Haunch of Venison
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Haunch of Venison is a commercial art gallery
founded in 2002 in the West End
of London
. The gallery represents leading contemporary artists with branches in London, Berlin and New York.
and Graham Southern
. The gallery opened in 2002 in Haunch of Venison Yard, off Bond Street
in London, with an exhibition of Rachel Whiteread
works. In 2007, Blain and Southern sold Haunch of Venison to Christie’s International plc. They remained within the business and continued to run the gallery until 2010 when they both departed to launch a new gallery, BlainSouthern
. Haunch of Venison remains an independent company run by Matthew Carey-Williams in London and Emilio Steinberger in New York supported by an international team of directors.
Artists represented by Haunch of Venison include Rina Banerjee
, Keith Coventry
, Adrian
Ghenie, Thomas Heatherwick
, Jitish Kallat
, Jamie Shovlin
, Joana Vasconcelos
and Turner
Prize nominees Richard Long
, Simon Patterson and Nathan Coley
.
In March 2009, the London gallery temporarily relocated to 6 Burlington Gardens
. It is due
to return to its original site of Haunch of Venison Yard in summer 2011 which is currently
undergoing major renovation.
Abstract Expressionism-A World Elsewhere, showcased the paintings, sculptures and
photographs of Franz Kline
, Willem de Kooning
, Lee Krasner
, Barnett Newman
, Jackson
Pollock, Mark Rothko
, Aaron Siskind
, David Smith
and Clyfford Still
. Designed by Steven
Learner Studios, the two-story 17,000 ft² gallery space occupies the top two floors (20th and
21st) in one of the main buildings of the Rockefeller Center
.
Haunch of Venison Berlin opened in September 2007 and closed in December 2010. The gallery was located next to the city’s
prestigious contemporary art museum the Hamburger Bahnhof
. A unique concert from the
fictional band ‘Lustfaust’ presented by Jamie Shovlin, marked the opening of Haunch of
Venison Berlin – a former industrial space allowing for the presentation of one-off projects
and large-scale exhibitions. The last exhibition was a solo show by Yoko Ono
.
Art gallery
An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...
founded in 2002 in the West End
West End of London
The West End of London is an area of central London, containing many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings, and entertainment . Use of the term began in the early 19th century to describe fashionable areas to the west of Charing Cross...
of London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. The gallery represents leading contemporary artists with branches in London, Berlin and New York.
History
The Haunch of Venison gallery was founded by Harry BlainHarry Blain
Harry Blain is an English art dealer, gallery owner and founder of edition, an online resource where editioned, digital artworks by the world's leading contemporary artists can be bought and traded....
and Graham Southern
Graham Southern
Graham Southern is an English art dealer and gallery owner. In 1994, Southern was the Founding Director of Christie's Post-War & Contemporary Art Department which he ran until 2001, leaving to become a director of the Anthony d’Offay Gallery...
. The gallery opened in 2002 in Haunch of Venison Yard, off Bond Street
Bond Street
Bond Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London that runs north-south through Mayfair between Oxford Street and Piccadilly. It has been a fashionable shopping street since the 18th century and is currently the home of many high price fashion shops...
in London, with an exhibition of Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread, CBE is an English artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She won the annual Turner Prize in 1993—the first woman to win the prize....
works. In 2007, Blain and Southern sold Haunch of Venison to Christie’s International plc. They remained within the business and continued to run the gallery until 2010 when they both departed to launch a new gallery, BlainSouthern
BlainSouthern
Blain|Southern is a contemporary art gallery established in September 2010. The gallery is located at 21 Dering Street, and 6 Hill Street, London, W1....
. Haunch of Venison remains an independent company run by Matthew Carey-Williams in London and Emilio Steinberger in New York supported by an international team of directors.
Artists represented by Haunch of Venison include Rina Banerjee
Rina Banerjee
Rina Banerjee is an Indian born, New York based artist of international repute.-Biography:Banerjee was born in Kolkata in 1963 and moved with her family to the UK and then to USA...
, Keith Coventry
Keith Coventry
Keith Coventry is a British artist and curator. In September 2010 his Spectrum Jesus painting won the £25,000 John Moores Painting Prize.-Early life:...
, Adrian
Ghenie, Thomas Heatherwick
Thomas Heatherwick
Thomas Heatherwick is an English designer known for innovative use of engineering and materials in public monuments and sculptures...
, Jitish Kallat
Jitish Kallat
Jitish Kallat is an Indian artist who works in varied media. He was born in 1974 in Mumbai . He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art in Mumbai in 1996....
