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Arnolfini
16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, BS1 4QA
Reviews
Someone Else [1 May 2012]
Climbing the stairs to the second floor of the Arnolfini, an ethereal sound fills the gallery space that seems in juxtaposition to the April sun. The melancholic and wistful female voice is the sound of Shilpa Gupta’s show ‘Someone Read on…
Arnolfini, Bristol
3 March - 22 April 2012
Reviewed by: Karanjit Panesar »
C Words: carbon, climate, capital, culture. How did you get here and where are we going? [26 November 2009]
Celebrating twenty-five years of innovative interdisciplinary practice, London-based artist/activist collective PLATFORM have commandeered Bristol's Arnolfini for this highly ambitious, unconventional and, at times, downright bewildering exhibition. Read on…
Arnolfini, Bristol
3 October - 29 November
Reviewed by: David Trigg »
La Pocha Nostra. The New Barbarians Collection Fall 2007: Designer Primitives on the Runaway Runway [14 November 2007]
'Come dressed for the red carpet', said the text in the publicity material. The red carpet was laid out at the door of the Arnolfini in Bristol on a Saturday night and the show was a sell-out. There were different interpretations of 'dressed for the Read on…
Arnolfini, Bristol
11 November 2007
Reviewed by: Theo Wood »
Port City: On Mobility and Exchange [30 October 2007]
'Port City-On Mobility and Exchange' explores the interconnected political issues of Sub-Saharan African poverty, the politics of containment and economic migration. The ambitious project aims to brings specificity to generalisations and address Read on…
Arnolfini, Bristol
15 September - 11 November 2007
Reviewed by: Will McCrory »
Martin Creed - artist's talk at the Arnolfini [25 October 2007]
He paced the floor, rubbed his head, seemed perplexed. 'I'm scared of being sick (and shit)', he said...but filming it is exciting. Martin Creed gave the third in the series of four artist's talks at the Arnolfini last night, and Read on…
Arnolfini, Bristol
3 October - 14 November 2007
Reviewed by: Theo Wood »
Encounters: Performance, photography, collaboration [book] [25 October 2007]
The book Encounters (Bristol: Arnolfini, 2007; ISBN 978090773842) by photographer Manuel Vason reproduces 162 images created in collaboration with 36 solo artists and artist collaborators working within performance and live art. As Dominic Read on…
Arnolfini, Bristol
8 June 2007
Reviewed by: Theron Schmidt »
Port City: on mobility and exchange [2 October 2007]
As part of a global network, ports are places of constant flux, facilitating the movement of goods, people and information. Central to this exhibition is the notion of the port city as a “symbolic site of cultural exchange”. While this Read on…
Arnolfini, Bristol
15 September – 11 November 2007
Reviewed by: David Trigg »
Road Angel - Melanie Jackson [14 January 2007]
The Arnolfini exhibition is almost like a mini-retrospective over one large gallery and two of the smaller ones and includes Jackson's work from the last three years (the ground floor gallery work was originally shown in Matt's Read on…
Arnolfini
12 December 2006 to 1 January 2007
Reviewed by: Theo Wood »
British Art Show 6 [9 August 2006]
The British Art Show endeavours to provide the largest and most comprehensive survey of contemporaneous events in British art. It is an exhibition then with an ambitious tenor and avails itself to reflecting Britain’s part in the globalised Read on…
Arnolfini, Bristol
8 August - 9 September 2006
Reviewed by: Will McCrory »
Paul Granjon: The Heart and the Chip [15 April 2006]
It doesn’t hurt at all Aboard the female Sexed Robot, lights flashing in my eyes, I come to the end of the third of Inbetween Time’s performance lecture series (Lecturama). Paul Granjon has led us through a brief history of his work, Read on…
Arnolfini
2 February 2006 to 2 February 2006
Reviewed by: Niki Russell »
Gob Squad: Me, The Monster [15 April 2006]
What does it mean to be a Vampire? What kind of monster am I? A crowd of eager creatures gathers around Simon Will (one member of performance company Gob Squad), questionnaires in hand. “I am just putting the results through the computer Read on…
Arnolfini
2 February 2006 to 2 February 2006
Reviewed by: Niki Russell »
AC Dickson: eBay Powerseller [15 April 2006]
An image of a ‘matador’ Smurf figurine on the big screen over the performance space is accompanied by text claiming it was sold through eBay for £75 pounds. More items, more sales. Shortly eBay PowerSeller AC Dickson emerges to the Read on…
Arnolfini
2 February 2006 to 2 February 2006
Reviewed by: Niki Russell »
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