about
180 The Strand is an iconic Brutalist building currently undergoing a transformation into a creative hub for people and progress. It aims to foster and connect creatives, entrepreneurs, dynamic thinkers and cultural explorers by integrating the creation, display, learning and social functions of culture throughout its spaces.
Having launched in Spring 2016, 180 The Strand is now home to The Store X and a mix of creative companies including Dazed Media Group, IMG, The Vinyl Factory, Charcoal Blue, The Spaces and Fact magazine.
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events
The Store X The Vinyl Factory presents United Visual Artists Other Spaces, in collaboration with Fondation Cartier Pour L’Art Contemporain, Paris.
2 October – 8 December 2019
12-7pm Tuesday – Saturday & 12-6pm Sunday
Free admission
A multi-sensory exploration of light and sound, Other Spaces features three large-scale installations by the multi-disciplinary collective UVA – Our Time, The Great Animal Orchestra and Vanishing Point.
The Store X The Vinyl Factory presents TRANSFORMER: A Rebirth Of Wonder
2 October – 8 December 2019
12-7pm Tuesday – Saturday & 12-6pm Sunday
Free admission
Curated by Jefferson Hack, TRANSFORMER features newly commissioned and debut works by: Doug Aitken, Sophia Al-Maria & Victoria Sin, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Donna Huanca, Juliana Huxtable, Evan Ifekoya, Dozie Kanu, Quentin Lacombe, Lawrence Lek, Jenn Nkiru, Chen Wei and Harley Weir & George Rouy.
The Vinyl Factory and Prada Mode presents Theaster Gates Black Image Corporation
Featuring The Vinyl Factory Radio and a programme of talks, screenings, and live performances presented by Prada Mode, Theaster Gates’ Black Image Corporation connects the South Side of Chicago with London’s vibrant creative community to explore the visual and cultural representation of contemporary Black identity.
From the legacy of Ebony and Jet magazines to archival collections fusing art, music and everyday life, the Black Image Corporation installation aims to create a new space for people to gather, converse and reflect – underpinned by Gates’ methodologies of urban renewal and community activation.
LUNATICK by Antony Gormley and Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan
The Store X
5 April – 5 May 2019
BOOK TICKETS HERE
Antony Gormley and Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan’s first virtual reality collaboration, Lunatick, uses data collected by NASA to map a real and interactive journey, leaving Earth to pass through atmosphere, stratosphere, the asteroid belt, and into outer space.
This immersive experience treats the body as a vessel, free from gravity, in order to bring the haptic experience of space alive.
F.U.S.E. DIMENSIONS
Art by Matthew Hawtin and Music by Ritchie Hawtin
The Store X
5 -14 April 2019
12 – 7PM Daily (Free Entry)
An immersive listening session of the unreleased album ‘Computer Space and exhibition of original artworks to celebrate the 25th anniversary Ritchie Hawtin’s F.U.S.E. persona.
Kamasi Washington’s AS TOLD TO G/D THYSELF
in partnership with The Store X, The Young Turks and Serpentine Galleries
The Store X
28 February – 10 March 2019
12-7pm daily (Free Entry)
SPECIAL EVENT: Kamasi Washington in conversation with The Serpentine Galleries Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist
Friday 1 March 2019
6pm – 7pm
Tickets available to purchase here.
Groundbreaking musician Kamasi Washington’s new short film, As Told To G/D Thyself, is making its UK premiere following its debut at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival in January.
Directed by the Ummah Chroma, a collective made up of renowned filmmakers and artists Bradford Young (Selma, Arrival, Solo: A Star Wars Story), Terence Nance (Random Acts of Flyness), Jenn Nkiru (The Carters’ Apeshit), Marc Thomas (Michael & Javier) and Washington himself, As Told To G/D Thyself is a cosmic journey of sacred youth, during which pain, pleasure and sublimation are non-negotiable.
WILTSHIRE BEFORE CHRIST
A collaborative project by Aries, Jeremy Deller & David Sims in partnership with The Store X The Vinyl Factory
The Store X
16-24 January 2019
12-7pm daily (Free Entry)
Conceived and produced by Aries in collaboration with British artists Jeremy Deller and David Sims, Wiltshire Before Christ takes the form of an immersive exhibition, art book, limited-edition capsule collection and merchandise.
