Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art
 

The Common Guild

figure with a microphone in front of a screen showing a building and a tree
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Air Pressure, 2021
Performed at SWG3. Presented by The Common Guild as part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Alan Dimmick
A dark photograph with a person dimly lit, they are stood at a desk which is lit by orange and green lights.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, A Thousand White Plastic Chairs, 2020
Performance at Audio. Presented by The Common Guild as part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Alan Dimmick
A dark photograph with a two people dimly lit, they are sitting at two desks lit by orange and green lights.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, A Thousand White Plastic Chairs, 2020
Performance at Audio. Presented by The Common Guild as part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Alan Dimmick
two people stood next to each other behind a desk. One is speaking into a microphone.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, After SFX, 2018
Performed at The Barrowland Ballroom. Presented by The Common Guild as part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Alan Dimmick
A man stands on a stage area. He holds a microphone to his face with his right hand and is looking down at a tablet held in his left hand
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Air Pressure, 2021
documentation of performance at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2023
Courtesy of the artist and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photograph by Maria Baranova
a series of public poster sites display intricate line drawings of statues being toppled
Sam Durant, Iconoclasm, 2021
Presented by The Common Guild. Installation views, public sites across Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy of the artist. Image: Eoin Carey
a billboard displays an intricate pencil drawing of a toppled, headless statue and a uniformed person looking over it
Sam Durant, Iconoclasm, 2021
Presented by The Common Guild. Installation views, public sites across Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy of the artist. Image: Eoin Carey
a billboard displays an intricate pencil drawing of a statue being toppled
Sam Durant, Iconoclasm, 2021
Presented by The Common Guild. Installation views, public sites across Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy of the artist. Image: Eoin Carey
a billboard displays an intricate pencil drawing of a stone statue with the faces blanked out
Sam Durant, Iconoclasm, 2021
Presented by The Common Guild. Installation views, public sites across Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy of the artist. Image: Eoin Carey
a billboard displays an intricate pencil drawing of a group of people pointing rifles at a statue
Sam Durant, Iconoclasm, 2021
Presented by The Common Guild. Installation views, public sites across Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy of the artist. Image: Eoin Carey
a billboard displays an intricate pencil drawing of a headless statue
Sam Durant, Iconoclasm, 2021
Presented by The Common Guild. Installation views, public sites across Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy of the artist. Image: Eoin Carey
a billboard displays an intricate pencil drawing of a statue in flames and toppling
Sam Durant, Iconoclasm, 2021
Presented by The Common Guild. Installation views, public sites across Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy of the artist. Image: Eoin Carey
a billboard displays an intricate pencil drawing of two figures toppling a statue
Sam Durant, Iconoclasm, 2021
Presented by The Common Guild. Installation views, public sites across Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy of the artist. Image: Eoin Carey
a billboard displays an intricate pencil drawing of a toppled statue
Sam Durant, Iconoclasm, 2021
Presented by The Common Guild. Installation views, public sites across Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy of the artist. Image: Eoin Carey
a billboard displays an intricate pencil drawing of a toppled statue
Sam Durant, Paris, 1871 2018

Photo: Mackenzie Goodman. Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
a billboard displays an intricate pencil drawing of a toppled statue, with a group of men standing over the statue
Sam Durant, Paris, 1871, 2018
Presented by the Common Guild. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Photo: Mackenzie Goodman. Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Room with wooden floors and a grey ceramic figure in the ground as well as ceramic tiles. Several white figures hanging from the ceiling and a dark blue artwork in the back wall.
Katinka Bock, Radio Piombino, 2018
Installation view, The Common Guild, Glasgow International 2018
Image: Ruth Clarke
There is a white wall and a white fireplace with a mirror on top of it. There are ceramic copper tubes hanging from the mobiles in the ceiling.
Katinka Bock, Radio Piombino, 2018
Installation view, The Common Guild, Glasgow International 2018
Image: Ruth Clarke
The floor is wooden and there are green coopper tiles. There is a bronze figure of a whale.
Katinka Bock, Radio Piombino, 2018
Installation view, The Common Guild, Glasgow International 2018
Image: Ruth Clarke
Next to the white fireplace there is a bronze figure of cactus. There is a white wall and wooden floors.
Katinka Bock, Radio Piombino, 2018
Installation view, The Common Guild, Glasgow International 2018
Image: Ruth Clarke
Exhibition view of gallery with framed photographs on the wall and a 16mm film projected onto a free-standing wall. The film images shows 2 figures
Akram Zaatari, The End of Time, 2016
Installation view, The Common Guild, Glasgow International 2016
Photograph: Ruth Clark
Film still showing two figures facing each other
Akram Zaatari, The End of Time, 2012
Film still, The Common Guild, Glasgow International 2016
Courtesy of the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Gabriel Kuri - All probability resolves into form Powder coated metal, donated sleeping bags
Gabriel Kuri, Balance of the invisible and foreseeable, 2014
The Common Guild, Glasgow International 2014
Photograph: Ruth Clark
Gabriel Kuri - All probability resolves into form; Untitled quick platform - padded wooden pallet, aluminium blanket, bottled water, fire extinguishers
Gabriel Kuri, Untitled Quick Platform, 2014
The Common Guild, Glasgow International 2014
Photograph: Ruth Clark
large framed image of an onion on a cooker. a man dressed in all black looks at a smaller photograph next to it.
Wolfgang Tillmans, Works from the Arts Council Collection, ‘Onion’ & ‘ Headlights’, 2012
Installation view, The Common Guild, Glasgow International 2012
a large black and white photograph of a man is hung in the centre of a wall. onlookers surround it, speaking in small groups
Wolfgang Tillmans, Works from the Arts Council Collection, ‘Onion’ & ‘ Headlights’, 2012
Installation view, The Common Guild, Glasgow International 2012
large bright room with spectators looking at photographs hung on the walls.
Wolfgang Tillmans, Works from the Arts Council Collection, ‘Onion’ & ‘ Headlights’, 2012
Installation view, The Common Guild, Glasgow International 2012
room with a white fireplace and mirror on one wall. on the other wall are five images in black frames.
Gerard Byrne, Images or Shadows of Divine Things, 2010
Installation view, The Common Guild, Glasgow International 2010
Image Credit: Ruth Barker
white gallery space with wooden floors. across the walls in a horizontal line are 11 images all in the same sized black frame.
Gerard Byrne, Images or Shadows of Divine Things, 2010
Installation view, The Common Guild, Glasgow International 2010
Image Credit: Ruth Barker

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