{{Short description|Scottish visual arts organisation}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox museum | name = The Common Guild | image = TheCommonGuild.jpg | image_upright = 0.9 | caption = | established = 2006 | location = 5 Florence Street, Glasgow G5 0YX | coordinates = | latitude = | longitude = | Hopening Hours = | style = | director = Katrina Brown | curator = Chloe Reith | interments = | website = {{url|https://www.thecommonguild.org.uk/}} | findagrave = | political = }} [[File:InsideTheCommonGuild.jpg|thumb|260px|Exhibition space at The Common Guild during Janice Kerbel's 'Notes from Sink' (2018), the last exhibition held at 21 Woodlands Terrace.]] '''The Common Guild''' is a visual arts organisation in Glasgow, Scotland. It was established in 2006 and has commissioned two Turner Prize-nominated works: Duncan Campbell in 2014 and Janice Kerbel in 2015.
The Common Guild is located in a former school building on the south bank of the River Clyde in Glasgow. The building houses The Common Guild's offices, a library with over 1,000 contemporary art books and public event and exhibition spaces. Exhibitions hosted by The Common Guild have included solo shows by Martin Creed,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/visual-art-martin-creed-things-the-common-guild-21-woodlands-terrace-glasgow-1-474516|title=Visual Art: Martin Creed, Things, The Common Guild, 21 Woodlands Terrace, Glasgow|website=www.scotsman.com}}</ref> Steven Claydon,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.list.co.uk/article/91345-steven-claydon-the-archipelago-of-contented-peoples-endurance-groups/|title=Steven Claydon: The Archipelago of Contented Peoples: Endurance Groups|date=17 May 2017|website=The List}}</ref> Roni Horn,<ref name="scotsman.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/home-is-where-the-art-is-katrina-brown-review-1-1430831|title=Home is where the art is - Katrina Brown review|website=www.scotsman.com}}</ref> Tacita Dean,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2010/nov/30/tacita-dean-glasgow|title=Tacita Dean shines at Glasgow galleries|first=Charlotte|last=Higgins|date=30 November 2010|publisher=|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> Wolfgang Tillmans<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/wolfgang-tillmans-the-common-guild|title=Wolfgang Tillmans @ The Common Guild - The Skinny|website=www.theskinny.co.uk}}</ref> and Roman Ondák;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thecommonguild.org.uk/pages/about|title=About - Common Guild|website=www.thecommonguild.org.uk}}</ref><ref name="createsend.com">{{Cite web|url=http://createsend.com/t/r-822B7AE6A5AB80BB2540EF23F30FEDED|title = Media Release: A New Era for the Common Guild}}</ref> and numerous group shows.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-art-of-slowing-down/|title=Slow Objects at the Common Guild|date=29 November 2017|website=Apollo Magazine}}</ref><ref name="createsend.com"/>
Beyond their own gallery space, The Common Guild organise and curate exhibitions and art events such as 'the Persistence of Objects' at Lismore Castle Arts in 2015<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/25/speeches-exhibition-lismore-castle-butler|title=I say this with trepidation – it is surprisingly easy to get used to a butler - Charlotte Higgins|first=Charlotte|last=Higgins|date=25 June 2015|publisher=|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> and 'Scotland + Venice 2013' at the 55th Venice Biennale.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.list.co.uk/article/54278-preview-of-scottish-artists-at-venice-biennale-2013-from-the-common-guild/|title=Preview of Scottish artists at Venice Biennale 2013 from The Common Guild|date=25 August 2013|website=The List}}</ref>
