Current Exhibition

BRIGADE ARCHIVES #1

15 APRIL - 27 MAY

NEWS

NOW OPEN - BRIGADE ARCHIVES #1

Brigade is pleased to announce the opening of BRIGADE ARCHIVES #1, a group exhibition featuring new works, as well as favourites from the Brigade gallery archive.
Exhibiting artists include: Alex Da Corte, Andrius Zakarauskas, Artemio, Brian Montuori, Kasper Sonne, Kristian Touborg, Nhozagri, Petra Cortright, Ry David Bradley and Zane Lewis.

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NEW SALES/ARTIST LIAISON KAREN FOSS BECKER

We are thrilled to announce the appointment of our new Sales/Artist Liaison Karen Foss Becker.


Karen will help in the ongoing development of Brigade’s relationships with collectors, museums and gallery artists. Joining us from Sotheby’s, she brings with her years of experience working with important private collections both inside Scandinavia and beyond.


We very much look forward to working together.


Welcome to Brigade Karen.

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PROGRAMME ANNOUNCEMENT - NICOLE COSON & GARRETT PRUTER

Brigade is thrilled to announce that on the 26 of August we will be presenting a duo exhibition by Nicole Coson (b. 1992) and Garrett Pruter (b. 1987).
Both based in London, the two artists each incorporate painting, installation, digital imagery and performative elements into their respective practices, and share an interest in the aesthetics of that which is seen but remains unexamined.

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PROGRAMME ANNOUNCEMENT - ANDREA VILLALÓN

“My paintings are the record of the time, my time. Each image is a scene in my life like a scene from a movie. The protagonists are the objects that I own or possessed, the light that I saw and that saw me back, the spaces that I live emotionally and literally, my furniture, my food, everything. They are also self-portraits, although sometimes you don’t see me.

My paintings are my reflection and my witness. They are also the dark side of myself, where old secrets dwell and come to light when I paint and then study to get to know myself better. “ - Andrea Villalón

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UPCOMING EXHIBITION - BRIGADE ARCHIVES #1

The gallery is thrilled to announce the first exhibition in our upcoming programme for the rest of the year: Brigade Archives #1, a group show featuring new works alongside favourites from the Brigade archive.

Exploring the cross-cultural affinities between artists whose different investigations of contemporary experience incorporate Pop iconography, quotidian materials and the visual language of post-Google painting, the exhibition will open on Thursday 15 April and will continue until 27 May 2021.

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GALLERY UNDERGOING RENOVATIONS

The gallery will be closed from 01 March whilst we undergo renovation work and general spring cleaning (brand new floors here we come).



Brigade will be re-opening after Easter with a full exhibition programme for the rest of the year; we are excited to share more with you about some of our fantastic upcoming collaborations.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIANCA MENNA

Congratulations to the artist and poet Bianca Menna who is celebrating her 90th birthday today.



Working under the pseudonym Tomaso Binga since 1977, Bianca Pucciarelli Menna (b. 1931 in Salerno, Italy) first adopted the masculine moniker to subvert the artworld’s sexist bias against women artists.



We are honoured to announce that in Autumn 2021, Brigade will present the first solo exhibition in Scandinavia by Tomaso Binga. The exhibition will be an extensive survey of Binga's prolific career, displaying historic pieces alongside a new body of work created especially for the show.


We very much look forward to the collaboration. Buon compleanno Bianca!

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ANNA NOWAK - THE COSMIC WALL

Speaking to the compulsive and repetitive habits we find ourselves gravitating towards in times of restriction and solitude, the garish and somewhat sinister appearance of Nowak’s performative persona resembles both an impotent puppet-master and a puppet without a guiding influence. Nowak’s work reminds us not only of a Sisyphean punishment but also of Penelope's shroud-weaving in its repetitive rhythm and the meditative, self-absorbed nature of its gestures. 

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EXHIBITIONS

BRIGADE ARCHIVES #1

15 APRIL 2021 - 27 MAY 2021
Exhibiting artists include: Alex Da Corte, Andrius Zakarauskas, Artemio, Brian Montuori, Kasper Sonne, Kristian Touborg, Nhozagri, Petra Cortright, Ry David Bradley and Zane Lewis.

