{{Short description|Grade listed building in London}}{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}} {{Use British English|date=August 2015}} {{Infobox building | name = The Horse Hospital | image = Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD 01.jpg | alt = | caption = The Horse Hospital, 2016 | altitude = | building_type = | architectural_style = | structural_system = | cost = | ren_cost = | client = | owner = | current_tenants = | landlord = | address = Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD | location_country = England, United Kingdom | coordinates = {{coord|51.5228|-0.1244|region:GB_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} | pushpin_map = Greater London | construction_start_date = 1794 | completion_date = 1797 | inauguration_date = | renovation_date = | height = | diameter = | other_dimensions = | floor_count = | floor_area = | main_contractor = | architect = [[James Burton (property developer)|James Burton]] | architecture_firm = | structural_engineer = | services_engineer = | civil_engineer = | other_designers = | quantity_surveyor = | awards = | website = {{URL|www.thehorsehospital.com}} | references = }}
The '''Horse Hospital''' is a [[listed building|Grade II listed]]<ref name="NHLE">{{NHLE|num=1271476|desc=The Horse Hospital|accessdate= 11 September 2016}}</ref> [[Nonprofit organization|not for profit]], independent arts venue at Colonnade, [[Bloomsbury]], central London.<ref name="guardian-basciano">{{cite news|first1=Oliver|last1=Basciano|accessdate=2019-12-18|title=Alternative London porn festival changes location after protests|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/apr/26/london-porn-festival-protests|newspaper=The Guardian|date=26 April 2019|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> Its curatorial focus is on counter-cultural histories, sub-cultures, outsiders and emerging artists. It organizes underground film screenings and exhibitions.<ref>{{cite web|title=THE HORSE HOSPITAL|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-487549-the-horse-hospital-greater-london-author#.VnAOlhqLRE4|publisher=English Heritage|accessdate=15 December 2015}}</ref> Founded in 1992 by [[Roger K. Burton]],<ref>{{cite web|title=The Contemporary Wardrobe by Roger Burton|url=https://www.byronesque.com/editorial/the-contemporary-wardrobe-part-oneby-roger-burton#1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022001017/http://www.byronesque.com/editorial/the-contemporary-wardrobe-part-oneby-roger-burton#1|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 October 2012|website=Bryonesque|accessdate=10 September 2016|date=10 May 2012}}</ref> the venue opened with Vive Le Punk!, a retrospective of [[Vivienne Westwood]]'s [[punk visual art|punk]] designs in 1993.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Steve|last1=Rose|accessdate=2019-12-18|title=This week's new film events|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/feb/02/this-weeks-new-film-events|newspaper=The Guardian|date=2 February 2013|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>
The building was originally built by [[James Burton (property developer)|James Burton]] in 1797 as stabling for [[Hackney carriage|cab drivers]]' sick horses.
==History== Initially programmed by Burton and Ian White, the venue's reputation grew both in London and abroad. [[James B. L. Hollands]] later replaced White as curator. The artist, [[Tai Shani]] was the programmer from 2006 to 2016, followed by Sholto Dobie and Letitia Calin. George Lynch and Alexia Marmara have been curators and programmers since 2022.
In 1998, the Horse Hospital hosted the debut British exhibition by [[outsider artist]] / painter [[Joe Coleman (painter)|Joe Coleman]] which attracted a new audience. Subsequently, the venue played host to a variety of performers, musicians, artists, film makers and writers, including [[Dame Darcy]], [[Anita Pallenberg]],<ref>{{cite news|first1=Will|last1=Hodgkinson|access-date=2019-12-18|title=Anita Pallenberg: more rock'n'roll than the Stones|newspaper=[[The Times]]|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/music/article/anita-pallenberg-more-rocknroll-than-the-stones-xfhzqgkfv|issn=0140-0460|via=www.thetimes.co.uk}}</ref> [[Iain Aitch]], [[Jack Sargeant (writer)|Jack Sargeant]], [[Valie Export]], [[Chris Carter (British musician)|Chris Carter]], [[David Tibet]], [[Helen Chadwick]], [[Dennis Cooper]], [[Nan Goldin]], [[Morton Bartlett]], [[Lydia Lunch]], [[Bruce Bickford (animator)|Bruce Bickford]], [[Gee Vaucher]] and [[Crass]], [[Alejandro Jodorowsky]],<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.timeout.com/london/art/alexandro-jodorowsky-pascale-montadon| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191218105003/https://www.timeout.com/london/art/alexandro-jodorowsky-pascale-montadon| archive-date = 2019-12-18| title = Alexandro Jodorowsky & Pascale Montadon at The Horse Hospital – Soho to Hampstead – Time Out London}} </ref> [[Stewart Home]], [[Jeremy Reed (writer)|Jeremy Reed]], [[Franko B]], [[Ron Athey]], [[Banksy]], [[Marc Almond]], [[Yvonne Rainer]], [[Artūras Barysas]] and others.
