Microscope is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2010 by artists/curators Elle Burchill and Andrea Monti specializing in the works of risk-taking artists — from emerging to established — whose practice includes moving image, sound, performance, photography, and digital art.
Alongside its exhibitions, Microscope presents a weekly series of events complementing and expanding the programming through screenings, sound, performance, readings and lectures. In such ways, Microscope has strived to address the long-existing divide in the reception, discussions around, and perceived value of works exhibited in the white box setting of the gallery space and of those shown in the black box of the screening/performance venue.
The gallery was conceived as a place where artists working with time-based arts have the opportunity to have their works presented in either context according to their artistic intent.
Microscope through its event series has also collaborated with institutions on exhibitions, screenings, performances, panels and other events including most notably “Dreamlands: Expanded” a series of 10 expanded cinema events in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of the exhibition “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema & Art, 1905-2016”; “Process: To Each Their Own Image,” a screening of works at Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; and live performances at Haus der Kultura der Welt, Berlin, Germany and at Paul Klee Museum, Bern, Switzerland as part of “Bauhaus Imaginista” on the occasion of 100 years of the Bauhaus.
In 2021 Microscope re-located from Bushwick, Brooklyn to its current space at 525 West 29th Street in Manhattan.
Co-founders and Co-Directors:
Elle Burchill
Andrea Monti
Address:
525 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001
T: 347.925.1433
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 6pm
or by appointment
For information:
[email protected]
Microscope Gallery is a New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Member.
