club culture - the red gallery catalogues

3 day event, celebrating the release of Red Gallery Club Culture exhibitions series catalogues and publications.

• Thursday 14th to Sunday 17th of November.

• Farsight Collective, 4 Flitcroft St, London WC2H 8DJ

  ourhistory archives is releasing a collection of catalogues and books that showcase distinctive images from numerous exhibitions held at Red Gallery LDN from 2008 to 2018.

  Featuring catalogues and books from: La Movida (Madrid), Soviet Hippies (Estonia), After The Fall (Berlin 1990/2000), French Touch (Paris), Tresor Berlin Tresor, Dave Swindell's - Spirit of Ibiza 89' (2011 Red Gallery edition), Chris Low's - Tokyo Punks.

  The catalogues are a collaboration between Ernesto Leal (art direction/Red Gallery LDN founder) and Jason Kedgley (creative director/designer), to bring to life, we've come together with bespoke printers F.E Burman, known for their innovative design-led creative print. Combining traditional skills with the latest technologies, the catalogues  will follow the DIY ethos of A4 Zine type.

  Catalogues will be available on sale for the duration of the event.

  The event will include a selection of photographs from the ourhistory archive, together with film screenings and a Q&A session. More info TBA

  Red Gallery LDN, formerly situated in the heart of Shoreditch, held a 30,000 square ft space for nearly ten years through a "tenancy-at-will” agreement between Red Gallery and landlords, the Forbes-listed Reuben Brothers. The site now houses the art'otel:

  "Sometimes we had a lease with 7days’ notice, sometimes 3 months, The longest was 6 months, in the end we were there for 10 years. It was this immediacy that drove me, my and team to archive European club culture history. In the end I produced and curated around 20 exhibitions, always for non-profit and always collaborative.”

  Each exhibition also included film screenings, Q&A's, DJ sets and live music events. - SEE EXHIBITIONS HERE

  We encourage you to visit our exhibition page to review our previous exhibitions; only the volumes listed on the Red Gallery publications page are available for sale.

  About the venue – Farsight Collective Gallery is the first stage of a project to create a new cultural and community hub for the Soho area, building towards an extraordinary new subterranean grassroots music venue; find out more HERE

About the catalogues

• LA MOVIDA MADRILEÑA 1978/85: Madrid's club culture
  La Movida Madrileña  exhibition and project was jointly produced and curated by Ernesto Leal, Miguel Borrego, Javier Astudillo’s private archive collection, with photographs by Miguel Trillo, Ouka Leele, supported by Instituto Cervantes and Spanish Embassy, London.
  

  Simmering beneath Franco’s Spain, a 36 year dictatorship that had ruled over the country, La Movida would be an outburst of creative expression that shaped the period of transition from a repressed nation under Franco, to an emerging, free thinking, more liberally minded Spain. With the death of Franco, musicians and artists were able to freely express and document a very different Spain to the one being portrayed in the mainstream. La Movida’s favourite son Pedro Almodóvar, first films (“Pepi, Luci, Bom y Otras Chicas del Monton” 1980) reflect the spirit of the movement. Other notable film directors of the time were: Fernando Trueba, Fernando Colomo and Iván Zuleta.

• SOVIET HIPPIES: 1970s ESTONIAN PSYCHEDELIC UNDERGROUND CULTURE
  Collaboration between Terje Toomistu and Kiwa Noid (Soviet Hippies Archive) and Ernesto Leal (Red Gallery).
  
  Soviet Hippies is an ethnographic research observing Soviet society from a hippie point of view. The exhibition was designed to show the parallel universe during stagnation - the hippie movement within Brezhnev's regime and repressive measures. It's about the timeless freedom that breaks the rules and crosses boundaries, it is the hidden world that even Estonian people don't know much about.

• AFTER THE FALL – BERLIN 1990/2000
  A Red Gallery exhibition in collaboration between Ernesto Leal (ourhistory/Red Gallery) and Dimitri Hegemann (Tresor) - the catalogue includes photographs by Ben de Biel and Tilman Brembs.
  
  An exhibition that captures the time when East Berlin felt like a temporary autonomous zone and everything seemed to be possible. After the Fall captures a singular period when one of the biggest political changes in recent history coincided with the arrival of a new musical movement. Post-Wall Berlin was the perfect breeding ground for the youth culture that would dominate the 90s and change the way we look at the city forever – Techno! 

• FRENCH TOUCH - A JOURNEY THROUGH FRENCH ELECTRONICA
  A collaboration between Ben Osborne (Noise of Art) and  Ernesto Leal (Red Gallery/ourhistory archives). Most people usually begin the story of Techno, Electro, and electronic music in general in the USA or Germany - or, erroneously, in the UK.
  
  Red Gallery LDN produced the first exhibition , celebrating the French contribution the global story of club culture, with a selection  of photographs, artwork, documents, and films that surround the story of France’s electronic music history. The archive/catalogue includes photography by Olivier Degorce, Edouard Hartigan, Prisca Lobjoy and Johann Bouché-Pillion

• TRESOR BERLIN TRESOR - How Techno Became the Soundtrack to Unification - A  Red Gallery exhibition collaboration between Ernesto Leal (Red Gallery/ourhistory archive) and Dimitri Hegemann (Tresor/Berlin Atonal)

  
  Few clubs command as much reverence as Tresor, a notorious rave den that set a standard for Berlin's club scene and gave Detroit techno a foothold in Europe. The exhibition presented unseen material and treasures from Tresor's archive and memories from the clubgoers. 

  It coincided with the DVD release of SubBerlin, a documentary chronicling the history of Tresor, screened on the opening night, with a Q&A with club founders Johnnie Stieler (Tresor founder & club entrepreneur from East Berlin), Mark Reeder (MFS label owner/music producer) and Dimitri Hegemann (Tresor co-founder/Space pioneer).
  

• DAVE SWINDELLS SPIRIT OF IBIZA '89 – Red Gallery edition (May 2011) 
  Red Gallery published the first book of Dave Swindells's book  Spirit of Ibiza ’89, and launched at Red gallery in 2011.
  
  ‘ecstasy island’: Dave Swindells' photos show Ibiza at the time when its music and drug of choice inspired Britain's biggest cultural phenomenon since punk. However vibrant the club scenes in London, Berlin or Bucharest may be, during the summer season, all eyes turn to Ibiza.
  
  ‘Spirit of Ibiza 89’ documents Ibiza in its second summer of love, when Ku and Amnesia were still open-air parties, Pacha was less than half the size it is now, and a new wave of British clubbers and club workers joined the locals going to Café del Mar in San Antonio to watch the sun setting into the sea.
  

• CHRIS LOW'S - UP YOURS! TOKYO PUNK & JAPANARCHY TODAY
  A collaboration between Chris Low and Ernesto Leal (ourhistory/ Red Gallery).
  
  A photography exhibition documenting the five years Chris Low spent immersed in tokyo’s underground punk scene: it’s faces and places, bands and fans. 
  
  Chris Low  has characterised every notable subculture over the years. In UP YOURS! TOKYO PUNK & JAPANARCHY TODAY this sense of subculture is still as strong and defiant as ever, as much a culture of opposition to commerciality as it is to mainstream society.` 

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