Apartment currently features in Art World Magazine; in an interesting article by Kate Feld that explores alternative gallery spaces, along with Apartment, Porch Gallery, Phlight, Bog Standard Gallery, Caravan Gallery and 312 feature.

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Top Right is a full list of the previous shows and events that Apartment has hosted, with full colour images of every work we have shown. Please also explore the list of artists that have shown.

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Apartment ~ News

Apartment is awaiting news on funding to inform visitors to our blog of forthcoming exhibitions. Berlin based artist Nikola Irmer is the next confirmed show, details will follow soon. Lamport Court where Apartment is based continues to be a centre of various cultural activity. LoneLady (above) continues to create electrifying music on the seventh floor, and has just released a vinyl; ‘Early the haste comes’ is available in all good outlets, for more information on LoneLady visit Lamport Court based independent record label Filthy Home Recordings. Lamport Court poetry magazine continues to support new writing. Paul Harfleet is about to feature his Pansy Project at the Homotopia Festival in Liverpool. Hilary Jack is currently exhibiting at CUBE in Manchester and is preparing a show for Transition Gallery in London. This is not to mention the other bands, artists, DJ’s and musicians based in this unlikely artistic hub.

Radio Appearance!...

Paul Harfleet (Co-Director) and E.P.Niblock (writer in residence) will be appearing on BBC Radio Manchester Thursday 13th September just after 10pm. Tune in to listen to the latest news form Apartment and hear some of Euphemia's explorations at Apartment so far.

Source Article

Below a review of Maeve Rendle's Mount Purgatory exhibition at Apartment features in issue 51 of 'SOURCE' magazine, the review written by Pavel Buchler explores Maeve Rendle's use of photography in her practice: click to enlarge and read.

Apartment News!

Apartment is back in Manchester; a huge thanks to all those that came to see the show in Berlin and were so positive about it, we also had hundreds of hits to the blog so thank you for visiting. We are now hoping to develop a project at Apartment with an amazing artist we met in Berlin; watch this space for information. We have also selected and are in the process of curating a show at CUBE for their first OPEN exhibition, the opening is on Thursday July 12^th. In other news Hilary currently has a show at Transition Gallery in London and Paul is also showing Pansy Project photos at Tooks Chambers until July 13th and is contributing to a symposia on June 28th at MIRIAD where he will be talking about Apartment. For further information on the recent show in Berlin see below, and for more on Axel Lapp Projects click here; the next artist showing at Axel Lapp Projects is Josephine Flynn. Berlin is amazing, there is such a thriving art scene there; some of the highlights include ‘Homie’ a space run from a flat by Daniel Seiple. There are loads of smaller galleries around Mitte which are well worth checking out (see links below for more) a highlight of the bigger musuems is Matthew Buckingham at Hamburger Bahnhof the show is on ‘til August.

Meeting Point - Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin

Apartment are currently in Berlin at Axel Lapp Projects. We are showing a selection of Apartment’s previous exhibitors at the space (Invalidenstraße 161, D-10115 Berlin); so if you happen to be in Berlin; do come to see us we will be there hosting the gallery until the show ends on June 23rd. Entitled ‘Meeting Point’ the exhibition features; Dave Gledhill, Paul Harfleet, Hilary Jack, Naomi Kashiwagi, Lisa Penny, Maeve Rendle, Cherry Tenneson, Martine Myrup, David Wilkinson and Beáta Veszely; more details below:

Twice a year Axel Lapp Projects invites and showcases the work of artist-run spaces based outside Berlin in a programme entitled INTERLUDE. For the first of this programme Axel Lapp has selected Apartment, a project and exhibition space, run from a sixth floor one bedroom council flat in central Manchester, UK, co-directed by Hilary Jack and Paul Harfleet. For INTERLUDE 1, Hilary Jack and Paul Harfleet have brought together the work of ten artists from Manchester, Budapest, London and Glasgow in a show entitled ‘Meeting Point’. The work offers an insight into the breadth of activity that Apartment has facilitated over the last three years and reflects Lapp’s own interest and commitment to this Manchester based exhibition space.

Above; visitors to the preview,

Apartment is based in a flat, and unlike many artist led spaces that operate in this way, the curators choose to present the work alongside the possessions that Paul Harfleet lives amongst. This curatorial decision enables the artwork to position itself in contrast to the objects or to hide within them, camouflaged by the everyday detritus. Each artist presented here, at Axel Lapp Projects, has exhibited at Apartment and has dealt with this reality in a variety of interesting ways.

When artwork is shown at Apartment the interior of the flat frames the work. At Axel Lapp Projects, Apartment itself is an absent participant, no longer available as a supporting framework for the presentation of the art work. Therefore the works are able to be re-seen without the context of Apartment, revealing to the curators, the complex relationships that have been formed between the artists and their practices over the three years that Apartment has existed. For the audience the various works are seen within the gallery context and with the knowledge that these relationships were forged in a domestic location; here the artists come together creating a meeting point where the work can be seen in a group show and in a totally new context.