Gallery House
Exhibition Road
London
August 1973
Photograph by Reza Modjabi
Gallery House was one of London’s most influential and extraordinary art spaces in the 1970s, directed by Sigi Krauss with assistant director Rosetta Brooks. For only sixteen months in 1972-73, in a vacant mansion provided by the German government next to the German Institute in South Kensington, Gallery House hosted exhibitions, residencies, performances and events as well as pioneering ‘expanded cinema’ and much new film and video work. For many of the featured artists Gallery House would prove a formative experience.
Gallery House favoured heterogeneity, colliding the multiplicity of forms and styles co-existing at the time, from performance and experimental cinema to cybernetic, social and conceptual practices. Ultimately, the radical nature of Gallery House’s programme led to its abrupt and contested closure by the German Institute.
This Way Out of England seeks to emulate the spirit of Gallery House by inviting a number of artists to rethink their original interventions in the space. The episodic nature of this project acknowledges the impossibility of framing what was an ephemeral experiment. The project is curated by Antony Hudek and Alex Sainsbury.
9 February, 10pm – 12 February, 10pm
Stuart Brisley, continuous performance
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, 'belated opening', with Lola and Adrien
Maya Balcïoglu and Stuart Brisley, Gustav Metzger
David Medalla, A Stitch in Time
John Dugger, Ergonic workshops
George Brecht, John Dugger, Robert Filliou, Darcy Lange, David Medalla, Gustav Metzger
Düsseldorf discussion, with Petra Lange-Berndt, Dietmar Rübel and Max Schulze
Centre for Behavioural Art, round table
3–5 March
Victor Burgin, Now and Then, in discussion with Antony Hudek and Alex Sainsbury
In the galleries:
Ian Breakwell, Michael Druks, John Dugger, Düsseldorf Film Group (curated by Petra Lange-Berndt, Dietmar Rübel and Max Schulze), Robert Filliou, Gerard Hemsworth, Ed Herring, Susan Hiller, David Lamelas, Darcy Lange, David Medalla, Gustav Metzger, Stephen Willats and the Centre for Behavioural Art
Friday 10 & Saturday 11 March, 6.30pm, Anthony McCall, slide performance, Streaks, 1972
Saturday 11 March & Sunday 12 March, Carlyle Reedy’s Museum of Living Thought
Finissage discussion with Maya Balcïoglu, Stuart Brisley, Michael Newman and Sanja Perovic