early Renaissance building in the centre of Mödling. As opposed to presenting solo exhibitions, the programme places an emphasis on dialogue between different positions. In parallel, music and literary events and hosted, alongside published exhibitions.
Location:
Mödling
Founded:
1974
Funding:
Ministry for Arts and Culture, Federal Government of Lower Austria, Town of Mödling
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.Kunstraumarcade.at

Periscope

Salzburg
Founded:
2006
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periscope:project:space is an event-led artist-run space for young visual artists. Periscope stands for a glimpse of a new sphere, deliberately seeking contact, and readily connecting.
Location:
Salzburg
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Salzburg City Council and Austria City Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.periscope.at

Secession

Vienna
Founded:
1897
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The Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession is the world’s oldest independent exhibition institution specifically dedicated to contemporary art. Artwork is selected on artistic criteria. Secession aims to present current developments in Austrian and international art.
Location:
Vienna
Founded:
1897
Funding:
Public & private (corporate sponsors, media partners)
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.secession.at/

See You Next Thursday

Vienna
Founded:
2013
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See You Next Thursday is a non-profit artist association based in Vienna. The association sees itself as a platform that supports artistic and curatorial working methods, trans-disciplinary interactions and lived art practice.
Location:
Vienna
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
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http://www.seeyounextthursday.com/

Ve.Sch

Vienna
Founded:
2008
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An art room with a bar.
Location:
Vienna
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Self-funded and public
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.vesch.org/

Wochenklausur

Vienna
Founded:
1992
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WochenKlausur, at the invitation of art institutions, develops and realises proposals for improving sociopolitical deficits. Artists' competence in finding creative solutions can just as well be applied in all areas of society.
Location:
Vienna
Founded:
1992
Funding:
Institutional on a project-by-project basis
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
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http://www.wochenklausur.at/

Belgium

(SIC)-Belgium

Brussels
Founded:
2005-2020
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(SIC) publishes a journal, books dedicated to the history and theory of modern and contemporary art, artists books and monographs. In its gallery space, (SIC) presents an annual exhibition programme.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
2005-2020
Funding:
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.sicsic.be/en/

019

Ghent
Founded:
2013
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019 is a transdisciplinary platform that develops in-between spaces for intuitive experimentation, collaboration and encounter between architecture, graphic design and visual arts.
Location:
Ghent
Founded:
2013
Funding:
City of Ghent (Cultuur Gent, Fonds Tijdelijke Invullingen), Government of Flanders
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
Share:
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https://www.019-ghent.org

Argos

Brussels
Founded:
1989
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As intermediary between the artist and the public, Argos is a place for encounters, dialogue and exchange.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
1989
Funding:
State & media partner
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.argosarts.org/

Constant

Brussels
Founded:
1997
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Constant is an incubator, artistic workplace, think-thank, content generator and media lab, supporting artists through production, exhibition, publication, research, financially, in-kind, in the broadest possible framework. We cherish an ethical approach and respect for cultural differences and gender.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
1997
Funding:
State
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.constantvzw.org/

Croxhapox

Ghent
Founded:
1990
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Interested in contemporary art and offer a working space for music, film, poetry and art criticism. In this way, we offer a large potential for experimenting.
Location:
Ghent
Founded:
1990
Funding:
State funding
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.croxhapox.org/

De La Charge

Brussels
Founded:
2012-2015
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De La Charge is a place inaugurated by 19 artists, divided into workshops and an exhibition space.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
2012-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.delacharge.com/

Drop City

Antwerp
Founded:
2014
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Drop City is an occasional public space, curatorial project and collaboration between Sam Watson and Eleanor Wright (co-founded with Paul Becker & Nadia Hebson), which began in Newcastle UK, and is now located in Antwerp.
Location:
Antwerp
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Public & Private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • § Added since 2016
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http://www.drop-city.net/

Enough Room for Space

Brussels
Founded:
2005
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A non-profit organisation that initiates and coordinates events, residencies, research projects and exhibitions. ERforS tries to act as freely as possible, always putting the context and the idea before the medium.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
2005
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.enoughroomforspace.org/

Etablissement d'en face

Brussels
Founded:
2003
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A group of people, who are actively working in the visual arts came together in 2003 to create d'Etablissement d'en face projects.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.etablissementdenface.com/

Extra City

Antwerp
Founded:
1992
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Extra City Kunsthal is a place for the production, presentation and debate of artistic practices. Focusing on contemporary art and historical positions that are of relevance for today’s discourses.
Location:
Antwerp
Founded:
1992
Funding:
State & private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.extracitykunsthal.be/

Greylight Projects

Brussels
Founded:
2010
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Greylight Projects is an artist-run organisation based in Brussels and Hoensbroek. It focuses on the development, production and presentation of contemporary art. The current location houses nine studios and residencies.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://greylightprojects.org

Island

Brussels
Founded:
2012
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Island is a non-profit art space, founded by Belgian artists Sébastien Bonin and Brice Guilbert. Artists are allowed to experiment, not constrained by a curatorial lead. Therefore, every exhibition is unique, conceived according to its own criteria without referencing previous projects.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, Fondation Roi Baudouin, COCOF and Drogenbos Brewery
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.islandisland.be

Komplot

Brussels
Founded:
2002
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A curatorial collective of variable composition and condition concerned with nomadic creative practices and trends of specialisation.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
2002
Funding:
Sponsors
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.kmplt.org/

Kunsthal Gent

Ghent
Founded:
2018
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Kunsthal Gent is an experimental intersection for contemporary art, located in a monumental fourteenth-century Carmelite monastery. An exhibition space at weekends, on weekdays a workplace for artists, organisations, and public activities such as lectures, workshops, screenings and performances.
Location:
Ghent
Founded:
2018
Funding:
City of Ghent and the Flemish Community, donations and sponsors
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
Share:
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https://www.kunsthal.gent

La Loge

Brussels
Founded:
↗
La Loge invites contemporary artists to develop projects engaged with questions of space, habitat and use. Driven by encounters between disciplines it aims to serve as a dynamic site for dialogue between its guests and public.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
Funding:
Private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.la-loge.be/

neon

Mechelen
Founded:
2025
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We are NEON. Not a club, not a commune, not a movement but a place that’s alive. A home for makers, thinkers, doers... artists. A space where things can clash, where friction is welcome, where nothing is fixed except our drive to create, connect and show our work and that of other likeminded artists.
Location:
Mechelen
Founded:
2025
Funding:
Self funded. Crowdfunding.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Collective
Status:
  • + Active
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https://deneon.be/

Netwerk Aalst

Aalst
Founded:
Late 1980s
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Netwerk Aalst develops practice focusing on the visual arts, placed in a national and international context, delivering a programme of exhibitions, lectures, workshops, screenings, concerts and residencies, collaborating with international curators.
Location:
Aalst
Founded:
Late 1980s
Funding:
Provincial councils
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://netwerkaalst.be/

Nomad City

Hasselt
Founded:
2023
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Nomad City emerged from the operations of The School Hasselt, in collaboration with PXL University College, UCLL University College and the City of Hasselt. With Nomad City, we created a contemporary nomadic village that travels through Hasselt to establish workshops, lectures, permaculture projects and community connections, where art, education and life are once again interwoven. We regularly invite artists, designers, architects and permaculturists to use lands near neighborhoods and schools as a laboratory for this artistic research into communal and sustainable living.
Location:
Hasselt
Founded:
2023
Funding:
We are currently funded by the city of Hasselt. We also receive occasional specific project fundings
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Artist-Run
  • Collective
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://theschool.city/nomad-city

OKNO

Brussels
Founded:
2013-2017
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OKNO is an artist-run organisation connecting new media and ecology. It approaches art and culture from a collaborative, DIY and post-disciplinary point of view, discovering new materials and aesthetics.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
2013-2017
Funding:
State & EU
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.okno.be/

Rosa Brux

Brussels
Founded:
2012
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Rosa Brux's activities are rooted in the understanding of art that is critically engaged with political and social issues. Conceived as a new type of institution, Rosa Brux provides an informal relationship between artworks and audience, leading to discussion, learning and experimentation.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
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http://www.rosabrux.org/

SB34

Brussels
Founded:
2018
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SB34 is based in Brussels and it offers: Quality and affordable art production studios and equipment Supports artists by organizing moments of exchange, training and networking Encourages the dissemination of experimental artistic practices by offering two exhibition spaces and support
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
2018
Funding:
SB34 is supported by Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles/CAP.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://sb34.org/

Tique

Antwerp
Founded:
2015
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Tique | art space for books & resources, located in the center of Antwerp, Belgium, presents a range of art publications, objects and resources for artistic practices.
Location:
Antwerp
Founded:
2015
Funding:
Through our activities and donations
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://tique.space

Voorkamer

Lier
Founded:
1996-2017
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Voorkamer provides an insight into the heterogeneity of today's visual art and encourages an active dialog between the artist, the public and themselves. Voorkamer's objective is to help artists carry out experiments without commercial pressure.
Location:
Lier
Founded:
1996-2017
Funding:
State funding, memberships and donations
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.voorkamer.be/

Werktank

Leuven
Founded:
↗
Our main mission is the realisation and distribution of installation art that investigates the relationship between technology and perception.
Location:
Leuven
Founded:
Funding:
State funding
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Institutional
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.werktank.org/

Bosnia and Herzegovina

CRVENA

Sarajevo
Founded:
2010
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Our mandate is to act as transformers and mind triggers and to offer different and more critical ideas on the world around us, and the world in which we wish to live in.
Location:
Sarajevo
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Public (predominantly international funders and organisations in other countries) and privately funded.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
Share:
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http://www.crvena.ba/

Duplex100m2

Sarajevo
Founded:
2007
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Duplex100m2 hosts numerous artists, enables production, exhibition and presentation of their works; plans and organises exhibitions on the local, regional and international level.
Location:
Sarajevo
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Agnès B. Endowment Fund and the Agency of Paris.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.duplex100m2.com/#

Bulgaria

0mgs

Sofia
Founded:
2009-2014
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0gms is an artist-run-space based in Sofia, Bulgaria. The goal is to share experience and to develop a platform for art with Bulgarian and international artists.
Location:
Sofia
Founded:
2009-2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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https://www.facebook.com/0gmsgallery/

Gallery Gallery

Sofia
Founded:
2019
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Gallery Gallery is the first gallery in Bulgaria that is exclusively focused on digital art. The gallery operates two virtual exhibition spaces; a router-gallery for browser-based work and our public space Ploshtadka for Augmented Reality (AR) work. Both spaces are accessible non-stop, but only if you are at the physical location of the gallery.
Location:
Sofia
Founded:
2019
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.gallerygallery.space/en

Interspace

Sofia
Founded:
1998-2011
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InterSpace founded as an association of artists, engineers and media makers has realised art projects, events in research and education, to attempt to contextualise and apply new technology to network and community building.
Location:
Sofia
Founded:
1998-2011
Funding:
Public and Private Sponsor
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.i-space.org/

Swimming Pool

Sofia
Founded:
2015
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Swimming Pool is a platform for contemporary art and research with a focus on intersectional and collaborative practices, art education, art politics, and institution-making. It is located on a central rooftop with an empty pool.
Location:
Sofia
Founded:
2015
Funding:
National Cultural Fund
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.swimmingpoolprojects.org

Tsarino Foundation Air Project

Tsarino
Founded:
2009
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Tsarino Foundation, created by a collective based in Amsterdam, organises artist-run AiR programmes in the deserted village of Tsarino, Bulgaria. These are part of a long-term research project on art in such a remote place.
Location:
Tsarino
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.tsarino.org/

Water Tower Art Residency

Sofia
Founded:
2006
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The organisation aims to work with artists, cultural organisations and arts projects in Bulgaria and abroad, and participate in the development and implementation of cooperative projects in the sphere of arts and culture.
Location:
Sofia
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Sofia City Arts Council, Private sponsors
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.watertowerartfest.com

Æther

Sofia/The Hague
Founded:
2016
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Æther Sofia/Haga are two sibling independent art spaces, whose activities and exhibitions create a possibility for experimentation and critical feedback on the contemporary obscurities of living through art, science, politics and activism. They organise SAW Sofia Art Week, and alternative education platform School of Kindness.
Location:
Sofia/The Hague
Founded:
2016
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • § Added since 2016
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https://aethersofia.wixsite.com/artspace
http://www.aether-artspace.com/

Croatia

Delta 5

Rijeka
Founded:
2014
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An artist-run space that is divided into a number of ateliers/studios and one project room which is used for presentation, production and social purposes of the members and associates of the organisation.
Location:
Rijeka
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://en.delta-5.org/#

Drugo More

Rijeka
Founded:
1999
↗
Drugo more (The Other Sea) is an interdisciplinary non-profit organisation working locally, regionally, and internationally in the field of arts and culture. Understanding art as an important cognitive tool, our artistic program addresses topics relevant to contemporary science and social theory.
Location:
Rijeka
Founded:
1999
Funding:
Local and national Government and European
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.drugo-more.hr

Fokus Grupa

Rijeka
Founded:
2012
↗
Fokus Grupa point to the power relations within the art system, as well as within the broader economic and social context, and are especially interested in the role of art within those relations. Our work extends over the neighbouring disciplines and borrows and learns from design, architecture, curating and literature.
Location:
Rijeka
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://fokusgrupa.net/#

HDLU

Zagreb
Founded:
1868
↗
The Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU), Zagreb, was established in 1868 and consists of visual artists of all generations, with the aim to support and encourage contemporary visual expression. The exhibition program ranges from the experimental to large national and international projects.
Location:
Zagreb
Founded:
1868
Funding:
Ministry of Culture and Media, City of Zagreb, sponsors, membership fees
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.hdlu.hr

Jagoda

Zagreb
Founded:
2019
↗
Jagoda is a non-profit art organization dedicated to research, discursive exchange and slow production betwixt (and between) contemporary performing and visual arts while examining gender, class and institutional power dynamics within the field We explore connections between the artistic, the theoretical and the academic that intertwine, complement and fluctuate through various media and formats. We engage in non-hierarchical exchange on process-based artistic practices in relation to the concepts of collaboration, authorship and interpretation, invisible and maintenance work and critically examine different relationships of body, space, time and performance. We also focus on empowering the community and context in which we operate and aim to connect local and global initiatives to provide a safe, caring and inviting space for artists, researchers and local communities.
Location:
Zagreb
Founded:
2019
Funding:
The Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, Kultura Nova Foundation and City of Zagreb
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://j-a-g-o-d-a.com/

SIZ

Rijeka
Founded:
2009-2020
↗
SIZ or the Self-managed interest community is an association of authors approaching the art market collectively. Grounded in social reality, SIZ, confronts the problem of financing artistic practice on ideal and practical level through collective affiliation of equal individuals made in order to jointly approach the public and the market.
Location:
Rijeka
Founded:
2009-2020
Funding:
Funded Publicly
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://g-siz.com/

What, How and For Whom

Zagreb
Founded:
1868
↗
A curatorial collective whose projects have been conceived as a platform for socially engaged models of cultural production and reflection of social reality.
Location:
Zagreb
Founded:
1868
Funding:
Ministry of Culture and Media, City of Zagreb, sponsors, membership fees
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.whw.hr/

Cyprus

ARTos

Nicosia
Founded:
2011-2016
↗
The ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation was founded by the artists Achilleas Kentonis and Maria Papacharalambous. It is a contemporary arts and science centre dedicated to research and creativity.
Location:
Nicosia
Founded:
2011-2016
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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Ground Artist Run Space

Nicosia
Founded:
2013-2015
↗
Ground is an artist-run space operated by visual artists Lito Kattou and Leontios Toumpouris. Ground is an interdisciplinary platform open to all forms of artistic practice, willing to encourage dialogue and networking.
Location:
Nicosia
Founded:
2013-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.groundartistrunspace.tumblr.com/

Neoterismoi

Nicosia
Founded:
2011-2021
↗
Neoterismoi Toumazou was a 1960s imported goods store that was turned into an art space in 2013. The group introduces fashion as everyday life, curates exhibitions and produces editions/multiples.
Location:
Nicosia
Founded:
2011-2021
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.neoterismoi.com/#

Stoa Aeschylou Association

Nicosia
Founded:
2007-2010
↗
Stoa Aeschylou Association is a non-profit organisation founded by Panikos Tembriotis and Demetris Neokleous with the aim of creating dialogue around contemporary visual arts through setting up art laboratories and experimental workshops.
Location:
Nicosia
Founded:
2007-2010
Funding:
State funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.stoaaeschylou.blogspot.ie/

Thkio Ppalies

Nicosia
Founded:
2015
↗
Thkio Ppalies is a project space founded by Stelios Kallinikou & Peter Eramian. The space is committed to the facilitation and production of creative and intellectual endeavours across a wide range of disciplines and practices.
Location:
Nicosia
Founded:
2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.thkioppalies.org/#

Czech Republic

35M2

Prague
Founded:
2006
↗
The 35m2 is an artist run space and non-profit gallery for contemporary artistic activity. The gallery is focused mainly on progressive and young visual artists creating solo projects.
Location:
Prague
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Local and national public insitutions
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.35m2.cz

D.I.V.O

Kolin
Founded:
2008-2018
↗
D.I.V.O. Institute is a living institute where art is displayed, created and discussed. The Institute strives to overcome the boredom and disorientation that prevails in European contemporary art providing an exciting alternative.
Location:
Kolin
Founded:
2008-2018
Funding:
Donations and grants
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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Entrance

Prague
Founded:
2005
↗
Entrance Gallery is the first artistic space in Prague that focuses systematically in its long-term program on the issues of ecological sustainability and care for the environment.
Location:
Prague
Founded:
2005
Funding:
Ministry of Culture Czech Republic, Prague City Hall and Municipal District of Prague 6
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.entrancegallery.com

etc. galerie

Prague
Founded:
2004
↗
Etc. gallery showcases the work of both Czech and international artists within exhibitions, screenings, discussions, and research projects. Its programme is currently focused on the presentation of artists who deploy the medium of moving image in their work and explore socially and politically engaged topics.
Location:
Prague
Founded:
2004
Funding:
Local, national and European public insitutions and private institutions
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.etcgalerie.cz

Karlin Studios

Prague
Founded:
2005
↗
A former factory hall in Prague. It includes a 500 m² exhibition space curated by the FUTURA team, 17 artists’ studios and 2 independently run galleries (KIV and K.ART.ON).
Location:
Prague
Founded:
2005
Funding:
The Ministry of Culture of The Czech Republic The City of Prague
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.futuraprague.com/en/karlin-studios

Meet Factory

Prague
Founded:
2001
↗
MeetFactory, founded by the artist David Černý, is a not-for-profit international centre for contemporary art. Our mission is to foster a dialogue between individual genres and make the current art scene accessible to the widest public.
Location:
Prague
Founded:
2001
Funding:
Publicly (City of Prague) & self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.meetfactory.cz/en/

Petrohradska kolektiv z.s

Prague
Founded:
2015
↗
PETROHRADSKÁ KOLEKTIV is an artist-run initiative with it's own production, dramaturgy and spaces for experimental and contemporary art since 2015.
Location:
Prague
Founded:
2015
Funding:
Local, national and European public insitutions
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://petrohradskakolektiv.com/

Trafo Gallery

Prague
Founded:
2006
↗
Trafo Gallery is an exhibition space. Until recently it included residential studios and a large-scale studio open to projects of all kinds, but currently it operates solely as a project space.
Location:
Prague
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Grants
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.trafogallery.cz/en/

Denmark

Antechamber

Copenhagen
Founded:
2012-2014
↗
Antechamber functions as a platform with exhibitions, studio work and artistic experiments, the hoarding of material and literature, self-publishing, conversation and confabulation.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2012-2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.antechamber.dk/

Beton

Copenhagen
Founded:
2014-2017
↗
BETON is a non-profit artist-run exhibition platform for contemporary studies in matter. The base for BETON is contemporary sculpture, and key words are density, intimacy and reflection.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2014-2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://cargocollective.com/betonartspace
http://www.betonartspace.com

Green is Gold

Copenhagen
Founded:
2011-2016
↗
Green is Gold is a non-profit exhibition space, which was opened by Danish artists Amalie Bønnelycke Lunøe and Ditte Knus Tønnesen. The space focuses on exhibiting artists with diverse, progressive practices.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2011-2016
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.gigstudio.dk/

Koh-i-noor

Copenhagen
Founded:
2004-2016
↗
As one of the oldest non-profit, independent, artist-run project spaces in Copenhagen, Koh-i-noor aims to provide a collaborative, process-related, informal platform for open thought, information exchange, experiments and interdisciplinary approaches.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2004-2016
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.koh-i-noor.org/

New Shelter Plan

Copenhagen
Founded:
2013-2015
↗
New Shelter Plan is a contemporary, non-profit exhibition space. In our 185m2 unusual exhibition space, we feature solo shows, group shows and collaborative exhibitions as well as shorter events – ‘Shorts'.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2013-2015
Funding:
Danish Arts Foundation and Copenhagen City Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.newshelterplan.com/

OK Corral

Copenhagen
Founded:
2012
↗
OK Corral, a self-organized exhibition space and studio community in the heart of Frederiksberg, creates a platform for recent graduates of the three Danish art academies, and foreign artists and curators who have not previously had significant solo exhibitions in Denmark.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Danish Arts Council Committee for Visual Arts, and Frederiksberg Fonden
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://cargocollective.com/okcorral
http://www.okcorral.dk

SixtyEight

Copenhagen
Founded:
2010
↗
A non-profit exhibition space which focuses on exhibiting younger Danish and non-Danish artists in order to create networks and initiate dialogue between the different contemporary art scenes.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Public & Private
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.sixtyeight.dk/

Spanien19c

Arhus
Founded:
1998
↗
A non-profit artist-administrated space showing high quality contemporary art. The space was established in 1998, and has 6–8 shows a year, presenting both Danish and international artists.
Location:
Arhus
Founded:
1998
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.spanien19c.dk/

Sydhavn Station

Copenhagen
Founded:
2012
↗
Sydhavn Station is established as an artist-run, DIY, and build-your-own experimental platform. It calls for experiments with quirky aesthetics and offers other ways to work seriously with art.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Self-funded w/ help from the Danish Arts Foundation
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.sydhavnstation.info/

teksas

Græsted
Founded:
2011
↗
teksas is a project space focusing on contemporary art and related matters. teksas gives an independant view on the art scene and is run by visual artists Karin Lind and Peter Holm.
Location:
Græsted
Founded:
2011
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.teksas.dk/

Toves Galleri

Copenhagen
Founded:
2010-2017
↗
TOVES is an exhibition space and production unit based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Experimenting with co-production, and external exhibition projects, TOVES continue to develop and renew the organization of the production and exhibition of art.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2010-2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.toves.dk/

TTC

Copenhagen
Founded:
2006-2014
↗
Since 2006 Emil Alsbo and Simon Højbo have worked together on various art-, book- and exhibition projects. From their studio at Gammel Kongevej 37, they have established their own gallery and independent publishing house TTC Books.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2006-2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.ttcgallery.com/#

Vermilion Sands

Copenhagen
Founded:
2016
↗
Vermilion Sands is an exhibition space for local and international contemporary art with an emphasis on experimental strategies of curation, mediation and access.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2016
Funding:
State funding, City funding, private foundations, self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.vermilionsands.net

Years

Copenhagen
Founded:
2012
↗
YEARS is an exhibition space run by Anna Margrethe Pedersen, Steffen Jørgensen, Søren Aagaard, Merete Vyff Slyngborg & Ditte Soria.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Danish Arts Foundation
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
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http://www.years.dk/

YNKB

Copenhagen
Founded:
2002
↗
YNKB wants to leave the elitist centres of Art and establish cultural and artistic activities where people live, seeing art as a collective research project on a global inter-relational and human scale.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2002
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.ynkb.dk/

Estonia

Culture Factory Polymer

Tallinn
Founded:
1995-2013
↗
Kultuuritehas / Culture Factory Polymer is a multidisciplinary centre for artistic creation and diffusion. This former toy factory became in 2003 one of the the main strong points for alternative un-institutionalised culture in Tallinn.
Location:
Tallinn
Founded:
1995-2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.kultuuritehas.ee/

EKKM (Contemporary Art Museum Estonia)

Tallinn
Founded:
2006
↗
A squat that was transformed into an alternative museum. EKKM can be perceived as a certain counter-public institution that includes many traits inherent to normative public institutions, but its goal is to conceive of another kind of institutionalism.
Location:
Tallinn
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
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http://www.ekkm.ee/

MAAJAAM

Otepää Nature Park
Founded:
2013
↗
A project space in an old farm in Estonian countryside where art meets technology. Substituting the urban environment with a rural landscape allows us to observe technology in its pure form.
Location:
Otepää Nature Park
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.maajaam.ee/

MoKS

Mooste
Founded:
2001
↗
Opened as an organisation dedicated to local and international cooperation in arts and environmental research in the rural context of post-Soviet Estonia. Main activities include artist residency programmes, art symposium, workshops, community and international events.
Location:
Mooste
Founded:
2001
Funding:
EU & State
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
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http://www.moks.ee/

Ptarmigan-Estonia

Tallinn
Founded:
2011-2014
↗
Ptarmigan is a project space operating in Helsinki, in 2011 another was opened in Tallinn. We try to create unique environments, support collaborative practices and focus specifically on international mobility and unusual educational forms.
Location:
Tallinn
Founded:
2011-2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.ptarmigan.ee/

Rundum

Tallinn
Founded:
2013-2018
↗
Rundum aims to react to gaps in the local art field, creating opportunities to relate to different locations, offering new exhibiting spaces, as well as more flexible and experimental formats.
Location:
Tallinn
Founded:
2013-2018
Funding:
Estonian National Agency for Youth in Action Programme
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.rundumspace.com/

Finland

00130 Gallery

Helsinki
Founded:
2010-2018
↗
The main idea behind the gallery´s ideology is to support young contemporary artists and non commercial projects in all mediums.
Location:
Helsinki
Founded:
2010-2018
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.00130gallery.net/

Alkovi

Helsinki
Founded:
2005
↗
A display window style space, open 24 hours. Since 2009 the space has been organised by Arttu Merimaa and Miina Hujala, also producing workshops as well as other collaborative projects and art events.
Location:
Helsinki
Founded:
2005
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.alkovi.site

Galleria Huuto

Helsinki
Founded:
2002
↗
Galleria Huuto is an independent artist collective. Huuto maintains two galleries. Galleria Huuto is focused on creating new institutional practices in art, promoting co-operation among artists and offering a platform for individual artists.
Location:
Helsinki
Founded:
2002
Funding:
Kone Foundation, Swedish Cultural Foundation, Ministry of Education and Culture.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.galleriahuuto.net/

Kutomo

Turku
Founded:
2009
↗
Kutomo is a space, place, studio, gallery and a room in which performances from different art fields are organised year round.
Location:
Turku
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://ehka.net/kutomo

