International
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Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom, USA
DENMARK
Givrum.nu (Copenhagen) is an organisation whose aim is to promote the temporary use of empty buildings for cultural and social purposes, via creative brokering.
IRELAND
Space Invaders (Galway) is an artist run, non commercial gallery space set up with support from the City Council as a reaction to empty spaces in Galway City.
NEW ZEALAND
Gap Filler (Christchurch) is a creative urban regeneration initiative started in response to the September 4, 2010 Canterbury earthquake, and revised and expanded in light of the more destructive February 22, 2011 quake. It is now administered by the Gap Filler Charitable Trust.
Redcliffs Pop Up Art Space (Christchurch) is run by Art Nomad, a small group of art enthusiasts who appreciate and love art and want to bring artwork to unused and unusual places and spaces.
UNITED KINGDOM
3Space offers organisations that benefit the community access to empty properties on a non commercial basis (free of charge in most cases).
Arcade Art (Carlisle) is concerned with improving and regenerating and using empty spaces as a platform to explore new ideas and to reinvent whilst encouraging public interaction with broad ranging art forms.
Art in Unusual Spaces (Leeds) is partnership between independent curators, landlords, artists and businesses and Leeds City Council to utilise units across the city as they become temporarily available.
ArtSpace LifeSpace (Bristol) is an artist-led initiative that recycles vacant, under-used and problem properties into vibrant multi-use art venues.
Blackpool Culture Shops Blackpool Council is supporting professional artists to exhibit their work in empty shops in the town centre of Blackpool.
Changing Spaces (Cambridge) was developed by Cambridge City Council in partnership with Love Cambridge to fill vacant retail units appearing in Cambridge with creative arts.
Coexist CIC (Bristol) is based at Hamilton House at the heart of Stokes Croft in Bristol, where art, music, enterprise and innovation cluster as a community rising to the challenges of today and tomorrow.
Empty Shop (Durham) focuses on art, regeneration and collaboration.
Empty Shops Network the UK-wide network of people using empty shops and void spaces across the UK to create temporary pop-up shops, community spaces and arts galleries which support local business by bringing people back to town centres. Also feature weekly podcasts as Empty Shops Radio.
Empty Shops Project (Newport) is a community arts programme that turns vacant retail shops into creative spaces and workshops.
Go Reborn (Edinburgh) a pop-up collective of artists, designers and misfits who believe in self-promotion and collaboration through presenting the best in independent fashion, art and design to the general public via temporary spaces.
Meanwhile UK is based on the belief that empty properties spoil town centres, destroy economic and social value, and waste resources that we cannot afford to leave idle. Vibrant interim uses led by local communities will benefit existing shops, as well as the wider town centre, through increased footfall, bringing life back to the high street and making better use of resources overall. The Meanwhile Project provides tools, technical advice and practical and financial support for a wide range of 'meanwhile' approaches in towns throughout the country.
Popupspace is a UK-wide searchable database for property agents and landlords of commercial space available on interim or temporary terms for a pop up shop, art exhibition, marketing event, storefront advertising display, storage or office requirement.
ShopArt! (Norwich) is run by Norwich Arts Centre and transforms empty shop windows by filling them with art.
Shop Window (Edinburgh) Coup Red uses empty spaces to provide young, emerging artists with a platform to showcase their work and create a 'sense of fervour' throughout local high streets.
Space Makers Agency took over 20 empty shops in a 1930s Market Arcade and created Brixton Village, a rolling festival of pop-?up performances and exhibitions, new shops, cafes and weekend events. The are also working with the community of West Norwood to create a new street market, West Norwood Feast.
12840 Gallery (Illinois) Located in Blue Island, Illinois, 12840 Gallery artists came together in hopes to brighten an empty storefront and create opportunities for local artists.
71 POP (Detroit) helps creative entrepreneurs who are just starting out and dont have the time or resources to operate their own independent retail spaces to showcase their work in 'shop installations' in a former-abandoned property in Midtown.
Art in Storefronts (San Francisco) temporarily places original art installations in vacant and under-used storefront windows to reinvigorate neighborhoods and commercial corridors that have been hard-hit by the economic downturn and provides local artists with an opportunity to showcase their creativity.
Art in Strange Places (Jacksonville) designs and build structures so creative groups can display art in outdoor public areas on a rotating, temporary basis.
Chashama (New York) supports creativity in New York City by repurposing vacant properties, recycling them as artist work and show spaces, granting them at free or highly-subsidised rates, and invigorating the surrounding community with an influx of innovative programs, culture, creativity and commerce.
Next Gallery (St Charles, Illinois) this pop up gallery is part of a larger St Charles Arts Council effort to bring more art and arts programming to their city and to provide tangible support to artists in all disciplines.
No Longer Empty (New York) was conceived as an artistic response to the current economic condition and to revitalise empty spaces and areas around the venues by bringing thoughtful, high-calibre art installations with accompanying programs to the public.
Off the Grid (Jacksonville) is a partnership between artists, property owners and the Cultural Council that facilitates introductions between Jacksonville artists and property owners in an effort to activate vacant spaces in the urban core and provide artists with work and exhibition space.
Peabody Square Arts Initiative engages local artists to reinvigorate Peabody's downtown area with its Art in Shopfronts Project.
Pop-Up Art Loop (Chicago) transforms empty storefronts in the Loop into a moveable feast of public art galleries, exhibits and studios. An initiative of Chicago Loop Alliance, Pop-Up Art Loop creates partnerships between artists and property owners, creating temporary gallery space at no cost to the artist in prime Loop locations.
Project for Empty Space (New York) is a non-profit organisation, co-founded and co-curated by Meenakshi Thirukode and Jasmine Wahi that is dedicated to bringing contemporary art to a multitude of communities through the utilisation of abandoned and unusual urban spaces.
Project Storefronts (New Haven) created by the City of New Haven to match arts-related businesses to empty retail spaces as a way to energize less active commercial areas.
Spaceworks (Tacoma) is a joint initiative of the City of Tacoma,Shunpike and the Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber of Commerce to match artists with vacant spaces to activate downtown Tacoma.
Storefront for Syracuse is a student-run initiative of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) at Syracuse University that seeks to revitalize the Downtown Syracuse.
Storefronts Auburn puts art and artists into empty storefronts to turn turn desolate half-empty blocks into the 'hippest, happiest and hottest real estate in town'.