Bold Tendencies, London
Commissions
2024 - 2024
Turnus Gallery, Warsaw
Group Exhibition
2024 - 2024
Hannah Barry Gallery, London
Group Exhibition
2023 - 2023
Bold Tendencies, London
Commissions
2023 - 2023
Selfridges, London
Commission
2023 - 2023
5 January – 31 October 2024
Selfridges, London
Commissioned by Selfridges for the 2023 Art Block.
Programmed and produced by Bold Tendencies.
The Art Block is Selfridges' permanent destination for contemporary art that is participatory and unexpected. A marble and steel monolith proudly situated just inside Selfridges Duke Street entrance; the platform hosts an annual visual art commission. The Art Block is flanked by two glass vitrine windows at either side of the entrance's bronze framed doors, forming a tryptic of art spaces. These spaces have been specially designed to allow the showcase of large pieces of contemporary art that can weigh up to three and a half tones and measure well over four metres in height.
Exhibition by Gray Wielebinski spotlights the public restroom as a monument, sanctuary and secret. By evoking the Victorian Gothic style of architecture, the piece references feminist campaigns that equalised access to public sanitation facilities in the 20th century and led to Selfridges being the first department store to open women’s public toilets. It also nods to the connotation of these spaces as cruising sites and today’s conflicting visions of the purpose of public bathrooms, which often collide in transphobic “bathroom panics.” The two vitrines feature walkways divided by applique vanity screens that invite viewers to enter inside the window displays and reflect on the paradox of being alone in public.
︎︎︎ Press, ‘Mythology, ‘ Gender and Sexuality: Gray Wielebinski is the latest artist to take up residency at Selfridges Art Block ’ in Hero Magazine (online, 2023)
︎︎︎ Press, ‘ Gray Wielebinski takes over The Selfridges Art Block ’ in Selfridges (online, 2023)
︎︎︎ Press, ‘ Vinyl Glossalia Podcast with Gray Wielebinski and Rose Easton ’ in Emulsion Magazine (online, 2023)
Collective Ending HQ, London
Duo Exhibition
2022 - 2022
Hannah Barry Gallery, London
Group Exhibition
2022 - 2023
FACT, London
Short Film
2022 - 2022
Bold Tendencies, London
Commissions
2022 - 2022
Multiple Locations, UK
Project
2022 - 2022
Hannah Barry Gallery, London
Group Exhibition
2021 - 2022
Collective Ending HQ, London
Group Exhibition
2021 - 2021
Selfridges, London
Commission
2021 - 2021
Bold Tendencies, London
Commissions
2021 - 2021
Harlesden High Street, London
Solo Exhibition
2021 - 2021
Bold Tendencies, London
Group Exhibition
2020 - 2020
Collective Ending HQ, London
Group Exhibition
2020 - 2020
Hannah Barry Gallery, London
Group Exhibition
2020 - 2020
Spit & Sawdust, London
Group Exhibition
2019 - 2019
Bold Tendencies, London
Commissions
2019 - 2019
Spit & Sawdust, London
Group Exhibition
2019 - 2019
Spit & Sawdust, London
Group Exhibition
2019 - 2019
Art Academy Newington, London
Group Exhibition
2018 - 2018
Bold Tendencies, London
Group Exhibition
2018 - 2018
Hannah Barry Gallery, London
Group Exhibition
2017 - 2018