Continuing TAM’s inclusive dedication to supporting artists and their own methods of self-presentation and representation the links below are useful in extending artists opportunities and networks around the world, particularly through group action.

Artist-Run Alliance 

A source for international connection between artist-run initiatives: Artist-Run Alliance is a non-profit, artist-led global network of independent artist-run initiatives, promoting direct communication between artists, artist-run groups and alternative art lovers in their localities and around the world.

Organized by the Alfred Institute for Art and Culture, the idea for the Artist Run Alliance has grown out of our work as an independent, non-profit art space. The Artist Run Alliance is an ongoing, developing project whose primary focus is to cater to the international art community, but also intent on engaging the general public. The platform includes up-to-date information of activities, events and happenings from members, with the aim of connecting artists on a local level with the public at large.

Supporting grass-roots artistic initiatives, as TAM does, these art fairs showcase international, non-commercial, artist-run spaces and galleries, collectives and innovative manifestations of artist endeavor: 

QiPO Fair, Mexico City, Mexico (Held in February)

QiPO Fair focuses on artist-run initiatives, and we invite artist-run spaces, art collectives, alternative spaces, and smaller project spaces to showcase their work. With exhibitors from Bogota, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, Tokyo, Chihuahua, Monterrey, Tijuana, and Mexico City, QiPO is international and diverse. In addition to our featured exhibitors, there are a series of related activities throughout the week including outdoor projections, a publications section, disc jockeys, site-specific installations, and a series of actions.

Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden (Held in May)

SUPERMARKET – Stockholm Independent Art Fair is an international art fair for artist-run initiatives. Supermarket is dedicated to exhibiting artist-run spaces, artists’ collectives, nomadic spaces and independent artists’ initiatives of all shapes and from around the world. The key aim is to display unique projects, create opportunities for new local and international networks and share the strengths of the independent art world with a large audience. The art fair exhibition is accompanied by the public Talks and Performance program with invited performance artists and speakers from Sweden and abroad. 

Juxtapose Art Fair, Aarhus, Denmark (Held in September)

Juxtapose Art Fair is a biennial for organizations run by artists. At Juxtapose Art Fair, we exhibit different artist-run projects side-by-side, so we can better appreciate the different ways in which artists contribute to the larger art world - with galleries, studios, publishing houses, performance groups, research projects, political activism, etc.

Platforms Project, Athens, Greece (Held in October)

Platforms Project is an art fair for artist's platforms-groups that produce works or projects together, artist-run galleries and other artists' initiatives.

Projects that exemplify the International cooperation and exchange of visual culture: