Project Native Informant, Hip London Gallery, Closes After 12 Years

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Project Native Informant became the latest gallery to close when it announced plans to shutter on Friday, bringing an end to a 12-year run for one of London’s most beloved commercial art spaces.

“The decision to wind down did not come lightly,” wrote founder Stephan Tanbin Sastrawidjaja in a statement. “The current global economic, political and social environment has shaped into an extremely volatile and unsustainable environment for a gallery such as ours. Moreover personal factors contributed to this decision.”

Its final show appears to have been a solo exhibition for Sean Steadman that closed over the summer.

The gallery was launched in 2013 in a garage in the city’s Mayfair district and later relocated to the East End. Early in its run, Project Native Informant distinguished itself as a commercial space uniquely attuned to art that dialogued with, and even enlisted aspects of, the internet, mounting shows for artists such as Juliana Huxtable, DIS, and GCC.

Project Native Informant also gave exhibitions to well-known artists such as Ned Vena, Loretta Fahrenholz, Andrew Norman Wilson, Harumi Yamaguch...



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