cover for Derek Jarman's 'Bliss' notebook. Estate of Derek Jarman courtesy K.Collins

As we prepare for our first exhibition of 2014, Almost Bliss: Notes on Derek Jarman’s Blue, CHELSEA space would like to say thank you to everyone who made 2013 another great year in our exhibition history.

CHELSEA space #48: second reflection / symmetrical contents STURTEVANT and SECONDEDITIONS

We started last year with second reflection / symmetrical contents STURTEVANT and SECONDEDITIONS which turned … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

Lynda Morris’s Dear Lynda exhibition and archive, shown at CHELSEA space in July 2012, is now opening at BQ in Berlin. The show was initiated by Matthew Higgs at White Columns in New York then came in a new version to CHELSEA space followed by shows in Dundee and Norwich. The brilliant image of Lynda on the Berlin invitation is by David Lamelas … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

An uncanny addition to the roof of the De La Warr Pavilion

As we mentioned at the end of our last blog something has come unhinged in the pleasant south coast town of Bexhill on Sea.

Hang On A Minute Lads, I've Got A Great Idea...

Look up at Eric Mendelsohn’s and Serge Chermayeff’s 1930s modernist masterpiece, the De La Warr Pavilion, and you will see a full size passenger coach teetering precariously … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

Mark Leckey gets 'Touchy Feely' at Chelsea

A week is a long time at CHELSEA space and once again we have been packing in some great events. We broke off from installing our new show to host an excellent lecture by Mark Leckey entitled ‘Touchy Feely’. Mark is currently busy working in the studio and was very generous in coming to talk with us and candid in sharing his ideas, even showing us his work in progress - a film portrait of an immaculate chrome … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

CHELSEA space was deeply saddened to hear the news that Alan Haydon, Director of the De La Warr Pavilion, has passed away following a short illness.

Alan had been the Director and Chief executive at the De La Warr since 1999 and had overseen the transformation of this iconic but run down building into a world class centre for the arts with recent … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

Avalanche 1970 - 1976 curated by Lisa Le Feuvre. invitation card

Director Donald Smith has designed the exhibition programme so that it would be divided between the shows that he curates and those by invited curators working on new projects made especially for CHELSEA space. This invitation to particular curators is an exploration of curatorial practice, to examine different approaches and to encourage guest curators to be experimental and explicitly describe their process through the exhibition itself.

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