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DATE & TIME
Friday 20th May 2016
Tour starts at 10:45 am until 12:00 pm, followed by lunch at Tom’s Kitchen Restaurant (optional).
location
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA
Closest Tube stations are Temple, Covent Garden, Charing Cross and Embankment.
PHOTO LONDON 2016
Photo London brings together 80 of the world’s leading galleries in a major international photography Fair. Running over five days at Somerset House, Photo London was created to give London an international photography event befitting the city’s status as global cultural capital.
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Nicolas de Oliveira is a curator and writer based in London. He was a co-founder of the Museum of Installation, London, and other independent galleries, curating over 200 works and shows. Currently, he co-directs SE8 Gallery, focusing on new projects by emerging contemporary artists. His imprint ‘Mulberry Tree Press’, begun in 2010, specializes in artists’ publications and vinyl editions. He has also published seminal books on Installation art and numerous artists’ monographs. His major exhibition ‘A Book of Burning Matches: Collecting Installation Art Documents’ was shown at Me-Collection, Berlin in 2015. It restaged historical documentation in the form of photographs, video, and sound recordings as an immersive display.
He is currently course leader of the MA Curating the Contemporary, a collaborative programme of London Metropolitan University and Whitechapel Gallery.