弗劳尔斯画廊起家伦敦西区，由安杰拉·弗劳尔斯于于1970年创立，是世界上历史最悠久的当代艺术画廊之一。如今，弗劳尔斯画廊在伦敦的梅费尔区和肖尔迪奇区分别拥有画廊空间，另在纽约拥有团队，位于香港的新画廊空间在2020年将带来全新的展览计划。
弗劳尔斯画廊共代理超过50位用不同艺术媒介创作的国际艺术家作品及艺术家资产。在过去50年，弗劳尔斯画廊举办超过900个展览，积极参与艺术家出版物的制作发行，并大力支持代理艺术家在美术馆及其他艺术机构的展览。
《今日艺术家》和《小即是美》是画廊自成立来重要的常设展览项目，每年夏季在伦敦举行，以群展的形式为当代新晋艺术家提供平台和空间。
1970年2月10日，安杰拉·弗劳尔斯在位于伦敦俪人街的国际艺术家协会（AIA）楼上创立以自己姓氏为名的画廊空间，即弗劳尔斯画廊。国际艺术家协会并没有向画廊收取租金，而是采用与画廊作品售卖分成的形式。弗劳尔斯画廊在俪人街运营了一年半，这短短的一年半时间里，展出了汤姆·菲利普斯（Tom Phillips）、德里克· 赫斯特（Derek Hirst）、杰夫· 纳托尔（Jeff Nuttall）， 佩内洛普·斯林格（Penelope Slinger）, 伊恩·布雷克威尔（Ian Breakwell）, 帕特里克·休斯（Patrick Hughes）, 珍妮·玛索罗（Jeanne Masoero），南希·福茨（Nancy Fouts）的作品。画廊最开始的展览包括《明信片展》（Postcard Show），安杰拉·弗劳尔斯特别委托约瑟夫·博伊斯(Joseph Beuys)、大卫·霍克尼(David Hockney)、理查德·汉密尔顿(Richard Hamilton)和彼得·布莱克(Peter Blake)等艺术家将其原创艺术作品制作成明信片。剧院经理迈克尔·怀特(Michael White)和金融作家罗伯特·海勒(Robert Heller)于1971年成为画廊最早的非执行董事。
1971年，弗劳尔斯画廊搬至伦敦苏豪区，同年9月以群展作为画廊的开幕首展。位于伦敦苏豪区的空间前身是地下室马厩，弗劳尔斯画廊不定期地把这个空间租给苏豪区伯威克街市场的商贩们，以此获得一些津贴补助。二十世纪七十年代初期，在俪人街和苏豪区这两个画廊空间，展出过如大卫·希弗（David Hepher）、荒川修作（Shusaku Arakawa）、雷·约翰逊（Ray Johnson）、博伊德&埃文斯（Boyd and Evans）、温迪·泰勒（Wendy Taylor）、格莱尼丝·巴顿（Glenys Barton）、安东尼·厄恩肖（Anthony Earnshaw）、狄安娜·佩特布里奇（Deanna Petherbridge）、卡罗莱· 霍奇森（Carole Hodgson）、德雷克·博舍尔（Derek Boshier）等艺术家的作品。这些艺术家作品不时被泰特美术馆、英国文化协会、德国路德维希博物馆、纽约现代艺术博物馆等作为公共收藏。早在1971年，弗劳尔斯画廊就开始参加国际当代艺术博览会，包括当时的第二届巴塞尔艺术博览会。1972年，画廊举办重要群展《1952年至1972年的英国绘画》，展现出弗劳尔斯画廊从学术研究方面切入展览的用心。1974年，画廊开始一年一度的《小即是美》群展项目，这个年度展览如今仍在进行。
1978年，苏豪区的画廊空间被售出，9个月后，弗劳尔斯画廊再次经历搬迁，成为当时位于托特纳姆梅夫斯区的安内雷·朱达画廊的邻居，弗劳尔斯画廊在这里一待就是十年。这一时期在画廊展出的艺术家包括史蒂夫·巴勒克拉夫（Steve Barraclough）、安娜·哥德尔（Ana Godel）、米歇尔·法雷尔（Micheal Farrell）、阿曼达·福克纳（Amanda Faulkner）、迈克尔·罗森斯坦（Michael Rothenstein）、约翰·基恩（John Keane）、妮古拉·希克斯（Nicola Hicks）、弗里德曼·哈恩（Friedemann Hahn）、特里·弗罗斯特（Terry Frost）和彼得·豪森（Peter Howson）。当时位于托特纳姆梅夫斯区的画廊空间，也是《今日艺术家》群展项目创始之地，这个只维持一天的展览概念现在仍在弗劳尔斯画廊继续推行。画廊后续还推出一系列的概念群展，例如《裸体》、《徽章艺术》、《好莱坞摄影大师的肖像作品》以及《80幅现代大师的版画》等。
1985年，安杰拉开始在她位于爱尔兰科克郡西部、一个名为罗斯卡贝利小镇的家中举办夏季展览，首展是威廉·克罗泽的作品。罗斯卡伯小镇的夏季展览连续进行了十五年，现在偶尔还会举行。
安杰拉的儿子马修·弗劳尔斯在1970年至1983年间，一边投身音乐事业，在一支英国朋克乐队担任键盘手和乐队经理，一边不时帮助母亲经营画廊事业，后来马修·弗劳尔斯全身心投入到家族的画廊事业，自1989年担任画廊执行董事起至今。
