Apollo 40 Under 40September, 2018
Just a week after handing in their MA dissertations in September 2016, Angelina Volk and Leopold Thun converted a former Bethnal Green locksmith into Emalin, a contemporary art gallery.
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Unit 4 Huntingdon Estate
Bethnal Green Rd
London, E1 6JU
About the Gallery
Emalin is a London-based contemporary art gallery run by Angelina Volk and Leopold Thun. Prior to opening the permanent gallery space in London's East End in September 2016, Emalin operated as an itinerant exhibition programme and project space since 2014. The gallery represents nine international artists from five countries working in a range of media, with a focus on emerging multi-disciplinary practices: Evgeny Antufiev (b. 1968, Kyzyl, RU), Alvaro Barrington (b. 1983, Caracas, VE), Nicholas Cheveldave (b. 1984, Victoria, CA), Aslan Gaisumov (b. 1991, Grozny, CHE), Athena Papadopoulos (b. 1988, Toronto, CA), Kembra Pfahler (b. 1961, Hermosa Beach, CA, USA), Megan Plunkett (b. 1985, Pasadena, CA, USA), Augustas Serapinas (b. 1990, Vilnius, LT) and the collaboration Tt X AB (Teresa Farrell and Alvaro Barrington). The gallery produces six exhibitions annually, placing emphasis on both upkeeping a public events programme and the production of artist publications.
Athena Papadopoulos, The Smurfette, Emalin, London (April 2017), installation view.
Courtesy of the artist and Emalin, London.
Photography: Plastiques.
Alvaro Barrington and David Weiss, Condo London, Emalin hosting Weiss Falk, Basel (January 2018), installation view.
Courtesy of the artist and Emalin, London.
Photography: Plastiques.
Alvaro Barrington and David Weiss, Condo London, Emalin hosting Weiss Falk, Basel (January 2018), installation view.
Courtesy of the artist and Emalin, London.
Photography: Plastiques.
Megan Plunkett, I Bet You Wish You Did and I know I do, Emalin, London (June 2017), installation view.
Courtesy of the artist and Emalin, London.
Photography: Plastiques.
Aslan Gaisumov, All That You See Here, Forget, Emalin, London (May 2018), installation view.
Courtesy of the artist and Emalin, London.
Photography: Plastiques.
Aslan Gaisumov, All That You See Here, Forget, Emalin, London (May 2018), installation view.
Courtesy of the artist and Emalin, London.
Photography: Plastiques.
Evgeny Antufiev, With a copper mask in one hand and a vase full of secrets in the other, my body will rest in a sarcophagus guarded by twelve specially trained monsters, Emalin, London (November 2017), installation view.
Courtesy of the artist and Emalin, London.
Photography: Plastiques.
Evgeny Antufiev, With a copper mask in one hand and a vase full of secrets in the other, my body will rest in a sarcophagus guarded by twelve specially trained monsters, Emalin, London (November 2017), installation view.
Courtesy of the artist and Emalin, London.
Photography: Plastiques.
Jessica Vaughn, Exit Strategy, Emalin, London (September 2018), installation view.
Courtesy of the artist and Emalin, London.
Photography: Plastiques.
Just a week after handing in their MA dissertations in September 2016, Angelina Volk and Leopold Thun converted a former Bethnal Green locksmith into Emalin, a contemporary art gallery.
Two films show ways of approaching and exorcizing the country's troubled past at Emalin, London, UK.
In the American sitcom, A Different World, The Cosby Show’s Denise Huxtable goes to college... It is from this sitcom that Brooklyn-based artist Alvaro Barrington’s series of vintage postcards of European landmarks, sewn and tied with several types of thick yarn, takes its title.
In 'The Smurfette', eight anthropomorphic sculptures strike poses on a wine-stained carpet, as if straining to stand upright after a long night of revelry.
Smaller galleries may be under pressure, but these inspiration figures are forging ahead.
Augustas Serapinas’s current exhibition highlights this problem. The artist uses the story of a former locksmith evicted from the very site that the gallery temporarily occupies before it is converted into high-end apartments.