Bespoke commissions

Now in its fifth year, Outset UK was delighted to announce that the 2022 The Robson Orr TenTen Award has been awarded to Rachel Whiteread DBE ...

Now in its sixth year, Outset UK was delighted to announce that the 2023 Robson Orr TenTen Award has been awarded to Michael Armitage.In Ngaben, an exquisite new lithograph commissioned ...

Me, Myself and I was an exhibition curated by Jens Hoffmann, that aimed to critically and creatively investigate the following concerns in relation to museum collections and their ...

Outset was proud to support Amie Siegel's 'Vues/Views' as part of Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York in November 2024.'Vues/Views' is ...

Outset was delighted to support Lawrence Lek’s Empty Rider at the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement (A Cosmic Movie Camera) in partnership with arts patron Scott Collins (24 January–16 May ...

Outset UK supported Mika Rottenberg's single-channel video installation (sound, colour), 26 minutes, 36 seconds, commissioned by Skulptur Projekte Münster.For her film installation Cosmic Generator (Tunnel Variant), Mika Rottenberg ...

After which, I am no more I, and you are no more you was a site-specific commission by artist Imran Qureshi ...

Outset supported Art on the Underground's large-scale public commission of permanent and temporary artworks by Scottish-born, Belgium-based artist Lucy McKenzie, titled Pleasure’s Inaccuracies.McKenzie is fascinated by the decoration ...

Lessons of the Hour is a major ten-screen film installation by celebrated British artist Isaac Julien CBE RA. The work offers a poetic meditation on the life and times of ...

Studio Voltaire re-opened in October 2021, with a new Outset - commissioned permanent space, The Anthea Hamilton Garden. The commission will see the Studio Voltaire public ...

Now in its third year, Outset UK was delighted to announce that the Robson Orr TenTen Award has been awarded to Yinka Shonibare CBE, who has created the wonderfully complex ...

Outset supported the seventh edition of Art Licks Weekend, centred around the theme of INTERDEPENDENCE, inviting the audience to consider the subject with 63 free exhibitions and events ...

Now in its second year, Outset UK was delighted to announce that the Robson Orr TenTen Award has been awarded to Tacita Dean CBE. The print has been commissioned ...

‘Linear time is a western invention; time is not linear, it is a marvellous entanglement, where at any moment points can be chosen and solutions invented without beginning or end.’ ...

In 2019 Outset supported Thomas Hirschhorn’s durational project in Biel, The Robert Walser - Sculpture, curated by Kathleen Bühler.Through this project, Swiss artist Hirschhorn (recipient of the 2018 ...

Outset UK supported the publication for the exhibition The Enigma of the Hour: 100 Years of Psychoanalytic Thought (Freud Museum, London) ...

Outset England and Israel supported artist Maya Attoun's exhibition "The Charms of Frankenstein" in the Jewish Museum, London, curated by Dominik Czechowski.Maya Attoun's exhibition celebrated the ...

Outset has provided support to realise the documentary Cubitt 25 Years: An Artist Led History, produced by Cubitt’s former Curatorial Fellow Morgan Quaintance and premiered at the ICA ...

Charles Avery was a guest of Outset Bialik Residency during July 2017. During his residency, Avery worked on ArtBus, a community outreach project at the Petach Tikva Museum ...

Outset Contemporary Art Fund has launched a partnership with Dorotheum London to support the production of public art projects curated by British museums. The annual Outset x Dorotheum ...

An exhibition of a new and ambitious body of work by artist Shezad Dawood opened in May 2017 to coincide with the 57th Venice Biennale. The show marked ...

OUTSET Chaperts ENGLAND, GERMANY_SWITZERLAND, ISRAEL and NETHERLANDS will fund the installation of Mika Rottenberg and give it to an institution that still has to be announced.For Skulpturen Projekte Münster 2017 ...

Outset is proud to have supported five productions for the 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, The Encyclopeadic Palace curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Director, The ...

Outset is proud to have supported a production by Thomas Weinberger for the 5th Thessaloniki Biennial Between the pessimism of the intellect and the optimism of the will curated by ...

Outset is proud to have supported various productions for the 56th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia All the World’s Futures curated by Okwui Enwezor, Director, Haus der ...

Outset UK and Israel are proud to have supported productions for the '20th Biennale of Sydney: The future is already here - it’s just not evenly distributed' curated ...

