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Artist-Run Europe is part how-to resource, part history, and part socio-political critique of the conditions, organisational models, and role of artist-led practice within contemporary visual art and society. An ongoing research and publishing project with multiple contributors, iterations and intended outcomes, it includes case studies of spaces and projects, essay texts, and a detailed index of artist-run spaces from across Europe.

The index is an extensive database of both active artist-run spaces and projects as well as acting as an important archive of now-defunct initiatives. A tool to quantify and compare the disparate attributes, organisational models, funding structures and aims, users can search specific terms or attributes such as location, status, type, or navigate the index by country. New entries are invited and can be submitted via the Submit page.

Albania

MIZA Galeri

Tirana
Founded:
2012–2018
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Miza is a Tirana based, not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation working in the field of culture and contemporary art since its inception in November 2012.
Location:
Tirana
Founded:
2012–2018
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://mizagaleri.com/

OFFICE Tirana Art Center / Gallery On The Move

Tirana
Founded:
2007
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OFFICE Tirana Art Center / Gallery On The Move produces projects by local and international artists, focusing on time-based and site-specific projects that challenge perceived notions and stimulate debate, experimentation, and engagement.
Location:
Tirana
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Private, sponsorship
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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http://www.tiranartcenter.net http://www.galleryonthemove.net

Tirana Ekspres

Tirana
Founded:
2011
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Tirana Ekspres is a non-profit organisation initiated by artists, activists, environmentalists, policymakers, social-business and researchers whose purpose is to enhance the cultural and artistic perception and expression in Tirana and beyond.
Location:
Tirana
Founded:
2011
Funding:
Public & embassies
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://tiranaekspres.com/

ZETA Center for Contemporary Art

Tirana
Founded:
2007
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ZETA Center for Contemporary Art is a non-profit exhibition space founded in 2007 by Valentina Koça in downtown Tirana. ZETA functions as an autonomous cultural venue for multidisciplinary approaches to visual arts, including painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation, sound, and performance.
Location:
Tirana
Founded:
2007
Funding:
State/local government, International Institutions / grants, sponsorship & self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://qendrazeta.com/

Austria

Adhoc Pad

Vienna
Founded:
2011–2018
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adhocPAD is a creative hub for people who share their passion in different subcultures. An office, a showroom, a workshop. Not just another off-space, but a meeting point for the openminded.
Location:
Vienna
Founded:
2011–2018
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://www.adhocpad.com

bb15

Linz
Founded:
2009
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bb15 is an independent artist-run-space and curatorial collective that develops exhibitions, performances, and cultural events, fostering experimental approaches, international and local collaborations, and acting as a platform that supports emerging artists throughout their careers.
Location:
Linz
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Public institutions
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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http://www.bb15.at/

Das Weisse Haus

Vienna
Founded:
2007
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Das Weisse Haus is an art association, exhibition space and non-profit-organisation for the promotion and presentation of young art.
Location:
Vienna
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Public & corporate
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.dasweissehaus.at/

G U I M A R Ã E S

Vienna
Founded:
2016
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Guimarães is an artist run space founded by Christoph Meier, Nicola Pecoraro and Hugo Canoilas in 2016.
Location:
Vienna
Founded:
2016
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.guimaraes.info

HHDM

Vienna
Founded:
2012–2016
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Hinter Haus des Meeres is an artist-run space, founded by Daphne Ahlers, Roland Matthias Gaberz and Philipp Timischl in April 2012.
Location:
Vienna
Founded:
2012–2016
Funding:
Public with cultural partner sponsorship
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.hhdm.eu/

hoast

Vienna
Founded:
2017
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hoast is an independent artist-run space in Vienna with a particular focus on South-Eastern Europe and the local Austrian scene.
Location:
Vienna
Founded:
2017
Funding:
hoast was founded in 2017 by visual artists Wolfgang Obermair and Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.hoast.net/hoast/

Kunstraum SUPER

Vienna
Founded:
2013
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Founded in 2013 by Viktoria Mayer, Andreas Perkmann Berger, Rainer Stadlbauer.
Location:
Vienna
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Public
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.supersuper.at/#

Kunstverein Galerie Arcade/ kunstraumarcade

Mödling
Founded:
1974
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Kunstraumarcade is situaited in the courtyard of the Beethoven House, an early Renaissance building in the centre of Mödling. As opposed to presenting solo exhibitions, the programme places an emphasis on dialogue between different positions. In parallel, music and literary events and hosted, alongside published exhibitions.
Location:
Mödling
Founded:
1974
Funding:
Ministry for Arts and Culture, Federal Government of Lower Austria, Town of Mödling
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.Kunstraumarcade.at

Periscope

Salzburg
Founded:
2006
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periscope:project:space is an event-led artist-run space for young visual artists. Periscope stands for a glimpse of a new sphere, deliberately seeking contact, and readily connecting.
Location:
Salzburg
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Salzburg City Council and Austria City Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.periscope.at

Secession

Vienna
Founded:
1897
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The Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession is the world’s oldest independent exhibition institution specifically dedicated to contemporary art. Artwork is selected on artistic criteria. Secession aims to present current developments in Austrian and international art.
Location:
Vienna
Founded:
1897
Funding:
Public & private (corporate sponsors, media partners)
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.secession.at/

See You Next Thursday

Vienna
Founded:
2013
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See You Next Thursday is a non-profit artist association based in Vienna. The association sees itself as a platform that supports artistic and curatorial working methods, trans-disciplinary interactions and lived art practice.
Location:
Vienna
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
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http://www.seeyounextthursday.com/

Ve.Sch

Vienna
Founded:
2008
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An art room with a bar.
Location:
Vienna
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Self-funded and public
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.vesch.org/

Wochenklausur

Vienna
Founded:
1992
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WochenKlausur, at the invitation of art institutions, develops and realises proposals for improving sociopolitical deficits. Artists' competence in finding creative solutions can just as well be applied in all areas of society.
Location:
Vienna
Founded:
1992
Funding:
Institutional on a project-by-project basis
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
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http://www.wochenklausur.at/

Belgium

(SIC)-Belgium

Brussels
Founded:
2005-2020
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(SIC) publishes a journal, books dedicated to the history and theory of modern and contemporary art, artists books and monographs. In its gallery space, (SIC) presents an annual exhibition programme.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
2005-2020
Funding:
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.sicsic.be/en/

019

Ghent
Founded:
2013
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019 is a transdisciplinary platform that develops in-between spaces for intuitive experimentation, collaboration and encounter between architecture, graphic design and visual arts.
Location:
Ghent
Founded:
2013
Funding:
City of Ghent (Cultuur Gent, Fonds Tijdelijke Invullingen), Government of Flanders
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.019-ghent.org

Argos

Brussels
Founded:
1989
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As intermediary between the artist and the public, Argos is a place for encounters, dialogue and exchange.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
1989
Funding:
State & media partner
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.argosarts.org/

Constant

Brussels
Founded:
1997
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Constant is an incubator, artistic workplace, think-thank, content generator and media lab, supporting artists through production, exhibition, publication, research, financially, in-kind, in the broadest possible framework. We cherish an ethical approach and respect for cultural differences and gender.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
1997
Funding:
State
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.constantvzw.org/

Croxhapox

Ghent
Founded:
1990
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Interested in contemporary art and offer a working space for music, film, poetry and art criticism. In this way, we offer a large potential for experimenting.
Location:
Ghent
Founded:
1990
Funding:
State funding
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.croxhapox.org/

De La Charge

Brussels
Founded:
2012-2015
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De La Charge is a place inaugurated by 19 artists, divided into workshops and an exhibition space.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
2012-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.delacharge.com/

Drop City

Antwerp
Founded:
2014
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Drop City is an occasional public space, curatorial project and collaboration between Sam Watson and Eleanor Wright (co-founded with Paul Becker & Nadia Hebson), which began in Newcastle UK, and is now located in Antwerp.
Location:
Antwerp
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Public & Private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • § Added since 2016
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http://www.drop-city.net/

Enough Room for Space

Brussels
Founded:
2005
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A non-profit organisation that initiates and coordinates events, residencies, research projects and exhibitions. ERforS tries to act as freely as possible, always putting the context and the idea before the medium.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
2005
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.enoughroomforspace.org/

Etablissement d'en face

Brussels
Founded:
2003
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A group of people, who are actively working in the visual arts came together in 2003 to create d'Etablissement d'en face projects.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.etablissementdenface.com/

Extra City

Antwerp
Founded:
1992
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Extra City Kunsthal is a place for the production, presentation and debate of artistic practices. Focusing on contemporary art and historical positions that are of relevance for today’s discourses.
Location:
Antwerp
Founded:
1992
Funding:
State & private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.extracitykunsthal.be/

Greylight Projects

Brussels
Founded:
2010
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Greylight Projects is an artist-run organisation based in Brussels and Hoensbroek. It focuses on the development, production and presentation of contemporary art. The current location houses nine studios and residencies.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://greylightprojects.org

Island

Brussels
Founded:
2012
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Island is a non-profit art space, founded by Belgian artists Sébastien Bonin and Brice Guilbert. Artists are allowed to experiment, not constrained by a curatorial lead. Therefore, every exhibition is unique, conceived according to its own criteria without referencing previous projects.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, Fondation Roi Baudouin, COCOF and Drogenbos Brewery
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.islandisland.be

Komplot

Brussels
Founded:
2002
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A curatorial collective of variable composition and condition concerned with nomadic creative practices and trends of specialisation.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
2002
Funding:
Sponsors
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.kmplt.org/

Kunsthal Gent

Ghent
Founded:
2018
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Kunsthal Gent is an experimental intersection for contemporary art, located in a monumental fourteenth-century Carmelite monastery. An exhibition space at weekends, on weekdays a workplace for artists, organisations, and public activities such as lectures, workshops, screenings and performances.
Location:
Ghent
Founded:
2018
Funding:
City of Ghent and the Flemish Community, donations and sponsors
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.kunsthal.gent

La Loge

Brussels
Founded:
↗
La Loge invites contemporary artists to develop projects engaged with questions of space, habitat and use. Driven by encounters between disciplines it aims to serve as a dynamic site for dialogue between its guests and public.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
Funding:
Private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.la-loge.be/

Netwerk Aalst

Aalst
Founded:
Late 1980s
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Netwerk Aalst develops practice focusing on the visual arts, placed in a national and international context, delivering a programme of exhibitions, lectures, workshops, screenings, concerts and residencies, collaborating with international curators.
Location:
Aalst
Founded:
Late 1980s
Funding:
Provincial councils
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://netwerkaalst.be/

OKNO

Brussels
Founded:
2013-2017
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OKNO is an artist-run organisation connecting new media and ecology. It approaches art and culture from a collaborative, DIY and post-disciplinary point of view, discovering new materials and aesthetics.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
2013-2017
Funding:
State & EU
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.okno.be/

Rosa Brux

Brussels
Founded:
2012
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Rosa Brux's activities are rooted in the understanding of art that is critically engaged with political and social issues. Conceived as a new type of institution, Rosa Brux provides an informal relationship between artworks and audience, leading to discussion, learning and experimentation.
Location:
Brussels
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
Share:
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http://www.rosabrux.org/

Tique

Antwerp
Founded:
2015
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Tique | art space for books & resources, located in the center of Antwerp, Belgium, presents a range of art publications, objects and resources for artistic practices.
Location:
Antwerp
Founded:
2015
Funding:
Through our activities and donations
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://tique.space

Voorkamer

Lier
Founded:
1996-2017
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Voorkamer provides an insight into the heterogeneity of today's visual art and encourages an active dialog between the artist, the public and themselves. Voorkamer's objective is to help artists carry out experiments without commercial pressure.
Location:
Lier
Founded:
1996-2017
Funding:
State funding, memberships and donations
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.voorkamer.be/

Werktank

Leuven
Founded:
↗
Our main mission is the realisation and distribution of installation art that investigates the relationship between technology and perception.
Location:
Leuven
Founded:
Funding:
State funding
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Institutional
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.werktank.org/

Bosnia and Herzegovina

CRVENA

Sarajevo
Founded:
2010
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Our mandate is to act as transformers and mind triggers and to offer different and more critical ideas on the world around us, and the world in which we wish to live in.
Location:
Sarajevo
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Public (predominantly international funders and organisations in other countries) and privately funded.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
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http://www.crvena.ba/

Duplex100m2

Sarajevo
Founded:
2007
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Duplex100m2 hosts numerous artists, enables production, exhibition and presentation of their works; plans and organises exhibitions on the local, regional and international level.
Location:
Sarajevo
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Agnès B. Endowment Fund and the Agency of Paris.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.duplex100m2.com/#

Bulgaria

0mgs

Sofia
Founded:
2009-2014
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0gms is an artist-run-space based in Sofia, Bulgaria. The goal is to share experience and to develop a platform for art with Bulgarian and international artists.
Location:
Sofia
Founded:
2009-2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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https://www.facebook.com/0gmsgallery/

Gallery Gallery

Sofia
Founded:
2019
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Gallery Gallery is the first gallery in Bulgaria that is exclusively focused on digital art. The gallery operates two virtual exhibition spaces; a router-gallery for browser-based work and our public space Ploshtadka for Augmented Reality (AR) work. Both spaces are accessible non-stop, but only if you are at the physical location of the gallery.
Location:
Sofia
Founded:
2019
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.gallerygallery.space/en