It has also been used by various record labels, publishing houses including [[Soft Skull Press]], Verso, [[Serpent's Tail]] and [[Clear Cut Press]]. and journals such as ''[[Strange Attractor (journal)|Strange Attractor]]'' and ''[[Granta]]'' for special events, as well as a screening space for numerous film festivals including the [[Fashion in Film Festival]], [[London International Animation Festival]], London Porn Film Festival<ref name="guardian-basciano"/> amongst others.
The Horse Hospital houses and is supported by the [[Contemporary Wardrobe Collection]], a fashion archive that specialises in post-war street fashion, sub-cultures and British design. The Chamber of Pop Culture is located there.<ref name="guardian-stickemup">{{cite news|author=Guardian Staff|accessdate=2019-12-18|title=Stick 'em up|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/1999/nov/25/artsfeatures6|newspaper=The Guardian|date=25 November 1999|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> Proud Camden has been located there since about 2008.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Leonie|last1=Cooper|first2=Patric|last2=Baird|first3=Marc Rowlands & John|last3=Mitchell|accessdate=2019-12-18|title=This week's new clubs|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jun/19/clubs-boom-boom-club-liquidation|newspaper=The Guardian|date=18 June 2010|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>
In 2015 The Horse Hospital was listed with [[London Borough of Camden]] as a Community Asset and the site was selected for inclusion in the [[British Library]]’s [[UK Web Archive]] as a website of cultural importance.
In 2019 it was announced that The Horse Hospital was at risk of closure after its landlord proposed a 333 per cent rent increase, from £30,000 to £130,000 annually from the beginning of 2020.<ref>{{cite web|first1=Edward M.|last1=Gómez|access-date=2021-10-20|title=Fighting to Save a Fringe Landmark|url=http://hyperallergic.com/574512/fighting-to-save-horse-hospital-london/|date=4 July 2020|website=Hyperallergic}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2019-12-18|title=Arts space The Horse Hospital at risk after 333 per cent rent rise|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/arts/horse-hospital-closure-risk-campaign-a4265131.html|date=18 October 2019|website=Evening Standard}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2019-12-18|title=Rent rise puts future of arts space in doubt|url=http://islingtontribune.com/article/rent-rise-puts-future-of-arts-space-in-doubt|website=Islington Tribune}}</ref> At the start of January 2020 it secured an extension on its lease until 28 February.<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2020-01-05|title=Stop The Horse Hospital|url=https://www.thehorsehospital.com/stop-the-horse-hospital-from-closing|website=The Horse Hospital}}</ref> Eventually, according to The Horse Hospital's website, a new lease was secured until December 2024, with a rent increase of 33%.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-10-20|title=The Horse Hospital: Independent Arts Venue|url=https://www.thehorsehospital.com/|website=The Horse Hospital}}</ref>
==The building== The building is [[listed building|Grade II listed]].<ref name="NHLE"/> It was originally built by [[James Burton (property developer)|James Burton]] in 1797 as stabling for cab drivers' sick horses, the Horse Hospital is notable for its unique stone tiled floor. Access to both floors is by concrete moulded ramps, the upper floor ramp retains hardwood slats preventing the horses from slipping. It can be found at Colonnade, [[Bloomsbury]], London.
