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Below Zero Finnish Art Prize 2020

Beaconsfield Commissions: Below Zero Finnish Art Prize 2020

The unique UK based contemporary art prize for Finnish artists emerging on the international scene, returns to Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall in association with the Finnish Institute in London. For 2020 Below Zero offers a substantial production prize worth up to £15,000.

We sincerely thank all applicants for the considerable time that will have been committed to making an application to Below Zero. We are honoured that you shared your work with us and sorry that there are always many more applicants than places available.

The guest jurist this year was curator Taru Elfving who joined Hannele Tilles, curator, Jaakko Nousianen, Head of Culture for The Finnish Institute in London and David Crawforth and Naomi Siderfin, artist-curators of Beaconsfield. From the many interesting proposals, the jury chose five candidates that they felt had responded most directly to the theme and would be best served by the opportunity.

We are please to announce that the shortlisted artists for 2020 are Sara Bjarland, Teija Isorattya, Tuula Närhinen, Kati Roover and Elsa Salonen.

 

 

 

VOCALIS

Friday 19 July 2019

7 – 11pm

performance at Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall

£8 (£4 concessions) advance tickets via eventbrite here
£10 on the door
N.B. space is limited and tickets may sell out in advance

Vocalis places emphasis on giving voice in many forms; sharing ideas, drawing on collective memory and Beaconsfield’s long engagement with time-based/live art, performance, text and sound.

PROTEST

Friday 21 June, 2019, 7-9pm

Humble Demi | Louie Le Vack | Maedb Joy | Poetess Jess | Kookie Pops | Nikki Demajo Albanese |Tha Reme |  Noah Dunbar | Rosie Webb | Rebekah Alero

VOCALIS

Friday 1 March 2019 7 – 11pm performance at Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall £8 (£4 concessions) advance tickets via eventbrite here £10 (£5 concessions) on the door N.B. space is limited and tickets … Read moreVOCALIS

VOCALIS

Friday 25 January 2019

7 – 11pm

Performances by A. David Crawforth, Michael Curran, Rufus Michielsen, Hayley Newman and Gina Birch, Viralux

LANDSCAPES OF THE FUTURE

Helsinki Contemporary HC Guest Curator Beaconsfield – 
David Crawforth & Naomi Siderfin 30.11.2018–21.12.2018 BAW & Bruce Gilbert | David Burrows | Anna Bunting-Branch | Ioana Marinescu | Onya McCausland | Outi Pieski | Keith Piper | Phil … Read moreLANDSCAPES OF THE FUTURE

In Whose Eyes?: Practice in Dialogue

4th July – 5th August 2018

Taking the act of looking as a starting point, In Whose Eyes? explores questions of female subjectivity, representation and power in contemporary Western culture. Who is made visible – or excluded – and how they are represented in culture is highly political and impacts on people’s lives in numerous intersectional ways.

FOAM TALENT | LONDON 2018

Damien from the series NGL, 2015 © Namsa Leuba

16 May – 10 June 2018

Foam Talent | London 2018 presents 20 artists – all of whom have been selected for their exciting and creative approaches to the medium. These talented image makers introduce us to a wide range of media and digital aesthetics, which are applied in unique and unexpected ways throughout the exhibition. The exhibition will be officially opened by Simon Baker, director Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), Paris.

JONNA KINA: BELOW ZERO Finnish Art Prize

7 March – 22 April 2018

Emerging from Finland into the international arena, JONNA KINA is the first recipient of BELOW ZERO, a new contemporary art prize for emergent Finnish artists.

Keith Piper: Jet Black Futures 1

20 September – 29 October 2017

Beaconsfield commissions: Mic Drop – part of Jet Black Futures 1

Keith Piper is a Black British artist of international significance and Beaconsfield is proud to have commissioned the latest digital work in the artist’s oeuvre, Mic Drop. The new work is contextualised by the first London screening of Unearthing The Banker’s Bones (2016), an Arts Council Collection 70th Anniversary commission.

Seb Patane: RE-MASTER

1 July – 6 August 2017

A body of new, related works by London based artist Seb Patane, that lie between the fields of art and music. All four works are in some way re-mixed, addressing notions of authorship through drawing other artists– Gustav Metzger, Pablo Bronstein and Black to Comm – into the creative process.

Meditations on the Anthropocene: Landscapes of the Future

4th June 2017, 3.30pm

Curator Taru Elfving and artist-researcher Edwina Fitzpatrick are joined by IC-98 artists Patrik Söderlund and Visa Suonpää on Skype from Finland in a public discussion chaired by Beaconsfield’s Naomi Siderfin that focuses on art projects that combine the visionary with a practical approach to the omnipresent spectre of environmental change.

Foam Talent | London

18 May – 18 June 2017

24 young artists shaping the future of photography

Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam returns to Beaconsfield Gallery London to present its views on the current state of photography.

IC-98, MEDITATIONS ON THE ANTHROPOCENE, 28 January–23 April 2017

28 January–23 April 2017

Meditations on the Anthropocene continues an ongoing relationship between Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall and Finnish artist duo IC-98 – Patrik Söderlund (b. 1974) and Visa Suonpää (b. 1968) – whose projects combine research, text, drawing and animation.

Collective Matter in residence

11.12.16 Collective Matter at Gasworks

11 – 22 January 2017 with MATERIAL ACTION at Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall

Collective Matter will be on site at BGV Wednesday – Sunday 2-5pm with special collaborative workshop events open to all on Friday 13 January 4-8pm and Sunday 15 January 2-5pm, and a public discussion on Saturday 21 January at 2pm

‘Material Action‘ is led by Collective Matter, three artists who work with clay and believe it’s a great material for anyone to express their creativity.