The BBA Artist Prize 2021 exhibition at Kühlhaus Berlin

I’m delighted to be participating in a groups show in Berlin, opening 24 June.

Now in its sixth year, the BBA Artist Prize honors emerging artists. Together with an international jury, BBA Gallery has selected 20 artists whose works can be seen in a joint exhibition in the Kühlhaus Berlin. On June 25th at 7 p.m. the jury will announce the four winners as part of the exhibition. The first prize winner will receive a solo exhibition in the BBA Gallery.

All works will be shown at:
Kühlhaus Berlin, Luckenwalder Strasse 3, 10963 Berlin
@kuehlhausberlinofficial

June 24-30, 2021
Open daily from 11.00 - 19.00

VIP Press Preview:
June 23, 16.00 – 20.00

The winner and three runners up will be announced:
June 25, 2021, 19.00
RSVP: pia@bba-gallery.com

COVID regulations
The exhibition will be held in accordance with the current COVID regulations of Berlin. Inhouse Covid19 testing available 23.06. / 25.06

The prize is sponsored by the notebook manufacturer @leuchtturm1917

Model | Maquette at The Cello Factory, London

I’m pleased to have co curated a forthcoming show at the Cello Factory, London with Alex Hinks. The show features artist whose work involves scale models or maquettes in some way, either as an inspiration, a final outcome, or as part of their working process. It brings together emerging and established artists from the UK and beyond.

The use of maquettes and models by artists and architects has a well-established history.  Maquettes are three-dimensional sketches, in effect, conveying practical and ideological information before a final work is realised.  Models are representations of physical objects, usually in miniature.    Models | Maquettes features the work of artists who use these as the basis of realised outcomes that include painting, photography, drawing, installation and sculpture, as well as including the work of those for whom model-making is the end result of their creative production. 

The artists in this exhibition all deal with questions of scale.  Rather than focusing exclusively on the small-scale, some enlarge the miniature format to the gigantic.  Others use the maquette as the basis to create tiny, self-contained worlds of reference.  Perhaps the appeal of models and miniatures lies not in our ability to control them but in the fantasy of being overwhelmed by the world around us.  Conversely it might lie in the fascination with spaces that, through their impossibly small size, force use to navigate and understand them purely perceptually.  The use of models and maquettes enables this engagement with scale and questioning of what is ‘real’ and what is illusory. – Juliette Losq, February 2020

2021

Many thanks to the curators and collectors who supported me in 2020. 2021 is going to be a year of installations for me (all being well) - I have three scheduled at the Cello Factory, Sewerby Hall in Yorkshire (with a solo show of wall-based works) and The Garden Museum in London . I will also be co-curating the Cello Factory show with Alex Hinks, the first time I have curated a show since leaving art school 10 years ago. The show will feature artists who reference or make maquettes and models in their practices, and features some excellent artists.

I'm still working on these shows at the moment but here are some work in progress shots - follow me on instagram: https://lnkd.in/eAZThYR

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- thanks, and all best wishes for the festive season! Juliette