1988年，弗劳尔斯画廊新添伦敦东区的空间，即弗劳尔斯东画廊，位于哈克尼区中心的里士满路，占地4，500平方英尺的工业空间，其前身是皮毛商和私人洗衣店，成为当时伦敦空间最大的商业画廊。首展《当代肖像》，展出艺术家卢西安·弗洛伊德（Lucian Freud）、爱德华多·保罗齐（Eduardo Paolozzi）、莱昂·科索夫（Leon Kossoff）、弗兰克·奥尔巴赫（Frank Auerbach）、托尼·贝凡（Tony Bevan）、约翰·柯比（John Kirby）和泰山·席伦贝格（Tai Shan Schierenberg）的作品。1991年，画廊继续扩张，在里士满路对面拿下前身是皮具工厂、总面积达18，000平方英尺的空间。得益于这两个巨大的展览空间，画廊有机会展出大体量且备受赞誉的展览，如由英国著名策展人布莱恩·罗伯逊（Bryan Robertson）联合策展的《英国抽象艺术：第一部分，绘画》，展览包括许多当时重要的抽象画家，如帕特里克·赫伦（Patrick Heron）、布里奇特·赖利（Bridget Riley）、泰丝·贾雷（Tess Jaray）、肖恩·斯库利（Sean Scully）、迈克尔·基德纳（Michael Kidner）、罗宾·丹尼（Robyn Denny）、约翰·霍伊兰德（John Hoyland）。几年后，《英国抽象艺术：第二部分，雕塑》同样在弗劳尔斯东画廊举行，展出包括安尼施·卡普尔（Anish Kapoor）、艾莉森·威尔丁（Alison Wilding）和理查德·迪肯（Richard Deacon）等艺术家的作品。
至1990年代中期，为了保持与伦敦西部的联系，弗劳尔斯画廊在苏豪区开设临时画廊空间。在二十世纪九十年代，两位画廊艺术家约翰·基恩（John Keane）和彼得·豪森（Peter Howson）被英国帝国战争博物馆分别委任前往记录二十世纪两个非常重要的战争，波斯湾战争和波黑战争。
从1987年开始，弗劳尔斯画廊就在美国参加芝加哥艺术博览会。1989年起，弗劳尔斯画廊参加迈阿密艺术博览会和洛杉矶艺术博览会，经过数年在美国艺术博览会的积累，终于在1998年，弗劳尔斯画廊在洛杉矶伯格蒙艺术园区开设画廊空间。2003年，弗劳尔斯画廊在美国的驻点从洛杉矶搬迁到纽约，最初在曼哈顿的麦迪逊大道，最后搬至纽约切尔西区，经营了十年。
2000年，弗劳尔斯画廊在梅费尔区科克街设立空间，当时被称为弗劳尔斯西画廊。2002年，弗劳尔斯画廊从东区哈克尼搬迁至肖迪奇区一个12，000平方英尺的工业空间，占地三层楼，这里在十九世纪时曾是仓库。2000年初期，弗劳尔斯画廊开始代理苏格兰艺术家肯·柯里（Ken Currie），并进一步重点发展摄影项目，开始代理摄影艺术家爱德华·伯汀斯基（Edward Burtynsky）、罗伯特·波利多里（Robert Polidori）、莫娜·库恩（Mona Kuhn）、纳达夫·坎德（Nadav Kander）、朱莉·科伯恩（Julie Cockburn）、迈尔克·沃尔夫（Michael Wolf）和沉玮的作品。
2020年，正值弗劳尔斯画廊成立五十周年之际，弗劳尔斯画廊特别在伦敦位于梅费尔区和肖迪奇区的两个画廊空间举办题为《50 x 50》和《五十年》的群展，展示过去五十年画廊艺术家和展览形式的多样化及广度，其中包括重要的历史作品和新作。过去几年，画廊在香港设立办公室，积极在亚洲地区参加艺术博览会。2020年，弗劳尔斯画廊在香港上环设立画廊空间，开启在亚洲地区的新篇章。
Since 1970 Flowers Gallery has represented international contemporary artists and estates, working with a wide range of media. Over the past five decades the gallery has presented more than 900 exhibitions across its global locations, also supporting the production of editions and publications, and installations at art fairs, public galleries, museums and institutions around the world.
The gallery programme includes regular major survey shows and renowned recurring London exhibitions such as Artist of the Day and Small is Beautiful, which have formed significant platforms for emerging artists.
Established 1970
