New SpaceMarch 10, 2025· By Elisa Rodríguez Campo
Bowman Hal Gallery SOLO 2025
Bowman Hal Gallery opens its doors in Madrid this spring 2025 in the SOLO Collection's new space entitled SOLO CSV, a 4,500m2 art center designed by renowned architect Juan Herreros. Located on Cuesta de San Vicente, right in the heart of Madrid, the space will open progressively as the ecosystem of projects that comprise it becomes active.
SOLO is an international art project founded in 2015 by Spanish entrepreneurs Ana Gervás and David Cantolla, which seeks to promote, support, and share an exquisite collection of international contemporary art—unique in Spain—comprising more than 1,200 works in different media.
Just to name a few of the artists collected by SOLO: Nam June Paik, Keiichi Tanaami, Ai Weiwei, Neo Rauch, Christo and Jeanne Claude, Mario Klingemann, SMAK, Amoako Boafo, Filip Custic, and a group of Latin American artists among which stand out: Mika Rottenberg (Argentina), Glenda León and Dagoberto Rodríguez (Cuba), Didi Rojas (Colombia), Victor Castillo (Chile), Nicolás Lamas (Peru) and Fausto Amundarain (Venezuela). SOLO CSV was born as an art center dedicated to the exhibition and production of art, which will host the various artistic initiatives and contemporary creations that SOLO promotes internationally.
Bowman Hal Gallery is the first of the projects premiering within SOLO CSV. As expressed by the gallery's director, Mun-Jung Chang “We started out determined to promote contemporary art through the eyes of our artists (...) we seek to create connections and open the way to new perspectives and critical ideas.” Bowman Hal Gallery conceives its programming as a careful process of listening to and accompanying each artist, offering them an important range of resources throughout the process of each exhibition.
Bowman Hal Gallery's inaugural exhibition is entitled “Snakes and Ladders” by Australian artist William Mackinnon (Melbourne, 1978) whose work has been exhibited in institutions such as the NGV in Melbourne and the Royal College of Art in London and is part of prominent collections such as Artbank Sydney, the Parliament House Art Collection in Canberra.
The exhibition parallels life itself: an unpredictable path where success and adversity in life's small and big events follow one another without warning. Inspired by the board game “Snakes and Ladders,” it invites viewers to travel from deserted highways to cinematic roads through Mackinnon's pictorial and deeply emotional universe. Fluorescent road signs lead our gaze through deep landscapes turning the artist's everyday into an opportunity for reflection and imagination about chance, destiny, and universal life experience.
The massive immersive pieces assembled in the show evoke an uncertain future and capture the artist's experience of the concept of home, living as he lives between Ibiza and Melbourne. Following William Mackinnon's exhibition, Bowman Hal Gallery's programming will gradually be announced.
SOLO is an international art project founded in 2015 by Spanish entrepreneurs Ana Gervás and David Cantolla, which seeks to promote, support, and share an exquisite collection of international contemporary art—unique in Spain—comprising more than 1,200 works in different media.
Just to name a few of the artists collected by SOLO: Nam June Paik, Keiichi Tanaami, Ai Weiwei, Neo Rauch, Christo and Jeanne Claude, Mario Klingemann, SMAK, Amoako Boafo, Filip Custic, and a group of Latin American artists among which stand out: Mika Rottenberg (Argentina), Glenda León and Dagoberto Rodríguez (Cuba), Didi Rojas (Colombia), Victor Castillo (Chile), Nicolás Lamas (Peru) and Fausto Amundarain (Venezuela). SOLO CSV was born as an art center dedicated to the exhibition and production of art, which will host the various artistic initiatives and contemporary creations that SOLO promotes internationally.
Bowman Hal Gallery is the first of the projects premiering within SOLO CSV. As expressed by the gallery's director, Mun-Jung Chang “We started out determined to promote contemporary art through the eyes of our artists (...) we seek to create connections and open the way to new perspectives and critical ideas.” Bowman Hal Gallery conceives its programming as a careful process of listening to and accompanying each artist, offering them an important range of resources throughout the process of each exhibition.
Bowman Hal Gallery's inaugural exhibition is entitled “Snakes and Ladders” by Australian artist William Mackinnon (Melbourne, 1978) whose work has been exhibited in institutions such as the NGV in Melbourne and the Royal College of Art in London and is part of prominent collections such as Artbank Sydney, the Parliament House Art Collection in Canberra.
The exhibition parallels life itself: an unpredictable path where success and adversity in life's small and big events follow one another without warning. Inspired by the board game “Snakes and Ladders,” it invites viewers to travel from deserted highways to cinematic roads through Mackinnon's pictorial and deeply emotional universe. Fluorescent road signs lead our gaze through deep landscapes turning the artist's everyday into an opportunity for reflection and imagination about chance, destiny, and universal life experience.
The massive immersive pieces assembled in the show evoke an uncertain future and capture the artist's experience of the concept of home, living as he lives between Ibiza and Melbourne. Following William Mackinnon's exhibition, Bowman Hal Gallery's programming will gradually be announced.