, Jamie Shovlin
Jamie Shovlin
Jamie Shovlin is a British conceptual artist.He staged his first exhibition in 2004 basing it on what he claimed were the drawings of a disappeared schoolgirl called Naomi V. Jelish. He supported this claim with newspaper cuttings and diaries, and the work was bought for £25,000 by Charles Saatchi...
, Joana Vasconcelos
Joana Vasconcelos
Joana Vasconcelos was born in Paris and lives and works in Lisbon. Her participation in the 2005 edition of the Venice Bienale has affirmed her career within the international art circuit...
and Turner
Prize nominees Richard Long
Richard Long (artist)
Richard Long is an English sculptor, photographer and painter, one of the best known British land artists. Long is the only artist to be shortlisted for the Turner Prize four times, and he is reputed to have refused the prize in 1984...
, Simon Patterson and Nathan Coley
Nathan Coley
Nathan Coley is a contemporary British installation artist, who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2007....
.
In March 2009, the London gallery temporarily relocated to 6 Burlington Gardens
6 Burlington Gardens
6 Burlington Gardens is a building in Mayfair, London which has been used by various London institutions in its history, including the University of London, the Civil Service Commission, the British Museum and the Royal Academy of Arts...
. It is due
to return to its original site of Haunch of Venison Yard in summer 2011 which is currently
undergoing major renovation.
New York and Berlin
Haunch of Venison opened in New York in September 2008. The inaugural exhibition,Abstract Expressionism-A World Elsewhere, showcased the paintings, sculptures and
photographs of Franz Kline
Franz Kline
Franz Jozef Kline was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement centered around New York in the 1940s and 1950s. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and attended Girard College, an academy in Philadelphia for fatherless boys...
, Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands....
, Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner was an influential abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. On October 25, 1945, she married artist Jackson Pollock, who was also influential in the Abstract Expressionism movement....
, Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.-Early life:...
, Jackson
Pollock, Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz , was a Russian-born American painter. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter".- Childhood :Mark Rothko was born in Dvinsk, Vitebsk Province, Russian...
, Aaron Siskind
Aaron Siskind
Aaron Siskind was an American abstract expressionist photographer. In his biography he wrote that he began his foray into photography when he received a camera for a wedding gift and began taking pictures on his honeymoon. He quickly realized the artistic potential this offered...
, David Smith
David Smith
-In sports:* Dai Smith , rugby league footballer of the 1900s, who played for Salford, and Other Nationalities* David Smith , South African Olympic sport shooter...
and Clyfford Still
Clyfford Still
Clyfford Still was an American painter, and one of the leading figures of Abstract Expressionism.-Biography:...
. Designed by Steven
Learner Studios, the two-story 17,000 ft² gallery space occupies the top two floors (20th and
21st) in one of the main buildings of the Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering between 48th and 51st streets in New York City, United States. Built by the Rockefeller family, it is located in the center of Midtown Manhattan, spanning the area between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue. It was declared a National...
.
Haunch of Venison Berlin opened in September 2007 and closed in December 2010. The gallery was located next to the city’s
prestigious contemporary art museum the Hamburger Bahnhof
Hamburger Bahnhof
Hamburger Bahnhof is a former railway station in Berlin, Germany, on Invalidenstraße in the Moabit district opposite the Charité hospital. Today it serves as the Museum für Gegenwart , a contemporary art museum....
. A unique concert from the
fictional band ‘Lustfaust’ presented by Jamie Shovlin, marked the opening of Haunch of
Venison Berlin – a former industrial space allowing for the presentation of one-off projects
and large-scale exhibitions. The last exhibition was a solo show by Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono
is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...
.
Artists
Artists include- Carla AccardiCarla AccardiCarla Accardi is an Italian painter who contributed significantly to the acceptance of abstract art in Italy. In 1947, she co-founded the Forma 1 Marxist-inspired art movement with Ugo Attardi, Pietro Consagra, Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Achille Perilli, Antonio Sanfilippo and Giulio Turcato...
- Mark AlexanderMark Alexander (painter)Mark Alexander is a contemporary British artist.-Biography:Born in the small market town of Horsham, West Sussex, Alexander came to painting relatively late, receiving his BFA from Oxford University as a mature student in 1996, despite his lack of formal education or training.-Style and...
- Brian AlfredBrian AlfredBrian Alfred is a painter in Brooklyn, New York, who specialises in depictions of banal, urban spaces. Alfred is represented by Haunch of Venison New York/London/Zurich/Berlin, Studio La Citta Verona, and SCAI the Bathhouse Tokyo...
- Ahmed Alsoudani
- Rina BanerjeeRina BanerjeeRina Banerjee is an Indian born, New York based artist of international repute.-Biography:Banerjee was born in Kolkata in 1963 and moved with her family to the UK and then to USA...