The exhibition will tour to Milan in February, The Store X Berlin in March, before travelling to Tokyo and Florence.
STRANGE DAYS: MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE
An immersive, polyphonic exhibition by The Store X Vinyl Factory and NYC’s New Museum.
The Store X
2 October – 9 December 9, 2018 (Free Entry)
12pm-7pm Tuesday – Saturday
12pm-6pm Sunday
“Strange Days: Memories of the Future,” curated by Massimiliano Gioni, the New Museum’s Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, in collaboration with The Vinyl Factory, is now on view at The Store X, 180 [The Strand] in London until 9 December 2018.
The exhibition presents the work of twenty-one acclaimed artists and filmmakers who have shown video works at the New Museum in its ten years on the Bowery. Bringing together an extraordinary group of works in video by today’s leading artists, “Strange Days” considers how images shape memories while anticipating visions of what the future may hold. Weaving together reportage and lyricism, the works on view blend images and sound into polyphonic, dreamlike compositions.
Alex Eagle presents
COLUMNS by Ben Kelly
Concerning the building of these columns, we have no certain news
2 October – 9 December 9, 2018
12pm-7pm Tuesday – Saturday
12pm-6pm Sunday
Free admission
Designer Ben Kelly’s new work Columns is currently on show at The Store X, 180 The Strand. Columns revisits and expands on one of the fundamental architectural features of Kelly’s design for the iconic Manchester club, The Hacienda.
Having built the touring set for fashion designer Virgil Abloh, with whom he collaborated on mythical nightclub installation Ruin at The Store X last year, Kelly’s Columns interrogate the totemic properties of 12 columns, from power and classicism to romanticism and decay whilst playing on the ambiguity of the twelve columns themselves.
ISLE OF DOG’S EXHIBITION
The Store X
23 March – 8 April 2108
Open daily: 11am-7pm
Free entry
Curated by Anderson himself, the exhibition presents the intricate sets that make up the city of Megasaki where the film is based, alongside the original puppets of the canine characters who live there. It also features a life-size recreation of the film’s noodle bar, serving ramen by Akira Shimizu, executive chef at Soho’s Engawa restaurant, set against a background of the original score by Alexandre Desplat (who worked with Anderson on The Grand Budapest Hotel), classic Kurosawa scores and the The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, who all feature on the film’s soundtrack. To mark the advent of the film, The Vinyl Factory also releases a special, limited edition four-track EP from the soundtrack, which will be available exclusively at The Store X from Tuesday 27th March for the duration of the show.
Vanderperre was born and raised in Belgium. Based in Antwerp, the city that became his home when he entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) to study fashion, he made the switch to photography while still at the college, seeing it as a more direct way to express his impulses in fashion. Nevertheless, his background in design has given him both an intuitive feel for clothing and an extensive knowledge of the design process.
In addition to Vanderperre’s photography work, the exhibition offers a selection of merchandise including posters, tee shirts, paint-by-numbers, pins, temporary tattoos, limited edition vinyl and more in limited quantities.
Vanderperre is a featured editorial contributor to a host of publications such as Love, W Magazine, AnOther, AnOther Man, Vogue Hommes International, American Vogue and more. Vanderperre’s additional career highlights include campaigns for Raf Simons, Christian Dior, Dior Homme, Jil Sander and Prada as well as documentary photography work leading to his 2014 book, The Power of Theatrical Madness II and his 2016 directorial film debut at London’s ICA with his film, Naked Heartland.
The Store X
180 Strand
London WC2R 3EA
Tues – Sun, 12pm – 6pm
Store X The Vinyl Factory
This autumn, Store X The Vinyl Factory presents multi-disciplinary exhibition Everything At Once with Lisson Gallery alongside three site-specific works at its curated space, Store Studios. These include Jeremy Shaw’s Liminals, in collaboration with König Galerie, Arthur Jafa’s Love is the Message, the Message is Death, in collaboration with Serpentine Galleries and Ryoji Ikeda’s newly commissioned A/V artwork test pattern [N°12].
