Art Night is a contemporary art festival, taking place across the UK in 2021 for the first time. The previous 4 festivals happened over one evening in a different London neighbourhood – central London, Whitechapel, the Southbank and Walthamstow.
Curated by Helen Nisbet, Art Night 2021 marks the festival’s fifth edition. To celebrate, Art Night will be extending its run-time to a full month from 18 June to 18 July and will take place throughout the UK.
Through collaborating with partners in towns, cities and villages across the whole country, Art Night is moving towards a more devolved, decentralised and distributed way of working.
The festival will continue to put artists and their ideas at the forefront of the programme, towards creating an interconnected, international network for artists, art institutions and audiences.
Art Night 2021 is titled Nothing Compares 2U, after the song penned by Prince and most famously performed by Sinead O’Connor. The programme takes inspiration from defiance in small acts and moments of self-determination, both personal and collective.
The 2021 programme features ambitious, new commissions by: Oona Doherty, Sonya Dyer, Adham Faramawy, Guerrilla Girls, Mark Leckey, Isabel Lewis, Imran Perretta & Paul Purgas, Philomène Pirecki, OOMK, and Alberta Whittle.
Catch Art Night in-person commissions in the following locations:
(London venues in Bold)
ISABEL LEWIS
Brase Hall, Isle of Skye
Compton Verney, Warwick
ALBERTA WHITTLE
Abergavenny Train Station
CCA, Derry
Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
GUERRILLA GIRLS
345 Old Street, London, EC1V 9LT
London Bridge / Borough High Street, London, SE1 9OG
The Anchor Inn, Digbeth – Rea Street, Birmingham, B5 6ET
2 Forfar Road, Dundee, DD4 7AR
Cardiff, x Motorpoint Arena A – Bute Terrace, Cardiff, CF10 2FE
231 Gallowgate, Barrowlands, Glasgow, G4 OTP
1 Warehouse, New Orchard Street, Swansea, SA1 6YL
A209, Lewes (opposite Elephant and Castle pub, adjacent to New Road)
1364 Neath Road, Swansea, SA1 2HL (14 June – 27 June)
57 Neath Road C/O Lyndu Street, Morriston, SA6 7BH (28 June – 11 July)
Compton Verney, Warwick, CV35 9HJ
Headingley Ln., Headingley, Leeds LS6 2AS
OOMK
For their Art Night 2021 commission, OOMK will be producing and distributing STUART papers, every Monday and Friday from 5 – 7pm
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA (Week 1: 21-25 June)
Holborn Station, Kingsway, London WC2B 6AA (Week 2: 28-2 July)
INIVA, 16 John Islip St, London SW1P 4JU (Week 3: 5-9 July)
Windrush Square, Effra Rd, Brixton, London SW2 1JQ (Week 4: 12-16 July )
| Duration | 18 June 2021 - 18 July 2021 |
| Times | see website |
| Cost | free - some events require advance booking |
| Venue | various venues around the UK |
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| Contact | / hello@artnight.london / www.artnight.london/general-info/ |