Calvert 22 News
28 January 2010
Calvert 22’s next exhibition Photo I, Photo You, curated by Iara Boubnova opens today at 10am. To mark the opening of this exhibition, the gallery will host a panel discussion with several of the participating artists and Iara Boubnova. The discussion is open to the public with free admission, for details please click here.
9 December 2009
Please note that Calvert 22 will close for a private event at 3pm on this day. The exhibition will be open as usual from 10am on Thursday 10th December. If you would like more information on hosting a private event in the gallery, please click here.
3 December 2009
Calvert 22 will be participating in First Thursdays, Time Out’s late night opening scheme for art galleries. There will be an exhibition tour at 7pm with curators Mark Nash & Isaac Julien, and participating artist Zeigam Azizov. The gallery will close at 9.00pm. If you would like to join the curator tour please RSVP to rsvp@calvert22.com.
16 October 2009
Mark Nash and Isaac Julien are participating in the Frieze VIP talks. Please see Frieze VIP talk programme for details.
Calvert 22 invites you to attend a tour of Re-Imagining October given by the exhibition’s curators, Mark Nash and Isaac Julien. Please click here for further details.
2 October 2009
“Re-Imagining October”, a groundbreaking, insightful exhibition of Russian film and video and featuring works by leading contemporary Russian artists curated by Mark Nash and Isaac Julien opens to the public at Calvert 22.
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26 September 2009
Calvert 22 organises a talk in Moscow in association with the 3rd Moscow Biennale and Daria Zhukhova’s at the Biennal’s venue, The Garage, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow.
23-27 September 2009
Calvert 22 organises a trip to the 3rd Moscow Biennale for London’s leading critics and the curators of London’s key art institutions, including Tate Modern and the ICA.
2 August 2009
We’re all going on a Summer holiday... Calvert 22 closes for the summer season
26 June 2009
Calvert 22’s second exhibition “Show Me a Hero”, opens to the public with nearly all of the selected works on show in the UK for the first time. During the evening, Jane Neal, Calvert 22’s Artistic Director is in conversation with Romanian artist Serban Savu about his work and the subject of “The New Man” - the Communist socio-political experiment that has come to inform so much of his painting practice.
25 June 2009
Private View of “Show Me a Hero”, Calvert 22’s second exhibition.
22 June 2009
The greatly admired, fiercely respected writer and Observer columnist, Lynn Barber holds her book launch of the book “An Education” at Calvert 22. The great and the good of the London literati attend en-masse to wish her well.
16 June 2009
David Thorp, Curator of “Past Future Perfect” gives a guided tour of the exhibition offering fascinating insights in the artists’ works, their motivations and how their practices reflect, in various ways, the poetic idea of the “Myserious Russian Soul”.
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1 June 2009
Nonna Materkova is invited to join the Board of Trustees for the 3rd Moscow Biennale.
21 May 2009
Calvert 22 hosted a wine tasting event to raise funds for the street children of Mongolia, in association The Lotus Children’s Centre Charitable Trust. Please refer to their website for more information on their valuable work.
12 May 2009
The Official Opening of Calvert 22 sees an excited and bustling crowd of guests attend the inaugural exhibition, “Past Future Perfect”, curated by David Thorp.
23 April 2009
Alongside the London Friends of the Hermitage, Calvert 22 helps to organise a dinner at Sotheby’s, London, to raise funds for the Hermitage’s 20/21 project - the museums’ campaign to extend its display of 20th Century works (at present the collection ends circa 1917) to include key works from the 20th and 21st Centuries. The 2009 Dinner was the first public endorsement of the inclusion of photographic works in the Hermitage collection.
28 February/1 March 2009
Together with a group of sponsors comprised from the London Friends of the Hermitage, the Embassy of the Russian Federation, Calvert 22 helps to organise an education programme for the children of Russian parents living in London. The aims of the programme are to introduce the children to the glories of the Hermitage, the greatest museum in Russia, to keep them fluent in the Russian language and to keep them in touch with their cultural heritage. The programme caters for 60 children per week and began with a series of lectures on Catherine the Great and the Hermitage.
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