5 October – 10 December 2017
Tues - Saturday, 12pm – 7pm
Sunday 12pm – 6pm
FREE ADMISSION
RYOJI IKEDA 'TEST PATTERN'
A new commission by Store X The Vinyl Factory, Ryoji Ikeda's will immersive audio-visual artwork is an unforgettable experience in which the artist converts data (from music, sound, photo and video) into monochrome binary patterns that are generated in real-time and envelop the viewer in a disorientating, highly-charged kinetic environment.
Arthur Jafa - Love is the Message, the Message is Death
Arthur Jafa’s 2016 work Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death is presented in the UK for the first time by The Store X The Vinyl Factory in partnership with Serpentine Galleries. Soundtracked by Kanye West’s gospel hip-hop track ‘Ultralight Beam’, the meticulously edited 7-minute collage probes the relationship between mainstream media and African-American identity, juxtaposing images of contemporary life in the USA, from civil rights leaders to aeriel footage of the LA Riots.
Jeremy Shaw - Liminals
Artist and film-maker Jeremy Shaw’s 2017 work Liminals is presented by The Store x The Vinyl Factory in partnership with König Galerie. Originally premiered at this year's Venice Biennale, the 20-minute film draws parallels between the experimental spiritual gatherings of the '70s and the effect-laden release of contemporary hedonistic subcultures.
LOUIS VUITTON x SUPREME
Louis Vuitton's collaboration with Supreme is the standout creative fashion partnership the year and LV has chosen The Store Studios, 180 The Strand to open their pop up store from June 30 to July 31 dedicated to the Autumn-Winter 2017 menswear collection, featuring the Supreme collaboration - a comprehensive voyage through every stylistic facet that comprise New York: then, now, always.
CALL THIS NUMBER
Pirate TV for the Internet age, Call This Number is an underground broadcast of explosive live performances by the likes of Jarvis Cocker, Primal Scream, Dennis Bovell, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and many others. From May 2017, CTN takes over the basement of The Store Studios, 180 The Strand. Piped through The Vinyl Factory Soundystem, the programme of live performances will be streamed online, with line-ups posted on socials.
THE INFINITE MIX
The Vinyl Factory is collaborating with Hayward Gallery for a major video exhibition at The Store, 180 The Strand this September. Featuring 10 powerful audio-visual works by artists including Martin Creed, Jeremy Deller, Rachel Rose, Cyprien Gaillard and Kendrick Lamar-collaborator Kahlil Joseph, The Infinite Mix will lead visitors on an immersive journey through multi-screen installations, holograms and cinema-style 3D projections. Exploring the role of sound in contemporary video, the exhibition will feature new and reworked music from Kendrick Lamar, Aretha Franklin, Sonic Youth, Jeremy Deller and more, described by Hayward Gallery Director Ralph Rugoff as both "soulful and audacious", where "all the work raises the hair on the back of your neck". The Infinite Mix: Sound & Image in Contemporary Video opens on 9 September and runs until 11 December at The Store, 180 The Strand, WC2R 1EA.
ART NIGHT
Art Night was a free contemporary arts festival that transformed London for one night on 2 July 2016. Ten international artist’s projects, including six new site-specific commissions, feature in a cross-disciplinary programme of art, architecture, dance, design and music. Produced in collaboration with The Store and The Vinyl Factory, Celia Hempton created a theatre set-like environment combining abstract landscapes and bodies that considered the River Thames as a historical and metaphorical object – one that is ever changing and amorphous in form and gender.
LOUIS VUITTON SERIES 3
Launching during London Fashion Week, September 2015, Louis Vuitton's huge experiential installation will take visitors through a 13-room journey over three floors of 180 The Strand, exploring every step in the creative process that went towards creating this season's collection – from initial product sketches, through to the experiences of the models on the day of the show. The first series was held in Shanghai and Tokyo, the second in LA, Beijing, Seoul and Rome. This installment is expected to attract around 100,000 visitors.
