CHARLES DANBY




CURATORIAL EXHIBITIONS & PROGRAMMES




Installation view of Marcus Coates' film, Ritual for Elephant and Castle, 2009, with Chrome Hoof.
In the exhibition Grand National Art From Brirain at Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway, 2010



Curatorial Posts
Curator, Gallery North, Northumbria University, 2014
Invited Curator at the Siobhan Davies Studios, London 2007-12
Curator at Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway 2009-10



Curatorial / Group Exhibitions and Programmes

2011 - Epilogues It Started With A Car Crash, IMT Gallery London & Off-site
Artists: The Bruce High Quality Foundation Ray Johnson, Alastair Mackinven, Thomas Raat, Vibeke Tandberg
Off-site: Slade Research Centre, London – The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Ladies of The Press, Alternative Art School

2010 - Grand National: Art From Britain, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway
Artists: Annie Attridge, BANK, Glenn Brown, Lynn Chadwick, Spartacus Chetwynd, Marcus Coates, Keith Coventry, Shezad Dawood, Jeremy Deller, Jack Duplock, Angus Fairhurst, Saul Fletcher, Gwen John, Paul Graham, Douglas Gordon, Dryden Goodwin, Isaac Julien, Derek Jarman, Emma Kay, Andrew Mania, Alastair MacKinven, Cornelia Parker, Rebecca Warren, Mark Wallinger
Publication

2009 - London Calling, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Soeul, South Korea (co-curated with IMYU Projects and Nathalie Boseul Shin)
Artists: Fiona Banner, David Batchelor, Dryden Goodwin
Publication

2009 - British Contemporary Art 2009, Han Ji Yun Contemporary Gallery, Beijing (co-curated with IMYU Projects)
Artists: Conrad Shawcross, David Batchelor, Dryden Goodwin, Guy Sherwin, Martin Creed, Nathaniel Rackowe, Peter McDonald, Phillip Allen, Rob Smith, Simon Payne

2008 - L’Apres-Moderne, Projet Midi, 1080 Brussels (in conjunction with Agency Gallery, London) (19 September – 25 October)
Artists: Francesca Anfossi, Athanasios Argianas, Neil Hamon, Karin Hannsen, Karren Tang, Denis Stewart, Estelle Thompson

2008- Invention of Solitude Part 2, City Gallery Leicester & Off-Site (01 September – 28 October)
Artists: Alex Hudson (City Gallery), Rebecca Birch & Rob Smith (All Saints Church), Matthew Lutz-Kinoy (Phoenix Arts)
Funding from Arts Council England

2008 - Soul Stripper, Projet Midi, 1080 Brussels, Belgium (in conjunction with Agency Gallery and Art Brussels) (17 April - 30 April)
Artists: Francesca Anfossi, Stephen Bishop, Olivier Blanckaert, Bas de Wit, Benny Dröscher, Jack Duplock, Wouter Feyaerts, Caron Geary, Patrick Goddard, Matthias Groebel, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy & Andres Laracuente, Andrew Mania, Arif Ozakca, Thomas Raat, Corrado Sassi, Veronika Veit

2008 - Force & Beauty, Yukiko Kawase, Paris (12 February – 8 March)
Artists: Malin Ståhl, Charles Danby, Heather & Ivan Morison, Eloise Fornieles, Lena Nix

2007 - Abandoned Protocol, Ritter/Zamet Gallery, London (curated with IMU Projects) (September - October)
Artists: Seung Woo Back, Hyung Geun Park, Ben Judd, Kate Hawkins, Eloise Fornieles
Publication
Funding from Arts Council Korea

2007 - 2(007) Pranvere, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania (11 May - 24 May)
Artists: Ilir Butka, Sophie Buxton, Eloise Fornieles, Najada Hamza, Kate Hawkins, Esteban Igartua, Sidi Kanani, Shpetim Kercova, Olson Lamaj, Andres Laracuente, Elsa Martini, Jane Millican, Eleanor Moreton, Vladimir Myrtezaj, Francesco Patriarca, Genc Permeti, Lucy Wood

2007 - Air Guitar and Two Teaspoons, Bischoff Weiss Gallery, London (co-curated with Brooke Lynn McGowan) (19 January –24 February)
Artists: Sarah Bridgland, Aisling Hedgecock, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Flore Nové-Josserand, Racheal Pengilley, Antonia Watson, Richard Woods

