The Common Guild is a visual arts organisation in Glasgow, Scotland. It was established in 2006 and has commissioned two Turner Prize-nominated works: Duncan Campbell in 2014 and Janice Kerbel in 2015.
The Common Guild is located in a former school building on the south bank of the River Clyde in Glasgow. The building houses The Common Guild's offices, a library with over 1,000 contemporary art books and public event and exhibition spaces. Exhibitions hosted by The Common Guild have included solo shows by Martin Creed, Steven Claydon, Roni Horn, Tacita Dean, Wolfgang Tillmans and Roman Ondák; and numerous group shows.
Beyond their own gallery space, The Common Guild organise and curate exhibitions and art events such as 'the Persistence of Objects' at Lismore Castle Arts in 2015 and 'Scotland + Venice 2013' at the 55th Venice Biennale.
Between 2008 and 2013, The Common Guild worked with Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (GoMA) and Art Fund to build a new collection of international contemporary work for Glasgow including works by Emily Jacir, Matthew Buckingham and Lothar Baumgarten among others, many of which are regularly on display at GoMA.
Previous premises at 21 Woodlands Terrace provided a key location for the filming of Glasgow: The Grit and the Glamour, a film in the BBC's Imagine series.
Solo shows
Adel Abdessemed, 'TRUST ME', 2008 Spencer Finch, 2008 Roni Horn, 'the tiniest piece of mirror is always the whole mirror', 2009 Mircea Cantor, 'Which light kills you’, 2010 Martin Creed, 'Things', 2010 Gerard Byrne, 'Images or shadows of divine things', 2010 Robert Barry, 'Words and Music', 2010 Tacita Dean, 2011 Ulla von Brandenburg, 'Neue Alte Welt', 2011 Thea Djordjadze, 'Lost Promise in a Room', 2011 Wolfgang Tillmans, 'A New Installation, with Works from the Arts Council Collection', 2012 Ugo Rondinone, 'primitive', 2012 Carol Bove, 'The Foamy Saliva of a Horse', 2013
Roman Ondák, 'Some Thing', 2013 Gabriel Kuri, 'All probability resolves into form', 2014 Hayley Tompkins, 'Scotland + Venice', 2014 Corin Sworn, 'Scotland + Venice', 2014 Duncan Campbell, 'Scotland + Venice', 2014 Anne Hardy, 'TWIN FIELDS', 2015 Thomas Demand, 'Daily Show', 2015 Akram Zaatari, 'The End of Time', 2016 Simon Starling, ‘At Twilight’, 2016 Sharon Hayes, 'In My Little Corner of the World, Anyone Would Love You', 2016 Steven Claydon, ‘The Archipelago of Contented Peoples: Endurance Groups’, 2017 Katinka Bock, 'Radio Piombino', 2018 Janice Kerbel, 'Notes from Sink / Routine for 24 Women', 2018 Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme 'May Amnesia Never Kiss Us on the Mouth', 2022 Corin Sworn 'In Reflection, SHimmer', 2023 Nicole Wermers, 'Day Care', 2024 Tarik Kiswanson, 'The Rupture', 2024
Group Shows
'Always Begins By Degrees', Adel Abdessemed, Roni Horn, Anna Gaskell, Pavel Büchler, Marine Hugonnier, Marcel Broodthaers, Philippe Parreno, Cerith Wyn Evans, 2008 “You seem the same as always, -”, Claire Barclay, Kate Davis, Olafur Eliasson, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Douglas Gordon, Gabriel Orozco, Yvonne Rainer, Richard Serra and David Shrigley, 2011
'HOW TO LOOK AT EVERYTHING', Zbynek Baladrán, Simon Martin, Nick Relph & Falke Pisano, 2012 'Slow Objects', Vanessa Billy, Edith Dekyndt and Erin Shirreff, 2017
Off-site Exhibitions
Martin Creed ‘Words and Music’ at the RSAMD (now Royal Conservatoire), 2007 ‘Jardins Publics’ with Michael Lin, Apolonija Sustersic and Richard Wright for Edinburgh International Festival, 2007 The Rodney Graham Band featuring the Amazing Rotary Psycho-Opticon, at the ABC, 2008 Ruth Ewan ‘The Glasgow Schools’ at Scotland Street School, 2012
Janice Kerbel ‘Doug’ in The Jeffrey Room, The Mitchell Library, 2014 Phil Collins ‘Tomorrow is Always too Long’ in Queen's Park, 2014 Ulla von Brandenburg ‘Sink Down Mountain, Rise Up Valley’ in Langside Halls, 2016 Simon Starling and Graham Eatough ‘At Twilight’ at Holmwood House, 2016 Janice Kerbel ‘Sink’ at The Western Baths Club, 2018 'anywhere in the universe', Rabiya Choudhry, Kate Davis, Sean Edwards, Onyeka Igwe, Yuri Pattison, across 11 of Glasgow's public libraries, 2023
References
External links Common Guild website Common Guild on Twitter