Storefront for Art and Architecture
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Kenmare Street between Nolita & SoHo (NYC)Storefront for Art and Architecture is a contemporary art and architecture gallery founded in 1982 in New York City.
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[edit] Background
Founded in 1982 by Kyong Park, Storefront for Art and Architecture is a nonprofit organization in New York City committed to the advancement of innovative positions in architecture, art and design. Storefront's program includes exhibitions, artists talks, film screenings, conferences and publications with the stated intention of "generating dialogue and collaboration across geographic, ideological and disciplinary boundaries".
[edit] Facade
In 1993 Storefront commissioned a collaboration between artist Vito Acconci and architect Steven Holl to redesign the facade of the Kenmare St. gallery space. The resulting project transformed the structure by placing rotating panels of various orientation the length of the gallery. When the panels are open the design blurs the border between the gallery and the street creating a greater dialogue between the experimental projects being exhibited inside and the city outside. Since it's completion in 1993 the building has become an architectural landmark in New York City.
[edit] Storefront's 25th Anniversary
In 2007/2008 Storefront celebrated it's 25th anniversary with a number of new projects. The celebration began with Performance Z-A to commemorate Storefront's inaugural project in 1982, Performance A-Z. The update was 26 consecutive days of public performance, lecture, and art that took place in a fabricated Ring Dome Pavilion in Cleveland Place, adjacent to the gallery.
[edit] Storefront Books
2008 also saw the opening of Storefront Books a mini-bookstore housed in the far end of the gallery space. The store's centerpiece is a series of individually curated collections from Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA, Pedro Reyes, Beatriz Colomina, Vito Acconci, Eyal Weizman, Frederic Tuten, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Steven Holl, Matthew Stadler, and Dan Graham. The bookstore also offers the artist book collection published by Centre for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu (Japan) as well as a number of books and catalogues that have been featured in an exhibition or event at Storefront.
[edit] Pop Up Storefront
The Storefront for Art and Architecture Pop Up was also introduced in 2008 with the first one taking an exhibition of Fredric Chaubin's photographs of late Soviet architecture to Los Angeles. The CCCP exhibition was held in an unused portion of a print works on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood from April 11 to May 17. The "Pop Up" is a temporary gallery that brings Storefront programing to cities around the world. The second Pop Up was held in Milan in conjunction with Abitare magazine from April 16-21 during the Milan Furniture Fair, and featured a new version of the Ring Dome Pavilion (originally built in NYC for Performance Z-A) and included a 100-minute dialogue between Hans Ulrich Obrist, Pierre Paulin and Rem Koolhaas, as well as "a day-long domino-interview with 50 participants". Future Pop Ups are planned for London, Los Angeles, and Japan.
[edit] The Archive Project
Storefront maintains an archive as an open public resource for anyone interested in experimental art and architecture. It was presented for the first time in 2003 as part of Storefront's twentieth anniversary. In 2008 an abridged version of this archive became available online.[citations needed]
[edit] Past exhibitions
Storefronts past exhibitions have included projects by Ramak Fazel, Bjarke Ingels Group, Jean Nouvel, Terence Gower, Yves Klein, Torolab, Manfred Pernice, Sze Tsung Leong, Geoff Bunn, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Diller + Scoffidio, Center for Urban Pedagogy, Lebbeus Woods, Dan Graham, and Shirin Neshat among many others. Information about all of these exhibitions is available in the archive.
[edit] Image Gallery
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