Black Box is a student run gallery in the heart of Farnham, Surrey. Showing international and UK based artists, our ethos is to give external practitioners a space to exhibit resolved and experiential work on an individual basis.
This can be anything from performance to sculpture, we’re open to all media. Exhibiting artists also have an opportunity to speak to students about their practice. Black Box has created a dialogue between young creatives at the university and visiting artists, with many of the students going on to work alongside the artists, both benefiting from the experience.
Black Box has been called many things over the years, however within the last 5 years Black Box has developed into a recognised gallery with artists like Gavin Turk, Gustav Metzger, David Batchelor, the more recently Katherine Smith and Liv Fontaine. Each year students as they come and go, get the opportunity to become part of the team, curating the space, website and gallery direction.
They seek artists most likely critically acclaimed emerging and established artists. They want to give the artists the opportunity to experiment and engage with the space, as it is located within the University campus at Farnham. With the aim to inspire the culture and current students studying with us, to challenge perceptions of what art can be, how it can communicate and to who.
They ask the artists to present work that can question the space and the contemporary time we are living in, and its current contexts be it gender, LGBTQ+ community, sustainability and ecology, theoretically active, Black Lives Matter and ability/disability.
Exhibition slots will be of a month long (a week to install, two weeks of exhibition and the last one to deinstall) we are looking for the period that will go from December to June, in the way to achieve 6 slots of contemporary boost of art.
To receive an application form contact Black Box Coordinator, Aurora Ulian: aurora.ulian@uca.ac.uk
Complete the application answering all the questions as required. Send the word document with your name/ BlackBox OpenCall 22/23 in the subject line and send it with your CV and Portfolio to the same address aurora.ulian@uca.ac.uk