Art on site
World Press Photo 2008
Thursday 13 November 2008 - Monday 8 December 2008
Since 1955, World Press Photo has invited press photographers of the world to participate in the premier annual international competition in press photography. This year, a record number of 5,019 photographers from 125 countries submitted 80,536 pictures to be judged. The exhibition covers a wide range of topics from hard news to sports and portraits, in 185 award-winning photographs. Find out more about this installation
Cyprien Gaillard: Glasgow 2014
Tuesday 7 October 2008 - Sunday 16 November 2008
One of the most significant young French artists to emerge in recent years, Cyprien Gaillard works across a range of media. In Glasgow 2014, he explores the notion of slow decay and destruction in a series of large photographs, video works and a semi-public sculpture only visible from the windows inside the Queen Elizabeth Hall foyer. Find out more about this installation
Joe Graham: Neither Here Nor There
Wednesday 12 November 2008 - Sunday 4 January 2009
For his exhibition at Concrete at The Hayward, Joe Graham has taken the view through the venue's window as the starting point of an imaginative journey. Over a series of five drawings, the hard lines of the urban landscape recede, replaced by a daydream world, hovering on the edge of thought. Find out more about this installation
Guido van der Werve: everything is going to be alright
Saturday 22 November 2008 - Sunday 4 January 2009
Steeped in melancholy, but also possessed of a sharp sense of humour, the films of the young Dutch artist Guido van der Werve may be said to belong to a subterranean tradition of Romantic Conceptualism, in which philosophical speculation on the limits of what art might be is tempered by an acute awareness of the glory, sadness and absurdity of lived experience. Find out more about this installation
