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KK OUTLET – WE WANTED TO 
OPEN AN AGENCY SO WE OPENED A GALLERY

What do you do if you are a Dutch agency opening up in London, but realise there are a hundred places that are brilliant, established, and your competitors?


Open up a gallery and bookstore. And learn a few lessons along the way.


KK Outlet gallery ran for ten years and with 120 exhibitions under its belt, became a famous institution for emerging art in all fields (fine art, photography, illustration, animation, graphic design) and from all backgrounds.  We also devised and curated socially-minded art exhibitions, some of which you can find below.









A variety of show photos, from Lakwena’s first solo exhibition to Robert Montgomery’s shopfront-mounted neon poetry, and Giles Duley’s powerful solo presentation documenting his harrowing journey after losing limbs to a landmine in Afghanistan.




The best shows were socially minded: this group show was commissioned and curated after a staggering amount of cycle deaths on the roads of London. We fed slogans to dozens of artists who turned them into posters promoting kindness on the streets under the banner of Commute Nice.


  
The Public Prime Minister: another socially-inclined art show, show in the studio over a single day prior to a General Election. The aim: gather disafffected members of the local community, old and young, into the studio and ask them what they would do should they be prime minister for the day. Then ask gallery visitors to vote for the best. The answers ranged from the hilarious to the meaningful and poignant.



Our final show, All Our Friends, brought together our best and most regular artists in one epic exhibition—celebrated with our own brew, The Last Beer. It marked the end of an era, a parting toast, and a gentle nudge to those who'd had one too many to call it a night and scuttle home



At one point we decided to cut off 20% of the gallery and turn it into a meeting room. Since nobody loves meetings, we commissioned Mr Bingo to make anti-meeting meeting wallpaper, to inspire attendees to keep gatherings short and sweet.



A favourite show was one where we reunited tube and bus users with their lost art, which would otherwise be incinerated by the Lost Property office of TFL. Or as the Daily Mail put it, “that’s one way of getting your art into an exhibition.”