崛起之星 | 2020 年支持年轻艺术家的平台

We round up the initiatives supporting emerging art across the globe

Enorê, Untitled Self-Arrangement, 2020. © Enorê / Image Courtesy of Enorê

As the effects of Covid-19 continue to shake the art world, many platforms and institutions are turning their focus, or continuing to nurture young talent in a critical time. From billboards splashed across cities, to biennales devoted to up-and-comers, we tracked down the global platforms championing the cultural voices of the future.

Tate Collective - billboards

Artists’ responses to Urvashi, Staged Portrait, Gulmohar Park, Delhi by Sheba Chhachhi at Seven Sisters. Image courtesy Tate and Jack Arts

Following a Tate Collective open call, billboards across London have been filled with the work of young creatives. Members from the Tate Collective scheme, which is open to 16-25-year-olds, were invited to submit works in response to seven artworks in the Tate collection including Sheba Chhachhi Urvashi’s Staged Portrait, Gulmohar Park, Delhi, John Everett Millais’s Ophelia and Guerrilla Girls’ Dearest Art Collector. Thanks to space offered up by street advertising agency Jack Arts, the selected entries are on view until 23 August across the capital next to the work from Tate’s collection that inspired them. Following 800 submissions, from poetry to illustration and even make-up looks, 48 works were selected, and each artist paid for their work. Maria Balshaw, director of Tate, said, ‘It is heartening to see immense creativity emerge at such a time of uncertainty for so many. Tate Collective members have engaged with Tate’s collection in ways that are truly inspiring. I hope people all over the city are delighted and surprised by the new work they find in their communities.’ tate.org.uk; @tatecollective

VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art

Alisa Omelianceva, Screen Settings, 2020. Site-specific installation for the interior facade of the Museum of Moscow. Image courtesy of the artist

Launching on 5 September, the Moscow Biennale for Young Art will kick off with artists creating site-specific works for the interior facades of the Museum of Moscow. Following an open call which resulted in 370 applicants from 64 countries, an expert panel whittled the selection down to four projects by artists Alisa Omelianceva, Igor Samolet, Roma Bogdanov and Alina Glazoun. As a result of Covid-19 restrictions, the original biennale, which was due to begin in July, was rescheduled with an altered format comprising staggered events. Later components of the programme will include a partnership with the Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair and a portfolio review programme which aims to spotlight young artists from different regions of Russia. ‘At its core, the Biennale for Young Art is not a project or an exhibition but a process, a range of tools that help us create and maintain the living environment for emerging art.’ says Alexey Novoselov, commissioner of the VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. youngart.ru; @young_biennale

‘Embark III’ - Gallery Ark

Mausham Raj Manglla, Untitled 17, 2019. Watercolor and ink on paper. Courtesy of the Artist, and Gallery Ark

For the last three years, Gallery Ark, based in Vadodara, India has teamed up with the University of Baroda’s Faculty of Fine Arts for ‘Embark’, an exhibition supporting young artists one year after completing their master’s courses. This year, in the midst of Covid-19, conditions were a little different. Adamant that the show must go on, the gallery adopted for a pared-back approach, moving from a physical exhibition to the digital realm. For ‘Embark III’, eight artists were shortlisted including Mausham Raj Manglla who is exhibiting vivid watercolour portraits and Kavya Kumar Bhatt, whose intricate and surreal ink compositions use the stippling technique to create an air of visual deception. As part of its push to celebrate young art, Gallery Ark has forgone its commission, with artists receiving 100 per cent revenue from sales of their work. ‘As a part of the contemporary art ecosystem, we felt it was important to create a platform to support promising talent at this critical point in their careers,’ says gallery director, Nupur Dalmia. ‘This year, the logistics of selection and display were much trickier, but we are delighted to finally have been able to pull off the exhibition in its digital iteration.’ theark.in; @gallery_ark

The New Artist

Anusheh Zia, Ravine, 2018. © Anusheh Zia / Image Courtesy of Anusheh Zia

An online residency programme spotlighting recent graduates from across the UK, The New Artist was launched in early August in direct response to the pandemic’s effects on emerging artists at critical points in their careers. Founder Alexandra MacKay sought to carve a space for young artists at a time of turbulence and funding cuts across the arts. Every ten days, a new artist is given an online residency as part of a curated programme offering a diverse mix of artists and media. Forthcoming residencies include work by Isobel Hill, who captures everyday chance events and explores grief as a vehicle for nostalgia, interdisciplinary Brazillian artist, Enorê who uses image-capturing technologies as stand-ins for the naked eye, and Anusheh Zia, whose multi-disciplinary practice explores spirituality and Islamic faith. thenewartist.co.uk; @_the_new_artist

Hauser & Wirth - ‘In Real Life’

Louise Hall, 13 Dead, Nothing Said, 2020. Cyanotype African wax print fabric, Cyanotype screen-printed white cotton fabric, African wax print, fabric, cotton thread. © the artist. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac & Jeune Création

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac’s 2,000 sq m Paris Pantin space. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. Photography: Philippe Servent.

This September, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac will offer up its sales infrastructure and its largest Paris space to stage an exhibition of 60 young regional artists and galleries. The artists were selected by the committee of Jeune Création, an emerging artists association founded in 1949. All sales revenue from the show will be given directly to the galleries and artists involved. Taking place inside the gallery’s sprawling 2,000 sq m exhibition space, Paris Pantin from 12-26 September, the show will also involve a diverse programme of photography, performance and video. ‘This is an unprecedented time for so many, but within our art world community it is particularly challenging for the next generation of artists and young galleries’, explained Thaddaeus Ropac. ‘By offering our largest gallery space and our full infrastructure to present work by 60 young artists we can support those in our community who are most in need.’ ropac.net; jeunecreation.org

Tong Art Advisory - ‘Open Air’

Nevine Mahmoud, Toy/Offender, 2020. Hand-blown glass, polyester resin. Courtesy of Soft Opening

Edoardo Monti & AucArt - ‘(Very) Young Italians’

Samuel Rosi, Lux Omnia Vincit, spraypaint on canvas.