2006 - The Invention of Solitude, The Nunnery, London (21 September –22 October) (touring to Leicester City Gallery 2008)
Artists: Rob Smith, Rebecca Birch, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Alex Hudson
Publication (64pp) - ISBN 978-0-9549748-1-6 Funding from Arts Council England 2004 - Trackers, PM Gallery & House, London & Offsite with Platform For Art (31 April –04 July 2004)
Artists: Georgina Batty, Stuart Brisley, Ade Ward, Geoff Cox, Amy Cunningham, Alex Graham, Neil Hamon, Francis Ives, Ben Judd, Maria von Kohler, Goshka Macuga, Bruce McLean, Alex Hutchins, Errol Perkins, Lyle Perkins, Nathaniel Rackowe, Gideon Rubin, Rob Smith, Gary Woodley, Charles Danby, Alejandro Ospina
Off-site: Ealing Broadway Underground - Gideon Rubin, Rob Smith, Neil Hamon, Georgina Batty
Publication (104pp) -ISBN 0-9538583-5-9

2002 - Hang the Curator, Centre Space Gallery, London (February 14–27 February)
Artists: 22 artists from the Slade School of Fine Art



Curatorial / Solo Exhibitions and Programmes

2014-15 - Estelle Thompson, White Lies, Oriel Sycharth Gallery, Wales

2014 - Luke McCreadie, In Hinterland, Gallery North, Northumbria University

2014 - Holly Hendry, Holllow Bodies, Gallery North, Northumbria University

2013 - Steven Pippin, Omega = One, Dilston Grove, Southwark Park Galleries (CPG) (15 September – 20 October)

2011-12 - Animated Environments Parts 1-3, Siobhan Davies Studios, London & Off-site
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Part 1 - Guy Sherwin, Siobhan Davies Studios & off-site at South London Gallery, London (16 September – 25 November)
Part 2 – Graham Gussin, Siobhan Davies Studios & off-site in Elephant & Castle, London (04 May – 01 July)
Part 3 – Steven Pippin, Siobhan Davies Studios (06 October – 24 November)

2010 – Alexandra Hughes, Siobhan Davies Studios, London

2009 – Flore Nové-Josserand, Siobhan Davies Studios, London

2008 - Nathaniel Rackowe, Siobhan Davies Studios, London, 17 April –4 July

2007 – Rob Smith, Siobhan Davies Studios, London



Curatorial / Publications

2014-15 - Estelle Thompson, White Lies
Pamphlet: 2pp

2013, Steven Pippin, Omega = One
Pamphlet: 8pp

2010 - Grand National: Art From Britain
Book: 352pp - ISBN 978-82-998342-0-9
Published by Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway

2009 - London Calling
Book: 104pp – ISBN 978-89961789-4-1
Published by Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea

2007 - Abandoned Protocol
Pamphlet: 24pp

2007 - 2(007) Pranvere
Pamphlet: 32pp

2007 - Air Guitar and Two Teaspoons
Audio cassette tape: 2 copies

2006 - The Invention of Solitude
Book: 72pp - ISBN 978-0-9549748-1-6
Published by Aston and Horrax

2004 – Trackers
Book: 104pp - ISBN 0-9538583-5-9
Published by Pitzhanger Gallery Manor & House



















Animated Environments, Graham Gussin's Illumination Rig, Elephant & Castle, London, 2012

Animated Environments: Parts 1-3, 2011-2012

Siobhan Davies Studios, London, Off-site in Elephant & Castle, London & South London Gallery, London
Exhibition, off-site presentation, events programme, and screening programme
Artists: Guy Sherwin,Graham Gussin,Steven Pippin








Epilogues: It Started With A Car Crash, view at IMT Gallery, London, 2011

Epilogues It Started With A Car Crash, 2011
IMT Gallery London & Slade Research Centre, London
Exhibition, events programme, and off-site symposium
Artists: The Bruce High Quality Foundation Ray Johnson, Alastair Mackinven, Thomas Raat, Vibeke Tandberg.






Grand National Art From Britain, Marcus Coates and Chrome Hoof's A Ritual For Elephant & Castle, 2010

Grand National: Art from Britain, 2010
Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway
Exhibition and publication. A survey examining counter-positions of contemporary British Arts practice in relation to London-centred 1990s YBA export, bookended through economic recession points of the early 1990s and late 2000s. Grand National: Art from Britain was the most extensive representation of British Art in Norway in over a decade
Artists: Annie Attridge, BANK, Glenn Brown, Lynn Chadwick, Spartacus Chetwynd, Marcus Coates, Keith Coventry, Shezad Dawood, Jeremy Deller, Jack Duplock, Angus Fairhurst, Saul Fletcher, Gwen John, Paul Graham, Douglas Gordon, Dryden Goodwin, Isaac Julien, Derek Jarman, Emma Kay, Andrew Mania, Alastair MacKinven, Cornelia Parker, Rebecca Warren, Mark Wallinger