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The Or Gallery is a non-profit artist run centre based in Vancouver, Canada. The gallery is run by a paid Director/Curator and a voluntary Board of Directors. The Director/Curator of the Or is an appointed working artist who is hired for a limited time. Each Director changes the focus of the programming creating exhibitions, publications and events that examine a diverse range of artists and ideas. These appointments along with guest curators permit the gallery to place an emphasis on the discursive structures of the environments that art is created in. Regardless of the Director/Curator the Or Gallery maintains a commitment to contemporary art that is challenging and experimental. The gallery supports and exhibits artists whose work is critically, issue, and/or conceptually based.〔Food For Thought, Sara Edmunds, 2004 p.5〕 The Or Gallery was established in 1983 by Vancouver artist Laiwan in a storefront space on Franklin Street in East Vancouver.〔Collins, Allison; ARCLines: Or Gallery as it Began, http://arcpost.ca/articles/or-gallery〕 The gallery space has changed a few times with the most recent move in 2008 to the Or's current location on Hamilton Street in Downtown Vancouver. Since 1983 the Or Gallery has provided exhibition space for close to 300 artists in including Francis Alÿs, Phil Collins, Martin Creed, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Germaine Koh, Barbara Kruger, Jeff Wall and Lawrence Weiner.〔http://www.orgallery.org/archive〕 Since its establishment the Or Gallery has tried to exhibit works that address issues in the community from Phillppe Raphanel's 1991 exhibit, Lip Synch, whose abstract paintings call into question the foundations of landscape painting in British Columbia〔Lip Synch, Exhibition Archive, Or Gallery, 1991 In February 2008, the Or Gallery was featured in the Artists' Choice: Top 100 Galleries-list in Flash Art Magazine, as one of only two Canadian galleries listed.〔Flash Art (International Edition), v.41 (January/February 2008) p.96-97〕 Between June 27 to August 1, 2009, The Or Gallery hosted ''Science Fiction 01'', a focus on the speculative and social aspects of science fiction. It featured artists Brady Cranfield, Robert Filliou, and Holly Ward. ''Science Fiction 01'' is the first of roughly 88 science fiction-related exhibitions planned for the Or Gallery over the course of the next 260 years. ==Berlin== In 2010, The Or Gallery opened a Berlin satellite gallery located on Oraniaenstrasse 37 in Berlin-Kreuzberg . The inaugural exhibition was Marina Roy's ''What’s Pushed Out the Door Comes Back Through the Window''.〔http://www.orgallery.org/MarinaRoy〕 The show featured a variety of media including painting, animation, drawing and sculpture.〔http://moussemagazine.it/issue.mm?id=27〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Or Gallery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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