The future for exhibition openings in a digital post-COVID world
As galleries moved online in the pandemic some found tools that would bring them to new audiences while others missed the human connection. Jane O’Sullivan looked at how COVID-19 changed galleries forever.
19 Feb 2021 12:00
Jane O'Sullivan
Visual Arts
Artereal Gallery is one of several spaces re-thinking how it presents work. Images by Zan Wimberley courtest of Artereal Gallery and Patrizia Biondi.
‘Yes and no,’ said Artereal Gallery’s associate director Rhianna Walcott about whether she misses pre-COVID exhibition openings. She’s not the only one.
‘Exhibition openings are a lot of work,’ says Raft Artspace’s director Dallas Gold. ‘It was good to have a break.’
Jane O’Sullivan is an independent art writer based in Sydney. Her work
has appeared in Vault, Art Guide, Ocula, Flash Art, Running Dog and the
Australian Financial Review. She is also a former editor of Art
Collector and Art Edit magazines.
