No Man's Art Gallery

No Man's Art Gallery is the first art gallery to organize pop-up galleries in a different country every year.

The gallery, whose headquarters are in Amsterdam, e.[1] experiments with creating an alternative art market structure in which artists can easily participate in different local art markets. Seeing the need for a more inclusive art market in a globalized world, through its pop-up method the gallery has been able to recruit upcoming talents in the city in which they are temporarily exhibiting at, then invite them along to future locations as well as to exhibitions hosted in No Man's Art home gallery in the Netherlands. During their stay in each pop-up location, No Man's Art sets up a network of artists, art lovers, buyers, press and supporters that the artists then can use independently in the future.

Background

No Man's Art Gallery was founded in 2010. Since then, the organization set up or planned pop-up art exhibitions in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Mumbai, Paris, Copenhagen, Shanghai, and Cape Town. In May 2016, No Man's Art became the first Dutch art gallery to establish itself in Iran since the economic sanctions were lifted.

Every couple of months the gallery organizes a pop-up gallery in a different metropole, exhibiting young artists from the host country as well as the artists that were found at previous destinations. The gallery takes pride in finding special locations for their galleries. Previous locations were:

  • Rotterdam: A luxury flat for sale in Rotterdam-Kralingen.
  • Amsterdam: Westerpark in Amsterdam. The art was exhibited on trees, for one night only during the Dutch annual Midwinter barbecue.
  • Hamburg: Hasenmanufaktur at Hafentor 7, an old 1930s harbor building at Landungsbrücken, Hamburg.
  • Mumbai: New Great Eastern Mills in Byculla. On the premises of an old mill compound, the visitors had to cross the magnificent ruins of the cotton mill to get to the gallery space facing a pond with turtles.
  • Paris: 7 Rue Froissart. In the heart of Le Marais, the gallery got a hold of a wonderful 300m2 space.
  • Copenhagen: No Man's Art did three exhibitions in Copenhagen. One in the Ignatius building in the Kødbyen area,[2] one in a chapel on the Vestre Kirkegaard cemetery and one on the control tower on Knippelsbro.
  • Tehran: There were two different pop-up venues in the city, one being in an uptown gallery space and the other being in an abandoned house.

References
  1. http://www.nomansart.com/No_Mans_Art/About_Us.html
  2. "Det hemmelighedsfulde galleri". Berlingske.dk. July 17, 2012.
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