On February 10, 1970 Angela Flowers (1932-2023) opened her first eponymous gallery space in London on Lisle Street, above the Artists International Association (AIA), a cooperative of artists who offered the space to her rent-free in exchange for commission. The gallery stayed there for just over a year and a half, with Tom Phillips, Derek Hirst, Jeff Nuttall, Penelope Slinger, Ian Breakwell, Patrick Hughes, Jeanne Masoero and Nancy Fouts amongst the first artists shown in the space. The initial exhibitions included Postcard Show, for which Angela commissioned original works of art to be made into postcards by artists including Joseph Beuys, David Hockney, Richard Hamilton and Peter Blake. Michael White, the theatre impresario, and the financial writer Robert Heller became the first non-executive directors of the gallery in 1971.
The gallery moved to Portland Mews, Soho in 1971, opening with a group exhibition that September. It was subsidised by renting the former basement stables to barrow boys who worked at nearby Berwick Street market.
Between the two spaces in the early 70s artists exhibited included David Hepher, Arakawa, Ray Johnson, Boyd and Evans, Wendy Taylor, Glenys Barton, Anthony Earnshaw, Deanna Petherbridge, Carole Hodgson and Derek Boshier. Works were regularly placed in the collections of Tate, the British Council,the Arts Council and overseas including the Ludwig Museum, Germany, and the Museum of Modern Art, NY. The gallery started participating at international contemporary art fairs, first exhibiting at Basel in 1971. In 1972 the gallery staged British Drawings 1952-1972, establishing a recurring commitment to significant survey and group exhibitions. In 1974 the gallery began its annual exhibition Small is Beautiful, which is ongoing.
In 1978 the space was sold and nine months later the gallery moved below and then next door to Annely Juda in Tottenham Mews, where it remained for ten years. Artists exhibiting at the gallery during this period included Steve Barraclough, Ana Godel, Micheal Farrell, Amanda Faulkner, Michael Rothenstein, John Keane, Nicola Hicks, Friedemann Hahn, Terry Frost and Peter Howson. It was also the venue that saw the inception of Artist of the Day, a series of one day only exhibitions which is still produced. Innovative group exhibitions continued, including Nudes, Badge Art, Portraits by the Masters of Hollywood Photography and 80 Prints by Modern Masters, which led to the inauguration of the highly popular Print of the Month Club.