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ANNE NOWAK - "THE COSMIC WALL"

28 & 29 JANUARY 2021
Anne Nowak investigates the transition of life through a practice devoted to creating images and objects derived from personal memory of and from cosmos, nature, the sea, spiritual mythology and inner meditative realms. Recurrent themes are impermanence and eternity, life and death, dark and light, the sun and the moon.

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PREPARATION - CURATED BY IMPORTANT MAGAZINE

27 NOVEMBER 2020 - 23 DECEMBER 2020
PREPARATION is a multi-disciplinary group show curated by IMPORTANT Magazine. Founded in 2018 by Lizet Hee Olesen and Anne Strandfelt (L.A.), the annual arts publication combines various elements that might be found more typically in contemporary art journals, literary supplements and fashion magazines with more outlying features such as recipes and horoscopes.

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PETRA CORTRIGHT - ROUGE VIF D'ÉTAMPES

24 OCTOBER 2020 - 21 NOVEMBER 2020
Living in relative isolation since the start of this year, Petra Cortright (b. 1986 in Santa Barbara, US) has noted her increasing sensitivity to the subtle changes in colour and mood that accompany the changing of the seasons; the works included in Rouge Vif d’Étampes reflect this.

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RY DAVID BRADLEY - STILL LIFE 2

28 AUGUST 2020 - 17 OCTOBER 2020
The history of visual art has always had an anxious relationship with the truth that experience is fleeting. Still life painting and its attempts to freeze the precarious conditions of the present moment, points towards a basic human impulse: we are motivated to record that we exist, and to communicate what that experience is like.



In Still Life 2 we return to a state of stillness and reflection but one that is unavoidably filtered through the visual phrasing of the chaotic time we live in.

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BO LINDEGAARD - TASTE OF NOTHING

2019
Whether working as a creative director of a food theatre, launching mock pop-up restaurants in his native Copenhagen, or touring the world with his culinary experiences, Lindegaard has always hovered towards the experiential and is pushing this further with the exhibition concept for ‘Taste of Nothing’.

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STORE

KRISTIAN TOUBORG, UNTITLED, 2018

A lithographic print expanding on Touborg's signature visual language, incorporating familiar formal features from his sculptural works as well as aspects of his abstract style of drip painting. Investigating notions of simultenaity and plurality in our present experience of time, this edition hints at one way our present society might manifest as archeological remnants in the future.

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MACGUFFIN - ISSUE 6

MacGuffin kicks off with spinning ballboys, tumbling plants, rolling meatballs, bouncing planets, utopian bubbles, and the inventor of the smiley: Mr. Harvey Ball himself.

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IMPORTANT SILK SCARF

The IMPORTANT soft shielding scarf in 100% silk twill with sewn edges. 80 x 80 cm.

Creme white base featuring a photographic print of the artwork "Bundle Ceremony: Act VII (2019)" by L.A.

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LEE LOZANO - SLIP SLIDE SPLICE

This book accompanies an exhibition of work by the inventive American artist Lee Lozano at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh. A major figure in the New York art scene of the 1960s and early '70s, Lozano took a radical approach to art and life.

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MacGuffin Issue 8 – The Desk

MacGuffin pulls open desk drawers and points up desk plants, surveying a succession of clean desks and messy desks, radical desks and resolute desks, makeshift desks and talk show desks, not to mention the fine art of office pranking and presidential doodling.

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MIKE KELLY, ET AL. - PAY FOR YOUR PLEASURES

Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, and Raymond Pettibon—these Southern California artists formed a “bad boy” trifecta. Early purveyors of abject art, the trio produced work ranging from sculptures of feces to copulating stuffed animals, and gained notoriety from being perverse.

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JONAS BJERRE & AGNETE HEGELUND

This Place is Not A Place, 2011
Lambda C-print

40 x 60.5 cm
Edition of 3



Still from This Place is Not A Place, a short film collaboration between Agnete Hegelund and Jonas Bjerre from 2011.

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PREBEN SAXILD - FRENCH LETTERS II

Preben Saxild's fragmented compositions incorporate a wide variety of source materials ranging from printed advertisements, vintage postal stamps, found photographs and cropped details from contemporary art journals. Often over-layed with black or red drip painted motifs, these self-referential collages investigate and satirise contemporary consumer culture.

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