Part of a Victorian swimming baths and the iron tanks that supplied the water are to open as one of the UK’s most eagerly anticipated new contemporary art spaces, at the birthplace of the Young British Artists. Goldsmiths, the south London art college whose students have included Bridget Riley, Antony Gormley and YBAs such as Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Gillian Wearing and Gary Hume, is to open a 1,000 sq metre gallery designed by the Turner prize-winning collective Assemble. It will have an affinity with overseas university galleries such as the Wattis Institute in San Francisco and Portikus in Frankfurt, and a feel of places such as the ICA and South London Gallery in London, but it will not be exactly like them, its director, Sarah McCrory, hopes. The £4m gallery, which will open in September, has been funded in part by an auction of work donated by alumni, which raised £1.7m. McCrory hopes the gallery will be a great resource and inspiration for Goldsmiths students and staff, but it will be very much a public gallery, for everyone.

Source: The Guardian April 01, 2018 14:37 UTC