Kerstin Drechsel
19 January – 17 March 2012
Kerstin Drechsel’s investigation of everyday culture, artistic production and individual taste is orientated towards the rhythms of popular music, film and daily occurrences. From cross-dressers to sex club devotees, office workers to nuclear protestors, Drechsel captures intimate personal moments of individuals or sub-culture groups…
Ellie Harrison
1 November – 17 December 2011
Ellie Harrison is an artist who looks at the numbers. As artist in residence at Wunderbar, her solo exhibition at Vane and collaborative projects during the festival tread the line between the sublime and the ridiculous, between creation and activism…
Simon Le Ruez
20 October – 17 December 2011
For Simon Le Ruez’s second solo exhibition at Vane, the artist presents a new body of work including painting, sculpture, installation, and drawing. The show’s title suggests something definitive, a collision of ideas perhaps…
Adam Burns
20 October – 17 December 2011
For his first solo exhibition at Vane, Adam Burns presents a series of complex and elusive abstract paintings, exploring both the psychology and the emotional impact of colour…
Adam Burns, Simon Le Ruez
20 October – 17 December 2011
As part of the International Print Biennale, newly commissioned print editions have been produced by Adam Burns and Simon Le Ruez…
20-22 January 2011
‘Yummikraut’ brings together twenty-two artists studying under painter Kerstin Drechsel, guest professor in fine arts at the Kunsthochschule Kassel and curator of this exhibition of new work, whose first UK solo exhibition, ‘Jan-Holger’, was at Vane in 2008…
George Hladik, Martin Holland, Richard Loskot, Ales Loziak, Frantisek Janys Novotny, Libor Svoboda
1-18 December 2010
‘Distance zkreslena’ is about being in a strange new place far from home and the manipulative power of global media…
Jorn Ebner
21 October – 27 November 2010
Jorn Ebner makes internet-based, photographic, print and sculptural works that reveal ordinary spaces and locations to be punctured through by tensions and contradictions. Taking the exhibition title from a phrase in Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road, for ‘Uncertainty underneath immense skies’ Ebner creates imaginary realms…
Matthew Smith
2-25 September 2010
‘The making of the landscape’ is Smith’s first solo exhibition at Vane, consisting of drawn, photographic and painted works produced over the last decade. Smith’s projects in sculpture, drawing, photography and video share a concern with fictionalised and idealised representations of nature and of place…
Nick Fox
22 April – 5 June 2010
‘Phantasieblume’ reveals Nick Fox’s aesthetic exploration of material and image, through which a nostalgic desire for a Wilde-like encoding of oppressed sexuality unfolds and is made potent…
The Gluts
5-14 March 2010
‘Café Carbon’, by The Gluts was performed (with varying degrees of success) on the streets of Copenhagen during the climate summit. In Copenhagen, people were asked to choose a dish from a menu of songs, which The Gluts then performed…
Goh Ideta
6-28 November 2009
Step into an interactive light installation and be surrounded by a glittering shower of reflections. In this new work by Japanese artist Goh Ideta, a cushioned floor is covered with thousands of mirrored tiles…
Barbara Walker
8-31 October 2009
Barbara Walker’s work addresses the personal, social and political implications of the controversial powers of the police ‘stop and search’ act. Living in Birmingham, she has witnessed at first hand a curious and potent collision of several different factors…
6-22 August 2009
Vane’s second presentation as part of the Northern Print Biennale, ‘The Kiss of a Lifetime (Part 2)’ is curated by Manchester-based artist and curator, Mike Chavez-Dawson. The exhibition features the work of over 100 artists, both internationally renowned and emerging…
Paul Becker, EC Davies, Kerstin Drechsel, Jorn Ebner, Nadia Hebson, Andrew McDonald, Jock Mooney, Stephen Palmer, Josué Pellot, Morten Schelde, Alison Unsworth
2 July – 1 August 2009
Presented as part of the first Northern Print Biennale, ‘A room inside them’ is an exhibition bringing together a diversity of approaches to printmaking…
Host Artists Group
16 May 2009
As part of The Late Shows Vane is pleased to present the latest project from Sheffield-based Host Artists Group (HAG). HAG have invited 18 artists to create sound works that are imagined, otherly and utterly alien to the gallery setting…
Zoë Anderson, Luke Dixon, Scott Hall, Adam Hogarth, Irena Krizman, Padraig Lynch, Becky Rhodes, Sebastian Trend
30 April – 9 May 2009
‘Score’ consists of work by students, graduate fellows, Graduate Studio Northumbria artists and staff from the Fine Art department at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne…
Morten Schelde
20 February – 28 March 2009
Morten Schelde’s work depicts the intersection of physical and imaginary spaces. His drawings, paintings and photographic works sample images from different media, collecting and combining them in the construction of new narratives…
Paul Becker, Jorn Ebner, Mark Joshua Epstein, Nadia Hebson, Matthew Smith, Alison Unsworth, Flora Whiteley
4 February – 14 March 2009
‘Uncommon ground’ comprises the work of seven artists exploring the ways in which our environmental conditions, both natural and man-made, affect and reflect our lives and are in turn affected by our selves and our actions…
Stephen Palmer
4-13 December 2008
Stephen Palmer’s recent paintings have catalogued his collection of free, found and received objects as a means of auditing and archiving his life through everyday mementos. For his latest project, Palmer has turned his attention to his own record collection…
