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Clients of White Space Gallery

London’s White Space Gallery was founded by Michael and Anya Stonelake in 2001, to present the international public with artists working in Russia today, as well as its new direction in representing international artists. Alongside our commercial gallery activities, we've also curated exhibitions and co-organised events in collaboration with major British and Russian cultural institutions. These include the Russian Patient exhibition (Freud Museum, London, 2002), the O&A Florensky: Moveable Bestiary (Architectural Association, London, 2002), Redefining Identities conference (Tate Modern and Whitechapel, London, 2003), Evgeny Yufit: Necrorealist Cinema (ICA, London, 2003), Stephen Gill: Field Studies (Moscow Museum of Architecture, Moscow, September 2004). The collaborations in 2005 have included a video programme by 20 most radical young Russian artists, organised together with TankTV (UK) , the Russian Season organised by the Photographer's Gallery (London), Boris Mikhailov's lecture at the National Portrait Gallery, and the Parallel Cinema screening during Beaconsfield's Chronic Epoch season. Cold Cold Heart: Mattias Akerfelt (Sweden), Olga Chernysheva (Russia), Jesper Just (Denmark), Ragnar Kjartansson (Iceland), Antti Laitinen (Finland), Elena Nasanen (Finland), Torbjorn Rodland (Norway), Richard T. Walker (UK) in the weekend of performance and video at the Somerset House (Courtauld Institute, London 2006). More recently our exhibitions included Rimaldas Viksraitis “Grimaces of The Weary Village”, Arles Photofestival, 2009, France; Andrey Tarkovsky Polaroids, Dom Kino, St Petersburg, 2010 in collaboration with ROSPHOTO.

We have organised many educational events by leading artists and curators, such as the late Dmitri Prigov, Vitaly Komar, Oleg Kulik, Sergey Bratkov, Olga Chernysheva, Stuart Brisely, Boris Mikhailov, Jeremy Shaw, Antanas Sutkus, Martin Parr, Rimaldas Viksraitis, Andrey Tarkovsky Jr., Charlotte Cotton, Sarah Wilson, and many others. We give a strong emphasis on producing exhibition catalogues, and regularly commission articles for our publications.

We have sold works by our gallery artists to the Victoria and Albert Museum prints and photography collections and to the National Museum of Modern Art in Oslo.

In 2010 the gallery changed its name to Anya Stonelake/White Space Gallery.