Location: Kosar Contemporary, Paradise Studios, 4 Little Paradise, Bristol BS3 4DD

‘SPACEs reimagined’ will include paintings, sculptures, photography and multidisciplinary art works on the theme of the recycling of a redundant industrial space to an art space in the context of technological, political and societal change.

This is the inaugural exhibition at the new Kosar Contemporary, The Artist Project Space (TAPS), Bedminster, Bristol BS3. The studios and gallery, which will officially open at the opening event of the exhibition, on 7 December, have been created from a former industrial building ‘re-imagined’ as an artist-led contemporary art gallery.

Kosar Contemporary is the largest independent art space in Bedminster and has been established in a 6,000 sq ft former light industrial factory by visual artist Zarabéa Esfendiar Kayani in creative association with Bristol arts charity Gathering Voices.

It is the latest in a series of ‘meanwhile’ creative uses of outdated and hard-to-let industrial units by arts groups around the city with Bedminster now boasting a growing artist presence. Kosar Contemporary now plans a curated program of non-commercial exhibitions that will be relevant to the local community as well as the art world in the wider context.