Russian Art Week tour - Saturday 1st June

Contemporary Key are teaming up with Russian Art + Culture to highlight some of the best contemporary art in the capital. 

This June, we will be working in conjunction with Russian Art and Culture – previewing the best contemporary Russian and Eastern European art on show in the capital.

The tour will be as follows:

1. Erarta Galleries: Vyacheslav Mikhailov

2. Pace Galleries: Alexander Calder

3. Hauser + Wirth: Trade Routes

End: The Living Room, Heddon Street.

More information on the individual exhibitions will follow. However this tour promises to be an exciting mix of contemporary photography, the politics of art production and an introduction into Russia’s Cultural Scene.

Russian Art Week

Russian Art Week is a bi-annual event which takes place in May and November. The major auction houses of Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Bonhams and MacDougall’s all join together to present a series of Russian sales in London. Russian Art Week promotes other Russian Art Events that take place in the capital during this time. For more information please see: http://www.russianartweek.co.uk

**Special Ticket Price for Russian Art Week**

Tickets for this tour are £15.

Please contact us to book your ticket and reserve your place. info@contemporarykey.co.uk

Image: Alexander Calder at Pace Galleries

Bond Street Success

Thank you to everyone who came on our Bond Street tour on Saturday - what a great group we had. We were dazzled by Barnaby Hosking at Max Wigram, who, together with Mustafa Hulusi, brought a bit of spiritualism to the tour. The group was mesmerised by the fluttering butterflies and interchange of black and gold, light and dark, positive and negative thoughts. 

Meanwhile Nathan Cash Davidson at Hannah Barry’s space provided the most intriguing exhibition as the tour attempted to decipher the content of his intricately worked pieces as well as get their heads around some of his famously imaginative titled. We also had the pleasure of meeting James Capper and having the introduction to his most recent works and upcoming projects. 

Gavin Turk at Ben Brown Fine Arts provided us with a short view of 20th Century art history and Helmut Middendorf’s abstract canvases at MOT International challenged our conventional perceptions of reality and gave a new meaning to an artist’s take on ‘archival violence’. His collages were the particular stand out point of the day as he presented us with found photographs, neon colour palette and an abstract reality.

Any time you’re around Bond Street - pop into these galleries and see what works they have on offer - Everbean and Hush also offered fantastic coffee and cocktails so explore the mews areas behind Bond Street! 

Photo: Contemporary Key admiring Mustafa Hulusi at Max Wigram

Bond Street tour, Saturday 27th April, 2-4pm

We will be helping you to look at Bond Street with an artistic eye – showing you the contemporary art galleries that are surrounded by shoe shops and designer hotspots. This is the art insight that will change your perception of  one of Britain’s biggest shopping streets!

Tickets are £18. 

Please contact info@contemporarykey.co.uk for tickets and more information. 

Aesthetica Blog Review of Contemporary Key

“This is for art lovers, art beginners, those who want to experience some culture in the capital, and those who once a month, fancy something informative and different. ”

Thank you to Aesthetica Blog for our great review!

Read it here:

http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/blog/contemporary-key-london/

Contemporary Key are the official tours at Art13, London’s hottest new art fair

1st-3rd March, we will be hosting tours at London’s newest International Art Fair, Art13. For three days we will be offering tours around the gallery stands: focusing on individual works, art world trends and cultural differences seen at over 120 galleries from 30 countries.  We also have free tickets for you and your friends and family to come and explore the fair, giving you the opportunity to discover new artists and galleries. 

Please contact us for more details: info@contemporarykey.co.uk

For more information please see:

http://artfairslondon.com/tours

Image: El Anatsui, In the World But Don’t Know the World, 2009, Aluminium and copper wire, 560 x 1000cm. Photo Jonathan Greet. Courtesy October Gallery, London 

Contemporary Key host Private View of Lumen Photography Prize

Tonight, 6:30 – 8pm

Come and join us at Gallery 27 on the infamous Cork Street for drinks and a private view of The Lumen Prize, the world’s first digital fine art competition and global tour to celebrate the very best contemporary photography.

Contemporary Key tour of Art Projects, London Art Fair

Tomorrow we are gaining exclusive insight into Art Projects section of London Art Fair thanks to a tour led by curator Pryle Behrman.  For us, the best stands in the section are those from Sunday Painter and Hannah Barry, who are showing solo exhibitions by Samara Scott and Oliver Griffins respectively. Other stands to note are Ceri Hand Gallery, Beers.Lambert who are showcasing artists selected in their competition, 100 Painters of Tomorrow, and Poppy Sebire who has dedicated a stand to the works of Georgie Hopton. There are also galleries offering affordable prints and collectable items - perfect for the collector looking to start their exhibition! While you’re there, make sure you pick up your copy of the Catlin Art Prize 2013 so you can see the young artists shortlisted in this highly regarded award.

Photo: Courtesy of Sunday Painter. Samara Scott at London Art Fair. Mixed Media Installation.

Contemporary Key January Events

We’ve just announced our upcoming events this month - Get involved!

LONDON ART FAIR

Saturday 19^th January, 3pm.

Tickets: £18

Curator led tour of Art Projects

We are offering you the exclusive opportunity to attend a curator led tour around Art Projects– the young gallery section of the London Art Fair, presenting emerging artists and fresh talent.

Galleries in this section include some Contemporary Key favourites: Hannah Barry Gallery, The Sunday Painter and Beers.Lambert.

You will also receive a free ticket to London Art Fair so you can enjoy what the rest of the fair has to offer.

For more information of the fair itself, please see:

www.londonartfair.co.uk

PRIVATE VIEW OF THE LUMEN PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE

Wednesday 23^rd January, 6-30 – 8pm

Free

Come and join us at Gallery 27 on the infamous Cork Street for drinks and a private view of The Lumen Prize, the world’s first competition and global tour to celebrate the very best contemporary photography.

For a taster:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/9597001/The-Lumen-Prize-2012-for-digital-fine-art-shortlisted-images.html 

Please contact us for tickets and more information.

Image: Oliver Griffin & Henry Stringer ‘The Hannah Barry Gallery Artists’ Mini Ghetto Velodrome Association 5’ Courtesy of Hannah Barry Gallery

Happy New Year

We wish you a very happy New Year from all of us at Contemporary Key. We have an exciting 2013 ahead of us with plenty to entice you with.

Stay tunned…

Thank you to all those who came on the Fitzrovia tour!

We had a great group of eager Art Fanatics and Fitzrovia couldn’t have treated us better. 

Danielle Horn kindly took us through the geometrical compositions of Sinta Werner. Emphasising the flux in dimensions between photography, sculpture and architecture, Werner’s works had several members of the groups baffled and simultaneously delighted. Moving on to Bernd Ribbeck and the exploration of the spiritual in the geometric was sharply contrasted to Anna Bjerger’s figurative painting at Paradise Row. Bjerger’s paintings looked back on Art for Arts Sake and the aesthetic nature of art in this conceptual era and focuses on the materiality of the medium. We finished the tour at Rosenfeld Porcini with an excellent tour by Ian Rosenfeld. This show offered contemporary take on painting as a medium and explored how the traditional ‘romantic’ notion of painting can be reinvigorated in contemporary art production. Favourites included the work of Enrique Brinkmann, Piero Pizzi Cannella and Nadia Hebson to name a few. 

Luckily, Contemporary Key has friends in the right places and Dabbous opened it’s downstairs bar early just for us! Expanding our cocktail knowledge as well as expanding our knowledge of contemporary painters led to an excellent afternoon in Fitzrovia! 

Enrique Brinkmann at Rosenfeld Porchini