Outset was proud to support a production by Richard Wentworth for the 12th Havana Biennial: Between the Idea and Experience curated by Jorge Fernandez Torres and Margarita Gonzalez ...

Outset is proud to have supported productions for the 10th Gwangju Biennial, Burning down the house curated by Jessica Morgan, Director, Dia Art Foundation, New York.ALLORA & CALZADILLA ...

Outset is pleased to have supported productions by Kristina Buch, Susan Hiller and Goshka Macuga for documenta(13) curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Director of Museo d’Arte Contemporanea - Castello di Rivoli, ...

Outset supported the production of two audio works by acclaimed British artist Anne Hardy, created specifically for Field, a major exhibition of new work presented by ...

The Moving Image Fund for Museums is an initiative under the curatorial direction of Steve McQueen (b. 1969, UK) to enrich regional collections in Great Britain with film and video ...

In partnership with Second Home, Outset supported The Magazine Sessions 2016 at the Serpentine Galleries: site-specific evenings of performance.Launching in February 2016, this series of immersive performances programmed ...

Outset Greece and UK supported State of Concept presenting the group exhibition 'Through the Fog: Descripting the Present' curated by Nick Aikens. The exhibition included works by six ...

Outset Netherlands together with Outset UK proudly supported Hedwig Houben’s presentation of Imitator Being Made at Lofoten International Arts Festival (LIAF), Disappearing Acts, in Norway in August 2015.Imitator Being Made ...

In 2015 Outset Contemporary Art Fund supported the exhibition 'Pablo Bronstein and the Treasures of Chatsworth' at Nottingham Contemporary.Chatsworth has made its largest loan to an exhibition in Britain ...

In 2014 the International Production Fund (IPF) commissioned 'Srinagar', a new work by Praneet Soi for EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial 2014 AGITATIONISM, curated by Bassam ...

In 2014 Outset England supported the production of Chinook, and related new work by Fiona Banner for her exhibition 'Wp Wp Wp' at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. ...

In 2014 Outset England in association with the Art Fund supported the production of We Are Here, a new single-screen video work by Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing.We Are Here is ...

In 2014 Outset supported the installation and exhibition of Neither Appearance nor Illusion by acclaimed artist Joseph Kosuth at the Musée du Louvre, Paris.Sentences written in French using neon tubing ...

In 2014 Outset and Art Licks jointly commissioned Sky Line, a digital project by artist Lawrence Lek (b. Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1982) ...

In March 2013 Outset supported a spectacular fundraising initiative, The Big Bamboozle at Camden Arts Centre. For one afternoon and evening only, the entire building and garden was ...

At the 12th Biennale de Lyon titled Meanwhile... Suddenly, And then, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Outset supported Turner Prize nominated artist Laure Prouvost.The two works ...

In 2013 Outset was delighted to facilitate a new work by Isaac Julien, Playtime, which comprises a multi screen installation, and Kapital, a double-monitor film, exploring current debates ...

Coinciding with the inauguration of the new JW3 building in London, Outset England was delighted to support Decommissioned, a new work by internationally acclaimed British artist Catherine Yass. ...

Occupying an entire office floor on Folkestone’s Sandgate street, Smadar Dreyfus’ audiovisual installation immersed the visitor in documentary recordings of seven lessons and a school break from mainstream schools in ...

In 2012 Outset supported the long awaited film Yellow Patch, by Zarina Bhimji at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. Shot on location in India, the film is ...

Outset supported The Forgetting of Proper Names, a new exhibition at Calvert 22. Shaped as a multi-strand two-month season, the exhibition focused on vibrant contemporary art and culture ...

On the occasion of the 7th Berlin Biennale, curated by Artur Zmijewski and Joanna Warsza, Outset supported the accompanying publication Forget Fear.Forget Fear includes texts and ...

Outset UK supported Latifa Echakhch’s Frieze Projects in 2012.Latifa Echakhch’s work addresses contemporary globalised culture through simple, elegant gestures and formal restraint. For her project, Echakhch turned a patch of ...

For dOCUMENTA (13) Susan Hiller has devised a sculptural presentation of her personal collection of songs relating to political freedom. Five jukeboxes situated in different bars ...

In 2012 Outset supported the production of Goshka Macuga's Of what is, that it is; of what is not, that is not, a work commissioned for dOCUMENTA (13).Macuga ...

In 2011 Outset supported To Do, an exhibition of new work by London based artist Emma Hart.In a new piece for Matt’s Gallery Emma Hart called ...

