CORPUS
A beacon of uncompromising contemporary art presentation -- and gallery practice -- in a city that should be at the bleeding edge of the art industry, we welcomed news of this gallery with open arms and excitement!
CORPUS is a contemporary art gallery on King Street in central Cambridge, among the medieval buildings of the city's historic colleges. It was established in 2025 and is directed by Jeremy Parker, who worked at the Modern Institute in Glasgow and was then a director at Project Native Informant in London.
The gallery shows an ambitious and challenging programme of exhibitions, talks and events, with a particular focus on representing a multigenerational range of practices and on exchange between artists and practitioners outside the arts. Its opening group show drew on the several meanings of the word body, which is the source of the gallery's name, and set contemporary work alongside historical, with Lisetta Carmi, Malcolm Bradley, Joseph Yaeger and CJ Mahony among the artists shown.
The Contemporary Art Society has pointed to CORPUS, together with Partial Versions off Mill Road, as evidence of a flourishing of contemporary art in a city otherwise known for the Fitzwilliam Museum, Kettle's Yard and the Women's Art Collection, and which has no university art school of its own.
