Art Fund International Acquisitons
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of over 30 artworks by 17 artists, which were acquired between 2007 and 2012. Glasgow’s Art Fund International project was a £1million collecting partnership between the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) and The Common Guild, Glasgow, that ran from 2007 to 2012. In 2007 this partnership was awarded £1million by Art Fund, London, a national fundraising charity for art, to collect artworks by contemporary artists based outside the UK. Four other partnerships based around the UK were also awarded £1million through this unprecedented initiative. Led by Ben Harman, then Curator of Contemporary Art for Glasgow Museums and Katrina Brown, Director of The Common Guild, the Glasgow partnership focused on creating an international context for GoMA’s collections of artworks by internationally-acclaimed artists associated with Scotland. For example, artworks were collected from artists considered to be international peers, or influences on Christine Borland, Simon Starling, Douglas Gordon, Martin Boyce and many others. During the five year period over 30 artworks were acquired by artists from places as varied as Croatia, Germany, Ireland the Middle East and the USA. Works by the following artists were acquired during this project: Matthew Buckingham, Peter Hujar, Emily Jacir, Lothar Baumgarten, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Fiona Tan, Thomas Demand, Barbara Kruger, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Walid Raad/The Atlas Group, David Maljkovic, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Gerard Byrne, Spencer Finch, Omer Fast, Roman Ondák and Wolfgang Tillmans. This collection can be seen as a distinct group of acquisitions, but it also represents the start GoMA’s new period of collecting from artists based outside the UK.
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