Muu

Helsinki
Founded:
1987
↗
MUU gallery has profiled itself as an non-commercial multiform stage for installations, video art, audio pieces and performance exhibitions.They present works that have yet to be seen in mainstream galleries and experimental art.
Location:
Helsinki
Founded:
1987
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.muu.fi/

Oksasenkatu 11

Helsinki
Founded:
2002
↗
Oksasenkatu 11’s aim is to showcase experimental and ambitious ways of presenting things without commercial attributes. The exhibition schedule is flexible: a longer period of time can be used for building when necessary, which enables artistic solutions beyond the norm.
Location:
Helsinki
Founded:
2002
Funding:
Kone Foundation, Swedish Cultural Foundation, Ministry of Education and Culture.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://oksasenkatu11.fi/

Ptarmigan-Finland

Helsinki
Founded:
2008
↗
Ptarmigan is a non-profit initiative to house projects that exist outside of the realm of the traditional. We seek to provide space for adventurous and challenging scenarios.
Location:
Helsinki
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.ptarmigan.fi/

SIC-Finland

Helsinki
Founded:
2012
↗
SIC is a space for contemporary art founded in 2012 by a group of artists - Olli Keränen, Karri Kuoppala, Muriel Kuoppala, Kalle Leino, Maija Luutonen, Konsta Ojala, Sauli Sirviö, Timo Vaittinen and Laura Wesamaa.
Location:
Helsinki
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Arts Promotion Finland & Finnish Cultural Foundation
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.sicspace.net/

Sorbus

Helsinki
Founded:
2013-2019
↗
Opened in January 2013 and has since hosted exhibitions, performances, concerts and happenings from different art fields. The gallery tries to remain impulsive and adaptable to a variety of exhibition formats.
Location:
Helsinki
Founded:
2013-2019
Funding:
Kone Foundation
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.sorbus.fi/

France

Association Aperto

Montpelier
Founded:
1997
↗
Association Aperto's vocation is to be a space for research, production and exhibition, open to artists, to participate in the richness and cultural diversity of the area by presenting works of art and artistic proposals worldwide.
Location:
Montpelier
Founded:
1997
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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Asterides

Marseille
Founded:
1992-2018
↗
In 2018, Astérides merged Triangle France, pooling the mission, programs and know-how of each of the two structures while respecting and continuing their unique histories in order to sustain their development. See below.
Location:
Marseille
Founded:
1992-2018
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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Brigitte Industrie

Rennes
Founded:
Closed 2012
↗
Brigitte industry is a platform for research, production and artist-run distribution.
Location:
Rennes
Founded:
Closed 2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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Castel Coucou

Forbach
Founded:
1983
↗
Castel Coucou offers artists and the public exhibitions and remains in close contact with the regional art scene, in a desire to be part of a dynamic cross-border cooperation.
Location:
Forbach
Founded:
1983
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.castelcoucou.fr/

Collectif IPN

Toulouse
Founded:
2012
↗
Collectif IPN are studios of interdisciplinary production. In opening our space to diverse collaborations we support the emerging artistic scene.
Location:
Toulouse
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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ECHOTONE

Ganges
Founded:
2024
↗
Initiated and managed by artists, ÉCHOTONE is a space dedicated to artistic research. Each year, the space hosts new artist residencies and an art critic residency which are carried out over a long period of time (ranging from one to three years). Each resident is supported according to the needs of their project. The space with a total area of ​​130m2 is equipped with a large room of 70 m2, 4m high. A 15m2 glass roof with a professional press, a laboratory dedicated to the practice of old photographic processes, such as photoengraving on photopolymer (exposure, color and B&W enlarger, printing press), as well as another part, dedicated to chemistry (still, micro-distiller, oil press). ÉCHOTONE is also the headquarters of two associations: the LAAB, Associative Laboratory of Art and Botany, created in 2007, whose collective research is dedicated to the expressiveness of life and the platform for listing project spaces: artist-run-spaces.org. The latter, initiated in 2013, reflects on the archive and the plastic dimension of spaces dedicated to art.
Location:
Ganges
Founded:
2024
Funding:
We have public fundings : city (Ganges), departmental (Hérault), regional (Occitanie) and state.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Resource Organisation
  • Festival
  • Collective
  • Voluntary
Status:
  • + Active
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Fabrique Pola

Bordeaux
Founded:
2000
↗
An artistic and cultural association which aims to consolidate the activities and economy of its members, and to engage in a development project based on a diverse and inclusive economy for the cultural sector.
Location:
Bordeaux
Founded:
2000
Funding:
Ministry of Culture, European Union, Bordeaux City, and others
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.pola.fr/

Féria

Marseille
Founded:
2021
↗
Féria is a not-for-profit project space founded in 2021, situated in Belsunce - Marseille. Brought by spontaneous or long-standing affinities, Féria offers itself as a space for experimentation and collaboration between artists, curators and other project space locally and internationally, including a past exchange with London-based gallery South Parade. Part of a local eco-system, Féria participates in Art-o-rama art fair as part of their city gallery tours, and has previously collaborated with Systema, an annual gathering of non-profit and collaborative art initiatives. In 2024 Féria became a member of the Provence Art Contemporain (PAC) network. Féria was initiated by artist Jean Féline who leads the programme. Jean previously co-directed artist project space Light Eye Mind in London (2018-2021).
Location:
Marseille
Founded:
2021
Funding:
Self-funded - tip and bar, donations from private sales
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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Galerie RDV

Nantes
Founded:
2007
↗
The program covers various aspects of contemporary art, featuring renowned artists but also European and international emerging artists.
Location:
Nantes
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://galerierdv.com/

Glassbox

Paris
Founded:
1997
↗
Since 1997, Glassbox's mission has been to promote international and contemporary creation in visual arts, without technical nor theoretical borders.
Location:
Paris
Founded:
1997
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.glassbox.fr/

Immanence et New Immanence

Paris
Founded:
1997
↗
Immanence is an artist-run exhibition space, a springboard for artists, linked to a network of international exhibition spaces. Its mission is to organise exhibitions, to offer artists carte blanche, and to host projects by young curators.
Location:
Paris
Founded:
1997
Funding:
Public & private partenership
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.art-immanence.org/

In Extenso

Clermont-Ferrand
Founded:
2002
↗
Focused on three main activities: exhibitions, publications, and developing exchanges between contemporary art venues in the centre of France with the magazine La belle revue.
Location:
Clermont-Ferrand
Founded:
2002
Funding:
Clermont-Auvergne-Métropole, Ministry of Culture-DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, City of Clermont-Ferrand, Puy de Dôme Departemental Council
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.inextenso-asso.com/

Khiasma

Les Lilas
Founded:
2004-2018
↗
The association is a production and distribution of artistic and cultural activities which question the relationship between art and social practices.
Location:
Les Lilas
Founded:
2004-2018
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.khiasma.net

L'Assaut de la Menuiserie

Saint-Etienne
Founded:
1995
↗
Its purpose is to promote and develop the art and entertainment in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Location:
Saint-Etienne
Founded:
1995
Funding:
info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://lassautdelamenuiserie.blogspot.ie/
https://www.lassaut.fr/

La Générale en Manufacture

Sevres
Founded:
2005-2010
↗
The focus is on the shape of our investment unfolding in a place crossed by a project and acts in a given time.
Location:
Sevres
Founded:
2005-2010
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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La Malterie

Lille
Founded:
1995
↗
La Malterie is focused on the place of the artist at the heart of the project, experimentation, and the artist’s presence in a social environment.
Location:
Lille
Founded:
1995
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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La Station

Nice
Founded:
1996
↗
La Station offers an experimental platform within which up-and-coming artists can find conditions conducive to initiating projects and participating in the development, promotion and dissemination of their activities.
Location:
Nice
Founded:
1996
Funding:
Publicly Funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.lastation.org/

Le 6B

Saint Denis
Founded:
2010
↗
Le 6B is born of the gathering of people and structures – for the most part artists – who have decided to pool their resources to create workspaces, and freedom of expression.
Location:
Saint Denis
Founded:
2010
Funding:
info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Institutional
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.le6b.fr/#

Le Générateur

Gentilly
Founded:
2006
↗
Le Générateur is run by artists for whom being an artist is a way of life, a way not to give up on life, seek solutions and other livelihood strategies, a way of production meetings where everyone is free and respectful about its subjectivity.
Location:
Gentilly
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Val-de-Marne Département utile, Mairie de Gentilly, Île-de-France Regional Council, Fondation de France
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.legenerateur.com/

Le Pays où le ciel est toujours bleu

Orléans
Founded:
2000
↗
A creative label and contemporary art mediation installed in the workshops of artists Oulan Bator. This label is considered as a source of proposals and reflections on territories.
Location:
Orléans
Founded:
2000
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.poctb.fr/

Le Syndicat Potentiel

Strasbourg
Founded:
1992
↗
The current artistic project focuses on the potential to generate new economic intersections between contemporary art and questions specific to the world today, be they social orders, political, environmental.
Location:
Strasbourg
Founded:
1992
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://syndicatpotentiel.free.fr/

Look & Listen

Saint-Chamas
Founded:
2014
↗
L&L started as a blog in 2010, became an art gallery in 2014 and has organised exhibitions, artist residencies, events and community projects since.
Location:
Saint-Chamas
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Publicly funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ≈ Nomadic
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https://lookelisten.blogspot.com/

Mosquito Coast Factory

Campbon
Founded:
2011
↗
Thought of as a laboratory Mosquito Coast Factory is dedicated each year to welcoming the commissioner's exhibition, artists for exchanges, experimentations and collaborations. It is run by the artist Benoît-Marie Moriceau.
Location:
Campbon
Founded:
2011
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.mosquitocoastfactory.com/

Neon

Lyon
Founded:
2000-2019
↗
Producer and broadcaster of contemporary art. Néon sees exhibitions as tools of research and exploration. It proposes an electic programme, favoring the multiplicity of proceedings that generate artists projects.
Location:
Lyon
Founded:
2000-2019
Funding:
Publicly funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.chezneon.fr/

Octave Cowbell

Metz
Founded:
2002
↗
Octave Cowbell is an exhibition association whose primary objective is to show young contemporary creation in all its various forms, in Lorraine and elsewhere.
Location:
Metz
Founded:
2002
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.octavecowbell.fr/

Plateforme / L'Entreprise

Paris
Founded:
1999
↗
Dedicated to contemporary art diffusion, creation and resource, and works as a unifying and shared space, a place of exchanges between artists, curators and audiences. Plateforme is run by the parisian structure L'entreprise bringing together around fifty international artists
Location:
Paris
Founded:
1999
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.plateforme-paris.com/

Shanaynay

Paris
Founded:
2011-2020
↗
Shanaynay is a cooperatively run contemporary art space founded by Jason Hwang and Romain Chenais. Projects are developed in a progressive and flexible manner, avoiding certain traditional modes of presentation and conventional formats associated with art institutions. It is now run by two artists and curators.
Location:
Paris
Founded:
2011-2020
Funding:
Self-funded & private donors
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.shanaynay.fr/

Standards

Rennes
Founded:
2008-2013
↗
Standards aim is to promote the emergence of young artists focusing on projects allowing them to produce new œuvres. The project is driven by the lack of local structures likely to host the work of students or young artists.
Location:
Rennes
Founded:
2008-2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.standards-expositions.com/

SuperStrat

Saint-Etienne
Founded:
1996
↗
Superstrate is a platform for research, production and dissemination artistic self-directed mission.
Location:
Saint-Etienne
Founded:
1996
Funding:
Institutional funding, regular artistic partners
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.superstrat.fr/

Tonus

Paris
Founded:
2014
↗
TONUS is a not-for-profit exhibition space founded in 2014 by the artist duo Jacent.
Location:
Paris
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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http://www.tonus-yo.tumblr.com/

Treignac Projet

Treignac
Founded:
2007
↗
Treignac Projet is an off-centre, peer-initiated organisation, directed towards collaborative activity within the arts, modelled on the Academy rather than the Arts Centre. It revolves around a studio research programme, workgroups, and a schedule of exhibitions.
Location:
Treignac
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Self-funded and regional state funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.treignacprojet.org/

Treize (formerly Le Commissariat)

Paris
Founded:
↗
Like an umbrella in Paris, Treize is a place for production and programming of exhibitions, concerts, lectures.
Location:
Paris
Founded:
Funding:
Paris City Council & DRAC Ile de France
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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http://www.treize.site/#

Triangle - Astérides

Marseille
Founded:
1995
↗
Through a program of artists' residencies, exhibitions, events, new commissions, and publications, Triangle - Astérides supports the production and presentation of new forms of artistic activity aiming to create dynamic relationships between art, artists, and audiences both locally and internationally.
Location:
Marseille
Founded:
1995
Funding:
City Council of Marseille, Ministry of Culture - DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, and others
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.trianglefrance.org/

Tripode

Nantes
Founded:
2002-2017
↗
Tripod invites artists whose practice is predominantly visual arts and produces solo exhibitions in general, duo sometimes, rarely collective in the field of contemporary art.
Location:
Nantes
Founded:
2002-2017
Funding:
Publicly Funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.tripode.fr

Germany

After the Butcher

Berlin
Founded:
2007
↗
As a project space created by artists for artists, After the butcher aims to present a platform for young and unknown creatives, to present their work.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.after-the-butcher.de/

All Girls

Berlin
Founded:
1992-2015
↗
Founded by three artists. A network of artists who do exhibitions.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
1992-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://art.allgirls-berlin.org/

Alpha Nova Kulturwerkstatt

Berlin
Founded:
1986
↗
Alpha nova-kulturwerkstatt & galerie futura is a Berlin-based art space for exhibitions and cultural events with an explicit gender-critical perspective. The project was founded in 1986. One artist and one academic run it.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
1986
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.alpha-nova-kulturwerkstatt.de/

Apartment Project Berlin

Berlin
Founded:
2012
↗
Apartment Project, based in Berlin since 2012, was established as an artist-run space in Istanbul in 1999 – an interdisciplinary project for sharing, communal living and collective production models that focus on process.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://berlin.apartmentproject.org/

art.endart

Berlin
Founded:
2013
↗
Project Space set up by artist Lucyna Viale. The space collaborates with artists and other cultural workers.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.facebook.com/art.endart

Art Laboratory Berlin

Berlin
Founded:
2006
↗
Art Laboratory Berlin was founded by an international team of art historians and artists and established as a platform for inter-disciplinary exhibition projects in an international context.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org/

Arttransponder

Berlin
Founded:
2004-2015
↗
Arttransponder provides a platform for discussions and exchange, focusing on interdisciplinary, site specific, participatory and temporary art practices. 

Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2004-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.arttransponder.net/

Atelierhaus Mengerzeile / Kunsthalle m3

Berlin
Founded:
2001
↗
The gallery was set up by the Swedish artist Thomas Henriksson. His goal was to create a space which artists would personalise and make their own, unlike existing spaces which were often formal and unapproachable.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2001
Funding:
State Funding
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.atelierhaus-mengerzeile.de/

Autocenter

Berlin
Founded:
2001-2018
↗
“Showing” here is understood as an non-ideological gesture without economic pressures. Autocenter is about artistic experimentation in the fields of painting, sculpture, photography, video, etc. beyond the confines of curatorial concern and limitation.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2001-2018
Funding:
Private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.autocenterart.de/

Bautzener 69

Dresden
Founded:
2003
↗
The artist-run gallery Bautzner 69 exhibits young artistic positions from the domains of photography, video, installation and architecture. Its main focus lies upon connecting young artists and initiating collaborations.
Location:
Dresden
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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→
http://www.bautzner69.de/

Berlin-Weekly

Berlin
Founded:
2010
↗
The project space BERLIN-WEEKLY.COM was founded by Stefanie Seidl in June 2010. BERLIN-WEEKLY.COM is an arranged window on display for 24 hours a day – in the city and on the internet.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.stefanieseidl.com/berlinweeklycom/

Bi'bak e.V

Berlin
Founded:
2014
↗
bi’bak is a non-profit association for contemporary art and community-based projects founded by an artist, filmmaker and cultual anthropologist. bi’bak engages itself in a variety of sociopolitical issues like migration, discourses on mobility, constructions of identities, consumerism, labor and cultural memories.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2014
Funding:
European and German public funding and private funding
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
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http://www.bi-bak.de/en

Bildwechsel

Hamburg
Founded:
1979
↗
Bildwechsel is an umbrella organisation for women media culture and the arts. We have our main base in Hamburg and bases in different cities, agents and friends making connections and collecting work.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
1979
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.bildwechsel.org/

Blinzelbar

Hamburg
Founded:
1979
↗
A former shopping centre until 2009 when 140 artists turned it into studios and a gallery space. However in 2012, it was pulled down and was replaced by an IKEA.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
1979
Funding:
publicly funded
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
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https://www.hierunda.de/blinzelbar.html#

Boutique – Raum fur temporare Kunst

Cologne
Founded:
2011-2017
↗
Established by Maximilian Erbacher in a sub basement as a “non-elitist” art space with a subversive and informal program focusing on conceptual and site-specific work.
Location:
Cologne
Founded:
2011-2017
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.boutique-koeln.de/

Bruch and Dallas

Cologne
Founded:
2009
↗
Bruch & Dallas is an 'Off Space' for contemporary art which was founded by artists as an independent project space. The aim of this space is to show current, ambitious, critical and site specific positions.
Location:
Cologne
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.bruchunddallas.de/

CAPRI

Dusseldorf
Founded:
Info not available
↗
CAPRI is a non-commercial exhibition space in Düsseldorf funded by Nina Höke and Alexander Sies and their Modern Collections-Foundation. The program is curated by Moritz Wesseler.
Location:
Dusseldorf
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
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http://www.capri-raum.com/CAPRI/_.html

Capri Space for Contemporary art

Berlin
Founded:
2001-2006
↗
CAPRI was a non-commercial artspace founded in 2001 by the artists Ina Bierstedt, Bettina Carl and Alena Meier, realising over 70 exhibitions and events. They continue their work as a collective of artists-curators.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2001-2006
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
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http://www.capri-berlin.de/english.html

Centrum

Berlin
Founded:
2009
↗
Centrum is a contemporary art space. We work with international and local artists, offering space and support for experimentation and the development of new work. Centrum was founded in 2009 by Kate Squires and David Moynihan.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.centrumberlin.com/

Circleculture

Berlin
Founded:
2003
↗
The Circleculture Gallery is a project space for urban art that was founded by Dirk Staudinger and Johann Haehling von Lanzenauer. It represents a whole group of artists standing for the rising urban art movement in Berlin.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.circleculture-gallery.com/

COPYRIGHTberlin

Berlin
Founded:
1999
↗
Founded by artists Ute Lindner and Patrick Huber. The space is an interdisciplinary platform for artistic positions and strategies. Formerly listed as COPYRIGHT Projektraum / LINDNER HUBER.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
1999
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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http://www.copyrightberlin.de/

Dada Post

Berlin
Founded:
2008
↗
Dada Post is an artist-run organisation, founded by Howard McCalebb, a sculptor and active figure on the international art scene. We contemplate artistic expression from the standpoint of pure inspiration emanating from the source - the artist.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
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http://www.dadapost.com/

die raum

Berlin
Founded:
2011
↗
die raum is a 5 m2 exhibition space run by Jesper Dyrehauge (artist) and Lotte Møller (curator) in collaboration with BAR architects. Every project will be accompanied by an edition of posters in col­laboration with the exhibiting artist.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2011
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.dieraum.net/

Donau-Ecke Ganghofer

Berlin
Founded:
2010-2018
↗
Donau-Ecke Ganghofer is a department store window displaying artistic processes rather than products. We are interested in art beyond the image and non-commodifiable manifestations of the creative unconscious. We do resist gentrification.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2010-2018
Funding:
Private and Public
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.donaugang.wordpress.com/

Dosenfabrik

Hamburg
Founded:
1995
↗
Dosenfabrik operates 28 artists’ studios. Its discourse relates to the public space, a starting point for the creation of temporary projects and actions by its individual artists.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
1995
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.dosenfabrik-hamburg.de/

Einstellungsraum

Hamburg
Founded:
2001
↗
The Einstellungsraum is a non-profit art centre that mediates projects between car drivers and pedestrians. The exhibitions, focusing on one theme per year, address automobile transportation and traffic in a narrow or wider sense.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
2001
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
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http://www.einstellungsraum.de/#

ELEKTROHAUS HAMBURG

Hamburg
Founded:
2002-2016
↗
Presenting young Hamburg and international artists working in media, concept, and action-art. Events are interdisciplinary and usually situated somewhere in the grey zones between art and literature.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
2002-2016
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.elektrohaus.net/#

Errant Bodies

Berlin
Founded:
1995
↗
Errant Bodies is dedicated to supporting diverse discourses and projects in the fields of sonic and spatial practices, auditory culture and performativity, experimental writing and critical thought.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
1995
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.errantbodies.org/

exp12

Berlin
Founded:
2010-2017
↗
exp12 is a collective of photographers aiming to develop contemporary photography through a space for meetings and exchange. We are open to different topics, styles and visual languages.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2010-2017
Funding:
Private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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https://cargocollective.com/exposure_twelve
http://www.exp12.com

F60.4

Berlin
Founded:
2014
↗
The project F60.4 is examining the common base of artist, curators, gallerists, collectors, critics. Testing the possibilities to show, experience, receive. Input instead of output.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.publiclook.com

Fenwarme

Berlin
Founded:
2002-2007
↗
Fernwaerme was founded as a production group by seven artists. It is the continuation of their long lasting cooperation in various performance projects having a special interest in artistic process research and cross genre exchange.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2002-2007
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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Flutgraben e.V

Berlin
Founded:
2009
↗
A not-for-profit space with 40 studios and several exhibition spaces. Along side their exhibition programme in the gallery, since 2009, they have invited artists to use their common spaces for art.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.flutgraben.org/

Freie Internationale Tankstelle (FIT)

Berlin
Founded:
2003
↗
FIT or Freie Internationale Tankstelle is based at a two m² historic gas station, run by Dida Zende as an arts project, working with the symbol and situation of the gas station and its culture in the program.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.f-i-t.org/

Freies Kunst Territorium

Bochum
Founded:
?-2017
↗
The gallery should be a 'free safe haven for art'
Location:
Bochum
Founded:
?-2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.fktbo.blogspot.de/

FRISE Künstlerhaus Hamburg + Abbildungszentrum

Hamburg
Founded:
2003
↗
FRISE has 40 artists in studios and an exhibition space. They work with media or concepts and have film and music production facilities. There is co-operation between the visual artists and the film and music producers.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://www.frise.de

Front Views

Berlin
Founded:
2012
↗
Frontviews is a forum of international artists and theorists. Based on flexible collaborations and without a settled space, we develop concepts of contemporary art in Europe.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.frontviews.de/

Galerie Crystal Ball

Berlin
Founded:
2007
↗
A space, exhibitions and projects run in co-operation with an artist and curator.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.galeriecrystalball.de/

Galerie Invaliden 1

Berlin
Founded:
2005-2017
↗
Galerie Invaliden1 is the collaborative product of 6 Berlin-based artists. There is freedom for mutual exchange, experimental collaboration and reflexive dialogue amongst practitioners.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2005-2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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https://www.invaliden1.com

Galerie Kurt im Hirsch

Berlin
Founded:
1999
↗
Since 2016 kurt im hirsch acts as an initiative for urban art and publications about site specific and community based art. The gallery space at the Hirschhof in Prenzlauer Berg is closed – the city is open.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
1999
Funding:
Private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • ≈ Nomadic
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.kurt-im-hirsch.de/

Galerie Oel-Früh

Hamburg
Founded:
2005
↗
Galerie Oel-Früh has been exhibiting local and international artists since its foundation in 2005. They are encouraged to let the location of the space play a role in their general concepts.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
2005
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
Share:
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http://www.oelfrueh.org/#

Gallery Loris

Berlin
Founded:
2007—2017
↗
LORIS is a project by 11 artists from Berlin. Photography, video, and installation form the methodological interface of the participating artists. On Monday evenings there is free space for experimental lectures, screenings, and concerts.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2007—2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.lorisberlin.de/

GEH8

Dresden
Founded:
2007
↗
Studio community of artists, architects, designers and city planners. It follows the non-commercial approach of the artist-run space. They show young artists, musicians and writers.
Location:
Dresden
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.geh8.de/

General Public

Berlin
Founded:
2005—2020
↗
General Public is an independent project space run by a group of cultural workers. It aims to install and uphold a collaborative, process-related, informal platform for open thought, information exchange, spatial experiment and trans-disciplinary approach.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2005—2020
Funding:
Private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.generalpublic.de

Gitte Bohr

Berlin
Founded:
2010—2016
↗
Set up by Eva May (researcher) and Diego Castro (artist). They currently dedicate themselves to the German political landscape.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2010—2016
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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https://www.gittebohr.de

GlogauAir gGmbH

Berlin
Founded:
2006
↗
The non-profit organisation GlogauAIR hosts Artist Residencies. Founded by the Spanish artist Chema Alvargonzález with the intention of creating a meeting point between artists from all disciplines to work in collaboration and expanding their practice.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2006
Funding:
National and European
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.glogauair.net/

Grimmuseum

Berlin
Founded:
2010
↗
GRIMMUSEUM is an independent not-for-profit organisation with a programme of solo and group exhibitions. GRIMMUSEUM is a organisational model to support contemporary art practice, a registered Community Interest Company (gUG) in Germany
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.grimmuseum.com/

Gruntaler 9

Berlin
Founded:
2006
↗
Grüntaler9 is not a Gallery, a White Cube or a Black Box. Every performance leaves visible and invisible traces that remain for the next performance to come and take over and let go again.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.gruentaler9.com/

Hafen + Rand

Hamburg
Founded:
2005
↗
Galerie Oel-Früh has been exhibiting local and international artists since its foundation in 2005. They are encouraged to let the location of the space play a role in their general concepts.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
2005
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
Share:
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http://www.oelfrueh.org/#

Hilbert Raum

Berlin
Founded:
2015
↗
An independent, non-commercial, artist-run project space. It is a group of 14 Berlin-based artists, who take turns curating and organising two-week exhibitions throughout the entire year.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2015
Funding:
State Supported
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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http://www.hilbertraum.org/

Hinterconti

Hamburg
Founded:
2000
↗
The Hinterconti Off-Space gallery organises weekly shows with Hamburg-based and international emerging artists. Hinterconti offers a short-term exhibition period to realise ideas, which are not necessarily placed in the conventional fields of art.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
2000
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.hinterconti.de/#

Infernoesque

Berlin
Founded:
2007-2013
↗
Infernoesque is a free, non-commercial exhibition space for contemporary art under the guidance of four artists aiming to build a high-quality program of new artistic approaches in the field of sculpture and installation art.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2007-2013
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
https://www.infernoesque.de

institut für zukünfte

Wolfsburg
Founded:
2018
↗
institut für zukünfte creates awareness and room for reflection on possible futures. Today's world is characterized by social and ecological challenges. We want to promote reflective action and active participation and thus influence change in a self-effective way. we organise a yearly festival, workshops, inputs, community events and exhibitions.
Location:
Wolfsburg
Founded:
2018
Funding:
project funding, sponsoring of local administration, self funding
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
  • Collective
  • Festival
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://www.institutfuerzukuenfte.de/

