Events - Special Events

Klaus Weber

Private View and Launch Party

21 Oct 2011

Private View 6pm - 9pm, followed by our launch party until 11pm. Free.

Be amongst the first to see our new exhibitions by Klaus Weber. The galleries will be open from 6pm until 9pm, showcasing some fantastic new comissions by the Berlin based artist as well as a collection of 200 objects spanning 1,000,000 years - including art works by William Hogarth, Louise Bourgeois and Gilbert & George. Book here.

JT Beedham & Sons - winners of the Observer Food Monthly Award 2011 for Best Producer will be serving up a delicious BBQ on our terrace.

In The Space we'll be joined by Kwes a self-styled “musical multi-tasker”, Damon Albarn, Hot Chip, The xx, Micachu and Leftfield – these are just a few of the artists produced or remixed by Kwes. Kwes’s DJ set with live mixing at Nottingham Contemporary comes just ahead of an album to be released on the legendary Warp label later this autumn. He co-produced Kinshasa One Two by the DRC Collective gathered by Damon Albarn - fifty contemporary Congolese musicians take part in a recording that will benefit Oxfam’s work in the region. The second volume of the Kwesachu mixtape series, made with genre spanning musical prodigy Micachu, is coming soon too.

We'll have a live set from Night Angles whose influences are Bowie’s Berlin years, Vangelis and the Chicago House label Trax. Combining the pop sensibilities of early Talking Heads with Kraftwerk’s uncompromising take on the future, their space age disco is “a futuristic sound track to a film not yet made,” they say. London-based photographer/musician Tim Eve works with Berlin-based collaborator Laurence Hortsman. Their debut EP Aerodynamour was released earlier this year.

Virtuoso pianist and composer Charles Tebbs will be drawing on music based on the eerie tritone – the fabled “diabolus in musica” which was reputedly banned by the medieval church for its ability to stimulate carnal urges- or even to summon the devil. Debussy’s short prelude Voiles (Veils) will be followed by the very first performance of one his own hallucinatory compositions Sorceress. Charles Tebbs studied music at Cambridge and Kings College London, before completing a PhD in 20th century music.

Responding to themes in the Weber exhibition, and translating them onto the dance floor Arne VB and Markon are Dollop DJs who have played at Tate, the ICA – and all over clubland in London, Paris and Nottingham. Dollop’s empire of warehouse parties, special events and club nights started in Nottingham, and it’s spread far and wide. They'll be joined by special guest Sam Potter of Late of the Pier.

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