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Echo
Curated Group Exhibition 7 Nov 2023 - 18 Jan 2024Barnard is pleased to present Echo, a curated exhibition of works by selected emerging and established artists. Drawn from both the primary and secondary markets and exploring the mediums of...Read more -
Interlude: Tom Cullberg
with special guest Guy Simpson 23 Feb - 11 Apr 2023Interludes , a series of exhibitions in the Barnard gallery's second space, adjacent to the main gallery, was introduced in 2022. Smaller in scale and scope this room allows for...Read more -
Collective
Curated group exhibition 6 Dec 2022 - 10 Jan 2023Barnard is pleased to present the end of the year summer exhibition Collective with new work by Jennifer Morrison, Jo O’Connor, Asha Zero, Alexia Vogel, Justin Dingwall in collaboration with...Read more -
Tom Cullberg
Local Stories 15 Mar - 26 Apr 2022When he was seven, artist Tom Cullberg attempted to scale a bookshelf at his family home in Stockholm, Sweden. ‘It didn’t take long before the whole thing began to topple...Read more -
Barnard Collective 2020
Curated Group Exhibition 26 Nov 2020 - 19 Jan 2021Showcasing signature works by the gallery’s roster alongside works by invited artists, this exhibition reviews highlights from the past year while introducing examples of exciting collaborations planned for 2021. Barnard...Read more -
Hopes and Dreams
Part III 29 Sep - 26 Oct 2020In the words of legendary singer, songwriter, poet and Nobel Prize laureate Bob Dylan '... the times they are a changing'. Indeed, the times they have already changed. As 1939...Read more -
Tom Cullberg
Record/Play 3 Mar - 7 Apr 2020The title of this body of work speaks to artist Tom Cullberg’s sense of painting as an act of recording, but also as one of play, openness, and sense-making. What...Read more -
Barnard Collective 2019
Curated Group Exhibition 3 Dec 2019 - 14 Jan 2020Showcasing signature works by the gallery’s roster alongside works by invited artists, this exhibition reviews highlights from the past year while introducing examples of exciting collaborations planned for 2020. Barnard...Read more -
Monochrome
Curated Group Exhibition 22 Jan - 26 Feb 2019Barnard is pleased to present Monochrome- a group exhibition featuring painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, video installation and collage by selected artists. It is fascinating how much variety can exist within...Read more -
Barnard Collective 2018
Curated Group Exhibition 4 Dec 2018 - 14 Jan 2019Barnard is pleased to present our end of year exhibition Barnard Collective. Showcasing signature works by the gallery’s stable alongside works by invited artists, this exhibition reviews examples of highlights...Read more -
Tom Cullberg
Finding New Life in an Old Form 21 Aug - 2 Oct 2018The centrepiece of Cullberg’s exhibition is the large painting Finding New Life in an Old Form (2016), which depicts eighteen newspapers on a neutral ground. The work is reminiscent of his well-known Book Portraits series (2009–on-going) and was inspired by an October 2015 edition of the Cape Argus guest edited by eight students involved in the #FeesMustFall student movement. Cullberg, a compulsive newspaper reader since his youth in Sweden, was deeply moved by the student-edited edition, later remarking “It felt like it was something that was alive, something that was direct. It didn’t have all these filters. It had something personal, the translation of personal experience into print.”Read more
Cullberg’s paintings share a similar quality to his analysis. His practice is very much occupied with rendering sensate experiences using painted forms. Among the large paintings on exhibition, many are rendered in the style of his earlier Book Portraits series, but here include idiosyncratic montages of vinyl LPs, magazines, newspapers and objet d’art. His paintings also depict mid-twentieth-century domestic furniture by Danish designers Børge Mogensen, Swedish Bruno Mathsson and Hans J. Wegner and Italian-born American Harry Bertoia. “I know what it is like to sit in those chairs,” says Cullberg of the furniture portrayed in his work. “I know the feeling of the material. I have memories of those objects.” This sensorial knowledge is, however, not a sacred value. Many of the objects in Cullberg’s paintings are altered and lightly fictionalised. The inauthentic has equal value in his paintings, which offer more than simply unprocessed descriptions of the material world.
The chairs are often open structures that need to be filled; a motorcycle needs to be ridden somewhere; a pencil needs to make its mark. Similarly the images of magazines, books and the like (subtlety reimagined by Cullberg from their original source) offer the promise of data and information against a backdrop of woven linen. The origin of the word ‘text’ is the Greek ‘textus’ the same as for textile and reminding us that a text has weft and wove and the printed letters mean nothing until uttered, read or activated by human agency. -
-nano 1.2
Curated Group Exhibition 5 Jun - 10 Jul 2018A concept of relative simplicity, nano- 1.2 invited artists to zoom in, scale down, shrink, condense, encapsulate and compact; submitting works no larger than 20 x 20 cm. The exhibition is an...Read more -
Barnard Collective 2017
Curated Group Exhibition 6 Dec 2017 - 23 Jan 2018Showcasing signature works by the gallery’s stable alongside works by invited artists this exhibition reviews examples of highlights from the past year while introducing examples of exciting collaborations planned for...Read more -
- nano 1.1
Curated Group Exhibition 26 Jul - 15 Aug 2017Barnard Gallery is pleased to present its group exhibition, nano- 1.1 A concept of relative simplicity, nano- 1.1 invited artists to zoom in, scale down, shrink, condense, encapsulate and compact;...Read more