KiöR - Kunst im öffentlichen Raum

Hamburg
Founded:
2005-2011
↗
Artist initiative concerned with art in public spaces. They bring art into areas that normally don't have contact with it. They aspire to making it into a public company.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
2005-2011
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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→
http://www.kioer-ev.de/files/index_empty.php?seite=1&folge=00

Kotti Shop

Berlin
Founded:
2008
↗
An experimental, not for profit, art project space established in 2008 by Annette Knol and Stefan Endewardt. It hosts international art exhibitions and art festivals. It also has a print work shop and prints artists' books.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.kotti-shop.net/

Kreuzeberg Pavillion

Berlin
Founded:
2010
↗
Kreuzberg Pavillon is an independent non-profit project space. The open process in this field of interests complies with the desire of all participants to establish the pavillon as a public non-excluding system of contemporary art.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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→
http://kreuzbergpavillon.tumblr.com/

Kroneboden

Berlin
Founded:
2008
↗
The project space is run by the pinhole and theatre photographer Karen Stuke and focuses primarily on the intersections between visual and performing arts. Kronenboden also hosts readings, classical concerts and similar events.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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http://www.kronenboden.de/#

KuBaSta — Raum für Kunst Bauen Stadtentwicklung

Hamburg
Founded:
Info not available
↗
KuBaSta is situated in a former butcher shop operating as a gallery, bar, cinema and place for conferences. It was created as a reaction to Hamburg's city planning that plans past human needs.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
→
http://www.kubasta.de/

KUNSTFAKTOR

Berlin
Founded:
1997
↗
KUNSTFAKTOR what founded in 1997 by Frank Benno Junghanns, Gerard Dekker and René de Rooze as to artists' cooperative gallery associated with their studio house in Berlin Mitte.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
1997
Funding:
Publicly funded
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.kunstfaktor.de/

Kunst Imbiss

Hamburg
Founded:
2005
↗
A mobile gallery running in a food truck. They have had 90 contributing artists, both visual artists and writers.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
2005
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.kunst-imbiss.de/

Kunstlerresidenz Blumen

Leipzig
Founded:
2006-2013
↗
*blumen* is a space for production of art, dedicated to advancing the work of emerging and under-represented visual artists through its artists-in-residence program, aiming to activate new discourses and impulses in the art field and local sphere.
Location:
Leipzig
Founded:
2006-2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
→
http://www.residence-blumen.de/de/

Kunstraum Unten

Bochum
Founded:
?-2017
↗
Exhibition space for young art with an art teacher running the space.
Location:
Bochum
Founded:
?-2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.kunstraum-unten.de/

KUNSTrePUBLIK (ZK/U)

Berlin
Founded:
2006
↗
The ZK/U concept and practice were initiated by the artist collective and non-profit organisation KUNSTrePUBLIK e.V. Coming from non-institutional backgrounds, the founders aspire to continue exploring ways of collaborating, researching and creating.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.zku-berlin.org/#

Kunstverein St. Pauli

Hamburg
Founded:
?-2018
↗
Kunstverein St. Pauli is situated at a flat inhabited mostly by former arts students from Braunschweig in the middle of the red-light district of Hamburg and focused on showing exhibitions of emerging arts.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
?-2018
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.kunstvereinstpauli.de/

L'Oiseau Présente

Berlin
Founded:
2010
↗
L'oiseau présente ... is a non-commercial project initiative of artists Gunna Schmidt, Nicola Stäglich and Anke Völk who focus is on abstraction in cross-genre painting.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.loiseaupresente.blogspot.de/

Lage Egal

Berlin
Founded:
2010
↗
LAGE EGAL is a place for production and exhibition. The founding artists aim to work with the mechanisms of presentation and marketing of artwork in an experimental and playful way.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Privately and Publicly funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.lage-egal.de/#

Loge

Berlin
Founded:
2006-2018
↗
Four square meters of an historical floor plan. It's small, romantic space in a building constructed before World War 1.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2006-2018
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.loge-berlin.com/#

Loris

Berlin
Founded:
2007-2018
↗
LORIS is a project by 11 artists from Berlin. It is the goal to establish contacts to collectors, curators, institutions, and galleries and therewith realize exhibitions in Germany and abroad.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2007-2018
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.lorisberlin.de/

Lost Weekend Gallery

Munich
Founded:
2020
↗
Lost Weekend Gallery focuses on exchange between two invited artists, one from Munich, one from another city/country, and totally open to gender, backgrounds and cultures. Collaborative exhibitions allow artists to develop connections/networks with artists from other cities/art scenes.
Location:
Munich
Founded:
2020
Funding:
Local funding
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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→
https://www.instagram.com/lost.weekendmeetsyoungart

Maniere Noire

Berlin
Founded:
2011-2019
↗
Maniere Noire hosts readings from authors, performances, discussions, and workshops. Currently involved with the Appropriating Language Series and Picture Window Series.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2011-2019
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.manierenoire.net/#

Mars Patent

Hamburg/WorldWideWeb
Founded:
1999
↗
Have you ever dreamed of seeing works of art and theory on Mars? Now you can! THE MARS PATENT is an interplanetarian project founded by Helene von Oldenburg and Claudia Reiche. THE MARS PATENT invites you to experience culture on a fascinating and promising site. Millions of miles away the red planet, Mars, now lies within your reach. Since the early days THE MARS PATENT committee has been working hard to find a discriminating place for your desires which allows a new sight on Earth. But such a place could only be realized by means of a recently developed device, the HRM_1.0n, the "High Reality Machine". The HRM_1.0n transforms the vision of a viable martian place for your objects into reality and the mode of global sharing. The HRM_1.0n will become a potent device in your hands to place your things on THE MARS PATENT's Mars Exhibition Site (MES): THE MARS PATENT offers the MES to you as a free experimental area and invites every thing which does not fit on Earth but tends towards the MES. A thing? A real thing? Could be your idea, your object, your work, your protest, your desire... THE MARS PATENT will take the full risk of handling, transporting and sustaining the concepts and objects up to MES, but can't take any guaranties for their condition on Earth. So: Send your projects to THE MARS PATENT!
Location:
Hamburg/WorldWideWeb
Founded:
1999
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.mars-patent.org/

MEINBLAU Project Room

Berlin
Founded:
1997
↗
he MEINBLAU project room is a location made by and for artists. It provides 125 m2 of exhibition and activity space on two levels being surrounded by ten studios.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
1997
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.meinblau.de/

Montanaberlin

Berlin
Founded:
2006-2016
↗
Montanaberlin is purpose, act, and space. In our work, we focus energy on the interface between nature and the space of human life. We invent a new reality, and organise it.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2006-2016
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.montanaberlin.de/

Mount Warning

Berlin
Founded:
1998-2011
↗
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
1998-2011
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
→
http://www.mount-warning.de/

NGBK

Berlin
Founded:
1969
↗
NGBK is an alternative Kunstverein, with a grassroots aproach towards art. Participation is open to everyone who is interested in the advancement of contemporary arts and theme based exhibition projects.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
1969
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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http://www.ngbk.de/

Noroomgallery

Hamburg/Mars
Founded:
1999-2010
↗
They produce means of presentation. They present social artworks, or what they call 'object art'.
Location:
Hamburg/Mars
Founded:
1999-2010
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
→
http://www.noroomgallery.com/home/

OKK – Organ kritischer Kunst

Berlin
Founded:
2007
↗
OKK/Raum29 is an atelier, experimental and exhibition space, a mediating platform for dialogue, an artist-run platform for cultural activism based in Berlin, Germany.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.kritische-kunst.org/de/okk-raum

oqbo

Berlin
Founded:
2008
↗
Gallery oqbo a space for image word and sound is an artist-run gallery in Berlin. The co-organisers are Michael Bause, Christian Bilger, Frank Eltner, Dirk Lebahn, Serpahina Lenz and Julia Ziegler.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.oqbo.de/

Or Gallery

Berlin
Founded:
1983-2015
↗
The Or Gallery is an artist-run centre committed to exhibiting work by local, national, and international artists whose art practice is of a critical, conceptual and/or interdisciplinary nature.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
1983-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
https://orgallery.org/orgalleryberlin
https://orgallery.org

ORi

Berlin
Founded:
2007
↗
The everyday operations are organised by the ORi-collective, a group of constant change, always open to new members. Decisions are made on a grass-roots level with the aim of consensus.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.ori-berlin.de/

Panke e.V

Berlin
Founded:
2009
↗
Panke is a creative multi-purpose space run by a collective of creative people and is registered as a non-profit members organisation. Its main aim is to promote experimental/fringe creativity in Berlin.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.pankeculture.com/

Parkhaus im Malkasten Dusseldorf

Dusseldorf
Founded:
1997-2016
↗
Parkhaus exhibits mainly young positions with location-specific work, organises film evenings and discussions. Once a year the work of renowned artists such as Gilbert & George is presented here so as to appeal to a wider audience.
Location:
Dusseldorf
Founded:
1997-2016
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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https://parkhaus-duesseldorf.com

Pavillion am Milcof

Berlin
Founded:
Info not avaiable
↗
Studio community in an old milking parlour, which has now moved to an old school. They currently have over 40 artists. There is a pavillion in the garden used as an exhibition space.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
Info not avaiable
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.milchhofpavillon.de/

Pilotenkueche

Leipzig
Founded:
2007
↗
The Pilotenkueche is an artist-run residency based in the Spinnerei complex fostering dialogue and exchange of ideas. Selected artists from around the world are invited to work in the space for 16-week.
Location:
Leipzig
Founded:
2007
Funding:
City of Leipzig
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.pilotenkueche.net/

Prima Centre

Berlin
Founded:
2004
↗
Prima Center Berlin supports artists in the realisation of their artistic concepts as well as in their promotion to the professional and wider public. It is in the Kolonie Wedding association of art project spaces.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2004
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
http://www.prima-center.net/#

Projekt 0047

Berlin
Founded:
2004
↗
0047 is an organisation for projects in and in between art and architecture. Over 130 artists, architects and curators have been involved in over 30 exhibitions and projects, both in our space or collaboratively in others.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2004
Funding:
Norwegian Arts Council / Private
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
Share:
→
http://www.0047.org/

projekthaus | U.FO kunstraum

Hamburg/Mars
Founded:
1999-2010
↗
THE MARS PATENT is an interplanetarian project founded by Helene von Oldenburg and Claudia Reiche. THE MARS PATENT invites you to experience culture on a fascinating and promising site on Mars.
Location:
Hamburg/Mars
Founded:
1999-2010
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
→
http://www.mars-patent.org/

Projektraum Rottstr. 5

Bochum
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Three important aspects of the orientation of Rottstr5 Art halls: the need for accessibility for the residents in the multicultural neighborhoods of Bochum West, supporting the academic young artists, and promoting innovative artistic approaches.
Location:
Bochum
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
http://www.rottstr5.de/index.html

RAUM Oberkassel

Dusseldorf
Founded:
2009
↗
RAUM is an exhibition space that can be rented. They predominently show works from the Art Academy in Dusseldorf. It was founded by an artist and a curator.
Location:
Dusseldorf
Founded:
2009
Funding:
publicly funded
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
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http://www.blog.raumfuerkunst.org/

Rosalux

Berlin
Founded:
2007
↗
Rosalux exhibits works of conceptual and performance artists who have not had the opportunity to present themselves in Berlin so far, projects rarely seen in commercial galleries, because they are at intersections between disciplines.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.rosalux.com/

S. Y. L . A. N T E N H E I M

Bonn
Founded:
2012-2018
↗
The S. Y. L. A. N T E N H E I M is the ART SUPPLY VENUE. Everyone can occupy the space for the meaning of art. The concept was initiated by DEMECO & PASQUALE in April 2012.
Location:
Bonn
Founded:
2012-2018
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://kunst-bedarf-kunst.de/en/

Salon Atelier

Dortmund
Founded:
Info not available
↗
A community of emerging artists in a former hair dressers. They have exhibitions at intervals in their studio space and occasionally do what they call, 'salon on tour' to other exhibition spaces.
Location:
Dortmund
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.salon-atelier.de/

Salon Populaire

Berlin
Founded:
?-2013
↗
Salon Populaire, founded by an artist, an art historian and a critic, it is a meeting point in Berlin, inviting anyone interested in the arts and its reflection. It addresses Berlin's local context as much as issues of universal concern with space for anachronistic, indulgent, academic, individual engagement.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
?-2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.salonpopulaire.de/

SCOTTY

Berlin
Founded:
2006
↗
The artist-run project space is located in Kreuzberg, Oranienstrasse, and is organized by 9 artists. Situated in the smallest house in Kreuzberg, SCOTTY provides a platform for artists and its members as curators as well as invited guests, allowing the most freedom while maximizing group potential. Thematic group exhibitions are held at regular intervals, along with organized performances and film evenings. The focus lies on contemporary social and cultural-political issues. SCOTTY operates independently of the market, embracing self-autonomy and a non-hierarchical structure. Beyond the work conducted in this space in Berlin-Kreuzberg, SCOTTY’s members initiate and organize supra-regional and international collaborations with other project spaces. This strengthens the position of autonomously working artists, providing nationwide visibility and networking opportunities. Despite the pronounced individuality of its members, they share a common desire to create new opportunities for artistic actions and ideas. The vitality of SCOTTY stems from the consistent, self-determined implementation of democratic agreements among its members during the planning and realization of projects.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Currently un-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Voluntary
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.scotty-berlin.de/

Scriptings

Berlin
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Showroom and publishing house run by artist Achim Lengerer.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.scriptings.net/

SKAM

Hamburg
Founded:
1992
↗
The SKAM studio-community brings together 25 Hamburg-based artists: painters, sculptors, film animators, concept- and experimental-artists. Very recently SKAM became homeless. Future plans are yet to be announced.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
1992
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.skam.org/skam_db/index.php

SOMA Art Gallery

Berlin
Founded:
2014
↗
SOMA Art Gallery is an independent contemporary art and culture space and initiative. It encourages collaborations among networks between cultural professionals and artists and academics and social activists from all over the world.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Publicly funding
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://somagallery.de/index.html
https://somagallery.de

Souterrain

Berlin
Founded:
?-2014
↗
Gallery run by art historians, cultural scientists and artists. The space is an experiment for how the theory and practice of art affect one another.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
?-2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.souterrain-berlin.de/

Sparwasser HQ

Berlin
Founded:
2000
↗
Sparwasser HQ is a non-profit artist’s project as well as space for projects characterised by a process oriented practic - a group of participating artists and scientist influence together the outcome and the conditions of work.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2000
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
→
http://www.sparwasserhq.de/

Spinnerei

Leipzig
Founded:
2004
↗
A cultural hub initiated with artists and located in a former cotton factory, Spinnerei is the site of a multitude of artists’ studios, workshops, project spaces and galleries
Location:
Leipzig
Founded:
2004
Funding:
Self-funding
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.spinnerei.de/#

Spor Klübü

Berlin
Founded:
2003
↗
Spor Klübü is a project space, that works mainly with international artists based in Berlin, offering them room to experiment with their work. Projects in cooperation with guest curators, NGO's and institutions are part of the space's activities.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.koloniewedding.de/

Stedefreund

Berlin
Founded:
2000
↗
Stedefreund was founded by 20 artists and has since been active as a project space nationally and internationally. The confrontation with physical, cultural, social and abstract spaces is the focus.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2000
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
→
http://www.stedefreund-berlin.de/

STORE Contemporary

Dresden
Founded:
2010-2017
↗
STORE is a non-profit art space with a focus on young contemporary art and boundary-pushing projects across disciplines. STORE puts a diversity of local and international artist and art projects on display each month.
Location:
Dresden
Founded:
2010-2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.storecontemporary.com

Super bien!

Berlin
Founded:
2007-2017
↗
Super bien! is a project initiated by three artists aimed at developing alternative strategies for the display of visual art functioning as a catalyst for the growing interest in exhibition spaces other than the ‘white cube’.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2007-2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.superbien.de/

SUPERUSCHI

Berlin
Founded:
2013-2017
↗
SUPERUSCHI is a not-for-profit artist initiative with a social vision. Jonny Star develops events as an exploratory artistic act to take place in specific venues (either within private or staged private living spaces).
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2013-2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.superuschi.org

takt

Berlin
Founded:
2003
↗
Takt Artist Residency and Takt Academy Berlin, Kunstraum Tapir, Tapir LAB, Okapi gallery are designed to host/support active artists. Takt is an artist residency project with a maximum number of 20 studios and three project rooms.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Self-funded by artists
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.taktberlin.org/

tamtamART

Berlin
Founded:
Info not available
↗
tamtamART is an association for the advancement of Taiwanese Contemporary Art in Germany. We hope not only to create free, open, and diversified conversations, but also to develop a cross-culture and cross-field exchanging art center.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
https://tamtamart.de

target:autonopop

Hamburg (also Orba, Alicante, Spain)
Founded:
2003
↗
target: autonopop examines the articulation between the market, gallery and institutional spheres, their cooptational and coercive instances, their aversion to any critique which has real consequences.
Location:
Hamburg (also Orba, Alicante, Spain)
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Municipal, city, and national support for selected projects. Personal resources.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.targetautonopop.org/

Toolbox – Finnish German Art Space

Berlin
Founded:
2012
↗
The artist members of TOOLBOX conceive art as a tool for reflecting on the present age and art as having an impact on or even creating the social world. TOOLBOX has its focus on showing Finnish contemporary art in Berlin and presenting juxtapositions of Finnish next to German artistic views on relevant topics like, for example, ideologies, limits of perception, the significance of emotions, philosophical or political theory or human patterns of making world intelligible.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2012
Funding:
By the artists who run the space and supported by Degewo Berlin
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.galerietoolbox.com/

tête

Berlin
Founded:
2012
↗
tête is an experiment in how to run an art space, artist-run spaces usually being about collective decision making, tête is looking to create a cross section of artistic interests.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
http://www.tete.nu

Unwetter

Berlin
Founded:
2002-2018
↗
UNWETTER's basic format is the Discursive Picnic that connects different contexts in an ongoing process of reciprocal exchange. It works as a potluck, where everybody is both guest and host at the same time.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2002-2018
Funding:
Art foundations, private donors, self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.un-wetter.net/

Uqbar

Berlin
Founded:
2007
↗
Founded as platform for interdisciplinary projects and international cooperation. Unbar is dedicated to the research and promotion of experimental, interdisciplinary artistic and cultural practices in the international context.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.projectspace.uqbar-ev.de/

WESTWERK

Hamburg
Founded:
1986
↗
Gallery/club WESTWERK presents art and music. A group of artists and creatively minded people maintain and program the space as an off-space, art gallery, music club, site for installations, performances, readings and events.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
1986
Funding:
Self-funded by artists and cultural activists
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Institutional
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.westwerk.org

Zagreus Projekt / Koch / Kunst

Berlin
Founded:
2006
↗
Zagreus Projekt functions as a gallery and gastronomic space. The chef, gallery owner and curator Ulrich Krauss organises exhibitions in relation to food or gastronomic concepts.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.zagreus.net/

Greece

Enterprise Projects

Athens
Founded:
2015
↗
Enterprise Projects, a project by Danai Giannoglou and Vasilis Papageorgiou. Created out of our need to express and share our point of view concerning contemporary artistic creation.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2015
Funding:
Self funded
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.enterprise-projects.com/

ESTO Association

Athens
Founded:
2021
↗
Design for us is a medium to engage and address current societal, political, and humanitarian issues while at the same time working with clients on visionary commercial projects. Our expertise spans from conceptualization through execution and visual communication, allowing us to seamlessly guide and brand a project from it’s initial sketch to its final realization. Emphasizing the transformative potential of design, we seek to showcase the myriad possibilities that artistic practices can unveil in addressing critical social issues. To this end, we prioritize collaborations with art initiatives, non-profit organizations and groups, and institutions while actively engaging with local communities.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2021
Funding:
Esto Association is based in Exarchia, Athens, and was founded in 2021 by Markela Bgiala, Niki Danai Chania and Konstantinos Doumpenidis. We are forming a creative association of artists, designers, and curators with multidisciplinary backgrounds. Also in 2023, part of the team will be working from Eindhoven in the Netherlands, giving us the opportunity to expand our partnerships to other countries.
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Collective
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://estoassociation.com/

Fokidos

Athens
Founded:
2013-2018
↗
Fokidos is an artist-run space based in a domestic apartment.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2013-2018
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.fokidos.tumblr.com/
https://www.facebook.com/fokidos/

Frown Tails

Athens
Founded:
2010-2014
↗
Frown’s objective lies in the familiarisation of the audience with the methods and practices of new art forms, working as platform for cultural collaborations through open calls.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2010-2014
Funding:
Privately funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
https://frowntails.com
https://frowntails.blogspot.com/

Kunsthalle Athena

Athens
Founded:
2013-2018
↗
Fokidos is an artist-run space based in a domestic apartment.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2013-2018
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
https://www.kunsthalleathena.org/

LO AND BEHOLD

Athens
Founded:
2008-2016
↗
An artist-run, non-profit organisation based in Athens whose aim is to produce and promote cultural activities, with a focus on contemporary art.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2008-2016
Funding:
Membership fees, sponsorship, donations and sales of works.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.loandbehold.gr

Radio Athenes

Athens
Founded:
2014
↗
Radio Athènes institute for the advancement of contemporary visual culture is a non profit organisation registered in Athens.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Privately funded by foundations and the Swiss arts council
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.radioathenes.org/

Salon de Vortex

Athens
Founded:
2009
↗
We are concerned with the complementary relationship of the past to the present, with the playful scarification of history, a constant practice of our collective since its foundation.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
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→
https://salondevortex.wordpress.com

State of Concept

Athens
Founded:
2013
↗
Exhibits Greek artists without gallery representation, shows about two international artists per year, and offers free guidance and consultation services to art graduates.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Outset foundation
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://stateofconcept.org

The Daily Lazy

Athens
Founded:
2013
↗
Exhibits Greek artists without gallery representation, shows about two international artists per year, and offers free guidance and consultation services to art graduates.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Outset foundation
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.daily-lazy.com/

Vital Space

Athens
Founded:
2013
↗
Exhibits Greek artists without gallery representation, shows about two international artists per year, and offers free guidance and consultation services to art graduates.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Outset foundation
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
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https://vitalspace.org/

Hungary

Budapest Art Factory

Budapest
Founded:
2006
↗
Budapest Art Factory (BAF) is a not-for-profit studio, exhibition and project space founded in 2006.
Location:
Budapest
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://budapestartfactory.com

Dinamo

Budapest
Founded:
2003-2006
↗
Founded by Hajnalka Somogyi and Katarina Sevic, Dinamo was an autonomous, non-profit artist-run-space, that functioned on the bases of organic ‘self organisation'.
Location:
Budapest
Founded:
2003-2006
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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IMPEX

Budapest
Founded:
2006-2008
↗
Founded by Katarina Sevic, IMPEX Contemporary Art Provider is an independent, flexible initiative for work, research and experiments in the field of art and culture.
Location:
Budapest
Founded:
2006-2008
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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MŰTŐ

Budapest
Founded:
2016
↗
MŰTŐ is an artist-run independent platform and art collective. Our mission is to create a physical space for young artists to experiment, to create diverse programs, and to build our community through a critical curatorial approach and democratic structure based on DIY culture.
Location:
Budapest
Founded:
2016
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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http://www.mutogroup.hu

Művelődész

Budapest
Founded:
2011-2018
↗
(MÜSZi) is a complex cultural space, hosting community arts projects, creative workshops and various cultural and social events.
Location:
Budapest
Founded:
2011-2018
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://www.muszi.org
http://muszi.org/?page_id=61&lang=en

Pince

Budapest
Founded:
2014
↗
PINCE aims at creating a social space for open communication, art discourse, and site-specific, experimental and installation-based collaborative projects with like-minded Hungarian and foreign collectives that take on a mediative role in their own local art community.
Location:
Budapest
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://pinceproject.com

Iceland

BÚRIÐ/ The Tank

Ísafjörður
Founded:
2008-2012
↗
Tiny exhibition space in a cage/tank.
Location:
Ísafjörður
Founded:
2008-2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.facebook.com/pages/B%C3%9ARI%C3%90/31641803642?fref=ts

Ekkisens

Reykjavik
Founded:
2014
↗
EKKISENS is an artist-run space in a basement which aims to promote the work of emerging artists. It also is curating a series of squat exhibitions.
Location:
Reykjavik
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Self funded and sponsorship
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
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https://skynlistasafnid.com

Fjúk

Husavik
Founded:
2013-2017
↗
By inviting artists in residence to work here and through selected exhibitions, films, events, workshops and talks, Fjuk aims to challenge set ways of seeing and thinking.
Location:
Husavik
Founded:
2013-2017
Funding:
Regional cultural funding
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.fjukartscentre.com

Galleri Box

Akureyri
Founded:
2005
↗
GalleriBOX is run by The Visual Artists Society in Akureyri. It exhibit the latest trend in the field of visual arts.
Location:
Akureyri
Founded:
2005
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://galleribox.blogspot.com

Gangurinn / Corridor

Reykjavik
Founded:
1980
↗
The main interest for the Corridor is to introduce new artists to Reykjavík art scene.
Location:
Reykjavik
Founded:
1980
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://ww16.helgi-fridjonsson.com/?sub1=20240411-0134-4603-ba03-3113c8743be6

Geimdósin

Akureyri
Founded:
2005
↗
Workshop, gallery and coffee in a can.
Location:
Akureyri
Founded:
2005
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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https://www.facebook.com/geimdosin

Harbinger

Reykjavik
Founded:
1980
↗
Harbinger is an artist-run project space founded by Steinunn Önnudóttir and Kjartan Friðriksson. We select artists that challenge the local art practice and introduce new angles.
Location:
Reykjavik
Founded:
1980
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://www.facebook.com/harbinger.is

Kling & Bang

Reykjavik
Founded:
2003
↗
Kling & Bang gallery aim to participate directly in the process of creating the artworks, e.g. by producing the works in collaboration with the exhibitors.
Location:
Reykjavik
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://kob.this.is/klingogbang/

LungA School

Seyðisfjörður
Founded:
2013
↗
The LungA School is an independent, artist-led institution and situation where we experiment with artistic and land-based practices as a way of doing, thinking and being in order to cultivate, disturb, distort and transform our notions of aesthetics, learning, perception and good judgement.
Location:
Seyðisfjörður
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Icelandic Ministry of Education Participant fees Other public and private funding
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Artist-Run
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
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https://lungaschool.is/en

Mengi

Reykjavik
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Mengi is an operation created and managed by artists. Mengi hosts diverse art events, releases music by some of the nation’s most ambitious musicians, operates an art store and hosts art exhibitions.
Location:
Reykjavik
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
self funded, supported by Reyjkavic town hall
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://mengi.net/about

