The Common Guild is a visual arts organisation in

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. It was established in 2006 and has commissioned two

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-nominated works: Duncan Campbell in 2014 and

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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

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and

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; and numerous group shows. 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 and 'Scotland + Venice 2013' at the 55th

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. Between 2008 and 2013, The Common Guild worked with

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(GoMA) and

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to build a new collection of international contemporary work for Glasgow including works by Emily Jacir,

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and

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among others, many of which are regularly on display at GoMA. 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.

Solo shows

* 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 *

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, 'The Foamy Saliva of a Horse', 2013 * 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 *

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, 'Daily Show', 2015 * Akram Zaatari, 'The End of Time', 2016 *

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, ‘At Twilight’, 2016 * Sharon Hayes, 'In My Little Corner of the World, Anyone Would Love You', 2016 *

, ‘The Archipelago of Contented Peoples: Endurance Groups’, 2017 *

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, '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

Group Shows

*'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

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, 2011 * 'HOW TO LOOK AT EVERYTHING', Zbynek Baladrán, Simon Martin, Nick Relph & Falke Pisano, 2012 * 'Slow Objects', Vanessa Billy, Edith Dekyndt and Erin Shirreff, 2017

Off-site Exhibitions

* Martin Creed ‘Words and Music’ at the RSAMD (now Royal Conservatoire), 2007 * ‘Jardins Publics’ with Michael Lin, Apolonija Sustersic and Richard Wright for

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, 2007 * The Rodney Graham Band featuring the Amazing Rotary Psycho-Opticon, at the

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, 2008 * Ruth Ewan ‘The Glasgow Schools’ at Scotland Street School, 2012 * Janice Kerbel ‘Doug’ in The Jeffrey Room, The

Mitchell Library The Mitchell Library is a large public library located in the Charing Cross area of Glasgow, Scotland. It is the largest public reference library in Europe, and the centre of Glasgow's public library system. History The library was initiall ...

, 2014 *

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‘Tomorrow is Always too Long’ in Queen's Park, 2014 * Ulla von Brandenburg ‘Sink Down Mountain, Rise Up Valley’ in Langside Halls, 2016 *

and Graham Eatough ‘At Twilight’ at

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, 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

References

External links

Common Guild website

Common Guild on Twitter
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