Cooper Gallery exhibitions archive

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Explore the links below to see some of the exhibitions that have taken place in the Cooper Gallery.

2021/2022

We could have been anything that we wanted to be and its not too late to change

Event

The Ignorant Art School | Sit-in 1 | Ruth Ewan

Friday 3 September 2021, 11:00 - Saturday 23 October 2021, 16:00

A solo exhibition of new and existing works by internationally celebrated artist Ruth Ewan

Exhibition | Free | No booking required

Feature Image saying Sit-In #2 'To Be Potential'

Event

The Ignorant Art School | Sit-in 2 | To Be Potential

Friday 3 December 2021, 11:00 - Saturday 19 February 2022, 16:00

An exhibition and event project navigates experiments in art education and alternative pedagogical initiatives from the early 20th Century to the present.

Exhibition | Free | Booking required

Visitors looking at a row of framed and unframed drawings hung high up on the white gallery walls

Event

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021

Monday 21 March 2022, 11:00 - Saturday 16 April 2022, 16:00

Cooper Gallery hosts the 2021 edition of prestigious annual open call drawing exhibition

Exhibition | Free | Booking required

2020

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020 A is for Avant-Garde, Z is for Zero: Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen Ambiguous Becoming: Artists’ Moving Image from Canada

2019

Phil Collins: Ceremony Jasmina Cibic: The Pleasure of Expense Anne-Marie Copestake: Looking in either direction

2018

Bow Gamelan Ensemble: Great Noises That Fill The Air Cooper Summer Residency 2018 Politics of Small Places: Paul Noble + Patrick Geddes Ingela Ihrman: We Thrive Here Was Elsewhere: >>FFWD

2017

Phase Three | Ross Sinclair: Real Life Is Dead/Long Live Real Life Ulay: so you see me Phase Three Bruce McLean: I Want My Crown Cooper Summer Residency 2017: Seán Elder Screening Programme: Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen Two Night Stands Chapter Two: Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event? Phase Three | CURRENT: Contemporary Art from Scotland

2016

Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event? Phase Two | CURRENT: Contemporary Art from Scotland Phase Two | REWIND: British Video Art in the 70s & 80s Phase Two | >>FFWD: Artists' Moving Image from Scotland Cooper Summer Residency 2016 : Cullinan Richards Poster Club: NEW Wheat, NEW Mud, NEW Machine ALL SYSTEMS... go

2015

Tomorrow Was a Montage Cooper Summer Residency Exhibition 2015 : THINGNESS? Edgar Schmitz: Surplus Cameo Decor: Sindanao 2 Poster Club: Wheat, Mud, Machine CURRENT |????: Contemporary Art from Scotland Cooper Summer Residency 2015 : THINGNESS? Hugo Canoilas: Someone a long time ago, now. Men Gather, in Speech…

2014

Anna Oppermann: Cotoneaster horizontalis Studio Jamming: Artists' Collaborations in Scotland Kathrin Sonntag Naiza Khan - Disrupting The Alignment

2013

Cooper Summer Residency 2013: Invisible Residency with Mel Gooding and Bruce McLean Georgine Starr - Before le cerveau Affame Knife Edge Press: The Complete Works (so far) Dear Lynda... Cooper Summer Residency 2012: Making Words - Marking Words Estrangement

2012

Cooper Summer Residency 2012: Making Words - Marking Words Edgar Schmitz - Surplus Cameo Decor Lys Hansen & Kraig Wilson - Drawing Breath Viola Yeşiltaç - I Really Must Congratulate You on Your Attention to Detail

2011

A CUT A SCRATCH A SCORE: a comic opera in three parts Cooper Summer Residency 2011 AHM State of Play - Art and Culture in Scotland Design Research Unit: 1942 – 72 An Action of Words Paul Noble Simon and Tom Bloor - The Fascination of Islands

2010

Public Image First Unaffected Unaffected Formal Effects Last Cooper Summer Residency

Image credits

Featured image: He Chengyao, Inside 1.58sq metre, 2017. Performance, Cooper Gallery. Photo by Erika Stevenson.

2020 - Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, Riddles of the Sphinx (film still), 1977. Image courtesy the artists and BFI.
2019 - Jasmina Cibic, The Gift, Act II, 2019. Single channel HD video (still). Courtesy of the artist.
2018 - Bow Gamelan Ensemble, 51° 29'.9'' North - 0°11' East, Rainham Barges, 1985. Courtesy ALTERIMAGE.
2017 - Ulay, S’he, 1973/74. Polaroid type 108. 10.4x8.7 cm. Courtesy Staedel Museum, Frankfurt.
2016 - Mary Kelly, Flashing Nipple Remix, 2005-07. Collection of Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. Courtesy the artist & Pippy Houldsworth Gallery.
2015 - Edgar Schmitz, Surplus Cameo Decor, Episode 1: palasthotel (detail), 2012. Photo by Ross Fraser McLean.
2014 - Anna Oppermann in the Ivory Tower of the ensemble The Artist's Task to Solve Problems (Problem of Space), 1978–1984. Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 1981. Courtesy of the Estate of Anna Oppermann and Galerie Barbara Thumm Berlin.
2013 - Georgina Starr, Before Le Cerveau Affamé, 2013. Photo by Ross Fraser McLean.
2012 - Viola Yesiltac, Untitled, 2012.
2011 - A CUT A SCRATCH A SCORE: a comic opera in three parts, 2011. Photo by Ross Fraser McLean.
2010 - Cullinan Richards, First Unaffected Unaffected Formal Effects Last, 2010. Photo by Ross Fraser McLean.