Nýló

Reykjavik
Founded:
1978
↗
The Living Art Museum, or Nýló, is an artist-run museum and exhibition space with the aim of preserving and exhibiting contemporary art and being a forum for experiments and international discussion about art.
Location:
Reykjavik
Founded:
1978
Funding:
The City of Reykjavík, the Ministry of Culture and Business Affairs, Icelandic Visual Arts Fund and the Icelandic Museum’s Fund
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.nylo.is

Skúrinn/The Shed

Reykjavik
Founded:
2012-2014
↗
The Shed is a multipurpose cultural centre and an artwork in and of itself. It has housed exhibitions by some of Iceland’s finest contemporary visual artists as well as events and performances.
Location:
Reykjavik
Founded:
2012-2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.skurinn.com/

Slunkariki

Ísafjörður
Founded:
2012-2019
↗
An artist-run gallery in the corridor of a bigger cultural centre called Edinborg. It is run by the local art club who were founded in 1985.
Location:
Ísafjörður
Founded:
2012-2019
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://www.facebook.com/Slunkariki/timeline#

Wind and Weather / Window Gallery

Reykjavik
Founded:
2013
↗
The aim is to connect art in the urban setting of Reykjavik with the people on the street.
Location:
Reykjavik
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.windandweather.is

Ireland

126 Artist Run Gallery

Galway
Founded:
2005
↗
126 curates and programmes an arts space including a contemporary exhibition programme, talks & workshops, residencies and research projects.
Location:
Galway
Founded:
2005
Funding:
The Arts Council, Galway City Council, membership, and private sponsorship
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://126gallery.com

A4 Sounds

Dublin
Founded:
2009
↗
Based in north-inner-city Dublin, A4 Sounds provides facilities and professional development supports to 80 artists. Guided by feminist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, and LGBT-inclusive politics, our mission is to transform the means by which cultural works are produced, accessed, and understood.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2009
Funding:
The Arts Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://a4sounds.org

After School Special

Dublin
Founded:
2022
↗
After School Special was established in 2022 as space for artists to share ideas and receive feedback on work from peers. We started this group with the goal of creating a relaxed environment for people to talk about their work and connect with other artists outside of their trained discipline. Over the last 3 years of monthly meetings, it has become clear just how valuable these peer learning exchanges have been for our practices, and that it is important for us to continue to meet, collaborate and support each other as we navigate life as emerging artists. This group has evolved over time and includes artists from across the island of Ireland. The group continues to meet monthly to share and discuss work, review exhibitions and texts, attend fi
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2022
Funding:
After School Special is currently supported by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Free Space Initiative and partially funded through the Arts Council of Irelands Agility Award.
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Resource Organisation
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.instagram.com/afterschoolspecialdublin/

Artspace Studios

Galway
Founded:
1986
↗
Artspace Studios is an artist-led space that understands, serves & promotes the needs of Visual Artists exploring their diverse practices in a supportive environment. Our ethos revolves around nurturing artistic growth, providing affordable studios and supporting exhibition potential. We are committed to sustaining the development of our workspace, showing adaptability & innovation in growing our artist network, and responding to the needs of artists through initiatives & partnerships, providing opportunities to our members while enhancing engagement of arts & culture in Galway and beyond.
Location:
Galway
Founded:
1986
Funding:
Artspace Studios is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland Visual Artists Workspace Scheme and Galway City Council Arts Office. We have also received funding from Culture Ireland for member-focused exhibitions/events.
Type:
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://artspacestudios.ie/

Askeaton Contemporary Arts

Limerick
Founded:
2006
↗
An annual residency programme situates Irish and international artists in the midst of Askeaton. With no ‘white-cube’ gallery spaces in Askeaton, artists work in public spaces throughout the town.
Location:
Limerick
Founded:
2006
Funding:
The Arts Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
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https://askeatonarts.com

Basic Space

Dublin
Founded:
2009
↗
Working primarily with emerging and early-career practitioners, Basic Space operates a representative programme, prioritising practices by women, black/brown, disabled and queer artists. The majority of projects are hosted or in collaboration with external institutions, where we act as a critical force, challenging attitudes and policy.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2009
Funding:
The Arts Council, Dublin City Council and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.basicspace.ie

Block T

Dublin
Founded:
2010
↗
BLOCK T is an independent creative arts organisation, an entrepreneurial hub and a one-stop-shop for all things creative.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Publicly and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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→
https://www.blockt.ie

Brown Mountain Diamond

Revanagh
Founded:
2021
↗
Brown Mountain Diamond supports and helps artists working visually, physically and in sound to develop ambitious art works. We provide artists with residential space, workshops, studios, outbuildings and land to use in order to do this. We organise space and time that artists can dedicate to their practice. Brown Mountain Diamond is a safe space in a very rural location. Artists can use time to think, discuss, feel, look and rest. New work can be set into motion, specific proposed projects can be carried out, artworks can take place. Brown Mountain Diamond applies for public funding, hosts residencies, makes community engaged art, maps the area and puts on dance parties.
Location:
Revanagh
Founded:
2021
Funding:
Self Funding Private Donations Government Funding
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.thebrownmountain.com/

Con: temporary Quarters

Dublin
Founded:
2021
↗
Con: temporary Quarters led by artists Aoife Ward and Eve Woods a satirical project which brings attention to the misuse of and unavailability of space; public space, cultural space and housing through public annoyances, interjections and sculptural habitats.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2021
Funding:
Artist
Type:
  • Collective
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.instagram.com/con_temporaryquarters/

CRUX

Nomadic
Founded:
2020
↗
CRUX, is an artist-run collective founded in 2020 by Frances Hennigan, Lana May Fleming, and Luke van Gelderen. CRUX is dedicated to nomadic digital and physical off-site projects, shifting with the current moment and in line with members practices, it is both momentary and permanent, physical and virtual.
Location:
Nomadic
Founded:
2020
Funding:
The Arts Council of Ireland, the artists individual funding, Culture Ireland, Culture Moves Europe and Kulturforum Witten
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Artist-Run
  • Collective
Status:
  • + Active
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https://rrrreal.com/ https://cruxproject.net/

Damer House Gallery

Tipperary (Roscrea)
Founded:
2013
↗
A collaborative artistic research project, opening a new critical space within which to produce a platform for public awareness for art and criticism.
Location:
Tipperary (Roscrea)
Founded:
2013
Funding:
The Office of Public Works (OPW), Tipperary County Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.damerhousegallery.com

Drogheda Zine Fair

Louth
Founded:
2023
↗
Drogheda Zine Fair is a local celebration of DIY publishing and counterculture collaboratively run with thirtythree.45 in association with Droichead Arts Centre. This annual event is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of traditional publishing, building DIY community connections and promoting underground, punk and grassroots zinemaking practices. Situated in the main gallery of Droichead Arts Centre, visitors have the chance to browse stalls, connect with zinemakers, and purchase zines in a welcoming and inclusive space. Drogheda Zine Fair is free for both participants and attendees.
Location:
Louth
Founded:
2023
Funding:
Louth County Council Grants Under The Arts Act with support in kind from Droichead Arts Centre.
Type:
  • Art Fair
  • Festival
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.instagram.com/droghedazinefair/profilecard/?igsh=bmk3aWZ4eDYwa3E4

Eight Gallery

Dublin
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Eight nurtures a constant platform on which to provide exclusive opportunities for emerging and intermediate artists, writers, curators, performers and musicians.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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→
http://www.eight-gallery.com/

Engage Art Studios

Galway
Founded:
2004
↗
Engage Art Studios is an artist-run studio space and provides an atmosphere of creativity, production, inspiration and opportunity for working artists in the Galway area.
Location:
Galway
Founded:
2004
Funding:
The Arts Council, Galway County Council and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.engageartstudios.com/

Engage Longford

Longford
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Engage Longford is an artist-led not-for-profit initiative that provides a platform to promote Longford as a hub for contemporary visual art.
Location:
Longford
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Longford County Council, self-funded and donations
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.facebook.com/engagelongford1

Faber Studios

Limerick
Founded:
2009-2013
↗
Faber Studios is an artist collective, studio and exhibition space. We promote and facilitate new directions in contemporary art.
Location:
Limerick
Founded:
2009-2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://faberstudioslimerick.blogspot.com

Flat Pack

Dublin
Founded:
2012-2014
↗
Flat_Pack’s membership ranges from recent graduates of visual arts, currently exhibiting artists and curators, to writers on contemporary art. The gallery & studios are seen as a critical platform.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2012-2014
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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https://www.facebook.com/flatpack.galleryandstudios

FLOOD

Dublin
Founded:
2008
↗
FLOOD is a not for profit contemporary art project directed and curated by Paul McAree. FLOOD has now relocated from Dublin to Lismore, Co Waterford, and aims to commission projects in the rural setting of the Blackwater Valley
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2008
Funding:
The Arts Council, Dublin City Council, Lismore Castle Arts
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ≈ Nomadic
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https://www.flooddublin.com

FOUR Gallery

Dublin
Founded:
2005-2009
↗
FOUR is devoted to the development of an uninhibited artistic exploration of ideas, discourses and new trends in contemporary art and its practices.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2005-2009
Funding:
The Arts Council, Dublin City Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.fourdublin.com/

GRID Collective

Dublin
Founded:
2015
↗
We are a multi-disciplinary group of professional artists with many years of experience in different fields. Our aim is to harness the creativity of the older professional artist and to promote their representation in contemporary mainstream art in Ireland and abroad. In order to maintain an underlying coherence reflecting the collaborative process, we bring elements of our individual practices together in single pieces and a group piece in a broad critical response to a theme or criterion.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2015
Funding:
self-funded : payment through 'pay the artist' agreement with public-funded bodies; sales; personal contributions if necessary
Type:
  • Collective
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.gridcollective.ie/

Island Photographers

Dublin
Founded:
2022
↗
Island Photographers is an artist-led group raising awareness, understanding and engagement with contemporary photography within Ireland. Through workshops, talks, education, exhibitions and the sale of works, Island Photographers’ mission is to further develop photography’s pivotal role within Irish visual culture. Since January 2023, Island Photographers has been organising talks on contemporary photography in Ireland. These events allow photographic artists to share their work and receive critical feedback from their peers. The talks facilitate art professionals, with an interest in photographic practice, to talk about their work and contribute to a broader discussion about photography. 2024 will see Island photographers present a new series of talks approximately every six weeks. We will build on these events and look forward to expanding the group’s activities.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2022
Funding:
We are not funded as of yet.
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Artist-Run
  • Voluntary
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.islandphotographersgroup.com/

Live Art Ireland

Tipperary
Founded:
2020
↗
Our goal is to create opportunities for both local, national and international artists working in the areas of live art and performance art, contemporary dance, participatory practice and artist film and video.
Location:
Tipperary
Founded:
2020
Funding:
Arts Council & Local Council
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Artist-Run
  • Voluntary
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Resource Organisation
  • Festival
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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→
https://www.live-art.ie/

Market Studios/Unit H

Dublin
Founded:
2008-2014
↗
The Market Studios provides workspace for artists, writers and curators who enjoy the benefits of peer and cross disciplinary exchange. Our gallery space UNit H has held over 70 exhibitons & events.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2008-2014
Funding:
The Arts Council, Dublin City Council and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.facebook.com/The-Market-Studios-83691744457/timeline

MART

Dublin
Founded:
2013
↗
Providing discourse and development of the arts in Ireland and abroad, partaking in fairs and promoting contributing artists internationally.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2013
Funding:
The Arts Council, Dublin City Council, Galway City Council, Culture Ireland and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://mart.ie

Monster Truck Gallery and Studios

Dublin
Founded:
2006-2017
↗
The project was initiated through a desire to respond to what seemed like an endless flow of creatives who wanted to produce work, have exhibitions and make things happen. Gallery now closed.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2006-2017
Funding:
The Arts Council, Dublin City Council and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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Moxie

Dublin
Founded:
2005-2014
↗
Moxie Studios is a not-for-profit resource organisation providing technical training, event and exhibition space, materials and creative space for makers, artists and organisations.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2005-2014
Funding:
Self-funded and privately sponsored
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.mox.ie

Muine Bheag Arts

Carlow
Founded:
2020
↗
Muine Bheag Arts is an artist-run organisation based in County Carlow which hosts a programme of exhibitions, workshops and events in the public realm. We aim to promote contemporary art outside of the city context, to collaborate with the local community through multi-disciplinary arts activities and to support emerging and established artists by commissioning new works of art.
Location:
Carlow
Founded:
2020
Funding:
The Arts Council of Ireland Creative Ireland Carlow Carlow County Council Arts Office Creative Places Bagenalstown
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • + Active
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https://muinebheagarts.com/

NeXus Arts

Louth (Drogheda)
Founded:
2009
↗
NeXus Arts is an artist-led independent curatorial duo. Our starting point is to advocate the work of artists we believe to be critically relevant to our times.
Location:
Louth (Drogheda)
Founded:
2009
Funding:
The Arts Council, Louth County Council
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://www.nexusarts.eu

Niland Gallery

Galway
Founded:
2010-2011
↗
The Niland Gallery was started and run on a voluntary basis by Engage Art Studios as a non-commercial project/space that promoted innovative contemporary artworks and events.
Location:
Galway
Founded:
2010-2011
Funding:
The Arts Council, private support
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://thenilandgallery.blogspot.com

Occupy Space

Limerick
Founded:
2009-2017
↗
Occupy Space is a not-for-profit artist-led organisation whose fundamental objective is to provide support and promote projects for graduate and emerging artists.
Location:
Limerick
Founded:
2009-2017
Funding:
The Arts Council, Limerick City Council and supported by private donations
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.occupyspace.com/

Ormond Studios

Dublin
Founded:
2009
↗
Ormond Studios is a visual arts initiative. The studio was founded by a group of graduates as a self-managed, centrally situated, affordable working space for emerging visual artists.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2009
Funding:
The Arts Council and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.ormondstudios.wordpress.com

Ormston House

Limerick
Founded:
2011
↗
The gallery devises and delivers an experimental programme of multidisciplinary exhibitions and events, and research-based and archival projects.
Location:
Limerick
Founded:
2011
Funding:
The Arts Council, Limerick City Council, membership
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://ormstonhouse.com

Pallas Projects/Studios

Dublin
Founded:
1996
↗
Pallas Projects/Studios is an artist-run organisation dedicated to the facilitation of artistic production and discourse, via the provision of affordable artists studios in Dublin city centre, curated projects, research, outreach, and international projects.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
1996
Funding:
The Arts Council, Culture Ireland, membership and fundraising
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.pallasprojects.org/

Project Arts Centre

Dublin
Founded:
1966
↗
Project Arts Centre is dedicated to protecting the independent sector and nurturing the next generation of Irish artists across all forms of the performing and visual arts.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
1966
Funding:
The Arts Council, Dublin City Council, private donations
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

Raggle Taggle

Limerick
Founded:
2009-2010
↗
Info not available
Location:
Limerick
Founded:
2009-2010
Funding:
Limerick City Council
Type:
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://raggletaggleconsortium.blogspot.com

Sample-Studios

Cork
Founded:
2011
↗
Sample-Studios is an artist-led studio group based in Churchfield, Cork City, which presents an ambitious and diverse programme of visual arts exhibitions in The Lord Mayor's Pavilion, Fitzgerald's Park and St. Luke's Crypt.
Location:
Cork
Founded:
2011
Funding:
The Arts Council, Cork City Council & self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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Sarah Walker Gallery

Cork (Castletownbere)
Founded:
2000
↗
Sarah Walker Gallery is situated in an old stone carriagehouse, standing in the sea, at Castletownbere pier. It hosts exhibitions and concerts.
Location:
Cork (Castletownbere)
Founded:
2000
Funding:
Self-funded, Cork County Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://sarahwalkergallery.com

screen service

Founded:
2022
↗
screen service is a service-oriented artist collective supporting early career artists with screen-led practices in or from Ireland. We are committed to providing a platform for experimentation and connectivity. We curate and facilitate projects encouraging the development of emergent media practice in all its manifestations. We are based online, and work with artists in Ireland, and Irish artists living abroad. The model we sustain is artist-run, peer-led and reliant on and propelled by the creative practitioners we work with. We gravitate towards artists who have practices that embrace (but are not limited to) the following: moving image, photography, multimedia installation, expanded cinema, text, performance, VR/AR, sound, workshops, multi-disciplinary collaboration, web-based, analogue or digital media processes. We recognise the importance of inclusivity and aim to provide space for active, non-exclusionary gathering.
Location:
Founded:
2022
Funding:
We actively pursue sources of funding to maintain and develop projects. We apply for public and private grants and awards. In 2024 all of our projects are operating on grant funding received from Rethink Ireland.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.screenservice.ie/

Signal Arts Centre

Wicklow
Founded:
1990
↗
As an inclusive and vibrant creative centre, we: ✓ Support working artists of today and tomorrow by providing space, education, training and opportunity; ✓ Connect art and culture with the community; ✓ Champion a diverse and networked membership through Signal Art Society; and ✓ Promote the value of the arts and its benefits to the wider community
Location:
Wicklow
Founded:
1990
Funding:
Combination of Community Employment Programme for artists grant aided by the Dept. Of Social Protection, a workspace grant from the Arts Council of Ireland, and sales, venue & room hire, workshops, smaller project grants and Fundraising.
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • + Active
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https://signalartscentre.ie/

Solas Art Gallery

Leitrim (Ballinamore)
Founded:
2007
↗
Solas runs three group exhibitions a year, a junior exhibition and a number of solo exhibitions. It aims to promote the arts in the wider local community.
Location:
Leitrim (Ballinamore)
Founded:
2007
Funding:
The Arts Council, Letrim County Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.solasart.ie/

SOMA Contemporary

Waterford
Founded:
2012-?
↗
SCG, as the people’s contemporary art gallery, provides the city of Waterford with culturally relative art works.
Location:
Waterford
Founded:
2012-?
Funding:
Waterford County Council and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.facebook.com/SomaIreland?fref=ts

Spacecraft Studios

Limerick
Founded:
2017
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Spacecraft is an artist-led studios space which houses 8 full time members and project space which is a large open plan space side-by side to the studio which is available to members & external artists. We also run an associate membership in the project space . Spacecraft’s aim is to create affordable space for emerging artists to create work in the Limerick center of the city.
Location:
Limerick
Founded:
2017
Funding:
Arts council Ireland Limerick Arts Office
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.spacecraftlimerick.com/studios

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

Dublin
Founded:
1983
↗
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios have temporary exhibitions showing a cross section of contemporary Irish and international visual arts practice, as well as events and talks.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
1983
Funding:
The Arts Council, Dublin City Council, Mason, Hayes and Curran, private donations
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.templebargallery.com/

The Basement Project

Cork
Founded:
2011
↗
Basement Project Space is an Artist-led initiative co-founded by three Cork-based artists Lorraine Mc Donnell, Stephanie Hough, and Rachel Mc Donnell.
Location:
Cork
Founded:
2011
Funding:
The Arts Council, Cork City Council & self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://basementprojectspace.wordpress.com/

The Black Mariah

Cork
Founded:
2011
↗
Info not available
Location:
Cork
Founded:
2011
Funding:
The Arts Council, Cork City Council & self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Black-Mariah/100070348835934/

The Complex

Dublin
Founded:
2009
↗
The Complex is an artist led organisation committed to transforming vacant spaces into centres of professional arts practice, breathing creativity into the community, with a focus on theatre, visual art, studios and rehearsal space.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin City Council, and other public & private funders
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.thecomplex.ie

The Good Hatchery

Offaly
Founded:
2007-2016
↗
The Good Hatchery is an experimental project that sets out to challenge the norms for the production and presentation of contemporary art in Ireland today.
Location:
Offaly
Founded:
2007-2016
Funding:
The Arts Council, Offaly County Council and privately supported
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.thegoodhatchery.com

The Guest House / Cork Artist Collective

Cork
Founded:
2004
↗
The Guesthouse is an artist-led initiative whose objective is to create a place for production, meeting and cross-practice peer exchange that includes forms of public discourse and encounter. Cork Artist Collective was founded in 1985.
Location:
Cork
Founded:
2004
Funding:
The Arts Council, Cork City Council and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.theguesthouse.ie/

The Joinery

Dublin
Founded:
2007-2014
↗
The Joinery was a not-for-profit art space, which encompassed gallery/project/performance spaces and small studio/workspaces, providing a platform for emerging artists and musicians to experiment and explore.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2007-2014
Funding:
The Arts Council, Dublin City Council, fundraisers and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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https://www.facebook.com/thejoineryd7

The Rogue Gallery (formerly Hive Emerging Gallery and Studios)

Waterford
Founded:
2015-2021
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The Rogue Gallery is an artist-run, not-for-profit space and studios which hosts a programme of exhibitions, art classes and workshops.
Location:
Waterford
Founded:
2015-2021
Funding:
The Arts Council, Waterford County Council and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.facebook.com/TheRoguegallerywt

The Underground Zine Archive

Louth
Founded:
2024
↗
The Underground Zine Archive is a pop-up project for weirdo, bootleg and punk zines. Against labels, algorithmic recommendations and commercial publishing. The Underground Zine Archive thrives on upheaval, change and unstructured learning. This is a mobile space to browse zines and contribute to conversations around DIY culture.
Location:
Louth
Founded:
2024
Funding:
The Underground Zine Archive currently receives no funding. Our collection of zines are donated or purchased at radical bookshops, zine fairs and gigs.
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Voluntary
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.instagram.com/theundergroundzinearchive?igsh=MWlvMGE5ZXZmbXF6eg==

Thisisnotashop

Dublin
Founded:
2006–2010/11
↗
Thisisnotashop is an alternative, not for profit arts organisation. We are dedicated to supporting the work of emerging artists from both Ireland and abroad.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2006–2010/11
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.thisisnotashop.com

Italy

ATRII

Milan & Berlin
Founded:
2015
↗
In 2015, artist-curator Alice Pedroletti founded ATRII® and its Open Archive and Collective and later, with curator Eugenio Martino Nesi, they founded ATRII® Cultural Association. ATRII is a collective nomadic research project focusing on the concept of the atrium as an existing space that marks out various types of architecture, concepts and theoretical discourses. The research outcomes are archived in the ATRII Open Archive, hosted inside the Cittadella degli Archivi (the official Archive of the City of Milan), one of Europe’s most extensive central archive facilities.
Location:
Milan & Berlin
Founded:
2015
Funding:
ATRII is a self-funded project, or it receives funds from educational projects that directly pay the artists involved. The Institutions we work with support us with logistics or studio-housing spaces.
Type:
  • Collective
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.atrii.it/

BOCS (Box of Contemporary Space)

Catania
Founded:
2008
↗
BOCS is born from the need to create a landmark in the area, aiming is to contribute to the artistic and cultural growth of the place we live.
Location:
Catania
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.bebocs.it/

CHAN Contemporary Art Association

Genova
Founded:
2009
↗
As a non profit collective curatorial space, CHAN represents different forms of expression and offers collateral activities such as video reviews and performances.
Location:
Genova
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.chanarte.com/eng.htm#

Flip Art Project

Napoli
Founded:
2011
↗
Flip is an artist-run project based in Napoli. Their new location is located the courtyard of a building in Via Giovanni Paladino near Piazzetta Nilo, in a 1950s noble chapel recovered after a long period of neglect.
Location:
Napoli
Founded:
2011
Funding:
City council, private donor and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.instagram.com/flip_project

Fluxia Gallery

Milan
Founded:
2009-2015
↗
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. (Albert Einstein)
Location:
Milan
Founded:
2009-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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https://www.facebook.com/Fluxia-gallery-151982099500

Gasconade Gallery

Milan
Founded:
2011-?
↗
Gasconade is a non-profit art space founded in 2011 in Milan. Gasconade's program is devoted to presenting the youngest Milan-based artists and their foreign peers.
Location:
Milan
Founded:
2011-?
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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https://www.gasconade.it

GUM Studio

Turin
Founded:
2008-2013
↗
GUM studio began in November 2008 in Carrara as an independent gallery space, managed by artists for artists. From autumm 2011 moved to Turin.
Location:
Turin
Founded:
2008-2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://gumstudioinfo.blogspot.com

La Rondine Gallery

Tuscany
Founded:
Closed 2013
↗
La Rondine Gallery is an artist-run space. The gallery is open only when the La Rondine (sparrow) has arrived from Africa.
Location:
Tuscany
Founded:
Closed 2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.larondinegallery.com

MARS (Milan Artist-Run Space)

Milan
Founded:
2008
↗
Milan Artist-Run Space is a deliberate accident, a physical space and above all a project in itself that decides not to be structured organically.
Location:
Milan
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
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http://www.marsmilano.com

PAC Gallery

Milan
Founded:
1947
↗
In parallel to exhibitions, PAC promotes awareness of contemporary art with accompanying activities and events that foster understanding, deepening the topics discussed by the artist.
Location:
Milan
Founded:
1947
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.pacmilano.it/

Progetto Diogene

Turin
Founded:
2007
↗
Diogene is as an artistic self-identity group of people working together to create a place for reflecting and exchanging ideas concerning the issues and means of contemporary art practice.
Location:
Turin
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Public & Private (Compagnia di San Paolo)
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.progettodiogene.eu

Secondo Stile

Nomadic
Founded:
2013-2015
↗
II. STILE is a Nomadic Canvas-based Artist-Run Exhibition Space founded by Paolo Chiasera in 2013. It intend to activate a counter-discourse in the form of sustainable definition an exhibition space.
Location:
Nomadic
Founded:
2013-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ≈ Nomadic
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.paolochiasera.org

Studio Camnitzer

Tuscany
Founded:
1971-2008
↗
Studio Camnitzer is a studio residence for artists. The Studio is in an 18th century farmhouse completely equipped for printmaking, including the use of digital photography.
Location:
Tuscany
Founded:
1971-2008
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.studio-camnitzer.com/

Yellow

Varese
Founded:
2014
↗
Yellow is a new scenario for painting. It's a space where Italian and international painters are invited to meet, interact, experiment, present and discuss their own work.
Location:
Varese
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Associazione Stralis – Cultural Foundation in Milan
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ≈ Nomadic
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https://yellowyellow.org

Latvia

427

Riga
Founded:
2014
↗
427 was opened in 2014 with the aim to frequently show contemporary art, to uncover signs, to cast nets, and to exchange with confabulations.
Location:
Riga
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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→
http://fourtoseven.info/info-lv/

Kim? Contemporary Art Center

Riga
Founded:
2009
↗
Kim? works with both emerging and established artists, theoreticians, curators, philosophers, translators and thinkers in other spheres, aiming to provide a responsive context to their work and to make critical practices accessible to a wider audience.
Location:
Riga
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Self-funded, in-kind givers, technology lenders, long-term philanthropists, friendly companies, caring and detail oriented institutions
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://kim.lv/en/

