Emalin: The Clerk's House

Since opening its doors in 2016, the gallery has grown a roster of sixteen international artists with a diverse focus on multi-disciplinary and critically engaged practices: Evgeny Antufiev, Alvaro Barrington, Nicholas Cheveldave, Adriano Costa, Nikita Gale, Aslan Goisum, Daiga Grantina, Özgür Kar, Jasper Marsalis, Kembra Pfahler, Megan Plunkett, Augustas Serapinas, Kate Spencer Stewart, Sung Tieu and Tt X AB (Teresa Farrell and Alvaro Barrington). 

The gallery's artists work across a range of media with a commitment to conceptual engagement with material – including painting, sculpture, photography, film, sound, performance and installation-based work. Critically, politically and socially oriented, the gallery’s programme foregrounds a next generation of artists paving paths for new areas of enquiry. The vast majority of the represented artists had their first UK solo exhibitions at Emalin, each of whom has gone on to exhibit in biennials and at institutions internationally. 

The gallery has two locations in East London: since 2021, Emalin operates out of the first floor of the Lazarus Building, a 19th century Victorian building in Shoreditch. In 2024, Emalin opened its second location in London, restoring the nearby 18th century Clerk's House – the oldest building in the area - as a historical space for site-responsive exhibition making.