Camden Arts Centre

'My gallery of the year'
- Time Out  

'London's best public contemporary art space'
- Evening Standard  

'Camden's programme is an intelligent mix of the contemporary and the historical, often making shows that are either long overdue or of artists who have been overlooked or simply unacknowledged, but whose work deserves a broader audience, and have the ability to speak in ways that are often as surprising as they are relevant.'
- Adrian Searle, Art Critic

'Camden Arts Centre has a long history of putting on clever, prescient shows'
- Charles Darwent, Art Critic

Making Ideas Visible

Camden Arts Centre is a world-class contemporary visual arts space, dedicated to engaging with the highest calibre artists from across the international arts scene. Placing the artist at the centre, Camden Arts Centre strives to involve members of the public in the ideas and work of today's artists, and the artists who inspire them.

The exhibition and education programmes are developed with equal importance, and are continually intertwined. The changing programme includes exhibitions, artist residencies, off-site projects and artist-led activities, ensuring Camden Arts Centre remains a dynamic place for seeing, making and talking about art.

Exhibitions feature emerging artists, international artists showing for the first time in London, significant historic figures who inspire contemporary practice, and artist selected group shows relevant to current debate.

Residencies develop artists' practices with practical support, resulting in new work and public participation.

Off-site artists' projects include new commissions and performance in strategic areas such as King's cross and in local schools and community centres.

Education activity includes events which engage audiences in a regular series of talks and discussions, film screenings and live art performances, all alongside family activities, schools and widening participation projects led by artists.

History

Built in 1897 and originally a library, the grade II listed building became an arts centre in the 1960s.

Director Jenni Lomax joined Camden Arts Centre in 1990, and has established an internationally acclaimed programme of exhibitions, residencies, artists' projects and public events. She also led the organisation through a major building refurbishment scheme which was completed in early 2004 by Tony Fretton Architects.

The beautiful and sensitively designed building now combines the original victorian gothic features with a contemporary urban design to enhance space and light.