Eastside Projects is an artist-run space

Artist-run space

An artist-run space is a gallery space run by artists, thus circumventing the structures of public and private galleries.Artist-run spaces have become realised as an important factor in urban regeneration...

 as public gallery

Art gallery

An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...

 in Digbeth

Digbeth

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, Birmingham

Birmingham

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, England

England

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Eastside Projects was conceived by artist-curator Gavin Wade and is organised by a founding collective comprising Simon and Tom Bloor, Céline Condorelli, Ruth Claxton and James Langdon. The gallery opened on 26 September 2008 with its inaugural exhibition, This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things. Eastside Projects is located on Heath Mill Lane, and with VIVID

VIVID (media arts)

VIVID is a centre for the production and exhibition of media art, located in the Digbeth area of Birmingham, England.Established in 1992, VIVID works with contemporary new media and artist moving image through production, commissioning, exhibition and event programmes.VIVID commissions and exhibits...

 and Ikon Eastside

Ikon Eastside

Ikon Eastside is an art gallery in the Digbeth area of Birmingham, England.The gallery opened in 2006 as a second venue for the long-established Ikon Gallery in Brindleyplace...

 the gallery is at the heart of Birmingham's cultural salvation.

The gallery has a high-profile exhibitions and events programme. Alongside ambitious group exhibitions that have featured artists and organisations such as Art & Language

Art & Language

Art & Language is a shifting collaboration among conceptual artists that has undergone many changes since its inception in the late 1960s. Their early work, as well as their journal Art-Language, first published in 1969, is regarded as an important influence on much conceptual art both in the...

, Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner is an American conceptual artist. Mr. Bochner received his BFA in 1962 and honorary Doctor of Fine Arts in 2005 from the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University...

 and Grizedale Arts

Grizedale Arts

Grizedale Arts is a contemporary arts residency and commissioning agency in the central Lake District in rural Northern England. It conducts cultural projects locally, nationally and internationally...

, past solo shows include Liam Gillick

Liam Gillick

Liam Gillick is a British conceptual artist who lives in New York City. He is often associated with the artists included the 1996 exhibit Traffic, which first introduced the term Relational Art.-Life and career:...

, Shezad Dawood

Shezad Dawood

Shezad Dawood is an artist based in London.Dawood was born in London. His multi-media works are inspired by his varied cultural heritage, having a Pakistani mother, Indian father and an Irish stepmother...

, Simon and Tom Bloor, and talks from Dan Graham

Dan Graham

Dan Graham , is a conceptual artist now working out of New York City. He is an influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both a practitioner of conceptual art and an art critic and theorist. His art career began in 1964 when he moved to New York and opened the John Daniels Gallery....

and Beatrice Gibson. Eastside Projects' offices sit at the back of the gallery within a wooden structure designed by artists Heather and Ivan Morison called Pleasure Island (Birmingham) 2008.

Eastside Projects also runs a dynamic associates programme, Extra Special People.

External links

• Eastside Projects website