Interspace

Sofia
Founded:
1998-2011
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InterSpace founded as an association of artists, engineers and media makers has realised art projects, events in research and education, to attempt to contextualise and apply new technology to network and community building.
Location:
Sofia
Founded:
1998-2011
Funding:
Public and Private Sponsor
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
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http://www.i-space.org/

Swimming Pool

Sofia
Founded:
2015
↗
Swimming Pool is a platform for contemporary art and research with a focus on intersectional and collaborative practices, art education, art politics, and institution-making. It is located on a central rooftop with an empty pool.
Location:
Sofia
Founded:
2015
Funding:
National Cultural Fund
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
Share:
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https://www.swimmingpoolprojects.org

Tsarino Foundation Air Project

Tsarino
Founded:
2009
↗
Tsarino Foundation, created by a collective based in Amsterdam, organises artist-run AiR programmes in the deserted village of Tsarino, Bulgaria. These are part of a long-term research project on art in such a remote place.
Location:
Tsarino
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.tsarino.org/

Water Tower Art Residency

Sofia
Founded:
2006
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The organisation aims to work with artists, cultural organisations and arts projects in Bulgaria and abroad, and participate in the development and implementation of cooperative projects in the sphere of arts and culture.
Location:
Sofia
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Sofia City Arts Council, Private sponsors
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.watertowerartfest.com

Æther

Sofia/The Hague
Founded:
2016
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Æther Sofia/Haga are two sibling independent art spaces, whose activities and exhibitions create a possibility for experimentation and critical feedback on the contemporary obscurities of living through art, science, politics and activism. They organise SAW Sofia Art Week, and alternative education platform School of Kindness.
Location:
Sofia/The Hague
Founded:
2016
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • § Added since 2016
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https://aethersofia.wixsite.com/artspace
http://www.aether-artspace.com/

Croatia

Delta 5

Rijeka
Founded:
2014
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An artist-run space that is divided into a number of ateliers/studios and one project room which is used for presentation, production and social purposes of the members and associates of the organisation.
Location:
Rijeka
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://en.delta-5.org/#

Drugo More

Rijeka
Founded:
1999
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Drugo more (The Other Sea) is an interdisciplinary non-profit organisation working locally, regionally, and internationally in the field of arts and culture. Understanding art as an important cognitive tool, our artistic program addresses topics relevant to contemporary science and social theory.
Location:
Rijeka
Founded:
1999
Funding:
Local and national Government and European
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.drugo-more.hr

Fokus Grupa

Rijeka
Founded:
2012
↗
Fokus Grupa point to the power relations within the art system, as well as within the broader economic and social context, and are especially interested in the role of art within those relations. Our work extends over the neighbouring disciplines and borrows and learns from design, architecture, curating and literature.
Location:
Rijeka
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://fokusgrupa.net/#

HDLU

Zagreb
Founded:
1868
↗
The Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU), Zagreb, was established in 1868 and consists of visual artists of all generations, with the aim to support and encourage contemporary visual expression. The exhibition program ranges from the experimental to large national and international projects.
Location:
Zagreb
Founded:
1868
Funding:
Ministry of Culture and Media, City of Zagreb, sponsors, membership fees
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.hdlu.hr

Jagoda

Zagreb
Founded:
2019
↗
Jagoda is a non-profit art organization dedicated to research, discursive exchange and slow production betwixt (and between) contemporary performing and visual arts while examining gender, class and institutional power dynamics within the field We explore connections between the artistic, the theoretical and the academic that intertwine, complement and fluctuate through various media and formats. We engage in non-hierarchical exchange on process-based artistic practices in relation to the concepts of collaboration, authorship and interpretation, invisible and maintenance work and critically examine different relationships of body, space, time and performance. We also focus on empowering the community and context in which we operate and aim to connect local and global initiatives to provide a safe, caring and inviting space for artists, researchers and local communities.
Location:
Zagreb
Founded:
2019
Funding:
The Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, Kultura Nova Foundation and City of Zagreb
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://j-a-g-o-d-a.com/

SIZ

Rijeka
Founded:
2009-2020
↗
SIZ or the Self-managed interest community is an association of authors approaching the art market collectively. Grounded in social reality, SIZ, confronts the problem of financing artistic practice on ideal and practical level through collective affiliation of equal individuals made in order to jointly approach the public and the market.
Location:
Rijeka
Founded:
2009-2020
Funding:
Funded Publicly
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://g-siz.com/

What, How and For Whom

Zagreb
Founded:
1868
↗
A curatorial collective whose projects have been conceived as a platform for socially engaged models of cultural production and reflection of social reality.
Location:
Zagreb
Founded:
1868
Funding:
Ministry of Culture and Media, City of Zagreb, sponsors, membership fees
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.whw.hr/

Cyprus

ARTos

Nicosia
Founded:
2011-2016
↗
The ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation was founded by the artists Achilleas Kentonis and Maria Papacharalambous. It is a contemporary arts and science centre dedicated to research and creativity.
Location:
Nicosia
Founded:
2011-2016
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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Ground Artist Run Space

Nicosia
Founded:
2013-2015
↗
Ground is an artist-run space operated by visual artists Lito Kattou and Leontios Toumpouris. Ground is an interdisciplinary platform open to all forms of artistic practice, willing to encourage dialogue and networking.
Location:
Nicosia
Founded:
2013-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.groundartistrunspace.tumblr.com/

Neoterismoi

Nicosia
Founded:
2011-2021
↗
Neoterismoi Toumazou was a 1960s imported goods store that was turned into an art space in 2013. The group introduces fashion as everyday life, curates exhibitions and produces editions/multiples.
Location:
Nicosia
Founded:
2011-2021
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.neoterismoi.com/#

Stoa Aeschylou Association

Nicosia
Founded:
2007-2010
↗
Stoa Aeschylou Association is a non-profit organisation founded by Panikos Tembriotis and Demetris Neokleous with the aim of creating dialogue around contemporary visual arts through setting up art laboratories and experimental workshops.
Location:
Nicosia
Founded:
2007-2010
Funding:
State funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.stoaaeschylou.blogspot.ie/

Thkio Ppalies

Nicosia
Founded:
2015
↗
Thkio Ppalies is a project space founded by Stelios Kallinikou & Peter Eramian. The space is committed to the facilitation and production of creative and intellectual endeavours across a wide range of disciplines and practices.
Location:
Nicosia
Founded:
2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.thkioppalies.org/#

Czech Republic

35M2

Prague
Founded:
2006
↗
The 35m2 is an artist run space and non-profit gallery for contemporary artistic activity. The gallery is focused mainly on progressive and young visual artists creating solo projects.
Location:
Prague
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Local and national public insitutions
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.35m2.cz

D.I.V.O

Kolin
Founded:
2008-2018
↗
D.I.V.O. Institute is a living institute where art is displayed, created and discussed. The Institute strives to overcome the boredom and disorientation that prevails in European contemporary art providing an exciting alternative.
Location:
Kolin
Founded:
2008-2018
Funding:
Donations and grants
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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Entrance

Prague
Founded:
2005
↗
Entrance Gallery is the first artistic space in Prague that focuses systematically in its long-term program on the issues of ecological sustainability and care for the environment.
Location:
Prague
Founded:
2005
Funding:
Ministry of Culture Czech Republic, Prague City Hall and Municipal District of Prague 6
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.entrancegallery.com

etc. galerie

Prague
Founded:
2004
↗
Etc. gallery showcases the work of both Czech and international artists within exhibitions, screenings, discussions, and research projects. Its programme is currently focused on the presentation of artists who deploy the medium of moving image in their work and explore socially and politically engaged topics.
Location:
Prague
Founded:
2004
Funding:
Local, national and European public insitutions and private institutions
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.etcgalerie.cz

Karlin Studios

Prague
Founded:
2005
↗
A former factory hall in Prague. It includes a 500 m² exhibition space curated by the FUTURA team, 17 artists’ studios and 2 independently run galleries (KIV and K.ART.ON).
Location:
Prague
Founded:
2005
Funding:
The Ministry of Culture of The Czech Republic The City of Prague
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.futuraprague.com/en/karlin-studios

Meet Factory

Prague
Founded:
2001
↗
MeetFactory, founded by the artist David Černý, is a not-for-profit international centre for contemporary art. Our mission is to foster a dialogue between individual genres and make the current art scene accessible to the widest public.
Location:
Prague
Founded:
2001
Funding:
Publicly (City of Prague) & self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.meetfactory.cz/en/

Petrohradska kolektiv z.s

Prague
Founded:
2015
↗
PETROHRADSKÁ KOLEKTIV is an artist-run initiative with it's own production, dramaturgy and spaces for experimental and contemporary art since 2015.
Location:
Prague
Founded:
2015
Funding:
Local, national and European public insitutions
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://petrohradskakolektiv.com/

Trafo Gallery

Prague
Founded:
2006
↗
Trafo Gallery is an exhibition space. Until recently it included residential studios and a large-scale studio open to projects of all kinds, but currently it operates solely as a project space.
Location:
Prague
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Grants
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.trafogallery.cz/en/

Denmark

Antechamber

Copenhagen
Founded:
2012-2014
↗
Antechamber functions as a platform with exhibitions, studio work and artistic experiments, the hoarding of material and literature, self-publishing, conversation and confabulation.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2012-2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.antechamber.dk/

Beton

Copenhagen
Founded:
2014-2017
↗
BETON is a non-profit artist-run exhibition platform for contemporary studies in matter. The base for BETON is contemporary sculpture, and key words are density, intimacy and reflection.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2014-2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://cargocollective.com/betonartspace
http://www.betonartspace.com

Green is Gold

Copenhagen
Founded:
2011-2016
↗
Green is Gold is a non-profit exhibition space, which was opened by Danish artists Amalie Bønnelycke Lunøe and Ditte Knus Tønnesen. The space focuses on exhibiting artists with diverse, progressive practices.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2011-2016
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.gigstudio.dk/

Koh-i-noor

Copenhagen
Founded:
2004-2016
↗
As one of the oldest non-profit, independent, artist-run project spaces in Copenhagen, Koh-i-noor aims to provide a collaborative, process-related, informal platform for open thought, information exchange, experiments and interdisciplinary approaches.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2004-2016
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.koh-i-noor.org/

New Shelter Plan

Copenhagen
Founded:
2013-2015
↗
New Shelter Plan is a contemporary, non-profit exhibition space. In our 185m2 unusual exhibition space, we feature solo shows, group shows and collaborative exhibitions as well as shorter events – ‘Shorts'.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2013-2015
Funding:
Danish Arts Foundation and Copenhagen City Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.newshelterplan.com/

OK Corral

Copenhagen
Founded:
2012
↗
OK Corral, a self-organized exhibition space and studio community in the heart of Frederiksberg, creates a platform for recent graduates of the three Danish art academies, and foreign artists and curators who have not previously had significant solo exhibitions in Denmark.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Danish Arts Council Committee for Visual Arts, and Frederiksberg Fonden
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://cargocollective.com/okcorral
http://www.okcorral.dk

SixtyEight

Copenhagen
Founded:
2010
↗
A non-profit exhibition space which focuses on exhibiting younger Danish and non-Danish artists in order to create networks and initiate dialogue between the different contemporary art scenes.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Public & Private
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.sixtyeight.dk/

Spanien19c

Arhus
Founded:
1998
↗
A non-profit artist-administrated space showing high quality contemporary art. The space was established in 1998, and has 6–8 shows a year, presenting both Danish and international artists.
Location:
Arhus
Founded:
1998
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.spanien19c.dk/

Sydhavn Station

Copenhagen
Founded:
2012
↗
Sydhavn Station is established as an artist-run, DIY, and build-your-own experimental platform. It calls for experiments with quirky aesthetics and offers other ways to work seriously with art.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Self-funded w/ help from the Danish Arts Foundation
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.sydhavnstation.info/

teksas

Græsted
Founded:
2011
↗
teksas is a project space focusing on contemporary art and related matters. teksas gives an independant view on the art scene and is run by visual artists Karin Lind and Peter Holm.
Location:
Græsted
Founded:
2011
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.teksas.dk/

Toves Galleri

Copenhagen
Founded:
2010-2017
↗
TOVES is an exhibition space and production unit based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Experimenting with co-production, and external exhibition projects, TOVES continue to develop and renew the organization of the production and exhibition of art.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2010-2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.toves.dk/

TTC

Copenhagen
Founded:
2006-2014
↗
Since 2006 Emil Alsbo and Simon Højbo have worked together on various art-, book- and exhibition projects. From their studio at Gammel Kongevej 37, they have established their own gallery and independent publishing house TTC Books.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2006-2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.ttcgallery.com/#

Vermilion Sands

Copenhagen
Founded:
2016
↗
Vermilion Sands is an exhibition space for local and international contemporary art with an emphasis on experimental strategies of curation, mediation and access.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2016
Funding:
State funding, City funding, private foundations, self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.vermilionsands.net

Years

Copenhagen
Founded:
2012
↗
YEARS is an exhibition space run by Anna Margrethe Pedersen, Steffen Jørgensen, Søren Aagaard, Merete Vyff Slyngborg & Ditte Soria.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Danish Arts Foundation
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
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http://www.years.dk/

YNKB

Copenhagen
Founded:
2002
↗
YNKB wants to leave the elitist centres of Art and establish cultural and artistic activities where people live, seeing art as a collective research project on a global inter-relational and human scale.
Location:
Copenhagen
Founded:
2002
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.ynkb.dk/

Estonia

Culture Factory Polymer

Tallinn
Founded:
1995-2013
↗
Kultuuritehas / Culture Factory Polymer is a multidisciplinary centre for artistic creation and diffusion. This former toy factory became in 2003 one of the the main strong points for alternative un-institutionalised culture in Tallinn.
Location:
Tallinn
Founded:
1995-2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.kultuuritehas.ee/

EKKM (Contemporary Art Museum Estonia)

Tallinn
Founded:
2006
↗
A squat that was transformed into an alternative museum. EKKM can be perceived as a certain counter-public institution that includes many traits inherent to normative public institutions, but its goal is to conceive of another kind of institutionalism.
Location:
Tallinn
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
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http://www.ekkm.ee/

MAAJAAM

Otepää Nature Park
Founded:
2013
↗
A project space in an old farm in Estonian countryside where art meets technology. Substituting the urban environment with a rural landscape allows us to observe technology in its pure form.
Location:
Otepää Nature Park
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.maajaam.ee/

MoKS

Mooste
Founded:
2001
↗
Opened as an organisation dedicated to local and international cooperation in arts and environmental research in the rural context of post-Soviet Estonia. Main activities include artist residency programmes, art symposium, workshops, community and international events.
Location:
Mooste
Founded:
2001
Funding:
EU & State
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
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http://www.moks.ee/

Ptarmigan-Estonia

Tallinn
Founded:
2011-2014
↗
Ptarmigan is a project space operating in Helsinki, in 2011 another was opened in Tallinn. We try to create unique environments, support collaborative practices and focus specifically on international mobility and unusual educational forms.
Location:
Tallinn
Founded:
2011-2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.ptarmigan.ee/

Rundum

Tallinn
Founded:
2013-2018
↗
Rundum aims to react to gaps in the local art field, creating opportunities to relate to different locations, offering new exhibiting spaces, as well as more flexible and experimental formats.
Location:
Tallinn
Founded:
2013-2018
Funding:
Estonian National Agency for Youth in Action Programme
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.rundumspace.com/

Finland

00130 Gallery

Helsinki
Founded:
2010-2018
↗
The main idea behind the gallery´s ideology is to support young contemporary artists and non commercial projects in all mediums.
Location:
Helsinki
Founded:
2010-2018
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.00130gallery.net/

Alkovi

Helsinki
Founded:
2005
↗
A display window style space, open 24 hours. Since 2009 the space has been organised by Arttu Merimaa and Miina Hujala, also producing workshops as well as other collaborative projects and art events.
Location:
Helsinki
Founded:
2005
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.alkovi.site

Galleria Huuto

Helsinki
Founded:
2002
↗
Galleria Huuto is an independent artist collective. Huuto maintains two galleries. Galleria Huuto is focused on creating new institutional practices in art, promoting co-operation among artists and offering a platform for individual artists.
Location:
Helsinki
Founded:
2002
Funding:
Kone Foundation, Swedish Cultural Foundation, Ministry of Education and Culture.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.galleriahuuto.net/

Kutomo

Turku
Founded:
2009
↗
Kutomo is a space, place, studio, gallery and a room in which performances from different art fields are organised year round.
Location:
Turku
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://ehka.net/kutomo

Muu

Helsinki
Founded:
1987
↗
MUU gallery has profiled itself as an non-commercial multiform stage for installations, video art, audio pieces and performance exhibitions.They present works that have yet to be seen in mainstream galleries and experimental art.
Location:
Helsinki
Founded:
1987
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.muu.fi/

Oksasenkatu 11

Helsinki
Founded:
2002
↗
Oksasenkatu 11’s aim is to showcase experimental and ambitious ways of presenting things without commercial attributes. The exhibition schedule is flexible: a longer period of time can be used for building when necessary, which enables artistic solutions beyond the norm.
Location:
Helsinki
Founded:
2002
Funding:
Kone Foundation, Swedish Cultural Foundation, Ministry of Education and Culture.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://oksasenkatu11.fi/

Ptarmigan-Finland

Helsinki
Founded:
2008
↗
Ptarmigan is a non-profit initiative to house projects that exist outside of the realm of the traditional. We seek to provide space for adventurous and challenging scenarios.
Location:
Helsinki
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.ptarmigan.fi/

SIC-Finland

Helsinki
Founded:
2012
↗
SIC is a space for contemporary art founded in 2012 by a group of artists - Olli Keränen, Karri Kuoppala, Muriel Kuoppala, Kalle Leino, Maija Luutonen, Konsta Ojala, Sauli Sirviö, Timo Vaittinen and Laura Wesamaa.
Location:
Helsinki
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Arts Promotion Finland & Finnish Cultural Foundation
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.sicspace.net/

Sorbus

Helsinki
Founded:
2013-2019
↗
Opened in January 2013 and has since hosted exhibitions, performances, concerts and happenings from different art fields. The gallery tries to remain impulsive and adaptable to a variety of exhibition formats.
Location:
Helsinki
Founded:
2013-2019
Funding:
Kone Foundation
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.sorbus.fi/

France

Association Aperto

Montpelier
Founded:
1997
↗
Association Aperto's vocation is to be a space for research, production and exhibition, open to artists, to participate in the richness and cultural diversity of the area by presenting works of art and artistic proposals worldwide.
Location:
Montpelier
Founded:
1997
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://aperto.free.fr/

Asterides

Marseille
Founded:
1992-2018
↗
In 2018, Astérides merged Triangle France, pooling the mission, programs and know-how of each of the two structures while respecting and continuing their unique histories in order to sustain their development. See below.
Location:
Marseille
Founded:
1992-2018
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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Brigitte Industrie

Rennes
Founded:
Closed 2012
↗
Brigitte industry is a platform for research, production and artist-run distribution.
Location:
Rennes
Founded:
Closed 2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://brigitteindustrie.over-blog.org/

Castel Coucou

Forbach
Founded:
1983
↗
Castel Coucou offers artists and the public exhibitions and remains in close contact with the regional art scene, in a desire to be part of a dynamic cross-border cooperation.
Location:
Forbach
Founded:
1983
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.castelcoucou.fr/

Collectif IPN

Toulouse
Founded:
2012
↗
Collectif IPN are studios of interdisciplinary production. In opening our space to diverse collaborations we support the emerging artistic scene.
Location:
Toulouse
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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Fabrique Pola

Bordeaux
Founded:
2000
↗
An artistic and cultural association which aims to consolidate the activities and economy of its members, and to engage in a development project based on a diverse and inclusive economy for the cultural sector.
Location:
Bordeaux
Founded:
2000
Funding:
Ministry of Culture, European Union, Bordeaux City, and others
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.pola.fr/

Galerie RDV

Nantes
Founded:
2007
↗
The program covers various aspects of contemporary art, featuring renowned artists but also European and international emerging artists.
Location:
Nantes
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://galerierdv.com/

Glassbox

Paris
Founded:
1997
↗
Since 1997, Glassbox's mission has been to promote international and contemporary creation in visual arts, without technical nor theoretical borders.
Location:
Paris
Founded:
1997
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.glassbox.fr/

Immanence et New Immanence

Paris
Founded:
1997
↗
Immanence is an artist-run exhibition space, a springboard for artists, linked to a network of international exhibition spaces. Its mission is to organise exhibitions, to offer artists carte blanche, and to host projects by young curators.
Location:
Paris
Founded:
1997
Funding:
Public & private partenership
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.art-immanence.org/

In Extenso

Clermont-Ferrand
Founded:
2002
↗
Focused on three main activities: exhibitions, publications, and developing exchanges between contemporary art venues in the centre of France with the magazine La belle revue.
Location:
Clermont-Ferrand
Founded:
2002
Funding:
Clermont-Auvergne-Métropole, Ministry of Culture-DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, City of Clermont-Ferrand, Puy de Dôme Departemental Council
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.inextenso-asso.com/

Khiasma

Les Lilas
Founded:
2004-2018
↗
The association is a production and distribution of artistic and cultural activities which question the relationship between art and social practices.
Location:
Les Lilas
Founded:
2004-2018
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.khiasma.net

L'Assaut de la Menuiserie

Saint-Etienne
Founded:
1995
↗
Its purpose is to promote and develop the art and entertainment in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Location:
Saint-Etienne
Founded:
1995
Funding:
info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://lassautdelamenuiserie.blogspot.ie/
https://www.lassaut.fr/

La Générale en Manufacture

Sevres
Founded:
2005-2010
↗
The focus is on the shape of our investment unfolding in a place crossed by a project and acts in a given time.
Location:
Sevres
Founded:
2005-2010
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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La Malterie

Lille
Founded:
1995
↗
La Malterie is focused on the place of the artist at the heart of the project, experimentation, and the artist’s presence in a social environment.
Location:
Lille
Founded:
1995
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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http://www.lamalterie.com/

La Station

Nice
Founded:
1996
↗
La Station offers an experimental platform within which up-and-coming artists can find conditions conducive to initiating projects and participating in the development, promotion and dissemination of their activities.
Location:
Nice
Founded:
1996
Funding:
Publicly Funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.lastation.org/

Le 6B

Saint Denis
Founded:
2010
↗
Le 6B is born of the gathering of people and structures – for the most part artists – who have decided to pool their resources to create workspaces, and freedom of expression.
Location:
Saint Denis
Founded:
2010
Funding:
info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Institutional
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.le6b.fr/#

Le Générateur

Gentilly
Founded:
2006
↗
Le Générateur is run by artists for whom being an artist is a way of life, a way not to give up on life, seek solutions and other livelihood strategies, a way of production meetings where everyone is free and respectful about its subjectivity.
Location:
Gentilly
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Val-de-Marne Département utile, Mairie de Gentilly, Île-de-France Regional Council, Fondation de France
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.legenerateur.com/

Le Pays où le ciel est toujours bleu

Orléans
Founded:
2000
↗
A creative label and contemporary art mediation installed in the workshops of artists Oulan Bator. This label is considered as a source of proposals and reflections on territories.
Location:
Orléans
Founded:
2000
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.poctb.fr/

Le Syndicat Potentiel

Strasbourg
Founded:
1992
↗
The current artistic project focuses on the potential to generate new economic intersections between contemporary art and questions specific to the world today, be they social orders, political, environmental.
Location:
Strasbourg
Founded:
1992
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://syndicatpotentiel.free.fr/

Look & Listen

Saint-Chamas
Founded:
2014
↗
L&L started as a blog in 2010, became an art gallery in 2014 and has organised exhibitions, artist residencies, events and community projects since.
Location:
Saint-Chamas
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Publicly funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ≈ Nomadic
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https://lookelisten.blogspot.com/

Mosquito Coast Factory

Campbon
Founded:
2011
↗
Thought of as a laboratory Mosquito Coast Factory is dedicated each year to welcoming the commissioner's exhibition, artists for exchanges, experimentations and collaborations. It is run by the artist Benoît-Marie Moriceau.
Location:
Campbon
Founded:
2011
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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http://www.mosquitocoastfactory.com/

Neon

Lyon
Founded:
2000-2019
↗
Producer and broadcaster of contemporary art. Néon sees exhibitions as tools of research and exploration. It proposes an electic programme, favoring the multiplicity of proceedings that generate artists projects.
Location:
Lyon
Founded:
2000-2019
Funding:
Publicly funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.chezneon.fr/

Octave Cowbell

Metz
Founded:
2002
↗
Octave Cowbell is an exhibition association whose primary objective is to show young contemporary creation in all its various forms, in Lorraine and elsewhere.
Location:
Metz
Founded:
2002
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.octavecowbell.fr/

Plateforme / L'Entreprise

Paris
Founded:
1999
↗
Dedicated to contemporary art diffusion, creation and resource, and works as a unifying and shared space, a place of exchanges between artists, curators and audiences. Plateforme is run by the parisian structure L'entreprise bringing together around fifty international artists
Location:
Paris
Founded:
1999
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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http://www.plateforme-paris.com/

Shanaynay

Paris
Founded:
2011-2020
↗
Shanaynay is a cooperatively run contemporary art space founded by Jason Hwang and Romain Chenais. Projects are developed in a progressive and flexible manner, avoiding certain traditional modes of presentation and conventional formats associated with art institutions. It is now run by two artists and curators.
Location:
Paris
Founded:
2011-2020
Funding:
Self-funded & private donors
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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http://www.shanaynay.fr/

Standards

Rennes
Founded:
2008-2013
↗
Standards aim is to promote the emergence of young artists focusing on projects allowing them to produce new œuvres. The project is driven by the lack of local structures likely to host the work of students or young artists.
Location:
Rennes
Founded:
2008-2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.standards-expositions.com/

SuperStrat

Saint-Etienne
Founded:
1996
↗
Superstrate is a platform for research, production and dissemination artistic self-directed mission.
Location:
Saint-Etienne
Founded:
1996
Funding:
Institutional funding, regular artistic partners
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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http://www.superstrat.fr/

Tonus

Paris
Founded:
2014
↗
TONUS is a not-for-profit exhibition space founded in 2014 by the artist duo Jacent.
Location:
Paris
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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→
http://www.tonus-yo.tumblr.com/

Treignac Projet

Treignac
Founded:
2007
↗
Treignac Projet is an off-centre, peer-initiated organisation, directed towards collaborative activity within the arts, modelled on the Academy rather than the Arts Centre. It revolves around a studio research programme, workgroups, and a schedule of exhibitions.
Location:
Treignac
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Self-funded and regional state funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.treignacprojet.org/

Treize (formerly Le Commissariat)