==Major exhibitions==
*1993 Vive Le Punk!, [[Vivienne Westwood]] and [[Malcolm McLaren]] *1998 Original Sin, [[Joe Coleman (painter)|Joe Coleman]]<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2019-12-18|title=Original Sin|url=https://www.thehorsehospital.com/archive/past/the-chamber-of-pop-culture-past/original-sin|website=The Horse Hospital}}</ref> *1998 Remote Control, [[Laurie Lipton]]<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2019-12-18|title=Remote Control|url=https://www.thehorsehospital.com/archive/past/the-chamber-of-pop-culture-past/remote-control|website=The Horse Hospital|archive-date=18 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191218105002/https://www.thehorsehospital.com/archive/past/the-chamber-of-pop-culture-past/remote-control|url-status=dead}}</ref> *1998 Meet, [[Brian Griffin (photographer)|Brian Griffin]] *1999 Car, Photographs by Peter Anderson *1999 ''Andre the Giant Has a Posse'' by [[Shepard Fairey]]<ref name="guardian-stickemup"/> *2000 Oh Lover Boy, [[Franko B]] *2000 The Situation At This Address Has Changed, Sculpture, Drawing, Painting [[Harry Forbes (artist)|Harry Forbes]] *2000 Transromantik, [[Cathy Ward]] and Eric Wright *2001 Two Es And A Viagra, Peter Rigby *2001 Beat 13!, [[Lucy McLauchlan]], [[Tim Watkins]], [[Al Murphy]] *2001 [[Gee Vaucher]] *2001 Hospital Brut, The Toxic art of [[Le Dernier Cri]] *2002 [[David Tibet]] and [[Steven Stapleton]] *2003 The Bogside Artists *2003 Unquiet Voices, English and American Visionary Art 1903 – 2003 *2004 Heralding the Apocalypse, [[Barry Hale]] *2005 The 45th Annual Convention of the Middleman and the Cherry Brigade – [[Tai Shani]] *2006 [[Some Bizzare]] Exhibition, [[Stevo Pearce]]<ref>[http://arts.independent.co.uk/music/features/article1930746.ece "Stevo: Bizzare after all these years "]{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}''Independent Online Edition'', accessed 22 December 2007</ref> *2007 Visual Athletics Club, Edward Barber *2007 The Other Side of the Island [[Guapo (band)|David J Smith]] *2008 Miron Zownir – Radical Eye *2008 [[Sandow Birk]] – Dante's Inferno *2008 Sacred Pastures – Cathy Ward, Eric Wright and [[Norbert Kox]] *2008 Instead of wives, they shall have toads, Stephen Fowler<ref>{{cite news|first1=Jessica|last1=Lack|accessdate=2019-12-18|title=Discovering the DIY way|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/jul/19/guidefeatures.theguide|newspaper=The Guardian|date=18 July 2008|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> *2008 30,000 Years of Cryptomnesia *2008 From Fear to Sanity – [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament|CND]] and the Art of Protest from 1958 to 1963<ref>{{cite news|first1=Iain|last1=Aitch|accessdate=2019-12-18|title=Event preview: From Fear To Sanity, London|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/aug/09/londonlistings1|newspaper=The Guardian|date=8 August 2008|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> *2009 The Impossible World of [[Stu Mead]] *2010 HOLOGRAPHY for Beginners, Ole Hagen *2010 Drag and Cinema, Cinema in Drag – Brice Dellsperger *2010 Ian Johnstone – The 23 Stab Wounds Of Julius Caesar *2010 Fake Food & Fast Cars: The Pop Couture of Kate Forbes *2011 Adrian Di Duca: Monstrorum Historia *2011 [[Eadweard Muybridge|Edweard Muybridge]]: Muybridge's Revolver *2011 Ronny Long – My Life on Earth 1991–2002 *2011 Every beautiful thing... The Michael Ho Chong Collection *2012 The Playgrounds of War – Gina Glover *2012 LFP: The Queen, The Chairman And I – Kurt Tong *2012 The Butcher Of Common Sense *2012 Bunti's Picture Show – Ian Ward *2012 Camouflage, Revolution, and Desire – drawing from movies *2013 [[Morton Bartlett]] *2013 [[Jacques Katmor]] & The 3rd Eye Group *2013 [[Barbara Baranowska|BASHA:]] the unsung hero of Polish poster art *2013 The Hobo