Camden Art Centre

Camden Art Centre Contemporary art exhibitions and education since 1965. As a charity rooted in our North West London community, we foster a sense of belonging in our spaces.
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Camden Art Centre is a place for art and artists; a place for the curious, the novice and the expert alike. It’s a place to see, to make, to learn and to talk about contemporary art, whether in our building, attending off-site projects or via our digital forums. Camden Art Centre was originally built as a public library and now combines historic architecture with open, modern spaces, a café, books

hop and secluded garden, with free entry for all. Through our programme of exhibitions, learning, courses, events and residencies, we invite everyone to engage with art and the people that make it – to push boundaries and connect to their own creativity. Our off-site projects share our work with diverse communities and our digital, publishing and broadcast platforms help us connect art, artists and people in ever more immediate and interesting ways. Working closely with local schools, community groups and specialist partners we nurture the next generation of artists, from early years to adulthood, enabling everyone to get up close to art, to meet artists and to make work themselves. Our targeted programmes and sector leadership increase our impact, bringing the arts to those most in need. Much loved by our communities, for over 50 years Camden Art Centre has always worked ahead of the curve, giving early support and exposure to important artists from the UK and abroad including Martin Creed, Kerry James Marshall, Kara Walker, Sophie Calle, Yinka Shonibare, Mike Nelson and Mary Heilmann. We support artists at every stage of their careers, enabling them to make and show work that is relevant for today: brave, challenging, engaging and vital. Camden Arts Centre is a registered charity. Registered Charity Number 1065829

Gallery Three set up for a private event, with flowers by  🌷When not serving as an exhibition space, Gallery Three lends...
07/02/2025

Gallery Three set up for a private event, with flowers by 🌷

When not serving as an exhibition space, Gallery Three lends itself perfectly to creative and bespoke events, film and fashion shoots.

As a versatile space with large bay windows letting in rays of natural sunlight, high ceilings and polished oak parquet flooring, Gallery Three is the perfect room to host your dinner, reception or even daytime meeting.

Find out about hiring our spaces via the link in our bio.

Please note, our Café will be closed this Thursday 6 February for an event.We apologise for any inconvenience caused by ...
05/02/2025

Please note, our Café will be closed this Thursday 6 February for an event.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this closure.

Our Galleries, and Shop remain open to the public, the Café will re-open on Friday.

Now open at Copenhagen Contemporary () is Emma Talbot's 'Are You a Living Thing That Is Dying or a Dying Thing That Is L...
04/02/2025

Now open at Copenhagen Contemporary () is Emma Talbot's 'Are You a Living Thing That Is Dying or a Dying Thing That Is Living?'.

Exploring themes of rebirth, transformation, sustainability and human resilience amid systemic ecological collapse, the exhibition reflects on life’s cyclical nature.

You can shop Emma Talbot's (.emma) edition at Camden Art Centre. 'While the Earth Turned the Other Way' was produced on the occasion of Nicola L. exhibition 'I am The Last Woman Object' at Camden Art Centre in 2024.

"Here, things aren’t how they visually appear to be on the surface. All the roles of an exhibition can have an unnerving...
03/02/2025

"Here, things aren’t how they visually appear to be on the surface. All the roles of an exhibition can have an unnerving equivalence when you sink down into it and give up first impressions. If the meaning of a work is not decided by the artist who made it or by the wall text, then it could be that we have things back to front. There’s no author and no audience, no greater authority – it seems impossible to really meet each other if you don’t, for a while, give up the role assigned to you – and there’s no title and no object, no credentials, no predetermined centre or frame, no mother or father. In this expansive state of being everything is put into movement. Specific details in 'There: a Feeling' might suggest things, but not in a controlled way. There is material and information to recombine through experience and sensation." - Camilla Wills for File Note 154: Gregg Bordowitz

You can read Camilla Wills' essay in the File Note, available to purchase in our Shop or read On Demand.

Photography: Elliot Baxter

Shop the reading list of our current exhibition, Gregg Bordowitz, 'There: a Feeling'.📕Angela Carter - 'The Infernal Desi...
01/02/2025

Shop the reading list of our current exhibition, Gregg Bordowitz, 'There: a Feeling'.

📕Angela Carter - 'The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman'.
📕Juan Rulfo - 'Pedro Peramo'
📕Jean Toomer - 'Cane'
📕Italo Svevo - 'Zeno’s Conscience'

Visit us to shop these titles and more 💫

Are you looking to make art, for free? Our Youth Collective, Transformative Futures, continues this Saturday from 2.30pm...
30/01/2025

Are you looking to make art, for free?

