London’s art world is back from its winter break and immediately it’s at full throttle. The spotlight will be brightest on museum shows – Francis Bacon at the Royal Academy, Louise Bourgeois at the Hayward – and the commercial mega-galleries (Gagosian, White Cube, Hauser & Wirth and the like) with their international hot-shot artists. But many of the most exciting and visionary shows, featuring the freshest emerging or overlooked talent, will be in spaces where profit is the last thing on anyone’s mind.
Located across the city, from the Chisenhale Gallery and Auto Italia in the east, to Camden Art Centre in the north, and Studio Voltaire, Goldsmiths CCA and Gasworks south of the river, among others, London’s non-profit institutions are the lifeblood of our contemporary art ecosystem.
