Waterside Contemporary was a visual art gallery in Hackney, central-east London.
The gallery's programme focused on politically- and socially-engaged artists,[1][2][3] including Oreet Ashery, George Barber, Mirza and Butler, Nikita Kadan, and Chiara Fumai.
The gallery exhibition programme involved over a hundred artists like Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Mathilde ter Heijne, Slavs and Tatars in nearly thirty exhibitions, performances, public events,[4] publishing, and institutional collaborations.
Waterside Contemporary commissioned, curated and premiered landmark works such as Animal with a Language by Oreet Ashery,[10] The Unreliable Narrator by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler,[11] and The Freestone Drone by George Barber.
[12][13] In 2024, the team behind Waterside Contemporary launched Verdurin, a cultural project space in the former gallery's premises.