Angela Flowers began staging seasonal exhibitions out of her longtime home in Rosscarbery, West Cork, Ireland in 1985, with the first show of William Crozier’s work. The summer programme at Rosscarbery ran nearly every summer for 15 years, with occasional exhibitions still produced.
Alongside a career in music, Angela’s son, Matthew Flowers, worked on and off for the gallery from 1970 until 1983 when he moved to the business full time. He has remained since, becoming its Managing Director in 1989.
In 1988 the gallery added an East End venue, Flowers East, on Richmond Road off Mare Street, in the heart of Hackney, with a 4,500 square foot industrial building that was previously a furrier and a private laundry. At the time it was the largest commercial gallery space in London. The first exhibition, Contemporary Portraits, included Lucian Freud, Eduardo Paolozzi, Leon Kossof, Frank Auerbach and Tony Bevan, alongside gallery artists such as John Kirby and Tai Shan Schierenberg. The gallery expanded further in 1991, taking an 18,000 square foot building across the road in a former leather factory. The two vast exhibition spaces allowed the opportunity to put on large, acclaimed shows including, British Abstract Art – Part 1, Painting, co-curated with Bryan Robertson with works by many of the leading living abstract painters including Patrick Heron, Bridget Riley, Tess Jaray, Sean Scully, Michael Kidner, Robyn Denny and John Hoyland. This was followed by a Part 2, Sculpture that included Anish Kapoor, Alison Wilding and Richard Deacon.
In the mid-1990s a temporary small gallery was opened in Silver Place, Soho, to maintain links to the West End. In the 90s two gallery artists were commissioned by the Imperial War Museum to document the era’s wars – John Keane (Persian Gulf) and Peter Howson (Bosnia).
In 1998 after exhibiting at US fairs for many years including Art Chicago from 1987 and Miami and LA Art Fairs from 1989, the gallery opened in Los Angeles at Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station Arts Center. Its US operations moved to New York in 2003, initially uptown on Madison Avenue, and then in 2009 to Chelsea where it remained for 10 years.
In 2000 the gallery opened on Cork Street, Mayfair, and in 2002 it moved from Hackney to Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, to 12,000 square feet spread over three floors of a 19th century warehouse. The early 2000’s saw the gallery take on the Scottish artist Ken Currie and further growth of the photography programme, working with artists including Edward Burtynsky, Robert Polidori, Mona Kuhn, Nadav Kander, Julie Cockburn and Shen Wei.
After several years of running an office and exhibiting at fairs in Asia, the gallery opened a space in central Hong Kong in 2020, the year the gallery celebrated its 50th Anniversary with 50 x 50 and 50 Years, exhibitions in its two London galleries showcasing the breadth of the artists and programming developed over the last five decades. In 2023 the gallery commenced a series of US-based nomadic, artist-led projects and residencies, complementing programming in its London and Hong Kong spaces.
参观
伦敦 / London
梅费尔区科克街 / Cork Street, Mayfair
星期一至星期六 11am – 6pm
Monday – Saturday 11am – 6pm
肖迪奇区金士兰路 / Kingsland Road, Shoreditch
星期二至星期六 11am – 6pm
February – Saturday 11am – 6pm
纽约 / New York
预约洽谈
Private viewings by appointment
香港 / Hong Kong
星期二至星期六 11am – 6pm
Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 6pm
联系
伦敦空间 / London
梅费尔区 / Cork Street, Mayfair
地址 / Location
伦敦科克街21号
21 Cork Street London W1S 3LZ
电话 / Tel
+44 (0)20 7439 7766
邮箱 / Email
info@flowersgallery.com
肖迪奇区金士兰路 / Kingsland Road, Shoreditch
地址 / Location
伦敦金士兰路82号
82 Kingsland Road London E2 8DP
电话 / Tel
+44 (0)20 7920 7777
邮箱 / Email
info@flowersgallery.com
纽约空间 / New York
电话 / Tel
+(1) 212 439 1700
邮箱 / Email
newyork@flowersgallery.com
香港空间 / Hong Kong
地址 / Location
港岛中西区上环东街49号
49 Tung Street Sheung Wan
电话 / Tel
+852 2576 5088
邮箱 / Email
info@flowersgallery.com
相关导航