In 2011 Outset supported I saw a square triangle sine, an exhibition of new work by London based artist Haroon Mirza.Using an eclectic range of objects and elements ...

In 2011 Outset supported Happy Days in the Art World, a performance by artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset at Performa 11. The artists Elmgreen & Dragset ...

Outset was delighted to support Camden Arts Centre, a contemporary visual arts venue in North London with a long and rich history of exhibitions and education outreach programmes. The Big Rip ...

In December 2011 Outset supported the production of Undance, a collaboration between internationally acclaimed composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, Olivier Award-winning choreographer Wayne McGregor and Turner Prize-winning visual artist ...

In January 2012 Outset supported the production of Survivor, a collaboration between Hofesh Shechter and Antony Gormley, who for the first time worked together on a ...

In 2010 Outset supported a collaborative book project initiated by artist Lucy Moore. Lucy Moore was awarded the 2009 Outset RCA Graduate Award for an Outstanding Student.

In Spring 2010 the Outset Production Fund supported The Perfect Gallery, an ambitious project by German artist Christian Jankowski undertaken at Pump House Gallery in Battersea, ...

In 2010 Outset supported a major publication by Georgina Starr, conceived as part of her exhibition I Am A Record at Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers …

Outset was delighted to be a co-producer of the British Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale. In collaboration with Thomas Dane Gallery, London; Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and The ...

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Raqs Media Collective – Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta – are artists based in New Delhi. For Ikon’s Eastside programme ...

Julian Opie draws the contemporary world, constructing his refined, concise visual language, through which images of people, figures and landscapes are conjured. He distils his images from the ...

The departure point for Ayse Erkmen’s art is space and location. Through interventions and installations Erkmen creates irritating situations by staging subtle references to the specific conditions of ...

In 2008 Outset UK supported Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno's creation, as part of Psycho Buildings, an exhibition of architectural environments designed by artists, at The Hayward Gallery in ...

Outset supported Matthew Darbyshire’s first solo show in a public UK institution. For 'Blades House' at Gasworks, the artist took as a departure the domestic interior ...

Richard Wentworth's work, encircling the notion of objects and their use as part of our day-to-day experiences, has altered the traditional definition of sculpture. By transforming and manipulating industrial and/or ...

Akin to Joseph Cornell’s boxed curiosities, open containers for his various obsessions, Daria Martin’s films meticulously assemble a selection of impulses, scholarly research and daydreams. Her early films ...

Nicole Wermers' sculptures combine the rigid formalism of Modernism with the opulence of high-end consumerism. Her visually seductive abstract collages harness design and advertising to architecture and the urban environment. ...

Cory Arcangel uses his work to explore the practices and myths that have built up around Internet culture, pop music and experimental music. In processing visual and audio material for ...

Margaret Salmon creates filmic portraits that weave together poetry and ethnography. Focusing on individuals in their everyday habitats, her films capture the minutiae of daily life and infuse ...

Jesper Just’s polished video operas flirt with overwrought emotion and repressed desire. They track highly mannered noir scenarios in which an indecipherable relationship unfolds between a younger man and older ...

Ryan Gander is a raconteur operating with the slightest of means, his stories rarely encompassing direct descriptions of people, places or events. Gander’s narratives are instead sketches, obliquely assembling a ...

The Outset / Government Art Collection Fund was an innovative philanthropic funding scheme benefitting an institutional collection, embodying a new creative partnership between the private and the public ...

Now in its fourth year, Outset UK was delighted to announce that the 2021 The Robson Orr TenTen Award has been awarded to Lubaina Himid CBE. ...

The National Portrait Gallery has commissioned a major new portrait of designer Sir Jonathan 'Jony' Ive by the photographer Andreas Gursky, supported by Scott Collins in partnership ...

Expanding on Outset’s partnership with the Government Art Collection (GAC), we have launched The TenTen Commission: a multi-year initiative produced by Outset ...

fig-2 was a programme of 50 projects that took place across 50 consecutive weeks at the ICA Studio in London in 2015. fig-2 was a revival of ...

In 2016, Gabriel Orozco (b. 1962, Mexico) designed a new public garden as part of the extension of South London Gallery in cooperation with 6A Architects, ...

In 2019 Outset England and Israel jointly supported psalm, an installation celebrating history by Edmund de Waal, displayed in the 500-year-old Jewish Ghetto in Venice, ...

Outset Israel and Outset England jointly supported a new video installation by Sharon Lockhart, Four Exercises in Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation System …