NC70: Diversity, globalisation & identity politics in the UK art scene

New Contemporaries

New Contemporaries 70th Anniversary Two-Day Programme in collaboration with The Courtauld Institute of Art, October 2019.

Panel 1: Diversity, globalisation and identity politics in the UK art scene: Panel: Kevin Atherton, Fatma Bucak and Sunil Gupta, chaired by Sacha Craddock.

Marking our 70th anniversary this year, New Contemporaries will celebrate its legacy and future direction with a two-day conference with The Research Forum, Courtauld Institute of Art in London. The conference programme will address the development of New Contemporaries as it continually evolves to support the needs of emerging artists and practices. Established in 1949, New Contemporaries, formerly Young Contemporaries, is the longest-running support platform for emerging artists.

The programme will explore different aspects of representation and visibility for emerging arts, bringing into dialogue artists, curators, writers and art works from New Contemporaries history alongside contributors drawn from the Courtauld’s own alumni network of curators, artists and historians.