Paris
Founded:
↗
Like an umbrella in Paris, Treize is a place for production and programming of exhibitions, concerts, lectures.
Location:
Paris
Founded:
Funding:
Paris City Council & DRAC Ile de France
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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http://www.treize.site/#

Triangle - Astérides

Marseille
Founded:
1995
↗
Through a program of artists' residencies, exhibitions, events, new commissions, and publications, Triangle - Astérides supports the production and presentation of new forms of artistic activity aiming to create dynamic relationships between art, artists, and audiences both locally and internationally.
Location:
Marseille
Founded:
1995
Funding:
City Council of Marseille, Ministry of Culture - DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, and others
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.trianglefrance.org/

Tripode

Nantes
Founded:
2002-2017
↗
Tripod invites artists whose practice is predominantly visual arts and produces solo exhibitions in general, duo sometimes, rarely collective in the field of contemporary art.
Location:
Nantes
Founded:
2002-2017
Funding:
Publicly Funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.tripode.fr

Germany

After the Butcher

Berlin
Founded:
2007
↗
As a project space created by artists for artists, After the butcher aims to present a platform for young and unknown creatives, to present their work.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.after-the-butcher.de/

All Girls

Berlin
Founded:
1992-2015
↗
Founded by three artists. A network of artists who do exhibitions.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
1992-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://art.allgirls-berlin.org/

Alpha Nova Kulturwerkstatt

Berlin
Founded:
1986
↗
Alpha nova-kulturwerkstatt & galerie futura is a Berlin-based art space for exhibitions and cultural events with an explicit gender-critical perspective. The project was founded in 1986. One artist and one academic run it.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
1986
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.alpha-nova-kulturwerkstatt.de/

Apartment Project Berlin

Berlin
Founded:
2012
↗
Apartment Project, based in Berlin since 2012, was established as an artist-run space in Istanbul in 1999 – an interdisciplinary project for sharing, communal living and collective production models that focus on process.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://berlin.apartmentproject.org/

art.endart

Berlin
Founded:
2013
↗
Project Space set up by artist Lucyna Viale. The space collaborates with artists and other cultural workers.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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http://www.facebook.com/art.endart

Art Laboratory Berlin

Berlin
Founded:
2006
↗
Art Laboratory Berlin was founded by an international team of art historians and artists and established as a platform for inter-disciplinary exhibition projects in an international context.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org/

Arttransponder

Berlin
Founded:
2004-2015
↗
Arttransponder provides a platform for discussions and exchange, focusing on interdisciplinary, site specific, participatory and temporary art practices. 

Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2004-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.arttransponder.net/

Atelierhaus Mengerzeile / Kunsthalle m3

Berlin
Founded:
2001
↗
The gallery was set up by the Swedish artist Thomas Henriksson. His goal was to create a space which artists would personalise and make their own, unlike existing spaces which were often formal and unapproachable.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2001
Funding:
State Funding
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.atelierhaus-mengerzeile.de/

Autocenter

Berlin
Founded:
2001-2018
↗
“Showing” here is understood as an non-ideological gesture without economic pressures. Autocenter is about artistic experimentation in the fields of painting, sculpture, photography, video, etc. beyond the confines of curatorial concern and limitation.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2001-2018
Funding:
Private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.autocenterart.de/

Bautzener 69

Dresden
Founded:
2003
↗
The artist-run gallery Bautzner 69 exhibits young artistic positions from the domains of photography, video, installation and architecture. Its main focus lies upon connecting young artists and initiating collaborations.
Location:
Dresden
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.bautzner69.de/

Berlin-Weekly

Berlin
Founded:
2010
↗
The project space BERLIN-WEEKLY.COM was founded by Stefanie Seidl in June 2010. BERLIN-WEEKLY.COM is an arranged window on display for 24 hours a day – in the city and on the internet.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.stefanieseidl.com/berlinweeklycom/

Bi'bak e.V

Berlin
Founded:
2014
↗
bi’bak is a non-profit association for contemporary art and community-based projects founded by an artist, filmmaker and cultual anthropologist. bi’bak engages itself in a variety of sociopolitical issues like migration, discourses on mobility, constructions of identities, consumerism, labor and cultural memories.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2014
Funding:
European and German public funding and private funding
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
http://www.bi-bak.de/en

Bildwechsel

Hamburg
Founded:
1979
↗
Bildwechsel is an umbrella organisation for women media culture and the arts. We have our main base in Hamburg and bases in different cities, agents and friends making connections and collecting work.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
1979
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.bildwechsel.org/

Blinzelbar

Hamburg
Founded:
1979
↗
A former shopping centre until 2009 when 140 artists turned it into studios and a gallery space. However in 2012, it was pulled down and was replaced by an IKEA.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
1979
Funding:
publicly funded
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
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https://www.hierunda.de/blinzelbar.html#

Boutique – Raum fur temporare Kunst

Cologne
Founded:
2011-2017
↗
Established by Maximilian Erbacher in a sub basement as a “non-elitist” art space with a subversive and informal program focusing on conceptual and site-specific work.
Location:
Cologne
Founded:
2011-2017
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.boutique-koeln.de/

Bruch and Dallas

Cologne
Founded:
2009
↗
Bruch & Dallas is an 'Off Space' for contemporary art which was founded by artists as an independent project space. The aim of this space is to show current, ambitious, critical and site specific positions.
Location:
Cologne
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.bruchunddallas.de/

CAPRI

Dusseldorf
Founded:
Info not available
↗
CAPRI is a non-commercial exhibition space in Düsseldorf funded by Nina Höke and Alexander Sies and their Modern Collections-Foundation. The program is curated by Moritz Wesseler.
Location:
Dusseldorf
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
http://www.capri-raum.com/CAPRI/_.html

Capri Space for Contemporary art

Berlin
Founded:
2001-2006
↗
CAPRI was a non-commercial artspace founded in 2001 by the artists Ina Bierstedt, Bettina Carl and Alena Meier, realising over 70 exhibitions and events. They continue their work as a collective of artists-curators.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2001-2006
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
→
http://www.capri-berlin.de/english.html

Centrum

Berlin
Founded:
2009
↗
Centrum is a contemporary art space. We work with international and local artists, offering space and support for experimentation and the development of new work. Centrum was founded in 2009 by Kate Squires and David Moynihan.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.centrumberlin.com/

Circleculture

Berlin
Founded:
2003
↗
The Circleculture Gallery is a project space for urban art that was founded by Dirk Staudinger and Johann Haehling von Lanzenauer. It represents a whole group of artists standing for the rising urban art movement in Berlin.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.circleculture-gallery.com/

COPYRIGHTberlin

Berlin
Founded:
1999
↗
Founded by artists Ute Lindner and Patrick Huber. The space is an interdisciplinary platform for artistic positions and strategies. Formerly listed as COPYRIGHT Projektraum / LINDNER HUBER.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
1999
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.copyrightberlin.de/

Dada Post

Berlin
Founded:
2008
↗
Dada Post is an artist-run organisation, founded by Howard McCalebb, a sculptor and active figure on the international art scene. We contemplate artistic expression from the standpoint of pure inspiration emanating from the source - the artist.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
http://www.dadapost.com/

die raum

Berlin
Founded:
2011
↗
die raum is a 5 m2 exhibition space run by Jesper Dyrehauge (artist) and Lotte Møller (curator) in collaboration with BAR architects. Every project will be accompanied by an edition of posters in col­laboration with the exhibiting artist.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2011
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.dieraum.net/

Donau-Ecke Ganghofer

Berlin
Founded:
2010-2018
↗
Donau-Ecke Ganghofer is a department store window displaying artistic processes rather than products. We are interested in art beyond the image and non-commodifiable manifestations of the creative unconscious. We do resist gentrification.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2010-2018
Funding:
Private and Public
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.donaugang.wordpress.com/

Dosenfabrik

Hamburg
Founded:
1995
↗
Dosenfabrik operates 28 artists’ studios. Its discourse relates to the public space, a starting point for the creation of temporary projects and actions by its individual artists.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
1995
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.dosenfabrik-hamburg.de/

Einstellungsraum

Hamburg
Founded:
2001
↗
The Einstellungsraum is a non-profit art centre that mediates projects between car drivers and pedestrians. The exhibitions, focusing on one theme per year, address automobile transportation and traffic in a narrow or wider sense.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
2001
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
http://www.einstellungsraum.de/#

ELEKTROHAUS HAMBURG

Hamburg
Founded:
2002-2016
↗
Presenting young Hamburg and international artists working in media, concept, and action-art. Events are interdisciplinary and usually situated somewhere in the grey zones between art and literature.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
2002-2016
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.elektrohaus.net/#

Errant Bodies

Berlin
Founded:
1995
↗
Errant Bodies is dedicated to supporting diverse discourses and projects in the fields of sonic and spatial practices, auditory culture and performativity, experimental writing and critical thought.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
1995
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.errantbodies.org/

exp12

Berlin
Founded:
2010-2017
↗
exp12 is a collective of photographers aiming to develop contemporary photography through a space for meetings and exchange. We are open to different topics, styles and visual languages.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2010-2017
Funding:
Private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
https://cargocollective.com/exposure_twelve
http://www.exp12.com

F60.4

Berlin
Founded:
2014
↗
The project F60.4 is examining the common base of artist, curators, gallerists, collectors, critics. Testing the possibilities to show, experience, receive. Input instead of output.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.publiclook.com

Fenwarme

Berlin
Founded:
2002-2007
↗
Fernwaerme was founded as a production group by seven artists. It is the continuation of their long lasting cooperation in various performance projects having a special interest in artistic process research and cross genre exchange.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2002-2007
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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Flutgraben e.V

Berlin
Founded:
2009
↗
A not-for-profit space with 40 studios and several exhibition spaces. Along side their exhibition programme in the gallery, since 2009, they have invited artists to use their common spaces for art.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.flutgraben.org/

Freie Internationale Tankstelle (FIT)

Berlin
Founded:
2003
↗
FIT or Freie Internationale Tankstelle is based at a two m² historic gas station, run by Dida Zende as an arts project, working with the symbol and situation of the gas station and its culture in the program.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.f-i-t.org/

Freies Kunst Territorium

Bochum
Founded:
?-2017
↗
The gallery should be a 'free safe haven for art'
Location:
Bochum
Founded:
?-2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.fktbo.blogspot.de/

FRISE Künstlerhaus Hamburg + Abbildungszentrum

Hamburg
Founded:
2003
↗
FRISE has 40 artists in studios and an exhibition space. They work with media or concepts and have film and music production facilities. There is co-operation between the visual artists and the film and music producers.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.frise.de

Front Views

Berlin
Founded:
2012
↗
Frontviews is a forum of international artists and theorists. Based on flexible collaborations and without a settled space, we develop concepts of contemporary art in Europe.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.frontviews.de/

Galerie Crystal Ball

Berlin
Founded:
2007
↗
A space, exhibitions and projects run in co-operation with an artist and curator.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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http://www.galeriecrystalball.de/

Galerie Invaliden 1

Berlin
Founded:
2005-2017
↗
Galerie Invaliden1 is the collaborative product of 6 Berlin-based artists. There is freedom for mutual exchange, experimental collaboration and reflexive dialogue amongst practitioners.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2005-2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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https://www.invaliden1.com

Galerie Kurt im Hirsch

Berlin
Founded:
1999
↗
Since 2016 kurt im hirsch acts as an initiative for urban art and publications about site specific and community based art. The gallery space at the Hirschhof in Prenzlauer Berg is closed – the city is open.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
1999
Funding:
Private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • ≈ Nomadic
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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http://www.kurt-im-hirsch.de/

Galerie Oel-Früh

Hamburg
Founded:
2005
↗
Galerie Oel-Früh has been exhibiting local and international artists since its foundation in 2005. They are encouraged to let the location of the space play a role in their general concepts.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
2005
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
Share:
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http://www.oelfrueh.org/#

Gallery Loris

Berlin
Founded:
2007—2017
↗
LORIS is a project by 11 artists from Berlin. Photography, video, and installation form the methodological interface of the participating artists. On Monday evenings there is free space for experimental lectures, screenings, and concerts.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2007—2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.lorisberlin.de/

GEH8

Dresden
Founded:
2007
↗
Studio community of artists, architects, designers and city planners. It follows the non-commercial approach of the artist-run space. They show young artists, musicians and writers.
Location:
Dresden
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.geh8.de/

General Public

Berlin
Founded:
2005—2020
↗
General Public is an independent project space run by a group of cultural workers. It aims to install and uphold a collaborative, process-related, informal platform for open thought, information exchange, spatial experiment and trans-disciplinary approach.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2005—2020
Funding:
Private
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.generalpublic.de

Gitte Bohr

Berlin
Founded:
2010—2016
↗
Set up by Eva May (researcher) and Diego Castro (artist). They currently dedicate themselves to the German political landscape.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2010—2016
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://www.gittebohr.de

GlogauAir gGmbH

Berlin
Founded:
2006
↗
The non-profit organisation GlogauAIR hosts Artist Residencies. Founded by the Spanish artist Chema Alvargonzález with the intention of creating a meeting point between artists from all disciplines to work in collaboration and expanding their practice.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2006
Funding:
National and European
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.glogauair.net/

Grimmuseum

Berlin
Founded:
2010
↗
GRIMMUSEUM is an independent not-for-profit organisation with a programme of solo and group exhibitions. GRIMMUSEUM is a organisational model to support contemporary art practice, a registered Community Interest Company (gUG) in Germany
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.grimmuseum.com/

