Outset Contemporary Art Fund

Impact Awards 2022 Awards totalling £125,000 were granted to Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for the group exhibition entitled ‘Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics’, UK-based charity, At The Bus, Fondazione ICA Milano for Rebecca Moccia’s exhibition ‘Ministry of Loneliness’, Athens-based Locus Athens for their programme ‘Revolution is not a One Time Event’, and Forma for Oliver Chanarin’s ‘A Perfect Sentence’.

[3][4] Awards totalling £125,000 were granted to UK charity Artists in Residence, London’s nonprofit Bold Tendencies, Paris’s Centre Pompidou, the Filipino organisation Green Papaya Art Projects and the International Curators Forum.

The Constituent Museum, a joint initiative between The Whitworth, Manchester, and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, enabled the galleries to work with the public to plan the reimagining of their institutions.

Launched in 2016 at an event hosted by Antony Gormley’s studio,[8] Studiomakers was established in response to the rapid reduction of affordable workspaces available to the creative industries in London.

In response to its passageway, Channelling invited the visitor to experience and embody the symbolic threshold via artworks of different materialities and disciplines, including photography, video, textile, print, painting and sculpture.

Studiomakers Phase One established an evidence base for action, partnering with Harvard Business School to conduct research, and explored different ways to deliver affordable workspace for artists.

In 2019 Studiomakers and Outset were instrumental in raising £7.5 million to launch the Creative Land Trust through a private/public partnership with the Mayor of London, Arts Council England and Bloomberg Philanthropies.

The Studiomakers Prize delivered a total of 21 years of free studio space, along with career development workshops, ensuring some of the most talented graduates could continue their creative practice in London.

100 works of art were acquired over ten years from artists including: Pawel Althamer, Hurvin Anderson, Fikret Atay, Martin Boyce, Jeremy Deller, Alexandre de Cunha, Jimmie Durham, Olafur Eliasson, Andrea Fraser, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jesper Just, Alan Kane, Bela Kolárová, Mark Leckey, Daria Martin, Jan Mot, Scott Myles, Frank Nitsche, Henrik Olesen, Walid Raad, Anri Sala, David Shrigley, Lorna Simpson, Simon Starling, Tris Vonna-Michell, Pae White, Akram Zaatari.

[21] Outset offers The Climavore Residency to international artists and curators, providing both studio and living accommodation to those who are engaging with a project or cultural institution in the UK.

An initiative from Outset and art-science collective Visualogical, theVOV was launched in 2020. theVOV describes itself as “a new virtual ecosystem committed to exploration and innovation in Art x Metaverse to support cultural institutions during this critical time and beyond.”[22] Season One brought together 15 leading UK public galleries[23] including virtual exhibitions[24] of: Outset Contemporary Art Fund has faced significant controversy due to its alleged connections with Israeli security forces and its support of Israel's occupation of Palestine.

[26][27] One prominent point of contention was the involvement of Outset's co-founder, Candida Gertler, who is alleged to support activities that normalize Israel's policies in the occupied territories.

Critics claim that Gertler has provided social and media assistance to figures like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom they accuse of perpetuating policies akin to apartheid and genocide against Palestinians.