Kings and Queens of Leanne Castillo *2014 A Goodly Company: Ethel Le Rossignol *2014 [[Walerian Borowczyk]] – Posters and Lithography *2014 The Opium Den: [[Neo Naturists|Jennifer Binnie]] *2014 Nick Abrahams – Lions & Tigers & Bears *2014 Alien Puma Space Train: The Visionary Work Of Daniel S. Christiansen *2014 [[Saturation 70]] *2014 [[Stephen Holman]] *2014 [[Stephen Dwoskin]] – Ha! Ha! *2015 The School Of The Damned Degree Show 2015 *2015 [[Melinda Gebbie]]: What Is The Female Gaze? *2015 George Tobias: My Little Kingdom *2015: ''X-Ray Audio'' by [[The Real Tuesday Weld|Stephen Coates]]<ref>{{cite news|first1=Pete|last1=Paphides|accessdate=2019-12-18|title=Bone music: the Soviet bootleg records pressed on x-rays|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/29/bone-music-soviet-bootleg-records-pressed-on-xrays|newspaper=The Guardian|date=29 January 2015|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> *2016 The Detroit Artists Workshop *2016 Punk in Translation: Burst City *2016 [[Plastique Fantastique]]: After London *2016 Welcome, Space Brothers: The [[Unarius Academy of Science|Unarius Academy Of Science]] *2016 [[Destroy All Monsters (band)|Destroy All Monsters]] *2016 [[Autopsia]]: Thanatopolis<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2019-12-18|title=AutopsiA Thanatopolis|url=https://www.thehorsehospital.com/archive/past/the-chamber-of-pop-culture-past/autopsia-thanatopolis|website=The Horse Hospital}}</ref> *2017 The Higher Powers Bible: From Genesis To Revelation, [[Lee "Scratch" Perry|Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry]] and Peter Harris *2017 Cesca Dvorak: Dewy Guises *2017 Peace Love And Anarchy = Freedom And Fun Forever: exhibition of the squatted house, 64–65 Guildford Street *2018 Jakup Ferri: Muscle memory *2018 The Art of Magic *2018 Relating Narratives: A Common World of Women *2018 Cathy Ward: Sub Rosa *2018 Trigger Warning: Films of [[Tessa Hughes-Freeland]] *2019 [[Herve Guibert]]: Modesty or Immodesty *2019 Lunar Futurism: Costumes, Props & Ephemera from [[Andrzej Żuławski]]'s 'On the Silver Globe' *2019 [[Lydia Lunch]] Presents: SO REAL IT HURTS *2019 [[Jenkin van Zyl]]: Oblivion Industry *2019 The Gutter Art of [[Stephen Varble]]: Genderqueer Performance Art in the 1970s, photographs by Greg Day *2019 Psychic Communities –_ Drift Fright: New Noveta residency *2019 Vive Le Punk: Redressed *2020 Show, Don’t Tell *2020 [[Jamie Reid]]: Taking Liberties *2020 Hackers *2021 Eric Wright: Ohio Lands *2021 Alexia Marmara: My Head Leaks *2022 Thomas Leer and Robert Rental From The Port To The Bridge *2022 Icons: A Portrait Sacrarium to Sex Workers’ Rights *2022 Ode to Meatyard *2022 Valériane Venance: The Wisdom Women *2022 Raid/R issue 4 launch *2022 Nina Porter: Silent Pact *2022 Raft Festival *2022 Museum of Sex Objects *2022 150mg Liminal Space *2022 George Tobias playing with sugar *2022 Augenblick Press: Raintime *2022 Gentle Stranger Two Nights of Unlearning *2022 Pandora Vaughn *2023 Drôle *2023 Artists for Democracy - 1974-1977 *2023 Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad *2023 Everything Must Go *2023 Tashi Fay - My Other Family *2023 Don’t Keep The Wickerman Waiting *2023 Alice Fraser: kill ur darlings… lazy affair *2023 Gutter Sprung *2023 Micah Moses - Godbody *2023 Nicholas Williams - Coterie *2023 Sicko *2024 What’s He Doing In There? *2024 Le Monique Chic Show! *2024 [[Allen Ginsberg]] in London *2024 [[Crass]]: Art Exhibition *2024 Catarina Felix Machado: Temple *2024 [[Josephine Foster]] and Alexia Marmara: Anew Old Adage
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official website|www.thehorsehospital.com}} *[http://www.iainaitch.com/articles/es_horse.htm "The real home of avant-garde"] by Iain Aitch in the ''Evening Standard''
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