Gruntaler 9

Berlin
Founded:
2006
↗
Grüntaler9 is not a Gallery, a White Cube or a Black Box. Every performance leaves visible and invisible traces that remain for the next performance to come and take over and let go again.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.gruentaler9.com/

Hafen + Rand

Hamburg
Founded:
2005
↗
Galerie Oel-Früh has been exhibiting local and international artists since its foundation in 2005. They are encouraged to let the location of the space play a role in their general concepts.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
2005
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
Share:
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http://www.oelfrueh.org/#

Hilbert Raum

Berlin
Founded:
2015
↗
An independent, non-commercial, artist-run project space. It is a group of 14 Berlin-based artists, who take turns curating and organising two-week exhibitions throughout the entire year.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2015
Funding:
State Supported
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.hilbertraum.org/

Hinterconti

Hamburg
Founded:
2000
↗
The Hinterconti Off-Space gallery organises weekly shows with Hamburg-based and international emerging artists. Hinterconti offers a short-term exhibition period to realise ideas, which are not necessarily placed in the conventional fields of art.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
2000
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.hinterconti.de/#

Infernoesque

Berlin
Founded:
2007-2013
↗
Infernoesque is a free, non-commercial exhibition space for contemporary art under the guidance of four artists aiming to build a high-quality program of new artistic approaches in the field of sculpture and installation art.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2007-2013
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
https://www.infernoesque.de

institut für zukünfte

Wolfsburg
Founded:
2018
↗
institut für zukünfte creates awareness and room for reflection on possible futures. Today's world is characterized by social and ecological challenges. We want to promote reflective action and active participation and thus influence change in a self-effective way. we organise a yearly festival, workshops, inputs, community events and exhibitions.
Location:
Wolfsburg
Founded:
2018
Funding:
project funding, sponsoring of local administration, self funding
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
  • Collective
  • Festival
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.institutfuerzukuenfte.de/

KiöR - Kunst im öffentlichen Raum

Hamburg
Founded:
2005-2011
↗
Artist initiative concerned with art in public spaces. They bring art into areas that normally don't have contact with it. They aspire to making it into a public company.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
2005-2011
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.kioer-ev.de/files/index_empty.php?seite=1&folge=00

Kotti Shop

Berlin
Founded:
2008
↗
An experimental, not for profit, art project space established in 2008 by Annette Knol and Stefan Endewardt. It hosts international art exhibitions and art festivals. It also has a print work shop and prints artists' books.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.kotti-shop.net/

Kreuzeberg Pavillion

Berlin
Founded:
2010
↗
Kreuzberg Pavillon is an independent non-profit project space. The open process in this field of interests complies with the desire of all participants to establish the pavillon as a public non-excluding system of contemporary art.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://kreuzbergpavillon.tumblr.com/

Kroneboden

Berlin
Founded:
2008
↗
The project space is run by the pinhole and theatre photographer Karen Stuke and focuses primarily on the intersections between visual and performing arts. Kronenboden also hosts readings, classical concerts and similar events.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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http://www.kronenboden.de/#

KuBaSta — Raum für Kunst Bauen Stadtentwicklung

Hamburg
Founded:
Info not available
↗
KuBaSta is situated in a former butcher shop operating as a gallery, bar, cinema and place for conferences. It was created as a reaction to Hamburg's city planning that plans past human needs.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
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http://www.kubasta.de/

KUNSTFAKTOR

Berlin
Founded:
1997
↗
KUNSTFAKTOR what founded in 1997 by Frank Benno Junghanns, Gerard Dekker and René de Rooze as to artists' cooperative gallery associated with their studio house in Berlin Mitte.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
1997
Funding:
Publicly funded
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.kunstfaktor.de/

Kunst Imbiss

Hamburg
Founded:
2005
↗
A mobile gallery running in a food truck. They have had 90 contributing artists, both visual artists and writers.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
2005
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.kunst-imbiss.de/

Kunstlerresidenz Blumen

Leipzig
Founded:
2006-2013
↗
*blumen* is a space for production of art, dedicated to advancing the work of emerging and under-represented visual artists through its artists-in-residence program, aiming to activate new discourses and impulses in the art field and local sphere.
Location:
Leipzig
Founded:
2006-2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
→
http://www.residence-blumen.de/de/

Kunstraum Unten

Bochum
Founded:
?-2017
↗
Exhibition space for young art with an art teacher running the space.
Location:
Bochum
Founded:
?-2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.kunstraum-unten.de/

KUNSTrePUBLIK (ZK/U)

Berlin
Founded:
2006
↗
The ZK/U concept and practice were initiated by the artist collective and non-profit organisation KUNSTrePUBLIK e.V. Coming from non-institutional backgrounds, the founders aspire to continue exploring ways of collaborating, researching and creating.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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http://www.zku-berlin.org/#

Kunstverein St. Pauli

Hamburg
Founded:
?-2018
↗
Kunstverein St. Pauli is situated at a flat inhabited mostly by former arts students from Braunschweig in the middle of the red-light district of Hamburg and focused on showing exhibitions of emerging arts.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
?-2018
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.kunstvereinstpauli.de/

L'Oiseau Présente

Berlin
Founded:
2010
↗
L'oiseau présente ... is a non-commercial project initiative of artists Gunna Schmidt, Nicola Stäglich and Anke Völk who focus is on abstraction in cross-genre painting.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.loiseaupresente.blogspot.de/

Lage Egal

Berlin
Founded:
2010
↗
LAGE EGAL is a place for production and exhibition. The founding artists aim to work with the mechanisms of presentation and marketing of artwork in an experimental and playful way.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Privately and Publicly funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.lage-egal.de/#

Loge

Berlin
Founded:
2006-2018
↗
Four square meters of an historical floor plan. It's small, romantic space in a building constructed before World War 1.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2006-2018
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.loge-berlin.com/#

Loris

Berlin
Founded:
2007-2018
↗
LORIS is a project by 11 artists from Berlin. It is the goal to establish contacts to collectors, curators, institutions, and galleries and therewith realize exhibitions in Germany and abroad.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2007-2018
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.lorisberlin.de/

Lost Weekend Gallery

Munich
Founded:
2020
↗
Lost Weekend Gallery focuses on exchange between two invited artists, one from Munich, one from another city/country, and totally open to gender, backgrounds and cultures. Collaborative exhibitions allow artists to develop connections/networks with artists from other cities/art scenes.
Location:
Munich
Founded:
2020
Funding:
Local funding
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.instagram.com/lost.weekendmeetsyoungart

Maniere Noire

Berlin
Founded:
2011-2019
↗
Maniere Noire hosts readings from authors, performances, discussions, and workshops. Currently involved with the Appropriating Language Series and Picture Window Series.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2011-2019
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.manierenoire.net/#

Mars Patent

Hamburg/WorldWideWeb
Founded:
1999
↗
Have you ever dreamed of seeing works of art and theory on Mars? Now you can! THE MARS PATENT is an interplanetarian project founded by Helene von Oldenburg and Claudia Reiche. THE MARS PATENT invites you to experience culture on a fascinating and promising site. Millions of miles away the red planet, Mars, now lies within your reach. Since the early days THE MARS PATENT committee has been working hard to find a discriminating place for your desires which allows a new sight on Earth. But such a place could only be realized by means of a recently developed device, the HRM_1.0n, the "High Reality Machine". The HRM_1.0n transforms the vision of a viable martian place for your objects into reality and the mode of global sharing. The HRM_1.0n will become a potent device in your hands to place your things on THE MARS PATENT's Mars Exhibition Site (MES): THE MARS PATENT offers the MES to you as a free experimental area and invites every thing which does not fit on Earth but tends towards the MES. A thing? A real thing? Could be your idea, your object, your work, your protest, your desire... THE MARS PATENT will take the full risk of handling, transporting and sustaining the concepts and objects up to MES, but can't take any guaranties for their condition on Earth. So: Send your projects to THE MARS PATENT!
Location:
Hamburg/WorldWideWeb
Founded:
1999
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.mars-patent.org/

MEINBLAU Project Room

Berlin
Founded:
1997
↗
he MEINBLAU project room is a location made by and for artists. It provides 125 m2 of exhibition and activity space on two levels being surrounded by ten studios.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
1997
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.meinblau.de/

Montanaberlin

Berlin
Founded:
2006-2016
↗
Montanaberlin is purpose, act, and space. In our work, we focus energy on the interface between nature and the space of human life. We invent a new reality, and organise it.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2006-2016
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
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http://www.montanaberlin.de/

Mount Warning

Berlin
Founded:
1998-2011
↗
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
1998-2011
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
→
http://www.mount-warning.de/

NGBK

Berlin
Founded:
1969
↗
NGBK is an alternative Kunstverein, with a grassroots aproach towards art. Participation is open to everyone who is interested in the advancement of contemporary arts and theme based exhibition projects.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
1969
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
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http://www.ngbk.de/

Noroomgallery

Hamburg/Mars
Founded:
1999-2010
↗
They produce means of presentation. They present social artworks, or what they call 'object art'.
Location:
Hamburg/Mars
Founded:
1999-2010
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
→
http://www.noroomgallery.com/home/

OKK – Organ kritischer Kunst

Berlin
Founded:
2007
↗
OKK/Raum29 is an atelier, experimental and exhibition space, a mediating platform for dialogue, an artist-run platform for cultural activism based in Berlin, Germany.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.kritische-kunst.org/de/okk-raum

oqbo

Berlin
Founded:
2008
↗
Gallery oqbo a space for image word and sound is an artist-run gallery in Berlin. The co-organisers are Michael Bause, Christian Bilger, Frank Eltner, Dirk Lebahn, Serpahina Lenz and Julia Ziegler.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.oqbo.de/

Or Gallery

Berlin
Founded:
1983-2015
↗
The Or Gallery is an artist-run centre committed to exhibiting work by local, national, and international artists whose art practice is of a critical, conceptual and/or interdisciplinary nature.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
1983-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
https://orgallery.org/orgalleryberlin
https://orgallery.org

ORi

Berlin
Founded:
2007
↗
The everyday operations are organised by the ORi-collective, a group of constant change, always open to new members. Decisions are made on a grass-roots level with the aim of consensus.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.ori-berlin.de/

Panke e.V

Berlin
Founded:
2009
↗
Panke is a creative multi-purpose space run by a collective of creative people and is registered as a non-profit members organisation. Its main aim is to promote experimental/fringe creativity in Berlin.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.pankeculture.com/

Parkhaus im Malkasten Dusseldorf

Dusseldorf
Founded:
1997-2016
↗
Parkhaus exhibits mainly young positions with location-specific work, organises film evenings and discussions. Once a year the work of renowned artists such as Gilbert & George is presented here so as to appeal to a wider audience.
Location:
Dusseldorf
Founded:
1997-2016
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
https://parkhaus-duesseldorf.com

Pavillion am Milcof

Berlin
Founded:
Info not avaiable
↗
Studio community in an old milking parlour, which has now moved to an old school. They currently have over 40 artists. There is a pavillion in the garden used as an exhibition space.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
Info not avaiable
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.milchhofpavillon.de/

Pilotenkueche

Leipzig
Founded:
2007
↗
The Pilotenkueche is an artist-run residency based in the Spinnerei complex fostering dialogue and exchange of ideas. Selected artists from around the world are invited to work in the space for 16-week.
Location:
Leipzig
Founded:
2007
Funding:
City of Leipzig
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.pilotenkueche.net/

Prima Centre

Berlin
Founded:
2004
↗
Prima Center Berlin supports artists in the realisation of their artistic concepts as well as in their promotion to the professional and wider public. It is in the Kolonie Wedding association of art project spaces.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2004
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
http://www.prima-center.net/#

Projekt 0047

Berlin
Founded:
2004
↗
0047 is an organisation for projects in and in between art and architecture. Over 130 artists, architects and curators have been involved in over 30 exhibitions and projects, both in our space or collaboratively in others.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2004
Funding:
Norwegian Arts Council / Private
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
Share:
→
http://www.0047.org/

projekthaus | U.FO kunstraum

Hamburg/Mars
Founded:
1999-2010
↗
THE MARS PATENT is an interplanetarian project founded by Helene von Oldenburg and Claudia Reiche. THE MARS PATENT invites you to experience culture on a fascinating and promising site on Mars.
Location:
Hamburg/Mars
Founded:
1999-2010
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
→
http://www.mars-patent.org/

Projektraum Rottstr. 5

Bochum
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Three important aspects of the orientation of Rottstr5 Art halls: the need for accessibility for the residents in the multicultural neighborhoods of Bochum West, supporting the academic young artists, and promoting innovative artistic approaches.
Location:
Bochum
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
http://www.rottstr5.de/index.html

RAUM Oberkassel

Dusseldorf
Founded:
2009
↗
RAUM is an exhibition space that can be rented. They predominently show works from the Art Academy in Dusseldorf. It was founded by an artist and a curator.
Location:
Dusseldorf
Founded:
2009
Funding:
publicly funded
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
http://www.blog.raumfuerkunst.org/

Rosalux

Berlin
Founded:
2007
↗
Rosalux exhibits works of conceptual and performance artists who have not had the opportunity to present themselves in Berlin so far, projects rarely seen in commercial galleries, because they are at intersections between disciplines.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.rosalux.com/

