37 international artists have given works to help provide a fund for the London-based arts commissioning agency Artangel. Proceeds from the fund, titled Artists for Artangel, will go towards helping the agency to continue organising exhibitions and commissioning artists to create new work. The donated works will be on show at an exhibition in Cork Street, London (opening 7 June) and will be available through an online auction which runs 8 – 27 June. The auction will include both existing artworks and new commissions by artists such as Roger Hiorns, Douglas Gordon and Cristina Iglesias. The silent auction will culminate with Sotheby’s Alex Branczik conducting a live auction of some works at Banqueting House in Whitehall on 28 June during a celebratory evening. The target for the Artists for Artangel fund is £2.5m.
The artists who have donated works (and have all worked with Artangel during the 25 years since it was first founded) are: Francis Alÿs, Matthew Barney, Stephan Balkenhol, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Vija Celmins, José Damasceno, Jeremy Deller, Peter Dreher, Marlene Dumas, Brian Eno, Ryan Gander, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Douglas Gordon, Antony Gormley, Roger Hiorns, Richard Hamilton, Susan Hiller, Andy Holden, Roni Horn, Cristina Iglesias, Cameron Jamie, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Mike Kelley, Michael Landy, Charles LeDray, Christian Marclay, Juan Muñoz, Steve McQueen, Tony Oursler, Paul Pfeiffer, Susan Philipsz, Daniel Silver, Taryn Simon, Wolfgang Tillmans, Richard Wentworth, Rachel Whiteread.
3 May 2018