Between 2008 and 2013, The Common Guild worked with Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (GoMA) and Art Fund to build a new collection of international contemporary work for Glasgow including works by Emily Jacir, Matthew Buckingham and Lothar Baumgarten among others, many of which are regularly on display at GoMA.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.artfund.org/news/2009/12/09/glasgows-contemporary-art-collection-boosted-by-art-fund-international-scheme|title=Glasgow's contemporary art collection boosted by Art Fund International scheme|first=Art|last=Fund|website=Art Fund}}</ref>
Previous premises at 21 Woodlands Terrace provided a key location for the filming of ''Glasgow: The Grit and the Glamour,'' a film in the BBC's ''Imagine'' series.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01l1brw|title=BBC One - imagine..., Summer 2012, Glasgow: The Grit and the Glamour|website=BBC}}</ref>
==Solo shows== {{col-begin}} {{col-break|width=50%}} * Adel Abdessemed, 'TRUST ME', 2008 * Spencer Finch, 2008 * Roni Horn, 'the tiniest piece of mirror is always the whole mirror', 2009 * Mircea Cantor, 'Which light kills you’, 2010 * Martin Creed, 'Things', 2010 * Gerard Byrne, 'Images or shadows of divine things', 2010 * Robert Barry, 'Words and Music', 2010 * Tacita Dean, 2011 * Ulla von Brandenburg, 'Neue Alte Welt', 2011 * Thea Djordjadze, 'Lost Promise in a Room', 2011 * Wolfgang Tillmans, 'A New Installation, with Works from the Arts Council Collection', 2012 * Ugo Rondinone, 'primitive', 2012 * Carol Bove, 'The Foamy Saliva of a Horse', 2013 {{col-break|width=50%}} * Roman Ondák, 'Some Thing', 2013 * Gabriel Kuri, 'All probability resolves into form', 2014 * Hayley Tompkins, 'Scotland + Venice', 2014 * Corin Sworn, 'Scotland + Venice', 2014 * Duncan Campbell, 'Scotland + Venice', 2014 * Anne Hardy, 'TWIN FIELDS', 2015 * Thomas Demand, 'Daily Show', 2015 * Akram Zaatari, 'The End of Time', 2016 * Simon Starling, ‘At Twilight’, 2016 * Sharon Hayes, 'In My Little Corner of the World, Anyone Would Love You', 2016 * Steven Claydon, ‘The Archipelago of Contented Peoples: Endurance Groups’, 2017 * Katinka Bock, 'Radio Piombino', 2018 * Janice Kerbel, 'Notes from Sink / Routine for 24 Women', 2018 * Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme 'May Amnesia Never Kiss Us on the Mouth', 2022 * Corin Sworn 'In Reflection, SHimmer', 2023 * Nicole Wermers, 'Day Care', 2024 * Tarik Kiswanson, 'The Rupture', 2024 {{col-end}}
==Group Shows== {{col-begin}} {{col-break|width=50%}} *'Always Begins By Degrees', Adel Abdessemed, Roni Horn, Anna Gaskell, Pavel Büchler, Marine Hugonnier, Marcel Broodthaers, Philippe Parreno, Cerith Wyn Evans, 2008 * “You seem the same as always, -”, Claire Barclay, Kate Davis, Olafur Eliasson, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Douglas Gordon, Gabriel Orozco, Yvonne Rainer, Richard Serra and David Shrigley, 2011 {{col-break|width=50%}} * 'HOW TO LOOK AT EVERYTHING', Zbynek Baladrán, Simon Martin, Nick Relph & Falke Pisano, 2012 * 'Slow Objects', Vanessa Billy, Edith Dekyndt and Erin Shirreff, 2017 {{col-end}}
==Off-site Exhibitions== {{col-begin}} {{col-break|width=50%}} * Martin Creed ‘Words and Music’ at the RSAMD (now Royal Conservatoire), 2007 * ‘Jardins Publics’ with Michael Lin, Apolonija Sustersic and Richard Wright for Edinburgh International Festival, 2007 * The Rodney Graham Band featuring the Amazing Rotary Psycho-Opticon, at the ABC, 2008 * Ruth Ewan ‘The Glasgow Schools’ at Scotland Street School, 2012 {{col-break|width=50%}} * Janice Kerbel ‘Doug’ in The Jeffrey Room, The Mitchell Library, 2014 * Phil Collins ‘Tomorrow is Always too Long’ in Queen's Park, 2014 * Ulla von Brandenburg ‘Sink Down Mountain, Rise Up Valley’ in Langside Halls, 2016 * Simon Starling and Graham Eatough ‘At Twilight’ at Holmwood House, 2016 * Janice Kerbel ‘Sink’ at The Western Baths Club, 2018 * 'anywhere in the universe', Rabiya Choudhry, Kate Davis, Sean Edwards, Onyeka Igwe, Yuri Pattison, across 11 of Glasgow's public libraries, 2023 {{col-end}}
==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
==External links== * [https://www.thecommonguild.org.uk/programme/upcoming Common Guild website] * [https://twitter.com/thecommonguild?lang=en Common Guild on Twitter]
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