LCCA

Riga
Founded:
1993
↗
Internationally active non-governmental culture organisation that offers an independent perspective on current topics and recent historical events through the looking glass of art.
Location:
Riga
Founded:
1993
Funding:
State, international and private funding
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
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→
http://www.lcca.lv/en/

Low Gallery

Riga
Founded:
2017
↗
LOW connects local artists and audiences with the Baltic region and beyond through a diverse programme of events, talks, exhibitions and happenings, providing a safe space to connect and collaborate, and in doing so, dissecting, critiquing and celebrating both high and LOW culture, the soviet legacy, and our extreme present.
Location:
Riga
Founded:
2017
Funding:
Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://low.gallery

NOASS

Riga
Founded:
1998
↗
NOASS supports the realisation of contemporary arts projects in an urban environment, making art part of the daily lives of residents of Riga and visitors to the city.
Location:
Riga
Founded:
1998
Funding:
City council, ministry of culture and other public funds as well as private donors
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.noass.lv/en/

RIXC

Riga
Founded:
2000
↗
RIXC is a center for new media culture and an artists’ collective, that initiates projects in the intersection of art, science and emerging technologies.
Location:
Riga
Founded:
2000
Funding:
State and local funding
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
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http://rixc.org

Totaldobze

Riga
Founded:
2009
↗
To bring together artists from different fields of disciplines and different countries. To focus on new art perspectives, keeping a close watch on the relation of matter and form.
Location:
Riga
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.facebook.com/Totaldobze

Lithuania

ARKA

Vilnius
Founded:
1990
↗
Working in the field of contemporary art and culture exchange projects, as well as solo, group, thematic, survey exhibitions.
Location:
Vilnius
Founded:
1990
Funding:
State, municipal and private funding.
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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→
https://www.arkagalerija.lt

Arts Printing House

Vilnius
Founded:
2002
↗
It aims to foster creativity and support emerging performing art.
Location:
Vilnius
Founded:
2002
Funding:
EU, municipal and corporate
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.menuspaustuve.lt/lt

Atletika

Vilnius
Founded:
2019
↗
Atletika is a contemporary art space at the cultural centre SODAS 2123, which presents emerging and acclaimed artists from Lithuania and abroad. Its exhibition programme is open to experimentation, exploration of new processes in art and ideas.
Location:
Vilnius
Founded:
2019
Funding:
Culture Council Lithuania and Vilnius city council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.atletikaprojects.lt/

Malonioji 6

Vilnius
Founded:
2002
↗
Malonioji 6 was an informal art project space and artist-run initiative, founded by artist Žilvinas Landzbergas in the ground floor of an old wooden villa. It belonged to the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Union 2014–2016.
Location:
Vilnius
Founded:
2002
Funding:
EU, municipal and corporate
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://echogonewrong.com/malonioji-6/

Luxembourg

21 Art Street

Kehlen
Founded:
2013
↗
21Artstreet is a 225m2 co-working space that can be rented for short term exhibition opportunities or on a weekly basis in order to create artworks on site.
Location:
Kehlen
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.21artstreet.com/#

Schlaiffmillen – Résidences d'Artistes

Luxembourg
Founded:
1986
↗
Artists' studio residencies and gallery
Location:
Luxembourg
Founded:
1986
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.schlaiffmillen.com/

Malta

BLITZ

Valletta
Founded:
2013
↗
An independent contemporary art space which supports experimental and radical arts practice in all its forms. BLITZ is a space to develop ideas, build relationships and nurture creative talent.
Location:
Valletta
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Malta Arts Fund and several others
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
→
https://blitzvalletta.com

Fragmenta

Valletta
Founded:
2013
↗
FRAGMENTA is an NGO dedicated to showing great stuff in form of Pop-Up Exhibitions on the Maltese Islands. It has no physical space and is curated by Bettina Hutschek.
Location:
Valletta
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ≈ Nomadic
Share:
→
https://fragmentamalta.com

Unfinished Art Space

Nomadic
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Unfinished Art Space is a nomadic, artist-run, contemporary art space, a proactive project, that wants to re-mould the art scene in Malta into something that is more innovative, and open, giving artists a space to experiment within their community and to exhibit to a broad audience.
Location:
Nomadic
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
  • ≈ Nomadic
Share:
→
https://www.unfinishedartspace.org

Netherlands

0—1 Gallery

The Hague
Founded:
2017
↗
At 0—1, we move differently. Since 2017, we’ve been shaping a space where artists, curators, and galleries connect. Not bound to one format, we work across digital and physical exhibitions and a magazine — promoting contemporary artists, sharing stories, and giving both new and established names the space they deserve. Technology, nature, and what’s next shape our vision. Through ESC, we invite artists each year to push into these themes — imagining futures that are urgent, messy, and real. Built by artists, for artists. A place to share what matters. A place for questions without easy answers. Be part of it.
Location:
The Hague
Founded:
2017
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://0-1.gallery/

1646

The Hague
Founded:
1995
↗
1646 is an art space in the heart of The Hague. With its experimental, international and free public program, 1646 wants to contribute to an increasingly complex society by challenging existing systems and traditional views, to reflect on the questions that live among us all.
Location:
The Hague
Founded:
1995
Funding:
MONDRIAAN FUND, MUNICIPALITY OF THE HAGUE, DIFFERENT ART FUNDS ON PROJECT BASE, OWN INCOME
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://1646.nl

ADA Area for Debate and Art

Rotterdam
Founded:
2008-2019
↗
A self-organised, independent artists initiative to support, nurture, stimulate and to create space for critical reflection and debate in and about art.
Location:
Rotterdam
Founded:
2008-2019
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
https://adarotterdam.sjoerdwestbroek.nl/#

Argument Vertoningsruimte

Tilburg
Founded:
1993-2012
↗
Its purpose is to offer art in all its aspects a place. Artists get time and space to tackle the experiment and to work on site. The starting point is -mental and physical- space.
Location:
Tilburg
Founded:
1993-2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
→
https://argument-tilburg.nl

B32 Artspace

Maastrict
Founded:
2001
↗
B32 is an independent initiative for artists offering space for experimental, but especially fascinating art and culture. B32 is very flexible, open and interested in everything that has struggled in the established circuit to gain a place.
Location:
Maastrict
Founded:
2001
Funding:
Maastrict City Council, Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fonds, Brand Cultuur Fonds Limburg, Mondriaan fund
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
Share:
→
http://www.b32.org/

BAK

Utrecht
Founded:
1989
↗
A platform dedicated to thinking, researching, producing, presenting, and analysing contemporary art. Its philosophy is to make accessible the art of our own time and its developments toward tomorrow.
Location:
Utrecht
Founded:
1989
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.bakonline.org

Baracca

Dordrecht
Founded:
2004
↗
Baracca combines the wildly divergent visions of two curators who are themselves working artists.
Location:
Dordrecht
Founded:
2004
Funding:
Info nto available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
http://www.baracca.nl

Beelden op het Vrijthof

Maastrict
Founded:
1981-2016
↗
We approach the contemporary, society, and identify critical trends. We bring young artists together and activate exchange. We show art to the public and stimulate cultural expression.
Location:
Maastrict
Founded:
1981-2016
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.beeldenophetvrijthof.nl/2015.php#

Billytown

The Hague
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Billytown is an artist-run gallery located in De Binckhorst.
Location:
The Hague
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
→
https://www.billytown.org

Bureau Voor Kunst PHK 18

Rotterdam
Founded:
2013-?
↗
PHK18 is a space for contemporary art and focuses on art and architecture. It is run by visual artists Marleen van Wijngaarden and Alexandra Roozen.
Location:
Rotterdam
Founded:
2013-?
Funding:
Self-funded, public and private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.phk18.nl/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi

Circa…dit

Arnhem
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Circa...dit is three levels of fine arts with a program through the generations: new talent, established and reputable. Three floors for research, experimentation and talent.
Location:
Arnhem
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
http://circadit.blogspot.com

Club Solo

Breda
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Club Solo is an artist-run initiative that puts artists’ work at the centre. Its solo exhibitions allow artists to show and discuss recent and older work from a new perspective.
Location:
Breda
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
https://clubsolo.nl

Code Rood

Arnhem
Founded:
?-2018
↗
CODE ROOD (RED ALERT) is an artist-collective of 6 people working together. It organises a cultural event every last Saturday of the month.
Location:
Arnhem
Founded:
?-2018
Funding:
Publicly and Privately Funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
https://coderood.co

Collectief Derde Wal

Nijmegen
Founded:
2009
↗
Derde Wal is an initiative where young artist and young curators have possibilities to experiment en where they have opportunities to find new ways of working.
Location:
Nijmegen
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fonds, ALTIJD NIJMEEN, Rabo Bank
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
https://www.derdewal.nl

DeFabriek

Eindhoven
Founded:
Info nto available
↗
An initiative led by professionals from the field of art and design, organisiang exhibitions and events on a voluntary basis, from idealism, and as an extension alongside their own professional practice.
Location:
Eindhoven
Founded:
Info nto available
Funding:
Info nto available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.defabriekeindhoven.com/nl

deSERVICEGARAGE

Amsterdam
Founded:
2007-2014
↗
deSERVICEGARAGE is an art initiative in Amsterdam with exhibitions and studios.
Location:
Amsterdam
Founded:
2007-2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.deservicegarage.nl

Expodium

Utrecht
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Expodium is a collective of three [Nikos Doulos, Friso Wiersum, Bart Witte]. We collaborated with and worked for housing corporations, local governments, museums, universities, festivals and art institutions.
Location:
Utrecht
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://expodium.nl

Extrapool

Nijmegen
Founded:
1983
↗
Extrapool is a space for experimentation and discovery. It shows works from artists with small distribution networks, and who operate on the borders of art and music.
Location:
Nijmegen
Founded:
1983
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://extrapool.nl

Extra Practice

Rotterdam
Founded:
2019
↗
Extra Practice is a space for working and learning together, initiated from a desire to create a “school-after-school;” a fruitful environment for working and learning amongst peers surviving in the art and design world. Within Extra Practice we support each other's individual practices, and organise workshops, presentations and public events to share insights and experiences.
Location:
Rotterdam
Founded:
2019
Funding:
6 permanent members share the space rent, we apply for funding & subsidies, events tickets are donation based
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://extrapractice.space/

Foudation B.a.d

Rotterdam
Founded:
1994
↗
B.a.d's principal aim is to provide studios and a venue for presentations and events. Foundation B.a.d offers temporary guest studios for local and international artists.
Location:
Rotterdam
Founded:
1994
Funding:
Publicly funded and Self funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.foundationbad.nl/#

Goleb

Amsterdam
Founded:
2010
↗
As an artist-led space that mixes both the living and the studio space, Goleb chose to blur the boundaries between the personal and the outside world.
Location:
Amsterdam
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
https://projectgoleb.wordpress.com

Het Wilde Weten

Rotterdam
Founded:
1992
↗
Het Wilde Weten functions as a studio and a public platform for all forms of contemporary art, cultural discussion and debate, with programmed exhibitions, presentations, artist talks, discussions, events.
Location:
Rotterdam
Founded:
1992
Funding:
Rotterdam City Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.hetwildeweten.nl/#

Horizonverticaal

Haarlem
Founded:
Info not available
↗
We offer a program in which exhibitions are organised that cover cutting edge, ’high art', 'low art’, film, design, cartoons and music.
Location:
Haarlem
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://horizonverticaal.com

Hotel Maria Kapel

Hoorn
Founded:
2003
↗
Hotel Maria Kapel is an artist-in-residence, exhibition space and cinema for contemporary visual art. It is a non-profit organisation that aims to assist young as well as more established artists.
Location:
Hoorn
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Mondriaan Fund, municipality of Hoorn, different art funds on project base, own income
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.hotelmariakapel.nl

id11

Delft
Founded:
2002
↗
Artist initiative id11 organises artist residencies and provides exhibition spaces where artistic experimentation is nurtured.
Location:
Delft
Founded:
2002
Funding:
City council, European Union and Self funded Funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
https://www.id11.nl/english/air.html#

KOP

Breda
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Founded as an artists' initiative, KOP has now become a prized presentation setting for contemporary art and design. KOP's programs and projects are easily accessible and the perception of art and design is key.
Location:
Breda
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
→
https://kop.nu

Kuiperdomingos Projects

Netherlands & Germany
Founded:
2011-2017
↗
Kuiperdomingos Projects is a an international artist-run mobile project where artistic reflection, production and presentation take place independently from commercial, academic or institutional criteria. Curatorial project by Hans Kuiper and Tiny Domingos.
Location:
Netherlands & Germany
Founded:
2011-2017
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.kuiperdomingosprojects.nl

Kulter

Amsterdam
Founded:
2009-2015
↗
Kulter is a gallery stimulating cross-overs between art, performance, music, words, spanning 6 locations to date. We create a home sphere wherein the artists and the public can discuss informally the work [process], sharing a meal and enjoying qualitatively relevant performances.
Location:
Amsterdam
Founded:
2009-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.kulter.nl/KULTER..html

kunstenaarsinitiatief beyoncé

Amsterdam
Founded:
2013-2015
↗
kunstenaarsinitiatief beyoncé is a group that developed a way of being in the art world. kunstenaarsinitiatief beyoncé is Lot Meijers, Elke Baggen, Lukas Hoffmann, Susan Kooi and Nikki Oosterveen.
Location:
Amsterdam
Founded:
2013-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
https://www.facebook.com/kibeyonce

Locatie Z

The Hague
Founded:
2009
↗
Location Z is an initiative of a group of artists from The Hague. Originated (2009) out of the need for a place for research, experimentation, production and presentation.
Location:
The Hague
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
http://locatiez.net/nl/

M4 Gast Atelier

Amsterdam
Founded:
2013-2015
↗
Besides an Artist in Residence, M4gastatelier is a platform for the production, presentation and contextualization of contemporary art by means of a diverse range of disciplines.
Location:
Amsterdam
Founded:
2013-2015
Funding:
Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Mondriaan Fund, private funding and sponsorship
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.m4gastatelier.nl/#

MIKC/Kunststation Delden

Delden
Founded:
1989
↗
MIKC / Perron 1 / The-Counter is an international artists' initiative for visual art presentations. It represents and promotes young talent, international artists and collectives.
Location:
Delden
Founded:
1989
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.kunststationdelden.mikc.eu

Motel Spatie

Arnhem
Founded:
2010-2020
↗
Motel Spatie is a project space inventing forms of engaged autonomy and D.I.Y urbanism always questioning: Who owns the city? It points to the unused places in cities.
Location:
Arnhem
Founded:
2010-2020
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
https://motelspatie.nl

NAC (Nieuwe Ateliers Charlois) foundation

Rotterdam
Founded:
2004
↗
NAC is a voluntary self-management and project organisation that offers (free) housing and studios for artists, including guest-residencies. The artists involved (in 2010 over 200 artists) donate a contribution to the collective, which is used for general maintenance and public art projects. The greater collective of the NAC-construction searches for an alternative economy and way to live/work together.
Location:
Rotterdam
Founded:
2004
Funding:
no funding
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.facebook.com/p/Stichting-NAC-Nieuwe-Ateliers-Charlois

Nest

The Hague
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Nest is a contemporary art platform with a large exhibition­ space. Projects look at the artist, their work and role of artists and artworks within their social and functional context in society. ‘One Nest Stands’ allow artists and curators to visualise their own shows and projects for the duration of one night.
Location:
The Hague
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
The Hague city council and Mondrian fonds
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
→
https://www.nestruimte.nl/en

Nieuwe Vide

Haarlem
Founded:
1997
↗
Nieuwe Vide makes exhibitions. Group exhibitions, sometimes solo presentations. The program includes new media (video, sound installations).
Location:
Haarlem
Founded:
1997
Funding:
Publicly and privately funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://nieuwevide.com

OAZO AIR

Amsterdam
Founded:
1993
↗
OAZO AIR invites artists working in one or more artistic disciplines from all over the globe to live and work temporarily in a lively, productive and creative environment in between the studios of several local artists.
Location:
Amsterdam
Founded:
1993
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.air-oazo.nl/

Park Platform for Visual Arts

Tilburg
Founded:
2013
↗
Park is an art initiative founded by Rob Moonen in cooperation with six other artists living in Tilburg. Park focuses on current developments in contemporary art and on artists with extensive experience.
Location:
Tilburg
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Tilburg City Council, MV/G Ontwerpes Breda
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.park013.nl/nl/home

Peen en Ui

Leiden
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Carrot and Onion provide a platform for encounters between people with different talents and knowledge that inspire each other to new insights and creative ideas.
Location:
Leiden
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Publicly and Privately Funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
https://www.peenenui.nl/#

Plan B

Amsterdam
Founded:
2006
↗
Plan B is an independent artist-run platform by Tarja Szaraniec and Tomas Adolfs that initiates presentations for professional artists in various stages of their career.
Location:
Amsterdam
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.planbprojects.nl/

Probe

Arnhem
Founded:
2008-2019
↗
Probe is an exhibition space, with walls no higher then 1,10m and a surface of 6m2. Its small and practical dimensions enables artists, to create works on scale, that are unthinkable in real life. Albeit a physical space, Probe is only accessible on the internet.
Location:
Arnhem
Founded:
2008-2019
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.projectprobe.net/

PS Projects

Amsterdam
Founded:
1999
↗
PS aims to provide a platform for the work of upcoming international artists in an environment that exists between the conventions of an artist-run space and a commercial gallery.
Location:
Amsterdam
Founded:
1999
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.psprojectspace.nl

Public Space with a Roof

Amsterdam
Founded:
2003-2012
↗
Public Space With A Roof was founded by the artists Tamuna Chabashvili, Adi Hollander, Alon Levin, Wartan Aror Jiftian and Krzysztof Wegiel and initiated as a research project-space.
Location:
Amsterdam
Founded:
2003-2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.pswar.org/Public%20Space%20With%20A%20Roof/

Quartair

The Hague
Founded:
1992
↗
Quartair initiates and supports exhibitions, projects and exchanges with artists and artist-run spaces at home and abroad. It pursues an emphatic cooperation with other cultural organisations.
Location:
The Hague
Founded:
1992
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.quartair.nl/#

Rhizomatic

Amsterdam
Founded:
2009-2015
↗
Rhizomatic is a platform for young artists and curators who are interested in interdisciplinary relationships, in cross-media and cooperative projects, in artistic experimentation outside the academic context.
Location:
Amsterdam
Founded:
2009-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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→
http://www.rhizomatic.nl/

Rib

Rotterdam
Founded:
2015
↗
Rib does exhibitions and long-term projects in collaboration with artists living and working both nearby and far. We perform art rather than present art.
Location:
Rotterdam
Founded:
2015
Funding:
Rotterdam City Council, Mondrian fundation and Self Funded
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.ribrib.nl/#

RONGWRONG

Amsterdam
Founded:
2011
↗
Far from the inscrutable logics of sterile art trades and cultural branding, Rongwrong supports and exhibits the work of both confidential and more rumoured artists.
Location:
Amsterdam
Founded:
2011
Funding:
Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten and to Mondriaan Fonds
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
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https://rongwrong.org/#

ruimteCAESUUR

Middelburg
Founded:
1995
↗
ruimteCAESUUR is a private initiative, without any profit, run by Willy van Houtum and artist Hans About Vliet.
Location:
Middelburg
Founded:
1995
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.caesuur.nu/#

Salon de Kunst

Amsterdam
Founded:
2024
↗
Salon de Kunst is an artist-run space that connects art, meals, and conversations to create a sustainable cultural hub. Rooted in my background as a South Korean fine artist, the space challenges conventional boundaries between commerce and creativity. Through exhibitions, workshops, and a community café, our mission is to foster connection, experimentation, and resilience — offering alternative models of cultural exchange that sustain both artists and neighbors.
Location:
Amsterdam
Founded:
2024
Funding:
Salon de Kunst is largely carried by the founder’s own resources and determination, drawing on savings, small-scale commercial work (everyday freshly made colorful food), and the support of neighbors and friends (visitors). What might seem like a financial struggle is, for them, part of the artistic practice themselves—an exploration of how to live, create, and connect outside fixed systems. They regard sustaining this space, even with its challenges, as an extension of their art: treating empathy, community, and resilience as materials within the work.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Festival
  • Collective
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.salondekunst.com/

SEA Foundation

Tilburg
Founded:
1993
↗
SEA Foundation is an artist-led contemporary art network. The program resembles an interchange in which interdisciplinary artistic practices combine, in connection to long term-research and dialogue on topics like sustainability, ecology, nature, and climate.
Location:
Tilburg
Founded:
1993
Funding:
Energie Anders, Gemeente Tilburg, Mondriaan Fund, Provincie Noord-Brabant
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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https://www.seafoundation.eu

Stichting Kunsttraject

Amsterdam
Founded:
1988
↗
Organising and initiating exhibitions, events and projects in the field of the visual arts in the broadest sense of the word.
Location:
Amsterdam
Founded:
1988
Funding:
Amsterdam City Council, stadsdeel West and privately funded
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://www.kunsttrajectamsterdam.nl/#

The Balcony

The Hague
Founded:
2018
↗
The Balcony curates exhibitions that support the presentation of emerging practices, with a focus on alternative display formats, fostering collaborations, and encouraging cross-generational exchange. We organize 3 to 4 exhibitions per year, each accompanied by an extensive public program, as well as an annual exhibition exchange with other European project spaces. At the heart of our mission is a deep curiosity about the frictions and seemingly invisible processes shaping our world today. We strive to engage audiences and artists in generative discussions about artistic production, labor, and economic sustainability while cultivating a community of local and international collaborators. Our exhibitions frequently explore the conditions of art-making, questioning the role of artistic practices in society and creating formal and conceptual links between the subjective positions of the citizen, the worker, and the artist.
Location:
The Hague
Founded:
2018
Funding:
Our financing mix has been structured through a combination of local and national funding sources. In recent years, we secured support from Stroom Den Haag, the Mondriaan Fonds Kunstenaar Honorarium, and Erfgoed Starters. Additionally, we generate revenue through sales of drinks and editions, rental fees from exhibition and studio spaces, and private sponsorship from the local AV company SBAE. While project funding has enabled fair remuneration for artists and some of our team members, the organization continues to seek structural funding to ensure stable compensation for its core team.
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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https://thebalconythehague.com

Tupajumi

Rotterdam
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Tupajumi is a foundation created for the promotion of artists by organising art related events and exhibitions. Its aim is to share art related networks and resources amongst the participating artists.
Location:
Rotterdam
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.tupajumi.com/new/

Ukrop

Amsterdam
Founded:
2009
↗
Ukrop is an organisation run by and for artists who focus on international collaboration, centring on organising exhibitions throughout the world. The platform is used to (co-)create, exhibit, promote and reflect.
Location:
Amsterdam
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
http://www.ukrop.nl

Upominki

Rotterdam
Founded:
2012
↗
Upominki wants to create an alternative to the value of exchange and the gift-giving idea, and bases its practice on the ideas of hospitality and reciprocity.
Location:
Rotterdam
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.upominki.nl

Villa De Bank

Enschede
Founded:
1985
↗
Art Space Villa Bank brings young artists that make innovative work that is qualitatively high level and represent various disciplines and styles of modern art into the limelight .
Location:
Enschede
Founded:
1985
Funding:
Private sponsorship
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
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http://villadebank.nl

w139

Amsterdam
Founded:
Info not available
↗
W139 explores the unknown; we value the freedom not to know. We develop site specific presentations.
Location:
Amsterdam
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
City council, private donors
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://w139.nl

Whatspace

Info not available
Founded:
2008-2012
↗
The Dutch artists Koen Delaere and Bas van den Hurk set up Whatspace as an organisation that is an extension of their own individual artistic practice.
Location:
Info not available
Founded:
2008-2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://whatspace.nl

Wolfart Projectspaces

Rotterdam
Founded:
2008
↗
A community of creative people who live, work and make use of Wolfart as a place of experimentation in many forms. It provides a regular program of performances, events and exhibitions.
Location:
Rotterdam
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://cargocollective.com/wolfart-rotterdam

North Macedonia

KOOPERACIJA

Skopje
Founded:
info not available
↗
KOOPERACIJA stands for shifting and redefining the borders between public and personal space, to unlock questions concerning the dynamic role of art in the context of centralised cultural politics and social discourse.
Location:
Skopje
Founded:
info not available
Funding:
info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.o-p-a.org/kooperacija

Raspeani Skopjani

Skopje
Founded:
2009-2018
↗
A singing collective who are affiliated with mental hygiene and have the slogan, Who sings, thinks.
Location:
Skopje
Founded:
2009-2018
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://www.facebook.com/pages/Raspeani-Skopjani/10150114559685235?sk=timeline
https://www.facebook.com/100064606847151/timeline/

Norway

Atelier Nord

Oslo
Founded:
1962
↗
Atelier Nord is a project base for unstable art forms, such as electronic and new media art. Atelier Nord is a member of Production Network for Electronic Art, Norway (PNEK) and also teams up with other partners on several projects.
Location:
Oslo
Founded:
1962
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://ateliernord.no

Entree

Bergen
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Entrée is an independent gallery promoting young international contemporary art.
Location:
Bergen
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Arts Council Norway and Bergen Municipality.
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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https://entreebergen.no

Knipsu

Bergen
Founded:
2010
↗
KNIPSU is an artist-run initiative, by Hilde Jørgensen and Maya Økland, that operates as a local art space and a mobile arena, producing exhibitions, events, screenings, concerts, workshops and publications.
Location:
Bergen
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Arts Council Norway and Bergen Municipality
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://knipsu.no

Kunsthall 3,14 (formerly Stiftelsen 3,14)

Bergen
Founded:
1989
↗
Kunsthall 3,14 is a non-profit International Contemporary Art institution centrally located in the heart of Bergen, Norway, almost exclusively working with international exhibitions and partnerships, with an emphasis on contemporary art beyond the western discourse.
Location:
Bergen
Founded:
1989
Funding:
Local council funding and Norwegian arts council funding
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.kunsthall314.art

Kunsthall Stavanger

Stavanger
Founded:
2013
↗
A contemporary art institution that serves as a platform for the production, exhibition, and distribution of artworks that are part of a large international discourse.
Location:
Stavanger
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Public funding
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.kunsthallstavanger.no/

Kurant Visnigsrom

Tromso
Founded:
2009
↗
Kurant is an artist run space in Tromsø which has existed since 2009. Autumn 2021, Kurant is mutating. A new generation has moved into the Kurant body, a transition has begun.
Location:
Tromso
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.facebook.com/kurant9000

Lydgalleriet

Bergen
Founded:
2005
↗
Lydgalleriet is a production and exhibition platform for sound-based art situated in Bergen, Norway and the only specialised gallery for sonic cultures in Norway. Lydgalleriets purpose is to promote and support sound-based art expression through dissemination, stimulation for new production, live events, collaboration and community building. Lydgalleriet was initiated in 2005 by a group of local artists, musicians, curators and art historians. They wished to explore how a traditional gallery space could benefit the presentation of sound-based art work, and how different acoustic environments can alter, modify or shape sound-based work.
Location:
Bergen
Founded:
2005
Funding:
Bergen City, Vestland County and Arts Council Norway.
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.lydgalleriet.no/

