Enrichment of public collections

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 ...

Starting in 2018, and for the next ten years, the Government Art Collection, in partnership with Outset, has been selecting outstanding British artists to create original print works for the Collection ...

Dutch artist Hedwig Houben makes work that is difficult to categorise: Others and I, her first solo exhibition in the UK, was made of key works from the ...

Graham Fagen’s Lockdown Rainbows resonate with the rainbows, drawn and painted by children, and pasted onto the windows of many homes during the Covid-19 pandemic and its associated lockdowns in ...

Outset provided support for the first public exhibition of Damien Hirst’s Murderme Collection at the Serpentine Galleries.Hirst’s Murderme Collection began with the works he received from exchanges with his artist ...

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 ...

In 2019, Outset UK and Israel together supported the acquisition of Rachel Maclean's 2017 video work 'Spite Your Face' by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. This followed ...

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 ...

In 2018-2019, initiated under the framework of fig-legacy and supported by Arts Council England, Art Fund and Outset with six partnering institutions and public collections in ...

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 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 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 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, ...

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 ...

The biennial Outset Residency at the South London Gallery (SLG) is offered to an international artist commissioned to make new work as part of the SLG’s exhibition programme.Following a period of two months living ...

The biennial Outset Residency at the South London Gallery (SLG) was offered to an international artist commissioned to make new work as part of the SLG’s exhibition programme.Following a period ...

In 2012 Outset in association with Le Meridien Hotels and Resorts supported the production of an artist book by Anne Hardy ...

As part of a multi-year collaboration between Outset and Modern Art Oxford, in the spring of 2012 Outset Associates supported the first major solo exhibition of British artist ...

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 2011 Outset supported Karla Black's exhibition At Fault, at the Scottish Pavilion of the 54th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition was curated ...

John Gerrard's Infinite Freedom Exercise, (near Abadan, Iran), 2011, was first screened at the 2011 Manchester International Festival. Installed in Lincoln Square, Manchester city centre, the work played ...

Zamach (Assassination) is the final part of Yael Bartana's film trilogy, which premiered at ...and Europe will be stunned at the 54th Venice Biennale. The exhibition ...

Charles Avery has devoted himself exclusively to the creation of a fictional island archipelago since 2004. In detailed, large-scale drawings, installations, sculptures and objects, Avery forms a bizarre imaginary reality ...

Outset supported Brazilian artist Alexandre da Cunha's solo exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, bringing together a series of new works completed during his residency in June 2009. The ...

Outset was delighted to support Rivane Neuenschwander’s 2008 exhibition, Suspension Point at the South London Gallery. The work 1001 Nights was subsequently gifted to the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.For ...

Nigel Cooke’s paintings deal with the minutiae of entropy and dissolution on an epic scale. In these twenty-first-century negations of pantheism and the Romantic sublime, landscapes are littered with skulls ...

Through the support of McLaren Art Foundation, Outset enabled the Arts Council to acquire a number of significant works for its collection.These works included:H.2.N.Y. Mechanical Suicide, 2006, Michael Landy RAThis ...

The video 'Sweet Nightingale' (original title: Solovushka) expresses the tension between small private gestures and their collective repetition. A man slowly runs his hand through his hair to the strains ...

The Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the TateCollection (OFT) was a strategic partnership between Outset Contemporary ArtFund, Frieze Art Fair and Tate to buy important works of art …

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 ...

In April 2023, the National Portrait Gallery announced its commission of a new portrait of Sir Nicholas Serota by artist and film director, Sir Steve McQueen. The portrait was ...

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 commissioned a new portrait of Malala Yousafzai, the girls’ education activist by Iranian-born artist and filmmaker, Shirin Neshat, supported by Scott Collins and Lotta Ashdown, ...

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 ...

'No Father No Mother' was the first comprehensive solo exhibition of Moshe Gershuni, at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin dedicated to an Israeli artist. ...