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Orel Art launched its London premises in an impressive 350sqm space at 7 Howick
Place,London SW1.
An expansion from the Paris-based gallery and a major addition to the London art market,
Orel Art is primarily devoted to bringing
contemporary Russian art to a wider western audience.
The gallery also provides
a fresh platform for topically engaged international artists to implement
inventive and challenging site-specific projects.
Director Ilona Orel, operating from Paris, has played an instrumental role in raising the profile
of
Russia’s most significant contemporary and emerging artists through a series of
acclaimed
exhibitions. Founded in 2001, the pioneering space supported the
careers of Andrei Molodkin,
Valery Koshlyakov, Vladimir Dubossarsky and
Alexander Vinogradov, Georgy Gurianov,
Komar & Melamid and Olga Tobreluts,
alongside emerging artists including Dasha Fursey
and Chtak. Daughter of an
artist and former student of the Moscow School of Painting,
Sculpture and
Architecture, Orel’s experimental ethos is informed by her direct experience of
the challenges faced by young artists. Orel is acutely aware of the pre-eminence
of visual
culture in contemporary society and strives to promote artists who
address current affairs and
globalized problems with exceptional aesthetic
prowess.
Looking beyond internal curatorial projects, Ilona Orel has fostered successful collaborations
with established European museums, including
the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the State
Russian Museum in St Petersburg
and MACRO in Rome. Her stable of artists has entered
the prestigious collections
of the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Guggenheim Museum in New York
and Bilbao,
the Martin-Gropius Bau in Berlin and the MAK Museum in Vienna, amongst
others.
Today, under Orel’s distinctive direction, the Howick Place gallery is set to deliver an outstanding
programme of solo exhibitions and group
shows, bringing together Russian contemporary
artists, established curators and
international figures such as Raffaella Nappo, Stephen Shanabrook,
Rupert
Shrive.
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Website : http://www.orelart.com/London/Home
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