WERK

WERK devise and produce projects that embed contemporary art and situated practice within wide ranging urban renewal and community settings. Past projects include the transformation of city experience through one hundred billboard interventions, to international light, art and architecturally themed festivals, subversive city interventions, long term socially engaged artist residencies in community settings, permanent public artworks and the facilitation of community led activity through dialogic and often open ended participatory art processes.

WERK projects are fluid with the intention to move away from traditional and reductive definitions associated with artists making work in the public realm. We are interested in inviting artists to participate and respond to interdiciplinarity situated practice, social, cultural and heritage contexts, physical landscapes and anthropogeography.

WERK have created commissions for over 400 artists (at different career stages) in project locales in the U.K. and internationally since 2006. Through much valued project funding and bursary support from the British Council and Birmingham City Council, WERK have been able to develop projects, platforms for knowledge exchange and artist exchange opportunities with organisations and municipalities in the following European and International cities over the last decade; Berlin, Lyon, Paris, Leipzig, Lund, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Turin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Mumbai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai and New Zealand..

Main homescreen brownfield photograph (c) Lyndon Pearce 2015 as part of LPAP