anticurate - The Exhibitions

anticurate is imagined as mac birmingham’s version of an open exhibition. In association with mac birmingham, artist Trevor Pitt has devised the anticurate project as a platform to explore democratic and collective approaches to exhibition curating.

Over six weeks mac birmingham’s main gallery will host six unique exhibitions that will be selected from artworks submitted at the anticurate Open Day 9 July.

Each exhibition will be organised by groups that we have invited to curate an exhibition that we are calling ‘anticurators’.

To create their unique exhibitions the anticurators will be using a flexible exhibition structure and space that has been specially designed by Juneau Projects for anticurate, and they will be supported by independent curators Charlie Levine and Trevor Pitt, the exhibitions team and Producers at mac birmingham.

In the sixth and final week, all works submitted will be displayed so all artwork submitted it will be guaranteed to be seen.

Exhibition 1: Thu 4-Sun 7 Aug, noon-8pm

This exhibition, See Hear!, was anticurated by Alison Tarry and Tim Stock from the Extra Special People professional development programme at Eastside Projects

To see photos from See Hear! click here

For the full list of works featured in this exhibition click here

Exhibition 2: Thu 11-Sun 14 Aug, noon-8pm

This exhibition, once upon a time, was anticurated by Emma Little, Annie Murphy, Harriet Lane and Marie Prestleton - members of mac birmingham staff

To see photos from once upon a time click here

For the full list of works featured in this exhibition click here

Exhibition 3: Thu 18-Sun 21 Aug, noon-8pm

This exhibition, Between Curiosity and The Canal Bed, was anticurated by Dani Sims, Nailah Bakhsh, Joshua Whitehouse, Sean Burns, Polly Welsby, Annabel Woodfin and Victoria Jessop from the Ikon Youth Programme

To see photos from Between Curiosity and The Canal Bed click here

For the full list of works featured in this exhibition click here

Exhibition 4: Thu 25-Sun 28 Aug, noon-8pm

This exhibition, Craft & Colour/Faces & Flowers has been anticurated by Pat Hipkiss, Pat Fletcher, Gwen Horton and Eileen Rushton from Young at Heart

Preview Wed 24 Aug, 6-8pm

To see photos from Craft & Colour/Faces & Flowers click here

For the full list of works featured in this exhibition click here

Exhibition 5: Thu 1-Sun 4 Sep, noon-8pm

This exhibition, No Aloha @ anticurate, is being anticurated by Carli Francis and Rosie Carmichael of No Aloha arts collective.

Preview Wed 31 Aug 6-8pm

To see photos from No Aloha @ anticurate click here

For the full list of works featured in this exhibition click here

Exhibition 6: Thu 8-Sun 11 Sep, noon-8pm

All 351 artworks will be exhibited

Preview Wed 7 Sep 6-8pm

To download additional information about the anticurate project please click here.