2023: Gesture

Each gesture constitutes a process, one might almost say a drama, of its own. The stage on which that drama is played out is the world theatre, whose backdrop is the sky. On the other hand the sky is nothing more than a backdrop; studying it on its own terms would mean putting a frame around the piece of painted cloth and hanging it in a gallery. – Walter Benjamin on Franz Kafka (The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction)

The mark is the cut in the surface of the body of infrastructure space. Curated for for thecurated.app with artists: Ry David Bradley, Petra Cortright, Miltos Manetas, Sara Ludy, Priscilla Tea, and Rita Vitorelli with Harm van den Dorpel.

2020-2022: The Composing Rooms Book

The documents the curatorial project The Composing Rooms which opened in London in 2010 along with several essays that capture the context of contemporary art at the time. Essays, images, and texts capture how the internet played a significant role in the emergence of a new way of finding, making, and displaying art, as well as how that shifted over the decade. Cover artwork by Aaron Graham.

2017: Mineral Dreams

After closing the Berlin gallery The Composing Rooms hosted two offsite exhibitions while in transition to Palma de Mallorca. These were solo shows of Michael Pybus for Dream Art Fair and Ella Goerner, presented in collaboration with Pushkin & Gogol in Berlin.

2016: Serious Comics

After two years of experimental programming, The Composing Rooms Berlin returned to a more conventional gallery roster with three solo exhibitions by Nina Cristante, R. Lord, and Ry David Bradley, and a duo show with Estrid Lutz and Emile Mold before the closing group exhibition that celebrated the culture of tea and its origins. room.thecomposingrooms.com also hosted it’s final solo show: Giovanna Olmos’ How to sell a digital painting.

2015: Three Windoes

This year was dominated by three group exhibitions: Three Rooms which considered a digital spatial awareness with three artists Sara Ludy, Priscilla Tea, and Spiros Hadjidjanos in Amsterdam. #WEC (Whole Earth Catalyst), was an evolving exhibition with three panel discussions, co-curated with Ella Goerner opened in April, and Windoes materialised after many years of conversation with artist Ry David Bradley about digital painting.

2014: Rooms

The Showroom intended to avoid openings in favour of events and chance encounters. Mai Ueda opened the Berlin space with a series of tea ceremonies incorporating the idea of the readymade. The online exhibition space 'room' opened simultaneously.

2013: Open Shape

Upon closing the London project, Repeat Pattern, a group exhibition of international contemporary artists took place in a project space in Auckland, New Zealand, before offsite projects in New York and Berlin.

2012: The Green Room

The Green Room presented eight artists in their first solo exhibitions in the UK. This included Petra Cortright, Jon Rafman, Kate Steciw, Artie Vierkant, and Rafaël Rozendaal generously supported by Arts Council England.