S. Y. L . A. N T E N H E I M

Bonn
Founded:
2012-2018
↗
The S. Y. L. A. N T E N H E I M is the ART SUPPLY VENUE. Everyone can occupy the space for the meaning of art. The concept was initiated by DEMECO & PASQUALE in April 2012.
Location:
Bonn
Founded:
2012-2018
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://kunst-bedarf-kunst.de/en/

Salon Atelier

Dortmund
Founded:
Info not available
↗
A community of emerging artists in a former hair dressers. They have exhibitions at intervals in their studio space and occasionally do what they call, 'salon on tour' to other exhibition spaces.
Location:
Dortmund
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.salon-atelier.de/

Salon Populaire

Berlin
Founded:
?-2013
↗
Salon Populaire, founded by an artist, an art historian and a critic, it is a meeting point in Berlin, inviting anyone interested in the arts and its reflection. It addresses Berlin's local context as much as issues of universal concern with space for anachronistic, indulgent, academic, individual engagement.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
?-2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.salonpopulaire.de/

SCOTTY

Berlin
Founded:
2006
↗
The artist-run project space is located in Kreuzberg, Oranienstrasse, and is organized by 9 artists. Situated in the smallest house in Kreuzberg, SCOTTY provides a platform for artists and its members as curators as well as invited guests, allowing the most freedom while maximizing group potential. Thematic group exhibitions are held at regular intervals, along with organized performances and film evenings. The focus lies on contemporary social and cultural-political issues. SCOTTY operates independently of the market, embracing self-autonomy and a non-hierarchical structure. Beyond the work conducted in this space in Berlin-Kreuzberg, SCOTTY’s members initiate and organize supra-regional and international collaborations with other project spaces. This strengthens the position of autonomously working artists, providing nationwide visibility and networking opportunities. Despite the pronounced individuality of its members, they share a common desire to create new opportunities for artistic actions and ideas. The vitality of SCOTTY stems from the consistent, self-determined implementation of democratic agreements among its members during the planning and realization of projects.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Currently un-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Voluntary
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.scotty-berlin.de/

Scriptings

Berlin
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Showroom and publishing house run by artist Achim Lengerer.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.scriptings.net/

SKAM

Hamburg
Founded:
1992
↗
The SKAM studio-community brings together 25 Hamburg-based artists: painters, sculptors, film animators, concept- and experimental-artists. Very recently SKAM became homeless. Future plans are yet to be announced.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
1992
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.skam.org/skam_db/index.php

SOMA Art Gallery

Berlin
Founded:
2014
↗
SOMA Art Gallery is an independent contemporary art and culture space and initiative. It encourages collaborations among networks between cultural professionals and artists and academics and social activists from all over the world.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Publicly funding
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://somagallery.de/index.html
https://somagallery.de

Souterrain

Berlin
Founded:
?-2014
↗
Gallery run by art historians, cultural scientists and artists. The space is an experiment for how the theory and practice of art affect one another.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
?-2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.souterrain-berlin.de/

Sparwasser HQ

Berlin
Founded:
2000
↗
Sparwasser HQ is a non-profit artist’s project as well as space for projects characterised by a process oriented practic - a group of participating artists and scientist influence together the outcome and the conditions of work.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2000
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
→
http://www.sparwasserhq.de/

Spinnerei

Leipzig
Founded:
2004
↗
A cultural hub initiated with artists and located in a former cotton factory, Spinnerei is the site of a multitude of artists’ studios, workshops, project spaces and galleries
Location:
Leipzig
Founded:
2004
Funding:
Self-funding
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.spinnerei.de/#

Spor Klübü

Berlin
Founded:
2003
↗
Spor Klübü is a project space, that works mainly with international artists based in Berlin, offering them room to experiment with their work. Projects in cooperation with guest curators, NGO's and institutions are part of the space's activities.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.koloniewedding.de/

Stedefreund

Berlin
Founded:
2000
↗
Stedefreund was founded by 20 artists and has since been active as a project space nationally and internationally. The confrontation with physical, cultural, social and abstract spaces is the focus.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2000
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
→
http://www.stedefreund-berlin.de/

STORE Contemporary

Dresden
Founded:
2010-2017
↗
STORE is a non-profit art space with a focus on young contemporary art and boundary-pushing projects across disciplines. STORE puts a diversity of local and international artist and art projects on display each month.
Location:
Dresden
Founded:
2010-2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.storecontemporary.com

Super bien!

Berlin
Founded:
2007-2017
↗
Super bien! is a project initiated by three artists aimed at developing alternative strategies for the display of visual art functioning as a catalyst for the growing interest in exhibition spaces other than the ‘white cube’.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2007-2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.superbien.de/

SUPERUSCHI

Berlin
Founded:
2013-2017
↗
SUPERUSCHI is a not-for-profit artist initiative with a social vision. Jonny Star develops events as an exploratory artistic act to take place in specific venues (either within private or staged private living spaces).
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2013-2017
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.superuschi.org

takt

Berlin
Founded:
2003
↗
Takt Artist Residency and Takt Academy Berlin, Kunstraum Tapir, Tapir LAB, Okapi gallery are designed to host/support active artists. Takt is an artist residency project with a maximum number of 20 studios and three project rooms.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Self-funded by artists
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.taktberlin.org/

tamtamART

Berlin
Founded:
Info not available
↗
tamtamART is an association for the advancement of Taiwanese Contemporary Art in Germany. We hope not only to create free, open, and diversified conversations, but also to develop a cross-culture and cross-field exchanging art center.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
https://tamtamart.de

target:autonopop

Hamburg
Founded:
1992
↗
target: autonopop examines the articulation between the market, gallery and institutional spheres, their cooptational and coercive instances, their aversion to any critique which has real consequences.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
1992
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
https://www.targetautonopop.org/

Toolbox – Finnish German Art Space

Berlin
Founded:
2012
↗
The artist members of TOOLBOX conceive art as a tool for reflecting on the present age and art as having an impact on or even creating the social world. TOOLBOX has its focus on showing Finnish contemporary art in Berlin and presenting juxtapositions of Finnish next to German artistic views on relevant topics like, for example, ideologies, limits of perception, the significance of emotions, philosophical or political theory or human patterns of making world intelligible.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2012
Funding:
By the artists who run the space and supported by Degewo Berlin
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.galerietoolbox.com/

tête

Berlin
Founded:
2012
↗
tête is an experiment in how to run an art space, artist-run spaces usually being about collective decision making, tête is looking to create a cross section of artistic interests.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
http://www.tete.nu

Unwetter

Berlin
Founded:
2002-2018
↗
UNWETTER's basic format is the Discursive Picnic that connects different contexts in an ongoing process of reciprocal exchange. It works as a potluck, where everybody is both guest and host at the same time.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2002-2018
Funding:
Art foundations, private donors, self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.un-wetter.net/

Uqbar

Berlin
Founded:
2007
↗
Founded as platform for interdisciplinary projects and international cooperation. Unbar is dedicated to the research and promotion of experimental, interdisciplinary artistic and cultural practices in the international context.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.projectspace.uqbar-ev.de/

WESTWERK

Hamburg
Founded:
1986
↗
Gallery/club WESTWERK presents art and music. A group of artists and creatively minded people maintain and program the space as an off-space, art gallery, music club, site for installations, performances, readings and events.
Location:
Hamburg
Founded:
1986
Funding:
Self-funded by artists and cultural activists
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Institutional
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://www.westwerk.org

Zagreus Projekt / Koch / Kunst

Berlin
Founded:
2006
↗
Zagreus Projekt functions as a gallery and gastronomic space. The chef, gallery owner and curator Ulrich Krauss organises exhibitions in relation to food or gastronomic concepts.
Location:
Berlin
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.zagreus.net/

Greece

Enterprise Projects

Athens
Founded:
2015
↗
Enterprise Projects, a project by Danai Giannoglou and Vasilis Papageorgiou. Created out of our need to express and share our point of view concerning contemporary artistic creation.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2015
Funding:
Self funded
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.enterprise-projects.com/

ESTO Association

Athens
Founded:
2021
↗
Design for us is a medium to engage and address current societal, political, and humanitarian issues while at the same time working with clients on visionary commercial projects. Our expertise spans from conceptualization through execution and visual communication, allowing us to seamlessly guide and brand a project from it’s initial sketch to its final realization. Emphasizing the transformative potential of design, we seek to showcase the myriad possibilities that artistic practices can unveil in addressing critical social issues. To this end, we prioritize collaborations with art initiatives, non-profit organizations and groups, and institutions while actively engaging with local communities.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2021
Funding:
Esto Association is based in Exarchia, Athens, and was founded in 2021 by Markela Bgiala, Niki Danai Chania and Konstantinos Doumpenidis. We are forming a creative association of artists, designers, and curators with multidisciplinary backgrounds. Also in 2023, part of the team will be working from Eindhoven in the Netherlands, giving us the opportunity to expand our partnerships to other countries.
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Collective
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://estoassociation.com/

Fokidos

Athens
Founded:
2013-2018
↗
Fokidos is an artist-run space based in a domestic apartment.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2013-2018
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.fokidos.tumblr.com/
https://www.facebook.com/fokidos/

Frown Tails

Athens
Founded:
2010-2014
↗
Frown’s objective lies in the familiarisation of the audience with the methods and practices of new art forms, working as platform for cultural collaborations through open calls.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2010-2014
Funding:
Privately funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
https://frowntails.com
https://frowntails.blogspot.com/

Kunsthalle Athena

Athens
Founded:
2013-2018
↗
Fokidos is an artist-run space based in a domestic apartment.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2013-2018
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
https://www.kunsthalleathena.org/

LO AND BEHOLD

Athens
Founded:
2008-2016
↗
An artist-run, non-profit organisation based in Athens whose aim is to produce and promote cultural activities, with a focus on contemporary art.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2008-2016
Funding:
Membership fees, sponsorship, donations and sales of works.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.loandbehold.gr

Radio Athenes

Athens
Founded:
2014
↗
Radio Athènes institute for the advancement of contemporary visual culture is a non profit organisation registered in Athens.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Privately funded by foundations and the Swiss arts council
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.radioathenes.org/

Salon de Vortex

Athens
Founded:
2009
↗
We are concerned with the complementary relationship of the past to the present, with the playful scarification of history, a constant practice of our collective since its foundation.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
Share:
→
https://salondevortex.wordpress.com

State of Concept

Athens
Founded:
2013
↗
Exhibits Greek artists without gallery representation, shows about two international artists per year, and offers free guidance and consultation services to art graduates.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Outset foundation
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://stateofconcept.org

The Daily Lazy

Athens
Founded:
2013
↗
Exhibits Greek artists without gallery representation, shows about two international artists per year, and offers free guidance and consultation services to art graduates.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Outset foundation
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://www.daily-lazy.com/

Vital Space

Athens
Founded:
2013
↗
Exhibits Greek artists without gallery representation, shows about two international artists per year, and offers free guidance and consultation services to art graduates.
Location:
Athens
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Outset foundation
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
Share:
→
https://vitalspace.org/

Hungary

Budapest Art Factory

Budapest
Founded:
2006
↗
Budapest Art Factory (BAF) is a not-for-profit studio, exhibition and project space founded in 2006.
Location:
Budapest
Founded:
2006
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://budapestartfactory.com

Dinamo

Budapest
Founded:
2003-2006
↗
Founded by Hajnalka Somogyi and Katarina Sevic, Dinamo was an autonomous, non-profit artist-run-space, that functioned on the bases of organic ‘self organisation'.
Location:
Budapest
Founded:
2003-2006
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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IMPEX

Budapest
Founded:
2006-2008
↗
Founded by Katarina Sevic, IMPEX Contemporary Art Provider is an independent, flexible initiative for work, research and experiments in the field of art and culture.
Location:
Budapest
Founded:
2006-2008
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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MŰTŐ

Budapest
Founded:
2016
↗
MŰTŐ is an artist-run independent platform and art collective. Our mission is to create a physical space for young artists to experiment, to create diverse programs, and to build our community through a critical curatorial approach and democratic structure based on DIY culture.
Location:
Budapest
Founded:
2016
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
Share:
→
http://www.mutogroup.hu

Művelődész

Budapest
Founded:
2011-2018
↗
(MÜSZi) is a complex cultural space, hosting community arts projects, creative workshops and various cultural and social events.
Location:
Budapest
Founded:
2011-2018
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
Share:
→
https://www.muszi.org
http://muszi.org/?page_id=61&lang=en

Pince

Budapest
Founded:
2014
↗
PINCE aims at creating a social space for open communication, art discourse, and site-specific, experimental and installation-based collaborative projects with like-minded Hungarian and foreign collectives that take on a mediative role in their own local art community.
Location:
Budapest
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://pinceproject.com

Iceland

BÚRIÐ/ The Tank

Ísafjörður
Founded:
2008-2012
↗
Tiny exhibition space in a cage/tank.
Location:
Ísafjörður
Founded:
2008-2012
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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Ekkisens

Reykjavik
Founded:
2014
↗
EKKISENS is an artist-run space in a basement which aims to promote the work of emerging artists. It also is curating a series of squat exhibitions.
Location:
Reykjavik
Founded:
2014
Funding:
Self funded and sponsorship
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
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https://skynlistasafnid.com

Fjúk

Husavik
Founded:
2013-2017
↗
By inviting artists in residence to work here and through selected exhibitions, films, events, workshops and talks, Fjuk aims to challenge set ways of seeing and thinking.
Location:
Husavik
Founded:
2013-2017
Funding:
Regional cultural funding
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.fjukartscentre.com