Our Youth Collective, Transformative Futures, continues this Saturday from 2.30pm 💥

This term, these free weekly sessions for people aged 15-25 are led by Ree Bradley and guest collaborators Ain Bailey and dove/Christine Kirubi.

No experience required, sign up via the link in our bio to start creating ✨

Happy Year of the Snake to everyone celebrating 🐍✨Philip Taaffe, ‘Interzonal Leaf with Juvenile Sand Boa’ has been produ...
29/01/2025

Happy Year of the Snake to everyone celebrating 🐍✨

Philip Taaffe, ‘Interzonal Leaf with Juvenile Sand Boa’ has been produced on the occasion of The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and The Cosmic Tree at Camden Art Centre, 2020/2021.

Snakes occur throughout Taaffe’s work as both a liminal symbol— something between the divine and the condemned— and a calligraphic mark. The sand boa, native to the Indus River Valley, is partially invented for the purposes of this image. Similarly, the leaf seen in the background is extrapolated from a 19th century imagining of tropical leaves. The result is a Baudelairian reverie, an “Artificial Paradise” residing between artifice and the paradisiacal.

Tap on the image to read more

All of us at Camden Art Centre are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Jo Baer.Jo had an exhibition at Camden Art ...
27/01/2025

All of us at Camden Art Centre are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Jo Baer.

Jo had an exhibition at Camden Art Centre in 2015, titled 'In the Land of the Giants'.

She will be greatly missed.

Image: Installation view of Jo Baer, 'Towards the Land of the Giants' at Camden Art Centre, 2015. Photo: Valerie Bennett.

Join us next Tuesday for Public Knowledge: Parapraxis present 'Overidentifications', with Akshi Singh and Hannah Zeavin....
23/01/2025

Join us next Tuesday for Public Knowledge: Parapraxis present 'Overidentifications', with Akshi Singh and Hannah Zeavin.

Zeavin and Singh will be in conversation about their forthcoming books, 'All Freud’s Children' and 'In Defence of Leisure'. Zeavin and Singh both found themselves working out something about their lives by means of writing about psychoanalysis.

Last few tickets left, get yours via the link in our bio 🔗

Free entry, donations welcome.
Tuesday 28 January, 7pm.

Thank you to everyone who came along to the exhibition preview last week ✨Just opened at Camden Art Centre, Gregg Bordow...
21/01/2025

Thank you to everyone who came along to the exhibition preview last week ✨

Just opened at Camden Art Centre, Gregg Bordowitz, 'There: a Feeling'.

Visit us
Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm
Thur, 11am-9pm

Photo: Luke Walker

Sneak peek of Gregg Bordowitz, ‘There: a Feeling’, opening tonight at Camden Art Centre.Come along to the preview this e...
16/01/2025

Sneak peek of Gregg Bordowitz, ‘There: a Feeling’, opening tonight at Camden Art Centre.

Come along to the preview this evening from 6.30pm with a performance by the artist at 7pm. Free entry, all welcome 🌚

You are invited to the opening of Gregg Bordowitz ‘There: a Feeling’.Spanning the breadth of his practice, including vid...
13/01/2025

You are invited to the opening of Gregg Bordowitz ‘There: a Feeling’.

Spanning the breadth of his practice, including video, installation, performance, poetry, and prints, ‘There: a Feeling’, is the first institutional show in the UK by American artist, writer and activist Gregg Bordowitz. It offers multiple entry points into his enduring commitment to writing as an activity of thought, manifesting across various forms and modalities. In Bordowitz’s ongoing transdisciplinary project, words are gestures are images are letters.

Join us this Thursday, 16 January from 6.30pm with 7pm performance ‘Open Book: Letters, Marks, Politics.’
Free, all welcome ✨ RSVP via the link in our bio.

We’re hiring ✨Camden Art Centre is looking for an Administration & Personnel Manager. Working closely with the Deputy Di...
08/01/2025

We’re hiring ✨

Camden Art Centre is looking for an Administration & Personnel Manager. Working closely with the Deputy Director and other key staff this is a broad and dynamic role, working across the organisation to lead on creating an efficient, warm and cohesive environment.

Join us tomorrow for the information evening 7 – 7.30pm (online, live, via Zoom - link on bio).

Closing date for applications: Saturday, 18 January by 10am

On this day in 2014, Camden Art Centre presented 'Glenn Ligon: Call and Response', the first exhibition in a UK public g...
03/01/2025

On this day in 2014, Camden Art Centre presented 'Glenn Ligon: Call and Response', the first exhibition in a UK public gallery for the celebrated American artist.

