Andrius Erminas
17 November – 17 December 2016
Vane is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in the UK by Lithuanian artist Andrius Erminas. In ‘Mutations’ Erminas creates multi-layered sculptural compositions that transform the everyday, using easily recognised objects, both natural and man-made, to create new and personal stories…
17 September – 29 October 2016
The 2016 Print Awards are the centrepiece of the International Print Biennale and showcase the most exciting artists working in print right now from across the world…
Nick Christie
17 September – 29 October 2016
Nick Christie records the subtle, liminal marks and gestures made during the processes of drawing and printmaking. In his recent series of Solarplate and mono prints, the whirls and tracks of the artist’s smeared fingerprints form images that explore the constantly changing nature of everyday communications…
Christopher Rollen
13 August – 3 September 2016
In ‘Vox Pop’, Christopher Rollen explores various ways of presenting both personal and collective histories. Doegen Revisited (2012-15) is an audio-visual archive of sixty-six etchings and recordings of Germany-based British expatriates’ voices made in response to the sixty-six British and Irish voices in Wilhelm Doegen’s Lautarchiv (sound archive), recorded between 1916 and 1918…
Gilbert Brohl, Oliver Dehn, Fabian Freese, Christina Gay, Thomas Jüptner, Jens Kloppmann, Heike Mardo, Ulrike Pisch, Marcia Raquel Székely, Gerard Waskievitz
13 August – 3 September 2016
‘Integrated Systems’ presents the work of ten artists represented by Michaela Helfrich Gallery in Berlin…
Michael Davies, Nick Fox, Stephen Palmer, Narbi Price, Flora Whiteley
23 July – 30 August 2016
The five artists in ‘Second Glances’ each approach the figurative in art with a unique vision…
Bigas Luna
8-12 June 2016
‘Barbaric Comedies’, curated by Betty Bigas and Santiago Fouz Hernández, showcases some of Bigas Luna’s controversial video artwork, including the famous short Necklace of Flies and the five-piece video installation ‘Barbaric Comedies’…
Deb Covell, Leo Fitzmaurice, Lee Machell, Jo McGonigal
18 May – 12 June 2016
‘Transparent Things’ presents works by four artists whose work is united by a deep interest in exploring materials. Each artist displays a reductive yet playful approach, which they use to create, works that question their chosen materials’ inherent properties and limitations…
Michael Mulvihill, Elizabeth Saveri
18 May – 12 June 2016
‘Seeing a Who’ brings together Gateshead based Michael Mulvihill and Pasadena, USA based Elizabeth Saveri, artists who both explore big themes through the medium of miniature paintings and drawings. After Vane, the exhibition will travel to ArtHelix in Brooklyn, USA…
Afsoon, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, Hushidar Mortezaie, Malekeh Nayiny, Taravat Talepasand
23 April – 4 June 2016
‘Vinyl Icons: Persian Pop and Turkish Psychedelia’ is a unique presentation of art inspired by the popular music of pre-revolutionary Iran and Anatolia. Curated by Sara Makari-Aghdam, a young North East England based curator of Azeri-Turk, Persian and English descent…
Tim Brennan
27 February – 27 March 2016
In summer 1996, artist Tim Brennan spent 25 days walking 298 miles along the route of the Jarrow Crusade. Fragments of material were prepared by the artist and collected en route. Now eighty years since the Jarrow Crusade, this archive is re-presented, to bear witness to the 21st century…
Claire Fontaine
27 February – 27 March 2016
This exhibition of three installations by Claire Fontaine includes the new work MECW (Karl Marx Frederick Engels Collected Works brickbats) a sculpture specifically conceived as an answer to the title of AV Festival, Meanwhile, what about Socialism?…
Flora Whiteley
14 January – 19 February 2016
In ‘Present Continuous’, Flora Whiteley presents new paintings that continue her investigation into filmic and stage-like spaces, combining layers of source material to create enigmatic, suggestive scenes…
Jock Mooney
14 January – 19 February 2016
In ‘Who Are You and What Do You Want?’, Jock Mooney presents an elaborate tableau of sculptural objects, drawings and sound, that functions as a personal reflection on the artist’s life…
Oliver Braid
14 January – 19 February 2016
Oliver Braid’s work has been led by attempts to answer a question first posed by writer, raconteur and gay icon, Quentin Crisp in 1981: how, if at all, may an object express its maker?…
Jennie Speirs Grant
18 November – 12 December 2015
Jennie Speirs Grant presents a series of drawings transcribed directly from spring birdsong. Using a system of visual notation, each is a representation of an ever-changing soundscape…
Jorn Ebner
5 November – 12 December 2015
Jorn Ebner’s recent work has emerged from his interests in the danse macabre, the mediaeval allegory on death, the literature of American novelist William S Burroughs and French poet Charles Baudelaire, and the songs of John Lennon…
Amie Rangel
9 October – 14 November 2015
Amie Rangel’s exhibition, ‘Dwelling’, consists of large-scale charcoal drawings on linen, mixed media drawings on paper, and stone lithographs. This new body of work represents her ongoing investigation of the organisation of spatial constructs within modern society…
Ben Applegarth
9 October – 12 December 2015
The work of Ben Applegarth in ‘Lost In The Woods/Getting Better’ is concerned with evolving geometrical structures, a fascination with mathematical patterns and the literal and figurative role of perspective…
Michael Mulvihill, Narbi Price, Alison Unsworth
2-31 October 2015
NORTH is a new initiative which aims to showcase and develop contemporary art in the North of England whilst provoking critical debate on the future artistic production in the region…