Galleri Box

Akureyri
Founded:
2005
↗
GalleriBOX is run by The Visual Artists Society in Akureyri. It exhibit the latest trend in the field of visual arts.
Location:
Akureyri
Founded:
2005
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://galleribox.blogspot.com

Gangurinn / Corridor

Reykjavik
Founded:
1980
↗
The main interest for the Corridor is to introduce new artists to Reykjavík art scene.
Location:
Reykjavik
Founded:
1980
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://ww16.helgi-fridjonsson.com/?sub1=20240411-0134-4603-ba03-3113c8743be6

Geimdósin

Akureyri
Founded:
2005
↗
Workshop, gallery and coffee in a can.
Location:
Akureyri
Founded:
2005
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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https://www.facebook.com/geimdosin

Harbinger

Reykjavik
Founded:
1980
↗
Harbinger is an artist-run project space founded by Steinunn Önnudóttir and Kjartan Friðriksson. We select artists that challenge the local art practice and introduce new angles.
Location:
Reykjavik
Founded:
1980
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://www.facebook.com/harbinger.is

Kling & Bang

Reykjavik
Founded:
2003
↗
Kling & Bang gallery aim to participate directly in the process of creating the artworks, e.g. by producing the works in collaboration with the exhibitors.
Location:
Reykjavik
Founded:
2003
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://kob.this.is/klingogbang/

LungA School

Seyðisfjörður
Founded:
2013
↗
The LungA School is an independent, artist-led institution and situation where we experiment with artistic and land-based practices as a way of doing, thinking and being in order to cultivate, disturb, distort and transform our notions of aesthetics, learning, perception and good judgement.
Location:
Seyðisfjörður
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Icelandic Ministry of Education Participant fees Other public and private funding
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Artist-Run
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
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https://lungaschool.is/en

Mengi

Reykjavik
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Mengi is an operation created and managed by artists. Mengi hosts diverse art events, releases music by some of the nation’s most ambitious musicians, operates an art store and hosts art exhibitions.
Location:
Reykjavik
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
self funded, supported by Reyjkavic town hall
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://mengi.net/about

Nýló

Reykjavik
Founded:
1978
↗
The Living Art Museum, or Nýló, is an artist-run museum and exhibition space with the aim of preserving and exhibiting contemporary art and being a forum for experiments and international discussion about art.
Location:
Reykjavik
Founded:
1978
Funding:
The City of Reykjavík, the Ministry of Culture and Business Affairs, Icelandic Visual Arts Fund and the Icelandic Museum’s Fund
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.nylo.is

Skúrinn/The Shed

Reykjavik
Founded:
2012-2014
↗
The Shed is a multipurpose cultural centre and an artwork in and of itself. It has housed exhibitions by some of Iceland’s finest contemporary visual artists as well as events and performances.
Location:
Reykjavik
Founded:
2012-2014
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.skurinn.com/

Slunkariki

Ísafjörður
Founded:
2012-2019
↗
An artist-run gallery in the corridor of a bigger cultural centre called Edinborg. It is run by the local art club who were founded in 1985.
Location:
Ísafjörður
Founded:
2012-2019
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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https://www.facebook.com/Slunkariki/timeline#

Wind and Weather / Window Gallery

Reykjavik
Founded:
2013
↗
The aim is to connect art in the urban setting of Reykjavik with the people on the street.
Location:
Reykjavik
Founded:
2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.windandweather.is

Ireland

126 Artist Run Gallery

Galway
Founded:
2005
↗
126 curates and programmes an arts space including a contemporary exhibition programme, talks & workshops, residencies and research projects.
Location:
Galway
Founded:
2005
Funding:
The Arts Council, Galway City Council, membership, and private sponsorship
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://126gallery.com

A4 Sounds

Dublin
Founded:
2009
↗
Based in north-inner-city Dublin, A4 Sounds provides facilities and professional development supports to 80 artists. Guided by feminist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, and LGBT-inclusive politics, our mission is to transform the means by which cultural works are produced, accessed, and understood.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2009
Funding:
The Arts Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://a4sounds.org

Askeaton Contemporary Arts

Limerick
Founded:
2006
↗
An annual residency programme situates Irish and international artists in the midst of Askeaton. With no ‘white-cube’ gallery spaces in Askeaton, artists work in public spaces throughout the town.
Location:
Limerick
Founded:
2006
Funding:
The Arts Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ≈ Nomadic
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https://askeatonarts.com

Basic Space

Dublin
Founded:
2009
↗
Working primarily with emerging and early-career practitioners, Basic Space operates a representative programme, prioritising practices by women, black/brown, disabled and queer artists. The majority of projects are hosted or in collaboration with external institutions, where we act as a critical force, challenging attitudes and policy.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2009
Funding:
The Arts Council, Dublin City Council and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.basicspace.ie

Block T

Dublin
Founded:
2010
↗
BLOCK T is an independent creative arts organisation, an entrepreneurial hub and a one-stop-shop for all things creative.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2010
Funding:
Publicly and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.blockt.ie

Brown Mountain Diamond

Revanagh
Founded:
2021
↗
Brown Mountain Diamond supports and helps artists working visually, physically and in sound to develop ambitious art works. We provide artists with residential space, workshops, studios, outbuildings and land to use in order to do this. We organise space and time that artists can dedicate to their practice. Brown Mountain Diamond is a safe space in a very rural location. Artists can use time to think, discuss, feel, look and rest. New work can be set into motion, specific proposed projects can be carried out, artworks can take place. Brown Mountain Diamond applies for public funding, hosts residencies, makes community engaged art, maps the area and puts on dance parties.
Location:
Revanagh
Founded:
2021
Funding:
Self Funding Private Donations Government Funding
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.thebrownmountain.com/

Con: temporary Quarters

Dublin
Founded:
2021
↗
Con: temporary Quarters led by artists Aoife Ward and Eve Woods a satirical project which brings attention to the misuse of and unavailability of space; public space, cultural space and housing through public annoyances, interjections and sculptural habitats.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2021
Funding:
Artist
Type:
  • Collective
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.instagram.com/con_temporaryquarters/

CRUX

Nomadic
Founded:
2020
↗
CRUX, is an artist-run collective founded in 2020 by Frances Hennigan, Lana May Fleming, and Luke van Gelderen. CRUX is dedicated to nomadic digital and physical off-site projects, shifting with the current moment and in line with members practices, it is both momentary and permanent, physical and virtual.
Location:
Nomadic
Founded:
2020
Funding:
The Arts Council of Ireland, the artists individual funding, Culture Ireland, Culture Moves Europe and Kulturforum Witten
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Artist-Run
  • Collective
Status:
  • + Active
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https://rrrreal.com/ https://cruxproject.net/

Damer House Gallery

Tipperary (Roscrea)
Founded:
2013
↗
A collaborative artistic research project, opening a new critical space within which to produce a platform for public awareness for art and criticism.
Location:
Tipperary (Roscrea)
Founded:
2013
Funding:
The Office of Public Works (OPW), Tipperary County Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.damerhousegallery.com

Drogheda Zine Fair

Louth
Founded:
2023
↗
Drogheda Zine Fair is a local celebration of DIY publishing and counterculture collaboratively run with thirtythree.45 in association with Droichead Arts Centre. This annual event is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of traditional publishing, building DIY community connections and promoting underground, punk and grassroots zinemaking practices. Situated in the main gallery of Droichead Arts Centre, visitors have the chance to browse stalls, connect with zinemakers, and purchase zines in a welcoming and inclusive space. Drogheda Zine Fair is free for both participants and attendees.
Location:
Louth
Founded:
2023
Funding:
Louth County Council Grants Under The Arts Act with support in kind from Droichead Arts Centre.
Type:
  • Art Fair
  • Festival
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.instagram.com/droghedazinefair/profilecard/?igsh=bmk3aWZ4eDYwa3E4

Eight Gallery

Dublin
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Eight nurtures a constant platform on which to provide exclusive opportunities for emerging and intermediate artists, writers, curators, performers and musicians.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.eight-gallery.com/

Engage Art Studios

Galway
Founded:
2004
↗
Engage Art Studios is an artist-run studio space and provides an atmosphere of creativity, production, inspiration and opportunity for working artists in the Galway area.
Location:
Galway
Founded:
2004
Funding:
The Arts Council, Galway County Council and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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http://www.engageartstudios.com/

Engage Longford

Longford
Founded:
Info not available
↗
Engage Longford is an artist-led not-for-profit initiative that provides a platform to promote Longford as a hub for contemporary visual art.
Location:
Longford
Founded:
Info not available
Funding:
Longford County Council, self-funded and donations
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.facebook.com/engagelongford1

Faber Studios

Limerick
Founded:
2009-2013
↗
Faber Studios is an artist collective, studio and exhibition space. We promote and facilitate new directions in contemporary art.
Location:
Limerick
Founded:
2009-2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://faberstudioslimerick.blogspot.com

Flat Pack

Dublin
Founded:
2012-2014
↗
Flat_Pack’s membership ranges from recent graduates of visual arts, currently exhibiting artists and curators, to writers on contemporary art. The gallery & studios are seen as a critical platform.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2012-2014
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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https://www.facebook.com/flatpack.galleryandstudios

FLOOD

Dublin
Founded:
2008
↗
FLOOD is a not for profit contemporary art project directed and curated by Paul McAree. FLOOD has now relocated from Dublin to Lismore, Co Waterford, and aims to commission projects in the rural setting of the Blackwater Valley
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2008
Funding:
The Arts Council, Dublin City Council, Lismore Castle Arts
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ≈ Nomadic
Share:
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https://www.flooddublin.com

FOUR Gallery

Dublin
Founded:
2005-2009
↗
FOUR is devoted to the development of an uninhibited artistic exploration of ideas, discourses and new trends in contemporary art and its practices.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2005-2009
Funding:
The Arts Council, Dublin City Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.fourdublin.com/

GRID Collective

Dublin
Founded:
2015
↗
We are a multi-disciplinary group of professional artists with many years of experience in different fields. Our aim is to harness the creativity of the older professional artist and to promote their representation in contemporary mainstream art in Ireland and abroad. In order to maintain an underlying coherence reflecting the collaborative process, we bring elements of our individual practices together in single pieces and a group piece in a broad critical response to a theme or criterion.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2015
Funding:
self-funded : payment through 'pay the artist' agreement with public-funded bodies; sales; personal contributions if necessary
Type:
  • Collective
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.gridcollective.ie/

Island Photographers

Dublin
Founded:
2022
↗
Island Photographers is an artist-led group raising awareness, understanding and engagement with contemporary photography within Ireland. Through workshops, talks, education, exhibitions and the sale of works, Island Photographers’ mission is to further develop photography’s pivotal role within Irish visual culture. Since January 2023, Island Photographers has been organising talks on contemporary photography in Ireland. These events allow photographic artists to share their work and receive critical feedback from their peers. The talks facilitate art professionals, with an interest in photographic practice, to talk about their work and contribute to a broader discussion about photography. 2024 will see Island photographers present a new series of talks approximately every six weeks. We will build on these events and look forward to expanding the group’s activities.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2022
Funding:
We are not funded as of yet.
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Artist-Run
  • Voluntary
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.islandphotographersgroup.com/

Market Studios/Unit H

Dublin
Founded:
2008-2014
↗
The Market Studios provides workspace for artists, writers and curators who enjoy the benefits of peer and cross disciplinary exchange. Our gallery space UNit H has held over 70 exhibitons & events.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2008-2014
Funding:
The Arts Council, Dublin City Council and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.facebook.com/The-Market-Studios-83691744457/timeline

MART

Dublin
Founded:
2013
↗
Providing discourse and development of the arts in Ireland and abroad, partaking in fairs and promoting contributing artists internationally.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2013
Funding:
The Arts Council, Dublin City Council, Galway City Council, Culture Ireland and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
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https://mart.ie

Monster Truck Gallery and Studios

Dublin
Founded:
2006-2017
↗
The project was initiated through a desire to respond to what seemed like an endless flow of creatives who wanted to produce work, have exhibitions and make things happen. Gallery now closed.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2006-2017
Funding:
The Arts Council, Dublin City Council and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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Moxie

Dublin
Founded:
2005-2014
↗
Moxie Studios is a not-for-profit resource organisation providing technical training, event and exhibition space, materials and creative space for makers, artists and organisations.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2005-2014
Funding:
Self-funded and privately sponsored
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
Share:
→
http://www.mox.ie

Muine Bheag Arts

Carlow
Founded:
2020
↗
Muine Bheag Arts is an artist-run organisation based in County Carlow which hosts a programme of exhibitions, workshops and events in the public realm. We aim to promote contemporary art outside of the city context, to collaborate with the local community through multi-disciplinary arts activities and to support emerging and established artists by commissioning new works of art.
Location:
Carlow
Founded:
2020
Funding:
The Arts Council of Ireland Creative Ireland Carlow Carlow County Council Arts Office Creative Places Bagenalstown
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • + Active
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https://muinebheagarts.com/

NeXus Arts

Louth (Drogheda)
Founded:
2009
↗
NeXus Arts is an artist-led independent curatorial duo. Our starting point is to advocate the work of artists we believe to be critically relevant to our times.
Location:
Louth (Drogheda)
Founded:
2009
Funding:
The Arts Council, Louth County Council
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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→
https://www.nexusarts.eu

Niland Gallery

Galway
Founded:
2010-2011
↗
The Niland Gallery was started and run on a voluntary basis by Engage Art Studios as a non-commercial project/space that promoted innovative contemporary artworks and events.
Location:
Galway
Founded:
2010-2011
Funding:
The Arts Council, private support
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://thenilandgallery.blogspot.com