Moving Museum
Showcasing 31 of London’s most urgent creative voices over 200 multi-media works during Frieze 2014, The Moving Museum’s ‘Open Heart Surgery’ brought together the capital’s emerging and established art scenes exploring painting, sculpture and live performance featuring artists Celia Hempton, James Capper and Hannah Perry.
Jack White & Punchdrunk
In celebration of his album Lazaretto, Detroit’s prodigal son and restless vinyl ambassador Jack White collaborated with Punchdrunk to transform the basement of 180 The Strand into immersive abandoned hospital where a handful of his super fans experienced a unique, one-off live show.
International Fashion Showcase
Presented by the British Fashion Council and coinciding with London Fashion Week, nearly 30 foreign embassies and cultural institutes based in London showcased the work of more than 120 designers across two floors over 180 The Strand, championing fashion as a cultural expression from across the globe.
Christopher Kane
Daisy Lowe, Yasmin Le Bon, Miroslava Duma and more were in the front row for Christopher Kane’s Autumn/Winter 2014-15 ready to wear collection at 180 The Strand. “An epic catalogue of work,” said Vogue, where, “ideas just kept on coming. And coming.”
Lazarides & The Vinyl Factory present BRUTAL
A “brutal show in a beautiful building” curated by Steve Lazarides, sixteen artists presented dynamic installations, murals, film, animation, sound and dance interventions in the cavernous space– including Antony Micallef, Doug Foster and Lucy McLauchlan.
Thomas Tait
A trio of large-scale anamorphic paintings by French photographer Georges Rousse formed the backdrop to Tait’s Spring Summer 2015 collection on the upper floor of 180 The Strand, where the winner of the first LVMH award’s individual aesthetic was writ large, setting him apart from the mainstream fashion houses.
These New Puritans
One of the UK’s most exciting and adventurous young bands, These New Puritans’ interactive installation Magnetic Field captured the public’s imagination, encouraging visitors to interact with the band’s original sounds using a series of sensors to resonate a piano’s strings in order to create startling effects.
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“The coolest space in town. The Vinyl Factory get everything right - the play of dark and light, the spacey trip as people wander through the maze of corners, corridors and sudden expanses, down to the cavernous garages, up to the roof terrace, in a five-storey hunt for the art"
~ The Observer
“Arthur Jafa took me to church, and he left me a shaken convert. On the roof of an immense office block in the middle of London, the one-time Spike Lee cinematographer and Beyoncé collaborator has pitched a tent to screen his film - one of the most important works of art of the past decade: powerful, emotional and absolutely vital.”
~ Time Out
The Infinite Mix is proof that video and film are the most consistently creative artistic fields of this century. It’s a contender for the show of the year”
~ The Evening Standard
“The Infinite Mix feels – believe me – like a total blast. Urgent, important, infectious, and fresh, it offers a compelling advertisement for the dynamic possibilities of this mercurial art form”
~ The Telegraph
“As a backdrop for an exhibition of contemporary art, 180 The Strand, in central London, takes some beating. This bleakly beautiful 1970s building, with fine views across the Thames, is the venue for the Moving Museum, a travelling project that presents pre-eminent works in cities worldwide.”
~ Financial Times
“Christopher Kane’s show was such an epic catalogue of work it was astounding. The ideas just kept on coming, and coming, at property hotspot 180 The Strand, a three and a half acre area that stretches all the way down to the river, currently being developed to house creative industries."
~ Vogue
“Last month, Jack White invited his most hardcore fans to the bowels of 180 The Strand, which had been transformed into a treatment clinic by immersive theatre company Punchdrunk. Dressed in a lab coat, White ripped through six classics, as he swayed listlessly into the delirious crowd.”
~ FACT magazine
“The only official British Fashion Council-approved public event of London Fashion Week, the International Fashion Showcase at 180 The Strand brings together the cream of design talent of 30 countries.”
~ Time Out
“Like inventors from the future, transpiring out of thin air in the middle of central London to show off a contraption that makes people's eyes explode with incomprehensible wonder, These New Puritans new exhibition at 180 The Strand shows off the instrument that gave their last album, Field of Reeds, a totally unique sound.”
~ Vice