For 'Call and Response' at Camden Art Centre, Ligon presented a new series of large paintings based on the 1966 seminal taped-speech work, 'Come Out', by Minimalist composer Steve Reich. Ligon also created a new neon work, which drew on the words of Daniel Hamm.

You can see a new showcase of Ligon's work at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. 'Glenn Ligon: All Over the Place' is on display until 2 March.

Image: Installation view of 'Glenn Ligon: Call and Response' at Camden Art Centre, 2014-2015. Photo: Valerie Bennett.

Come visit us this week 💫Though our Galleries are closed for installation, you can still visit our Café, Garden and Shop...
01/01/2025

Come visit us this week 💫

Though our Galleries are closed for installation, you can still visit our Café, Garden and Shop.

We are open 11am-6pm 👋
Please note, Camden Art Centre will close at 6pm on Thursdays until 16 January.

Photo: Sopo Ramischwili

Thanks to everyone who visited Nicola L. 'I Am The Last Woman Object' and Jack O'Brien 'The Reward'.While our Galleries ...
30/12/2024

Thanks to everyone who visited Nicola L. 'I Am The Last Woman Object' and Jack O'Brien 'The Reward'.

While our Galleries are closed for the installation of our upcoming exhibition, our Café, Shop and Garden will be open from 11am on Wednesday 2 January.

Join us for the exhibitions preview of Gregg Bordowitz, 'There: a Feeling' on Thursday 16 January from 6.30pm.

Free entry, all are welcome. RSVP via the link in our bio ✨

Photo: Sopo Ramischwili

It's the last weekend to catch our current exhibitions ✨Nicola L.'s exhibition 'I Am The Last Woman Object' encompasses ...
28/12/2024

It's the last weekend to catch our current exhibitions ✨

Nicola L.'s exhibition 'I Am The Last Woman Object' encompasses many of Nicola's large scale functional objects. Taking furniture as their basis, her sculptures expand into exaggerated, oversized and caricatured body parts, and are imbued with a political commentary on equality, collectivity and the place, particularly for women, within society.

Nicola L., 'I Am The Last Woman Object' and Jack O'Brien's 'The Reward' close this Sunday.

Visit us from 11am-6pm all weekend for your final chance to see these exhibitions at Camden Art Centre.

We're open! Visit us to see Jack O'Brien's exhibition 'The Reward'. 'At the heart of Jack O’Brien’s exhibition The Rewar...
27/12/2024

We're open! Visit us to see Jack O'Brien's exhibition 'The Reward'.

'At the heart of Jack O’Brien’s exhibition The Reward is a gargantuan pair of spiral staircases, wrapped in stockinette (tubular sheaths of webbing used in upholstery) and fixed at intuitive intervals with bulging chrome spheres. The spiral staircases have been industrially fabricated, and are fit for purpose, but their utilitarian function has been denied: they are rotated horizontally and suspended from cords.' - Dominic Johnson () on 'The Reward' in File Note 153: Jack O'Brien.

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Camden Art Centre is a place for art and artists; a place for the curious, the novice and the expert alike. It’s a place to see, to make, to learn and to talk about contemporary art, whether in our building, attending off-site projects or via our digital forums.

Camden Art Centre was originally built as a public library and now combines historic architecture with open, modern spaces, a café, bookshop and secluded garden, with free entry for all. Through our programme of exhibitions, learning, courses, events and residencies, we invite everyone to engage with art and the people that make it – to push boundaries and connect to their own creativity. Our off-site projects share our work with diverse communities and our digital, publishing and broadcast platforms help us connect art, artists and people in ever more immediate and interesting ways.

As a charity rooted in our North West London community, we foster a sense of belonging in our spaces. Working closely with local schools, community groups and specialist partners we nurture the next generation of artists, from early years to adulthood, enabling everyone to get up close to art, to meet artists and to make work themselves. Our targeted programmes and sector leadership increase our impact, bringing the arts to those most in need.

Much loved by our communities, for over 50 years Camden Art Centre has always worked ahead of the curve, giving early support and exposure to important artists from the UK and abroad including Martin Creed, Kerry James Marshall, Kara Walker, Sophie Calle, Yinka Shonibare, Mike Nelson and Mary Heilmann. We support artists at every stage of their careers, enabling them to make and show work that is relevant for today: brave, challenging, engaging and vital. Camden Arts Centre is a registered charity. Registered Charity Number 1065829