Pink Cube

Oslo
Founded:
2011
↗
PINK CUBE is a pink artist-run space dedicated to offer an alternative to the sterile white cube and its inherent power structures, with a better gender balance and a flat structure. Situated first at Grünerløkka and later at Grønland, Oslo until 2016, it is now a nomadic space, with the possibility of traveling to different venues and countries with its unique wall-paint.
Location:
Oslo
Founded:
2011
Funding:
Public funding & self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
  • ≈ Nomadic
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http://www.pinkcube.no/

Prosjektrom Normanns

Stavanger
Founded:
2011-2020
↗
Artist-run project space which also hosts events, workshops and seminars.
Location:
Stavanger
Founded:
2011-2020
Funding:
Public funding
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.prosjektromnormanns.com/

Rogaland Kunstsenter (RKS)

Stavanger
Founded:
1978
↗
As an independent, artist-run institution, RKS presents contemporary art exhibitions, hosts artist presentations, seminars and debates, facilitates residency programs, and develops art projects and public art commissions.
Location:
Stavanger
Founded:
1978
Funding:
Public funding
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://rogalandkunstsenter.no

Snails

Oslo
Founded:
2024
↗
Snails is a non-profit association that runs a working community for artists in central Oslo. It was founded in 2024 by artists Anna Clawson, Doris Guo, Nora Joung, Kaja Krakowian, Mathew Lacosse, Mariusz Maslanka, & Nicole Ward. They are joined by fellow Snails studio-holders: Ina Hagen, Martin Aagaard Hansen, Miriam Hansen, Elise Macmillan, Mickael Marman, Jonatan Nilsson, Nikhil Vettukattil, & Agatha Wara.
Location:
Oslo
Founded:
2024
Funding:
Self-funded - we each pay for our own artist studios within Snails. The space we use for exhibitions/events (our project space) is the only bit of space we don't pay for.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Collective
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://www.snails.no/

Studio 17

Stavanger
Founded:
2013
↗
Frequently show exhibitions in order to maintain spontaneity, showcasing new artists and giving more established names the chance to show new and/or experimental work. The space is also used for lectures, talks and other events.
Location:
Stavanger
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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http://s17.no/oms17/

Unge Kunstneres Samfund

Oslo
Founded:
1921
↗
Unge Kunstneres Samfund is a contemporary art gallery and a members’ organisation for visual artists. It works for the economical and social rights of artists.
Location:
Oslo
Founded:
1921
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.uks.no

Poland

BRUD

Warsaw
Founded:
Info not available
↗
The artist and writer Mandayam and the artist Ada Pola metamorphosed into the Indo-Polish art-parasite Brud. Operating out of a slaughterhouse in central Warsaw.
Location:
Warsaw
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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https://uvuu.xyz

Czułość

Warsaw
Founded:
2010
↗
CZUŁOŚĆ is an international movement in contemporary photography. CZUŁOŚĆ is a group of artists who explore the medium of photography and consciously limit themselves to the characteristics and meanings of the medium.
Location:
Warsaw
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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→
https://czulosc.com/about-us/

FUNDACJA SALONY

Góra
Founded:
Info not available
↗
We create platforms of understanding between visual arts and common life. We produce, support and distribute socially, historical and political engaged visual art practices.
Location:
Góra
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.fundacjasalony.pl/

Galeria Entropia

Wroclaw
Founded:
1988
↗
Entropia conducts intense exhibition and education activities. So far more than 500 events including screenings, lectures, concerts, workshops and meetings with artists have been organised.
Location:
Wroclaw
Founded:
1988
Funding:
City of Wroclaw
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://entropia.art.pl

Galeria Nad Wisłą

Warsaw
Founded:
Info not available
↗
A new artist group founded in 2015 out of an older space run by artist Marian Stępak. The gallery focuses on the promotion of young artists.
Location:
Warsaw
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009065811008

Galeria Rusz

Toruń
Founded:
1999
↗
We use a billboard – the symbol of the modern age consumption – and change it into an object of consideration, reflection and a deep insight into ourselves and the surrounding reality.
Location:
Toruń
Founded:
1999
Funding:
Public
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://www.galeriarusz.art.pl/en/

Goldex Poldex

Krakow
Founded:
Closed 2019
↗
Info not available
Location:
Krakow
Founded:
Closed 2019
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://www.facebook.com/people/Spółdzielnia-Goldex-Poldex/100069698022069/

Kolonia Artystów

Gdańska
Founded:
2001
↗
Artists' Colony popularises and promotes art including niche art, avant-garde and non-commercial, as well as supports and organises cultural initiatives, artistic, educational and social.
Location:
Gdańska
Founded:
2001
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.kolonia-artystow.pl

Poligon Artystyczny

Warsaw
Founded:
2015
↗
Info not available
Location:
Warsaw
Founded:
2015
Funding:
Self-funded and privately supported
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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Silverado

Poznan
Founded:
2013-2017
↗
Silverado is an independent artist-run space focused on experimental activity within broad artistic and curatorial practices. We want to critically analyse established art circuit, aiming towards alternative ways of presenting art beyond predictable institutional strategies.
Location:
Poznan
Founded:
2013-2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.galeriasilverado.pl/

Stroboskop Art Space

Warsaw
Founded:
2016
↗
STROBOSKOP is an artist-run site for experimentation and risk-taking, providing opportunity for all individuals with whom we collaborate. Our mission is to promote new and challenging projects, and to initiate cooperation with other exploratory spaces/projects, both within Poland and abroad.
Location:
Warsaw
Founded:
2016
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://stroboskopartspace.com

The Hello Collective

Jelenia Gora (Residency location)
Founded:
2010
↗
Hello Collective has run a vibrant and productive summer residency in rural Poland. The Hello Collective is an artist led collective that aims to engage in creative dialogue and collaboration between international artists.
Location:
Jelenia Gora (Residency location)
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
→
https://cargocollective.com/hellocollective

WYKWIT

Wrocław
Founded:
2015
↗
WYKWIT is based in a century old post-German house with a large garden and a cellar space adapted for exhibitory purposes. Everyone who lives in the house is involved in giving it a new life.
Location:
Wrocław
Founded:
2015
Funding:
Self-funded and private donors
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
https://wykwit.tumblr.com

₭em

Warsaw
Founded:
2016
↗
₭em is an artist-run project space for choreographic and performative practices. ₭em will host a programme engaged in researching embodiment, affect, new subjectivities and their stagings.
Location:
Warsaw
Founded:
2016
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.kem.space.com

Portugal

Atelier Concorde

Lisbon
Founded:
2010
↗
Artist collective and interdisciplinary workspace, with artists studios, occasional residencies and a project space for exhibitions and events.
Location:
Lisbon
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Private, council, Youth in Action European Programme and from institutional cultural sector.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
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https://www.atelierconcorde.org/en

FarO (formerly Oporto)

Lisbon
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Oporto is now FarO! FarO is a non-profit space in Lisbon, operating in a theatre that parasites the external walls of a church.
Location:
Lisbon
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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http://oportolisboa.blogspot.com

Hangar

Lisbon
Founded:
Info not available
↗
An independent space run by artists and curators. It is a place for experimentation, research and reflection of artistic practices.
Location:
Lisbon
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Public and private support
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://hangar.com.pt

Roundabout

Lisbon
Founded:
2012
↗
Roundabout functions as an atelier, social and creative hub for an international and interdisciplinary group of agitators. We facilitate residencies, artistic exhibitions, cultural events and other creative activities for children and adults.
Location:
Lisbon
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://roundaboutlx.wordpress.com

The Barber Shop

Lisbon
Founded:
2009
↗
The Barber Shop is a project space directed by Margarida Mendes that stimulates dialogue and reflection about the visual arts and surrounding fields of interest. One day events only, random dates.
Location:
Lisbon
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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http://thisisthebarbershop.blogspot.com

Transboavista

Lisbon
Founded:
2006
↗
Transboavista is a cultural production and exhibition space, with the purpose of stimulating contemporary art through a program of temporary exhibitions, in the VPF cream art gallery and in the alternative venue PLATAFORMA REVÓLVER.
Location:
Lisbon
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
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https://transboavista-vpf.net/

Uma certa falta de coerência”/“A Certain Lack of Coherence”

Porto
Founded:
Info not available
↗
An artist-run space for the exhibition and discussion of art-related projects. This is done in tandem and in development with previous similar projects, a gesture we deem continuously essential.
Location:
Porto
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://umacertafaltadecoerencia.blogspot.com

Romania

1Zi Art Space

Bucharest
Founded:
2013-2015
↗
1-day Art Space exhibit art projects for a day
Location:
Bucharest
Founded:
2013-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://www.facebook.com/people/1Zi-Art-Space/100066578379956/

Atelier030202

Bucharest
Founded:
2009-2015
↗
030202 Atelier Gallery is a platform for contemporary art dedicated to young artists, curators and art historians interested in the visual arts experiment and novelty of the moment.
Location:
Bucharest
Founded:
2009-2015
Funding:
Private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.atelier030202.ro

Atelier35

Bucharest
Founded:
1966
↗
Atelier 35 cultivates an interest in socially and politically engaged projects, peripheral practices, collaboration and education.
Location:
Bucharest
Founded:
1966
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.facebook.com/atlier35/

Lateral Art Space

Cluj Napoca
Founded:
2012
↗
A non-profit artist-run exhibition and project space located at the Paintbrush Factory, dedicated to local, national and international emerging artists and founded by Dragoș Bădiță, Cristina Curcan and Lucian Indrei.
Location:
Cluj Napoca
Founded:
2012
Funding:
City Council, private & self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://lateralartspace.com

Plan B-Romania

Cluj
Founded:
2005
↗
Plan B functions as a production and exhibition space for contemporary art; at the same time it is a research center focusing on the Romanian art of the last 50 years.
Location:
Cluj
Founded:
2005
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://www.plan-b.ro

PLATFORMA

Bucharest
Founded:
2011-2015
↗
PLATFORMA started as an independent artistic and curatorial project space and with a self-constructed exhibitions program. We are interested in interdisciplinary strategies and methods of collaboration.
Location:
Bucharest
Founded:
2011-2015
Funding:
The National Museum of Contemporary Art
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Institutional
Status:
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
  • - Inactive
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https://platformaspace.wordpress.com

Serbia

Art Association MOBA

Kikinda
Founded:
2010-2012
↗
Art Association MOBA was founded by visual and video artists, painters, printers and sculptors, with the idea to share and spread art.
Location:
Kikinda
Founded:
2010-2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.supermarketartfair.com/exhibitor/moba/2012
https://supermarketartfair.com/exhibitor/moba/2012

Art Space U10

Belgrade
Founded:
2012
↗
The fundamental point of the art space is to promote young artists at the beginning of their artistic careers who haven’t had the opportunity to be adequately presented to the local public.
Location:
Belgrade
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://u10.rs/eng/index.html

K42

Belgrade
Founded:
1988-2015
↗
A non-governmental organisation whose main goal is to promote contemporary art.
Location:
Belgrade
Founded:
1988-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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https://www.facebook.com/people/Studio-K42/100083351564110/

MAS Gallery

Odzaci
Founded:
1998
↗
Founded by Serbian artist Nenad Bogdanovic
Location:
Odzaci
Founded:
1998
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://infractionvenice.org/infraction-venezia-3/artists/1429709701.html

Treci Beograd

Belgrade
Founded:
2010-2018
↗
Independent Artistic Association Treci Belgrade represents an initiative by a group of artists. Motivated by the need to explore autonomous artistic practice, members of the group actively test models of collective work.
Location:
Belgrade
Founded:
2010-2018
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://www.facebook.com/treci.beograd

U10

Belgrade
Founded:
2012
↗
U10 is a contemporary artist-run space founded to be a platform for young local artists. By collaborating with similar initiatives, U10 actively works on creating a culture of artistic education, debate and exchange between artists, curators, art theoreticians, writers and the wider public.
Location:
Belgrade
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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http://u10.rs/sr/

Šok zadruga (formerly aer-Klinika)

Belgrade
Founded:
2002
↗
The Shock cooperative is redrawing the assigned institutional and disciplinary frames, formulating new, “wild”, unconventional models of cooperation, replacing the periphery with center, basement with public space. Formerly known as aer-Klinika (2002–2012)
Location:
Belgrade
Founded:
2002
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://sokzadruga.com

Slovakia

HIT Gallery

Bratislava
Founded:
2003
↗
HIT Gallery emerged out of initiative of non-profit association KARTEL. Their aim is stimulate the local art scene, intercultural and international exchange and new projects.
Location:
Bratislava
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Public & private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
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http://www.galeriahit.com

KulturFabrik (Tabacka)

Kosice
Founded:
2006
↗
Aims to create an environment for the development of culture and creativity, residential activities and exhibitions, a centre of theatrical, dance, musical or multimedia productions.
Location:
Kosice
Founded:
2006
Funding:
State & EU
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://tabacka.sk

Nástupište 1-12

Topolcany
Founded:
2011
↗
Nástupište 1-12 is a civic association whose members are several artists, graphic designers, psychologists, activists and cultural managers. They conceive and run projects aimed at art, culture and education.
Location:
Topolcany
Founded:
2011
Funding:
Public & private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.nastupiste.sk/

Tranzit

Bratislava
Founded:
2002
↗
Tranzit is a unique network of civic associations working independently in the field of contemporary art in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania and across the borders of a wider Europe.
Location:
Bratislava
Founded:
2002
Funding:
ERSTE Foundation
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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http://www.sk.tranzit.org/
https://sk.tranzit.org/

Slovenia

AQ Gallery

Celja
Founded:
2013
↗
Contemporary art gallery
Location:
Celja
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Self funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
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https://www.facebook.com/aq.galerija

CONA Institute for Contemporary Arts

Ljubljana
Founded:
2007
↗
Cona creates and promotes contemporary art works in relation to society, technology, space and sound.
Location:
Ljubljana
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Municipal, national & EU
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.cona.si

Conceptual Art Centre Bukovje

Bukojve
Founded:
2010
↗
CAC Bukovje is a social art project in a Slovene hillside village, merging family life with contemporary art. Exhibitions are held in the living room, dining room and elsewhere throughout the house. Artists and curators are invited for talks in the shape of teatime with tea, coffee, cookies, cupcakes and more.
Location:
Bukojve
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Private foundations
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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http://www.cac-bukovje.com

CrossCommunityCreation Institute

Ljubljana
Founded:
2006
↗
An institute for multimedia art and projects in social research, working in the field of contemporary art with an aim to connect and research art in a broader social space.
Location:
Ljubljana
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.zavod-ccc.org

KUD France Preseren

Ljubljana
Founded:
1919
↗
It is a place where as far back in 1919, individuals and groups formulate and express their interests in the cultural, artistic, educational, sociological and technical fields. Residencies available.
Location:
Ljubljana
Founded:
1919
Funding:
Donations
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.kud.si/

Metelkova mesel

Ljubljana
Founded:
1993
↗
Autonomous cultural zone
Location:
Ljubljana
Founded:
1993
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.metelkovamesto.org

P74 Centre and Gallery

Ljubljana
Founded:
1997
↗
The P74 Center and Gallery program is focused on the presentation, study and promotion of contemporary visual arts, performance and time-related arts.
Location:
Ljubljana
Founded:
1997
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.zavod-parasite.si

Projekt Atol

Ljubljana
Founded:
1992
↗
Activities range from art production to scientific research and technological prototype development and production.
Location:
Ljubljana
Founded:
1992
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
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http://projekt-atol.si

Spain

AADK

Blanca
Founded:
2008
↗
AADK Spain established a permanent space in the south of Spain. It is a space of investigation and artistic creation with the purpose of consolidating it as a pattern in our international networks.
Location:
Blanca
Founded:
2008
Funding:
International public and private support and funding
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://aadk.es

Drap-Art

Barcelona
Founded:
1995
↗
Drap-Art is a non-profit organisation, dedicated to the promotion of creative recycling through the organisation of festivals, exhibitions, markets and workshops.
Location:
Barcelona
Founded:
1995
Funding:
State & Private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://drap-art.org/

Eat Meat Raw

Barcelona
Founded:
2011-2014
↗
To dissect contemporary art obsessions.
Location:
Barcelona
Founded:
2011-2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.facebook.com/eatmeat.cat/info?tab=page_info

Espacio Islandia

Madrid
Founded:
2011
↗
Espacio Islandia is a nomadic project dedicated to interdisciplinary artistic processes and encounters.
Location:
Madrid
Founded:
2011
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://espacioislandia.com/en/
https://www.instagram.com/espacio.islandia/

La Escocesa

Barcelona
Founded:
1999
↗
La Escocesa is a self-managed artistic production centre that focuses on the visual arts with the public in mind. It aims to offer resident creators and collectives a series of different spaces at affordable prices.
Location:
Barcelona
Founded:
1999
Funding:
State & Private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://laescocesa.org/en

Miscelanea

Barcelona
Founded:
Info not available
↗
MISCELANEA is a multidisciplinary arts space that has as its aim the dissemination and exhibition of creative work and contemporary artistic expressions of the city.
Location:
Barcelona
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://miscelanea.info

Naranjo

Madrid
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Naranjo is a space for the production and dissemination of art, made ​​up of 7 studios and a showroom where we organise events, festivals, workshops and conferences streamings.
Location:
Madrid
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.facebook.com/EspacioNaranjo

Observatorio del Placer

Barcelona
Founded:
2022
↗
In our pursuit of innovative exploratory processes, we invite artists to participate in residencies at the Observatorio del Placer. These residencies are dedicated to research and practice, with a specific focus on various aspects of the broad spectrum of sexuality.
Location:
Barcelona
Founded:
2022
Funding:
independently-run, self-funded
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Collective
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://observatoriodelplacer.com/en/residencias-artisticas/

Pols

Valencia
Founded:
2019
↗
Info not available
Location:
Valencia
Founded:
2019
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
Share:
→
https://polsvlc.org/

Tangent Projects

Barcelona
Founded:
2019
↗
Tangent Projects is an independent non-profit art space situated in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona. We house a non-commercial art gallery and provide seven affordable artist studios. Our mission is to create an inclusive and equitable environment that celebrates innovation and nurtures a supportive community of creative expression. Tangent Projects invites artists to push the boundaries of their practice, all while advocating strongly for diversity and inclusivity in the art world.
Location:
Barcelona
Founded:
2019
Funding:
We run affordable artist studios, the rent of which pay the bills. We received state funding once in 2023 and concluded it wasn't really worth the effort. The lead team are a group of dedicated volunteers. It's a bit tight but it keeps us independent and self-sufficient
Type:
  • Studios
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.tangent-projects.com/

The Green Parrot

Barcelona
Founded:
2014
↗
The Green Parrot is a non-profit space dedicated to contemporary art practices. It hosts a programme of four exhibitions per year and a series of other events derived from each show.
Location:
Barcelona
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Private & self-funded
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://thegreenparrot.org

The Windor

Madrid
Founded:
Info not available
↗
A multifunctional space of interdisciplinary art, featuring the work of Spanish and international emergining artists every month.
Location:
Madrid
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://maxonhigbee.com/thewindor.com/The_Windor/home.html

UntitledBCN

Barcelona
Founded:
2008-2017
↗
An arts organisation, with the objective to create a platform for early career multi-disciplinary artists, based in Barcelona we work with artists from all over the world.
Location:
Barcelona
Founded:
2008-2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.untitledbcn.com/

Zape

Valencia
Founded:
2020
↗
Zape is a non-profit, self-managed space that functions as an alternative framework located in Valencia, to carry out contemporary creative projects of general interest that flee from elitism, classism and the prevailing intellectual paternalism.
Location:
Valencia
Founded:
2020
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.zape.lol

Sweden

Association for Temporary Art

Stockholm
Founded:
1993-2012
↗
Association of Temporary Art was the result of a collaboration between the artists Åsa Andersson-Broms and Karin Hansson. They were looking for new forms and scenes for discussing and working with public art.
Location:
Stockholm
Founded:
1993-2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
→
http://www.temporaryart.org

CANDYLAND

Stockholm
Founded:
2004
↗
Candyland is a non-profit art space that has arranged 120 exhibitions in the gallery space accompanied by gigs, performances, workshops and screenings.
Location:
Stockholm
Founded:
2004
Funding:
Art Council, City Council, self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
→
http://candyland.se

CirkulationsCentralen Project Space

Malmö
Founded:
2003
↗
CirkulationsCentralen is an artist-run organisation for the production and presentation of contemporary art and culture. It has an artists’ cooperative consisting of 24 studios and also houses a gallery.
Location:
Malmö
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Malmö City Council and Kulturrådet
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
http://www.cirkulationscentralen.com/

Detroit

Stockholm
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Detroit Stockholm is a non-profit organisation. Aiming to create a free platform for artists, with 24 studio spaces in the basement below the gallery.
Location:
Stockholm
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
→
https://www.detroitstockholm.info

Formverk

Eskiltuna
Founded:
2004
↗
We are working on a domestic and international basis, to realise artistic exchange and cooperation.
Location:
Eskiltuna
Founded:
2004
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://formverk.se

Fylkingen

Stockholm
Founded:
1935
↗
Fylkingen is a venue and artists' society of over 250 members. Since its establishment in the 1930s, Fylkingen has been committed to experimental work in the contemporary performing arts, covering music, performance, video, film, dance, sound-text composition and intermedia.
Location:
Stockholm
Founded:
1935
Funding:
Swedish Arts Council, Stockholm Cultural Services Department, Stockholm County Council
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.fylkingen.se

Galleri 21

Malmö
Founded:
1985
↗
Gallery 21 is one of Malmö's oldest artist-run galleries. Our ambition has always been to reflect the new in art.
Location:
Malmö
Founded:
1985
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.galleri21.com/g21/

Galleri 54

Gothenburg
Founded:
1954
↗
Our primary task is to offer interesting and varied exhibitions showing local, national and international artists, offering artists a possibility to show their work without the commercial pressure and influence.
Location:
Gothenburg
Founded:
1954
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://galleri54.com

Galleri Box-Sweden

Gothenburg
Founded:
1998
↗
Box is an artist-run space for contemporary art. The gallery aims at promoting contemporary Swedish artists, as well as introducing international artists to a Swedish audience.
Location:
Gothenburg
Founded:
1998
Funding:
Arts Council, City Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://galleribox.se

Galleri Rostrum

Malmö
Founded:
1985
↗
Started in 1985 by a group of artists, the goal for Gallery Rostrum is to form a rich and varied exhibition program, which is not alien to any form of artistic expression.
Location:
Malmö
Founded:
1985
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://rostrum.nu

Galleri Syster

Lulea
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Our work is founded upon a feministic ground and we want to make a difference through investigating, challenging and deconstructing.
Location:
Lulea
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://gallerisyster.se

Galleri Verkligheten

Umea
Founded:
2001
↗
Our concept is an experimental platform for various kinds of art expressions.
Location:
Umea
Founded:
2001
Funding:
Statens Kulturråd, Umeå Kommun and Region Västerbotten
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
→
http://verkligheten.net
http://verkligheten.net/aktuellt/info/

ID:I galleri

Stockholm
Founded:
Info not available
↗
An art scene where artistic integrity is reflected by exhibitors and their profiles.
Location:
Stockholm
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://idigalleri.org

Konstepidemin

Gothenburg
Founded:
1987
↗
Konstepidemin is not a state or municipal institution. Konstepidemin’s motto since the very beginning has been that art should infect society.
Location:
Gothenburg
Founded:
1987
Funding:
Self-funded with support from city council and the Arts Council for public activities
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://konstepidemin.se/en/

Kottinspektionen

Uppsala
Founded:
2014
↗
An artist-run venue for art, choreography and theater.
Location:
Uppsala
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.kottinspektionen.org

Martini Projects

Gothenburg
Founded:
2011-2012
↗
Info not available
Location:
Gothenburg
Founded:
2011-2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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Minibar

Stockholm
Founded:
2011-2017
↗
Non-profit project based exhibition space.
Location:
Stockholm
Founded:
2011-2017
Funding:
Nordic and Swedish councils
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://www.facebook.com/minibarstockholm

Platform Stockholm

Stockholm
Founded:
2010
↗
Platform Stockholm is a hybrid arts organisation that manages Swedens largest arts collective housing 100 artists and a 250 squaremeter experimental eventspace.
Location:
Stockholm
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://platformstockholm.com/
http://www.platformstockholm.com/

Signal – Center for Contemporary Art

Malmö
Founded:
1998
↗
Signal is a center for contemporary art focusing on the production, presentation, discourse and promotion of contemporary art and culture, run by a group of artists and curators.
Location:
Malmö
Founded:
1998
Funding:
The Swedish Arts Council, the Culture Administration of Region Sk蚣e, the Culture Department of Malm
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.signalsignal.org

Skånes Konstförening – Skane Art Association

Malmö
Founded:
1904/2008
↗
Skane Art Association has a long tradition dating back to 1904. Today it has grown into an international scene of contemporary art in all forms.
Location:
Malmö
Founded:
1904/2008
Funding:
Local and national councils
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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https://skaneskonst.se

Studio 44

Stockholm
Founded:
2002
↗
Studio 44 wishes to develop its curatorial focus further, producing exhibitions that make connections between the members' work while also including a wider artistic community.
Location:
Stockholm
Founded:
2002
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.studio44.se

Tegen2

Stockholm
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Info not available
Location:
Stockholm
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://tegen2.se

The Pineapple Project Room

Malmö
Founded:
1995-2005
↗
The vision is to explore a continuous and ever changable open city space free from commercial interests focusing on the social aspects of art and its production in relation to the society.
Location:
Malmö
Founded:
1995-2005
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.thepineapple.cc

United Net-Works

Info not available
Founded:
Info not available
↗
United Net-Works is an international network, platform and meeting place for contemporary artists, artists groups, independent curators, researchers and other arts professionals based in Stockholm.
Location:
Info not available
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.sofiesweger.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/newsletter20041.pdf

Untendrunter

Malmö
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Unten Drunter is an exhibition space and project run by Trond Hugo Haugen, Michael Johansson and Henrik Lund Jørgensen. It shows every exhibition for two days, the opening night and the Saturday that follows.
Location:
Malmö
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://untendrunter.se

Switzerland

Ausstellungsraum Klingental

Basel
Founded:
1974
↗
An exhibition space, which provides a platform for artists living and working in Basel. We present, discuss and promote their artistic practice bringing it to public attention.
Location:
Basel
Founded:
1974
Funding:
Association & council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://ausstellungsraum.ch

BALTSprojects

Zurich
Founded:
2014
↗
It focuses on exhibitions by architects and artists who engage in some special way with architecture, whereby the subject is broadly conceived: BALTSprojects shows architecture from every different facet, points of view, and scale.
Location:
Zurich
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Canton of Zurich / Art Council, Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Foundation & private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
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https://baltsprojects.com