Occupy Space

Limerick
Founded:
2009-2017
↗
Occupy Space is a not-for-profit artist-led organisation whose fundamental objective is to provide support and promote projects for graduate and emerging artists.
Location:
Limerick
Founded:
2009-2017
Funding:
The Arts Council, Limerick City Council and supported by private donations
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.occupyspace.com/

Ormond Studios

Dublin
Founded:
2009
↗
Ormond Studios is a visual arts initiative. The studio was founded by a group of graduates as a self-managed, centrally situated, affordable working space for emerging visual artists.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2009
Funding:
The Arts Council and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.ormondstudios.wordpress.com

Ormston House

Limerick
Founded:
2011
↗
The gallery devises and delivers an experimental programme of multidisciplinary exhibitions and events, and research-based and archival projects.
Location:
Limerick
Founded:
2011
Funding:
The Arts Council, Limerick City Council, membership
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
https://ormstonhouse.com

Pallas Projects/Studios

Dublin
Founded:
1996
↗
Pallas Projects/Studios is an artist-run organisation dedicated to the facilitation of artistic production and discourse, via the provision of affordable artists studios in Dublin city centre, curated projects, research, outreach, and international projects.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
1996
Funding:
The Arts Council, Culture Ireland, membership and fundraising
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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→
http://www.pallasprojects.org/

Project Arts Centre

Dublin
Founded:
1966
↗
Project Arts Centre is dedicated to protecting the independent sector and nurturing the next generation of Irish artists across all forms of the performing and visual arts.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
1966
Funding:
The Arts Council, Dublin City Council, private donations
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
Status:
  • + Active
Share:
→
http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

Raggle Taggle

Limerick
Founded:
2009-2010
↗
Info not available
Location:
Limerick
Founded:
2009-2010
Funding:
Limerick City Council
Type:
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://raggletaggleconsortium.blogspot.com

Sample-Studios

Cork
Founded:
2011
↗
Sample-Studios is an artist-led studio group based in Churchfield, Cork City, which presents an ambitious and diverse programme of visual arts exhibitions in The Lord Mayor's Pavilion, Fitzgerald's Park and St. Luke's Crypt.
Location:
Cork
Founded:
2011
Funding:
The Arts Council, Cork City Council & self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://sample-studios.com

Sarah Walker Gallery

Cork (Castletownbere)
Founded:
2000
↗
Sarah Walker Gallery is situated in an old stone carriagehouse, standing in the sea, at Castletownbere pier. It hosts exhibitions and concerts.
Location:
Cork (Castletownbere)
Founded:
2000
Funding:
Self-funded, Cork County Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://sarahwalkergallery.com

screen service

Founded:
2022
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screen service is a service-oriented artist collective supporting early career artists with screen-led practices in or from Ireland. We are committed to providing a platform for experimentation and connectivity. We curate and facilitate projects encouraging the development of emergent media practice in all its manifestations. We are based online, and work with artists in Ireland, and Irish artists living abroad. The model we sustain is artist-run, peer-led and reliant on and propelled by the creative practitioners we work with. We gravitate towards artists who have practices that embrace (but are not limited to) the following: moving image, photography, multimedia installation, expanded cinema, text, performance, VR/AR, sound, workshops, multi-disciplinary collaboration, web-based, analogue or digital media processes. We recognise the importance of inclusivity and aim to provide space for active, non-exclusionary gathering.
Location:
Founded:
2022
Funding:
We actively pursue sources of funding to maintain and develop projects. We apply for public and private grants and awards. In 2024 all of our projects are operating on grant funding received from Rethink Ireland.
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.screenservice.ie/

Signal Arts Centre

Wicklow
Founded:
1990
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As an inclusive and vibrant creative centre, we: ✓ Support working artists of today and tomorrow by providing space, education, training and opportunity; ✓ Connect art and culture with the community; ✓ Champion a diverse and networked membership through Signal Art Society; and ✓ Promote the value of the arts and its benefits to the wider community
Location:
Wicklow
Founded:
1990
Funding:
Combination of Community Employment Programme for artists grant aided by the Dept. Of Social Protection, a workspace grant from the Arts Council of Ireland, and sales, venue & room hire, workshops, smaller project grants and Fundraising.
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • + Active
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https://signalartscentre.ie/

Solas Art Gallery

Leitrim (Ballinamore)
Founded:
2007
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Solas runs three group exhibitions a year, a junior exhibition and a number of solo exhibitions. It aims to promote the arts in the wider local community.
Location:
Leitrim (Ballinamore)
Founded:
2007
Funding:
The Arts Council, Letrim County Council
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.solasart.ie/

SOMA Contemporary

Waterford
Founded:
2012-?
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SCG, as the people’s contemporary art gallery, provides the city of Waterford with culturally relative art works.
Location:
Waterford
Founded:
2012-?
Funding:
Waterford County Council and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.facebook.com/SomaIreland?fref=ts

Spacecraft Studios

Limerick
Founded:
2017
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Spacecraft is an artist-led studios space which houses 8 full time members and project space which is a large open plan space side-by side to the studio which is available to members & external artists. We also run an associate membership in the project space . Spacecraft’s aim is to create affordable space for emerging artists to create work in the Limerick center of the city.
Location:
Limerick
Founded:
2017
Funding:
Arts council Ireland Limerick Arts Office
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.spacecraftlimerick.com/studios

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

Dublin
Founded:
1983
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Temple Bar Gallery + Studios have temporary exhibitions showing a cross section of contemporary Irish and international visual arts practice, as well as events and talks.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
1983
Funding:
The Arts Council, Dublin City Council, Mason, Hayes and Curran, private donations
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Institutional
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.templebargallery.com/

The Basement Project

Cork
Founded:
2011
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Basement Project Space is an Artist-led initiative co-founded by three Cork-based artists Lorraine Mc Donnell, Stephanie Hough, and Rachel Mc Donnell.
Location:
Cork
Founded:
2011
Funding:
The Arts Council, Cork City Council & self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://basementprojectspace.wordpress.com/

The Black Mariah

Cork
Founded:
2011
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Info not available
Location:
Cork
Founded:
2011
Funding:
The Arts Council, Cork City Council & self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Black-Mariah/100070348835934/

The Complex

Dublin
Founded:
2009
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The Complex is an artist led organisation committed to transforming vacant spaces into centres of professional arts practice, breathing creativity into the community, with a focus on theatre, visual art, studios and rehearsal space.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin City Council, and other public & private funders
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • § Added since 2016
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https://www.thecomplex.ie

The Good Hatchery

Offaly
Founded:
2007-2016
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The Good Hatchery is an experimental project that sets out to challenge the norms for the production and presentation of contemporary art in Ireland today.
Location:
Offaly
Founded:
2007-2016
Funding:
The Arts Council, Offaly County Council and privately supported
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.thegoodhatchery.com

The Guest House / Cork Artist Collective

Cork
Founded:
2004
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The Guesthouse is an artist-led initiative whose objective is to create a place for production, meeting and cross-practice peer exchange that includes forms of public discourse and encounter. Cork Artist Collective was founded in 1985.
Location:
Cork
Founded:
2004
Funding:
The Arts Council, Cork City Council and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.theguesthouse.ie/

The Joinery

Dublin
Founded:
2007-2014
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The Joinery was a not-for-profit art space, which encompassed gallery/project/performance spaces and small studio/workspaces, providing a platform for emerging artists and musicians to experiment and explore.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2007-2014
Funding:
The Arts Council, Dublin City Council, fundraisers and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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https://www.facebook.com/thejoineryd7

The Rogue Gallery (formerly Hive Emerging Gallery and Studios)

Waterford
Founded:
2015-2021
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The Rogue Gallery is an artist-run, not-for-profit space and studios which hosts a programme of exhibitions, art classes and workshops.
Location:
Waterford
Founded:
2015-2021
Funding:
The Arts Council, Waterford County Council and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.facebook.com/TheRoguegallerywt

The Underground Zine Archive

Louth
Founded:
2024
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The Underground Zine Archive is a pop-up project for weirdo, bootleg and punk zines. Against labels, algorithmic recommendations and commercial publishing. The Underground Zine Archive thrives on upheaval, change and unstructured learning. This is a mobile space to browse zines and contribute to conversations around DIY culture.
Location:
Louth
Founded:
2024
Funding:
The Underground Zine Archive currently receives no funding. Our collection of zines are donated or purchased at radical bookshops, zine fairs and gigs.
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Voluntary
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.instagram.com/theundergroundzinearchive?igsh=MWlvMGE5ZXZmbXF6eg==

Thisisnotashop

Dublin
Founded:
2006–2010/11
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Thisisnotashop is an alternative, not for profit arts organisation. We are dedicated to supporting the work of emerging artists from both Ireland and abroad.
Location:
Dublin
Founded:
2006–2010/11
Funding:
Self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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http://www.thisisnotashop.com

Italy

ATRII

Milan & Berlin
Founded:
2015
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In 2015, artist-curator Alice Pedroletti founded ATRII® and its Open Archive and Collective and later, with curator Eugenio Martino Nesi, they founded ATRII® Cultural Association. ATRII is a collective nomadic research project focusing on the concept of the atrium as an existing space that marks out various types of architecture, concepts and theoretical discourses. The research outcomes are archived in the ATRII Open Archive, hosted inside the Cittadella degli Archivi (the official Archive of the City of Milan), one of Europe’s most extensive central archive facilities.
Location:
Milan & Berlin
Founded:
2015
Funding:
ATRII is a self-funded project, or it receives funds from educational projects that directly pay the artists involved. The Institutions we work with support us with logistics or studio-housing spaces.
Type:
  • Collective
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
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https://www.atrii.it/

BOCS (Box of Contemporary Space)

Catania
Founded:
2008
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BOCS is born from the need to create a landmark in the area, aiming is to contribute to the artistic and cultural growth of the place we live.
Location:
Catania
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.bebocs.it/

CHAN Contemporary Art Association

Genova
Founded:
2009
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As a non profit collective curatorial space, CHAN represents different forms of expression and offers collateral activities such as video reviews and performances.
Location:
Genova
Founded:
2009
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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http://www.chanarte.com/eng.htm#

Flip Art Project

Napoli
Founded:
2011
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Flip is an artist-run project based in Napoli. Their new location is located the courtyard of a building in Via Giovanni Paladino near Piazzetta Nilo, in a 1950s noble chapel recovered after a long period of neglect.
Location:
Napoli
Founded:
2011
Funding:
City council, private donor and self-funded
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
  • ◊ Updated since 2016
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https://www.instagram.com/flip_project

Fluxia Gallery

Milan
Founded:
2009-2015
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. (Albert Einstein)
Location:
Milan
Founded:
2009-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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https://www.facebook.com/Fluxia-gallery-151982099500

Gasconade Gallery

Milan
Founded:
2011-?
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Gasconade is a non-profit art space founded in 2011 in Milan. Gasconade's program is devoted to presenting the youngest Milan-based artists and their foreign peers.
Location:
Milan
Founded:
2011-?
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Non-profit / Project
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • † Closed pre-2016
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https://www.gasconade.it

GUM Studio

Turin
Founded:
2008-2013
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GUM studio began in November 2008 in Carrara as an independent gallery space, managed by artists for artists. From autumm 2011 moved to Turin.
Location:
Turin
Founded:
2008-2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://gumstudioinfo.blogspot.com

La Rondine Gallery

Tuscany
Founded:
Closed 2013
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La Rondine Gallery is an artist-run space. The gallery is open only when the La Rondine (sparrow) has arrived from Africa.
Location:
Tuscany
Founded:
Closed 2013
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.larondinegallery.com

MARS (Milan Artist-Run Space)

Milan
Founded:
2008
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Milan Artist-Run Space is a deliberate accident, a physical space and above all a project in itself that decides not to be structured organically.
Location:
Milan
Founded:
2008
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
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http://www.marsmilano.com

PAC Gallery

Milan
Founded:
1947
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In parallel to exhibitions, PAC promotes awareness of contemporary art with accompanying activities and events that foster understanding, deepening the topics discussed by the artist.
Location:
Milan
Founded:
1947
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.pacmilano.it/

Progetto Diogene

Turin
Founded:
2007
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Diogene is as an artistic self-identity group of people working together to create a place for reflecting and exchanging ideas concerning the issues and means of contemporary art practice.
Location:
Turin
Founded:
2007
Funding:
Public & Private (Compagnia di San Paolo)
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
  • Non-profit / Project
  • Studios
Status:
  • + Active
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http://www.progettodiogene.eu

Secondo Stile

Nomadic
Founded:
2013-2015
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II. STILE is a Nomadic Canvas-based Artist-Run Exhibition Space founded by Paolo Chiasera in 2013. It intend to activate a counter-discourse in the form of sustainable definition an exhibition space.
Location:
Nomadic
Founded:
2013-2015
Funding:
Info not available
Type:
  • Artist-Run
  • Artist-Initiated
Status:
  • - Inactive
  • ≈ Nomadic
  • ‡ Closed since 2016
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http://www.paolochiasera.org

Studio Camnitzer

Tuscany
Founded:
1971-2008
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Studio Camnitzer is a studio residence for artists. The Studio is in an 18th century farmhouse completely equipped for printmaking, including the use of digital photography.
Location:
Tuscany
Founded:
1971-2008
Funding: