
Exhibition
Bob and Roberta Smith | Folkestone is an Art School
02 Sep 2017 – 05 Nov 2017
Folkestone Quarterhouse
Folkestone, United Kingdom
Folkestone Triennial happens across multiple locations throughout Folkestone.
Folkestone Triennial is the flagship project of the Creative Foundation, an independent visionary arts charity dedicated to enabling the regeneration of the seaside town of Folkestone, in Kent, through creative activity. Working with the people of Folkestone, partners and other stakeholders, the Foundation aims to transform the town, making it a better place to live, work, visit and study.
Folkestone Triennial
Since its inception in 2008 (Andrea Schlieker was the curator), Folkestone Triennial has rapidly established itself as a significant event in the international calendar of recurring art exhibitions. It has done so by being one of a small number of contemporary art exhibitions that set out to have an effect beyond the art programme itself, changing the character of the place in which they occur. These exhibitions create a spirit of place through their collection of artworks, through changes to the physical environment and especially through changes in the thinking of the communities with which they work. In doing so, they transform a village, a town, a city, a community.
Each Folkestone Triennial invites artists to engage with the rich cultural history and built environment of the locality, and to exhibit newly commissioned work in public spaces around the town. Around twenty major artworks are commissioned for each Triennial, with eight or ten remaining in place permanently.
This ambitious process is paralleled in only a handful of outstandingly creative exhibitions around the world, including Münster (Germany), Echigo-Tsumari (Japan), and Santa Fé (New Mexico). Folkestone Triennial acknowledges the inspirational example of Skulptur Projekte Münster (founded 1977) as a progenitor.
Folkestone Artworks
Some of the artworks commissioned for Folkestone Triennial become permanent additions to the townscape. Folkestone Artworks, our “gallery without walls”, currently contains 27 works by internationally acclaimed artists such as Tracey Emin, Mark Wallinger, Pablo Bronstein, Yoko Ono, Richard Wilson, Pae White, Christian Boltanski and Spencer Finch. All works are site-specific in public spaces in the town, so the collection can be enjoyed free of charge, all year round by Folkestone residents and visitors. A further number of artworks by similarly prominent artists will join the collection from Folkestone Triennial 2017.
Exhibition
Bob and Roberta Smith | Folkestone is an Art School
02 Sep 2017 – 05 Nov 2017
Folkestone Quarterhouse
Folkestone, United Kingdom
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Souvenir | Amalia Pica
02 Sep 2017 – 05 Nov 2017
Folkestone Quarterhouse
Folkestone, United Kingdom
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Emily Peasgood | Halfway to Heaven
02 Sep 2017 – 05 Nov 2017
Baptist Burial Ground
Folkestone, United Kingdom
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Minaret | HoyCheong Wong
02 Sep 2017 – 05 Nov 2017
Islamic Culture Centre
Folkestone, United Kingdom
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1947 | Sinta Tantra
02 Sep 2017 – 05 Nov 2017
The Cube
Folkestone, United Kingdom
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Holiday Home | Richard Woods
02 Sep 2017 – 05 Nov 2017
Folkestone Quarterhouse
Folkestone, United Kingdom
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Fleet on Foot | Jonathan Wright
02 Sep 2017 – 05 Nov 2017
Tontine Street
Folkestone, United Kingdom
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The Clearing | Studio Ben Allen
02 Sep 2017 – 05 Nov 2017
Folkestone Quarterhouse
Folkestone, United Kingdom
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Through the Glassworks Earth’s Oldest Satellite Me and You, Some in the Fewture
02 Sep 2017 – 05 Nov 2017
The Glassworks Sixth Form Centre
Folkestone, United Kingdom
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Folke Stone Power Plant | Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas
02 Sep 2017 – 05 Nov 2017
Market Place
Folkestone, United Kingdom
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Folkestone Lightbulb | Michael Craig-Martin
02 Sep 2017 – 05 Nov 2017
3-7 Tontine Street
Folkestone, United Kingdom
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Impingement No. 66 ‘Cube Circumscribed by Tetrahedron – Tetrahedron Circumscribed by Cube’ 2017
02 Sep 2017 – 05 Nov 2017
Coronation Parade
Folkestone, United Kingdom
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Another Time XXI 2013, Another Time XVIII 2013 | Antony Gormley
02 Sep 2017 – 05 Nov 2017
Coronation Parade
Folkestone, United Kingdom
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Siren | Marc Schmitz + Dolgor Ser-Od
02 Sep 2017 – 05 Nov 2017
Wear Bay Road
Folkestone, United Kingdom
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Wall | Alex Hartley
02 Sep 2017 – 05 Nov 2017
East Cliff
Folkestone, United Kingdom
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Jelly Mould Pavilion | Lubaina Himid
02 Sep 2017 – 05 Nov 2017
Folkestone Boardwalk
Folkestone, United Kingdom
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The Ledge | Bill Woodrow
02 Sep 2017 – 05 Nov 2017
Folkestone Quarterhouse
Folkestone, United Kingdom
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Lamp Post (as remembered) | David Shrigley
02 Sep 2017 – 05 Nov 2017
The Leas
Folkestone, United Kingdom
Exhibition
Michelle Mildenhall /Consensual Kink
29 Sep 2017 – 13 Oct 2017
Lilford Gallery Folkestone
Folkestone, United Kingdom
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