Box43

Zurich
Founded:
2011
↗
An independent, non-profit, artist-run venue. Marco Nicolas Heinzen and his sister Franziska Heinzen run the venue, which has realised a diverse program with national and international emerging artists in the last few years.
Location:
Zurich
Founded:
2011
Funding:
Supported by Dienststelle für Kultur, Kanton Wallis
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://box43.ch/wordpress

CCA / AZB

Zurich
Founded:
1983
↗
The CCA has the goal of improving working conditions of professional artists. This is done with the allocation of studios and work spaces on the one hand and the cultural promotion of the sculpture on the other.
Location:
Zurich
Founded:
1983
Funding:
State & Nestle Art Foundation
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.plastiker.ch

Corner College

Zurich
Founded:
2008
↗
The Corner College Collective (CCC) are Amélie Brisson-Darveau, Alan Roth, and Dimitrina Sevova. They activate a space of micro-practices that operate in a network of immediate relations that resonate with what swarms around the edges (at the Corner).
Location:
Zurich
Founded:
2008
Funding:
State & Nestlé Art Foundation
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ≈ Nomadic
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https://www.corner-college.com

Counter Space

Zurich
Founded:
2013
↗
Counter Space is an exhibition space dedicated to showing process-like methods in artistic work. Counter Space provides artists with an experimental platform for tentative forms, sketchy actions and ambiguous statements.
Location:
Zurich
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Public funding (city of Zurich and canton of Zurich), private funding, as well as self-funding
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
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http://www.counterspace.ch

Die Diele

Zurich
Founded:
2009
↗
Pride themselves on giving artists carte blanche to create usually site-specific installations/works, and trying to find a balance between newer and more estabished artists to exhibit. Also not interested in selling works.
Location:
Zurich
Founded:
2009
Funding:
State funding and private/corporate sponsors
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://diediele.format.com

DIENSTGEBÄUDE

Zurich
Founded:
2009
↗
DIENSTGEBÄUDE is an artist-run space in Zurich. The first exhibition took place in September 2009 in the former service building of the train company.
Location:
Zurich
Founded:
2009
Funding:
State funding, private and corporate sponsors
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.dienstgebaeude.ch

DOCK

Basel
Founded:
2009
↗
A project space with an emphasis on discussions and critical discourse, it also houses and ever-growing archive and also aims to integrate art more and more into society.
Location:
Basel
Founded:
2009
Funding:
State & private
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://dock-basel.ch

Forde

Geneva
Founded:
1994
↗
Every two years a new curator or curatorial team is selected who then design the programme for the space for the next two years.
Location:
Geneva
Founded:
1994
Funding:
Municipal & Loterie Romaine
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://fordz.ch/fr

Hacienda

Zurich
Founded:
2013-2015
↗
Info not available
Location:
Zurich
Founded:
2013-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.ha-cie-nd-a.ch

Kaskadenkondensator

Basel
Founded:
1994
↗
Kaskadenkondensator plays an independent role in the context of the Basel art institutions – a flexible structure, artists and theoreticians working in common at the interface of art and communication.
Location:
Basel
Founded:
1994
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.kasko.ch

Kiosk Tabak

Zurich
Founded:
2012-2015
↗
This used to be a tobacco kiosk. Now, instead of selling tabacco, they have art.
Location:
Zurich
Founded:
2012-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.kiosktabak.ch

Les Complices

Zurich
Founded:
2003
↗
A self-organised space and production office. Exhibitions, projects and events initiated and hosted by Les Complices are situated in and between the fields of contemporary arts, theatre and film, critical theory and activist practice.
Location:
Zurich
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Institutional and private support
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://lescomplices.ch/upcoming/

Message Salon

Zurich
Founded:
1996
↗
It is stepping stone, platform, bar, shop and video club.
Location:
Zurich
Founded:
1996
Funding:
City council funding and private donations
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.messagesalon.ch
https://messagesalon.ch/

R57

Zurich
Founded:
2007
↗
A non-commercial space for exhibitions, events, performances, installations and readings. Primarily for unestablished artists.
Location:
Zurich
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.r57.ch

SALTS

Basel
Founded:
2009
↗
Initially hosting exhibitions in a domestic set-up, SALTS supports young international artists to develop unique and exceptional projects. Since 2009, the exhibitions have often materialised site-specifically, with the goal to push beyond the artists' daily practice, while challenging the audience.
Location:
Basel
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Swiss Arts Council & foundation
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://www.salts.ch

Shedhalle

Zurich
Founded:
1986
↗
The Shedhalle exhibition hall – with the shed roof – is located in the “Rote Fabrik,” a compound within the city of Zurich that has been in use as a culture and recreation center since the early 1980s.
Location:
Zurich
Founded:
1986
Funding:
City of Zurich
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
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https://shedhalle.ch/#

Sihlquai55

Zurich
Founded:
2009-2017
↗
Sihlquai55 presents itself with a newly developed concept, which is based on three basic principles of belonging, competence and networking.
Location:
Zurich
Founded:
2009-2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Institutional
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.sihlquai55.ch/

Station 21

Zurich
Founded:
2001-2015
↗
A space where art is produced and exhibited based on thematic cycles chosen and each lasting a few months at a time. The monthly developments in the works being shown attempt to promote a dialogue between artists and audience.
Location:
Zurich
Founded:
2001-2015
Funding:
Council and state funding
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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https://www.station21.ch

Tart

Zurich
Founded:
2014
↗
Passionate about art of any form and shape, our aim is to introduce new, emerging artists in the Swiss art scene. Global in our outlook, we engage in tracing and promoting fresh, exciting, contemporary art.
Location:
Zurich
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.tartart.ch/

Taylor Macklin

Zurich
Founded:
2014-2018
↗
Taylor Macklin is a Zurich-based project space and is currently run by Adam Cruces, Gina Folly, Michèle Graf, Selina Grüter, and Thomas Julier.
Location:
Zurich
Founded:
2014-2018
Funding:
Zurich University
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.taylormacklin.com

Up State

Zurich
Founded:
2013-2016
↗
A self-organised art space and part of the squatted industrial park 'Kochareal'.
Location:
Zurich
Founded:
2013-2016
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.up-state.ch/

Turkey

5533

Istanbul
Founded:
2008
↗
5533 aims to create a platform where artists exchange ideas.
Location:
Istanbul
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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http://imc5533.blogspot.com

Apartment Project

Istanbul
Founded:
1999
↗
Since the very beginning, it has been committed to developing communication between artists and art operators, such as critics, researchers, and curators.
Location:
Istanbul
Founded:
1999
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://apartmentproject.com

Caravasari

Istanbul
Founded:
2010-2013
↗
An independent and loose group of artists congregating around Istanbul, Turkey.
Location:
Istanbul
Founded:
2010-2013
Funding:
Private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.caravansarai.info/

pasaj

Istanbul
Founded:
2010
↗
Pasaj offers an alternative to the ongoing commercial systems in the art world - it is not competitive but sincere and open to share the know-how.
Location:
Istanbul
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://en.pasaj.org/

PiST

Istanbul
Founded:
2006-2017
↗
Interdisciplinary art space.
Location:
Istanbul
Founded:
2006-2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://pist-org.blogspot.com

Recollective

Istanbul
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Rec, is an artists collective, working predominantly in the area of photography and film. Our aim is collective action and creation in collaboration with other collectives and artists.
Location:
Istanbul
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://reccollective.org/index.html

Sanatorium

Istanbul
Founded:
2006-2017
↗
Enriching the art scene in Turkey with its perspective and vision as it was founded by artists, Sanatorium searches for the ways of increasing its contribution through different collaborations regarding contemporary art.
Location:
Istanbul
Founded:
2006-2017
Funding:
Privately owned
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.sanatorium.com.tr/en
https://sanatorium.com.tr/

UK-England

Acme Studios

London - Bow
Founded:
1972
↗
Acme supports over 700 artists and manages 573 studios in 15 buildings in Greater London, offering a wide range of high-quality, long-term and professionally-managed space including permanent new-build studios.
Location:
London - Bow
Founded:
1972
Funding:
Previously Arts Council England, self-funded from March 2015
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://acme.org.uk

Airspace Gallery

Stoke-on-Trent
Founded:
2006
↗
AirSpace Gallery is a collaborative, artist-led project in Stoke-on-Trent, providing professional development opportunities, studio and exhibiting space and support for artists.
Location:
Stoke-on-Trent
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Arts Council England, Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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https://www.airspacegallery.org

ALISN

London City
Founded:
2007
↗
The Artist-Led Initiatives Support Network (ALISN) aims to foster community and collaboration between artist-led and other art galleries and projects, working across diverse platforms to deliver innovative exhibitions and events.
Location:
London City
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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https://www.alisn.org

Alma Enterprises

London - Southwark
Founded:
2004
↗
A principal construct of working with individual artists showing singular pieces of work as a result of a lengthy engagement with the space.
Location:
London - Southwark
Founded:
2004
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.almaenterprises.com/

Almanac Projects

London - Dalston Lane
Founded:
2013
↗
Almanac Projects is a non-profit organisation founded and based in London since 2013 with a sibling, independent project in Turin, Almanac Inn.
Location:
London - Dalston Lane
Founded:
2013
Funding:
English-registered charitable Community Benefit Society
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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http://www.almanacprojects.com

Arcadia Missa Project Space

London City
Founded:
2011-2014
↗
In 2014 Arcadia Missa established as a commercial gallery after running as a project space since 2011.
Location:
London City
Founded:
2011-2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://arcadiamissa.com/arcadia-missa-project-space-2011-2015/

arebyte

London
Founded:
2013
↗
arebyte advances new experimentation in digital cultures. Meeting the growing demand for immersive experiences and digital content creation, arebyte pioneers new forms of engagement with creative technologies to critically explore the impact of technology in contemporary society. From digital environments, online exhibitions to live performances, arebyte’s art programme spans VR, AR, motion capture, CGI, AI, and blockchain technology. arebyte is committed to further support London’s creatives by providing affordable workspaces in the capital city.
Location:
London
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Arts Council England
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.arebyte.com/

ArtSpace Portsmouth

Portsmouth
Founded:
1980
↗
Art Space's primary mission is to promote and develop contemporary visual arts by supporting emerging and professional artists' practice through the provision of affordable studios and facilities.
Location:
Portsmouth
Founded:
1980
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.artspace.co.uk

ASC Gallery and Studios

London - Southwark
Founded:
1995
↗
Founded by two artists, Peter Flack and Jonathan Coombes. We provide affordable studio space for artists, providing a place to work to over 700 practitioners across Greater London.
Location:
London - Southwark
Founded:
1995
Funding:
Artists Studio Company
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.ascstudios.co.uk/

Assembly Point

London - Peckham
Founded:
2015-2019
↗
Assembly Point is a new contemporary arts space encompassing a gallery and studios and run by collaborative artists James Edgar and Sam Walker.
Location:
London - Peckham
Founded:
2015-2019
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
https://www.assemblypoint.xyz

Auto Italia South East

London - Southwark
Founded:
2007
↗
Commissions and produces new work – collaborating directly with emerging artists. It aims to provide a framework for developing alternative approaches to production and exhibition formats.
Location:
London - Southwark
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://autoitaliasoutheast.org

Backlit

Nottingham
Founded:
2008
↗
Backlit was established with an aim of supporting emerging artists with affordable studio space as well as developmental opportunities through participatory and collaborative exhibitions and events with arts and creative professionals.
Location:
Nottingham
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Arts Council England
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
→
https://backlit.org.uk

Banner Repeater

London - Hackney
Founded:
2010
↗
Project space and reading room.
Location:
London - Hackney
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Arts Council, borough councils, UK lottery fund
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
http://www.bannerrepeater.org/

BasementArtsProject

Leeds
Founded:
2011
↗
BasementArtsProject is a concept, a venue and a way of life. We believe that art and culture should be built within communities and nurtured by those who will be most affected by its presence. Our programme deals with the removal of barriers within the community and is based around four pillars: Art as Entertainment, Education, Engagement & Employment. We provide artists at the beginning of their career with exhibitions, experiences, opportunities, mentoring, and assistance in achieving their visions.
Location:
Leeds
Founded:
2011
Funding:
Self-funded. Occasional grants for individual projects when successful
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.basementartsproject.com/

Beaconsfield

London - Lambeth
Founded:
1995
↗
Three project spaces, very involved in curating and commissioning programmes.
Location:
London - Lambeth
Founded:
1995
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk

Bermondsey Project Space

London - Southwark
Founded:
2010-2014
↗
A base for London Sculpture Workshop, London Community Furniture, over 140 artists studios, a gallery and cinema and Crisis Skylight Bermondsey – an arts and vocational college for ex homeless people.
Location:
London - Southwark
Founded:
2010-2014
Funding:
Crisis, homeless charity
Type:
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
→
http://www.bermondseyproject.com/

Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre

Liverpool–Wirral
Founded:
2019
↗
Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre is a not-for-profit study site that focuses on providing individual users and groups with a low cost, temporary place to dictate their own methods of work. The Observatory also hosts seminars, events and workshops and is open to a range of academic and non-academic discourses.
Location:
Liverpool–Wirral
Founded:
2019
Funding:
Private funding, voluntary labour
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.bidstonobservatory.org

Black Dogs

Leeds
Founded:
2003-2015
↗
Black Dogs is an art collective formed in Leeds in 2003.
Location:
Leeds
Founded:
2003-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.black-dogs.org

Block 336

London - Lambeth
Founded:
2011
↗
It aims to promote engagement and critical discussion of contemporary art, with an emphasis on collaboration and cross-practice dialogue and is committed to providing a platform for artists.
Location:
London - Lambeth
Founded:
2011
Funding:
Public grants, voluntary support and private donations
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.block336.com

Bloc Projects

Sheffield
Founded:
2002
↗
Bloc Projects is an artist-led project space with an annual programme of exhibitions, events, residencies, exchange projects and educational activity in our gallery and courtyard spaces.
Location:
Sheffield
Founded:
2002
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.blocprojects.co.uk

Bows Arts / Nunnery Gallery

London - Bow
Founded:
1994
↗
Our mission is to support community renewal in East London by delivering Arts and Creative Services through our financially sustainable social enterprise model.
Location:
London - Bow
Founded:
1994
Funding:
Self funded 94%, Arts council 3%, Foundations 3%
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://bowarts.org/nunnery-gallery/#

Calcio

London
Founded:
2023
↗
Calcio is an artist-run project space and studio community in South Bermondsey, London. We put on exhibitions of contemporary artists and host music events; we want to test if visual art can still sing the songs of the day.
Location:
London
Founded:
2023
Funding:
Grants, Sales, Self-funded collective
Type:
  • Collective
  • Artist-Run
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://calcio.london/

Castlefield Gallery

Manchester
Founded:
1984
↗
Castlefield Gallery’s vision is for the North to be a place where artists can live and produce work, while presenting their work in national and international contexts.
Location:
Manchester
Founded:
1984
Funding:
Arts Council England
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk

Cell Project Space

London - Tower Hamlets
Founded:
1999
↗
Cell is a self funding organisation, founded and directed by Milika Muritu & Richard Priestley with a non-profit seeking constitution. It presents an ongoing programme of exhibitions, projects, talks, screenings, and events.
Location:
London - Tower Hamlets
Founded:
1999
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://www.cellprojects.org

Cubitt

London - Islington
Founded:
1991
↗
Cubitt is an artist-led organisation, which consists of a non-profit gallery, 32 artist studios and a locally-focused education programme.
Location:
London - Islington
Founded:
1991
Funding:
Arts Council England & Outset (philanthropic arts funding)
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.cubittartists.org.uk

Dolph

London - Streatham Hill
Founded:
2014
↗
A not-for-profit visual arts group aiming to engage with artists, the public and neighbouring community by staging thought-provoking solo exhibitions with talks.
Location:
London - Streatham Hill
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Arts Council England and National Lottery
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.dolphprojects.com/

Eastside Projects

Birmingham
Founded:
2008
↗
A free, public exhibition space that is being imagined and organised by artists. Eastside Projects makes art public.
Location:
Birmingham
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Birmingham City University, Arts Council England, others
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://eastsideprojects.org

Electra

London - Hackney
Founded:
2003
↗
Electra was founded by Lina Dzuverovic, Anne Hilde Neset, and Irene Revell. The organisation presented its last full annual programme in 2015, and is currently working towards a sustainable future structure, alongside one-off programmes.
Location:
London - Hackney
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Regular funding from Arts Council England 2005-2015
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ≈ Nomadic
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.electra-productions.com

Enclave Projects

London
Founded:
2021
↗
Artist-run, non-profit infrastructure in Deptford, South East London hosting a community of galleries and creative organisations within a row of 10 Enclave units. Championing experimental, critical, ambitious and relevant art practice, with attention given to non-profit, DIY, radical and artist-led organisations and galleries who deliver projects that make a difference to the local community and wider arts sector. Enclave was created by Anthony Gross with arts charity TemporaryContemporary in 2012. Since 2021 it has been run by Gossamer Fog CIC.
Location:
London
Founded:
2021
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://enclaveprojects.uk

Enclave Projects (incl. News of the World and Res)

London - Lewisham
Founded:
2012
↗
An experimental artist-run infrastructure that aims to promote contemporary, critical art practice. Hub space for galleries/projects.
Location:
London - Lewisham
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://enclaveprojects.com

Form Content

London City
Founded:
2007
↗
A non-profit organisation founded by Francesco Pedraglio, Caterina Riva, Pieternel Vermoortel. After more than 35 exhibitions, it decided to close its space and work on a nomadic project.
Location:
London City
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Arts Council & Henry Moore Foundation
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://www.formcontent.org

Furtherfield

London City
Founded:
1997
↗
We believe that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies.
Location:
London City
Founded:
1997
Funding:
Arts Council & fundraising
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.furtherfield.org

Gallery North

Newcsatle
Founded:
2009
↗
The Gallery North Project Space showcases work by current students and staff as well as graduates of Northumbria University
Location:
Newcsatle
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Public
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Institutional
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://gn.northumbria.ac.uk

Gasworks

London - Lambeth
Founded:
1994
↗
Contemporary arts' organisation with artists studios and international residency programmes.
Location:
London - Lambeth
Founded:
1994
Funding:
Lotto & Arts Council
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.gasworks.org.uk

Gossamer Fog

London
Founded:
2016
↗
Gossamer Fog is an artist-run gallery and virtual production studio in Deptford, South East London. We commission new risk-taking artwork and produce exhibitions and events cultivating critical artistic investigations around technology, science, ecology and society. Dedicated to advancing and nurturing emerging creative technologies in visual arts.
Location:
London
Founded:
2016
Funding:
We are funded through public and private funding.
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.gossamerfog.com/

Grand Union

Birmingham
Founded:
2010
↗
Run by a small group of artists and curators, Grand Union is part of a growing artistic community with the production of new art and ideas at its heart.
Location:
Birmingham
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Arts council, local council & foundation
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.grand-union.org.uk/#

H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G

Brighton
Founded:
2017
↗
H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G has been used as a title for an ongoing series of exhibitions (up to this point at Phoenix Art Space, Brighton. UK). The term does not dictate an aesthetic and it does not mean to imply a preference for one process or system of making work over another. It instead concerns itself with the elusive and critical nature of Contemporary Painting today; the complexities, the overlooked simplicities and the ‘wonder’ it can engender’. The H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G exhibitions began with four artists Stig Evans, Ian Boutell, Philip Cole and Patrick O’Donnell, who all worked in studios at Phoenix Art Space Brighton. Meeting regularly and talking about their practices, they decided to develop an exhibition which would show their work and that of other artists, who they felt shared similar concerns that resonated with their collective practice.
Location:
Brighton
Founded:
2017
Funding:
Self + crowdfunding + previous Arts Council Funded for second exhibition
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Collective
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.hardpainting.com/

IMT Gallery

London
Founded:
2005
↗
Founded in 2005, IMT Gallery is a leading contemporary art space in London dedicated to showcasing critically engaged and innovative art. With nearly two decades of experience, the gallery has built a reputation for supporting boundary-pushing artists and presenting thought- provoking projects that delve into complex social, cultural, and philosophical themes. Alongside its exhibition programme the gallery represents a core group of emerging to established artists, facilities workshops offering a unique approach to engaging with art, and commissions experimental writing on critical contemporary art. Routledge recently published Contemporary Exhibition-Making and Management: Curating IMT Gallery as a Hybrid Space, authored by the gallery’s long-standing curator (2005 - 2023) Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson. The book is part of a series on the Global Creative Economy, edited by Aleksandar Brkić.
Location:
London
Founded:
2005
Funding:
Commercial model (selling art) and grants
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://imagemusictext.com https://imagemusictext.com

Jump Ship Rat

Liverpool
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Jump Ship Rat is an artist-led organisation dedicated to the promotion of the visual and performing arts. We engage cultural dialogue, encourage experimentation and cultivate artistic production.
Location:
Liverpool
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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Kingsgate

London – Hampstead
Founded:
1978
↗
Kingsgate Workshops is a multi-use art space housed within a labyrinthine Victorian factory, providing affordable workspace for an exciting mix of artists, makers and designers.
Location:
London – Hampstead
Founded:
1978
Funding:
Public
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.kingsgateworkshops.org.uk

KRAAK

Manchester
Founded:
2009-2015
↗
KRAAK is committed to artist-led exhibitions where individual curators and groups of artists plan and produce the installation process, infusing their own personalities into the space.
Location:
Manchester
Founded:
2009-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.kraak.org.uk

Lima Zulu

London - Haringey
Founded:
2008-2015
↗
Project space
Location:
London - Haringey
Founded:
2008-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.limazulu.co.uk/

Locus+

Manchester
Founded:
1995
↗
Set up in 1995 Globe Gallery is a not for profit organisation. Our aim is to bring contemporary art to as wide an audience as possible and support artists through exhibition opportunities.
Location:
Manchester
Founded:
1995
Funding:
Arts Council England, Newcastle City Council
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
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http://www.locusplus.org.uk/home

Matt’s Gallery

London - Nine Elms
Founded:
1979
↗
Matt's Gallery is a contemporary art space, founded by Robin Klassnik (OBE), who opened the gallery in his studio. Now located in Nine Elms.
Location:
London - Nine Elms
Founded:
1979
Funding:
Arts Council England
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.mattsgallery.org

Metal

Liverpool
Founded:
2002
↗
We work to provide the catalyst that can transform the potential of people and places through great art and inspiring ideas. We support artists, working in all disciplines, at all career levels.
Location:
Liverpool
Founded:
2002
Funding:
Arts Council, local councils
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Institutional
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://metalculture.com

Mezzanine

London
Founded:
2024
↗
MEZZANINE is an artist-run non-profit art space located in the Bermondsey Triangle. Established as a Community Interest Company in September 2024, MEZZANINE was founded to support artists through the provision of affordable studio, exhibition, and event spaces. With eight enclosed multi-occupant studios, a shared multipurpose workspace, a music studio, and newly renovated gallery, we provide a much-needed space for artists to develop and showcase a diverse range of creative practices.
Location:
London
Founded:
2024
Funding:
We are entirley not-for profit, run by a group of artists on a voluntery basis. Currently the cost of our artist studios subsidises the cost of the events/exhibition/project space, and vice versa.
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Artist-Run
  • Studios
  • Voluntary
Status:
  • + Active
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https://mezzaninestudios.com/

News of the World

London - Lewisham
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Contemporary art/curators studio.
Location:
London - Lewisham
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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not/nowhere

London - Hackney
Founded:
2018
↗
not/nowhere is an artist workers’ cooperative that programmes workshops, screenings, exhibitions and events. They were preceded by no.w.here (www.no-w-here.org.uk) a similar organisation which ran from 2004–2018.
Location:
London - Hackney
Founded:
2018
Funding:
Arts Council England
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.not-nowhere.org

One Thoresby Street

Nottingham
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Comprising a collection of emergent and established artists, galleries, project spaces and studios. One Thoresby Street is a partner of the Nottingham Artist-led Consortium with BACKLIT and PRIMARY.
Location:
Nottingham
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Arts Council England
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
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http://www.onethoresbystreet.org/

Original Projects

Great Yarmouth
Founded:
2017
↗
Original Projects works with contemporary artists and communities in Great Yarmouth, co-creating ambitious objects, experiences, and developmental activities that respond to the place and people, building relationships for a sustainable future. We unlock creative opportunities, supporting everyone to learn new skills, build confidence, and thrive through experiencing sustainable and pioneering great art. Activities include exhibitions, studio provision, community engagement, showcasing local makers, workshops, public commissions, conferences, podcasts, a sonic arts festival, and gastronomic events in partnership with various stakeholders.
Location:
Great Yarmouth
Founded:
2017
Funding:
grants (pubilc, trusts, foundations) and studio rental income
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Studios
  • Festival
  • Voluntary
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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https://originalprojects.co.uk/

OUTPOST

Norwich
Founded:
2004
↗
OUTPOST is an artist-run gallery committed to the uncompromising presentation of contemporary art. A core programme of 11 exhibitions per year.
Location:
Norwich
Founded:
2004
Funding:
Arts Council England, Lottery
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.norwichoutpost.org

Output Gallery

Liverpool
Founded:
2018
↗
OUTPUT Gallery works exclusively with creatives who are from or based in Merseyside, delivering a programme of exhibitions to support to mobility, development and visibility of artists in the area. Alongside physical exhibitions we run regular postal exhibitions, a podcast and present work online and in the public realm.
Location:
Liverpool
Founded:
2018
Funding:
Arts Council England
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.outputgallery.com

Paper Gallery

Manchester
Founded:
2012
↗
PAPER is an artist-led, commercial gallery based in Manchester and represents a range of emerging and mid-career artists whose practice is based around the medium of paper.
Location:
Manchester
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Self-funded, commercial
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
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https://paper-gallery.co.uk

Phoenix

Brighton
Founded:
Info not available
↗
A gallery, an education programme, residencies, events, and provides over 100 artists’ studios.
Location:
Brighton
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Arts council & public
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://phoenixartspace.org

piccalilli

London
Founded:
2022
↗
Piccalilli is an artist-led initiative, supporting early career and under-represented artists by providing a supportive framework to develop their practices with ambition and experimentation at the fore. Cultivating a supportive environment, piccalilli aims to bridge a dialogue between artists, audiences, community and place. Following an ethos where the space is centered around commissioning artworks, within an environment which acknowledges the architecture rather than ignore. Invited artists are supported to research, develop and realise projects over a dedicated period of time.
Location:
London
Founded:
2022
Funding:
We are funded through a yearly fundraiser. It exists to give the programmed artists the opportunity to create ambitious exhibitions, through an artist/commission fee which allows for time, research and production costs. 
 ‘Artists Supporting Artists’ is an ethos we stand by (as an artist myself), with over 60 artists generously donating artwork to the cause each year. 100% of the sales are evenly spread across the 6 programmed exhibitions of the year following.
 All artworks are affordably priced between £15-£500, so everyone has the opportunity to support the programmed artists.
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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https://piccalilli-gallery.com/

