Whitechapel Gallery

Mint Hotel is delighted to have partnered with Whitechapel Art Gallery at Mint Hotel Tower of London.

The hotel, located just a mile or so from the iconic gallery, has enjoyed a series of exhibitions curated by students of the MA Curating the Contemporary, taught jointly by the Whitechapel Gallery and London Metropolitan University.

Echoes of Home, our fouth exhibition of the year runs from November until the end of December and takes the notion of ‘home’ as its point of departure in order to explore its profound emotional significance. The exhibition brings together four contemporary artists: Penny Klepuszewska, Elaine Tribley, Jonathan Mosley and Sophie Warren, who aim to challenge the notion of home as an ideal place by presenting it as the setting of ambivalence and confusion. ‘Home’ becomes a place of uncertainty, positioned between the conflicts of past memories and present emotions; a place that we, the audience, are asked to navigate.

Our sense of home is contrasted with the physical structure of the house, which is built to be inhabited. The house acts as a shelter, a barrier between the safe and unsafe, the public and private, the inside and outside, but there is a tension between the physical reality of the space and its idealized, imagined form. The relationship between the house and home is an ongoing construction; the house creates clear barriers between spaces, whereas the home is a dynamic phenomenon that allows the coexistence of unity and isolation, the feeling of both belonging and 'homelessness'. Home becomes an abstract concept, a place rather than a space embedded with value, meaning, intimacy and memory.

Echoes of Home was curated by Nora Belovai and Helen Spence, who are students of the MA course Curating the Contemporary, which is taught jointly by London Metropolitan University and the Whitechapel Gallery.

Exhibition 4 programme imminent!

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Previous exhibitions at Mint Hotel Tower of London include:

Partial Décor | December 2010 – March 2011
The first exhibition designed to launch the hotel was curated by Anne Baan Hofman, Katayoun Youssefi and Pagona Zali, and reflected upon the decorative functions of art and the critical aspect of decoration. Artists included in this exhibition were Steve Bishop, Nicky Deeley and Abigail Reynolds.

Together Alone | March – June 2011
The second exhibition in the series, was curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk and Marte Elisabeth Paulssen. Looking at transitory spaces and the rules of travelling through them, the exhibition featured work by Layla Curtis, Mark Harris, Alastair MacKinven, Miriam Nabarro and Peter Saville.

Points of Non-Interest | July - October 2011 
This third exhibition brings together artists Clive A. Brandon, Dave Charlesworth and Simon Pope to explore themes of walking as the way of experiencing a city’s geography. The exhibition, curated by Carrie Anne Duff and Catherine Y Serrano, encourages viewers to pause between the pages of their guidebook and consider sites that were previously familiar and perhaps overlooked. We all know of Big Ben even before our arrival, but what is our experience as a pedestrian along the way?