Unfortunately, the building ABC is housed in has changed ownership and is to be demolished, the current exhibition NAPTIME will be the last at the Addington space, but the ABC collective will continue to work together on various offsite projects in the future, so please keep an eye on this website and our facebook.
ABC co-initiators Matt Akehurst, Zhonghao Chen, Oscar Enberg and Sebastian Warne wish to thank everyone who supported them through their short existence at Addington, and a special thanks to Matt Galloway for his design work.
ABC is an artist collective and artist-run project space that opened in March 2011 in Addington, Christchurch. It is a space that brings a selected number of exhibitions and projects each year, from emerging and established artists from local, national and international backgrounds. The space aims to promote critical and engaging contemporary art practices and ideas through shows, performances, publications and talks. The ABC programme is comprised of invited and proposal based projects.
The ABC space is made up of two gallery rooms, and as of September 2011, D-Space - a two-dimensional, wall mounted exhibition space on Lincoln Road - and the Reading Room. The Reading Room contains local, national and international publications, magazines, catalogues, books and DVDs.
It is currently stocking:
Local and national
- The Silver Bulletin
- The National Grid
- Occulus: Postgraduate Journal for Visual Arts Research
- The John Dory Report
- Crop magazine
International
- Daddy magazine
- Kaleidoscope
- Texte Zur Kunst
- Mousse
The Reading Room is open every Thursday and Friday from 11am – 3pm and during exhibition hours.
For exhibition and project times please refer to current show.
ABC is initiated and run by Matt Akehurst, Zhonghao Chen, Oscar Enberg and Sebastian Warne.
Proposals for the 2012 exhibition programme are now closed.