Plicnik Space Initiative

London
Founded:
2020
↗
Initially established as an online platform, Plicnik Space Initiative investigates the interplay between online and physical territories. Our projects propose experimental environments and contexts for artists to create work in, opening discourse on the modalities of art exhibiting.
Location:
London
Founded:
2020
Funding:
mix of private and public funding (Mondriaan Fund)
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • + Active
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https://plicnik.space/

Prayer Room

Birmingham
Founded:
2023
↗
Prayer Room is a collaboration, artwork and project space in Digbeth, Birmingham, UK. Co-founded in 2023 by Ishmail De Niro, Dinosaur Kilby and Leah Hickey, Prayer Room hosts exhibitions and sober events for Birmingham and beyond. The programme platforms artists from across the UK and spans numerous disciplines. The gallery is being developed as a functional, multi-faith prayer space. Prayer Room is open by appointment Monday to Sunday, and open to the public for Digbeth First Friday. Entrance is free and donations are welcome. Prayer Room is currently self-funded.
Location:
Birmingham
Founded:
2023
Funding:
Prayer Room is currently self-funded.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Collective
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.instagram.com/prayer.room.gallery

Primary

Nottingham
Founded:
2012
↗
An artist-led space that exists to support creative research and to develop new ways of engaging with audiences, where artists and the public can share, experiment and learn about contemporary visual art.
Location:
Nottingham
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Arts Council England, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Esmeé Fairbairn Foundation
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.weareprimary.org

RED Contemporary Arts

Hull
Founded:
1997
↗
Formerly known as RED Gallery (until 2016) RED Contemporary Arts is an independent arts initiative based in Hull, instigating new and accessible ways of experiencing contemporary arts by any medium necessary (public realm landscape, site specific, virtual).
Location:
Hull
Founded:
1997
Funding:
Hull City Council Arts Unit, University of Lincoln, Arts Council England
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.redcontemporaryarts.tumblr.com

Rogue Artists’ Studios & Project Space

Manchester
Founded:
1995
↗
Rogue is a not-for-profit artists studios. Rogue runs a programme in the Project Space, which is used primarily for temporary exhibitions, residency and exchange projects and one off events.
Location:
Manchester
Founded:
1995
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://rastudios.co.uk

S1 ArtSpace

Sheffield
Founded:
1995
↗
An artist-led organisation presenting an annual programme of contemporary exhibitions, commissions, screenings and events. S1 also provides studio space for contemporary artists at varying stages in their careers.
Location:
Sheffield
Founded:
1995
Funding:
Arts Council, Sheffield Council, Lottery
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.s1artspace.org

San Mei Gallery

London
Founded:
2018
↗
San Mei Gallery is a non-profit independent space for contemporary art in South London, committed to research-led, educational and collaborative exchanges. First opened in 2017, we operate with an artist-led approach and support artists and curators to experiment with new ideas. Our cross-disciplinary programme of exhibitions and events exists to develop emerging artistic practice in London and further afield.
Location:
London
Founded:
2018
Funding:
a mixture of public and private donors
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.sanmeigallery.co.uk

Southwark Park Galleries (formerly Cafe Gallery Projects)

London - Southwark
Founded:
1984
↗
An experimental contemporary visual arts venue with an established reputation as a test-site for ambitious artistic practice, founded in 1984 by a group of artists living in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe.
Location:
London - Southwark
Founded:
1984
Funding:
Arts Council England
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.southwarkparkgalleries.org/

Space Artists Studios

London - Hackney
Founded:
1968
↗
SPACE runs 18 artist studio buildings across 7 London boroughs, providing affordable creative workspace plus support programmes, such as exhibitions, artists residencies and training opportunities, to enable artists to be sustainable.
Location:
London - Hackney
Founded:
1968
Funding:
Arts Council and European Union
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://spacestudios.org.uk

Space Station Sixty-Five

London - Lambeth
Founded:
2002
↗
Space Station Sixty-Five (SS65) is an artist-run space co-directed by Rachael House and Jo David.
Location:
London - Lambeth
Founded:
2002
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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https://spacestationsixtyfive.com

Spike Island

Bristol
Founded:
Mid-1970s
↗
Spike Island is Bristol's international centre for the prodcution and exhibition of contemporary art, championing outstanding work by emerging and underrepresented local, national and international artists. Founded as Artspace Bristol in the mid-1970s by a group of artists, Artspace moved to former Brooke Bond tea packing warehouse in 1992 and was renamed Spike Island in 1998.
Location:
Bristol
Founded:
Mid-1970s
Funding:
Arts council, local council & lottery
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.spikeisland.org.uk

Square Art Project

London City
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Square Art Projects is an independent nomadic artist-run initiative which presents contemporary art exhibitions in non-gallery spaces on an international level.
Location:
London City
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
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https://squ-are.com

Squid & Tabernacle

Nomadic – itinerant gallery
Founded:
2008-2012
↗
Squid & Tabernacle was an itinerant gallery set up by George Major and Hanna Sorrell that has staged exhibitions, live events and film screenings in a variety of spaces.
Location:
Nomadic – itinerant gallery
Founded:
2008-2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.georgemajor.com/squidandtabernacle.html#

Standpoint Gallery London

London - Hoxton
Founded:
2001
↗
A leading artist-run gallery and studios in London. It does not represent artists, but curates shows from submission and invitation, concentrating on emerging/mid-career UK and international artist.
Location:
London - Hoxton
Founded:
2001
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://standpointlondon.co.uk

Static

Liverpool
Founded:
1998
↗
The Static organisation is concerned with the processes of creative production, exchange and trade and the structures that support these things.
Location:
Liverpool
Founded:
1998
Funding:
Self-funded, public funding, and private sector sponsorship
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://staticcomplex.com/#

Stryx

Birmingham
Founded:
2012
↗
Stryx is an female artist led residency, studios and exhibition space in Digbeth, Birmingham. Stryx focuses on supporting artists through residencies and artist development programmes, and engage with the public to experience the process of art making and exhibition production, creating an open platform for learning and growth.
Location:
Birmingham
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Public
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://stryx.co.uk

Studio 1.1 London

London - Tower Hamlets
Founded:
2003
↗
Studio1.1, an artist-run, not for profit space, we have evolved with a range of diverse shows, presenting artists at any stage of their career, from any country, in any discipline.
Location:
London - Tower Hamlets
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.studio1-1.co.uk

Studio 75

London - Hackney
Founded:
2011–2014
↗
Studio 75 was founded to reinvigorate and renew the definition of "artist-run," exploring the relationship between artwork, artist and audience.
Location:
London - Hackney
Founded:
2011–2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.studio75.org.uk

Studio One Gallery

London - Wandsworth
Founded:
2008
↗
Four artists set up Collective Studios, an artists studio complex. We exhibit work from our own studio members, as well as local artist groups and selected early career artists.
Location:
London - Wandsworth
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://www.nickgrove-artworks.co.uk

Studio Voltaire

London - Lambeth
Founded:
1994
↗
Through an ambitious public programme of exhibitions, commissions, live events and offsite projects we play a key role in supporting emerging practices and ideas.
Location:
London - Lambeth
Founded:
1994
Funding:
Arts Council & fundraising
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://studiovoltaire.org

Surface Gallery

Nottingham
Founded:
1999
↗
We operate as a social enterprise celebrating and supporting the talent in our city, with a focus on engaging our immediate community and broadening participation in the arts.
Location:
Nottingham
Founded:
1999
Funding:
Lottery, Arts Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.surfacegallery.org

TACO!

London
Founded:
2018
↗
TACO! is an artist-led space for research, production, and exchange located in Thamesmead, SE London. TACO! is engaged with its local context and centers the work and role of artists in all the work it undertakes, supporting a dialogue between artists, audiences, community, and place. TACO!’s activities are experimental and collaborative. Invited artists are supported to research, develop and realise projects over dedicated time. This research informs a public programme that includes exhibitions, events, discussions, workshops, screenings, publishing, and co-authored participatory projects with local people and groups. Projects initiated by artists vary in duration. We set an open timeframe with no set expectations on outcomes. TACO! currently comprises of a gallery, event space, bookshop and broadcast studio and radio station (rtm.fm), a Risograph Print Studio, Publishing Facilities, and production space. All of these platforms provide opportunities for artists and communities to make, present, and distribute.
Location:
London
Founded:
2018
Funding:
TACO! is funded through grants from funders, public bodies, donations and earned income through trading in publishing, editions and production. We're entirely dependent on the generosity of the people we meet and the partners we work with.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://taco.org.uk/

the Blackwater Polytechnic

Essex
Founded:
2013
↗
Blackwater Polytechnic is an artist-led collective and informal educational project based in North Essex. Our mission is against the grain. We relish the messiness of life while trying to create order through challenging art, excellent fruit farming, idiosyncratic construction and wild collecting. We champion imaginative, absurdly skilful making, silence and truculent learning which is rooted in place. We seek perfection with a ‘that’ll do approach’, using expediency and high-level bodging to muddle through. We hold exhibitions when we fancy it.
Location:
Essex
Founded:
2013
Funding:
We subsidise our activities from commercial activity, studio and workshop lets and from income from our farm.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Voluntary
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.blackwaterpolytechnic.com/

The Folly Building Workshop

Camberwell, London
Founded:
2021
↗
The Folly Building Workshop is a self-build initiative which takes the “Folly” defined as “an ornamental structure with no purpose” as a symbolic aim. It is community-led, against functionality, experimental and sustainable- using only upcycled material.
Location:
Camberwell, London
Founded:
2021
Funding:
Self-funded.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Festival
  • Voluntary
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.charliehawksfield.com/folly-building-workshop

The Globe Gallery

Manchester
Founded:
1995
↗
Rogue is a not-for-profit artists studios. Rogue runs a programme in the Project Space, which is used primarily for temporary exhibitions, residency and exchange projects and one off events.
Location:
Manchester
Founded:
1995
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.globegallery.org

The International 3

Manchester
Founded:
1992–2017
↗
With emerging and established artists, independent curators, galleries and organisations we produce a year round programme of new commissions, solo shows, group exhibitions and events both on and off-site.
Location:
Manchester
Founded:
1992–2017
Funding:
Public & private
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.international3.com

The Old Police Station

London City
Founded:
2009
↗
A do-it-yourself arts centre with studios, converted cells for exhibitions, supper club and internet radio station. They also run an exhibition programme under the name of Cartel.
Location:
London City
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Studio rents
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.theoldpolicestation.org/

The Penthouse

Manchester
Founded:
2012
↗
An independent not for profit artist-led work and project space. The Penthouse is the place to get your heads and hands dirty with ideas.
Location:
Manchester
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
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https://thepenthousenq.com

The Pigeon Wing

London - Lewisham
Founded:
2005-2012
↗
The Pigeon Wing is a space for experimentation and discussion. We host a series of exhibitions and events throughout the year.
Location:
London - Lewisham
Founded:
2005-2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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https://www.facebook.com/thepigeonwing

The Royal Standard

Liverpool
Founded:
2006
↗
An artist-led gallery, studios and social workspace and is dedicated to promoting exchange, dialogue and experimentation, providing a supportive and critically engaged environment to work in.
Location:
Liverpool
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.the-royal-standard.co.uk

The Showroom

London - City of Westminister
Founded:
1985
↗
We commission and produce art and discourse; providing an engaging, collaborative programme that challenges what art can be and do for a wide range of audiences.
Location:
London - City of Westminister
Founded:
1985
Funding:
Arts Council
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.theshowroom.org

The Tetley/Project Space Leeds

Leeds
Founded:
2006
↗
The Tetley is an organisation that engages creatively with the practice of contemporary visual art. An ethos of supporting, enabling and working collaboratively is central to our philosophy.
Location:
Leeds
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Arts Council England, Leeds City Council
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://thetetley.org

The Woodmill GP

London - Southwark
Founded:
2009–2011/12
↗
Initiated by a group of artists and Southwark Council’s Regeneration department. In October 2012 relocated and re-opened as 'The Woodmill GP’.
Location:
London - Southwark
Founded:
2009–2011/12
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.archivesoftheartistled.org/projects/woodmill

Threshold

Leeds
Founded:
2020
↗
Threshold is an independent artist-led space for exhibitions of sculpture, located in the front garden of a traditional back-to-back house in Burley. Threshold is a relaxed space for experimentation, playfulness and engaging with sculpture in everyday situations.
Location:
Leeds
Founded:
2020
Funding:
Arts Council England, Leeds City Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • § Added since 2016
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https://thresholdsculpture.space

Transition Two (formerly Transition Gallery)

London - Hackney
Founded:
2002
↗
Transition is an independent and innovative gallery and publisher founded by artist Cathy Lomax. In 2018 the gallery beacame Transition Two, and became an off-site project in 2020.
Location:
London - Hackney
Founded:
2002
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.transitiongallery.co.uk

Turf Projects

Croydon
Founded:
2013
↗
Founded in 2013 by Croydon locals, Turf Projects is Croydon’s homegrown artist space and the first entirely artist-run contemporary art space in the borough. It also provides studios and a community project space.
Location:
Croydon
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Friends scheme and supporters
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://turf-projects.com

Usurp Art Gallery

London - Harrow
Founded:
2010
↗
Open to experimental ideas in all media, we support creatives to collaborate in research and action, and actively encourage a wide range of audiences to participate in the creation of artworks.
Location:
London - Harrow
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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→
http://www.usurp.org.uk/

Utrophia

London - Lewisham
Founded:
2002-2013
↗
Info not available
Location:
London - Lewisham
Founded:
2002-2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.utrophia.net/

Vane

Gateshead
Founded:
1997
↗
Vane represents the work of a number of international artists as well as showing the work of invited artists in collaboration with other galleries. The gallery programme also provides a platform for the work of invited artists at all career stages and from different backgrounds, often working in partnership with other regional, national, and international partners, including hosting projects developed by artists themselves.
Location:
Gateshead
Founded:
1997
Funding:
Arts Council England
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.vane.org.uk

Van Gogh House

London
Founded:
2019
↗
The house opened in summer 2019, with a small but dedicated team. Established as a site of creative production, 87 Hackford Road remains dedicated to preserving Van Gogh’s remarkable career while supporting the next generation of artists, writers, and designers. Our programme is split between live-in residencies, which take place across the spring and summer, an annual exhibition and events programme in the Autumn, and year-round guided tours at the end of every month.
Location:
London
Founded:
2019
Funding:
a mixture of public and private donors
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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→
https://vangoghhouse.co.uk

Vulpes Vulpes

London - Southwark
Founded:
2009
↗
Founded as an artist collective, studios and project space – hosting exhibitions, performances and educational workshops. The project is not for profit and is managed and run collectively.
Location:
London - Southwark
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://vulpesvulpes.org

Welcome Screen

London - Hackney
Founded:
2013
↗
WELCOME SCREEN was a London based contemporary art gallery. Founded and directed by artist Michael Pybus it focused on solo exhibitions by international artists most of whom have never shown in Europe or the UK before.
Location:
London - Hackney
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.welcomescreen.biz/exhibitions#

Working Rooms/Civic Room

London - Hackney
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Civic Room is the gallery component for Working Rooms, an artists-run organisation that provides studios for artists and designers
Location:
London - Hackney
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.civicroom.org.uk/

Workplace Gallery

Gateshead
Founded:
2005
↗
A contemporary art gallery run by artists Paul Moss and Miles Thurlow that represents a portfolio of emerging and established artists.
Location:
Gateshead
Founded:
2005
Funding:
Arts Council England, National Portfolio Organisation
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.workplace.art

WW Gallery

London - Camden
Founded:
2008-2016
↗
WW is a contemporary art gallery established by artist/curators Chiara Williams and Debra Wilson, now focused on consultancy and a limited number of specialist annual projects, such as the SOLO Award.
Location:
London - Camden
Founded:
2008-2016
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.wilsonwilliamsgallery.com

UK-N.Ireland

Catalyst Arts

Belfast
Founded:
1993
↗
Catalyst Arts was formed in response to what was seen as a cultural vacuum. It is Belfast’s primary artist-led organisation. In accordance with its constitution it is run by unpaid volunteers.
Location:
Belfast
Founded:
1993
Funding:
Arts Council of Northern Ireland, British Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.catalystarts.org.uk/

CCA Derry~Londonderry

Derry
Founded:
1992
↗
Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) fosters a wide range of artistic, curatorial, and critical practices through five collaborative and process-driven streams: research and production, exhibition-making, public programmes, publishing, and residencies.
Location:
Derry
Founded:
1992
Funding:
Public & private
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.ccadld.org

Platform

Belfast
Founded:
2009
↗
Platform is an artist-led studio group and contemporary art gallery based in East Belfast. Our role is to actively promote creative expression, presentation, and access to contemporary art practice through our Exhibition, Education and Studio Programmes. Platform has a number of studio spaces that are rented to our member artists in order to support their professional development as practising artists. We build our diverse exhibition programme and workshops through our annual open call and recently activated our window space called the Mouse Gallery. It provides artists with a space for smaller, more frequent exhibitions, getting its name from the small, door-shaped gap in the wall. It provides opportunities for artists outside of our scheduled exhibition calendar. Keep an eye on our socials for open calls! @platformarts_belfast on Instagram and our website www.platformarts-belfast.com.
Location:
Belfast
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://platformarts-belfast.com/

PS2

Belfast
Founded:
1993
↗
An artist-led collective, connecting art and society, in the centre of Belfast. We develop and support artists through Paragon Studios. We host project artists and welcome the public to our Project Space.
Location:
Belfast
Founded:
1993
Funding:
Arts Council of Northen Ireland, Freelands Artist Programme
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.pssquared.org

Queen Street Studios

Belfast
Founded:
1983
↗
QSS Studios currently provides subsidised studio spaces for artists who work in various mediums. The gallery was launched to fill an ever expanding need for gallery provision in Belfast.
Location:
Belfast
Founded:
1983
Funding:
Public & private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.queenstreetstudios.net/#

Satis House

Belfast
Founded:
2012-2014
↗
Within a row of terraces, the space exists in the master bedroom. This room is transfigured on a monthly basis under the curatorial direction of Eoin Dara and Kim McAleese.
Location:
Belfast
Founded:
2012-2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.satis-house.com/#

The Golden Thread Gallery

Belfast
Founded:
1998
↗
Golden Thread Gallery is a medium-scale, publicly funded, contemporary art gallery, recognised as having charitable status. The majority of its programme is engaged with offering the public a contextual experience of visual art.
Location:
Belfast
Founded:
1998
Funding:
Public & private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.goldenthreadgallery.co.uk/#

Vault Artist Studios

Belfast
Founded:
2017
↗
Vault Artist Studios is Belfast’s largest studio collective and a charity. We house 115 artists and provide over 25% of the city’s studio spaces. Since its inception in 2017 Vault recognised the need for a studio space that is fully multidisciplinary, and is home to visual artists, writers, performers, musicians, makers, dancers and circus artists. In its present locations, in addition to studio space, Vault provides rehearsal and dance space, a gallery, and a theatre / event space. These spaces are available to Vault’s studio holders but, importantly, also to multiple external community groups, arts organisations and practitioners, and private individuals who use these spaces for classes, events and coming together. Vault is also a key venue for the annual EastSide Arts Festival and runs regular arts markets, providing artists, makers, and craftspeople a platform through which to sell their work. Additionally, Vault is also home to Belfast Tool Library, the first tool lending library anywhere on the island. Vault is inherently a community facing organisation and has built strong bonds within their surrounding community in their current inner East Belfast location. As a community of artists and a venue for the arts, Vault’s model is unique within the current arts and cultural scene in Belfast.
Location:
Belfast
Founded:
2017
Funding:
Studio rents, BCC, Esme Mitchell, Future Screens NI, Dormant Accounts - National Lottery Community Fund, Arts & Bussiness - BluePrint, ACNI.
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Artist-Run
  • Studios
  • Resource Organisation
  • Collective
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.vaultartiststudios.com/

Void

Derry
Founded:
2003
↗
Void exists to present the contemporary visual arts and to support artists, through a programme of exhibitions, related educational and outreach activities from a national and international perspective.
Location:
Derry
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Public & private
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.derryvoid.com/

UK-Scotland

Broadside

Glasgow
Founded:
2023
↗
Broadside is an organisation located in the southside of Glasgow for the support of art & design practices, with a particular interest in language, the written word & publishing. Broadside offers affordable & secure workspace alongside a small exhibition and event space.
Location:
Glasgow
Founded:
2023
Funding:
Largely unfunded
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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→
https://broadside.space/

Collective

Edinburgh
Founded:
1984
↗
Established as an artist-run organisation in 1984, Collective aims to foster, support and debate new work and practices in a way which is of mutual benefit to artists and audiences.
Location:
Edinburgh
Founded:
1984
Funding:
Creative Scotland, Edinburgh City
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.collective-edinburgh.art

David Dale Gallery and Studios

Glasgow
Founded:
2009
↗
Provides innovative year-round exhibitions and events that promote international pioneering contemporary visual art and provides artists’ studio spaces within a supportive peer group community.
Location:
Glasgow
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Lottery, Glasgow Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.daviddalegallery.co.uk

Embassy Gallery

Edinburgh
Founded:
2004
↗
EMBASSY is a non-profit making artist-run gallery. It holds a yearly programme of exhibitions and events and exhibits at off site projects.
Location:
Edinburgh
Founded:
2004
Funding:
Creative Scotland
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.embassygallery.org

Gaada

Burra Isle
Founded:
2018
↗
Gaada works with communities in Shetland to develop meaningful and critical art activities, improving access to creative development through Gaada’s well-equipped visual art workshop and specialist support from its experienced artists.
Location:
Burra Isle
Founded:
2018
Funding:
Public Institutions
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.gaada.org

Generator Projects

Dundee
Founded:
1996
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Facilitated by a rolling committee of volunteers, Generator was established to allow creative practitioners developing experimental, critical and autonomous work, the opportunity to exhibit.
Location:
Dundee
Founded:
1996
Funding:
National Lottery, Dundee City Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.generatorprojects.co.uk

Glasgow Independent Studio and Project Room

Glasgow
Founded:
1995
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Glasgow Independent Studio and Project Room is a non-profit making charity. The organisation comprises of a large studio complex and contemporary art exhibition and project space.
Location:
Glasgow
Founded:
1995
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://gis.uk.com

Glasgow Sculpture Studios

Glasgow
Founded:
1988
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GSS is a unique centre for research, production, presentation and the dissemination of contemporary sculptural practices. It is our mission to place the artist, viewer, user and participant at the heart of all our activities.
Location:
Glasgow
Founded:
1988
Funding:
Creative Scotland, Glasgow Life
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.glasgowsculpturestudios.org

Interview Room 11

Edinburgh
Founded:
2013
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Interview Room 11 is an artist-run gallery and project space. Our programme consists of a mix of committee run projects, solo and group exhibitions and select invited curatorial projects.
Location:
Edinburgh
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://www.ir11.org.uk

Ivory Tars

Glasgow
Founded:
2020
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To showcase artistic practices of international quality to a local audience in the Govanhill area of Glasgow.
Location:
Glasgow
Founded:
2020
Funding:
Non-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://ivorytars.co.uk/

LowSalt

Glasgow
Founded:
2006-2010
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We passionately believe that art offers empowerment, increases understanding and improves communication. All our collaborative projects, residencies and learning opportunities are about increasing participation.
Location:
Glasgow
Founded:
2006-2010
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.lowsalt.org.uk/

Rhubaba Gallery and Studios

Edinburgh
Founded:
2009
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An artist-run organisation that provides studio space for currently twenty-five artists across fifteen studios alongside an annual programme of exhibitions and events.
Location:
Edinburgh
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Public
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://www.rhubaba.org

SWG3

Glasgow
Founded:
2008
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Info not available
Location:
Glasgow
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://swg3.tv

Transmission Gallery

Glasgow
Founded:
1983
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Transmission works with artists in the production of exhibitions, events, exchanges, residencies and publications. It also shares various resources with its membership in order to facilitate activities outside of its own programming.
Location:
Glasgow
Founded:
1983
Funding:
Glasgow Life, Creative Scotland
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://www.transmissiongallery.org

UK-Wales

g39

Cardiff
Founded:
1998
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G39 focuses on contemporary work and consciously programmes a mix of work from Wales with work from further afield, placing work by established names alongside work by emerging artists.
Location:
Cardiff
Founded:
1998
Funding:
Arts Council of Wales
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://g39.org

Mission Gallery

Swansea
Founded:
1977
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Mission Gallery is one of Wales’ best adapted spaces for the contemporary arts. It has developed a reputation for dynamic and distinctive programming, to present excellence across the visual arts, applied arts and crafts
Location:
Swansea
Founded:
1977
Funding:
Arts Council of Wales, Lottery Funding
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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https://www.missiongallery.co.uk

SPIT & SAWDUST

Cardiff
Founded:
2014
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Spit & Sawdust is run by 3 artists and a skateboarder whose aim is to offer a unique and welcoming cultural, creative and social space in the city. We’re located just off a busy dual carriageway through a bleak retail park, but when you find us, you’ll forget all about that.
Location:
Cardiff
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
Share:
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https://www.spitandsawdust.co.uk

Ukraine

127 garage

Kharkiv
Founded:
2019
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127 garage’s work is centred on different forms of knowledge exchange, new discursive lines, and challenging spatial narratives, developing new tools for understanding the condition today for a queerer tomorrow. 127 garage strives for a world of horizontal hegemonies, borderlessness, and borderlands, guided by our curiosity and urgency.
Location:
Kharkiv
Founded:
2019
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://127garazh.org/en/main-2/

Institute of Automation

Kyiv
Founded:
2020
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The purpose of creation is to outline creative autonomy. The Institute of Automation directs its activities in search of forms and means of artistic expression in the field of contemporary art.
Location:
Kyiv
Founded:
2020
Funding:
Membership
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
Share:
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https://artistrunalliance.org/initiatives/institute-of-automation/

TU Platform

Mariupol
Founded:
2015
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The TU platform is a space in Mariupol created by people who were united by the war and who began to fight it through cultural initiatives. Our motto is: Everything that works for culture works against war. As a platform, we have become the only independent artistic space in Eastern Ukraine, where underground culture, innovative ideas, human rights and freedoms are our core values.
Location:
Mariupol
Founded:
2015
Funding:
International foundations, Embassies, and fundrasing
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
Share:
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https://tu.org.ua

«HLEBZAWOD»

Kyiv
Founded:
2016
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“Hlebzawod” art space was formed in an abandoned factory in the summer of 2016. Its mission is the promotion of contemporary art with social, historical and cultural significance. Educational activity is focused on expanding exhibiting activity and audiences for contemporary art in Ukraine, and developing and supporting young artists.
Location:
Kyiv
Founded:
2016
Funding:
Membership
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • § Added since 2016
Share:
→
https://artistrunalliance.org/initiatives/hlebzawod/
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