- Enrico CastellaniEnrico CastellaniEnrico Castellani is Italian artist of the Modern Art era . Castellani is known for his "paintings of light". He studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure in Belgium, then settled in Milan. Castellani collaborated with artists such as Getulio Alviani, Piero Manzoni, and others. He was awarded the...
- Nathan ColeyNathan ColeyNathan Coley is a contemporary British installation artist, who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2007....
- Thomas Joshua CooperThomas Joshua CooperThomas Joshua Cooper is an American photographer of Cherokee descent. He is considered amongst the premier contemporary landscape photographers....
- Keith CoventryKeith CoventryKeith Coventry is a British artist and curator. In September 2010 his Spectrum Jesus painting won the £25,000 John Moores Painting Prize.-Early life:...
- Bill FontanaBill FontanaBill Fontana is known internationally for his pioneering experiments in sound art.Fontana attended New School for Social Research in New York and studied both music and philosophy. He traveled to Australia, and also stayed in Japan and Germany composing. Fontana began making sound sculptures in 1976...
- Adrian Ghenie
- Anthony GoicoleaAnthony GoicoleaAnthony Goicolea is a New York-based fine art photographer, born in Atlanta, Georgia.Goicolea's photographs frequently deal with issues of androgyny, homosexuality, and child sexuality. Goicolea, Cuban-American and gay, was educated at the University of Georgia and studied painting, photography,...
- Kevin Francis Gray
- Isca Greenfield-Saunders
- Stuart Haygarth
- Thomas HeatherwickThomas HeatherwickThomas Heatherwick is an English designer known for innovative use of engineering and materials in public monuments and sculptures...
- Jochem Hendricks
- Jitish KallatJitish KallatJitish Kallat is an Indian artist who works in varied media. He was born in 1974 in Mumbai . He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art in Mumbai in 1996....
- Ed and Nancy Kienholz
- Susanne Kühn
- Richard LongRichard Long (artist)Richard Long is an English sculptor, photographer and painter, one of the best known British land artists. Long is the only artist to be shortlisted for the Turner Prize four times, and he is reputed to have refused the prize in 1984...
- Rafael Lozano-HemmerRafael Lozano-HemmerRafael Lozano-Hemmer is a Mexican-Canadian electronic artist who works with ideas from architecture, technological theater and performance. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Physical Chemistry from Concordia University in Montreal...
- Ian MonroeIan MonroeIan Monroe is an artist based in London.Monroe was born in Cooperstown, New York and spent his childhood in Reston, Virginia, a planned community 25 miles outside of Washington, D.C.. Monroe received his BFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 1995. He went on to complete an MA from...
- Simon Patterson
- Patricia PiccininiPatricia PiccininiPatricia Piccinini is an Australian artist and hyperrealist sculptor. Her art work came to prominence in Australia in the late 1990s. In 2003 she was selected as the artist to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale....
- Nicolas Provost
- Peter SaulPeter SaulPETER SAUL is an American painter. His work has connections with Pop Art, Surrealism,and Expressionism. His early use of pop culture cartoon references in the late 1950s and very early 1960s situates him as one of the few fathers of the Pop Art movement...
- Chiharu Shiota
- Jamie ShovlinJamie ShovlinJamie Shovlin is a British conceptual artist.He staged his first exhibition in 2004 basing it on what he claimed were the drawings of a disappeared schoolgirl called Naomi V. Jelish. He supported this claim with newspaper cuttings and diaries, and the work was bought for £25,000 by Charles Saatchi...
- Jesus Rafael SotoJesús Rafael SotoJesús Rafael Soto was a Venezuelan op and kinetic artist, a sculptor and a painter.He was born in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. He began his artistic career as a boy painting cinema posters in his native city...
- Eve SussmanEve SussmanEve Sussman is a British-born American artist. She was educated at Robert College of Istanbul, University of Canterbury and Bennington College. She resides in Brooklyn, New York, where her company, the Rufus Corporation is based; however, she continuously visits cultural centers around the world,...
- Günther UeckerGünther UeckerGünther Uecker, also known as Guenther Uecker, is a German sculptor, op artist and installation artist.- Biography :...
- Joana VasconcelosJoana VasconcelosJoana Vasconcelos was born in Paris and lives and works in Lisbon. Her participation in the 2005 edition of the Venice Bienale has affirmed her career within the international art circuit...
- Wim WendersWim WendersErnst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...
- Tom Wesselman
- Uwe WittwerUwe WittwerUwe Wittwer is a Swiss artist. He lives and works in Zürich, Switzerland. The media he uses include watercolor, oil painting, inkjet prints and video.-Life and work:...